Introduction to Sacred Sexuality

In this workshop, we will create a safe space where we will explore how to build a strong sexual life within a life full of heart and guided by spirit. You'll learn practices that can be done alone or with another. We'll be working with breath, movement, sound, and touch. We will also focus on self-awareness and communication skills that deepen authentic intimacy. These include the power to notice and distinguish between one’s thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations.

As we practice, we increase our conscious awareness of our sexual energy and deepen into the subtleties of our experience. This allows us to reduce blockages of our energy flow and to connect more easily with ourselves and others.

This workshop is for singles or couples. There will be no overtly sexual contact in this workshop.

Get Your Heart On: An Introduction to Sacred Sexuality for Men and Women

Learn to access your sexual energy for greater creativity and aliveness in a heart & spiritually-centered context using breath, movement, sound, and touch. For singles or couples. No overt sexual contact.

Relationship Skills 101

All of us need and want to relate to others in ways that are mutually satisfying. Most of us, however, struggle to create relationships that are deep, meaningful, and long-lasting. We have come to realize that much of what we learned from our families, schools, and society does not work.

So what does work? In this one day workshop we will cover the five basics of creating healthy relationships: self-awareness, intimacy skills, communication, sexuality and friendship. We will look at each one of these building blocks, how they form the foundation of healthy relating and how together they form the basic skill set for relating in ways that are enlivening, passionate, healing, and sustainable. Whether male or female, gay or straight, the same basic principles and practices apply. We will focus specifically on practical tools that you can use immediately to start making all of your relationships, including non-romantic ones, more satisfying.

When Push Comes to Shove: The Magic of Conflict

with Steve Torma and Terrie Lewine

In a good relationship, conflict is not only inevitable but necessary. The same is true within ourselves. How we handle conflict is one of the main factors influencing the quality of our relationships. In this transformational intensive, we will explore:

1. the value of conflict
2. the purpose it serves in our lives to create greater self-awareness and intimacy with others
3. the difference between conflict and arguing or fighting
4. how to increase our ability to notice what we are feeling
5. effective language for expressing our needs
6. ways to evoke more honest and vulnerable communication from others

As you learn these skills, your relationships will become more satisfying, nourishing and creative. You will reduce the amount of drama and increase the amount of healthy excitement in your life. Make conflict creative and have fun with your life.

A Barroom View of Love

I would not want all my words
To parade around this world in pretty costumes,
So I will tell you something of the Barroom view of Love.
Love is grabbing hold of the Great Lion's mane
And wrestling and rolling deep into Existence
While the Beloved gets rough and begins to maul you alive.
True love, my dear, Is putting an ironclad grip
Upon the soft, swollen balls of a divine rogue elephant
And not having the good fortune to die!

Hafiz (1320 - 1370)

from Hey Jude

for well you know that it's a fool
who plays it cool
by making his world a little colder

The Beatles

What's Up With Him? Understanding Male Sexuality for Men and the Women Who Love Them

One of the essential questions for men is how to energize and integrate the two big energies they experience: the energy of lust and the energy of love. The main benefit of learning to join sex and spirit, heart and genitals is a profound sense of aliveness, which many men lack. With increased self-awareness and confidence men will be able to create a deeper range and expression of emotions, a better understanding of and appreciation for their bodies, and more satisfying relationships. For singles or couples. No overt sexual contact.

Sacred Land, Sacred Sex: Earth Energies and Sexual Healing

This workshop is primarily an exploration of energy. We’ll experience the Earth’s healing energy - through trees, plants, lying on the ground, etc. Next we’ll experience our own energies and how to intentionally activate a sense of play, expanded states of awareness, and higher states of consciousness. With these two practices we’ll experience a sensual connection to the more than human world. These activities and connections are designed to create laughter, joy, peace, and oneness. For singles or couples. No overt sexual contact.

The Perfect Work

Love is the perfect work.
A music which rings all the bells in the temple.
A special wind in the trees...

When I am at work in my garden I take off my shoes.
I let my other hands embrace dirt.
I plant myself in this place.
And knowing what love is I awake.
In this place in my body.
Full of dream music. Full of Life.

    Thomas Rain Crowe