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Jim and Felicia Matto-Shepard are licensed psychotherapists in the San Francisco Bay area. They offer retreats, groups and workshops for couples, which incorporate state-of-the-art psychology with historically grounded practices.





Up-Coming Vacation Retreat


Friday, Saturday & Sunday
FEBRUARY 17, 18, 19, 2012.


Erotic Partnership
VALENTINE'S WEEKEND


Time:
Friday 4:00 to Sunday 1:00

Location:
Institute of Noetic Sciences Retreat Center
Marin County,
Northern California


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Erotic  Partnership  Retreats

"With passion pray, with passion make love, with passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why act like a dead fish in this ocean of God?" [Rumi]

After The Honeymoon retreats provide a soulful learning environment that supports erotic partnership. Be embodied, own your desire (including the desire to be cared for), be skillful in relationship, cultivate passion and celebrate your sexuality.

Each retreat is a dynamic experience that feels like the best kind of vacation. The kind of vacation that leaves you feeling refreshed and more able to engage with your life when you return home.

Locations are selected to provide a beautiful and peaceful environment for a romantic connection.

The structure of the retreat will lead you through the five steps for erotic partnership so that you will have an embodied experience of reconnection, as well a model for future exploration. Felicia and Jim present information. You practice effective communication. You are supported to come into contact with your partner in a way that leads to trust and generosity. As you soften into connection, you will be invited to create a ceremony that is a celebration of your love. You will perform this ceremony privately in your room as "homework." Before you leave you will be supported to develop a plan to continue your connection.

Our retreats are small - generally about 10 couples, more or less. This provides a safe environment to study the principles of erotic partnership. Exercises in the group are fun, supportive, no-pressure ways for learning new tools.

We break out of the small group so that intimate conversations can happen privately, between you and your partner.

Most couples going through this process are delighted to find themselves feeling more connected than they anticipated. For many it is the beginning of a new path of sexual satisfaction. More than one couple has said, "I believe that you have saved our marriage."

Our erotic partnership retreat is right for you if:
  • you want more intimacy in your relationship

  • you want more satisfying sex in your relationship

  • you are stuck in how to collaborate regarding sex and intimacy

  • your lifestyle has sucked the creative juice from your erotic self, leaving you with a less than satisfying sexual relationship

  • you want to find tools that will support deep intimacy and great sex

  • you want to have an experience that is a great vacation that will deepen your relationship
Couples who are currently in counseling will find that Erotic Partnership Retreats deepen and compliments therapy. We will collaborate with your therapist as appropriate.






Erotic Partnership - Valentine's Weekend Retreat 2011

Up-Coming Vacation Retreat


Friday, Saturday & Sunday
FEBRUARY 17, 18, 19, 2012.


Erotic Partnership
VALENTINE'S WEEKEND


Time:
Friday 4:00 to Sunday 1:00

Location:
Institute of Noetic Sciences Retreat Center
Marin County,
Northern California


Click to Register Online
Payment by
Check or Credit Card

This retreat is a perfect Valentine’s gift to honor your relationship. Renew your friendship and reignite the fires of your love.

Learn a practice of heart-centered sexuality as an approach to creating the relationship you want.

Let’s say your sex life, as well as the comfortable and really interesting friendship you have had with your spouse, is not as good as it could be:

• Maybe kids, work and other life pressures have kept you from devoting the time you need for your physical and emotional connection.

• Maybe disappointments have calcified in your heart making it difficult for the blood of passion to flow freely.

• Maybe, like so many others, you have a great partnership but just can’t seem to keep the sexual passion alive and have come to believe that there is nothing that you can do about it.

We begin slowly, and work carefully to create the necessary conditions for love.

Building on the traditional symbols of Valentine’s Day (such as chocolate and flowers) we create an environment to honor your relationship, express your desire and open your heart.

We create a safe and playful place for exploration with no nudity and minimal emotional exposure in the group.

We teach the essential ingredients for creating and maintaining a sex life that is satisfying to both you and your partner.

The structured Saturday night date between you and your partner is an opportunity to connect emotionally and sexually in a celebration that honors all that you are as a couple. Designed to be easy, sweet, healing, transformative.

We incorporate scientific principles from attachment theory, and social relationships, as well as from the field of sexuality and psycho-spiritual transformation within a romantic, playful and artful structure.

This retreat is designed to be a private exploration between you and your partner. Felicia and Jim will teach classes and provide a structure to support your deepening intimacy. The group is small compared to many other similarly priced retreats. Couples breakout of group discussions for private conversations, then go to their rooms for “homework” assignments (including the love ceremony) during the evenings.

You will leave the retreat with a concrete and unique plan for deepening your emotional and erotic connection. For many, this retreat has been healing, for most, it is deeply connecting and for some, it is life changing. This retreat is appropriate for same gender as well as mixed gender couples.

CEUs available for MFTs and LCSWs.

We will be holding this retreat at IONs Retreat Center located in a beautiful old-growth oak forest on the Marin/ Sonoma county line. This newly remodeled facility is conveniently located near highway 101 about 30 miles north of San Francisco.

• Cost for workshop with Food and Lodging is $1,200 per couple:
$750 for the workshop plus $450 for lodging and all meals.
Early registration before January 15, 2012 is $1,125.

ALTERNATIVELY:

• Cost for workshop with Food only (no lodging) is $975 per couple:
$750 for the workshop plus $225 for all meals.
Early registration before January 15, 2012 is $900.

FOOD AND LODGING DETAILS:
• Lodging plus all meals from dinner Friday through breakfast on Sunday is $450 per couple. All costs are included. No tax, etc. Click for Details about accommodations and Information about the food.

ALTERNATIVELY:

• Participants can commute from nearby Petaluma or Novato and pay for food only $225 instead of $450. However, we encourage couples to stay at the center in order to preserve the sense of peaceful retreat.

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