Te Amo Playa Azul I Love You - How to Join, Donate Time, Talent, Arts: Jan 25th, 2014

Dear Earthlings:

yes, we hear you: you want to donate time, talent, arts, skills to Te Amo Playa Azul I Love You!  You love the Earth and want to marry one of its beautiful ecosystems.  Plus, you're a very imaginative artist of love and wish to bring you creativity to the day's joyful celebrations.  That's a wonderful thing and there are many ways to do it.

Here's what to do:

Save the date of January 25th, 2014.  If you are NOT in Puerto Rico already, save the whole extended weekend period.  Go to KAYAK and book a round trip ticket to Aguadilla-BQN.  You will be a short 40-minute drive from your bride, Playa Azul. Puerto Rico is a US territory: no passport needed if you are a US citizen.

We plan an all-day celebration with workshops, performances, rituals, magic, ablutions, facilitation, ceremonies, refreshments, hospitality, foods.  We want to get to a place where we all feel vibrant, connected, and energized to really celebrate our love for the beach.  We welcome facilitators, performers, teachers of ecosexual love.  The day will culminate with the actual wedding to/on/with Playa Azul the beach.  It will be a sacralization of this beautiful ecosystem.  We welcome shamans, priestesses, witches, magicians to officiate the sacred unions.  Third planet Gaia is a very generous lover to us: she hosts all the love that's ever been and ever will be, she's the most compersive partner we'll ever experience, and she offers beautiful gifts, like our bride for the day, Playa Azul, or "blue beach."

We welcome all participants.  The beach is open to the public and usually frequented by very respectful people who appreciate the good care of those who live in the nearby condominums.  It's a magical balance we've created over the years: we love the beach, the beach loves us back: we have joy, harmony, and peace.  Bring towels, water, swim gear, and what makes you comfortable for a day at the beach.  

You can simply show up and participate in ongoing programs and activities.  There is excellent swimming and snorkeling in the nearby reef.  Please bring your own gear.  A beautiful walk on the sandy shore is available too.  There is natural shade under the beautiful beach vine trees, called "uva playera." 

You can also relax and observe from a distance. Voyeurism is participation, right?  We have not forgotten our LGBiTransQueerPoly wisdom!

Finally, you can facilitate a workshop, lead a ritual, perform a favorite piece, dance to the waves of the sea, read a poem, do your magic, play a skit, sing a song with music, play the drums, lead an aquatic activity.  Playa Azul is a very simple, but not clothing-optional beach.  The temperature is estimated at an ideal 85 F for the season.  Shed your warm clothes and wear cotton, hemp, silk.  Veils, scarves, shawls, pareos will do.  Bikinis and briefs are welcome for those who prefer swim wear.  Be imaginative and fun with your costumes.  Wear pink, white, and gold to enhance the colors of the ecosystem. 

Here we offer some pictures of Playa Azul.  Isn't the bride beautiful?  A perfect place to encounter diversity in sacred union.  And Te Amo Playa Azul I Love You will be an encounter across languages and cultures.  Isn't the bride beautiful?  We welcome spontaneous ways of being together that enhance the role of the hosting ecosystem.  We will facilitate translations and transitions.  Bring your imaginativeness and experience.  Let this blessed ecosystem inspire you.  Our program is open and we invite ideas, proposals, possibilities.  

We will offer healthy beverages and foods for the wedding day.  You are welcome to camp on the beach with your own equipment: free access to bathroom, pool, and shower.  There are rooms at nearby Hotel Parador Joyuda Beach.  The Parador, or "place to stop," is a local hospitality place and is literally a two-minute walk from Playa Azul.  It's not the best but it's nearby.  You can go ahead and reserve your room (now at $ 95/night for a double). We may have donated apartments available on Playa Azul and other areas.  Please ask.  We will prioritize hospitality for those who offer skills and let us know soon.  You will need transportation from the BQN-Aguadilla airport to Playa Azul and back.  Rental cars are available at the airport: Enterprise has a special deal. And my favorite driver, Ariel, is available too: book him at 787 644 3001. We may be able to pick you up: give us notice of your arrival time.   

