The Sensual Heart Retreat
Sun 22 Oct -17h to Sun 29 Oct -14h
Are you hungry for deeper, more meaningful connections with other men?
Do you want to better understand your desires and how to integrate them into your life with integrity?
Are you prepared to step out of the limiting stories you have about yourself, and into true freedom?
Join us for a sumptuous week where you’ll deep dive into pleasure, connection, brotherhood, intimacy, and Eros. During this week you’ll get to melt into loving connection with a group of other GBTQ+ men. You’ll get to taste the delicious pleasures your body is capable of. You’ll encounter yourself on deeper levels, and explore your passions and desires - all in a held, supported space.
Do you want to find a community of other men who are also seeking real, authentic, intimacy, and a deep sense of belonging?
This week is held in a special place, deep in the hills in the south of France where we will open up to deeper community and find a space to be seen just as we are, without needing to change anything for anyone.
What’s Going to Happen?
We will combine tantric rituals and Immersion nights with deep personal work for potent personal transformation. We’ll use somatic inquiry, tantric coaching, and process work to help you move past blockers to intimacy and discover a place of wholeness and healing within yourself.
You’ll also have time to relax, restore, and connect with other men. Through shared meals in a beautiful historic center in rolling hills, reconnect with nature and your spirit.
As a group, we will create sacred tantric Immersions - sumptuous and sacred spaces where we drop deep into ourselves to connect with one another from presence. In the temple, you are free to connect with other men in sexuality, sensuality, intimacy, touch, dance, meaningful conversation, and contemplative meditation. In the Immersion, all of your senses will be activated in a lush, warm cocoon of heartfelt pleasure.
Do you long to feel more alive?
As you drop deep into yourself, you will also meet parts of you that hold you back from the fullest potential of your being. What keeps you from the intimacy and connections that you long for? What prevents you from fully stepping into your power and living in deeper integrity? We will support you with tools and embodiment techniques to meet these parts of yourself with love and compassion, so that you can discover a greater sense of wholeness and possibility.
Working with pleasure and erotic energy can be profoundly healing and deeply connective. When we’re allowed to show up as our full selves in our erotic expression, we can free ourselves from shame and limiting beliefs. You can also discover profound states of joy, bliss, relaxation, and contentment.
This retreat is a space for celebration - of our bodies, our pleasure, our capacity for love, and for life itself. We will dance together, move together, touch each other, and hold one another. Through it all, you will discover the delight of being - being in presence, in community, and in brotherhood.
Are you ready for more joy, pleasure, connection, and yumminess?
“You both created a sacred temple so wonderfully with the warmest parts of your hearts. I receive a spaceless and timeless time, thank you so much”
- Steve
Personal Work and Growth
During this week we work within three paradigms:
Sacred Sexuality:
How do you cultivate sex that is not only full of pleasure, but also full of meaning? Imagine that feeling of being deeply connected to yourself and also to another. In honoring the sacredness of your sexuality, you’re invited to move from a state of deep presence. In this place, we’re able to connect deeply with our bodies, our hearts, and our spirit - interweaving our energies with those of our partner - opening up portals to bliss and profound healing.
Sacred sexuality gives you the opportunity to slow down and allow the creativity of the moment to move through you and your partner.
Playful Intimacy:
Get a confidence boost in your creativity and discover the joyful delight of getting things wrong. We often take intimacy very seriously - this is a space to discover more play and more joy. What if we were allowed to be just as we are? What if we could connect without needing to gain anything? You’ll experience how your desire can effortlessly flow and connections can come with ease.
Play is one of the most effective methods to build safety in our nervous systems and supports us to open to authentic, intimate connection. We celebrate the lightness of being - true intimacy is nourishing for the body and soul, and when we move from a place of play we infuse our connections with joy and spontaneity.
Embodied Relating:
Your body is one of your greatest sources of truth and wisdom. Using tools and practices from the field of Embodiment, you’ll be supported to drop below your mind and into your body: getting present with your sensations, your emotions, and your pleasure. As you dive into intimacy, you will naturally discover blocks and shadow parts of yourself that hold you back, that may make you feel you’re not good enough or that you don’t deserve pleasure, connection and love. These practices give you the opportunity to gently feel into these uncomfortable parts in a safe and supportive group. This allows us to be truly seen and witnessed in parts of us that often aren’t given space.
These three modalities weave together to bring this week to a joyful experience of intimate community, where we get to know ourselves and each other in a deeper and more profound way.
“I experienced breaking away from limiting thought patterns. Moving more from physical sensation and being with what comes up in the moment”
- Kilian
What Will We Explore?
