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Friday, February 1, 2013

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?

Activists, scholars, students, professionals, educators, and practitioners of the arts of loving and living ecologically.

Individuals who see love and building communities around a shared value of love as a foundation of sustainable relatedness.

Environmental and sustainability advocates interested in learning how to apply the principles of permaculture to human relatedness and social fabric remediation.

Practitioners of the arts of loving in its infinite forms of expression.

Participants in styles of love based in sexual fluidity and amorous inclusiveness and other forms of open relating.

Green entrepreneurs and organizers with a desire to expand their earth loving practices to the infinite forms of expressions Gaian love can take.

People interested in learning how to host spaces of love in the guise that third-planet Gaia does for its multiple beings.

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.

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

Friday, January 18, 2013

26 of 26 - De l'Absurdite des vers - Mohamed Nait Youssef

Dear Earthlings:

My gift this year is a collection of 26 poems in my favorite language, French. It's the language of love, so full of charm and mystery and music. Those earth tones, warm vowels that feel like deep ocher. It produces oxytocin, at least for me. The author, Mohamed Nait Youssef, is a promising voice. Very touching, heartfelt his journey into awareness of nature and being. Here is the 26th.

Thanks for coming to the end point of the series. We hope you enjoyed the journey. Mohamed has been wonderful company to the beginning of 2013.

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26. Des choses :

(À « les choses[1] » de Perec je dédie ce texte)

Une soirée pluvieuse d’hiver

La rue était longue et ténébreuse

Les gens marchent

Ils auraient aimé être riches

Ils croyaient su s’habiller, regarder, sourire comme des gens riches

Sur ma belle table ; une tasse de café, un téléphone et un agenda…

J’ai allumé ma première cigarette

Mon journal à droite

Un peu de lumière et beaucoup de bruit

Absolument,

Une sorte d’ivresse

Le couloir est sombre et étroit, surchauffé aux odeurs tenaces…

Les maisons étaient vielles

Les escaliers sont sales, suintants d’humidité, imprégnés de fumées graisseuses

Une boutique à gauche du boulevard

Pleine des banales de la vie

Un canapé, une télévision, un petit fauteuil et …

L’enfant circulait dans une allée de gros pavés irréguliers

L’odeur était presque puissante

La guerre s’éclata

L’enfant ne sortirait jamais vainqueur

Au sien de notre vie monotone

Dont l’homme est consommateur

Il mange, bavard et dort

Entre ses vieux jours d’automne

Le monde est indifférent

Sans souvenirs et sans mémoire

Le temps passa encore

Les jours et les semaines désertiques, qui ne comptaient pas

Quelques trains arrivaient

Et des voitures vont

Et voilà,

Le pauvre don quichotte

À une bouteille vide

A était métamorphosé

Par ce destin honteux

Détruit par les sales pieds des marchants

Avec leurs regards fixés

Sur les fiches publicitaires des objets

L’homme est aveugle…

C’était,

Une soirée pluvieuse, angoissée et silencieuse

Je viens de lire cette absurde Une de mon sale journal

Un titre attira mon œil

La guerre s’éclata

L’homme ne sortirait jamais vainqueur…

[1] Le bon nombre des phrases utilisées dans ce texte sont extraites du roman « les choses » de Georges Perec, un roman paru chez l’édition 10 18, René Julliard, 1965.

Published here with permission. Reach the author:

Mohamed NAIT YOUSSEF né en 1988 à Tripoli Libye. Étudiant de la littérature française à la faculté poly-disciplinaire d’Errachidia. Jeune issu du Sud-est du Maroc -village qui s’appelait, Gourrama, dans province de Midelt.

Esprit-libre03@hotmail.fr

+212615156476

Dear Earthlings,

Courtesy of Poliamore Italia

Remember to come back every Monday for another poem by Mohamed. And tell all your French-speaking friends to show up to. "Like" our blog and keep us in mind when you have something interesting. Meanwhile, watch for snippets from Serena's new book, What Is Love? She dares to answer the million dollar question in this one. Would like to pre-read? Find out how to endorse her book here.

Education is the heart of democracy, education to love. Come back for more wonders. And check out out vacation offerings.

Namaste,