CULTIVATING CONNECTION & INTIMACY WITH YOUR PARTNER

3 PRIVATE SESSIONS

At the beginning of a relationship, both people are excited to learn more about each other. Once the bond has formed, a couple usually derives a great deal of comfort and security from the reliable familiarity of an established partnership. As time passes, people inevitably grow and change, but with accumulation of responsibilities and the busyness of life, maintaining that connection with each other so often takes a backseat. Before you know it, you and your partner feel miles away from each other.

The goal of these sessions is to give you as a couple tools & a safe space for a deeper, more intimate exploration you can take as a couple, to reconnect with various aspects of the individuals you have each become. The session will include:

• “Nurturing Touch” - Joy will demonstrate and guide you through some basic therapeutic massage techniques you can easily practice with each other, to cultivate deeper listening and connection (outside of the bedroom, which will ultimately support physical & sexual intimacy)

• Practices to increase sensual awareness with your partner, incorporating some new perspectives and approaches to cultivating deeper intimacy, incorporating more play, enhancing your enjoyment of shared time together.

• Tools to support each of you in knowing how to nurture & create space for your individual self-care and self-discovery processes, as well as practices for communicating and sharing those journeys with each other. Ultimately, we can only meet someone as deeply as they have meet themselves, intimacy with others requires a deepening of intimacy with self.

Each week, class will be followed by an optional discussion or mingle hour (where tea, wine & hors d’oeuvres will be provided).

Couples are then encouraged commit to scheduling a date night or specific time to focus on doing their “homework” together, integrating and practicing what they learned before the next Thursday.

Think of this as one night a week you can dedicate to intimately connecting with one another and strengthening your relationship.

The “Therapeutic Massage for Couples” class instruction will also be an included part of this series (as a foundational part of learning to use touch in a conscious, informed and nurturing way with each other).