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AUTHENTIC EROS
body sex spirit explorations for men
A workshop for gay men facilitated by Kai
Ehrhardt and Don Shewey
LEVEL 1 AND 2:
April 17-20, 2008 at Easton Mountain Retreat,
upstate New York
April 24-27, 2008 at Ronora Lodge, southwestern
Michigan
Come and play in a group of erotic explorers. Open up the amazing
potential that lives within your pleasure body. Identify and cultivate the
spark that stirs within you, trusting it to lead you to your erotic fire.
Interrupt the patterns of habit, judgment, or comparison that block your
sexual freedom. Practice surrender and spontaneity. Be real. Have fun.
Step fearlessly into the ecstasy that lives inside your body and soul. Can
you imagine that?
At Authentic Eros, we will use breath, touch, movement, sound and sensual
experience as doorways to a freer and more fulfilling sexuality. We will
work with the desires and growth of each man, emphasizing individual
freedom of choice and accountability. Authentic Eros offers a safe and
supportive environment for each participant to explore his own erotic
development in the company of others with a similar commitment.
Much of this exploration will be clothes off and interactive. We will work
with ourselves, with partners, and with the group as a whole. No prior
experience is required. However, each participant will be asked to bring a
sincere willingness to go deep, to be truthful, and to play in the
energies of creativity, arousal, and embodiment.
AUTHENTIC = real, spontaneous, organic, fun
EROS = sex, love, intimacy, connection
The goal of this workshop is to help you get INTO your body and get OUT OF your habits that lead to sexual boredom and dissatisfaction.
To expand your ability to create intimate, erotic self-expression, you will:
* Dive deeply into full-body sensory awareness and energy work: Waking up your body and increasing its range of responses to pleasure/sensual interaction are key pieces of Authentic Eros. We will use breath, movement, and hands-on experiences to charge up our joy-bodies. From there we will practice entering into unpredictable, flowing encounters with a partner.
* Be proactive about creating the sex/intimate life of your dreams: Some of the juicy questions we will focus on are: What do I want more of in my life, erotically, physically, emotionally? What do I want less of? What are the obstacles that keep me from moving toward what I want?
* Explore the shadow side of sexual attraction: Without being aware of it, much of our daily energy is wrapped up in projections. Parts of ourselves that we don’t like or that we can’t tolerate get projected onto an “other” person creating a negative or positive projection. Shadow work serves to “call back” these disowned aspects of ourselves and to integrate them. This frees up a lot of energy, which then can be used to fuel the positive connections you want to make with yourself and others.
This workshop offers opportunities to recognize and interrupt limiting patterns. In a community of likeminded men, we will create an erotic laboratory and see what joyful explosions take place when you combine presence, playfulness, and personal power.
Some feedback from last year's participants:
Since the workshop, I've noticed more and more people who stare at me, who compliment me on my body, and have sensed who might be wanting to pick me up. There was this nice man who started talking to me in the locker room and steam room prior to swimming. After my normal swim routine I was showering and thought he left. Lo and behold when I get in the locker room he is fully dressed but asks me if I want a drink. We had a nice dinner and then went to his place for a massage. I got to practice what I learned at Authentic Eros.
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I found Easton Mountain the perfect setting to look inward; to trust; to open up; to experiment. Authentic Eros clearly challenged me at times. But that's all part of the process. The important part - for me - was to recognize my pattern of behavior and find a way out that did not include running away, calling undue attention to myself, or blame (on myself or anyone else). I had some powerful encounters over the weekend which were positive and wonderfully affirming. The weekend as a whole seems to have nudged strongly at some of my toughest log jams. I understand that the clarity I now feel should not be seen as certainty, but it sure beats being in the dark.
For more information, click here.
LEVEL 1
AND 2:
April 17-20, 2008 at Easton Mountain Retreat,
upstate New York
To register, click here
or call 518-692-8023 or 800-553-8235
April 24-27, 2008 at Ronora Lodge, southwestern
Michigan
To register, contact Sven by phone at 269.921.0739 or by e-mail at aeretreat@hotmail.com
LEVEL 2 AND 3:
October 13-19, 2008 in Berlin
Note: This class is open to men who have taken Authentic Eros Level 1
(2-day course) or Level 1 and 2 (3- or 4-day course).
To
register, click here
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