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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Plural Wedding of Ecosexual Love Sets Hearts on Fire - An Amorous Visions Calendar: Feb 22-March 6, 2014 in California

Dear Planet Lovers,


It's the night before the flight that starts a traveling period of about five months over several countries.  I only have a short time and I don't want to take off without the promised follow up to my newsletter announcements back in December.

Oh well . . . . where do I start?


The wedding: we did it!  The first plural wedding of ecosexual love in the Caribbean.  It really happened!  iI's done.  And it was a success. More: it was magic.  With everyone in the group listening to the invocation ministered by Heather Anne Trahan, and taking the vows to be Playa Azul's "spice." Wooow!  We were so amazingly diverse, yet united by this declaration of love for an ecosystem that I sincerely call my nurse, doctor, and lover.  She is very compersive and not at all jealous.  And now that we all share this lover we are all "metamours."  Lovers of a partner we share.  And since that day the shift in the energetic field all in and around the beach itself, ourselves, and those who come to enjoy nature, is just momentous.  We all share a lover, so we are all collaborative.  We were completely spontaneous and everyone was eager to be on camera. 

For me, and others I hear, emotions were high: to experience a "wedding" as freedom, peace, inclusion. When all feel part of it: more people, more "spice."  What a turn around!  Marriage? It's for everyone, ecosexual style.  Puralizing this institution: making it open, fluid, vibrant.  Acknowledging ecosystems as equals: as partners.  Thank you Playa Azul for choosing me 16 years ago and for keeping me safe, healthy, happy, at ease, and vibrant.  As an added bonus, when in the throes of this template production, an amazing team jelled up.  Our director, Shaison Ouseph, was on his first visit to Puerto Rico from Mumbai.  He learned all about us and got really enthralled, as you can see from the trailer he put out.  Many others pitched in, acknowledged with gratitude.  If you like what you see, let us know.  You can also join the conversation on the FB event page.  We are ready for the next episode in the series Hearts on Fire.  And we can bring the Hearts on Fire right where you are.  We we're taking calls and getting booked up! 

If you can't wait to hear more about Hearts on Fire, we have something coming up.  On Saturday, February 22, Hearts on Fire officially invites to a preview of Te Amo Playa Azul I Love You, at the International Conference on the Future of Monogamy and Non-Monogamy.  we start at 4 PM, at the Clark Kerr Center, Building 14, UCB, 2601 Warring St, Berkeley, CA, 94720.  It's a unique opportunity to preview and discuss the ecosexual art movie that will document the first plural wedding of ecosexual love in the Caribbean.  We're happy to present the project, share more trailers and photographs, and take questions.  Including: "how do I bring this healthy, and safe, and happy, and easy practice of ecosexual love to my families, my ecosystems, my communities?"  We look forward to being with you there.  Share with friends and invite.  Thank you!


This big wave of ecosexual love also helped congeal the energy of "Amorous Visions," the cinema studies project that brought me to Connecticut last year.  With her warm sunshine, caressing waves, clear waters, and blue horizon, it was easy for Playa Azul to attract, in one
day, some 15 "spice" (plural for the word "spouse," poly style).  No wonder she's an ecosystem conducive of such abundance.  We make movies about ecosexual love.  What if we interpret cinema as a study of ecosexual love?  Turns out the motion camera can really find out what happens to the energy of love in ecosystems toxic with fear.  The health and vitality of ecosystems does affect the quality of human relationships.  And yet, even when fear is rampant, love finds a way to survive.  Love for love: the code for this energy encapsulated in a virus, surviving for a better time.  This became the focus for UC Irvine and UC RiversideAmorous Visions: Sex, Genders, and Ecosystems of Love in Bertolucci and Cavani.  Talks are asfo.  Monday, March 3, at 2-3:15 PM at UCR.  Room HMNSS 2212 (English Department Conference Room), hosted by John Ganim for the auspices of the English Department and Queer Lab.  Wednesday, March 5, at 2:30-5:00 PM at UCI.  Room HG 101, hosted by Jonathan Alexander, with auspices from the Writign Center and the Gender and Sexuality Program.  These are al free univrsity event, and they are fun.  I promise.  All details and directions on the FB events page.  Join us.  We want to take your questions and practice inclusive democracy, ecosexuality style.


