Sacred Pelvic Healing Massage Training

Near Seattle, WA, USA

Nov 4-5, 2023, 10 am to 7 pm

(and optional 2 days of practice Nov 5-7)

Pelvic Floor Release, Sexual Healing and Opening

with Amara Karuna and Ray Cohen

Learn to Give - slow, nurturing, healing bodywork around the pelvis and genital areas to bring bliss to your partner
 
Learn Your Body - study the detailed and amazing anatomy of the pelvic area, and specific acupressure points for sexual health
 
Expand Pleasure - Move deeper into sexual potential and skills with specific massage techniques
 

See Introductory Video

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This is a unique and amazing kind of slow and penetrating touch on the pelvic area, which most people have never experienced.  
This work draws from the techniques of sacred spot massage, Orgasmic Meditation, cranial sacral work, facia release, Rivers of Love bodywork, Taoist energy healing and cultivation, and deep tissue and acupressure bodywork.
 
It is relaxing, nurturing, healing and pleasurable all at once. Treat yourself!
 
This is very deep work that touches into our core channel energies, and can bring up strong emotions and be very transformative.  
It is wonderful for healing any issues around sexuality, shame, body image and for expanding our capacity for aliveness, pleasure, juiciness and full body orgasms. 
 
Opportunities to learn this work are rare, and usually costs for trainings are much higher. We believe these are such important and needed skills that we keep the costs low enough to be accessible.

Newcomers will get a strong start, and we recommend you have some experience with massage and sacred sexuality, as this is a training in a detailed and specific healing form of sacred spot massage.

People with experience in intimate massage and conscious touch will find this a powerful deepening, as we will teach Sacred Pelvic Healing Massage which can be applied to personal or professional sessions.

These practices can help to let go of our tensions, feel nourished, and to experience peace, silence and the presence of our Being.

This experience includes:

Weekend includes:
• Secrets of Your Erotic Body slideshow
• Movement and embodiment practices
• Group sharing
• Sacred Pelvic Healing Massage Training

Also an optional 2 day Apprentice Training practice time Nov 6-7, for those wanting extra practice while the Apprentices teach

 

What people say:

"Taking Amara's class has enriched our erotic lives immensely. Not only has it provided extremely helpful geographic references to the pelvis, with techniques to dislodge energy blockages, it has enhanced our physical bond, and increased our capacity to experience pleasure. We highly recommend this class to anyone.”  
JM/JM, Medford OR

 

Open to couples and singles.

Come with a friend or beloved, or be willing to make new friendships.

Be aware that this workshop deals with sexuality and sexual healing, and involves group nudity.  All events are explained in advance and are completely optional and by consent. Touching only happens with hands. 

Weekend Activities

Secrets of Your Erotic Body

The  Anatomy and Energy of Arousal

Reclaim your pride and enjoyment of your own sexual organs in this slideshow. Come learn some amazing facts, Taoist breathing and energy practices for sexual health, and bring your questions and experiences to share.


We will explore:
*Pelvic Breathing & stretching- Bringing aliveness to the pelvic area for more health and extending sexual pleasure
* Exploring our own experiences and attitudes toward our sexual areas
* The amazing and complex structure of our genital organs
* Taoist reflexology zones hidden in them, used for health and vitality

Sacred Pelvic Healing Massage

        The focus for this event is to create a warm, loving and safe space for exploring sexual healing and pelvic release massage in an experiential way.  We will also be dancing, doing various meditations and practices in pairs and solo, and spending about 2/3 of the time just doing massage in pairs.
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        This is very deep work that touches into our core channel energies, and can bring up strong emotions and be very transformative.  It is wonderful for healing any issues around sexuality, body image and for expanding our capacity for aliveness, pleasure, juiciness and full body orgasms.

The simple act of sharing loving touch is a deeply powerful practice that most of us would like to have more often.  The pelvic area holds a huge amount of tensions and emotional charge, yet it is usually never touched except within the context of sexual stimulation.  Many of us have experienced trauma and emotional pain around our sexuality because of the context of our sex-negative culture.

