Temple of Happiness Amsterdam

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See what The Temple of Happiness organizes the coming months

Sun 29 Mar 2026

Embodied Happiness Learn to work with kundalini energy intuition

🌿 EMBODIED HAPPINESS Tantric healing & awareness course
Embodied Intuition
Listening to your body as a compass

There is a kind of knowing that doesn’t come from the mind.
It doesn’t analyse or doubt it simply knows.

And yet,
many of us have lost touch with it.
Because fear, desire, and old patterns get mixed up with what we call intuition.

In this day,
you return to something simple and powerful:
your body as a gateway to clarity.

This is a practical,
experiential workshop
and part of the Embodied Happiness series
inspired by the roots of tantra, where you learn through feeling, not thinking.

You will slow down.
Sense what is truly happening inside you.
And begin to recognize the difference between noise… and truth.

✨ What you’ll gain

→ Clarity in distinguishing fear from intuition
→ Trust in your body’s signals
→ Tools to make decisions without overthinking
→ A deeper sense of calm and inner direction

🗺️ PROGRAM
🌅 Morning Grounding & Awareness

Doors open:
09:30
Start: 10:00

‣ Arrival & intention setting
‣ Slowing down and body awareness
‣ Exploring “yes” and “no” (boundaries & consent)
‣ Learning to sense your inner signals

🌞 Afternoon Deepening & Practice

‣ Relational exercises
(feeling in connection with others)
‣ Working with subtle sensations and awareness
‣ Practical tools for everyday decision-making
‣ Integration and reflection

🍲 Closing

End: 17:00

We close the day together and gently land.
Afterwards, we clean up the space together as part of the integration.

✨ Optional:
for those who like, we walk to a nearby Indian restaurant (10 minutes) to share food and connect.

🛡️ PRACTICAL & AGREEMENTS

→ No alcohol or drugs before the workshop
→ No strong perfumes
→ Comfortable clothing recommended
→ Please arrive on time

💚 CONSENT & TANTRA FAQ

Is this a sexual event?
No this is a conscious, embodied workshop.

Will there be touch?
Yes, always based on clear mutual consent.

Are there boundaries?
→ No genital touch
→ No nudity
→ No pressure to participate

This space is about awareness,
safety and presence.

Tickets

Location:
Temple of Happiness

Condensatorweg 36
1014 AX Amsterdam

Sat 18 Apr 2026

Embodied Happiness Tantric energy transformation

🌿 EMBODIED HAPPINESS A Practical Path of Tantra & Awareness
start 10: 00 (door open 9:30
)
End: 17:00

🌿 EMBODIED HAPPINESS
Sexual Energy & Containment
Staying grounded in intensity

Sexual energy is life force.
Movement. Desire. Creation.

And yet,
many people experience that this energy can also be confusing, overwhelming
or pull them out of connection with themselves.

In this day,
you learn something essential:
how to stay present and grounded while energy moves through you.

This is a practical,
experiential workshop
and part of the Embodied Happiness series
inspired by the roots of tantra, where energy is not suppressed or lost, but consciously held and guided.

Not pushing it away.
Not getting lost in it.
But containing it so it becomes strength.

You learn to stay with sensation,
intensity and aliveness
without losing yourself.

✨ What you’ll gain

→ Understanding how sexual energy moves in your body
→ The ability to stay present in intensity and arousal
→ Clear awareness of your boundaries and direction
→ A sense of inner stability and grounded power

🗺️ PROGRAM
🌅 Morning Awareness & Foundation

Doors open:
09:30
Start: 10:00

‣ Arrival & grounding
‣ Awareness of energy in the body
‣ Breath, attention and presence
‣ Recognising when you expand, contract or disconnect

🌞 Afternoon Practice & Containment

‣ Working with energy in connection
(relational exercises)
‣ Staying present with increasing intensity
‣ Learning to hold energy without acting it out
‣ Integration: bringing awareness into daily life

🍲 Closing

End: 17:00

We close the day together and gently land.
Afterwards, we clean up the space together as part of the integration.

✨ Optional:
for those who like, we walk to a nearby Indian restaurant (10 minutes) to share food and connect.

🌿 FOR WHO

Open to all genders and backgrounds.
No experience needed.

This day is especially valuable if you notice that:
→ you get overwhelmed by attraction or intensity
→ you lose clarity when energy rises
→ you want to feel more grounded and in control of your energy

🛡️ PRACTICAL & AGREEMENTS

→ No alcohol or drugs before the workshop
→ No strong perfumes
→ Comfortable clothing recommended
→ Please arrive on time

💚 CONSENT & TANTRA FAQ

Is this a sexual event?
No this is a conscious, embodied workshop.

Will there be touch?
Possibly always based on clear mutual consent.