Speaking of which, UCSD choose a talk on Ecosexuality, and that's happening on Thursday, March 6, at 4:3-6:00 PMEcosexuality: Notes for an Orgasmic Earth, is the title for the in-the-works collection about ecosexuality I'm co-editing with Lindsay Hagamen.  We will be announcing this amazing collection of writings, and introducing the
Elizabeth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle's Ecosexual Wedding
online platform for the book launch.  Teamwork here too. Go to www.orgasmicearth.org to find out who all is in the line up.  We will also introduce ecosexuality as the practice, theory, art, and activist that reveres the Earth as a lover and acknowledges her ecosystems as partners with significant and enduring rights.  We will focus on the practice of ecosexual weddings to ecosystems and forces of nature, as initiated by Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens in the seven-year project LoveArtLab.  We will explain the relatednes of ecosexuality and modern Tantra.  A don't miss.  Room: LGBT Center at UC San Diego.  Hosted by Pasquale Verdicchio, with auspices by the Literature Department and the LGBT Center.  All details and directions on the FB event page.  From wherever you are, this is worth a trip to La Jolla, San Diego.  Join us!


Finally, after March 6th, time for a break comes.  Here it's time for acknowledgements to all those who contribute to this calendar.  My hostess in Oakland, Spring Friedlander, with her
healthy, amorous, and inclusive community house.  My host in San Diego, Adam Paulman, whose inclusive amorous gifts are well recognized.  All the auspices and organizers, 
including my Deans, Manuel Valdez Pizzini and Felix Fernandez.  the administrative assistants at UPR Mayaguez who spent endless hours "comprobando" (=corroborating the evidence for) expenses and funds.  The teams of Te Amo Playa Azul, including film director Shaison Ouspeh, production coordinator Lloyd Sparks, emcee slash translator Maria Virginia Sanchez, liaisons with campus and organic farms Paola Pagan and Ricardo.  High priestess Heather Anne Trahan, who invoked the natural forces on the speaking of the vows.  All the "guests" and participants in the three workshops who were eager to be filmed as spontaneously as they came long.  And who embraced together the shared spouse.  All the inspiring minds in the 2012-13 Fellows group at UCHI, and its Director, Sharon Harris.  The students in Ecosexuality, including Adam Kocurek and Alexandra Mayer, and the WGSS Chair, Nancy Naples.  Please please please help spread word of upcoming events and invite your friends.  Thank you! 

If you want to catch up with me or invite me in and around the West Coast and the Bay Area, April is your chance.  My calendar is open.  Travel plans proceed with visits and rest in May, plus getting to team up more deeply in view of future plans.  Alessio, my oldest grandchild, turns 10 on May 15th.  He's an amazing student.  Thanks Paola Coda for bringing him up.  And we plan to spend it together with family and friends in Rome.  Visits to Cap d'Agde, France, in late June, and guests from Portland, Oregon, at PostaHouse in early July.  For all these programs, there is a place set at our table, if you choose to join us.  We have extra rooms in the chalets and camping room in the garden.  space is limited so let us know in advance.


More announcements coming as projects evolve.  They have a life of their own, and I, the "inspiring force," am only the conduit ever rushing to catch up with them.  So I hope you will forgive if this letter reads a bit rushed.  Oh well, I have a flight to catch.

Sending much love and all good wishes to all of you and your loved ones.  Thanks you for listening and opening up.  Stay tuned for more coming.  With all good wishes for a happy end of winter, spring, and summer.  Thank you!

