Intimacy Studios
What is Intimacy?
Deepening intimacy is a journey to discover and love the truth of who you are beneath the many masks and protective layers. From this place of fierce and courageous self discovery, the journey continues by seeking out deeper, more authentic connections with others. In these relationships, you begin see, accept and love the truth of who you both are in your wholeness - the good, the bad, and the ugly. It’s an adventure of a lifetime to engage in this journey. How you see yourself and the world, who you’ll meet, and the way you experience relationships will never be the same.
It starts with creating a deeper intimacy with yourself.
Are you ready to explore your relationship with love, sex, and intimacy?
The Men’s Intimacy Labs are immersive experiences that bring men together to question, grapple with, and explore the topics that aren’t talked about enough.
In the company of conscious and compassionate men, each man will delve into his own experiences to discover his unique truths. The men will engage in a variety of self-discovery adventures to examine themselves and their relationships.
The Studios are designed as highly interactive and experiential sessions that move beyond the head and over-intellectualization to a more embodied experience. Through creativity, play, humor, contemplative reflections, somatic experiences, men will gain tools to help them tap into their intuitive knowing as ways to access their deeper truth.
Together, we’ll create a deeper sense of community and brotherhood to encourage each other to walk courageously into some of the uncomfortable conversations that can lead to breakthroughs. These breakthroughs can offer healing and liberation for men to walk in their truth and from a place of love.
Questions to Ponder…
Warrior Compassion helps men deepen intimacy, love, and compassion for more authentic connections in their relationships and leadership. Engaging in an exploration around intimacy helps men reveal their deeper truth. Here are some questions to ponder:
Are you seeking deeper authenticity and connection in your relationships and yet feel something is missing?
Are you looking to deepen the level of intimacy with your partner (or partners) for the long haul?
Are you seeking a healthy, meaningful, and loving relationship with a partner that still seems to elude you?
Are your sexual desires and/or appetite getting in the way of the types of relationships you yearn for the most?
Are you exploring alternative types of loving relationships beyond traditional monogamy?
Are you reconciling your sexuality with the ways you were raised, the values you hold, with your faith, or the life you’ve built?
Are you seeking deeper intimacy in your friendships, especially with other men, in platonic, non-sexual ways.
Are you looking for a deeper sense of community and belonging?
Are you struggling with a sense of loneliness or are frustrated with the quality or depth of your relationships?
Are you challenged by group settings or feel awkward in groups, especially in groups of men?
Are you feeling a disconnect between who you are and how you’re being called to show up and lead in the world?
These questions offer an opening into a deeper journey. An inquiry that allows you to talk about and honor your real experiences while grappling with questions at the deepest essence of who you are as man and the ways you are tapping into your deeper humanity.
Upcoming Men’s Intimacy Studios
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FOUNDATION ONE: Untethering Love, Sex & Intimacy
This foundational studio designed to help men explore the differences between love, sex and intimacy and the ways they are in relationship with these three powerful aspects of their lives. In order to fully access love unconditionally, these studios are designed to help men unblock the walls of intimacy and examine their relationship with sex and sexuality. This Studio opens the door to the inner work that has the potential to liberate men in all aspects of their lives.
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FOUNDATION TWO: Unblocking Intimacy to Access Love
What is intimacy and why is it so scary for so many men to explore? Intimacy is often confused with sex and seen only in the context of romantic or sexual relationships. However, intimacy is really seeing ourselves as we truly are and learning to love the truth of who men are. When men begin to love themselves in new ways, they build the capacity to love others in deeper ways. In this studio, men will examine the ways they ‘lean in’ or ‘run away’ from intimacy. Together, the men will begin to demystify intimacy in ways that make it less charged for them. The community of conscious and compassionate men will hold space for each other to courageously walk into intimacy in new ways.
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FOUNDATION THREE: Men, Masculinity & Intimacy
In this foundational studio, we bring men together to explore the relationship between manhood, masculinity and intimacy. Many men seek deeper intimacy, connection, and love in their lives. However, our conditioning, as men, or put another way our masks, can prevent us from having the thing we desire most. Taking the lessons, from the first two studios, we’ll continue to delve even deeper into our exploration of our relationship to intimacy as men.
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ADVANCED: Deepening Intimacy & Connection in Relationships
Intimacy creates a deeper level of closeness in all relationships, not just the romantic and sexual kind. The ways men have been socialized to socialize can make it tough to be in relationships. In this Studio, men will explore new ways to deepen intimacy in their relationships and challenge their notions of what relationships should look like by allowing themselves walk from a place of acceptance for what they can be.
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ADVANCED: Deepening Intimacy & Connection in Leadership
You might not have thought to put intimacy and leadership in the same sentence. However, intimacy is at the foundation of developing more authentic connections in relationships and leadership. When men engage in the intimacy exploration, they’ll deepen these connections which can inspire new ways for them to lead, build bridges, and create change in the world. This Studio helps men examine the relationship between intimacy, authentic connection, and leadership.
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ADVANCED: Deepening Intimacy & Connection with the Sacred
This Men’s Intimacy Studio brings men together to explore their relationship with the Divine, their Sacred Masculinity, and their soul connection. Men will explore ways they can access deeper levels of intimacy and love for themselves, their partners, and all beings and living creatures that stems from tapping into their deeper wisdom.
FOUNDATIONS STUDIO ONE
Untethering Love, Sex, & Intimacy
In the first Men’s Intimacy Studio, Untethering Love, Sex, & Intimacy, we lay the foundation by bringing men together from diverse communities who are seeking deeper connection and higher quality relationships in their lives.
Together, we untether a man’s relationship to love, sex and intimacy and explore ways to reintegrate in healthy, meaningful, and life sustaining ways. The work begins by looking in the mirror and examining the relationship we have with ourselves.
This type of journey requires fierce compassion, or what I call Warrior Compassion, to have the courage to look at ourselves with rigorous honesty while holding ourselves and all that we unearth and discover with a deep sense of love for ourselves, our journey, and our experiences that have shaped us.
The Untethering Love, Sex & Intimacy Inquiry
Session One
What is the relationship between Love, Sex and Intimacy?
Session Two
What is your relationship to love and how do you express love?
Session Three
What holds you back from expressing love fully and unconditionally?
Session Four
What is your relationship to sex & how do you feel about that relationship?
Session Five
How does love influence and impact your relationship with sex?
Session Six
What is your relationship to intimacy and do you lean in or run away from it?
Session Seven
How does your relationship to love and sex affect your capacity for intimacy?
Session Eight
How do you begin to receive what you most desire in your relationships?
FOUNDATIONS STUDIO TWO
Unblocking Intimacy to Access Love
What is intimacy and why is it so scary for so many men to explore?
In this first studio, we’ll explore Intimacy is often confused with sex and seen only in the context of romantic or sexual relationships. However, intimacy is really seeing ourselves as we truly are and learning to love the truth of who men are. When men begin to love themselves in new ways, they build the capacity to love others in deeper ways.
In this studio, men will examine the ways they ‘lean in’ or ‘run away’ from intimacy. Together, the men will begin to demystify intimacy in ways that make it less charged for them. The community of conscious and compassionate men will hold space for each other to courageously walk into intimacy in new ways.
The Unblocking Intimacy to Access Love Inquiry
Session One
What is intimacy and why is it so scary for men to lean into it?
Session Two
What’s your relationship with Intimacy?
Session Three
How can you deepen intimacy in your relationships?
Session Four
How does deeper intimacy open the doors to deeper love?