The retreat will combine facilitated exercises, meditations and tantric rituals to help us gently open to deeper intimacy with one another. In the evenings we will alternate between planned rituals and open Immersion nights.
In tantric rituals, you are guided into an experience of touch, sensuality, pleasure and connection with other participants. The Immersion nights are open spaces where you have the freedom to explore exactly what it is you want and desire in any particular night. You will have the opportunity to connect with other participants in sensuality, sexuality, intimacy, touch, dance, play, and more.
Often when we are in intimacy and sexuality we move from our heads, from what we think we like and what we think our partner(s) want. Over the course of the week we will take you into deeper contact with yourself, giving you more freedom in how you pursue your desires in your sex and in your life.
Do you want to elevate your erotic life into a place of sacredness? That nourishes your body and your soul…
A typical day
Not all days are the same, but a typical day will look like this:
8am - Meditation or movement practice
8.30am - Breakfast
10am - First session
1pm - Lunch
2pm - Free time
4pm - Second session
7.30pm - Break
8pm - Dinner
9pm - Evening session (rituals or temple nights)
“I experienced a lot of joy, the courage to be looking (also into the dark corners) and holding the discomfort of opening up to others and making myself seen. I also got a sense of this beautiful feeling of how it is to be part of something larger than myself”
- Aleks
Who is this for?
This week has been created for those who might be feeling like there is something more you desire from intimacy but aren’t experiencing. For those who feel you want to feel more and step in further but struggle with internal blockages. For those who want more freedom and understanding of yourself. For those who want to spend a sexy and nourishing week together in a beautiful location with an intimate community.
This retreat is for gay, bi, queer men and masculine-identified folks who want to bring more joy, depth, meaning and play into their intimate and erotic lives. While this retreat has a strong focus on personal development, no previous experience with tantra, conscious sexuality, or personal development work is required.
We have experience working with people from all different places in life. Our role is to support you just where you are at. There isn’t a need to be anything other than what you are and we are here to create a space for you to shine in.
Safety
In order to allow the beauty of this week to unfold we aim to create a ‘safe-enough’ space for everyone to explore in. There are a few tenants that allow this to happen, a couple to mention here are:
Consent/Boundaries - You are never required to do anything you don’t want to do. In the retreat, we will guide you in how to feel your boundaries and support you in saying ‘no’ to things that don’t feel right. We want you to feel empowered to say a full Yes to things you want to explore or want to support someone else in exploring.
Sex Positive - This means that we don’t shame ourselves or each other for our sexual instincts. We aim to create a space where your sexuality is allowed within the agreements of the space. For some this might be permission to discover their rough hard sides and for others it might be permission to softly hold another in presence. This week is here to support your sexual and intimate discoveries both with yourself and with others.
You’ll be guided through many practices where you’ll get to connect with other participants in erotic touch. There will also be several Immersion experiences where you can freely play with one another in sexuality, intimacy, and more. The full richness of your sexuality is welcome as you explore new ways to connect. And you can always step out or adapt practices to your comfort level.
Who is this for?
This week has been created for those who might be feeling like there is something more you desire from intimacy but aren’t experiencing. For those who feel you want to feel more and step in further but struggle with internal blockages. For those who want more freedom and understanding of yourself. For those who want to spend a sexy and nourishing week together in a beautiful location with an intimate community.
This retreat is for gay, bi, queer men and masculine-identified folks who want to bring more joy, depth, meaning and play into their intimate and erotic lives. While this retreat has a strong focus on personal development, no previous experience with tantra, conscious sexuality, or personal development work is required.
We have experience working with people from all different places in life. Our role is to support you just where you are at. There isn’t a need to be anything other than what you are and we are here to create a space for you to shine in.
“You are a good team, you know what you are doing and you do it well”
- Mathijs
Location
The retreat is held at La Casa Dorada, 30 minutes south of Barcelona, Spain (near Sitges). It is accessible by train and direct flights to Amsterdam, London, Paris and many other international cities.
Who’s facilitating?
The week is a co-creation between Simon Magnus and Jason King.
Jason is a Sexological Bodyworker and somatic sex educator. He is passionate about helping people expand their sense of what’s possible in their sex lives. Jason works with individuals and groups to manifest powerfully healing embodied experiences, build community, and embrace our erotic oneness. Learn more about Jason at embodiederos.org
As you are on Simon's website he probably doesn't need an introduction. You can read more here.
Price
The full week including all accommodation, food and tuition is €1895.
There’s an early bird offer until 21st July at €1695.
All accommodation is in rooms shared with 2 or 3 other people.
To secure your spot a 20% deposit is required, payment plansre also available.