The Conscious Relationships Institute offers marriage weekend retreats and couples retreat to help with marriage problems and relationship problems.

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MARRIAGE WORKSHOPS
The Couples Retreat

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No relationship is perfect. Creating, maintaining and sustaining a healthy marriage can be daunting if you don't have the skills or solid love to help you work through the normal problems that arise in any relationship.

Growing your relationship can be rewarding and exciting even though, at times, a bit mysterious. Knowing how to sustain connection, communicate well, and resolve relationship problems is the key to a healthy marriage.

Our Couples Retreat is a powerful resource, which will have lasting benefits to your relationship, offering you couple communication skills, experiential learning, and a relaxing retreat environment in which to connect and enjoy each other.

We have been studying and perfecting the arts of healthy marriage, couples communication, and sexual intimacy for over 30 years. We have been able to create environments in our couples retreat where intimate partners transform who they are for each other. Our Marriage Workshop offer a variety of learning experiences, depending upon the weekend you choose. Here is some of what you will learn in our couples retreat:

	Deep couple communication.
	How to heal and resolve old relationship problems.
	Exploring and increasing Sexual Intimacy.
	Your vision for a healthy marriage.
	How your relationship history affects who you are.
	How to "grow yourself" in a relationship.
	Appreciating each other and increasing your fun and pleasure.
	Turning frustrations into requests.
	The art of attunement: How you as a couple can learn to understand and respond emotionally to one another.

When You Choose a Marriage Workshop With Us, You Can Expect...

	A non-judgmental atmosphere of safety and relaxation.
	Well-informed presentations.
	Fun and playful connection with each other.
	Time to get to know other couples in your couples retreat.
	Skillful facilitation of personal as well as group dynamics.
	Practical approaches to daily loving and relationship problem solving.
	Heart centered methodologies - arising from years of soulful living and a loving commitment to sustaining our own healthy marriage.
	All our couples retreat settings are in well established program centers with lovely accommodations, excellent food, extra-curricular activities such as yoga, healing services (massage etc.), and in the summer, often a lake in which to swim and boat.

Our wish for you during our marriage workshop is that you deeply relax and enjoy yourselves, while experientially learning about yourselves, and building your healthy marriage.

Deepening Your Love

February 15-18, 2013
Register: Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health (800-741-7353)

Deepening Your Love is a soulful, as well as practical, experiential couples retreat. It is about opening the compassionate heart, renewing connection, and building trust, respect and intimacy with your beloved: All keys to a healthy marriage. In a safe atmosphere of mindfulness, spirit, and self exploration, you will successfully transform many of the issues with which all couples struggle: intimacy, couple communication, conflict, meeting each other's needs, and making time for pleasure.

You will experience:

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	Tools to develop compassion for, and curiosity about each other.
	Skills to listen without reacting and interrupting.
	How to share your feelings and thoughts so your partner will hear you.
	How to turn frustrations into specific requests so your needs can be met.
	How lifelong beliefs about relationships create positive or negative experiences, and how changing them will grow you as a couple toward your dream partnership..
	Easy and safe ways of loving each other through silence, meditation and massage.

You will leave this marriage workshop with more appreciation for each other, a win-win approach to conflict, and deepened commitment to creating happiness in your life together.

For couples who have taken this couples retreat before, it continues to be updated and revised, so feel free to come again, or join us for Being Intimate! We welcome couples of any length of commitment, any sexual orientation.

Being Intimate: A Retreat for Couples

May 24-27, 2013
Register: Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health (800-741-7353)

Your intimate partnership should nourish and sustain you, making you stronger, happier, and healthier. Imagine being able to talk about what you really feel and need. Imagine feeling free to be yourself―to dance easily together, touch one another affectionately and tenderly, and experience the satisfaction of knowing your partner is really there with you. This retreat is all about relational intimacy: what it is, how it works, and how you can have more.

