Mission Statement: The Alchemy of Ecosexual Love

The Alchemy of Ecosexual Love is an educational program in the arts of love designed for people with the desire and courage to love fearlessly and unconditionally.  It combines practices and principles from Tao, Tantra, amorous inclusiveness, and sexual fluidity to empower students to reconnect with our natural gift to love.

The program refers to the practices and principles of sex-positive education, which appreciates the value of amorous and sexual expression as a basis for human happiness, health, pleasure, joy, and well-being.  In sex-positive education, a wide variety of ways to express one’s amorous and sexual energy are appreciated, provided these expressions take place among people who are fully consenting adults.  Sex-positive education encourages self-awareness, open communication, good listening, and complete respect for the wishes and non-wishes of others.  Learning to respond to a proposal with a NO, and to accept that NO with respect and gratitude is a first step in sex-positive education.  A NO offered without apology or excuses is often a sign that the person who speaks is taking good care of themselves.  Accepting this response with respect and reverence is a way to contribute to co-creating spaces where a profusion of authentic YES’es is possible.

The practice of Ecosexual Love is based on inner guidance from the core of one’s personal ecosystem, and on respect and devotion to the ecosystems that surround us, including natural, human, and technological ones.  For example, awareness of our fears puts us in touch with our inner vibrations.  Addressing these insecurities is a way to raise our vibration above them and energetically dissipate external obstacles and critiques.

Respect for diversity is a way of being in awe of the diversity of nature, including human nature.  When we come from a place of love, we can appreciate the value of people’s choices even when they don’t correspond to ours.  For example, we can respect open relationships without practicing them, and learn to experience compersion as a way to overcome the fear of being consumed with jealousy.  The programs in The Alchemy of Ecosexual Love are designed to empower participants to evolve their talents in the arts of love and to become artists of Ecosexual Love.

The programs’ elements include the following:

  1. The Tao, a practical philosophy from the Orient that allows one to harmonize the elements of one’s personal ecosystem, treating one’s organs and other parts of the person like members of an expanded family, who function well when they get along.
  2. Tantra, another practical philosophy from the Orient that combines amorous expression with aspects of the sacred, sacred, allowing aural and energetic connections among people who wish to love each other with respect and reverence for their respective vital energies.
  3. Amorous inclusiveness, which allows one to expand one’s ability to love in a wider horizon, beyond exclusive and monogamous norms.
  4. Sexual fluidity, which allows one to perceive and appreciate amorous energies regardless of the gender of the person they emanate from.

The program’s experiential practices emphasize aspects of the practice of love as an art.  In particular, they are designed support participants in alchemically transforming the energy of fear into love.  The opportunity of the program’s courses is to dissipate four major fears that are common obstacles to love.

These fears include:

  • the fear of lovesickness
  • the fear of being rejected
  • the fear of being consumed with jealousy
  • the fear of pleasure

Once these energetic obstacles are removed, once the energy of fear is alchemically transformed into the energy of love, there are no reasons why a person cannot generate all the love he or she desires.  Participants in The Alchemy of Ecosexual Love are empowered to become sources of love in their own lives and communities.

  • The Alchemy of Ecosexual Love is affiliated with the educational non-profit 3WayKiss, whose mission is available at this link.
  • For a wider background on the evolution of this program, watch the documentary film Playa Azul I Love You: Together in Ecosexual Love (32 minutes).  Film free of charge on Vimeo. View trailer here.
  • The first introductory event in this program will take place at Suncave Gardens, in the vicinity of Rome, Italy, on June 29-July 1, 2018.  View program at this link.
Can we answer any questions?  Please do not hesitate to contact us.  We look forward to serving you in your journey of #EcosexualLove.  Enjoy!
aka Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD
Erstwhile Professor of Humanities and Cinema at UPRM
Convenor of Practices of Ecosexuality: A Symposium

Author of Multiple Books
Website Serenagaia.org

Contact: serena.anderlini@gmail.com

Teacher of Humanities Online Series – Modern History for the Humanities and Love ResearchGate Profile

Academia.edu Profile
LinkedIn Profile
Fellow at the Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs (2012-13)
Project: “Amorous Visions: Ecosexual Perspectives on Italian Cinema”

The Alchemy of Ecosexual Love – Rome, June 29-July 1 – A Weekend Intensive – Program

Welcome to The Alchemy of Ecosexual Love.
DESCRIPTION

The Alchemy of EcosexualLove combines practices and principles from Tao, Tantra, amorous inclusiveness, and sexual fluidity to empower participants to reconnect with their natural gift to love.  

This weekend intensive is for people with the desire and courage to love fearlessly and unconditionally. When you overcome your fear of getting lovesick, of being rejected, of being consumed with jealousy, and with pleasure, what will keep your loving nature from becoming fully expressed?

This introductory training helps to dissipate these four major obstacles to love. We welcome diversity, appreciate consent, and support all forms of amorous expression. Join us as we transform fear into love with the Alchemy of EcosexualLove.

