Ecosexuality: Becoming a Resource of Love - Join Us in Portland, OR, July 17-21, for an Enchanting Summer Course

EcoSexuality: Becoming A Resource of Love - Portland, OR: July 17-21

Photo by Teri Ciacchi

Would you like to know how to generate all the love you want in your life and the lives of your beloveds, families, and communities?  Join us for this five-day residential intensive and learn how to become a resource of love.  EcoSexuality is the art of loving beyond genders, numbers, orientations, ages, races, and species to embrace all of life as a partner with equal rights.  It’s the art of becoming a resource of love for Gaia.

         Super Early Bird: 1st 3 Sign-Ups at 50% Tuition

Offer expires on April 1st

Photo by Mina Bast

How can EcoSexuality help one become an abundant resource of love?  This summer program brings together activists, scholars, students, professionals, educators, and practitioners of the arts of loving and living ecologically who are interested in co-creating a culture of Gaian-centered, life-positive, sex-positive living.  Avatar of EcoSexual theory Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, Reverend Teri D. Ciacchi and Bruce Bartlett of Living Love Revolution come together as co-facilitators, anchors, and hosts to bring this unique experience to you.  We understand EcoSexual Love as the art of loving beyond conventional limitations to embrace love as the ecology of life.  We are passionate about empowering fellow humans to become resources of love who generate together all the love we, and our elective families and communities can use.  As resources of love, we can turn scarcity into abundance, fear into hope, hatred into love.  

The location of the course is the White Oak Retreat Center nested in the forested hills of North West Portland, OR.  An eco-centric design community home with high green metrics, it hosts up to 25 participants.  It features multiple wings, floors, multiuse day rooms and bedrooms, private and shared spaces, bathrooms, and lavatories.  The outdoor amenities available for EcoSensual and EcoSexual experiences include meadows, forests, trees, bushes, marshes, and liminal spaces like multiple balconies, a lanai, fire circle, and Jacuzzi.  Indoor facilities include a wide cooking, food preparation, and dining area, multiple workshop spaces, lounges, and massage areas.  We will cater healthy meals with vegetarian options.  The center offers various combinations of shared and semi-private overnight arrangements in accordance with the versatility of its interior spaces.  We invite participants to express their preferences so we can match them with available resources.

Super Early Bird: 1st 3 Sign-Ups at 50% Tuition

Offer expires on April 1st

Room and Board: Add $ 200 per person

Payable by May st to Teri Cacchi at

livingloverevolution@me.com

Mina Bast

In the course, we will explore EcoSomatics, Embodiment, and EcoPsychology as tools to transform into resources of love.  As we understand the inherent connection between our bodies and the planetary body of Gaia as ecosystems, we will explore the dynamic relationship between our inner landscapes and the forces of nature that map the outer landscapes we’re part of.   Exercises will facilitate the body’s energy centers resonance with waters, lands, mountains, forests, bacteria, the animal world, air, winds, astral, aural, and energetic bodies.  We understand erotic energy and love as immanent life forces that can be sourced when reverence for the forces of nature is activated.  This reverence transforms into the source of one’s power to generate love.  

Mina Bast

Transformative tools will be used in a wide range of effective small group experiences designed as community sustainability practices. Participants will gain a better understanding of the complex social, emotional, cognitive, behavioral and experiential dynamics inherent to becoming a resource of love for themselves and their communities.  They will become aware of EcoSexual practices designed to sustain communities as we all learn to become resources of love for ourselves, for each other, and for third planet Gaia or the Earth.

The course includes small group learning, individual mentoring, real-world case studies and field experiences.  Skills we will engage with include workable definitions of love, solo ecosexual stewarding of natural places, peer counseling practices for working holistically with emotions and self care practices that include, meditation, yoga and ecstatic dance.  There is a specific focus on developing the ability to be a present and grounded resource of love.  You will learn to generate oxytocin, the hormone of love and connectedness, through aural, visual and vibrational energy exchanges in a safe and consensual container.

