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SPIRIT CAMP
Creating Authentic Eroic Connections
Facilitated by Easton Mountain
staff and guest facilitators
Sunday, July 25 - Friday, July 30, 2010
This experiential week will focus upon
relating erotically in ways that foster personal growth,
genuine human connection and contact with the divine.
We will explore the possibilities of interacting erotically
that are respectful, safe and life affirming -- ways
that both help us to go within and to discover new depths
of 'self' by connecting with others. This retreat will
follow our typical camp format with a variety of workshops
from which you get to choose the program that is right
for you. Sensual touch, erotic massage, "rosebud"
massage, asking for what you want, and erotic partner
meditation are some of the topics that will be covered.
If you're in a lighter mood you might take a mud bath,
play naked touch football, or go in for some body painting
followed by disco in the main room or dancing around
a campfire.
Discover and accept your deepest levels
of sensuality! Express your feelings, wants and needs
and learn to handle the times when someone may say "No'
and learn how to say "No" in caring ways that
will not diminish the other person's sense of self.
In addition we will find new ways of saying "Yes"
that get everyone's needs fulfilled.
The mystic philosopher Martin Buber
has written, "When two people relate to each other
authentically and humanly, God is the energy that surges
between them". In this retreat we will focus on
relating erotically, authentically and humanly. |
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Ian
Ellington is a Daka, Tantrika, Physician,
Usui Reiki Master, Shamanic Breathworker, Tantric/Taoist
Bodyworker, and Sacred Intimate. He draws on all of
these disciplines to carry forth the message that our
Sexual Nature is our Divine Right, that our Erotic Energy
is the Life Force, and that Awakening Fully to this
Erotic Energy in our Bodies can be a Pathway to Healthy
Living, Heightened Pleasure, and Higher Consciousness.
He has been following the Tantric Path since 2000 and
has trained with several organizations and individuals,
including The Body Electric School, Bodhi Avinasha and
Tantrika International, Rudy Ballentine, Ann Bradney
and The Radical Aliveness/Core Energetics Institute,
Jack Painter, Michael Casteel, Mantak Chia, and Margot
Anand's Love and Ecstasy Training with the Institute
for Tantra and Meditation. He is a devotee of and grateful
for the works of Eckhart Tolle, Andrew Harvey, and Osho.
Ed
Ehrgott has walked many paths in life.
Currently, he exercises his right brain as a massage
therapist, sex coach and life coach in San Francisco.
He is also a founding partner in Sacred
Touch School - dedicated to helping every person
experience erotic fulfillment. Ed keeps his left brain
occupied as a web
designer, technogeek and entrepreneurial advisor.
Ed's passion is helping men experience a holistic view
of embodiment that is integrated with all aspects of
who we are. Ed was recently a featured speaker at the
Male Survivor 2010 conference in New York where he presented
his experience and observations on using touch to help
men who have been sexually abused to reclaim their bodies.
He is currently co-developing a program in San Francisco
that will use both touch and talk therapies to help
gay men fully integrate and express sexuality and sobriety.
Roger Galipeau is an
erotic mentor. After working as a gestalt therapist
for 20 years, he trained as a Sacred Intimate (sexual
healing), as well as in Daoist erotic bodywork, Shamanism
and Tantra. The gestalt of these practices make for
a very erotic holistic approach to healing and personal
growth.
Sam Lipton, founder
of Steeped in Spirit, a Practice Without Borders, creates
the space to safely explore the many ways Body, Eros,
Heart, Mind, and Spirit can coalesce. A Body Electric
Sacred Intimate, One Spirit Interfaith Seminary graduate
and multi-talented artist, Sam uses his diverse background
to support his clients and students in being in the
moment and asking for what they want. Sam embodies a
spirit of hospitality and nurturance for his students
and his various communities in and around New York City.
Roger McKeever
is a movement instructor, multi-media artist and visionary.
His interest in the erotic is anchored in his understanding
of movement as an intuitive and spontaneous art form.
He enjoys provoking others to experience their unspoken
hunger to move.
Tony Quaglieri has
been a curious student of his own erotic story since
his first Body Electric workshop in 1992. From then
until now, as a teacher, writer, sex educator, yogi,
therapist, and sacred intimate, he has been assisting
men in discovering their own unique process, and honoring
their own erotic story.
Hunter Reynolds is
a visual artist working in performance art and photography.
He graduated from Otis Parsons Los Angles in 1984. He
has exhibited his work at museums and galleries widely
in the US and abroad. He recently exhibited at Momenta
Art, Artists Space, NY; Mary Goldman Gallery, LA; and
at Gavlak in West Palm Beach FL. He has been the recipient
of many grants residencies including a Pollock Krasner
Grant this year. As an AIDS activist, he was an early
member of ACTUP and in 1989 co-founded Art Positive,
an affinity group of ACT-UP, to fight homophobia and
censorship in the arts. More info is available on his
website at hunterwreynolds.com.
Lee Stern has been
on a musical and heart journey since ... he was born.
He has taught and learned from children and adults of
all ages (singing, writing, theatre, movement, healing
touch). He is Director of Music Together of Brooklyn
Heights (parent and child music and movement program),
a twenty year volunteer with Camp Heartland's HIV family
camp, and participant in countless Honoring Our Journey,
Body Electric, and Easton Mountain workshops.
For biographical information on residents,
see the staff page.
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