Namaste,

SerenaGaia



Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD
Author of Gaia, Eros, and many other books about love 
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Friday, December 21, 2012

Happy Solstice Season from Serena - A Calendar of EcoSexual News

Hi lovely Earthlings,
A Joyful Holiday Season to You!
Leighton: Return of Persephone
Solstice weather is with us and yours truly is reminded of a legend from ancient Rome and Greece that explains why the Earth is sad in the winter, with short days and bare trees.  Ceres, the goddess of harvest, lost her daughter Proserpina to the Underworld with her kidnapper Pluto.  The mother's mood explained the seasons for the Greeks.  Ceres was sad because she couldn't see the beauty engendered by her fertility.  When Proserpina came back in the Spring, Ceres became beautiful and abundant again with leaves, flowers, fruits.  It's a simple reminder of how our metabolism and the Earth's metabolism are linked.  Ceres, Demeter, Persephone, Proserpina, Kore, Isis, Gaia, Hestia, Hecate, Artemis: different names to imagine the sacred feminine and its magic to invoke Eros, the force of love, within.  Honor that primal bond that links genealogies of life givers and you will engender joy and abundance. 

How can we all participate in this?  Ecosexual Love is the love that embraces all of life as a partner with equal rights.  It's the gist of Gaia practice and theory.  Let's acknowledge love as the ecology of life.  Here's an option offered by yours truly:


Photo by Teri Ciacchi
Does the practical aspect of EcoSexuality intrigue you?  Join us in Portland, OR, for an enchanting summer course, July 17-21, 2013.  Many agree that 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.  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.   
Photo by Mina Bast
Here's a summer program is designed for those ready and willing to become resources of love.  Hosted at the White Oak Retreat Center in the Portland North Hills.  Facilitated and anchored by Reverend Teri Ciacchi and yours truly.  The Arts of EcoSexual Love are designed to expand the range of sensations one experiences as pleasure and the range of emotions one experiences as love.  We'll explore the resonance of our inner landscapes with forces of nature.  We'll get energy centers in our bodies to resonate with waters, lands, mountains, forests, bacteria, the animal world, air, winds, astral, aural, and energetic bodies.  We'll practice various forms of sexual fluidity and amorous inclusiveness as we open to the planetary embrace of EcoSexual Love

Mina Bast
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When the first travelers from Europe reached the evergreen shores of the Caribbean in 1492, they must have imagined that Ceres' ban had been lifted in that new eternal Spring.  And perhaps it had?  This season of adjustment to New England has been quite momentous for yours truly.  Two minor disasters manifested an inner resistance to being out of the comfort zone of cozy Playa Azul.  Can one be too surprised?  Trying to adapt to a system where possessing fire arms is considered less dangerous than owning tidbits of Cannabis requires a big stretch of the imagination.  It's a bit beyond the pale of those accustomed to Puerto Rico.  Let's hope to ban the weapons soon, so education can fulfill its promise of peace.  Let the President know here!  I lost a car and a computer, and in the process of getting back on my feet, found many new friends, hosts, collaborators, groups, colleagues.  It was really an amazing adventure of connection and renewal.  And yes, I am now equipped with new versions of those dependence-producing machines!

UCHI: 2012-13 Fellows
Amorous Visions
A major joy of this semester has been participation in the Fellowship Program at UCHI. The group brings great conversations, direction, synergy.  At U Conn, Institutes and Centers are spaces for dialogs where disciplinary discourses meet.  Now I know what it feels like to build bridges between disciplines, designing the education Gaia would wish to host for our future.  Thanks UCHI for welcoming me this year!  It feels really good when others believe in one's projects and support their coming to fruition.  My public presentation at the Institute is for February 28 at 4:00 PM, CLAS # 301.  It's free.  "Amorous Visions: Fluid Sexual Moments in Italian Cinema."  You're welcome to attend if you're in the area and feel drawn to the theme. 

Generous hospitality has met me in Connecticut too, with good company at Karen and Dave's home in Glastonbury, the love of sweet animals, and beautiful decorations to invite the Holiday Season.  With a whole wing of the home for me, I can to focus on writing projects and am happy to welcome visitors.  If you're in the area, please let me know when I can have you over for dinner!  New York state is also quite generous in the ways of polyamorous communities.  Thanks to all who welcomed and embraced me.  It's good to meet new people and share experiences and wisdom.

From Cindy Baker's Ecosex Pride Flag
The course I'll be teaching at U Conn in the Spring is another piece of good news.  Ecosexuality and the Ecology of Love will be hosted in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Department for a nice group of students.  How did Ecosexuality come about and why it matters?  How does the concept help to explore intersections between ecology and sexuality, science and the humanities, global and personal health, and love?  What is "nature": an enemy, a mother, a hostess, a lover, all of the above?  Intrigued?  Ask me about it.  More details in the blog description.  