Teri Ciacchi

Our daily EcoSensual practices will include solo, small and large group processes from many spiritual lineages.  The initial focus is enhancing your capacity for intimacy, creating unity consciousness and embodying love.  The next step is an initiation ritual with sacred sexuality practices culminating on Saturday evening.  Participants will practice various consensual degrees of sexual fluidity and amorous inclusiveness that open the inner landscape and chakra system to the planetary embrace of EcoSexual Love.  The art of EcoSexual Love will expand the range of sensations participants experience as pleasure and the range of emotions they experience as love.  

 Super Early Bird: 1st 3 Sign-Ups at 50% Tuition

Offer expires on April 1st

Room and Board: Add $ 200 per person
Payable by May st to Teri Cacchi at
livingloverevolution@me.com

Who will benefit from this program?

1. Activists, scholars, students, professionals, educators, and practitioners of the arts of loving and living ecologically.
2. Individuals who see love and building communities around a shared value of love as a foundation of sustainable relatedness.
3. Environmental and sustainability advocates interested in learning how to apply the principles of permaculture to human relatedness and social fabric remediation.
4. Practitioners of the arts of loving in its infinite forms of expression.
5. Participants in styles of love based in sexual fluidity and amorous inclusiveness and other forms of open relating.  
6. Green entrepreneurs and organizers with a desire to expand their earth loving practices to the infinite forms of expressions Gaian love can take.
7. People interested in learning how to host spaces of love in the guise that third-planet Gaia does for its multiple beings.
8. People skilled in being a resource of love for themselves and in their intimate relationships who want to extend that ability to large communities and ecosystems.
9. People who wish to extend their nature-living skills and practices to human communities.

Photo credits to Mina Bast, thank you!

Who we are and why we bring this to you

Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD, heralded the EcoSexuality movement with her book Gaia and the New Politics of Love.  She was invited to keynote at EcoSexuality Symposia in San Francisco and Portland.  She believes that "a world where it is safe to live is a world where it is safe to love," and that "love is the ecology of life."  She interprets love as an art and teaches practices of love that honor amorous inclusiveness and sexual fluidity.  Her first course in EcoSexuality was taught with Robert Silber in Italy. 

Reverend Teri D. Ciacchi MSW is the founder of Living Love Revolution and has created a system of EcoMagicks and EcoSexual practices called the LLR Aphrodite Priestess Training.  She is a holistic healer and sex educator who merges specific lineages of Wicca, Tibetan Buddhism, Ceremonial Magick and psychiatric social work to create accessible daily practices grounded in love. She specializes in rituals that honor the Divine Feminine and manifest the presence of love in the practice of EcoSomatics, Embodiment and EcoPsychology.

Bruce Bartlett is the creator and caretaker of the White Oak Retreat Center in Portland, OR.  He advocates an EcoSexual approach to life, including holistic living, inclusive hospitality, land stewardship, permaculture, ritual music, ecstatic movement, and green metrics.  He is a food system activist and an all-around dedicated practitioner of the arts of living and loving in Portland. 

Dear Earthlings,

You can't miss this opportunity to become an abundant resource of love.  Join us in Portland for an enchanting summer course, July 17-21,2013. With EcoSexuality: Becoming a Resource of Love, you will learn how to generate all the love you want in your life and the lives of your beloveds, families, and communities.  Space is limited, so sign up now.  Be one of the first three participants to benefit from the limited offer of a 50 percent tuition discount.  The offer expires on April 1st.  Meals and residential arrangements are an added $ 200 payable in full by May 1st. We look forward to welcoming you at the White Oak Retreat Center in July!  

