We can only find happiness and fulfillment in intimate loving when we learn once again to love all of our sensual and sexual nature. Then we can be fully human and directly experience the sacred and divine aspects of existence. This is what Body, Heart & Soul teaches. It is for everybody, whether single or in relationship, a total experiential education in sexuality and intimate loving.  

Body, Heart & Soul is presented as 4 week-long workshops. They enable you to reclaim your lost innocence, to heal your shame and wounds, to restore your sensual and sexual aliveness and to celebrate your existence as a man or woman. Participating in them will enhance the quality of your lovemaking, bring real and deepening intimacy into your love relationships and allow you to discover your sexual energy as a path of spiritual awakening.

Sacred Loving

An exhilarating weekend introduction to Body, Heart & Soul

Sacred Loving is a workshop that invites you into your richness as a man or woman and opens you to the essential resources for having healthy fulfilling relationships in your life. You are guided gently into experiences of touching and being touched on several levels: physically, emotionally and spiritually. The processes may be dynamic and high energy, soft and sensual, silent and meditative. They sometimes take you deep into yourself and other times invite you to open to others, teaching you to define and honor your boundaries and change them whenever you wish. Gradually the weekend becomes a path leading towards joyful acceptance of yourself as a loving, sensual and spiritual being, dissolving sexual wounds and fears along the way. Besides introducing Body, Heart & Soul, this workshop is valuable as an experience complete in itself. It is also designed for both individuals and couples.

The weekend workshop Sacred Loving is held in various locations worldwide.

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Body, Heart & Soul Part 1

Healing Initiation

Part 1 is designed to fulfill the yearning most of us have to be more open and to find more depth in our intimate relating, love-making and sexual sharing. As you gradually reclaim your natural capacity for experiencing pleasure, you also rediscover your sexual innocence. This enables you to enter into the fullness and empowerment of your own manhood or womanhood. The workshop encourages you to open to your feelings and heart so that you can live and love with grace and beauty. And it provides an experience of what sexual loving is, both as an ecstatic meditative state and as a spiritual path.

• You become more vital, more sensual and more connected with your feelings and your heart.
• You learn to enjoy your desire for intimate contact, to honor your personal boundaries, and to communicate both.
• You learn how to grow playfully out of whatever fears, guilt, shame and restrictive beliefs spoil the pleasures of sexual loving for you.
• Finally you come to the sacred initiation into manhood or womanhood. In this two-day ceremony your sensual, erotic, loving and spiritual nature is celebrated and brought out into the open in a way that is intimate, ecstatic and unforgettable.

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Body, Heart & Soul Part 2

Ecstasy and Sexual Energy

Part 2 provides the opportunity to explore, in very playful and safe ways, what it means to be sexual. This is for many people the first time in their lives that they are in a safe and caring space in which they can learn about sex, not as something to be performed correctly or misused, but as a vital energy that when fully understood opens us to loving ourselves, our partners and the world around us.

• You learn how your sexual energy dances within your own body and all its magical possibilities as you interact with others.
• You are guided into healing experiences of your body and feelings as you learn about the mysteries of the sex organs and explore male and female erotic energy.
• You learn how to remain connected with your sexual energy through all its changing rhythms. As you do so, your personal issues and difficulties with sex and intimacy begin to dissolve.
• You learn to trust the natural male-female expression of your sexual energy free of all expectations and without the need to perform.
• You learn to release you and orgasmic potential so that it is available to you both in your sexual intimacy and as a source of creativity and delight in everyday life.
• Exploring this energy, you find yourself personally empowered and you discover its transformative nature as it acts on your body, your heart and your awareness.

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Body, Heart & Soul Part 3

Being Intimate

Being intimate is the very essence of love-relationship, yet most of us have habitual ways of undermining or even preventing intimacy by cutting off, closing down or becoming defensive at certain key moments. Sometimes we simply don't know how to be intimate even though it's what we really want. Part 3 is a guided process of learning how to be deeply and playfully intimate through a series of daily intimacy sessions (they may be with the same person each day, or with several different people as you choose). Both during the intimacy sessions and during full group sessions there is continual support and tuition in how to sustain connection and honor your own needs and feelings as you do so.