This bilingual edition is a space of encounter for diverse people in both Italian and English.  Our translation resources are abundant and we will make it easy for all participants.

The stunning location for this intensive is Suncave Gardens a retreat center in the verdant hills of the Roman countryside. The center is only a 30-minute drive from Rome’s main airport, Leonardo da Vinci (FCO). It serves organic meals made with local products. The amphitheater and the ancient Etruscan caves are equipped as enchanting activity rooms. The center also offers the amenity of a biolake naturist pool.

Feeling called to participate? Our super right-on-time option is open. A two full day intensive for only € 167! Space is limited. Book your spot now! Offer expires on June 15, 2018. Reserve your favorite accommodation and meals also now here.

PROGRAM

The weekend introductory program will allow you to be come familiar with the opportunities of the course.  Joins us at  The Hill of Oaks (Il Colle delle Querce) for this new and special edition, May 24-26, 2019.

Become and alchemist of ecosexual love:

  • Get rid of the fear of lovesickness
  • Get rid of the fear of being rejected
  • Get rid of the fear of being consumed with jealousy
  • Get rid of the fear of pleasure

The alchemy of ecosexual love is composed of a synergy of various elements.  When combined, these elements allow one to practice love as an art, and to generate all the love a person might desire.

These elements are the following:

  1. The Tao, a practical philosophy from the Orient that allows one to harmonize the elements of one’s personal ecosystem, treating one’s organs and other parts of the person like members of an expanded family,  who function well when they get along.
  2. Tantra, another practical philosophy from the Orient that combines amorous expression with aspects of the sacred, sacred, allowing aural and energetic connections among people who wish to love each other with respect and reverence for their respective vital energies.
  3. Amorous inclusiveness, which allows one to expand one’s ability to love in a wider horizon, beyond exclusive and monogamous norms.
  4. Sexual fluidity, which allows one to perceive and appreciate amorous energies regardless of the gender of the person they emanate from.

The weekend will allow you to get a taste of and practice these freedoms, with the possible option of going more deeply later if you so desire.  The introductory program is complete and empowering in itself.

The program begins on Friday at 4 pm, with arrivals and settling in.  The timeline is orientative.  We will evolve together with ease and latitude, while being present to the energies in the room.

FRIDAY, 5-8 PM

Introductions.  There will be an introduction time where participants will be invited to introduce themselves, and to share about their motivation to participate.

Activities

  • Tao: shaking, opening channels, rooting
  • Tantra: contact dance

Appetizers, soft drinks, juices, water

Theory.  Introduction to the Alchemy of Ecosexual Love

Topics:

  • The Ecosexual movement
  • The Earth as the partner we all share
  • Reconnecting our metabolism to the metabolism of the Earth
  • Knowing and loving the ecosystem called Thyself
  • Allowing it to emanate love to others
  • Meeting others as “metamours”
  • Sexual and amorous expression: an art of healing and loving
  • Also in nature: plants and their admired genital parts
  • Ecosexual love: the love that reaches beyond genders, and numbers, and orientations, and races, and ages, and ethnicity, and origins, and species, and even biological realms, to embrace all of life as a partner with equal rights.
  • Gaia, symbiosis, love, and ecosexuality

Promise of full presence and awareness until the wedding ceremony.

Tao Practices:

  • The inner smile exercise
  • The water wheel exercise
  • The reverse breathing exercise

Tantra Practices:

  • The inclusion exercise

Two people speak. A third person comes close to them. Opening up and welcoming. Apologizing and requesting privacy.

  • The consent exercise

No. No with redirection. Yes, with direction, guided touch, mudras.

  • Oxytocin group hug
  • Sharing about experience, discussing

8-9 PM: Vegetarian dinner with vegan options

9-10 PM:

  • Contact dance
  • Oxytocin group hug
  • Screening of short film Playa Azul I Love You
SATURDAY, morning

8:30-9:30 AM: Breakfast

9:30 AM-1:30 PM: We start our deprogramming for the weekend  

Let’s make love the ecology of our lives

Let’s consider three elements of ecosexual love:

  • Knowing and loving oneself
  • Knowing and loving our host planet: the Earth
  • Knowing and loving those who share this partner with us: Humankind

Practices of Ecosexual Love:

  • 10:00-11:30 AM Workshop # 1: Know and love the ecosystem called Thyself
  • 11:30 AM-1:00 PM Workshop # 2: Know and love the lover we all share: The Earth

1:30-2:30 PM: Vegetarian lunch with vegan options

SATURDAY, afternoon

3:00-5:00 PM: Break for meditation relax

  • 5:00-6:30 PM Workshop # 3: Know and love those who share this partner with you: Humankind  

6:30-7:00 PM: Break

7:003-8 PM: Let’s celebrate ecosexual love.  Plural wedding to the hosting ecosystem.

  • For a more detailed description of the workshops and this ritual, click here. 