Super Early Bird: 1st 3 Sign-Ups at 50% Tuition

Room and Board: Add $ 200 per person 

Payable by May 1st to Teri Ciacchi at

livingloverevolution@me.com

Namaste,

Serena

Ecosexuality & the Ecology of Love @ U Conn, Storrs

Ecosexuality & the Ecology of Love

Cindy Baker: Ecosex Pride Flag

The course is dedicated to exploring ecosexuality, as a social movement, a style of amorous and creative expression, a cosmic theory, an orientation, and a practice of love. 
      What is ecosexuality?  How did the concept come about and why it matters?  How can it help us to explore the intersections between ecology and sexuality, science and the humanities, global and personal health and love?  How does ecosexuality intersect with other orientations and practices of love, including those common among gays, bis, straights, polys, swingers, metrosexuals, and so on?  How does ecosexuality contribute to defining our relationship to the environment, to technology, the natural elements, and the web of life that sustains our species?  Is nature our enemy, mother, hostess, lover, all of the above? 
      A number of recent sources touch on the theme of ecosexuality.  They include books and articles that study and analyze cultural expression, films, dvds, websites, and other educational and documentary cultural texts.  Some of those in the assigned and optional reading lists may include: Sexual Fluidity, by Lisa Diamond; Sex at Dawn, by Christopher Ryan and Calcida Jetha; Gaia and the New Politics of Love, by Serena Anderlini; Polyamory in the 21st Century, by Deborah Anapol; Mystery Dance, by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan; Microcosmos and Acquiring Genomes by Lynn Margulis; Sirens, by John Duigan; Shortbus, by John Cameron Mitchell; An Inconvenient Truth, by Davis Guggenheim; Sluts and Goddesses by Annie Sprinkle, Love Art Lab by Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens; French Twist by Josiane Balasko, The Ignorant Fairies by Ferzan Ozpetek, and Science of Panic, by Patrizia Monzani.

      Research projects will be required.  Writing for the course may be considered for inclusion in an anthology on ecosexuality.

Note:  The first edition of this course will be taught at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, in the Spring of 2013.  It will be designed as a seminar in the WGSS Department.  If you are interested in enrolling or auditing, please contact the professor or department. 

Dr. Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD, gave the opening remarks at the world's first Symposium on Ecosexuality in Los Angeles on Oct 24, 2010.  She keynoted at the second Symposium on Ecosexuality in San Francisco on June 18, 2011, and at the EcoSex Symposium in Portland on June 29, 2012.  She is the author of Gaia and the New Politics of Love, a seminal text of ecosexual theory.  She blogs at http://polyplanet.blogspot.com

Ecosexuality: When Ecology and Sexuality Come Together

Ecosexuality: When Ecology and Sexuality Come Together

This is a new academic course that can be taught as a seminar, at the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels. 

The course is dedicated to exploring ecosexuality, as a social movement, a style of amorous and creative expression, a cosmic theory, an orientation, and a practice of love. 

What is ecosexuality?  How did the concept come about and why it matters?  How can it help us to explore the intersections between ecology and sexuality, science and the humanities, global and personal health and love?  How does ecosexuality intersect with other orientations and practices of love, including those common among gays, bis, straights, polys, swingers, metrosexuals, and so on?  How does ecosexuality contribute to defining our relationship to the environment, to technology, the natural elements, and the web of life that sustains our species?  Is nature our enemy, mother, hostess, all of the above? 
      A number of recent sources touch on the theme of ecosexuality.  They include books and articles that study and analyze cultural expression, films, dvds, websites, and other educational and documentary cultural texts.  Some of those in the assigned reading list may include: Sexual Fluidity, by Lisa Diamond; Sex at Dawn, by Christopher Ryan and Calcida Jetha; Gaia and the New Poltics of Love, by Serena Anderlini; Polyamory in the 21st Century, by Deborah Anapol; Mystery Dance, by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan; Microcosmos and Acquiring Genomes by Lynn Margulis; Sirens, by John Duigan; Shortbus, by John Cameron Mitchell; An Inconvenient Truth, by Davis Guggenheim; Sluts and Goddesses by Annie Sprinkle, Love Art Lab by Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens; French Twist by Josiane Balasko, The Ignorant Fairies by Ferzan Ozpetek, and Science of Panic, by Patrizia Monzani.

