A workshop for Queer Men
Saturday and Sunday, April 4th and 5th, 2009, in San Francisco
As you think of all your sexual partners (you have ever had); what do you feel in your body?
What needs to be completed (or repeated) in your love relationships of the past?
How do you experience these emotions in your body: love, passion, forgiveness, partnership and longing.
How are you a lover to yourself?
How do you experience intimacy in your body?
What responses do you have to intimacy?
There are some basic components that create the opportunity for healthy vibrant relationships.
ARE YOU READY TO EXPLORE?
When we live in those basics, intimacy is a natural by product.
The stories of our open and broken hearts we carry into the present with our intimates.
Starting with our families and moving to our erotic partners we have woven those stories in our minds and bodies.
In the Queer Lover, we will listen to our bodies to play with those stories as we become more available to intimacy.
The Lover is an archetypal image of intimacy. As Queer men we have had the gift of writing our own script in relationships of love, sex and intimacy which has both blessed us and sometimes left us unresolved.
Coming back to being the lover can take us into greater freedom. In this workshop we will use ritual, experiential exercises, gestalt dialogue, clearing exercises and sensual/erotic play to bring more completion to relationships of the past and the present.
I'M READY TO REGISTER NOW (click here)
All relationships will be honored whether they were brief or long term, whether they were highly erotic or more companion-like, whether they were with men or women, whether they seemed healthy or destructive and whether they were far in the past or yet in the present.
This workshop The Lover will foster:
*Being more available to intimacy and Connection
*Radical Forgiveness
Are you willing to explore your internal responses to multiple
intimacies of the past and current availability?
Are you willing to explore your internal responses to loss, shame, passion and love?
PREPARATION & QUESTIONS
Some Native Americans have a concept of connection called "Mitakuye Oyasin." It is about honoring all of creation; sun, moon,stars, earth, ancestors and all that is. It is in that spirit we will do our work on being the lover, honoring all our relations.
Bring to this workshop pictures, memorabilia etc. of family and intimates of any kind that you may wish to bless and work with in our time together.
The Queer Lover will be facilitated by Dr. Kirk Prine and Donny Lobree
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Dr. Kirk Prine, is a transformational teacher, a healer, an integrative bodyworker, teaching Reiki Master, Director of Flesh & Spirit Community, abundant life coach, conscious activist and author of Erotic Body Prayer: Pathways to Pray Through the Body and Build Ecstatic Community. For seventeen years, Kirk was a psychotherapist directing a counseling center for LGBT people. His work of blending his training in counseling, spirituality and somatic/erotic work has been pioneering and visionary for a new consciousness. |
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Donny Lobree is a violinist and violist, practitioner of Iyengar Yoga, bodyworker, Reiki channel and student of alchemy. As founder of Healing Notes, a nongovernmental organization, he travels internationally to hospitals and hospices sharing his music with patients as a sound healer. In addition, Donny is a Midwife to the Dying and assists the terminally ill with their "birthing" into death. He is the author of the heart opening adult children's book, How the Waif Bunny Saved the Boy. Donny is also the creator of CrystalExpansion.com to distribute gems by Shankari the Alchemist that empower people on their journey. |
Cost and Schedule:
The Dates of the workshop are Saturday and Sunday, April 4th and 5th from 10am-5pm each day. The location is in San Francisco. The address will be sent to you upon registration
Register by February 28, 2009 for the early-bird rate is only $197.00 after that date, registration is $227.00.
Your registration covers time and materials for the workshop.
We'll each lunch each day as a group in a restaurant nearby (lunch is NOT included in registration fee)
Refund Policy: We understand things come up. If you register and can't make it, your fee can be applied to a future Flesh & Spirit event
Questions? Email us at Kirkprine@fleshandspirit.org