September 21 – 23, 2018 (Friday – Sunday)
NorCal - Wildwood
20111 Old Cazadero Rd
Guerneville, CA
Everyone starts with Connecting in Love, an immersive
weekend workshop that is designed for you, exactly as you are now. In this
workshop you will have profound opportunities for deeply connecting with
yourself and others. We gently invite you to let go of the layers of defense
that have kept you safe in the past, but now may just be keeping you separate.
The workshop is designed to be a safe place for you to
explore your inner world, as well as your connections with others. Our focus on
Love, Intimacy and Sexuality provides fertile ground for self-discovery, and
true intimacy with others in a non-sexual context.
For some who come to their first HAI workshop, they may
not be able to identify anything specifically wrong with their lives, but just
that something’s missing. You come to your first workshop full of who you have
always been, and for most of us there is a sense that “there must be something
more than this.” There must be a deeper, richer something—but it is elusive. We
catch glimpses, whiffs and moments. We bring with us our hopes, our pain, even
our undoing, and our very real sense of knowing underneath we feel there is
something more.
We come and we listen and then we begin to share,
answering questions we have perhaps not spoken out loud into a truly listening
ear. We begin to listen to others in a way that makes little inroads into our
own possibilities—something inside has a new, stronger voice—sometimes it
cries, sometimes it laughs and sometimes it comes with a shiny new idea about
how we might live. Perhaps it is true that there is a miracle inside the
decision to love and we begin to follow a thread, a rope, a path, and then a
road.
Along this road we find others that have sought something
more. We begin to explore that elusive longing and find ourselves in the
embrace of other like-minded humans. Then, we grow in the warmth of a community
coming together to be the loving human family we all long for.
In your Connecting in Love workshop, we invite you to be
both empowered, and naked. Naked in both your body, and your emotions. What if
there were truly nothing in the way? See more on why we invite you to be naked.
The openings are some extravagant mix of inner looking
and soft landing places. We begin to breathe deeper and our hearts quiver on
the edge of true tenderness and understanding. At first it feels just vaguely
familiar and then this openness begins to feel like where we truly want to
live.
You will have the opportunity to:
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Discover you are beautiful and lovable, just as
you are.
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Let go of fear and shame that can block love and
intimacy
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Practice speaking and listening from your heart
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Accept and love your body, as it is today
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Change habits and patterns that no longer serve
you
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Feel the support of loving community
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Take risks, have fun, change your life
Facilitators: Felicia Williams Cosey and Peter Rengel
Cost: $595