Dr. Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD, gave the opening remarks at the world's first Symposium on Ecosexuality in Los Angeles on Oct 24, 2010, and keynoted at the second Symposium on Ecosexuality in San Francisco on June 18, 2011.  She will keynote at the upcoming EcoSex Symposium in Portland on June 29, 2012.  She is the author of Gaia and the New Politics of Love, a seminal text of ecosexual theory.  She blogs at http://polyplanet.blogspot.com
       Research paper expected at end of course.
Email questions for Dr. Anderlini at serena.anderlini@gmail.com

The Earth as Lover, art credit to Megan Morman and Cindy Baker.

SUSTAINABLE LOVE ~~ Retreat in Community ~~ What Is Ecosexuality? ~~ PostaHouse July 14-21, 2012

~~SUSTAINABLE LOVE~~

7-day

RETREAT

in

COMMUNITY

 

What is Ecosexuality?
  

"A World where it is safe to love is a World

where it is safe to live..." Serena Anderlini

PostaHouse
Posta, Rieti
ITALY
2012

In the middle of the Apennine Mountains, approximately

2 hours North-East of Rome, there is a small town called Posta

at the junction of several roads.

 

This is a place with history. A place where one could change horses

and get a well-earned rest for the night.

A place of tradition, with knowledge of the old ways

as well as the new.

 

  

Ecosexual Retreat
Sat 14th - Sat 21st July 2012

Preliminary Program

 

Sat 14th July

  from 10.00am Registration 
        Morning Arrivals* 
        Mingle

12.30pm Lunch

Orientation/siesta

  4.30pm Plenary
Setting up Community Framework/Agreements

  7.30pm Dinner
followed by Shamanic Forgiveness and Releasing

  Ceremony (outside?)

Sun 15th July - Thurs 19th July

  6.30am Yoga/prayer/meditation^#

  7.30am Breakfast

  8.30am Morning GardenHouse

10.00am Morning Plenary

Community Member presents/Community workshop

12.30pm Midday Prayer
followed by Lunch (individual) and Siesta

  4.30pm Afternoon Plenary
Community Member presents/Community workshop

  7.30pm Dinner
followed by Community Activity

 

On at least one of the days we hope to visit a local artisan or do some

other outside activity in the local mountain-area.

Fri 20th July

  6.30am Yoga/prayer/meditation^#

  7.30am Breakfast

  8.30am Morning GardenHouse

10.00am Morning Plenary

Community Member presents/Community workshop

12.30pm Midday Prayer
followed by Lunch (individual) and Siesta

Afternoon in preparation for

Evening Celebration/Community Feast
 

  8.00pm Celebration/Feast

Sat 21st July

  6.30am Yoga/prayer/meditation^#

  7.30am Breakfast

  Morning clearing/packing

10.30am Final Plenary

Reflections and Intentions

12.30pm Midday Prayer
followed by Communal Lunch

Afternoon departures*  

^# The daily Yoga/prayer/meditation session is intended to be led by

Community Members.

* Retreat Participants are welcome to arrive on the evening of Friday 13th and/or stay over until Sunday 22nd for an agreed small extra fee.

A primary intention of this Retreat is to lay an energetic foundation-stone for the PostaHouse Community. The Retreat participants will live, work and play community for 8 days.

  

This retreat gives us all a chance to explore our own and one another's gifts. Those who come together here will find what it is that joins us in fellowship, and where we have the work to do. Participation in the Retreat does not bring with it any obligation at all to "join anything."

However it is our desire at PostaHouse that this exploration will lead to some people making an intention to spend part of their year here. This period may be as little as a week or as much as many months. Our PostaHouse Community will be these active members, the land on which we live and our relationship to one another. It will also be our supporters from further away.
  
This is not a "passive retreat"; we will be forming it and clothing it together. Most of us have only met before via Facebook or on Conference calls - this is our opportunity in "Earth-time & space" now, together, to make real community in ways which enrich each other in respect and love.
 

Accommodation and Food

Accommodation for this summer retreat will be in shared rooms and/or in tents in the garden. There are showers and toilet facilities in the house. A prepared Daily Dinner is included as are the Lunches on the first and last Saturday; other lunches during the week are the participants' own responsibility. Breakfast foods will be available for self-catering every morning.