Isis Phoenix
Acknowledging plants and animals as sources of love for humans is an EcoSexual thing.  Stones, rocks, mountains, minerals, rivers, seas are there for us too.  One inspiration for this is sensual shaman Isis Phoenix, a gifted writer and healer who hosts Sensual Woman's Soirees in New York City.  We plan a day event on EcoSexuality sometime in the Spring.  Stay tuned as we announce more details and let us know of your interest.  
Karen, Emma, Rusty

As I reflect on EcoSexual Love, I am reminded of my dog Eliot, the fluffy papillon from East Berlin who accompanied me for fifteen years.  How synchronized was he with my biorhythms.  How ready for a walk when he heard me shut down the computer.  What did I learn from that?  A dog's love is unconditional.  I wish I could imitate it, even minimally!  A gift of my home in New England has been welcoming pets in my life again, with hostess Karen's permission.  The joy of their love is really rubbing on me.

Linghzy
Can one fall in love with plants too?  One got me recently.  Fortunately, it's legal.  It's called Linghzy.  It's actually a Chinese mushroom.  A royal food of the Mycelium phyla.  It kept me in balance in the whole transition.  It offers calm, vitality, nourishment.  It's available to you.  It comes in veggie caps from Alphay, a company one can join to get one's own provisions.  Interesting?  Find out more here.  Or ask me! 


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Dear Earthlings,

As the year draws to a close, let's cherish love and radiate warm wishes for a joyful Holiday Season.  Sadness is part of joy, and we mourn those who perished while learning at the Sandy Hook school.  Ignorance is the only sin.  Gaia invites education that's true to its meaning.  How else can we learn to respect our hostess and all the life that resides within her?  Bringing out the best in each student.  Hosting a space for trust, abundance, peace, is what allows talents to become expressed artistically.  True education involves the whole person, transforms the inner being, instills love for love, wisdom, peace.  It can offset desire for violence, inviting fairness and prudence in.   

A shift in perspective is called for here.  Let's invest in knowledge, education, wisdom.  Let's invite laws that make the world a safe place to live for all species.


Yours truly sends warm wishes from the winter days of New England.  Let's hope that Proserpina comes back to her mother soon!  Our offering in EcoSexuality is open.  Spaces are limited.  Register quickly for your 50 % tuition.  Education is the heart of democracy, education to love.  Stay tuned for more wonders and come back to see us.  Let us know if we can answer any questions or be of further assistance.  

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Namaste,

Serena
 

Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD
Gilf Gaia Extraordinaire
Author of Gaia, Eros, and many other books about love
Professor of Humanities
University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Ecosexy Updates from 3WayKiss: Join Us Online, in Portland, and Big Apple City


Eco Clit, courtesy of Mocha
Dear Earthlings,

here at 3WayKiss things are happening so fast that we barely have time to think.  But we can't wait to let you know what's jelling up and how you can participate.

The Ecosexual Movement is swerving in the social media and the biosphere is beginning to feel it.  

EcoSex Summit.  Anyone can participate in this.  Just activate your digital system.  John Overton and Yours Truly interviewed for the EcoSex Summit, a series of conversations with EcoSex voices produced by Farhana Goga and Alan Styrdom in Cape Town.  We explain how to bring ecosex into your personal and planetary life and the benefits of it.  What's the PostaHouse project and how does it relate to the ecosexual vision?  Find out from the Interview.  It is accessible, free of charge, until Thursday, May 24, at 4 PM.  Don't forget to sign up for updates and "like" the Facebook page.  More previews coming soon.  The series of 18 interviews will be for sale when the Summit is complete.

EcoSex Symposium.  Portland, OR, June 29-July 1st.  This one does require traveling and for those who like that it will be a memorable full-immersion experience in the creation of ecosexuality, what it means, why it needs to exist, what it can do for people, the planet, our amorous lives, our sexual expression, and the relationship with our most compersive lover, third planet Earth or Gaia. 