8-9 PM: Vegetarian dinner with vegan options

Ready to participate? Our super early bird option is open. A two full day intensive for only € 167! Space is limited. Book your spot now! Offer expires on June 15, 2018. Reserve your favorite accommodation and meals also now here.

SUNDAY,  morning

8:30-9:30: Breakfast

10-11:30 AM: Options for practice

  • The pleasure emitter exercise
  • The tree hugging exercise
  • The cuddle exercise
  • Possible screening of short film Playa Azul I Love You.

11:30 AM-12:30 PM: Sharing, discussion: how to integrate the training to daily life?

12:30-100 PM:  Closing circle

1-2:30 PM: Vegetarian lunch with vegan options

Option to stay for the afternoon with free time to practice

Option to stay for dinner and overnight (not included)

Note: participants will have the option of arriving Friday morning and have lunch (not included), and even of arriving Thursday evening (dinner and overnight stay not included).

Visit Suncave Gardens, with its naturist biolake and the magical Etruscan cave. (Only a 30-minute drive from the Leonardo da Vinci airport.)

MEET YOUR FACILITATORS:

Dr. SerenaGaia, aka Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, is a teacher of #EcosexualLove.  She is leader in the ecosexual movement and an expert in the ecology of love. A teacher, writer, activist, scholar, filmmaker, and cultural theorist, she co-edited the collection Ecosexuality (2015), and co-directed Playa Azul I Love You (2016).  “Her prophetic books,” including Eros (2006) and Gaia (2009), “have inspired readers around the world,” Dr. Susan M. Block has said.

Dr. SerenaGaia believes that “a world where it is safe to love is a world where it is safe to live,” and intends to create that world with her sacred activism.  www.serenagaia.org

Monique Darling, Author of Beyond Cuddle Party and workshop facilitator extraordinaire, was born on this planet with the unique gifts and soul calling to help you remember how magnificent you truly are! Messages from your ancestors, your spirit guides, your body, nature, your soul, are all called upon and utilized so that you walk away knowing how deeply the cosmos loves you for YOU, exactly as you are, so you can begin to love and accept yourself too.
YOU, you are the gift! ????.
Monique has led nearly 2000 workshops in the past 8 years. She has taught at colleges across the US including Yale. She has been featured on TLC and The Dr’s as well as various radio shows, podcasts and magazines across the globe. She specializes in helping others reclaim their power and natural sensuality by transmuting fear and repression into courage, self-love and freedom. Her primary purpose is helping folks bring out their vulnerability, energetic embodiment and fearless relating. Learn more about Monique by going to www.juicyenlightenment.com or track her whereabouts at www.whereintheworldismoniquedarling.com

Peter Petersen has been teaching qigong for 17 years and has been a certified massage therapist for the last 15. Peter has facilitated in health clubs, hospitals, retirement villas, and several different wellness/spa resorts in Mexico and the United States, such as Rancho La Puerta, Mayacamas Ranch, and Present Moment Retreat. Peter has also been touring and teaching with Monique Darling for the last 3 years, honing his skills in facilitating dance, meditation, and Tantra Peter is also a personal wellness coach. This Qigong practice helps people ground themselves into their “now” to increase their present moment awareness of their behaviors, and find simple solutions to problematic habits such as: eating, moving, negative thinking, and sleeping. The result of this tool box of healthy information is that clients become their own health advocate and regain a sense of stability, peace, and well-being into their everyday lives

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We appreciate your attention. Feeling called to participate? Our super early option is open.  Don’t miss it! A two full day intensive for only € 167! Space is limited. Book your spot now!  Offer expires on June 15, 2018. Reserve your favorite accommodation and meals also now here. 

Can we answer any questions?  Please do not hesitate to contact us.  We look forward to serving you in your journey of #EcosexualLove.  Enjoy!
aka Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD
Erstwhile Professor of Humanities and Cinema at UPRM
Convenor of Practices of Ecosexuality: A Symposium

Author of Multiple Books
Website Serenagaia.org

Contact: serena.anderlini@gmail.com

Teacher of Humanities Online Series – Modern History for the Humanities and Love ResearchGate Profile

Academia.edu Profile
LinkedIn Profile
Fellow at the Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs (2012-13)
Project: “Amorous Visions: Ecosexual Perspectives on Italian Cinema”

A Plural Wedding of Ecosexual Love at Lolia Place, Big Island, Hawaii – Nov 5, 2017

Dear Earthlings–

Our practice of performing Plural Weddings of Ecosexual Love has expanded with the celebration of our union with Lolia Place Ecovillage, an intentional community and educational center in the district of Puna, south-east side of Big Island, Hawaii.  The Wedding was celebrated on November 5, 2017, at dusk, under the macadamia tree at the center of the community’s open grounds.  Some 20 very diverse participants gathered in the contact zone this center has established, to declare their love for the place.

