• you want to enrich a good relationship
• you are beginning a relationship you want to keep
• you are in a difficult relationship and want to resolve long-standing conflicts
• you are near break-up or divorce and want to decide if the relationship can be saved
• you are planning for marriage and wish to create a true partnership that will stand the test of time

• understanding why your personal expectations from love relationships are often not met
• developing a safe and intimate connection that will support you as you work through and move beyond destructive cycles in the relationship.
• learning how to be more intentional about creating play and passion in the partnership
• deepening your love for your partner and also for yourself

Carl Jung stated: What we resist we persist. If our mind believes that we are not lovable, not beautiful, not smart or adequate, then these messages become a part of our belief system, thus structuring how we perceive, like or dislike who we are.

Integrating the work of Helen Hunt and Harville Hendrix, Maria Fleshood and Chan Park have designed a workshop that will offer a body, mind and spirit experience that will assist in guiding individuals and couples into that sacred space of friction where individuals either decide to freeze, pull away or gently risk moving beyond and into their greater potential.

The intention of this workshop is to help couples work with the resistance that occupies the in-between space of relationships. This resisting energy blocks individual, thus preventing couples from freeing themselves to open and receive the love, understanding and empathy that are active and available to them, thus thwarting the possibilities of releasing their more freed sexual, psychological and intellectual selves in relationships.

The space between the self and the other, the I and Thou, in relationships is sacred and worthy of discovery.

Take this significant pause in life to make your relationship the potential it deserves.

Workshop presenters, Dr. Maria Clark Fleshood and Chan Park, will use lecture, advanced Imago exercises and Tango Zen Meditation, walk/dance, to assist couples in working to activate their intuition, emotions, and empathy in ways that will move the relationship beyond the rational “knowing of love” into a body felt experience of receiving and giving love. Bridging this Gap frees the couple to risk opening their selves to what they fear they do not deserve into accepting what they long to receive. This shift creates a more free flowing aliveness in the mental, emotional and physical connections of relationships.

Tango Zen is an innovative yet natural practice of meditation while dancing. In this practice we learn basic tango steps through a systematic approach while experiencing the joy of dancing with simple movements. Throughout this body/mind training individuals appreciate more deeply their inner self and oneness with their partner, therefore bringing into the relationship a new awareness that together we create a connection of four legs, two bodies and one heart.

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Mindfulness is coming home to our truest Selves. An intentional discipline and practice of being focused and present without drifting into thoughts of fear and self doubt. Mindfulness is is not a technique, it is liberation from the delusions we have believed and known ourselves or others to be. It is an act of hospitality. A new way of learning to treat ourselves with kindnesss and care that slowly seeps into the cells of our being and into the spaces we share in relationships.The practice of mindfulness allows us to open our selves to our greatest potential rather than losing ourselves in the midst of other’s opinions, needs and expectations.

This one-day retreat will introduce participants to the practice of influences that affect well-being and health. Mindfulness practice helps cultivate a greater awareness of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that can undermine emotional, physical, and spiritual health. During this retreat individuals will practice disciplines of mediation that will strengthen their balance in the midst of life’s circumstances...

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