Category: Ecosexuality

Announcing “Practices of Ecosexuality: A Symposium,” 28-29 Jan 2016, Program

Dear people of the Area Oeste, Puerto Rico community:

I am very happy to announce something that is really exceptional, timely, and urgent, in my view.

The Symposium “Practices of Ecosexuality” will take place in the RUM on January 28-29, 2016. It is the inaugural event for the program “Islas Maravillas: Ecosexuality Education and Extensive Research at UPRM.”

The program is ready and enclosed to you. Our Keynote Speaker, Dr. Susan M. Block, is a renown sexologist and author of numerous books, joining us from Los Angeles. It is a joy to welcome her to Western Puerto Rico.

She will open the event on Thursday at 10:30 in the Teatro Figueroa Chapel, with

“The Bonobo Way: A New Ecosexual Paradigm for Humanity. Can we learn to evolve peace through pleasure from our primate cousins?”

The topic is timely and urgent, and relates to almost every discipline I can think of. Please make sure you consider weaving the event into your syllabi. Joins the Keynote and encourage all your students to do so. Thank you!

Many other speakers and workshop leaders will follow her keynote. Speakers are joining us from New Mexico, California, Oregon, and Washington State. They are generously donating their time, passion, and expertise to our region and communities. Please join me in welcoming them to UPRM! The events are open to the public, free of charge, and bilingual. Attendance qualifies as Professional Enhancement (CEP). Please consider attending with your students. Find the Registration Page here. Thank you!

The symposium can also be taken as a course by enrolling in Huma 4996-001. There are a few days left in the ajustes period and a few slots in the course. Please make sure all your students are aware of this opportunity to learn by doing and encourage them to consider enrolling. We have an Authorization Form that will make the process quicker. Thank you!

Enclosed is the complete program and the program-at-a-glance. Both have all information related to the Symposium and to the extramural event that follows it on the 30th. Enjoy!

Besides as attachments here, the documents are also available online:

Click for Program-at-a-glance

Click for Program

Click for Authorization Form for Enrolling Students:

The Symposium was created with the help of many local collaborators, organizers, students, and employees. They all did their best in co-creating something really new in the generous spirit of the gift economy. There will be more opportunities to participate, network, debate, comment, assist in the Symposium itself, for students and all members of the university community and the community at large. Please announce very widely to your groups. Please contribute to making this event a success too! Thank you!

I look forward to the events with you. Please let me know if there are any questions I can address. Thank you!

All good wishes for a happy new year. Enjoy this early 2016.

Practices of Ecosexuality: Invitation and Program, UPRM, Jan 28-29, 2016

Dear colleagues, students, administrators, community members:

It’s a joy to announce the keynote speaker for Practices of Ecosexuality: A Symposium, Jan 28-29, 2016.

Dr. Susan Block, a renown sexologist and specialist of Bonobo life, cultural practices, and communities, joins us from Los Angeles to keynote on this theme:

The Bonobo Way: An Ecosexual Paradigm for Humanity.

Her key question is: Can we learn to make peace through pleasure from our great ape cousins?

The keynote is scheduled for 10:30-11:45 AM on Thursday, Jan 28, in the Teatro Figueroa Chapel. It will include live videos from her Bonobo research, and much more.

We write to invite all of you to attend the keynote and strongly encourage all your students to do so as well. If you’re a professor, please include it in your syllabus. Giving students an incentive to attend and assigning a report on the theme is a great idea. Thank you!

Considering the multiple crises that afflict the world and the island of Puerto Rico, no theme could be more timely or urgent. Please don’t miss it! Thank you!

It is a unique opportunity made possible by the program Islas Maravillas: Ecosexuality Education and Extensive Research at UPRM. It’s also an effect of the gift economy, since, with no budget to speak of, Dr. Susan Block elected to visit us and bring her expertise to our region. What a great way to turn a crisis into an opportunity for change!

Here I want to express gratitude to administrators who have made it possible. It is a joy to deliver on this promise to you and to the UPRM community. It’s also a joy to welcome our amazing and generous keynote speaker!

The Keynote Banner Dr. Susan Block posted on her website has more details, also about her recent book, The Bonobo Way, as well as a Press Release about the Symposium as a whole. Please find it as this link:

The complete Program for the Symposium can be downloaded at this link and is announced in the images posted here. A Program-at-a-Glance summary can be downloaded here. We have a total of 10 diverse speakers and facilitators joining us from Oregon, California, Washington State, and our region. A great way to introduce Ecosexuaity as a theme of our cultural discourse and practice. A gift-economy abundance!

As a reminder, the Symposium can also be taken as a course, for one credit. The code is Huma 4996-001.

To make enrollment easier, students can access the Huma pre-signed authorization sheet at this link.

They can download, print, fill out, and take it directly to their department to make the ajuste de la matricula. it works well. Enjoy!

We look forward to the Symposium: Practices of Ecosexuality. Please join us in welcoming our amazing and generous speakers! Please let me know if I can answer any questions at serena.anderlini@gmail.com. Thank you!

Enjoy this early 2016!

Holiday Ecosexual Joy Campaign – Step 1: Get Your Kindle, Get Your Code!

Beloved Visitor:

Happy holidays!

Are you here to tell us that you’re enchanted with your Kindle edition of Ecosexuality: When Nature Inspires the Arts of Love, and ready to get a whole bunch of super discounted paper copies to give your beloveds and friends?

“YES! I just got my copy of the fabulous Kindle edition of Ecosexuality complete with photo gallery and searchability for research. All of that for only $ 7.69 at the very most!

I’m now ready to get my discounted copies of the paper edition. I can’t wait to make my friends and beloveds happy and feel the reverberations of this book’s transformative effects in my life as a whole.”