A Plural Wedding of Ecosexual Love is a special kind of performative wedding that includes the contact zone or ecosystem upon which participants meet as a shared amorous partner.  The ceremony sacralizes the moment of union experienced by the ephemeral community that performs the practice, and symbolically transforms the ritual of matrimony into an open, inclusive one.

The ceremony is preceded by a series of three attunement practices that prepare most participants for the vows.  The practice called “Know and Love the Ecosystem Called Thyself” performs an attunement with one’s own personal ecosystem.  The practice called “Know and Love the Partner We All Share: Earth” performs an attunement with the all encompassing ecosystem called Gaia, and the four elements that characterize it: air, water, fire, earth.  The  practice called “Know and Love those Who Share this Partner with You: Humankind” attunes participants to fellow humans as “metamours,” or people with whom we already always share a partner.  The Wedding is a moment of union that synergizes the attunement process.

As Dr. SerenaGaia I view myself as a special minister for Plural Weddings of Ecosexual Love.  And I encourage communities with an affinity for this practice to invite me to perform it for them.   Much detailed descriptions are available at this link.  Perhaps a PWEL is at this time right for you and your communities?  I look forward to considering your invitations.  Thank you!

At Lolia Place Ecovillage, the sequence of attunements was embedded in a much wider event, the 1st Annual Gathering of EcosexualLove.  This five-day experience encompassed an expansive variety of practices in EcosexualLove.  The Gathering was produced by a team of four, including myself, Dr. SerenaGaia, poet Karen Hery of Portland, musician Saffire Bouchellion, and wrangler Walker O’Rourke, also of Portland.  During the Gathering, the Invocation and Vows I originally designed were collectively modified to adapt to the place.  Much gratitude goes to Walker for the research and rewording of various aspects.

Participants at the Gathering, and community members present at Lolia Place at the time, all convened together in a circle to be a part of this moment.  Lolia people included members of the leadership team, investors, interns and staff.  Gathering people included facilitators, participants, and organizers.  The ceremony started with the Invocation, read by Walker.  I pledged to read the Vows in a people’s mike form.  The circle was invited to repeat the lines and amplify their resonance across the grounds.  Everyone was able to bespeak their love for the shared amorous partner to a measure of their own comfort.

The revised Invocation and Vows are available.  Find the Invocation here.  Find the Vows here.  You are invited to enjoy and respect these documents as the emanation of a symbiotic earth that manifested through my imagination, as I came embody my sacred name of Dr. SerenaGaia.  Please let us know if we can support you in bringing the PWEL attunement process and ceremony to you.  Thank you!

The first Plural Wedding of Ecosexual Love (PWEL) was performed at Playa Azul, a “blue beach” on the west coast of Puerto Rico, on January 25, 2015.  It included a diverse group of participants from this Caribbean island and other world regions.  It was documented with the help of filmmaker Shaison Antony.  A series of photographs from that day is available at this link.  The Playa Azul PWEL is also the subject of the film Playa Azul I Love You: Together in Ecosexual Love.  You are invited to enjoy this 32-minute documentary free of charge.  Check the trailer at this linkPlaya Azul I Love You is a celebration of life in Western Puerto Rico, a region now devastated by the climate instabilities of our time, including super hurricane Maria.  Accordingly, the documentary explores the PWEL practice in the context of Gaia Theory, the science that interprets the evolution and stability of life on earth as a result of collaboration and symbiosis.  Please enjoy the film free of charge at this link.  Leave a comment to let us know what it inspires in you.  Thank you!

A PWEL is an experience of attunement to the practice of EcosexualLove for eco-sustainable communities.  The blue print of the original Wedding, and its reincarnation at Lolia Place Ecovillage, are intended to serve as a model for many others.  Please get in touch with us when you feel inspired to bring the experience to your communities.

Email serena.anderlini@gmail.com, or find Serena Anderlini of Puerto Rico on Facebook.

We will stay tuned.

Thank you!

We appreciate your listening.  Enjoy!
aka Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD
Erstwhile Professor of Humanities and Cinema at UPRM
Convenor of Practices of Ecosexuality: A Symposium
Fellow at the Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs (2012-13)
Project: “Amorous Visions: Ecosexual Perspectives on Italian Cinema”

To My Friends in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

Dear friends in Puerto Rico.  I have good news.  Since the first “estamos bien” messages that have appeared on my screen after Maria, I have been looking for effective ways to help dear friends in need. I understand how traumatic it is to get thru a hurricane.  I was there for George in 1998, which was nothing compared to Maria.  And I also know that delivering aid is not easy.  So I thought the most effective way for me to help would be by making deposits on the bank accounts of people very dear to my heart who accompanied me in my 20 years of life in Puerto Rico. Today I have confirmation that this works.  A dear friend just texted me that she was able to buy a generator with moneys donated by friends everywhere, including me.  With her fragile health, this implement is key.

