FREE Report: 7 Keys to Wake Up Your Sex Life Now and Forever
FREE Report: 7 Keys to Wake Up Your Sex Life Now and Forever
AWAKENED INTIMACY SEXUALITY Retreats for Couples
IS THIS RIGHT FOR US?
Do you want to enhance your intimacy, mindfully?
Do you want to feel reassured, re-engaged, and empowered as a couple?
Our Passion & Presence Mindfulness-Based Sexuality retreats might be perfect for you.
Check out our NEW RETREATS!
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why mindfulness?
Mindfulness is key—it’s your “superfood” for good sex.
While there’s no such thing as “perfect sex,” you can step out of numbing routines and limiting mindsets now and always.
When you bring a gentle awareness to your direct experience, you cultivate presence and a spirit of exploration that enlivens eros.
Our sexuality retreats can show you how to establish a state of mind for creative, engaged, and intimate sex.
What Can You Expect
from an Awakened Intimacy Retreat?
You’ll focus on four elements of eroticism in our couples sexuality retreats:
Pleasure
Connection
Healing
Growth
If you’re interested in our Passion & Presence™ couples sexuality retreats, you probably want more or better sex. You may be feeling hopeful about having what you want, or maybe deeply discouraged. Perhaps, you’re somewhere in between.
The beauty of our mindful approach is that
you can meet yourself wherever you are.
the experience...
Our retreats involve looking inside and engaging
in the mindful practices of awakened intimacy.
Because of this, our sexuality retreats are experiential. However, please note that there’s no nudity in the group, nor do we focus on the “how-tos” of lovemaking.
Meet Your Retreat Leaders
Our sexuality retreat facilitators include Maci Daye, CST, the founder of Passion and Presence, Halko Weiss, Ph.D., and Julia Corley, LCMHCA.
Maci is a “possibilities doula” who gently supports the aliveness, pleasure, and connection that’s ready to awaken within and between you.
Halko‘s wizardry is showing up when couples are on the brink of getting “hooked” or derailing. His capacity to hold a judgment-free space of love and strength is especially palpable during our live offerings.
Julia is a heart-whisperer whose unabashed joy and open-heartedness helps participants feel welcome and safe.
Together, our collective strengths create a transformational container for erotic alchemy. We’re so happy you found us.
Are You Ready to Begin Your Mindful Sex Journey?
Erotic Presence for Pleasure, Connection & Growth.
Mini-Retreat
Gently “re-set” your erotic life — mindfully.
online retreat
Transform your erotic impasses into catalysts for connection.
AWAKENED INTIMACY for Couples
How does Registration Work?
STEP 2
Upon registration
STEP 3
Before the retreat starts…
We’ll send you some homework. Please listen to the pre-recorded talks to ensure you are oriented and ready for the weekend.
We limit the didactic content we provide during our retreats so you can practice the skills of awakened intimacy right away.
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What Does the Schedule Look Like?
In SESSION
After a mindfulness practice, we’ll jump into an activity or two related to our mini-retreat topic.
at home
At home, we’ll give you an erotic exercise to try that will enable you to take the skills “to the sheets,” as we like to say.
As always, you’re welcome to modify all activities to best fit your needs by being fully clothed, limiting touch to particular regions of your bodies, or anything else that helps you feel comfortable.
SUNDAY
Experience the ever-popular Tribe Time. After, we offer personal coaching on the skills you’ve been learning.
AWAKENED INTIMACY for Couples
WHY US?
How are we different from other retreats?
Are you wondering if this is the right couples sexuality retreat for you? If so, consider these touchstones to see if we are a good fit:
Our specialty is helping you update your sexual operating system.
Sexual problems often have little to do with sexual function or poor technique and a lot to do with what encodes the “operating systems” of our erotic lives. These beliefs and mindsets are based on early learning and past experiences. We’ll show you how to access and transform these deep imprints to heal and grow together.
We make no false promises; there is no formula for sexual satisfaction that will endure through every season. In all long-term relationships, sex becomes complicated. Instead of resisting, fixing, or ignoring our real-life struggles, we can plumb our depths (gently and mindfully) to discover what is standing between us and our pure erotic potential.
It’s a paradox that we can open up to more creativity, freedom, and self-expression by befriending our difficulties.
Mindfulness is central to everything we do. Maci, Halko, and Julia have practiced and taught mindfulness for decades. As a couple, Maci and Halko use it to deepen their emotional and sexual connection every day.
While mindfulness teaches us how to be with real-life in a curious and accepting way, we also incorporate proven ways to transform based on brain science. Maci is a psychotherapist and certified sex therapist. Julia is a kink-aware psychotherapist and somatic experiencing practitioner. Halko is a psychologist and master couple’s therapist. The three of us are also trainers of Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy. Our expertise includes navigating desire issues, the effects of aging and illness on genital function, alternative love styles, and sexual trauma.
Again and again, we hear that teaming up around sex and the felt sense of “being in it together” is the biggest “takeaway” of Passion and Presence.
Even the most loving couples end up arguing, defending, blaming, or hiding from each other. We get it; we’ve been there too. When you recognize that you are engaging in understandable “protective patterns,” you can begin to hold hands through the hard stuff. Helping you connect around divisive issues is our priority, whether inside or out of the bedroom.
You won’t find diagnoses or judgment here. We aren’t “fixers.” We are gentle, non-pathologizing, sex-positive, and trauma-sensitive.
Roles, norms, and labels are changing rapidly, and we’re in confusing yet exciting times filled with uncertainty and possibility.
We celebrate that our experiences are unique, and in doing so, we can access our innate sense of wisdom, compassion, and aliveness.