      

Costs 
The cost for the retreat per person is as follows

€385  - registration before 1st May 2012

€425  - registration after 1st May 2012

We require a deposit of €100 at the time of booking.

The remainder is payable within 4 weeks, or before 1st July, whichever is the sooner.

These costs include food and accommodation as outlined above; travel is at participants' own expense.

Please email us at the address below for more information.

We look forward to meeting you in July in Italy

Serena Anderlini                         John Overton

PostaHouse

is a place for retreats, for workshops, for meetings,

for music and art, for those deep spiritual ceremonies which connect us with everything in Heaven and on Earth and Each Other – a place of Sustainable Love

in mutually honouring partnership with the Earth.

It is the place of the forming PostaHouse Community.

 

Blog:                http://postahouse.bezdomny.org/
Email:              postahouseitalia@gmail.com

Ecosexualidad: Un Fin de Semana con las Artes de Amar Inclusivamente

Ecosexualidad: Un Fin de Semana con las Artes de Amar Inclusivamente

San Juan, Puerto Rico, marzo 11-12, 2012

Solo $ 120 hasta enero 31, 2012!  ¿List@ para apuntarte?  Aprovecha el descuento de matricula temprana!

Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD

Enseñando el primer curso completamente bilingüe en ecosexualidad y el arte de amar inclusivamente.

¿Deseas una comunidad expandida de confianza, amor, placer, intimidad y conexión? ¿Te gustaria desarrollar tus talentos como artista de amor inclusivo?

Unete a nosotr@s para este curso unico el el clima suavizante de Puerto Rico.

Nosotr@s creemos que el amor es un arte. Tenemos la visión de amor como una energía sagrada universal que hace el mundo vibrar con vida. Permitir que esta energía circule y se expanda es lo que hace un artista de amor inclusivo. Cuando se desarrolla conscientemente, el arte de amor inclusivo puede traer creatividad, gozo y paz para nuestras vidas y el mundo. Nosotr@s compartimos nuestro conocimiento en las artes de amar inclusivamente y te guiamos a que desarrolles el tuyo. Traer mas confianza, diversión y abundancia en tu vida amorosa es bueno para ti, los demas y el planeta.

Este taller facilitará tu desarrollo como un artista de amor inclusivo. Enaltecerá tu potencial como recurso de amor para tus comunidades y redes sociales.

Únete a nosotr@s para dos días de ejercicios prácticos y actividades diseñadas para enaltecer tu habilidad de disfrutar un relacionarse significativo y saludable basado en apoyo mutuo, inclusividad, apreciación y confianza. Practica técnicas de comunicación que te ayudan a estar mas presente y comunicado con otros. Ten la experiencia del toque amoroso y modalidades de masaje que crean confianza y te llevan al éxtasis. Comparte profundamente con otros seres que resuenan con tu pasión por la verdad, comunidad, expansividad y la belleza de relaciones autenticas. Aprende a apreciar tus talentos de expresión amorosa y erótica para utilizarlos con respeto y para el placer.  Mantente presente con tu naturaleza como un recurso de amor.

Donde: Residencia de Julio Gerardo Nerys

Calle las Caobas #222

Hyde Park, San Juan PR 00927

Teléfono: 787-425-9093

Cuando: marzo 10-11, 2012

Costo del curso: $240

ESPACIOS LIMITADOS: Apúntate ahora

Por solo $120 hasta enero 31, 2012

Especial para l@s primer@s tres participantes: $ 120 por persona

Aviso: El costo sube el 1 de febrero!

Apuntate con tus amig@s para mas decuentos!

2 Persons Early-Bird $200.00 USD 3 Persons Early-Bird $270.00 USD

Aviso: disponibe solo en el periodo de matricula temprana!  