So I write this post to propose this as a way to help and also to invite all my friends to let me know of your needs so that I can, for what is possible, attend them.  Please speak up and I will listen. The island of Puerto Rico and all its people have been great gifts to me, when I moved there 20 years ago.  My current retirement income comes for the most part from work done there.  It’s only fair that I should return the gift at a time of special need.

The systems I’ve used are People Pay and Pay Pal. People Pay is easy, goes from bank account to bank account.  One needs all the info of the bank account of the person on the receiving end. This information can be sent bit by bit, so as to minimize hacking risks.  Once it’s in the system repeat sends are easy.  For Pay Pal, the email account connected with the Pay Pal account of the recipient is key.  Please don’t be afraid to ask. It’s important for a giver to know that the gift really reaches its destination and is useful.  Your request is in itself a gift, of trust and truthfulness.  I will do what i can to respond. Sending a personal message is good.  Thank you!

I want to thank all the people, entities, communities who are helping in the aftermath of Maria. Recovering from a hurricane is not easy.  Even when you have freedom of commerce and can receive aid from those nearby (as in no Jones Act) and a motherland that really treats you as an equal (as in not the USA under the Trumpanzees).

There is no doubt that Maria was a super hurricane whose violence was a direct result of the global issues the Trump clan refuses to confront.  Climate change is real.

In offering this very modest pledge, it is my hope that together we may envision a very different Puerto Rico.  One where people feel very proud of their neighbors in the Caribbean; where the sunshine brings abundant renewable energy; where the extensive growing seasons bring abundance of local, in season, and fresh foods; and where people feel freer to evolve our potential for leadership in environmental justice, in the co-creation of loving societies based on collaboration and sustainability.

When I post this picture of the beautiful day we spent on Playa Azul on January 25, 2015, co-creating the first Plural Wedding of Ecosexual Love in the Caribbean (and the world), it’s not that I want to memorialize something that isn’t any more.  Rather that I want to envision many such collaborative projects where sharing resources produces the love and abundance we all wish.  Will you hold that vision with me?

The film we made that day is now complete.  Playa Azul I Love You is available at no cost at this link.
You can also find the trailer here.
And the intro we prepared for Bridges, the International Film Festival in Greece.
Enjoy!
Thank you.
aka Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD
Erstwhile Professor of Humanities and Cinema at UPRM
Convenor of Practices of Ecosexuality: A Symposium
Fellow at the Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs (2012-13)
Project: “Amorous Visions: Ecosexual Perspectives on Italian Cinema”

Program – The 1st Annual Gathering of #EcosexualLove @ Lolia Place, Hawaii

Hi Everyone–

Two more weeks to the 1st Annual Gathering of #EcosexualLove at Lolia Place, the ecovillage founded by Robert Silber in Hawaii.

The gathering runs November 1st to 6th, on the east side of Big Island.  We are excited about the Program.  We are able to offer a 5-day retreat, with vegetarian food and cabanas lodging, for only $ 500.  Our program design offers a variety of experiences in the practice of #EcosexualLove.  It is highly integrated with the local nature, ecosystems, and communities.

The program integrates many aspects of #EcosexualLove.  These include conscious sensuality, the relation of natural and personal ecosystems, the experience of dance and movement as forms of being, intersectionality and Earth oneness, sexual embodiment issues, knowledge as a path to love, and much more.

Themes for retreat days include “Getting Connected,” “Anchoring Practices,” “Going Deep and Wide,”  “What We Want and Need Most,” and “Plural Wedding Day.”  The sequence leads up to the ceremony of a Plural Wedding of Ecosexual Love.  This wedding is a simple performance that celebrates the love of all participants for the partner we all share, the Earth.  This love is expressed in particular for the ecosystem that has hosted this retreat, Lolia Ecovillage.  Because everyone shares this ecosystem, everyone is included as an equal.  Willing participants thus become spouses, or “spice,” of the Lolia Place ecosystem. Access and download the program at this link.  Thank you!

We are blessed with wonderful presenters and participants.  Meet them at this link. Thank you!

Excited about this retreat?  Space is limited, but even at this time we can accommodate a few more participants.  Follow your inspiration to join us with one simple click.  Scroll for the Registration button at the bottom of the screen.  Contact karenhery@gmail.com for any questions.  We look forward to welcoming you!

Does not work for you this time around?  Send your blessings to this 1st Gathering and plan to join a subsequent edition.  Share with friends and beloved in Hawaii too. All good wishes to you!

Thank you.
aka Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD
Erstwhile Professor of Humanities and Cinema at UPRM
Convenor of Practices of Ecosexuality: A Symposium
Fellow at the Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs (2012-13)
Project: “Amorous Visions: Ecosexual Perspectives on Italian Cinema”

#metoo: When It’s Time for the Bonobo Way to Replace the Trumpanzees

I am interested in a wider perspective for the #metoo movement, one that does bring together a number of correlated factors.

As a lover of clothing optional environments and a naturist, I completely agree that dress codes should not be imposed on any one gender more than another, let alone hijabs or burkas.

