Enhancing Spiritual Maturation by Healing Early Attachment Wounds and Embracing Secure Relationships with Diane Heller

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Understanding and releasing childhood attachment ruptures by learning secure attachment skills is key to enjoying more fulfilling relationships and healthy intimacy as an adult. This workshop will include an overview of attachment adaptations including secure, avoidant, and ambivalent, as well as how each style impacts adult relationships. From a spiritual perspective, healing insecure attachment helps us have more awareness to support ego dis-identification and essential maturation.

Learning objectives:

• The participant will be able to identify and describe secure attachment
• The participant will be able to identify and distinguish avoidant and ambivalent attachment.
• The participant will understand how to create corrective experiences to facilitate healing.
• The participant will understand the challenges of dissociation as well as embodiment related to resolving relational trauma issues

Men & Women In Love: The Future of Romance with Terry Real

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We have never wanted more from our long term relationships. We want to be lifelong lovers. But do we act like lovers with one another? What gets in the way? Over time many of us stop telling our whole truth to our partners, because it doesn’t go well when we try, and the first casualty of backing off is our passion. The reclaiming of women’s “voices” has been an issue for decades. But men in relationship rarely articulate their emotions or deepest needs either.

Learn the art of standing up for yourself with love - asserting yourself and cherishing your partner in the same breath. And then learn how to listen and respond with a generous heart, so that you deal well with conflicts as they arise and keep things between you honest and alive.

Introduction of afternoon program with Terry Real and Michaela Boehm

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Preparing folks for the afternoon sessions

The Wild Woman’s Way: The Embodied Feminine: Michaela Boehm with women

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Join us for an interactive exploration into full-bodied expression of your original, deeply connected feminine nature. “The Wild Woman’s Way®” is Michaela’s body of work and this session is an invitation to find and unfold the parts of you that are deeply connected to nature. Deepen into who you are as a woman by releasing layers of societal conditioning, belief, and habit and learn to listen to your bodily genius.

The Masculine Dilemma: Our Next Frontier: Terry Real with men

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Never before have we men been awash with so many confusing messages:

“Be sensitive. Be strong. Just listen to me. Tell me about your feelings. Throw me against a wall and just do me! Be gentle. Be in control. Act like a man! Don’t act like a man! Just be yourself!” Conservatives reassert old mores, some progressives speak like they want to throw the whole thing out. But it’s up to each of us to look at the legacy we’ve been handed, figuring out what to kill; what to keep, and what to pass on to our kids.

What is the legacy that was handed to you? How was it transmitted? Through exercise and discussion we will look at ourselves as men - we will look at the messages given from our fathers in particular but also our mothers and the culture.

We will explore what it means to live whole, relational lives.

Radical Intimacy And The Play Of The Erotic with Michaela Boehm & Steve James

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Whether you would like to start a new intimate relationship or want to deepen passion with your partner, the principles of Intimacy and Erotic Friction — the spark that keeps passion alive — are always available to deepen your experience. The erotic play of masculine and feminine, springing from a radical intimacy with life itself, is a challenging and delightful realm of inquiry. We will explore the deep principles of embodiment, uncover and work with personal blocks to expansion and contraction, engage in practical exercises, dialogue, and learning to widen both heart space and the ability to embody as energy or thrust. In this experiential session you will be shown the building blocks, practices, and disciplines of creating deeper relational and erotic connections in your life.

Deepen Intimacy Through Erotic Embodiment and Emotional Vulnerability with Celeste Hirschman & Dimitry Yakoushkin

Room 201
In order to have deep intimacy with another person you need two core skills - erotic embodiment and emotional vulnerability. The more you can show up in your erotic body in the present moment, the more you can understand your feelings, boundaries, desires, and capacities. The more you are able to share vulnerably, the more acceptance and empathy you can feel from your partner. In this 3-hour workshop we will take you on a journey into deep erotic embodiment and vulnerable sharing to enhance your pleasure, joy and connection with those around you.

Ecstasy & Mystery with Michaela Boehm & Steve James

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Join us for an immersion into the tantric subtle body arts. Experience ecstatic intimacy and explore the sacred mysteries of erotic friction. In this experiential session we will engage in specific transmission oriented around subtle body practice and the realms of sacred union.

We'll first engage in a series of practices to sensitize and open both body and heart, resulting in greater feeling capacity and sensitivity towards yourself and others. Once the body and heart are sufficiently relaxed and sensitized, we will dive into the mysteries of erotic friction by engaging with the full spectrum of energetic offerings and touch, from the sublime light to the mysterious dark. In this session you will engage with practices and disciplines of creating ecstatic play in all aspects of your life. Using cutting edge explorations & new practices, we will be inviting not just understanding of these principles, but true embodiment of them.

The Art of Giving and Receiving Sensual Consent with Celeste Hirschman & Dimitry Yakoushkin

Room 201
Consent is a very important topic that has come to the forefront recently. While it may seem straightforward, truly understanding, giving, and gaining consent is actually quite complex. What’s more, it can be done very clumsily or very sensually depending on your awareness and skill level. In this 3-hour workshop, we will introduce the foundational skills you need to have in order to give and receive true consent in a connected and arousing way

Dance

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Q&A with Michaela Boehm, Steve James, Celeste & Dimitri and group sharing time .

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Closing experiential session and conversation with presenters & attendees