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Touching the Heart of Stillness

Can you imagine an 8-day immersion into meditative stillness and guided erotic exploration, at a serene Zen setting in the natural beauty of New Mexico?
This workshop is for cisgender* men.
Men

Start

May
10
2025

End

May
17
2025
6:00 pm -
  2:00 pm
Mountain Time
Jemez Springs,
NM
USA
8-Day Intensive

What's Possible

  • Experience deep tranquility and inner ease as the mind quiets and the senses awaken
  • Welcome the erotic body into a more inclusive, holistic connection with heart and spirit
  • Expand your erotic attunement and sense of well-being through guided rituals of mindful touch

What to Expect

  • A serene retreat setting designed to support and deepen a silent meditation practice
  • An intentional and balanced mix of silent meditation with mindful, consent-based erotic rituals
  • A community grounded in principles of lovingkindness and respect for self, other, and nature
"There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O traveller, if you are in search of that, don’t look outside, look inside yourself and seek that."
- RUMI

Meet Your Facilitator

Details

Prerequisite(s): Completed any CBE, or permission of the instructor.
Delivery: 8-Day Intensive
May 10, 2025  
- May 17, 2025
6:00 pm
  - 2:00 pm
Time Zone: Mountain Time
Costs (in USD)
$2,379 Members Intensive Sale
$750 Members Intensive Sale Deposit

$2,799 Regular Tuition
$2,749 Early Registration (until Mar 10)
$2,699 Community and Body Members
$2,439 Heart Members or higher
$750 Workshop Deposit

(Lodging and all meals included.)
Fully refundable within
24 hours of registration.
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Scholarships are available for this workshop. Click here for more info.

Description

This workshop has been expanded to eight days for 2025.

🌶️🌶️🌶️ = High Spiciness (clothing optional events that may include sexual touch)

More about the event:

Imagine an 8-day immersion into meditative stillness paired with respectful, guided rituals of erotic exploration. Imagine a gorgeous and serene Zen monastic setting nestled in the natural beauty of New Mexico. Imagine a rigorous mindfulness retreat that embraces the whole body, not just the mind and heart. Put them together and you have Touching the Heart of Stillness: A Contemplative/Erotic Retreat.

Touching the Heart of Stillness is a one-of-a-kind experience. You will not find another offering like it.  The structure is rooted in the Buddhist tradition of intensive practice in mindfulness meditation (“sati” in the Pali language).  What distinguishes this gathering is the unique opportunity to bridge mindfulness training with periods of conscious erotic engagement.

Much of each day is spent in “noble silence,” dedicated to meditation instruction and practice.  Consent-based embodied rituals every afternoon extend our focus to erotic touch.  This natural union allows participants to refine their attunement to the natural flow of energies in the body in the context of a quiet mind and open heart.

Touching the Heart of Stillness is conducted in an environment free from the distractions of modern life, including technology.  It is designed for all men who are interested in starting or deepening a meditation practice and who wish to extend the practice of mindfulness to embrace erotic expression.

How can we support in your decision? To learn more, contact Craig at craig.cullinane@bodyelectric.org.

 

*Cisgender is a term that is used to describe people whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth. For example, someone who was assigned male at birth (AMAB) and identifies as a man is a cisgender man.

Facilitator(s)

Steve (all pronouns welcome) is a sacred intimate, licensed clinical psychologist, spiritual guide, educator, and writer. Steve has been a serious Buddhist meditation practitioner for 25 years, including many intensive retreats in USA and abroad. He has published about Buddhism in The Huffington Post and Lion's Roar magazine. Steve is the creator and facilitator of the online course Unmaskingmortality: A Yearlong Practice in Living and Dying (unmaskingmortality.com).

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