However, what I see on TV and in today’s fashion and entertainment industry (including, alas, most of the mainstream news) is the fashioning of a “woman” who is invariably youthful looking, excessively thin, perilously walking on trampoline type of stiletto heals that make it impossible to fight or flee, with wide surfaces of exposed skin regardless of temperature, and adornments that complete the image of a super decorated object available for viewing.

Why is this?

I don’t see any men intent in self decorating like this. I would like to. They would interest me. The Belmondo’s, the Pierre Clementi’s, the Alain Delon’s, the Billy Crystal’s of earlier years have disappeared. Where are they? I miss them.

Instead the scene of visualizable guys is full of trumpanzees (a Susan M Block neologism) who heavily wade thru life, with ugly limbs and muzzles full of mien, precisely like the main accused in the #metoo campaign: trumpanzee-in-chief and his doubles, Ailes and Weinstein. Who all, of course, like to be pictured next to the super decorative women described above. Even though it goes without saying that the “she” in question is barely containing her repulsion for the trumpanzee on shift, while the production of glamour is where her intelligence is applied to forge the hope for a career.

This produces an enormous gender difference. A monstrous one for our Bonoboesque species. Suppose you come of age in this era, who are the models? What stereotypes do you internalize and then reproduce? Can you really distance yourself from this polarizing trumpanzeeism and still hope for a career in, say, cinema, TV, politics or other lines of work that involve high visibility?

That’s the tragedy, I think.

The tragedy of the culture as a whole.

Then of course there are the individual dramas. We’ve all had them, smaller, bigger. And so I do say #metoo, even though I don’t want to emphasize that. A little squeeze on the butt on the city bus to school when I was 15 is nothing compared to what I observe now.

I am envisioning a bunch of sensuous, feminine, androgynous young men with gentle, seemly faces enfolded in wavy manes, encircled in dainty curls, with puffed up lips, glistening eyes, perked up nipples, and groovy tushes displaying their sensual beauty for everyone to see, enjoy, and model after. I sense their deep devotion to the pleasure of women.

“What kind of animals do we want to be?”  Asks the ecosexual person in me.

May the Bonobo Way soon replace the Trumpanzees!

Let’s hold that thought together till it becomes true.
Thank you.
aka Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD
Erstwhile Professor of Humanities and Cinema at UPRM
Convenor of Practices of Ecosexuality: A Symposium
Fellow at the Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs (2012-13)
Project: “Amorous Visions: Ecosexual Perspectives on Italian Cinema”

1st ANNUAL GATHERING of ECOSEXUAL LOVE @ LOLIA, HAWAII

1st ANNUAL GATHERING of ECOSEXUAL LOVE @ LOLIA
with Dr. SerenaGaia and Saffire Bouchelion
@ Lolia Place, Hawaii Island USA – November 1-6, 2017

Are you ready to practice Ecosexual Love in Hawaii?

Lolia Place is a luscious laboratory calling us to gather together to fall even further in love with each other and the partner we all share: the Earth.

Participants in this First Annual Gathering of Ecosexual Love will connect to earth wisdom and the dynamic energies of humankind, as we progress through a week of somatic activities intermixed with free time to enjoy the land, each other, surrounding places on the island.

Through honoring ancestors, guided movement and dance, open discussion of privilege and power, teachings in conscious sensuality, and guided group-intimacy practices we will learn to:

Know and Love the Ecosystem Called Thyself

Know and Love our Most Compersive Lover: Earth

Know and Love Those who Share This Lover with Us: Humankind

and much more . . .

Our experiences together will culminate in a Plural Wedding of Ecosexual Love involving self, earth, and humankind.

Lolia is a clothing optional, conscious sensuality ecovillage. We will be eating vegetarian foods, many of which are grown on the land, and staying in glamping-style accommodations in small shared cabanas.

All participants will share in the responsibilities of creating and maintaining an energetically healthy space, where we treat each other and the land with which we are interacting with respect and dignity, seeking and confirming consent for all types of touch and conversation.

Dr. SerenaGaia is the sacred name of Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD. Dr. SerenaGaia believes that “a world where it is safe to love is a world where it is safe to live,” and intends to create that world with her sacred activism. Internationally acclaimed, seven-time author, scholar-activist, and professor, Dr. SerenaGaia offers programs in the Arts of Love: workshops, rituals, performances, weddings and trainings designed to educate the whole person in the arts of amorous inclusiveness, sexual fluidity, and ecosexual love.

Saffire Bouchelion is the creator and facilitator of Dance Into Being and Speaking Drum/Embodying Rhythm workshops that he has been presenting internationally over the past 13 years. As a professional performer and musician, he is featured on over 46 CD’s, opening for several international acts, including Cheryl Crow, Crash Test Dummies, The Paul Winter Consort, and Barenaked Ladies. Saffire is a 1st Degree Black Belt Nia Instructor who has been passionately practicing Nia, a movement, fitness form based in dance arts, martial arts and healing arts, for 20 years.

