The Wild Kindness: Cultivating Erotic Connection in Daily Life

Discover, Engage, Learn, Mend…

Discover tools to dispel outdated messages about sexuality, enhance body pleasure, practice communicating wants and needs through lighthearted, fun experiments for erotic play and explore available resources to enhance your erotic life.

Engage in intelligent and friendly conversations about eros, intimacy, sex and spirit.

Learn to navigate sexual energy in relationships skillfully and with kindness, and how stress and life cycles impact our sexuality.

Mend the rift between spirit and sexuality to embrace both.

This program will benefit couples who:

• Grieve the loss of erotic play or sex in their relationship
• Want to sustain and expand their connection
• Want to update their understanding of sexuality
• Want to open to the flow of life-giving energy
• Want to experience the benefits of erotic energy in their physical, mental and spiritual health

Partnerships of all genders welcome.

A private session for each couple is included as part of the program.

Investment:

Our Earlybird tuition price of $1550 per couple is available up to one month prior to the program start.  Full tuition is $1670.  Full payment is due one month before the program start date regardless of tuition pricing.

Room and meals are in addition to tuition and based on room type.

You can find our cancellation policy here

Schedule:

Your program begins with dinner at 6pm and your first session at 7:30pm

Daily schedule:

• • • Breakfast 8:00 – 9:00am
    • Morning session 9:15am to noon
    • Lunch noon to 1:00pm
    • Afternoon session 3:00 – 6:00pm
    • Dinner 6:00 – 7:00pm
    • Evening session 7:30 – 9:30pm

Afternoon and evening sessions can vary.  Your program finishes with lunch on the last day

Transportation:

If you are travelling to Gabriola as a foot passenger on the Gabriola Ferry a shuttle to The Haven can be requested.  Information on this option will be included in your pre-arrival email.

Program Leaders:

Elfi Emaya Dillon Shaw and Gary Kekoa Dillon (heartcoretouch.com) have been teaching sexuality workshops at the Haven Institute on Gabriola Island and other venues. They have studied Tantric and Taoist erotic traditions, and the esoteric teachings of western wisdom schools. Gary practises Lomilomi Hawaiian Bodywork when he is not painting in his studio. He holds a master’s degree in Counselling Psychology and has studied Theology and Transformational Movement Therapy. Elfi’s work includes Integrative Bodywork and Somatic Sexuality Education and served on the Senior Faculty Team of the Body Electric School, she studied Sex Therapy Intensive at Guelph University and Sexual Health Education from Options for Sexual Health in BC. Gary and Elfi are both students of Queer Tantra with Dr. Rudy Ballantine. Gary and Elfi consider themselves “Advocates for Healthy Relationships” and work with groups and with private clients.

Feel free to contact Elfi and Gary for more information about course content: Tel: 250 247 9504 or email: info@heartcoretouch.com

Admission requirements: The student must have the desire and ability to learn.  Must demonstrate a capacity for responsible self care, responsible self organization and sound mental health.  The student must understand and speak English.

This program does not require approval by the registrar of the Private Training Institutions Branch (PTIB) of the Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills and Training.  As such, the registrar did not review this program. What does this mean? Click here to learn more.