Spice up your sex life and deepen your connection!  Suitable for both couples and singles!

Join Ariel and Tom Callanan for our first 6-day residential retreat where we present our newest material on embodied sexuality. Next January, in the astonishing beauty of Costa Rica, we explore three powerful and effective avenues to deepen sexual pleasure and intimacy: sensuality, shadow and transcendence. 

quick note on accommodations:

We have arranged numerous ways of being there. 

At this moment (Dec 19)  there is only 1 room left at Encantada. The price of $1499 per person is "all inclusive" and covers all meals (minus alcohol) , the workshop, lodging and transportation to and form the airport.

However, once they sell out, there are a number of other options next door to the retreat center, ranging from simple to luxurious.

Spaces are limited. Put down your deposit, and email me for more details.

There are a variety of amazing tours and nearby activities that I can help arrange!

Locals not needing lodging or food can book just the workshop for $500, and we can arrange for meals at Encantada.

Details on the workshop:

Day 1, 2 and 3 will focus on:

• embodiment practices

• sensual pleasures

• playfulness, and invitations to gently push edges 

• tips for expanding sexual pleasure 

We’ll face fears, inhibitions, past wounds and beliefs and step into new dimensions of our erotic selves.

Sensuality:

The most direct access to our sexual energy, and that of our partners, is through the domain of our five senses. Through multiple embodiment practice of touch, movement, breath, sight, the sounds and smells of the jungle and sea, and taste of delicious food, we land more and more into our bodies to expose our most intense erotic sensuality.

Our workshop location, the Encantada Beach Cottages on Costa Rica’s central pacific coast supports this exploration…and is one of the most beautiful and sensuous places in the world. 

With Encantada totally to ourselves, we’ll slow down and enjoy the subtleties of our body’s experience in the hotel’s lush garden setting and crystal clear pool, its remote and picturesque beach, its luxurious beds, and its world-class, locally-sourced cuisine. Within Encantada’s protective embrace, and daily yoga class (optional) we invite you to surrender yourself, make new friends and meet like-minded people, and take a deep dive into the spell of the sensuous! Note—there will be no nudity, no sexual contact during the workshop...and all exercises are, of course, done with complete consent and full choice.

Shadow: Sexual pleasure and the capacity to connect with our true selves, as well as our partners is often constrained by social conditioning, sexual wounding and shame. Our most authentic sexuality and capacity for expanded ecstasy is hidden from most of us. There is very little invitation to discover it, and thus many of us have rather “vanilla” sex, when we could be having fireworks. Our intent is to gently unearth who you are underneath those confines, and allow a more wild and riskier erotic side to emerge. We have a sensual self and an erotic self….How can we shamelessly experience and delight in our “naughtier” and more unfettered side?

We’ll be examining our more shadowed nature initially by uncovering how our current desires, fantasies and turn-ons are often formed in early childhood. Then through archetypes, playful role play, fantasies, and erotic imagination, we’ll integrate all this information as a portal to greater erotic pleasure.. 

At Encantada we’ll create a safe container for engaging the heart of our own darkness with curiosity, non-judgment, and playfulness. Exploring slowly and safely in a step-by-step fashion,  we will together come to a deeper, and often surprising, understanding of our true erotic nature.

Day 4 there are options:

Transcendence:

For millennia, indigenous peoples have turned to mind and heart-altering medicines to explore the outermost dimensions of their inner worlds. Now there’s a resurgence of interest in these medicines, supported by discoveries in neuroscience that suggest that they provide a particularly potent avenue for trauma recovery and personal change. In his recent NY Times bestselling book, How to Change Your Mind, author Michael Pollan says, " The scientific evidence is compelling and points to the fact that psychedelic assisted psychotherapy, when approached under the right conditions and with the right guidance, is both an extremely safe and effective pathway to personal change, growth and healing.”  Within the safe container of our private resort, you’ll have the option of participating in a once-in-a lifetime opportunity to experience what Michael Pollan is talking about. Led by Tom, who has 40 years of experience in this domain, first as an Outward Bound instructor and river/mountain guide, and now as an “inward bound” guide, working with altered states of consciousness. Contact Tom for more details.

Or:

Ariel will be offering a relaxing day of expanded, transcendent sensual touch for those who don’t journey.

Day 5

Day off! Book a tour through our hotel. Rest by the beach.

Day 6

Integration.

Details:

The workshop starts at 19:00 the morning of January 17, and will end the afternoon of the 22rd around 4:00pm.

There are options to rent surf, skim and boogie boards, as well as to schedule a surf lesson, massages and a variety of tours. We can also arrange a private yoga teacher to offer classes as often as people desire.

Payment in full due 30 days before arrival date. 

Deposit forfeited if cancellation is made less than 30 days before arrival date.