Lolia is proud to be working with a great team from 3WK -3WayKiss – to bring this 1st annual ecosexual gathering at Lolia to life. Saffire and Serena and fellow 3WK board members, Portland Poet, Karen Hery and trained mediator, Walker O’Rourke, are stewarding the programming and events.

We are looking forward to a relaxing and inspiring, sexy time in nature where love is the ecology of our lives.

Lolia Place food and accommodations

Retreat Options:

WITH ACCOMMODATION
5-Day Retreat
3 Vegetarian Meals/Day, Other options by request
5 Nights Double/Triple/Quad Occupancy Room on site
$500 USD

Space is limited.  We look forward to having you in this year’s participant team.  Register now for this unique co-creative experience.

FOR ALL “PAY NOW” BUTTONS GO TO THIS LINK AND SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM

THANK YOU!

Call for Proposals – #EcosexualLove @ Lolia, Hawaii – Nov 1-6 – Respond by Aug 31

Dear Earthlings–

How does it feel to practice #EcosexualLove in Hawaii?  Did I hear fabulous?  If yes, then, please check this out.  It may be the occasion you’ve been seeking.  The Call for Proposals comes from our team-member, “Your Portland Poet” Karen Hery.  She’s organizing the 1st Annual Gathering of #EcosxualLove at Lolia Place, on Nov 1-6.  We are seeking proposals.  You can be part of the program.  The Call expires on August 31.  What is Lolia Place?  An up-and-coming intentional community home of conscious sensuality and welcoming to #EcosexualLove.  Here’s Karen’s invitation letter to you:

“Dear friends and fellow #EcosexualLovers–

It was a pleasure be a presenter in Puerto Rico for the UPRM Symposium “Practices of Ecosexuality,” organized by Dr. SerenaGaia (aka Serena Anderlini). It’s also a pleasure to get back in touch with you with one more piece of exciting news.
 
Dr. SerenaGaia, Saffire Bouchellion and I are now collaborating together on a FIRST ANNUAL GATHERING OF ECOSEXUAL LOVE at LOLIA on the big island of Hawaii November 1 – 6.
 
We are super excited about this project and opening up this event to you. I am one of the people in charge of the process and am writing to encourage you to contribute to the event’s program. It would be an honor to include you in this gathering as a presenter/participant.

Free from the more formal structure of a university setting, we are looking forward to even more expanded experiences of ecose
xual practices at Lolia Place, a clothing optional, conscious sensuality focused eco-village. We encourage you, when you consider responding to our call for proposals, to think beyond lecture-and-listen style presentations and expand into the arena of interactive discussions, experiential workshops and visual performances. We are excited to hear back from you. Please check our Call for Proposals. It’s open till August 31st.  Thank you!

For this first year event, we are looking to gather 20-40 people–with a limit of no more than 60 people–to live on the land together.  Some of us, including Serena, will be continuing on in the Lolia monthly intern program.  You are welcome to consider that for yourself too, if interested.  The program’s description is available.  Please check it out at this link.

While at Lolia Place, we will be eating vegetarian foods, many of which are grown on the land, while staying in camping style accommodations in small, and comfortable shared cabanas.  There will be a mixture of planned structured activities and free time to enjoy the land, the surrounding places nearby on the island, and each other.  We look forward to possibly sharing this magical time with you.  Let us know if this feels like the right thing at this time for you.

This community gathering is self-supported by all the people who are gathering together to live into the change we want to see in the world.  Presenters and all participants will cover their own costs for travel plus $500 for food and accommodation at Lolia.  No presenters will be paid for their offerings, keeping the cost down for everyone in attendance. We will provide travel and lodging information and appreciate your willingness to fund your own trip.

I’m linking the call for proposals , the Lolia general event brochure, and intern program description.  We plan on organizing an exciting program in September.  So we strongly encourage you to submit as soon as possible, and by our closing date of August 31.  Please send 300-word descriptions plus a brief bio to me at karenhery@gmail.com.  I look forward to receiving them.  Thank you!

To recap the access points:
This is the link to our event page on the Lolia web site:
http://ecosexuality.loliaplace.org/eco
This is the link to the Call for Proposal that closes on Aug 31st:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sxyIrRXKZVi7Wvqn2o21P5uDdmM2PjboJpu3ypc5tMw/edit#
 This is the Facebook event for sharing in your networks:
https://www.facebook.com/events/653965431474914/
 This is a Facebook group for participants to be communicating with each other.
This is a link to more information about the monthly intern program: https://docs.google.com/document/d/125vvgIgjqp1X1ThOknsw1MIOYpgrWjVsiJt1ZN5IaPA/edit

For more context and info:

Lolia is a 45-minute drive from Hilo International Airport and a 3-hour drive from Kona on the other side of the island (car rental recommended from this location)

Submissions to this call for proposals will be reviewed by the four-person organizing team for the event, including myself, Dr. SerenaGaia (aka Serena Anderlini), Saffire Bouchellion, and Walker O’Rourke. They should be sent to me at karenhery@gmail.com in 300 words or less with a 250 word or less bio. The closing date for proposals: August 31st. Please direct any questions to me. We all look forward to your responses.

