Awakened Lovemaking

Marlies CochretOne doesn’t need to currently have a partner to benefit from this presentation.

How deep can your lovemaking go? As we are called to bring living, awakened awareness into every area of our lives, including physical intimacy, we bump up against our core beliefs and fear of the unknown in the body. We may feel comfort as we encounter the intimacy of life on our meditation cushion; yet feel challenged to bring that sweetness into our physical and feeling experience of lovemaking. We have not been taught how to relate to one another in this intimate space.

Awakened lovemaking begins with resting as our True Selves. Then, as we let go of all human effort, we allow ourselves to fall into our natural body experience. Here, there is no hiding place. The 'me' disappears. Now, as lovers we come together in the one movement of love, revealing ever more the immensity, aliveness and deliciousness of the Silence that we are in form. As love meets love we fall into sensation, intimacy and space.

That sounds very simple and wonderful. It tends not to be that easy. For most people the body or parts of the body are in a conditioned state. That means the nervous system, bones or muscles are in some state of tension and are not able to function naturally and freely. Life cannot flow through us and any residue tends to ‘stick’ to the body as tension or contraction.

In the meeting with another these tensions and unconscious parts seem to stand in the way of love, actually they bubble up to the surface to be burned away by the fire of love. If we can welcome the burning of these conditioned parts, deeper resting as our True Self will be revealed. In this workshop we’ll explore what stands in the way of relaxing as our True Self. When the confusion of the conditioned body lets go, we are able to rest as our natural body without any stories - only the one movement of Love!

To the extent that we have realized this Love, we are able to live it. Coming together in awakened lovemaking gives us the possibility to play with resting as awareness during lovemaking and let any expression of love come from that. Of course when wakefulness has come to the forefront, all of life becomes the making of love. During this workshop the focus is on how to bring awakened awareness into the bedroom and play together as this One Consciousness that we are in form. Bringing form and formlessness together as One, we’ll explore resting as our True Selves, being completely intimate with what is and bringing that into contact with another.

Resting into the beauty of physical lovemaking requires utter willingness, a big smile and the courage of an open heart. In this workshop Marlies will offer practical guidance on resting as your True Selves, even in the bedroom, how to be intimate with your humanity, and more. You are invited into the unknown, into awakened lovemaking and living life as love. Are you ready?

This workshop will be a combination of talks, inquiry, experiential exercises, play and dialog.

Marlies Cochret de la Moriniere, MA

With love, directness, and humor, Marlies invites our spirituality down from the clouds right into this human body experience. For more than 15 years she has been ushering seekers into the mysteries of awakened sexuality and living the divine in the body. Marlies works as a spiritual teacher, psychologist, a certified Hakomi therapist and a certified tantric educator internationally. She has been offering satsangs and retreats since 2000 when Adyashanti asked her to teach. Marlies is interviewed in ‘Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Wisdom’ by R.M. Robinson. www.marliescocheret.com.