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Love, Sex, and Intimacy - For Individuals and Couple, Kripalu Center, MA
January 22-24, 2010
Facilitated by Linda and Charlie Bloom
Tuition:$240.00 Plus meals and accommodations
For information please call 866-200-5203
For registration visit website at:
http://www.kripalu.org/presenter/V0000033/linda_bloom
CEUs available for MFTs, LCSWs, and RNs
Intimacy is to the soul as food is to the body. We are nurtured and enriched at the core of our being in the experience of deep connection. When the longing for intimacy is satisfied we experience wholeness and sufficiency; we are at one with ourselves and the world. In conjunction with a sexual connection the experience of intimacy can be exhilarating, inspiring, even transcendent.
The shadow side of this connection is the fear of intimacy, which is actually the fear of loss, rejection, shame or humiliation. These fears are common, even universal, yet their presence need not prevent us from experiencing the joys of intimate contact. It is not so much a matter of getting over these fears or concerns, but learning to skillfully respond to them when they arise.
How do we maintain an open heart in the face of powerful emotions? How can we redirect and intensify the energy contained within these feelings towards states of heightened awareness? How can we open to include and honor the full range of feeling that enters into our experience during these times?
This workshop will confront these and other questions that directly relate to our ability to dive fully into the bottomless pool of our heart's truth, and feel love in all of it's physical, sexual and spiritual splendor. We will learn ways of understanding and neutralizing patterns that limit intimacy and practice ways of being that deepen and enhance it. We will also explore the inner landscape that exists beyond intimacy, that territory of the heart where the deep connection of 'two' becomes the transcendent 'one'.
(FOR INDIVIDUALS AND COUPLES)
866-200-5203
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