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Do you long for a loving connection and a vital erotic life?

We’re here to support your deepening and unfolding as a couple.

Our Passion and Presence™ couples retreats can help you nurture your sex life and create a more wakeful, engaged, and heart-full love relationship.

First, let’s get real…committed sex is complicated!

Besides being exciting, comforting, expansive, pleasurable, and connecting, real-life sex is…
  • Having periods of no sex
  • Wondering if we're "normal"
  • Having conflicted feelings about sex
  • Being tired and stressed a lot of the time
  • Being afraid to ask for what we want
  • Feeling defective in some way
  • Dealing with shame and fear

SOUND FAMILIAR?!

Strange as it seems, these issues can help you evolve emotionally and spiritually.  We call this practice of growing through erotic challenges the “naked path” of awakened intimacy.

Mindfulness is key—it’s your “superfood” for sex.

While there’s no such thing as “perfect sex,” you can step out of numbing routines and limiting mindsets now and always.

When you bring a gentle awareness to your direct experience, you cultivate presence and a spirit of exploration that enlivens eros.

Let us show you how to establish a state of mind for creative, engaged, and intimate sex.

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REAL LIFE DOESN’T HAVE TO STOP YOU.

Our retreats & online programs can help you if:

  • You argue about sex but long to become caring and cooperative allies.
  • Having sex feels like another "to do." Still, you want to find ways to enjoy a regenerating, no-pressure erotic connection.
  • You've been in a period of erotic "dormancy" but want to wake up gently by approaching each other in non-threatening ways.
  • You're dealing with bodily changes and yearn to find new erotic pathways that honor your changing capacities.
  • You have a trauma history but feel ready to reclaim a safe and pleasurable connection to your body.
  • You're struggling with bedroom boredom and feel limited by your safe routine.
  • You want to stop avoiding sex, even though you sometimes find it triggering.
  • Your efforts to have a better sex life have not yielded much so far.
  • You're ready to expand, but shame is inhibiting your aliveness.
  • You are curious about the practice of awakened intimacy, even though you have a great sex life already.
The retreat unlocked a new level of communication between my partner and me.
H.B.
H.B.
The compassion and focus from Maci and Julia set the tone for all of us, and the container was just beautiful and well-maintained throughout—so much respect, love, and kindness.
L.S.
L.S.
We loved every minute and left with great tools to help us continue building a solid relationship. Glad we took the time to do this!
B.B
B.B
The Passion & Presence mini-retreat was the best gift we gave ourselves in our relationship.
H.B.
H.B.
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We have news for you – good news!

Illness, aging, stress, parenting, heartbreak, or previous erotic wounding (aka “real life”) doesn’t have to stop you from having a loving, pleasurable, and deeply connected erotic life together. We’ve helped hundreds of couples find loving ways to deal with the real-life challenges of long-term erotic coupling. We’d love to help you too!

I’m Maci Daye, the creator of Passion and Presence. Since 2010, I’ve been leading couples retreats in the USA and abroad, often with my husband, Halko Weiss. 

As a real-life couple ourselves, we know that committed sex is complicated. We use the practice and it works. Let us show you how to wake up together as you work through your challenges as a mindful team. 

If you’re excited by what you’re reading…

Sign up for our Intro Mini-Retreat: Erotic Presence for Pleasure, Connection, and Growth. Or, read more about our philosophy.

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The tools we have gained over the past year have allowed us to face life circumstances as a team vs. separate and further wounded. It has allowed more compassion and passion as a couple.
H.V.
H.V.
We’ve been friends for 19 years lovers for 11, and we’re seeing each other in new ways. We came home with a strong feeling of connectedness and a renewed sexual spark.
C.M.
C.M.
My heart has never been so full of gratitude as it is when I think of the experience of attending this great workshop. It is seriously a game changer for us!
M.D.
M.D.
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Part 1: EROTIC PRESENCE

Enhancing Intimacy and Desire with Mindfulness

Part 2: EROTIC COOPERATION

Becoming a Conscious
Erotic Team

Part 3: EROTIC EXPRESSION

Experiencing the Joy of
Whole-Person Multimodal Sex

Part 4: EROTIC ATTUNEMENT

Dancing with Eros
from the Inside Out

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Passion & Presence

Now available! Awaken your mindful sensuality and reconnect with your partner with Passion and Presence.

Most romantic relationships follow a predictable pattern of initial enchantment followed by inevitable disenchantment. But relationships don’t have to stay in disenchantment or end! Passion and Presence offers readers a proven path back to connection and intimacy — often in deeper ways than before. Sex therapist Maci Daye draws on her popular international Passion and Presence workshops to show couples how their erotic difficulties can be a portal to creativity, compassion, and unparalleled growth.

Praise for Passion & Presence

"Maci brings her decades of experience and her wide-open heart to this gentle and wise book. On these pages, you are invited into deeper connection-- with your partner and with yourself. Your sexual healing starts now!"
Alexandra H. Solomon, PhDAssistant Professor, Northwestern University; author of Loving Bravely: 20 Lessons of Self-Discovery to Help You Get the Love You Want and Taking Sexy Back: How to Own Your Sexuality and Create the Relationships You Want
“Learn to inhabit your living body with sacred presence. This is a wonderful guide to deepening intimacy through the seasons of our loving relationships.”
Tara Brach, PhDauthor of Radical Compassion and Radical Acceptance
"This book brings real tools to all couples looking to increase the passion and connection in their relationship, whatever stage they find themselves. Anyone looking at this book will find a new way to be present with their partner."
Tammy Nelson, PhDauthor of Getting the Sex You Want
"Maci Daye packs her hard-earned wisdom from her decades of helping couples use their sexual issues as paths to becoming more fully alive, intimate, and erotic, into the pages of this comprehensive and practical book. She writes that “Great sex is a mind-set, not a skill-set,” and proves that with a host of engaging case-studies and experiential exercises that will help you find and heal the inner obstacles to great sex."
Richard Schwartz, PhDCreator of the Internal Family Systems model of psychotherapy
"Maci Daye packs her hard-earned wisdom from her decades of helping couples use their sexual issues as paths to becoming more fully alive, intimate, and erotic, into the pages of this comprehensive and practical book. She writes that “Great sex is a mind-set, not a skill-set,” and proves that with a host of engaging case-studies and experiential exercises that will help you find and heal the inner obstacles to great sex."
Richard Schwartz, PhDCreator of the Internal Family Systems model of psychotherapy
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