We hope this inspires you to offer yourself this exciting opportunity.  It will be a gift to remember.  In creating these cherished memories for you, we follow the inspiration of supreme EcoSexual artists of love Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens.  Visit their LoveArtLab for inspiration about how much fun an EcoSexual Wedding can be.  Invite your loved ones to join you in the journey.  The practice of ecosexual love expands every day.  We wish to create a space of positive visibility for you and a model of Earth love and stewardship.

Choose Te Amo Playa Azul I Love You.  We value your time and will do our best to make this happen for you.  Let us know what what you'd like to offer and what you need.  

Much of the videography will be on site.  The choice of being in the video is entirely up to you.  Your energy, talent, and  participation are appreciated regardless and will be great contributions to the event.   

Please get in touch with Serena and Shaison: 
at serena.anderlini@gmail.com, and shaisonp@gmail.com.  Tell us, in a few words, why you'd like to come, who shares the trip with you, and what you'd like to do.  Send us a write up with some images.  We will consider and get back with you.  We look forward to further working with you.  Thank you! 

Dear Earthlings:

It's such a pleasure to announce new projects to you.  Te Amo Playa Azul I Love You is template for Hearts on Fire: Together in Ecosexual Love.  Click here for the whole picture.  It's really exciting to be in it.  We look forward to your participation and input.  Comments?  Questions?  Don't hesitate to leave them here.  Thank you!
Can't wait to go donate funds to the project?  Click for Indiegogo Campaign and let the system guide you.  Wonderful perks awaiting for you!

Let "nature" be your teacher in the arts of love.  Education is the heart of democracy: education to love.  Come back for more wonders: from EcoSex @ U Conn, Students Responses have resumed, to appear now every Tuesday.  More Book Reports to be scheduled soon, every other Thursday.  

All good wishes and Namaste,



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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2 of 4: EcoSex @ U Conn - Ryan and Jetha's Sex at Dawn - Student Responses: Michael's Take

Dear Earthlings:

The EcoSex course at U Conn is complete.  It was a great experience.  We spent time reading amazing books.  And here we resume posts to be shared with you.  Thinking out of the box and across disciplines.  Students had been sending their responses in, with discussion questions.  In class, we did connected the dots: a holograph of what we've read together, the "required readings."  Multiple perspectives and good synergy.  Here, we offer a glimpse.  Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha's Sex at Dawn was one of two cultural-theory theory books.  We got five responses: from Adam, Michael, Alissa, John, and Rhiann. 

Here is Michael's take:

Response to Sex at Dawn

           

I enjoyed Sex at Dawn as it provides an interesting bridge point between a lot of the ideas discussed by authors like Margulis in terms of evolutionary history and the history of

cooperation and those of authors like Diamond and the broader readings about eco-sexuality, polyamory, and sexual fluidity.

            One aspect that permeates the book though that I don’t necessarily agree with is their arguments about selfishness and cooperation and their criticism of Richard Dawkins’s seminal work The Selfish Gene. While Dawkins certainly does extrapolate his arguments about genetic evolution to explain selfishness in individuals, I think they misrepresent his article. The fundamental selfish actor in Dawkins hypothesis is DNA. He sees the ever-increasing complexity and superfluousness of genetic sequences in organisms as being the selfishness of DNA. He isn’t saying that humans possess a gene that encodes selfishness, but rather that life is the consequence of nucleic acid bases wanting to propagate themselves selfishly and that any selfishness we exhibit is a consequence of that.

            I further disagree with their notion that selfishness and cooperation aren’t both engrained into us on an evolutionary basis. Early humans had to cooperate within their clans but ultimately treated competing clans in a manner we’d deem selfish. I think ultimately it would be most beneficial if we treated everybody as a clan member and cooperated, but a selfish desire to propagate our clans DNA over that of another clan is something I think that has been a part of our nature for a long time and that we cannot escape.

