Part 1: EROTIC PRESENCE
The Path and Practice of Awakened Intimacy
- Are you struggling to feel connected to your partner these days?
- Does it feel like sex has become too much work?
- Do you sometimes get triggered during sex and lose your good feelings?
- Are your routines becoming too predictable?
- Does the stress in your life seem to snuff out your feelings of arousal?
Welcome to the world of “real-life” sex!
In Part One of our Passion and Presence® series, you will come to understand why erotic challenges are inevitable.
Bodily changes, sexual familiarity, and ongoing stressors are facts of life. Moreover, limiting beliefs about pleasure and sex, as well as emotional wounds, emerge in just about any relationship with time. We can avoid sex, or we can view our difficulties as signposts to healing and growth.
Great sex is a mindset – not a skillset.
Erotic presence can help you overcome the dulling effect of familiarity and reawaken eros in your long-term relationship.
You can experience continual novelty by adopting a curious and exploratory state of mind, no matter how long you’ve been together. As you learn to see, touch, and share with renewed presence and curiosity, you will also discover where you have been stuck or deadened.
Through erotic presence, you can “wake up” together as you work through your challenges mindfully. We will hold space for you to re-access your embodied wholeness as you begin to gently transform the hidden imprints and wounds that have been dampening your aliveness.
Part 1: EROTIC PRESENCE
DAY 1
MORNING SESSION
10 am – 1 pm
- Let’s break the ice (everyone’s nervous to be at a sex retreat!)
- What we learn about sex is mostly unspoken
- Eros-inhibiting imprints
- Experiential activity #1
Free Time: 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm
AFTERNOON SESSION
3:30 pm – 6:30 pm
- Where’s Your Head on Sex?
- Experiential Activity #1
- The numbing effect of the “Familiarity Trance” – Just another date night (Yawn)
- The Novelty Trap
- Cultivating a State of Mind for Creative, Intimate Sex
DAY 2
MORNING SESSION
10 am – 1 pm
- Tribe Time
- The Journey from Unconscious to Conscious Erotic Coupling
- Experiential activity #1
- What’s Mindfulness Got to Do With it?
- Experiential Activity #2
- The Core Features of Mindful Sex
Free Time: 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm
AFTERNOON SESSION
3:30 pm – 6:30 pm
- From Disenchantment to Re-enchantment
- Experiential Activity #1
- Putting the Presence Back Into the Sex
- Experiential Activity #2
DAY 3
MORNING SESSION
10 am – 1 pm
- Mindfulness Practice
- Tribe Time
- Triggered Again! Now What?
- Experiential activity #1
- Don’t Endure, Adjust
- Experiential activity #2
Free Time: 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm
AFTERNOON SESSION
3:30 pm – 6:30 pm
- Mending Wounds by Planting Hearts
- Experiential Activity #1
- The Gifts and Challenges of Response-agility
DAY 4
MORNING SESSION
9:30 am – 12:30 pm
- Mindfulness
- Tribe Time
- Waking Up is Hard to Do (And Oh So Rewarding!)
- The Path and Practice of Awakened Intimacy
- Experiential activity #1
LUNCH: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
AFTERNOON SESSION
1:30 pm – 4:00 pm
- Making a Lifelong Home for Eros
- Experiential Activity #1
- Integration & Closing Circle (Please plan to stay through the closing circle. We want to complete as a whole group.)
Join Us for Our Upcoming Retreat!
Part 1: EROTIC PRESENCE
INCLUDED:
- participation in the retreat
- individualized coaching throughout the weekend
- 30-minute session with the leaders ($125 value)
- Support for Homeplay After the Retreat
- Discount on The first post-retreat coaching session with Julia Corley
*Tuition does not include travel, accommodations or meals.
Plus, A Copy Of Maci’s New Book, “Passion And Presence: A Couple’s Guide To Awakened Intimacy And Mindful Sex.”
January 2021
Tuition deposits will transfer automatically to August if we cancel the January retreats due to COVID. If you purchase tickets, make sure you add travel insurance or can reschedule your flight for August. We will only accept tuition transfers to the August program for this reason.
August, 2021, Portland, Oregon, dates and venue TBA.
Explore the full series of Passion & Presence® Retreats
Enhancing Intimacy and Desire with Mindfulness
Becoming a Conscious
Erotic Team
Experiencing the Joy of
Whole-Person Multimodal Sex
Dancing with Eros
from the Inside Out