Incluye:

Cuatro talleres de 3 horas el sábado y domingo marzo 10-11, 2012

Dos saludables y energizantes almuerzos, con opción vegetariana

Hospitalidad en un espacio seguro y agradable, en la residencia de Julio Gerardo

Traducción completa: Ingles/Español y vice-versa

Algunos temas que estaremos dilucidando incluyen:

¿Que es “compresión” y porque se conoce como el “espíritu del amor inclusivo”?

¿Como podemos practicar amor de maneras fluidas, inclusivas y artísticas?

¿Cual es la naturaleza del amor y como podemos practicar el amor desde ahí?

¿Como podemos crear espacios sagrados donde el amor se puede practicar expansivamente y en seguridad? ¿Como podemos expandir el alcance de emociones que experimentamos como amor? ¿Cómo el alcance de sensaciones que experimentamos como placer se puede expandir también? ¿Cómo podemos generar el amor que necesitamos y permitir que su energía circule en nuestras redes de amigos y familia elegidas? ¿Que ciencias, cosmología y sistemas de conocimiento apoyan practicas de amor de estas maneras imaginativas y visionarias?

Tu traes tus talentos únicos

Nosotr@s apoyamos tu descubrimiento de las artes de amar consciente

Propiedad Intelectual de 3WayKiss

¿Compañía para enlistar? Ofrecemos descuentos para 2 y 3 participantes que se registren juntos.

ESPACIOS LIMITADOS, aprovecha ahora!

En especial ahora por $ 120 por persona

¿Quienes somos? ¿Por qué te traemos esto?

Julio Gerardo Nerys – “Anfitrión” en la Residencia de la Calle las Caobas, desea abrir el primer espacio sagrado para la practica del amor inclusivo en PR.  Traductor para un espacio educacional totalmente bilingüe y bicultural.  Bienvenida su valor e inspiración!

Serena, facilitadora de talleres de Ecosexualidad y amor inclusivo, autora de múltiples libros sobre temas relacionados.

Acerca de la Facilitadora:

Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD, es escritora, profesora, líder, sanadora y activista en el cambio de paradigma hacia un futuro Gaiano donde la humanidad hace las paces con nuestro planeta “anfitriona”. Ella es líder de talleres y “coach” exitosa sobre el poliamor y temas de bisexualidad. Ella cree que el Movimiento del Sexo Sagrado, el Movimiento de la Ecología Global y el Movimiento de Salud Holística son parte del cambio en el paradigma. Esta actualmente activa en los movimientos y comunidades globales de Poliamor, Bisexualidad, Ecosexualidad y Disidencia del SIDA. Su ultimo libro, “Gaia, the New Politics of Love: Notes for a Poly Planet’ salio en septiembre 2009, de North Atlantic Books, Berkely.  Ahora esta disponible digitalmente en edición Kindle, y es ganadora de Plata en Cosmología y Nueva Ciencia de los Premios de Libro Nautilus. Serena es una oradora  principal y líder de clase mundial que ha presentado en California, estado de Washington, Nueva Inglaterra , Reino Unido y Grecia. Ella también asiste clientes en asuntos de Ecosexualidad y relaciones.

Serena ofrece sesiones de “coaching” para participantes interesados en relaciones saludables y sustentablemente inclusivas. Enterate del Bonobo Coaching.

P.S. Querid@s terrestres: La educacion es el corazon de la democracia.  Y esto incluye la educacion al amor.  Ella viene en muchas formas.  Eso incluye aprender acerca de la ecosexualidad y las artes de amar inclusivamente. 

¿Disfrutaste el posteo?  Avisanos!  Una servidora aprecia tu atencion.  El buzon de comentarios esta abierto. Vuelve!  Y quedate en espera para mas maravillas.

Namaste,  

Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD

Gilf Gaia Extraordinaire

Autora de Gaia and the New Politics of Love  y muchos mas libros Profesora de Humanidades

Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

   

Siguenos en los medios sociale:

Poly Planet GAIA Blog: http://polyplanet.blogspot.com/ 

Sitio Web: www.serenagaia.com 

Coviertete en un seguidor: www.facebook.com/GaiaBlessings 

Pagina autora, lista libros: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001JS1VKA 

Videos en You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/SerenaAnderlini