Do you agree with their interpretation of jealousy in popular music?

Mchael Maranets

Published with permission

WGSS 3998 - Ecosexuality and the Ecology of Love

Prof. Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio

U Conn, Storrs, Spring 2013

Course Announcement and Description

Dear Earthlings:

Let "nature" be your teacher in the arts of love.  Education is the heart of democracy, education to love.  Come back for more wonders: Students Responses have resumed, to appear now every Tuesday.  More Book Reports to be scheduled soon, every other Thursday.  

Namaste,
 

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

   

Follow us in the social media

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

Website: www.serenagaia.com 

Be Appraised of Ecosex Community Project PostaHouse  Become a Fan: www.facebook.com/GaiaBlessings 

Author's Page/Lists all books: 

http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001JS1VKA 

YouTube Uploaded Videos: http://www.youtube.com/SerenaAnderlini
 

 

Hearts on Fire: Together in Ecosexual Love. Where: @ Playa Azul. When: Jan 25, 2014

Hi lovely Earthlings! 

I'm introducing a new film project.  We're organizing an ecosexual beach wedding to celebrate our love for Playa Azul.  Save the date: Jan 25, 2014.  Playa Azul is the bride and the whole community is invited to wed her.  Everyone gets to kiss the bride too!  We'd like to envision this as a way to expand the conversation of marriage equality beyond the human couple and across biological realms.  We feel this is related to all who practice love outside of the box.  How about you?  Please watch the video and share your thoughts.  You can ask your questions here as well.  We'll be very grateful.  Thank you!

 

SerenaGaia is the project's inspiring force.  Yours truly is also known as Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio: author, professor, visionary.  She's based in Puerto Rico and lives on the Caribbean shore.    Shaison P. Ouseph, the project's artistic director, is an award-winning filmmaker based in Mumbay, India.  Together we created the video you watched via transcultural digital communication.  How did you like it?  The artistic quality of this collaboration anticipates the quality of the videography we intend to produce together. 

 

Hearts on Fire: Together in Ecosexual Love

We designed this series of visual documentaries to help celebrate the love humans receive from Earth's beautiful ecosystems.  We also intend to open up the discourse of marriage equality to entire human communities.  This is the logo we created together.  What kind of inspiration does it create for you?  Share your thoughts with us.  We will appreciate them!  Thank you!

More details about the project are available below and on our Facebook and Indiegogo pages, including how we plan to fund the project and what each episode will entail.

The template episode will be a wedding to/with/on Playa Azul, a Caribbean beach that has loved SerenaGaia for 16 years.  She's lover her back!  So a miracle of balance between humans and ecosystems has happened.  Together, we celebrate of this energizing, ecosexual relationships.  Love the Earth?  Marry an ecosystem with us!  Te Amo Playa Azul I Love You is scheduled for January 25, 2014.  Bring your own magic to this ceremony.  We are now accepting proposals from participants.  Everyone gets to kiss the bride!  Looking for Playa Azul/Punta Aenas?  Click here for Google Map.

Ready to fund the project?  Our Indiegogo campaign is open: BECOME AN OFFICIAL DONOR HERE!  GREAT PERKS FOR YOU!  Stay tuned for more information and tell us about your interest.  We will be very grateful and reward you with a whole range of exciting perks.  We can't wait to thank you! 

Interested in having the docu-series come to you?  Let us know where you are ans what you'd like us to do.  We will consider your offer: further documentaries will be planned as the project evolves. It's a great way for you and your communities to get positive attention for your good ecosystemic work: sustain your ecosexual love.

Dear Earthlings:

It's such a pleasure to announce new projects to you.  This one is really exciting.  We look forward to your input.  Comments?  Questions?  Don't hesitate to leave them here.  Thank you!