Are there boundaries?
→ genital touch optional & with consent
→ nudity optional & woth consent
→ No pressure to participate

The focus is on awareness,
presence and learning to stay grounded in yourself.

🌿 THE EMBODIED HAPPINESS SERIES

You can join this day on its own,
or explore the full journey:

🌿 Part 1 Embodied Intuition
Clarity and inner guidance

🌺 Part 2 Sexual Energy & Containment
Staying grounded in intensity

🔥 Part 3 Sexual Energy & Healing
Relaxation, release and integration

🌿 YOU ARE WELCOME

You don’t need to know anything.
You don’t need to perform.

Just come as you are
and be willing to feel.

Tickets

Location:
Temple of Happiness

Condensatorweg 36
1014 AX Amsterdam

Sat 25 Apr 2026

Barefoot Happiness DJ Nouvelle Conscious Dance Party Royal edition

🌱 Barefoot Happiness
- Royal Edition

Conscious Dance & Conscious Clubbing Party

This month,
we have something special for you…

Do you love to dance?
Maybe even Ecstatic Dance?
Then this edition is for you.

Barefoot Happiness is an invitation to arrive,
ground, and reconnect with your breath and body.
No choreography. No right or wrong.

Just free movement guided by music that invites you to feel,
express, and let go.

We weave together ritual,
breath, and dance, creating a field of authenticity, aliveness, playfulness, inclusiveness, and genuine connection with others all held in a space of love.

✨ Royal Edition

This month,
we celebrate the Royal Edition.
We connect with the royalty within ourselves and give it space to shine.

Reveal your inner king or queen and come dancing in your most beautiful,
playful, or extravagant outfit.

✨ Program - Saturday,
April 25

6:00
PM | Doors open
You are welcome to bring your own delicious food to share (potluck).
Soup & bread will be available (donation-based).

Take your time to arrive,
settle in, dress up in your royal outfit, or swap clothes with others.

7:30
- 8:00 PM | Cacao Ceremony
We open the evening with a gentle, heart-opening cacao ceremony, guided by the Barefoot Happiness spaceholding team.
A moment to land, ground, and open together.

8:00
- 8:45 PM | Live Concert - Sayf
Sayf takes us on a soulful journey with handpan and guitar.

Sayf Jabbar is a singer-songwriter,
performing artist, and model dedicated to authentic self-expression. As a multi-instrumentalist, he creates a unique sound rooted in folk music, enriched with soulful Arabic storytelling.

https://www.sayfjabbarmusic.com

8:45
- 10:45 PM | Conscious Dance Journey - DJ Nouvelle
DJ Nouvelle (Jolanda) guides us through a powerful and playful dance journey.

Internationally known as a former TV presenter and experienced event creator,
she has a unique gift for building a dance floor that feels both energizing and safe.

Expect drive,
groove, and vitality balanced with softness, love, and depth.

SoundCloud:
https://on.soundcloud.com/eeXMu7uiscqM0pu5gZ

10:45
PM - 12:00 AM | Conscious Dance Party / Clubbing
After Nouvelle, we continue dancing into a joyful conscious clubbing space.

Let’s celebrate life together!

🌿 What to expect:

- A welcoming,
tasteful, and inclusive space with a high-quality sound system

- Free drinks & treats
(low-alcohol and healthy drinks available donation-based)

- Free parking and easy access via public transport
(Amsterdam Sloterdijk)

- A heart-opening cacao ceremony
(included in the ticket price)

- Inspiring live music and DJ sets to support free,
expressive movement
(barefoot, socks, or indoor shoes allowed)

- A safe and held environment even if you come alone
(supported by our experienced spaceholding team)

- Bring a friend!
We offer special discounted friend tickets

- A cozy massage corner for relaxing treatments
(donation-based)

- A playful makeover corner:
borrow or complete your royal outfit
(accessories available as well donation-based)

🔥 Bonus - Weather permitting

If the weather allows,
we’ll light a fire outside, creating a cozy space to relax, connect, or simply sit by the flames.

See you on the dancefloor!

Tickets

Location:
Temple of Happiness

Condensatorweg 36
1014 AX Amsterdam

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Your body is a temple
Come to recharge in the Temple of happiness!

At the heart of Tantra lies the profound understanding that within each of us lies a sanctuary of joy and enlightenment, waiting to be unveiled. Through the cultivation of a willing, pure, and natural body, nourished by breathing exercises, sacred rituals, wholesome nutrition, mindful movement, and deep meditation, we recharge ourselves, grow and awaken to the vibrations of our highest selves.

As we attune ourselves to these practices, we become acutely aware of the “Temple of Happiness” residing within us and the interconnectedness we share with those around us. It is a vision of unity, where the boundaries of individuality dissolve, and we recognize ourselves as integral parts of a shared consciousness.

