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What’s Hot at Passion and Presence? New Intro Mini-Retreat and More

Like any ingredient of a healthy lifestyle, Awakened Intimacy is not so much a one-and-done kind of thing. It is a path and practice. We’re supporting a transformation in how people orient to sex, pleasure, and intimacy. Change is hard, and in this case, it takes the willingness of both partners to go toward vulnerable and edgy things. For this reason, we are creating new

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Our Couple’s Retreat “Tribe Time” Thrives Online

“It’s only been a few days, and we’ve melted into a family,” said a participant only three days into our January 2021 retreat. It was not the first time I listened to such words, but it was great to hear given that this was the first time we had held our couple’s retreat online rather than face-to-face. Having moved my other courses online, I knew

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Awakening Intimacy: 4 Ways to Start 

The data is out: From studies around the world, some couples have become closer since the covid pandemic began. Some of us are beginning to feel safe enough to re-engage since we’re not batting down the hatch so fervently. Some of us, however, have experienced more stress and less sexual and emotional satisfaction over the last few years. If you are one of those couples, it’s easy to

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Passion & Presence: Like Enlightenment, Only Naked

Suppose you’ve been following us at Passion and Presence. In that case, you might be under the assumption that our Awakened Intimacy Couple’s Retreats are specifically for people who are struggling sexually and that they’re not for you if you aren’t. In actuality, couples who have a great sex life already still benefit enormously from our programs. Those participants typically enjoy even more fulfilling sex

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Anti-Racism, Intimacy, and Daring to Be in Discovery

If a genie granted me one wish, it would be to awaken. For me, that means approaching life without filters. I would meet reality as it is and respond with impulses born of the moment, rather than in accord with my habits and programs. Such an expanded consciousness enables us to have novel experiences, ongoingly, rather than re-enacting patterns that confirm our expectations and limiting

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Calming Down Our Anxious Brains in the Age of Social Distancing

It’s an odd disjunction to be in a high-touch field—intimacy, and sexuality—during an epoch of social distancing. At the same time, we are living in a time of forced togetherness as couples and families, while grappling with significant anxiety. Perhaps you feel like the end of days is upon us. Many of us glue ourselves to newsfeeds that tell us the worse is yet to come.

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