It would be great to hear from you and delightful to receive a proposal from you. Please also help us to spread the word about our open call. Consider submitting with a partner or collaborator or two. Please also share this event info and call for proposals with colleagues and friends who may be interested in attending. Thank you!

With love of the journey –

Karen Hery

Your Portland Poet”

Dear Earthlings–

Thanks for listening to Karen.  We hope to hear from you soon.

aka Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD
Erstwhile Professor of Humanities and Cinema
Convenor of Practices of Ecosexuality: A Symposium
Fellow at the Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs (2012-13)
Project: “Amorous Visions: Ecosexual Perspectives on Italian Cinema”

1st Annual Gathering of Ecosexual Love – Lolia Place, Hawaii, Nov 1-6, 2017 – Call for Proposal: Expires Aug 31

Dear friends: The Call for Proposals for the 1st Annual Gathering of Ecosexual Love is open. Surprise us with an exciting proposal that inspires you to contribute to the program of this amazing event, at Lolia Place, Pahoa, Hawaii, Nov 1-6. Call closes on Aug 31. Share widely. Thank you!

Event Description: Click here

Call for Proposals: Click here

Registration:  Click here.

Please send proposals to Karen Hery at karenhery@gmail.com

Thank you!

We hope to hear from you soon.

aka Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD
Erstwhile Professor of Humanities and Cinema
Convenor of Practices of Ecosexuality: A Symposium
Fellow at the Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs (2012-13)
Project: “Amorous Visions: Ecosexual Perspectives on Italian Cinema”

 

SACRED ECOSEX: Teorema, Il Sessantotto and Pasolini’s Math/Map of Sexual Fluidity and Amorous Inclusiveness

Dear Fellow Earthlings–

Here’s one more event coming up for me.  Sacred Ecosex.  Wonder what it is?  Join us!  It will be fun.  And you’ll get a sense of what that famous year of 1968 really represented for Italy and Europe, from one of the most unconventional film directors of Italy, Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Where:  UPRM, Celis 116

When: Tuesday, March 28, 2017, Hora Universal-10:30-11:45 AM

Title:

SACRED ECOSEX: Teorema, Il Sessantotto and Pasolini’s Math/Map of Sexual Fluidity and Amorous Inclusiveness

Abstract:

This study applies the art of analytical observation to Teorema, by Pierpaolo Pasolini.  This classic of Italian cinema was released in 1968.  This year of paradigm shift, also known as il sessantotto in Italy, beheld a cultural revolution that attacked the malady of the Oedipal Syndrome.  The film captures the zeitgeist of the new era and connects the pervasive effects of this syndrome to the abuse of the partner we all share by the extractive industries.  The movie places a bisexual, polyamorous visitor at the center of the diegetic structure, where he initates members of a nuclear family who are victims of the Oedipal Syndrome into the practices of ecosexual love.  With this prophetic movie, education to sacred ecosex begins.  The film taps into the director’s familiarity with the Roman male sex-trade scene to sacralize sex as the magic encounter of two human ecosystems.  When Pasolini moved to Rome from his native Friuli, his sexual life became organized around this scene.  The film maps the way the sessantotto experience flipped both the filmmaker’s consciousness and the conventions of amorous expression of the era.  The desert represents the force of ecosexual love: the Earth appears naked in the segments that suture the different consciousness explored in the film.  Paolo, the father, connects with the Earth’s metabolism when his heart beats next to it.  Emilia, the housemaid, occupies the soil of the periferia to save its fertility from pervasive concrete.  As “desert,” the partner we all share enters the equation of Pasolini’s theorem.

The Presenter:

Dr. SerenaGaia, aka Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD, is a cultural theorist and founder of 3WayKiss.  Her prophetic books have inspired readers around the world, including Gaia (2009), Eros (2006), and Ecosexuality (2015), the first collection on this topic.  Dr. SerenaGaia is a professor of humanities and cinema at UPRM, a renown scholar and public speaker.  This presentation comes from Amorous Visions, her book-in-progress on ecosexuality and Italian cinema.  The research for this study has been externally funded by UCHI, and has been generously supported by Arts and Sciences at UPRM.

It will be a 40-minute presentation with film stills and clips.  Followed by an open active learning session with Questions and Answer.  Many students will be in attendance, including groups from courses in cinema, humanities, and literature.  Everyone is welcome to join from the campus, area, and communities.  To download a flier, go to this link.  We look forward to welcoming you!

Thank you!

drserenagaia

aka Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD

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Professor of Humanities and Cinema
Convenor of Practices of Ecosexuality: A Symposium
Fellow at the Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs (2012-13)
Project: “Amorous Visions: Ecosexual Perspectives on Italian Cinema”