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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. |
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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. |
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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: |
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Deep couple communication. |
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How to heal and resolve old relationship problems. |
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Exploring and increasing Sexual Intimacy. |
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Your vision for a healthy marriage. |
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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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Appreciating each other and increasing your fun
and pleasure. |
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Turning frustrations into requests. |
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The art of attunement: How you as a couple can learn
to understand and respond emotionally to one another. |
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When You Choose a Marriage Workshop
With Us, You Can Expect... |
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A non-judgmental atmosphere of safety
and relaxation. |
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Well-informed presentations. |
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Fun and playful connection with each other. |
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Time to get to know other couples 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 sustaining our own
healthy marriage. |
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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 our marriage workshop
is that you deeply relax and enjoy yourselves, while experientially
learning about yourselves, and building your healthy marriage. |
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Deepening Your Love
February
15-18, 2013
Register: Kripalu
Center for Yoga and Health (800-741-7353) |
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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. |
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Skills to listen without reacting and interrupting. |
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How to share your feelings and thoughts so your
partner will hear you. |
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How to turn frustrations into specific requests
so your needs can be met. |
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How lifelong beliefs about relationships create
positive or negative experiences, and how changing them will grow
you as a couple toward your dream partnership.. |
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Easy and safe ways of loving each other through
silence, meditation and massage. |
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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. |
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Being Intimate: A Retreat for
Couples
May 24-27, 2013
Register:
Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health (800-741-7353) |
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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. |
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The interpersonal neurobiology of human loving. |
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New ways to incorporate pleasurable touch and affection. |
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How talking about sexual intimacy can be safe and
fun. |
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Massage, gentle partner yoga, and movement. |
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Dance, music, and laughter. |
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The art of attunement: how daily loving can transform
your relationship. |
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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. |
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Love, Passion,
and Presence: Deepening Your Intimate Relationship
August
9-11, 2013
Register: Omega
Institute |
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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. |
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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: |
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The Art of Relational PRESENCE™,
Kate and Joel’s signature approach to love and intimacy. |
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Dialogue and listening to end power struggles. |
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The key to a passionate sex life: non-demand touch. |
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Gentle partner yoga for relaxed enjoyment of your
bodies. |
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Simple exercises to make touch easy and pleasurable. |
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How to relax, let go of agendas, and receive love. |
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Couples meditations on loving-kindness. |
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We welcome couples of any length of commitment
and any sexual orientation. |
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Sex, Pleasure, and Intimacy:
A Couples Retreat
October 11-14, 2013
Register:
Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health (800-741-7353) |
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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." |
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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: |
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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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