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Awakened Intimacy Couple’s Retreat

May 30 & 31, 2026
Live Online Retreat

Join a mindful journey to deepen intimacy and unlock your erotic potential. Explore why even strong long-term relationships face sexual challenges and learn practical tools—like Mindful Touch, Catch and Release, and Response-Agility—to enhance presence, pleasure, and connection with your partner.

11 credits, approved by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT)

FACILITATORS

Maci Daye, LPC

COST

  • $575
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Professional Offerings

Certificate Training in Passion and Presence® Mindful Relationship Sex Therapy

May 17, 2026 – Aug 30, 2027
Synchronous Online Course

Join a 16-month immersive training for helping professionals who want to skillfully support couples in navigating the complexities of intimacy and long-term relationships. Combining evidence-based skills, experiential practices, and a mindful therapeutic framework, this program equips you to confidently address challenges such as low or mismatched desire, shame, power struggles, performance anxiety, infidelity, and more—allowing you to work with greater depth, clarity, and compassion. This training also fulfills part of the requirements for AASECT certification as a sex therapist.

136 credits, approved by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT)

FACILITATORS

Maci Daye, LPC, with guest faculty

COST

  • Regular: $5,450
  • Extra Early Bird (through November 10):
    • $4,575 (one-time payment)
    • $4,828 (payment plan)
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PAST EVENTS

PRIOR PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS

To organize a workshop for Maci or have her speak on any of these topics, contact us at info@passionandpresence.com.

  • Enhancing Couple’s Sexuality with Mindfulness, Europäische Akademie für Paartherapie (European Academy for Couples Therapy), Mallorca, Spain, October 13 & 14, 2023
  • What’s in a Number? Erotic Expansion Across the Lifespan, for the North Carolina AARP, June 16,2023
  • Using Mindfulness & Somatics to Address Sexual Trauma ISITTA Innate Somatic Intelligence™ Trauma Therapy Approach, Level 2 Training February 4, 2023
  • The Right Use of Desire for All: What Pleasure Activism Can Teach us About Anti-Oppression Work Right Use of Power Institute Annual Conference November 11, 2022
  • Awakening the Pelvis with Mindfulness to Support Sexual Health  Pelvicademy October 31, 2022
  • Mindfulness Meets Eros: Addressing Sexual Issues in Psychotherapy                     
    SDOT YAM, ISRAEL Caesarea Sea Center​ April 25-29,2022
  • Europäische Akademie für Paartherapie (European Academy for Couples Therapy)​ Mallorca, Spain April 7-8, 2022
  • Eros Meets Mindfulness: A Hakomi-Informed Approach to Working With Sexual Issues in Therapy
    Ruhsdorf am der Ott, Germany, July 2 & 6, 2019
  • The Grace & Grit of Intimacy: Creating a Cooperative and Passionate Couple Alliance
    Wellington, New Zealand, February 14-16, 2019 
  • The Grace & Grit of Intimacy: Creating a Cooperative and Passionate Couple Alliance
    Perth, Australia, February 7-9, 2019 
  • Eros Meets Mindfulness: A Hakomi-Informed Approach to Working With Sexual Issues in Therapy
    Brisbane, Australia, February 1-3, 2019
  • The Four Biggest Erotic Challenges in Long-Term Relationships
    Europäische Akademie für Paartherapie (European Academy for Couples Therapy), Mallorca, Spain, November 23 & 24, 2018
  • The Four Biggest Erotic Challenges in Long-Term Relationships
    Shambhala Meditation Center, Atlanta, GA, April 31, 2017
  • From Dysfunction to Pleasure: Helping Couples Move Beyond the “Performance Trance,” in Erotic Recovery
    Europäische Akademie für Paartherapie (European Academy for Couples Therapy), Mallorca, Spain, March 31- April 1, 2017
  • From Dysfunction to Pleasure: Helping Couples Move Beyond the “Performance Trance,” in Erotic Recovery
    Society for the Integration of Spirituality in Psychotherapy, (SISP), Atlanta, GA, March 10, 2017.
  • Introduction to Passion and Presence®
    Taste of Love Festival, Byron Bay, Australia, January 21, 2017
  • Overcoming the Performance Trance in Erotic Recovery, European Association of Body-Centered Psychotherapy
    Athens, Greece, October 16, 2016
  • Getting Here Versus Getting Better: Overcoming the Performance Trance in Erotic Recovery
    United States Association of Body Psychotherapy Conference (USABP), Providence, Rhode Island, July 21, 2016
  • Six Keys to Restoring Eros in Long-Term Relationships
    Shambhala Meditation Center, Atlanta, GA, June 24, 2016 & November 30, 2015
  • The “Hidden Factors” That Make Sex in Committed Relationships Complicated
    Europäische Akademie für Paartherapie (European Academy for Couples Therapy), Mallorca, Spain, April 18, 2015
  • Introduction to Passion and Presence®
    Grove Part Inn, Asheville, NC, October 16, 2012 & September 20, 2014
  • Getting Here Vs. Getting Off: An Introduction to Passion & Presence®
    American Association of Sexual Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) Conference, Monterey, CA, June 8, 2014
  • Challenges to Desire in Monogamous Relationships
    Hakomi Embodied & Aware Relationship Training (HEART), Mallorca, Spain, August 29 & 30, 2013
  • Desire in Long-term Relationships
    Europäische Akademie für Paartherapie (European Academy for Couples Therapy), Mallorca, Spain, July 30, 2013
  • Introduction to Passion and Presence®
    New Thought Society, Kona, Hawaii, January 13, 2013
  • Sexuality in Long-Term Relationships, a Mindful Approach
    Wellington, NZ, February 1-3, 2013
  • Passion and Presence®: Using Mindfulness to Enhance Erotic Vitality
    European Association of Body-Psychotherapy Conference (EABP), Cambridge, England, September 16, 2012.
  • Recovering the Erotic Agenda in Body-Centered Psychotherapy
    U.S. Association of Body Psychotherapy Conference (USABP), Boulder, CO, Aug 10, 2012
  • Desire in Long-term Relationships
    Europäische Akademie für Paartherapie, (European Academy for Couples Therapy), Mallorca, Spain, July 13th, 2012
  • In Search of Eros: Mindful Love Relationships and The Road to Deep Intimacy
    Perth, Australia, February 24-27, 2012, Melbourne, Australia, February 17-19, 2012, Sydney, Australia, February 9-12, 2012
  •  Using Mindfulness to Explore the Many Faces of Desire. Maya Tulum, Mexico, Jan. 7-14, 2012 
  • Recovering and Expanding Our Erotic Life: Addressing Sexual Issues in Psychotherapy
    Sydney, Australia, February 12-14, 2011
  • The Perils of Passion: The Struggle to Love Deeply and Experience Sexual Fulfillment in Committed Relationships
    Sydney, Australia, February 17-20, 2011 

 

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