Author Archive: Charla
What is a Sacred Intimate?
A Sacred Intimate is a teacher who uses touch, including erotic touch, to teach you how to feel more comfort, connection and pleasure in your body. S/he guides you back to a state of recognizing, experiencing and enjoying your body sensations. We have been told to disregard and distrust the information percolating up from the gut, genitals, heart, and skin. Instead, we are told to trust only our head or intellect.
This is an unbalanced and dangerous way to live, as the mind is quick to play many tricks. (more…)
Charla Performs at BedPost Confessions
March 10, Thursday, 8 pm (go early for a seat), Art Authority
Charla will perform at the Bedpost Confessions, a sexy new venue put on by women for erotic storytelling that’s darn right bawdy and ballsy!
Austin’s sassy and savvy women take center stage and pour out their deepest longings, hottest fantasies and most devilish deeds…often to a standing-room-only crowd that’s thrilled with such Feminine Bravado, or is it Bravada!
Charla will unburden her heart by sharing her true story of how a shy, skinny girl from the Midwest became a Big Texas City sex worker. Goodbye to the corn fields and innocence, and hello to a Smooth Sultry Slide to the South!
Come on down to the Bedpost at Art Authority and hear Charla’s Confessions and more. Join the dazzled crowd that pulses to the beat of Austin’s new eclectic outlet for communal sexy storytelling, laughs and longings–oh, Walt Whitman, I, too, sing of the Body Electric!
An intimate Evening with Sex Pioneer Annie Sprinkle, 4/14
Thur. April 14, 7-10pm, $40/person, private home in central Austin
limited to the first 30 people who register via paypal
Enjoy an intimate and informal meeting with Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D Hear her tell stories of her radical sex evolution from prostitute/porn star to sexologist/artist! She has devoted the 35 years to researching and exploring sexuality, from the sacred to the profane, documenting and sharing her experiences through explicit films, photography, and sex workshops. For two decades she has toured with her controversial theater shows to enthusiastic audiences around the world.
Annie’s motto is “eroticize” everything, even breast cancer.” The first porn star to earn a Ph.D., Sprinkle is into nature fetishes and an avowed “ecosexual.” She’s shifting the metaphor from “Earth as mother” to “Earth as lover.” Currently her work is about love, relationships, aging and the place where ecology and sexology intersect, which she calls Sexecology. Today she is an out “ecosexual.”
7:00 – 8:30 pm: Annie’s slide show presentation and discussion.
8:30 -10 pm; Mingling, sip wine and sparkling cider, munch cheese and crackers, network and bask in the afterglow.
Presented by Charla Hathaway, sex coach, author, speaker, www.bodyjoy.org
Annie will also presetn Sat, April 16, 1:30-3:30pm, a slideshow retrospective of her life in burlesque Sat at Forbidden’s Fruit’s Texas Burlesque Festival. Tickets are $15 advance/$20 at door. Annie will also perform at the Vortex Theatre.
Love and Intimacy Workshop
Are you ready to experience a miracle in your relationship?
Download the Event Flyer [PDF]
Join with others who are taking love, intimacy and sensuality to the next level. If you desire to move past the barriers that keep you apart, fearful and in judgment…you are ready!
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Dates: Friday 6/3 (evening), Saturday 6/4 & Sunday 6/5
Times: Fri. 7 – 9pm, Sat. and Sun. 9am -5pm
Location: Austin, TX
To Attend: $280/person (Sat & Sun), $160/person (Sat. only), Friday night FREE
Love and Intimacy Weekend Retreat
● Examine your beliefs about love and intimacy and discover your limitations around fully expressing and receiving pleasure.● Enjoy playful and powerful exercises in which you express your joy, depth and vulnerability.
● Explore being your authentic self and discover just how attractive and sexy your truth is!
● Engage with others while staying connected to yourself.
● Experience what comes up in each moment with calm and curiosity.
What will I learn? You will deepen your love for yourself and others. You will take home new skills to cultivate more honesty, joy, and intimacy (in-to-me-see) with your self and others.
Who will be there? Meet others who, like you, choose to explore life and sensuality in safe, conscious, and spontaneous ways.
Why Now? You are it! You are the creator of your own life experiences. Life is happening NOW. Why not have the life you absolutely love and adore?
What are the details? To register go to www.paypal.com and deposit payment to verweyn@pacbell.net. (Cigna or BCBS insurance accepted for practical payment.) Call Nicole for more info at 512-670-3955.
Love and Intimacy Retreaters from last June’s retreat said:
- “It was the best weekend of my life; I feel an innocence and playfulness return to my relstionships.”
- “I let down my barriers and let my wife into a place that I had never experienced in our fifteen years of marriage.”
- “I fell in love with my partner in new intimate ways.”
- “My body changed. Since the workshop my doctor said my heart rate went from 80 to 65. I’m a new person.”
- “After the workshop when I had knee surgery, I fell in love with everyone in rehab.”
- “It was amazing to experience trust, support and love build up so quickly between people.”
Meet your Facilitators:
Nicole Verwey, Licensed Psychotherapist, Certified Professional Life Coach and Relationship Expert, teaches people through play and coaching “How to Win the Love Game” and “Mindful Eating”. (512) 670-3955 www.whatyousaycounts.com
Charla Hathaway, CSB, ACS, intimacy coach and author has helped thousands enjoy juicier relationships by showing them new ways to touch, talk and play. She’s the best-selling author of Erotic Massage, and 8 Erotic Nights: Passionate Encounters. Charla’s teachings will be featured in a Discovery Channel documentary this spring. (512) 626-5037, www.BodyJoy.org