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Love and Intimacy Workshop

June 3-5, Friday 7-10 pm,  Sat & Sun 9-6 pm,  Austin

Download the flyer for the Love and Intimacy Couples Retreat.


$360/person by April 1, $400 after

Are you ready to experience a miracle in your relationship? 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!

● Examine your beliefs about love, sex and intimacy and discover your limitations
● Explore being your authentic self and discover just how attractive and sexy your truth is!
● Engage with others while staying connected to yourself.
● Enjoy playful and powerful exercises in which you express your joy, depth and vulnerability.
● Experience what comes up in each moment with calm and curiosity.

Charla and Nicole talk about relationships. .

For more information please call 512) 796-7269.

Love, Sex & Spirit, June 2010 weekend retreat with Charla Hathaway and Nicole Verwey.

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?

Love and Intimacy Retreaters from last June’s retreat said:

  • “It was the best weekend of my life; I feel a natural innocence and playfulness return to my sensuality.”
  • “I let down my barriers and let other people into a place that took 15 years of marriage for my wife to enter.”
  • “I fell in love with my partner in new ways.”
  • “My body’s changed. Since the workshop my acupuncturists said my heart rate went from 80 to 65. I’m a new person.”
  • “After the retreat when I had knee surgery and I fell in love with everyone in rehab.”
  • “It was amazing to experience trust, support and love build up so quickly in this environment.”

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: Great Sex for a Lifetime. Charla will be featured in a Discovery Channel documentary.  (512) 626-5037, www.BodyJoy.org

 

Skinny dipping together

I quickly shed my clothes on the sun-baked rocks and slid bare-bodied under a mini water fall at Sculptured Falls along the Barton Springs Greenbelt.  Hiking with new friends from Austin’s Hill Country Nudist Club gave me the courage to swim the way I wanted to. (more…)

Anal Interview Gets to the Bottom of Things

I just saw a play on Broadway about the first electric vibrators doctors used to relieve women of ‘hysteria’ (built up pressure in the womb) in the late 1800‘s.  Now the Victorian doctors could do in minutes what used to take an hour–or eternity for many clueless husbands of the era.

Interestingly, the play included a rare instance of a man with ‘hysteria’ in which the doctor invented a new vibrator for the anus which stimulated his prostate–yep, right there on Broadway.  I mused, “Is touching and pleasuring the anus a new sexual frontier we can explore on and off stage now?” Is anal eroticism what oral was to sex a couple of decades ago?” (more…)

Born Again Sensualists

In my Female Erotic Massage class, I demonstrate sensual massage strokes on a live, naked woman model.  Students observe how I prepare a woman to feel safe so she can surrender while receiving, and techniques for whole body pleasuring–including massaging breasts, genitals and g-spot. Some students choose to practice the strokes on the model.  All learn a lost art when it comes to full body touch–the art of going nowhere (no agenda) slowly. (more…)

Female Orgasm and Ejaculation

Who would have imagined a shy girl from the midwest sponsoring a workshop on female g-spot ejaculation?  Growing up in the 60‘s I was just discovering that women could have orgasms (forget what kind). The first time I ever heard the word clitoris I was in college (at which time I checked out ‘down there’ with a mirror just to make sure).  And now we’re not only supposed to be responsible for our own orgasms, we’re supposed to bring a towel.  What’s a shy girl to do? (more…)

A Bonobo Moment

I just spent time watching our closest ape relatives, the Bonobos, at the San Diego Zoo. Just a couple of feet from me behind the glass, an adolescent Bonobo sat with his legs spread open, scooping warm sand and pouring it over his erect penis–then he’d stand up, shake off, sit back down and do it again.  The human children watching next to me were jumping up and down, laughing and asking Mama to look. (more…)