| Living
a Passionate Life:
Reawakening your Sensual Pleasure and Essential
Power
January 18-20, 2008
Join Lisa and Rachel for an amazing weekend at
the world-renowned Esalen Retreat Center exploring
your passion and vitality with a supportive and
playful group of women….
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We
will create a sacred women’s community
together through sharing, laughter, artistic
expression, creative movement, and empowering
and celebratory rituals. We draw on the
wisdom of the ancient Taoist tradition to
teach exercises that access your vital energy,
explore the fullness of your desire and
reclaim your fundamental power. Our emphasis
is always on creating a safe environment,
remaining present and honest, and having
a LOT of fun! Women are amazing. Come
play with us!
Reserve
your space at www.esalen.org
or
call 831-667-3005. |
Join us
for Summer Workshops 2008 at Esalen Institute
We are fortunate to be bringing a three-part
workshop series to Esalen this summer, for a complete
healing and renewal of your life passion and sexual
vitality, with opportunities for women, men and
couples. The series begins with a workshop for
women, Healing the Pelvic Floor,
with Suzanne Scurlock-Durana, CranioSacral instructor,
which will help you learn how to heal your pelvis
from any difficult experiences you may have had
and reawaken your sexual energy.
This is followed by a weekend workshop for women,
Designing Your Personal Path to Healing,
Wholeness and Vitality, taught by Rachel
Carlton Abrams, MD, Suzanne Scurlock-Durana, and
Lisa Carlton, life coach, where you will have
the opportunity to explore your overall wellness
and develop a specific plan to heal yourself and
get the support you need to be a whole and vital
woman. Following this, Lisa and Rachel will teach
Living a Passionate Life for
women to fully explore and expand their passion
and sexuality. In parallel, Mark Nicolson, life
coach, and Lee Holden, acupuncturist and qi gong
instructor, will teach Challenge and Transition:
Living a Passionate Life, a workshop
for men to explore their own life path, passion
and sexuality. Each day, the women’s and
men’s workshops will meet for an hour for
shared learning or qi gong practice (qi gong is
a Chinese meditative movement similar to Tai Chi).
These workshops are each independently wonderful,
but as instructors we have seen tremendous growth
and re-emergence in women who take all three,
as each one enhances the next. The men’s
workshop is a rare opportunity for men to do personal
work alone or with a female or male partner around
issues of intimacy and sexuality. Treat yourself
to a life-changing experience at Esalen this summer!
The dates and detail of the workshops are below.
Esalen is a world-renowned retreat center perched
on the cliffs of Big Sur over the pounding waves
of the Pacific. Enjoy natural hot spring baths,
professional massage, organic farms and gourmet
cuisine, hiking, art, and daily movement classes.
Designing Your Personal
Path to Healing, Wholeness and Vitality
August 8-10, 2008
Led by Rachel Carlton Abrams (Holistic Physician),
Lisa Carlton (Life Coach) and Suzanne Scurlock-Durana
(CranioSacral Instructor)
Join us for an informative and playful weekend
of learning, laughing and exploration. Gain insight
into your personal path to healing and wholeness
through creative process and sharing in women’s
community. Develop a clear understanding of your
most pressing health issues, concrete ideas of
how you can help yourself, and know who you can
reliably consult to assist you in your healing.
This workshop will support you in claiming your
power as a full and vital woman at every age.
Living a Passionate Life:
Reawaken Your Sensual Pleasure and Essential Power
August 10-15, 2008
Led by Rachel Carlton Abrams (Holistic Physician)
and Lisa Carlton (Life Coach)
In this “women-only” workshop we
will create sacred community together through
exploration, dance and movement, meditative practices,
connecting with nature, artistic expression, and
empowering and celebratory rituals. We will draw
on the wisdom of the ancient Taoist practice to
help unlock and refine our vital energy and sexual
desire. You will be invited to explore your own
body’s limitless capacity for pleasure,
health and vitality. Our workshop stands alone
for any woman—whether you are single or
in partnership with a man or woman.
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In parallel with our workshop, a men’s
workshop, Challenge and Transition: Living
a Passionate Life, will be exploring
similar issues for men. We will meet with the
men for an hour each day for shared educational
experiences and Qi gong practice. This workshop
will be taught by personal coach and workshop
leader Mark Nicolson (www.leadershipdna.com)
and Chinese medical physician and Qi gong instructor,
Lee Holden (www.pacifichealingarts.com).
For more information on the men’s workshop,
go to the websites above or www.esalen.org.
You other information, go to www.OnYourEdgeCoaching.com
or www.healingfromthecore.com/womenonly.shtml#designing
To register: Contact Esalen at www.esalen.org,
e-mail info@esalen.org,
or call 831-667-2724.
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Rachel Carlton Abrams, MD, MHS is a family practice
physician specializing in women’s health
and complementary medicine. She has a holistic
consultation practice in Santa Cruz, California
(www.redwoodcircle.net).
She and her husband have published three books
on Taoist sexuality, the most recent being The
Multi-Orgasmic Woman: Discover Your Full Desire,
Pleasure and Vitality. Rachel has three kids
and loves to get away and play with groups of
women.
Lisa Carlton is a transformational life coach,
art therapist, massage therapist, painter and
veteran educator. She is experienced in Compassionate
Communication, dance, improvisation and diversity
awareness. Lisa is coaching women in Santa Cruz,
teaching art and raising two boys. For workshop
questions, email: livewellisa@yahoo.com
Suzanne Scurlock-Durana C.M.T., C.S.T.-D., creator
of the audio series Healing From the Core: A Journey
Home to Ourselves, has been teaching and mentoring
in the area of conscious awareness and its relationship
to the healing process for over twenty years.
Since 1986, she has been a certified instructor
of CranioSacralTherapy and SomatoEmotional Release
training with the Upledger Institute, nationally
and internationally. She has authored the chapter
"Developing Therapeutic Presence", within
Complementary Therapies and Wellness: Practice
Essentials for Holistic Healthcare. Since
1997, Suzanne and Emilie Conrad have co-led the
ground-breaking work of synthesizing the movement
and breath world of Continuum with hands-on CranioSacral
therapy. Healing
From the Core
Look for other upcoming workshops with
Dr. Abrams at Esalen Institute.
Esalen Institute is a paradisiacal retreat center
perched on the cliffs of Big Sur, California over
the pounding waves of the Pacific. Natural hot
spring baths, renowned professional massage, organic
farms and gourmet
cuisine, hiking, art, and daily movement classes
from dance to yoga make this the ideal place to
explore sexuality and relationship. For further
information or to register, contact Esalen at
www.esalen.org,
e-mail at
info@esalen.org,
call at 831-667-2724, or write to:
Esalen Institute
55000 Highway 1
Big Sur, CA 93920
Reservations are limited and are taken on a first-come,
first-serve basis.
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