You will Learn and experience:

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	A dialogue process to forever transform your couple communication.
	The interpersonal neurobiology of human loving.
	New ways to incorporate pleasurable touch and affection.
	How talking about sexual intimacy can be safe and fun.
	Massage, gentle partner yoga, and movement.
	Dance, music, and laughter.
	The art of attunement: how daily loving can transform your relationship.

Join with us, and other couples for a marriage workshop of relaxation, play and movement, growth, affection, dialogue and deepening. Our specialty is creating a safe learning environment for couples to open their hearts and connect. We welcome partners of any length of commitment any sexual orientation.

Love, Passion, and Presence: Deepening Your Intimate Relationship

August 9-11, 2013
Register: Omega Institute

The key to increasing love and passion in your relationship is your ability, as a couple, to bring mindful awareness to all your interactions—whether verbal, sexual, playful, or conflictual.

During this couples retreat we will focus on slowing down, letting go of agendas and goals, and discovering how to bring more pleasure and aliveness to your partnership, in and outside the bedroom.

Through safe experiential exercises, we’ll explore old and new ways to listen, touch, move, play, and even look at one another. We’ll also understand how love is a basic human survival need, and how small interactions can support or hinder intimacy.

You will experience:

	The Art of Relational PRESENCE™, Kate and Joel’s signature approach to love and intimacy.
	Dialogue and listening to end power struggles.
	The key to a passionate sex life: non-demand touch.
	Gentle partner yoga for relaxed enjoyment of your bodies.
	Simple exercises to make touch easy and pleasurable.
	How to relax, let go of agendas, and receive love.
	Couples meditations on loving-kindness.
	We welcome couples of any length of commitment and any sexual orientation.

Sex, Pleasure, and Intimacy: A Couples Retreat

October 11-14, 2013
Register: Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health (800-741-7353)

Most of us would love to feel ecstatically at ease in our bodies, passionate in our lovemaking and close to our partners. Most of us remember a time when sexual intimacy was a joy. It was not difficult, not something we had to work at.

We were alive, awakened to the energy of communicating through our bodies; we were experimental, easily aroused, and we didn't worry about whether we were getting enough, how we looked or whether we were "doing it right."

In spite of all the media attention, self help books, better sex videos and our 21sth century sexual freedoms, healthy sexuality within a fulfilled relationship still seems to be mysterious and confusing.

In this program you'll join with other couples in an atmosphere of safety and fun to rediscover the sexual intimacy, sensual pleasure and passion that exists within each of us.

We'll debunk old myths and belief systems associated with sex, pleasure and intimacy and help you find your own personal style of creating sexual pleasure and intimate relating. We'll support you to relax your bodies, finding the relaxation and the fun that inherently exists in all of us as human beings and lovers. Because we have all grown up with so many images, beliefs and expectations about what sexual expression should and shouldn't be, we will also give you tools and time to explore them for yourself and then talk honestly with each other.

In this retreat you'll learn to compassionately understand each other, and even laugh together. Come, join with your lover, and let go into playful, sensual, nurturing connection. Through gentle yoga and meditation, as well as dialogue and ancient rituals of connection you will rekindle passion, rediscover your innate capacity for pleasure, and deepen the sensual and sexual intimacy between you.

During this retreat you will:

	Increase the physical, energetic and love connections between you.
	Experience playful and fun ways to relax your bodies so every moment of connection is pleasurable.
	Learn to tune into each of your needs for touch, affection, communication, and pleasuring.
	Understand the bio-physiology of sex, freeing yourself from judgments and anxieties about your sexual differences.
	Deepen your communications about your sexual needs, wants, and preferences through a powerful dialogue where you will both be heard and understood.
	Explore and release limiting belief systems about sex, pleasure, and intimacy.
	Create a shared vision of a healthy, fulfilled relationship with full expression of your sexual and sensual selves.
	Deepen the intimacy between you by slowing down and nurturing each other.