This is the essence of our philosophy a celebration of the divine within and without, a journey towards the realization of our true nature as beings of pure joy and love. We invite you to join us on this path of self-discovery and transformation, as we collectively dance and practice in the radiant light of the Temple of Happiness.

Looking for a Workshop or Session Space to Rent in Amsterdam?

You’re warmly invited to host your workshop in our spacious workshop area, featuring a professional sound system and a comfortable dance floor.

Our new location is in Amsterdam, Stadsdeel West, in the vibrant Houthavens neighborhood.

The Temple of Happiness is now housed in a top location within the creative business hub, the new Broedplaats Het Salon.

We offer 154 m² of dedicated space, including a 135 m² dance and workshop room with a brand-new, beautiful laminate dance floor. This bright and welcoming space on the first floor is beautifully designed with cozy features such as a cuddle corner. It is equipped with a professional sound system and adjustable lighting, allowing for both bright and intimate atmospheres perfect for workshops, rehearsals, lessons, or dance evenings.

The kitchen is conveniently located adjacent to the hall and is accessible through a charming, arched doorway. It is a private kitchen, not shared with others, and fully equipped with all conveniences, including an oven, refrigerator, and ample workspace ideal for preparing tea, snacks, or other refreshments.

Important Note: We do not rent out the space for parties, birthday celebrations, or similar events.

Bags and personal items can be stored in the adjacent, separate cloakroom to keep the main hall tidy and organized. Our staff-only storage area is reserved for workshop essentials such as mats, cushions, and mattresses, ensuring everything is easily accessible for your event.
For your (yoga, session, or meditation) music, you can connect to our professional sound system.

You can easily book your space online and promote your event through our website. On this page, you’ll find all the information about rental terms, cancellations, availability, and pricing. You can book your event yourself.

If you’re new to us, we encourage you to get in touch or request a tour beforehand:
janine@templeofhappiness.nl
+31 6 137 954 37.

We look forward to welcoming you to this beautiful new space, designed to inspire connection, creativity, and transformation.

Ready to elevate your event to new heights?
Contact us today to book your date and let the magic begin! ✨

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Tantra for Individuals & Couples Temple Heart Sessions
A sacred space for awakening love, energy and presence

Tantra is not about becoming someone else.
It’s about coming home to who you truly are beyond the layers of doing, performing or pleasing.
Whether you’re on a solo path of healing and empowerment, or
a couple seeking deeper intimacy, connection and aliveness,

Temple Heart Sessions offer a grounded, warm and transformational space to explore your inner world, your sensuality, and your relationships.
Through breath, touch, movement and energy work, you are invited to open to the full intelligence of your body your temple and to awaken the love that lives in your heart.

Why come for a Temple Heart Session?
• You long for more presence, depth or sensuality in your life or relationship
• You feel blocked emotionally, physically or sexually
• You’re in a transition and want support from within
• You want to reconnect to your body, your desire, your joy
• You feel the call to awaken your full life energy and live from the heart.

Whether you come alone or with your partner
Every session is a safe space where everything is welcome. There’s no pressure, no expectation just gentle guidance, deep respect and space to feel, explore and reconnect.

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Tantra session individual

The Buddha is back!

There is a legend that Buddha predicted that in 2500 he would return as the Maitreya.
Storytelling is a craft, tantric stories are cleverly constructed, full of double meanings. Without any context you can't do anything with it.

Osho gave a hint about this prediction, of course after he indicated that those 2500 years would have passed approximately now (who knows, the exact period in which Buddha would have lived is not certain).
Maitreya means “friend,” said Osho. A saint never returns in Osho's culture. They will not reincarnate any more. Osho indicates that it is not meant literally. The word Maitreya means friendship. According to Osho, Buddha speaks about a time when we have grown so much that we no longer need a leader, but a friend. And that time is “now”.

The concept of 2500 years is also a nice clue. That was an astonishingly long time, especially when you realize that at the time Buddha became popular (in the early Middle Ages) people - in the West at least - thought the earth had existed for 4,000 years. Our sense of time has changed under the influence of science. And that's why I dare say that 2,500 years actually meant "never" at that time.
Now you should know that tantra travels between two worlds of consciousness, namely that of non-duality and that of duality. The Buddhist tantra shows a karma wheel, containing all levels of consciousness, all "worlds" even the gods and devils belong to the karma wheel. The Buddha is completely outside of that….
He lives in no world and therefore does not exist here.

There is another legend that followers who say they have seen the Buddha are advised by their teachers to look further. They are tricked by their creative brain.
Why do these teachers say “kill the Buddha”? Because in the world in which the Buddha exists, there is no time and no place. There is only consciousness. There is no me and you. There is no us, there are no stories, thoughts and images, there is only consciousness, whatever that is... we cannot know that.