It's now time too sign up, donate, get perks, and volunteer!  You can do this all in one stop: HERE!  Check out the exciting keynotes and workshops.  What's Yours Truly's title?  "Ecosexuality: The New Orgasmic Revolution on Plant Earth."  Exciting?  There's much more!  "Fluid Bonding," "The Pleasure of the Other," are some of Yours Truly's themes.  And many others will facilitate and teach.  "Saving the Earth is sexy," as organizer Gabriella Cordova explains.  Ecosexuality embraces life fully.  Sign up for the whole thing or event by event.  We will launch a book project and you can submit your contribution!  From out of town?  Ask for assistance with housing.  All details, contacts,  guidelines here.  The place to be!   Oh, and for those inclined to express ourselves as wordsmiths, there will be a call for contributions to an anthology of miscellaneous writing about the ecosexual experience.  Access the Call for Papers here!

Next are reminders for Bi/Lammy events in New York City.  Is the big apple ecosexual?  Taste the forbidden fruit and tell me!  In any event, we are meeting for the "biggest bi culture event of the year in NYC."  Bi Lines.  On Sunday, June 3rd, at 6:00 PM.  Catch all the details, program, presenters, attendees.  Get a ticket and mark yourself as attending here!

Or, show up on the corresponding Facebook Event.  Only $ 8.00 at the door.  The Nuyorican Poets Cafe is waiting for you! At 236 East 3rd Street, NY 10009.  Tel (212) 780-9386.  Meet Mirta Garcia visiting from Puerto Rico and other friends.  And learn all about the latest bi books, including Yours Truly's Bisexuality and Queer Theory 

Next is the big night for Lammy finalists.  We're all winners.  But who actually gets to take home the distinction?  Who do I root for when Justin Bond, Susie Bright are finalists too?  Suspense, suspense . . . And all is revealed at the Lammy Awards.  Monday, June 4th.  Find out all details in the Press Release.  Join us for the ceremony.  It's a bit expensive.  But it's great to become a donor for Lambda and all of LGBTQ Literature.  Without our imagination, what would we be?  Puppets.  Mere tools.  It's art that makes us real.  Ecosexual art that is.  Love, the ecology of life, is the art that makes life beautiful. The Awards are at 6:00 PM at CUNY Graduate Center, Proshansky Auditorium (365 5th Avenue, NY 10016).  The Gala at nearby Slate (54 West 21st, NY 10010) follows at 9:30 pm.  Come out for the big night in New York City.  You deserve it.  Life is beautiful!
Get your tickets here and become part of the big ecosexy apple's literary scene. 

Cranac, Adam & Eve
Yours Truly is gifting herself with a Residency in Brooklyn.  St Andrews Plaza.  May 27-June 25.  In preparation for the big year of research as Fellow at U Conn, 2012-13.  For more info about that, see the Press Release.  Wish me well with this breakthrough project.  I will be sorting out things, looking for housing, car, other needs.  Seeing old friends, making new ones.  Participating in events, lectures, conferences, debates, parties.  Learning.  Experiencing.  

There are many apples in New York City, one more ecosexy than the other.  Cranac knew it. Can you see?  Connect with me.  We might explore together.  

Tantra Meal
Ecosex is jelling up also in Western Puerto Rico.  Tantra comes to Gaia's Temple on Playa Azul thanks to Allen McPhee and Laurie Handlers.  We are dancing with the waves, practicing sacred sex, and enjoying tantra meals.  More events in July.  A beloved local community.  Stay tuned!

Let me complete with two tips for online stores of ecosexual products that can make your sex life healthier and more fun.  Ecosex and Good Clean Love come well recommended by Tinamarie Bernard, legendary modern love muse. 

Remember: life is beautiful.  Expand your love and you'll feel it.  Love, the ecology of life, is the art of sharing the most compersive lover we have, third planet Gaia.  Love yourself in another today, and you'll do your part.  

Your attention is appreciated.  Thanks for reading.  We hope to bring offerings of your choosing.  You are loved.  Join us in what is accessible to you!

Namaste,
Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD
Gilf Gaia Extraordinaire
Author of Gaia and the New Politics of Love and many other books
Professor of Humanities
University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
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