Up-Coming Vacation Retreat Friday, Saturday & Sunday October 22, 23, 24. Erotic Partnership FALL "IN LOVE" WEEKEND Time: Friday 4:00 to 8:30 Saturday 10:00 to 6:00 Sunday 9:30 to 1:00 Location: Point Reyes Seashore Lodge Northern California Click  for  More  Info Erotic  Partnership  Retreats "With passion pray, with passion make love, with passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why act like a dead fish in this ocean of God?" [Rumi] After The Honeymoon retreats provide a soulful learning environment that supports erotic partnership. Be embodied, own your desire (including the desire to be cared for), be skillful in relationship, cultivate passion and celebrate your sexuality. Each retreat is a dynamic experience that feels like the best kind of vacation. The kind of vacation that leaves you feeling refreshed and more able to engage with your life when you return home. Locations are selected to provide a beautiful and peaceful environment for a romantic connection. The structure of the retreat will lead you through the five steps for erotic partnership so that you will have an embodied experience of reconnection, as well a model for future exploration. Felicia and Jim present information. You practice effective communication. You are supported to come into contact with your partner in a way that leads to trust and generosity. As you soften into connection, you will be invited to create a ceremony that is a celebration of your love. You will perform this ceremony privately in your room as "homework." Before you leave you will be supported to develop a plan to continue your connection. Our retreats are small - generally about 10 couples, more or less. This provides a safe environment to study the principles of erotic partnership. Exercises in the group are fun, supportive, no-pressure ways for learning new tools. We break out of the small group so that intimate conversations can happen privately, between you and your partner. Most couples going through this process are delighted to find themselves feeling more connected than they anticipated. For many it is the beginning of a new path of sexual satisfaction. More than one couple has said, "I believe that you have saved our marriage." Our erotic partnership retreat is right for you if: you want more intimacy in your relationship you want more satisfying sex in your relationship you are stuck in how to collaborate regarding sex and intimacy your lifestyle has sucked the creative juice from your erotic self, leaving you with a less than satisfying sexual relationship you want to find tools that will support deep intimacy and great sex you want to have an experience that is a great vacation that will deepen your relationship Couples who are currently in counseling will find that Erotic Partnership Retreats deepen and compliments therapy. We will collaborate with your therapist as appropriate. Erotic Partnership "FALL - IN LOVE" Weekend Retreat 2010 Up-Coming Vacation Retreat Friday, Saturday & Sunday October 22, 23, 24. Erotic Partnership "FALL - IN LOVE" WEEKEND Time: Friday 4:00 to 8:30 Saturday 10:00 to 6:00 Sunday 9:30 to 1:00 Location: Point Reyes Seashore Lodge Northern California Register Online Now Are you looking for a weekend away that will help you feel the depth of your love, offer a structure for how to connect sexually, and give you tools for staying connected. If so, then this is the perfect vacation for you. At Point Reyes seashore, the golden light of Fall can crystalize the salt air creating the feeling that something magical will happen. It is here that we will offer our next "Fall In Love" retreat. We will mirror the soft crystalline light with clear intention and warm generosity to cultivate a magic that will help you deepen your sexual relationship. No one weekend makes a relationship. Yet there are seminal times in a relationship that shift the direction or catalyze an important quality. This three-day, two-night retreat will provide understanding, concrete practices, and an opportunity to remember how easy love can be. Our focus will be creating emotionally connected sexuality - being friends, partners and lovers. This is what we call erotic partnership. We will approach both sexuality and personal transformation scientifically as well as poetically. During this retreat you will: • take time to clarify intention. • practice giving and receiving affection. • move gently from sensuality to sexuality. • practice effective communication while bridging emotional connection   with erotic exploration. Practical tools are provided that form the basis for relational transformation. We use discussion and experiential exercises to explore: • the importance of erotic connection in committed relationship • identifying and expressing what you want • self-empowerment through self-responsibility • creating the space for love • approaching sensitive topics in effective ways As in all of our retreats, couples are guided in increasingly intimate private conversations, then offered private "homework" assignments that deepen into the erotic. We help couples plan a special date for the Saturday night of the weekend. This date will offer an opportunity to practice moving through the stuck places in your sexual relationship and to create a template for ongoing transformation. Couples will leave the weekend with a concrete and unique plan to deepen their emotional and erotic connection over time. ACCOMODATION: To facilitate the process we strongly suggest that couples reserve a room at the Point Reyes Seashore Lodge where the retreat will take place. Here is the link. PointReyesSeashore.com Tell the hotel that you are part of After The Honeymoon. CEUs are available for Marriage and Family Therapists and Licensed Social Workers. For additional information, you may call or email us - click for Contact Info. PRICING: The cost for the retreat is $699 per couple. (This includes dinner on Friday and lunch on Saturday. A continental breakfast is provided by the lodge.) PREREGISTRATION: Register by August 31 and pay only $639 discount price. Click to Register Online - Payment by Check or Credit Card Top of Page www.afterthehoneymoon.org ©2010 Jim & Felicia Matto Shepard. All rights reserved. Website design by Henry Murray.