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MARRIAGE WEEKEND RETREATS
The Couples Retreat |
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No relationship
is perfect. Marriage problems are normal and expected, but can be
daunting if you don't have the skills or solid love to help you resolve
them. Growing a relationship can be rewarding and exciting
even though, at times, a bit mysterious. Knowing how to sustain
connection, communicate well, and resolve relationship problems are the keys
to a happy long-term relationship. |
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Our Couples
Retreat is a powerful resource, which will have lasting benefits to your relationship,
offering you skills, experiential learning, and a relaxing retreat
environment in which to connect and enjoy each other. |
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It takes skills and time
to nourish and sustain a loving relationship. When you have marriage
problems it is easy to feel discouraged. No one wants to feel they
CANNOT solve relationship problems; you want to believe in yourself
as a couple: in your love, and the strength of your intimate bond.
But you cannot escape marriage problems. Given that you are human,
and have conflicting needs sometimes, you and your partner are going
to bump heads and hearts!
We have been studying and perfecting the art of loving relationships
for over 30 years, and have been able to create environments in our
couples retreat where intimate partners transform who they are for
each other.
We invite you to join us for this excursion through the experience
of our marriage weekend retreats, held in various program centers
around the country. Transformation begins as soon as you enroll.
IN OUR MARRIAGE WEEKEND RETREATS YOU CAN EXPECT TO LEARN... |
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Deep effective communication skills. |
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How to heal and resolve old relationship problems. |
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How to build safety, emotional responsiveness and
securit in your intimate bond. |
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Understanding marriage problems: how they get started,
how to work through them. |
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How to avoid marital affairs. |
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How your relationship history affects who you are. |
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How to "grow yourself" in a relationship. |
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WHEN YOU CHOOSE A COUPLES RETREAT WITH
US, WE GUARANTEE... |
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A non-judgmental atmosphere of safety
and relaxation. |
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Well-informed presentations to support you working
through any marriage problems. |
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Fun and playful connection with each other. |
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Time to get to know other others in your couples
retreat. |
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Skillful facilitation of personal as well as group
dynamics. |
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Practical approaches to daily loving and relationship
problem solving. |
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Heart centered methodologies - arising from years
of soulful living and a loving commitment to our own relationship. |
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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. |
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Our wish for you during these marriage weekend retreats
is that you deeply relax and enjoy yourselves, while experientially
learning about yourself, as well as adding new relationship behaviors
and skills to your partnership! |
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Deepening Your Love
Kripalu
Center for Yoga and Health | February 12-15, 2010 |
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This soulful couples
retreat is about opening your heart, renewing connection, and building
trust, respect and intimacy. In an atmosphere of mindfulness, and
self exploration, you will successfully transform many of the issues
with which all couples struggle: intimacy, 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. |
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How to listen to your partner without reacting and
interrupting. |
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Sharing your feelings and thoughts so your partner
will want to hear more. |
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Turning frustrations into requests so your needs
can be met. |
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How lifelong beliefs about relationships create
present day, positive or negative experiences, and how changing
them can create your dream partnership. |
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Mindful ways to love each other through silence,
meditation, and massage. |
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Appreciating each other and increasing your fun & pleasure. |
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You will leave this program 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 program before,
it continues to be updated and revised, so feel free to come again,
or join us for
Creating Joy and Passion together! We welcome
couples of any length of commitment and any sexual orientation. |
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Creating Joy and Passion Together:
A Retreat for Couples
Kripalu
Center for Yoga and Health | May 28 - 31,
2010
Shambhala
Mountain Center | October 21 - 24, 2010
This uplifting retreat is for intimate partners
who want more creativity, passion and alive-ness, in their relationship
journey together. Increasing or reawakening lost passion in our
relationships means taking time for pleasure, appreciation, and
fun. |
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A passionate
partnership also invites us to be known, and to know our partner
at the deepest levels of being, to share honestly about ourselves,
and learn to appreciate our differences.
Vision, co-create, and celebrate the most joyous, passionate relationship
you can imagine. Take time for fun, pleasure, and deep dialogue in
the energizing and safe atmosphere of Kripalu
Center for Yoga and Health, where you will love each other more, laugh, be tender, and
incorporate daily skills to melt power struggles and experience your
relationship as alive and well!
You'll learn and experience:
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Fundamental practices for creating a
passionate, alive relationship. |
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Creating a shared vision of your life as a couple. |
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A dialogue process to forever transform your communication. |
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New ways to incorporate pleasure and affection. |
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The art of attunement: how giving and receiving
can be part of your daily loving. |
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Nurturing couples massage and gentle partner yoga. |
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Dance, music & laughter. |
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Celebration and appreciation of yourselves as individuals
and as a couple. |
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Give yourselves
the gift of nourishing your co-creative intimacy and love, and leave
this weekend with renewed friendship and reawakened passion for each
other and your life!
This program is an excellent complement to Deepening
Your Love and can also be taken on its own. It is appropriate
for couples of any length of commitment, any age, and any sexual
orientation. |
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Sex Pleasure and Intimacy
Kripalu
Center for Yoga and Health | October 8 -
11, 2010
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 relating was a
joy. It was not difficult, not something
we had to work at. |
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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, 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 intimacy between you.
During this retreat you will: |
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Increase the physical, energetic and
love connections between you. |
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Experience playful and fun ways to relax your bodies
so every moment of connection is pleasurable. |
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Learn to tune into each of your needs for touch,
affection, communication, and pleasuring. |
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Understand the bio-physiology of sex, freeing yourself
from judgments and anxieties about your sexual differences. |
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Deepen your communications about your sexual needs,
wants, and preferences through a powerful dialogue where you will
both be heard and understood. |
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Explore and release limiting belief systems about
sex, pleasure, and intimacy. |
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Create a shared vision of a healthy, fulfilled relationship
with full expression of your sexual and sensual selves. |
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Deepen the intimacy between you by slowing down
and nurturing each other. |
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Questions?
Call (970) 259-3424 or email
us now. |
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