Part 1: Introduction to Sacred Pelvic Healing

Self Massage and Buttock Massage 
 
Part one offers:
*Introduction to working on both men and women, doing release work around the pelvis and internally.
*Benefits and intentions of this practice
*Subtle Energy Self Discovery: clothed self massage around the pelvis (wear loose clothes). 
Loosen the tight spots around the perineum!
*Pelvic Breathing & stretching- Bringing aliveness to the pelvic area
*Exchange of a wonderful buttock massage, fully clothed

Part 2: Live Demonstrations and Practice

This class will include a demonstration of the powerful external and internal massage techniques to open and relax the pelvic area and genitals. You will be given notes to remember the moves and sequence. This class will include a chance for hands on practice with a partner, while being guided through a series of nurturing, arousing and healing moves.

Instruction and demo: Giving to a Man, Demonstration of massage techniques and healing ritual.

*Male anatomy, The P spot, the million dollar point, lots of amazing massage of the external areas and perineum. How to send your guy into heaven!

On Saturday afternoon we will show live demonstrations of working on a man, and then do a practice with men receiving.

Instruction and demo: Giving to a Woman, A demonstration of massage techniques and healing ritual.

*The Suspensory Ligament, sexual anatomy, the clitoral structure, the G spot and the Epicenter spots on women. Unlock some of the mysteries of the secret flower, and give her a gift of deep nurturing.

On Sunday we will watch a demonstration of working on a woman, and then give to the women.

Part 2 requires a practice partner, which you may meet in part 1, but it is ideal if you come with your own partner.

The Facilitators

Amara Karuna

Amara Karuna has been involved with New Culture for many years and is the Director of the New Culture Hawaii Winter Camp.  She lives on the Big Island of Hawaii in the New Culture community.
Amara was a main organizer of the Oregon Tantra Festival, and the Cascadia Tantra Festival, both events that offered a variety of classes on sacred relationship and sexuality as a spiritual path.  She now co-organizes the Conscious Connection Retreat.
Amara developed Heartbeat Nurturing Therapy, a method of healing the inner infant-self using cradling, hypnotic induction and suckling to address emotional issues stemming from lack of breast feeding & loving closeness as an infant.  She is the author of "Heartbeat Nurturing Therapy- Healing Our Hearts Together”

In 1989, she developed her own approach to peer counseling, called Holistic Peer Counseling integrating counseling with spiritual meditation practices, psychic healing, breath work and body centered techniques.   She has studied 6 different methods of pelvic bodywork, and has taught Sacred Pelvic Healing Work, Blissflow Intimate Massage, and led NeoTantra ceremonies since 2007.

Ray Cohen

Ray was a main organizer of the Oregon Tantra Festival, and the Cascadia Tantra Festival, both events that offered a variety of classes on sacred relationship and sexuality as a spiritual path.

He has been teaching Sacred Pelvic Healing Massage with Amara Karuna, who developed this technique. 
Ray is a professional counselor with experience helping people recover from substance abuse, a personal fitness coach and a professional musician.  He supports clients in working with issues of intimacy, polyamory, open relationships, and sexual healing, and works with couples.  He leads Neo Tantra events and is a Zegg Forum Facilitator.

Self Responsibility

We bring awareness and nourish aspects emphasizing self-responsibility as an essential requirement to navigate sexual, shamanic, and spiritual spaces.

This training is NOT a replacement for physical-emotional-mental therapy and is NOT focused on treating pathology.

If you suffer from severe trauma, mental illness, or are taking medications, we recommend you consult your therapist/ psychiatrist to check if participating is advisable.

The training activates the life force and is, at times, emotionally intense. There will be group nudity. All activities are optional and by consent.

Please consider if your mental health is ready and capable of undertaking such powerful initiations and if you can take responsibility for your mental stability.

On that basis, the facilitator acknowledges and recognizes my responsibility to offer participants nondiscriminatory care, a consent-focused space, and appropriate support concerning the process as you navigate the training.

COVID Safety

We will be taking steps to insure all of our safety, including requiring 5 days of relative self seclusion beforehand and refraining from risky practices. We will not be testing unless needed during the event.

"Amara is a truly wonderful teacher!  I've taken multiple workshops with her, and I'm always amazed at the humor, excellence, and heart that she offers her students.  I feel more empowered with education about the sexual body, and I emphatically recommend learning from this gifted teacher!"
 
-  Eva Clay, MSW, LCSW, Erotic Empowerment Expert
www.EvaClay.com