Let "nature" be your teacher in the arts of love.  Education is the heart of democracy: education to love.  Come back for more wonders: from EcoSex @ U Conn, Students Responses have resumed, to appear now every Tuesday.  More Book Reports to be scheduled soon, every other Thursday.  

All good wishes and Namaste,

 

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

   

Follow us in the social media

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

Website: www.serenagaia.com 

Be Appraised of Ecosex Community Project PostaHouse  Become a Fan: www.facebook.com/GaiaBlessings 

Author's Page/Lists all books: 

http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001JS1VKA 

YouTube Uploaded Videos: http://www.youtube.com/SerenaAnderlini
 

 

 

1 of 4: EcoSex @ U Conn - Ryan and Jetha's Sex at Dawn - Student Responses: Adam's Take

Dear Earthlings:

The EcoSex course at U Conn is complete.  It was a great experience.  We spent time reading amazing books.  And here we resume posts to be shared with you.  Thinking out of the box and across disciplines.  Students had been sending their responses in, with discussion questions.  In class, we did connected the dots: a holograph of what we've read together, the "required readings."  Multiple perspectives and good synergy.  Here, we offer a glimpse.  Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha's Sex at Dawn was one of two cultural-theory theory books.  We got five responses: from Adam, Michael, Alexandra, and Rhiann. 

Here is Adam's take:

Response to Sex at Dawn

            I had already purchased and owned “Sex at Dawn” years before I knew it would be on the list of readings required for a college class. Probably my favorite book that we

have read so far, “Sex at Dawn”, by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá, is informative, multi-disciplinary, well-written, and ultimately a funny read which caused me, at multiple times, to sit back, look at myself and my surroundings, and reflect.

            “Sex at Dawn” discusses both the evolutionary and cultural roles of sex through time, much like Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan did in “Mystery Dance”, though Margulis and Sagan might be annoyed that the authors primarily only looked at the sexuality of primates. In addition, the book covers an emotional/psychological perspective, similar to the way that Deborah Anapol does in “The Seven Natural Laws of Love”. The healthy dualism sprinkled with feminist perspectives and ideals made “Sex at Dawn” truly enjoyable for someone of my background and beliefs; I could identify with much of what was brought up with ease.

             Many critics say “the book downplays ways that monogamy can be evolutionarily adaptive,^[1] and that the book over-exaggerates human promiscuity and similarity to bonobos” (Wikipedia article on Sex at Dawn), points with which I disagree. The authors never say that monogamy is essentially wrong or estranged from the human condition; they merely make the argument that we evolved from polyandrous roots and, in many ways, still have polyandrous needs and desires. To the “similarity with bonobos” argument, the authors say that we share an obscene amount of genes with bonobos, generally have similar social tendencies, and that, until about 200,000 years ago, were likely indistinguishable – all points with which I agree.

            In the beginning, one of the authors, presumably Christopher Ryan, recalls a story in which he temporarily reverted back to his primal, animalistic defense instincts in order to protect himself and his girlfriend from an attacking monkey. My question is – do you distinctly recall a time or times when you succumbed to your base, primal instincts? And if so, how did you feel and what were the responses of those who witnessed your exhibition, if any people did?

Adam Kocurek

Published with permission

WGSS 3998 - Ecosexuality and the Ecology of Love

Prof. Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio

U Conn, Storrs, Spring 2013

Course Announcement and Description

Dear Earthlings:

Let "nature" be your teacher in the arts of love.  Education is the heart of democracy, education to love.  Come back for more wonders: Students Responses have resumed, to appear now every Tuesday.  More Book Reports to be scheduled soon, every other Thursday.  

Namaste,
 

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

   

Follow us in the social media

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

Website: www.serenagaia.com 

Be Appraised of Ecosex Community Project PostaHouse  Become a Fan: www.facebook.com/GaiaBlessings 

Author's Page/Lists all books: 

http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001JS1VKA 

YouTube Uploaded Videos: http://www.youtube.com/SerenaAnderlini