We only know our world, our "wheel of karma"... and in that world everything consists of duality, everything is measurable in time, place. It is weighable, assessable, consists of opposites, consists of: yes or no.

Tantra connects those two worlds, those levels of consciousness: of duality and non-duality. By indicating that the world of absolute consciousness is without contradictions in everything. This is because it has mirrored itself, reflected in matter, energy or vibration, but ultimately only “is”. The bridge is “Maya”, illusion. It is the connector and the splitter of the two world empires: that of non-duality and duality. If you look at this, you can conclude that there is only duality, and if that is the only thing that exists, then ultimately there is only 1 thing that exists, namely non-dual consciousness, little paradoxical, right?

But because of that context, the “prediction” of the return of the Boeddha in 2500 years has a completely different meaning: whether the Buddha is there or not, that only has to do with your own experience and your own consciousness. There is nothing else. You could also see this “prediction” in fact is a test, a trigger, a challenge, an invitation...

Because: if your mind is in charge, then the legend about the return of the Buddha behaves like a prediction. Ultimately it shows exactly how the mind works and what it does... namely holding up a sausage on a string that leaves you panting and hungry runs behind, without realizing that you are being fooled.
All your ideas, dreams, thoughts, all your wishes, no matter how noble... all your intentions, no matter how powerful... sooner or later you wonder if/why they have not been realized and your mind says: see? You suck. You're hanging out in the pub again, you're a loser, an asshole. You can't. And you squat down or pray to Buddha and ask when he will liberate you from the idiot that you are.
But he won't do that until 2500 years from now. This "prediction" looks like the well-known sign in beach bars around the world that says: Free beer tomorrow...

Maybe you realize that it is not meant literally. And you wonder what he is actually doing there, outside the circle of duality... We have a Thangka hanging in our temple space and I have often looked at it. Why is he there, how do you get to him and what does that symbolize?
Would you like to know what is beyond the end of our universe? And on which planets do creatures live? Would you like to meet them? Do you ever dream about it? And at the same time you realize the frustration that you will never know. Because we can't travel faster than light?

This is exactly the same.

Yet there are people on earth with experiences of aliens or with traveling on other planets. In visions, in their real reality or whatever (I have experienced that myself).
And: you never know if it is "true". Even if you know it in your heart, another cannot realize it until he has had the same kind of experience. Only when that is the case do you understand each other, right?
Could it perhaps be the same with Buddha?

If that impossible experience of yours has a name: twin soul happiness, meeting an alien, being a reincarnation of Mary Magdalene or being in conversation with God himself. Does it really matter what the experience is called, what label is attached to it? Or would it perhaps become more accessible to you to focus on the energy you feel in your heart at that experience?
What do you think?

And in what state could you possibly feel that experience? Anyone who has ever had an “absurd” experience knows that you can't force it. Just as you can't force what your next spontaneous creative inspiration will be...
You can practice recharging energy through breathing and Yoga, practice turning negative thoughts into positive ones, you can train yourself to think more broadly and perceive differently than before... but then the mind still does the talking. . He measures it, compares it: I used to be like this, now I am like that... oh yes? This looks like that, etc. etc.

Only when the comparison spontaneously stops can something unique emerge. The same goes for unique experiences. Buddha is a unique experience, and unique experiences do not happen twice, but the power of each unique experience moves us. A new experience is always formed from consciousness. Every moment… in the now.
Being in the now is such a complicated concept… because it is just an experience, a glimpse of “the” reality. We find it when we don't look for it, when we don't compare it to anything, when we stop thinking about it.

If you focus on the power that you experience again and again, you are in the now, where the Buddha is. It is outside of time and place. Apart from comparing and punishing yourself because once again you didn't pay attention...
The Buddha is no-mind. When we are aware in no-mind, we experience Buddha. That is why all gurus and teachers have such a hard time, they can never take you beyond the mind. Therefore, they are not necessary when you are in your Buddha consciousness. They are there to catch you if you fall out again... to keep reminding you of the state of consciousness in which you met Buddha.
But shoot the Buddha in this world, because it is not of this world. No one in this world of place and time understands what you're talking about, that's why it's always 2500 years away. Outside of time, outside of mind, outside of any-thing..

That is the paradox of living in this world. Because saints also gain power and prestige and sooner or later make mistakes, causing them to fall from god to devil in our wheel of karma. And vice-versa…
If you want to experience something of the Buddha in the wheel itself, in our world of contradictions, invite him as a friend. Not as a guru or as a leader. Don't do that to your fellow man. We all live in a paradox of experiencing and not being able to share, and those who embrace Buddha or any saint probably miss him the most in this world. Offer your friendship, be equal to each other. Then you have the best chance of meeting Buddha. Every day, just on the street or in the pub.

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