Intimacy for Great Foreplay!

Intimacy is to the Soul as food is to the body. We are nurtured and enriched at the core of our being in the experience of deep connection. When the longing for intimacy is satisfied we experience wholeness and sufficiency; we are at one with ourselves and the world. In conjunction with a sexual connection the experience of intimacy can be exhilarating, inspiring, even transcendent.

How do we maintain an open heart in the face of powerful emotions? How can we redirect and intensify the energy contained within these feelings towards states of heightened awareness? How can we open to include and honor the full range of feeling that enters into our experience during these times?

This workshop will confront these and other questions that directly relate to our ability to dive fully into the bottomless pool of our heart's truth, and feel love in all of its physical, sexual and spiritual splendor. We will learn ways of understanding and neutralizing patterns that limit intimacy and practice ways of being that deepen and enhance it. We will also explore the inner landscape that exists beyond intimacy, that territory of the heart where the deep connection of 'two' becomes the transcendent 'one'.

Instructor: Linda Bloom is a licensed clinical social worker. She has been practicing individual and couple counseling for thirty-eight years.