AWAKENED INTIMACY for Couples
Online Retreat Details
Transform your erotic impasses into catalysts for connection.
*Reciprocal Interaction Loop
June 18-19, 2022 – $349
Saturday: 11am-4pm EST
[5pm-10pm CET]
Sunday: 11am-4pm EST
[5pm-10pm CET]
Approved for 8 CEUs through AASECT
For You?
Transformative Concepts
Skills & Practices
Get out of Negative Loops and Shutdown: Reconnect Deeply with the RIL
In this retreat, you will use the Reciprocal Interaction Loop Diagramming Process (or RIL), developed by our Passion & Presence team member Halko Weiss Ph.D., to explore erotic impasses. These are the places in your relationship where your differences feel unresolvable, and your efforts to make things better seem only to make them worse. Instead of healing and growing, both of you end up feeling alone, hopeless, blamed, inadequate, and resentful.
At Passion and Presence, we believe that unhealed wounds from childhood invariably flare-up in our adult intimate relationships. When this happens, we are apt to rely on protective strategies that armor our hearts and activate our partner. We also believe that impasses can be catalysts for connection if we are willing to work with our “legacy states” and reveal our hurt parts without going into our “Defend Cycle.”
If you are ready to shift your defensive patterns consciously and compassionately, this workshop will help you become cooperative allies. The RIL is an easy-to-use tool that enables you to recognize your Protector and Protected legacy states without judgment or blame. It shows you how your non-verbal behaviors “hook” your partner in reinforcing ways and how these patterns become “hyper-stable.” We will show you how to help yourself when your partner is too triggered to offer what you need to regulate. Learning to disidentify from reactive states and work with your internal “Protectors” is crucial for Awakened Intimacy. It enables you to enjoy a more undefended way of loving that deepens your connection as a couple. It also builds trust. By sharing your hidden vulnerabilities, you become more willing to disclose your erotic desires and open emotionally during sex.
online retreats
AWAKENED INTIMACY Sexuality Retreats for Couples
AWAKENED INTIMACY Retreats for Couples
REGISTER NOW
When you sign up for this retreat, we ask you to commit– to yourself, your partner, and us– to show up, show up on time, and show up for the entirety of the retreat.
Many, if not most, of our participants arrive with mixed feelings– parts of you may feel open (or excited, relieved, intrigued, turned on, and any number of other pleasant feelings). Other parts of you may feel nervous (shy, scared, frustrated, angry, too busy) or have concerns that lead you to avoid putting both feet into the experience.
It’s natural and normal to have these feelings. We welcome your curiosity as well as your hesitations. Our mindful approach acknowledges the complex mix of joy and suffering, desire and aversion, and delight and disappointment inherent in our “real-live” sex lives.
Unfortunately, it’s easier than ever with online events to change your mind at the last minute or log off early if you start to feel uncomfortable. So, as you are poised to register for this event, be sure that both of you are committing to be there for the duration unless you have a genuine emergency.*
We price our virtual retreats to be accessible to as many people as possible and do not offer tuition refunds. In emergencies (see below), you can apply your tuition to another program through June 2022.
Part of the magic of Passion and Presence retreats is the feeling of the group. Hearing a bit about other people’s experiences builds a sense of camaraderie and understanding. You see that all couples, not just you and your partner, struggle and have resilience. We carefully plan each of our events to include time for this group alchemy, but some of this magic gets lost if a group is too small.
Primarily for this reason, but also due to financial considerations, if we have not met our minimum number of couples by ten days before the retreat’s start date, we will cancel. You will have the option to transfer your tuition to a future event or receive a refund if none of the coming events work for you.
So, check inside now. If your body says, “Yes, I am ready,” please continue completing the registration below. We can’t wait to meet you or continue to support you on the “naked path.”
[*An emergency is a severe health condition, accident, or family death.]Partner Info
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When you sign up for this retreat, we ask you to commit– to yourself, your partner, and us– to show up, show up on time, and show up for the entirety of the retreat.
Many, if not most, of our participants arrive with mixed feelings– parts of you may feel open (or excited, relieved, intrigued, turned on, and any number of other pleasant feelings). Other parts of you may feel nervous (shy, scared, frustrated, angry, too busy) or have concerns that lead you to avoid putting both feet into the experience.
It’s natural and normal to have these feelings. We welcome your curiosity as well as your hesitations. Our mindful approach acknowledges the complex mix of joy and suffering, desire and aversion, and delight and disappointment inherent in our “real-live” sex lives.
Unfortunately, it’s easier than ever with online events to change your mind at the last minute or log off early if you start to feel uncomfortable. So, as you are poised to register for this event, be sure that both of you are committing to be there for the duration unless you have a genuine emergency.*
We price our virtual retreats to be accessible to as many people as possible and do not offer tuition refunds. In emergencies (see below), you can apply your tuition to another program through June 2022.
Part of the magic of Passion and Presence retreats is the feeling of the group. Hearing a bit about other people’s experiences builds a sense of camaraderie and understanding. You see that all couples, not just you and your partner, struggle and have resilience. We carefully plan each of our events to include time for this group alchemy, but some of this magic gets lost if a group is too small.
Primarily for this reason, but also due to financial considerations, if we have not met our minimum number of couples by ten days before the retreat’s start date, we will cancel. You will have the option to transfer your tuition to a future event or receive a refund if none of the coming events work for you.
So, check inside now. If your body says, “Yes, I am ready,” please continue completing the registration below. We can’t wait to meet you or continue to support you on the naked path.
[*An emergency is a severe health condition, accident, or family death.]
Are You Ready to Begin Your Mindful Sex Journey?
Start with our Intro Retreat.
Intro Retreat
Gently “re-set” your erotic life — mindfully.