• You learn how to keep on connecting from your truth and to remain alive in your playfulness, your passion, your desire and even in your fears and darker places, instead of cutting off and isolating yourself.
• Your encounters are sometime more and sometimes less sensual and erotic. You learn to trust and accept the changing states that you move through in yourself and with your partner. In this way you learn how to move through old barriers that have prevented or sabotaged your intimate connections and love relationships.
• As a couple you are no longer left alone with difficulties that arise between you.You receive the loving support of an entire community to help you find your way through.
• You discover and practice resources that you can take home and use every day of your life.
• You discover that your energy has natural wave-like rhythms of excitement and relaxation. In the trust that is created in these intimate encounters, you are able to explore and practice connecting so that you are always in harmony with the natural flow of your own energy.

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Body, Heart & Soul Part 4

Union of Sex, Love and Consciousness

Sex, love and consciousness meet in the heart. Love is the great miracle, blossoming whatever it touches, and transforming us in ways that nothing else can. In Part 4 of Body, Heart & Soul, love is your meditation! Your allies are your trust and your courage, and with their support you learn the art of being in love.

Daily practices invite you into the deepest acceptance of yourself, as a foundation for loving others.

Carefully guided processes encourage you to let go of the ways in which you resist or undermine the experience of being loved.

Sometimes you connect deeply with your own inner energy and at other times your intimacy is with another or others as you explore sacred practices that expand your awareness beyond the personal realm.

In the Tantric Initiation ceremony towards the end of the 7 days, you are guided on a profound journey integrating your sexual body, your feeling heart and your spiritual awareness.

This ceremony, and all that you have lived throughout the week, is designed to awaken in you a deep understanding of Tantra as a way to celebrate the gift of life. Intimate loving is now, whenever you choose, a form of meditation – a way to access the highest states of consciousness and being.

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All the Body, Heart & Soul workshops include:

• bodywork, breathing and energy processes
• communicating - verbally, physically and through all the senses
• initiation rituals
• Tantric practices
• movement
• creative art
• a variety of meditation processes
• dreamwork and hypnosis
• many opportunities to share openly and intimately.

Everything serves to promote the full aliveness of your body, feelings, energy and awareness. What we offer is a way to heal old wounds, to dissolve the fears and restrictive programs that prevent intimacy, and to learn to enjoy the tender beauty and passion of your body, heart and soul!

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The Art of Being® Teaching Staff

Alan Lowen B.Sc

Paul Carter Ph.D

Niyaso Christine Carter

Alan is an internationally renowned teacher-guide, and one of the world's foremost facilitators of sexuality workshops. He founded The Art of Being 9 years ago as a comprehensive approach to happy, healthy and enlightened living. His work recently featured in an Australian documentary film called "Sacred Sex".

Paul was trained in hypnotherapy by Dr. Milton Erickson, and in family therapy by Dr. Virginia Satir. He also brings with him a blend of his experience with Gestalt process, systems theory, and sacred and expressive arts.

Niyaso completes the trio with her comprehensive training and natural gifts in the fields of female sexuality; Tantra; and grief, trauma and recovery work. Her work is a synthesis of her Eastern training and Western humanistic therapies. She was a major contributor and consultant in the new educational video, The Secrets of Sacred Sex.

Together, Alan, Paul and Niyaso create a context that offers clarity, insight, playful humor and a gentle loving way of escorting you into your own depth of being.

For more information about the Body, Heart & Soul workshops, the Training, our annual High on Life Transformational Vacation and other Art of Being® programs, please contact us.

We can only find happiness and fulfillment in intimate loving when we learn once again to love all of our sensual and sexual nature. Then we can be fully human and directly experience the sacred and divine aspects of existence. This is what Body, Heart & Soul teaches. It is for everybody, whether single or in relationship, a total experiential education in sexuality and intimate loving.  

Body, Heart & Soul is presented as 4 week-long workshops. They enable you to reclaim your lost innocence, to heal your shame and wounds, to restore your sensual and sexual aliveness and to celebrate your existence as a man or woman. Participating in them will enhance the quality of your lovemaking, bring real and deepening intimacy into your love relationships and allow you to discover your sexual energy as a path of spiritual awakening.

"My entire being feels! Every part of me is alive!! I feel as if a dam has burst open...I will treasure this week always."

Mary Zona, USA

"I have never felt such a strong respect for my inner being. This feeling is still there after six months."

R. Sprado, Germany

"Life has been amazing since the workshop... for the first time I feel I know who I am. I really found my beauty, spiritually, sexually and physically..."

Lisa Neos, England

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