Thank you! We believe and appreciate you!

Click for the CreateSpace Holiday DISCOUNT CODE.

As an effect of our Holiday Ecosexual Joy Campaign, you can get AS MANY COPIES AS YOU WANT of the paper edition of Ecosexuality for only $ 10.50 a piece (instead of $ 16.50).

“No message is more timely or urgent,” says Christopher Ryan of our offer. You bet! With Ecosexuality you get the voices of over 30 leaders in the movement. Eager for more information? Check details in brochure below!

What a great opportunity to choose this as your Holiday Season Gift for people in your life you love!

If you haven’t gotten your own Kindle edition yet, please CLICK HERE to order. If you ever bought a paper edition of Ecosexuality from Amazon.com, the Kindle edition is as low as $ 2.99. If not, it’s only $ 7.69. It will be delivered immediately to your reading device.

Enjoy!

Want to make sure we get in touch with you for more good offers? Great time to sign up for our list. The box is on the right column. Welcome!

Let us know what you think of our Holiday Ecosexual Joy Campaign.

Did it create more joy in your life?

2. Did it help you get thru the Holiday blues?

3. Did it bring new friends and beloveds to your ecosystem?

4. What could we do better next time to help you manifest these effects?

We look forward to your suggestions and feedback. Thank you!

Holiday Ecosexual Joy Campaign – Step 2: Get Discount Copies for Your Loved Ones

Beloved Visitor:

You’re on the right track. That’s GREAT! Here’s your CreateSpace DISCOUNT CODE

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When you click on THIS LINK you get to the CreateSpace BOOK BUY page.

You are just a few STEPS away.

1. Click on ADD TO CART

2. Insert your QUANTITY

TIP. Take advantage of the offer to order some extra copies. They will come handy when you make new friends and when your happy beloveds ask you for copies to give their new friends and beloveds!

3. Scroll down a bit and INSERT the CODE into the APPLY DISCOUNT box. REMEMBER, it’s EWMBLB2D.

4. Your price will drop dramatically, as you are getting $ 6.00 off each copy. Woooow!

5. You can now click on CHECK OUT.

6. The system will require that you choose a type of shipping and a form of payment.

7A. If you’re a customer at CreateSpace, you can sign in now, and finish your order.

7B. If you’re not a customer yet, this is the time to become one. In a few quick steps, the system will set you up with your email address and password. Enjoy your new membership.

8. Now you’re ready to place your order.

YOUR ORDER WILL BE ON ITS WAY! Tell your friends and beloveds you have a special gift this season: the gift of ecosexual joy!

9. Make a note of your password so you can check check and track your order online. Our experience is orders often arrive within three to four days.

10. Enjoy your gift and make sure to offer it to your friends and beloved in joyful way!

We are very happy to give up the vast majority of our royalties so more and more copies of Ecosexuality can circulate. We really believe in the spirit of the gift economy and trust that giving this book will reverberate a lot of joy in the lives it impacts. Its transformative power is beyond estimation. Enjoy!

For those who order over 10 of these super discounted copies, we have an amazing bonus. You can pick one of SerenaGaia’s authored books from her author’s page and she will send a copy to you in the mail. Write SerenaGaia at serena.anderlini@gmail.com. She’ll be delighted to hear from you! Thanks!

Want to make sure we get in touch with you for more good offers? Great time to sign up for our list. The box is on the right column. Welcome!

Let us know what you think of our Holiday Ecosexual Joy Campaign.

Did it create more joy in your life?

2. Did it help you get thru the Holiday blues?

3. Did it bring new friends and beloveds to your ecosystem?

4. What could we do better next time to help you manifest these effects?

We look forward to your suggestions and feedback. Thank you!

Enjoy!

Te Amo Playa Azul I Love You Two – A Plural Wedding of Ecosexual Love

This plural wedding of ecosexual love will be the second of its kind in the Caribbean. Mark your calendars for Saturday, January 30, 2016. The event is designed to guide participants in experiencing the earth as the lover we all share, and to practice the love that reaches beyond limitations to embrace all of life as a partner with equal rights. The daylong ritual one the magic beach of Playa Azul, culminates in an inclusive wedding ceremony with the beach as the bride all participating “spice” share.

The event was a memorable success on its first edition, which called for a return. Check the photos and memories. Read the detailed description of its template.

The event is free of charge and open to the public. Space is limited to save your spot early. Let us know you are coming by email at serena.anderlini@gmail.com, or mark yourself as attending on the Facebook event.

What Rituals Will Help Us Bond with the Partner We All Share?

Program – Te Amo Playa Azul I Love You Two
When: January 30, 2016, 11 AM 8 PM
Where: Playa Azul, Punta Arenas, Carretera 102, Km 11.6, Joyuda, Cabo Rojo.

This is our basic program for the day:

11 am: Meet and Greet on Playa Azul, Music, Contact Dance
12 noon: Workshops
1. Know and Love the Ecosystem Called Thyself
2. Know and Love your Most Compersive Lover: Earth
3. Know and Love those Who Share this Lover with You: Humankind

Each workshop is about 75 minutes, including teaching, translation, practice, and debriefing. If we start at 12 noon, we should be done by 6 pm, with plenty of break time for connecting, meals, and socializing.

In between workshops: the famous Oxytocin Group Hugs that fill your personal ecosystem with enchantment and loving energy.

Refreshments, foods, water, amenities: on the sidelines and during breaks.

6:00 pm: Invocation of Earth Goddess, Gaia. Vows to Playa Azul: the Ecosexual Bride. Kiss the Bride. Drum Circle.

6:30: Enter the Body of Water: Bathe in the Caribbean Sea

Fun time till exhaustion of creative energy:
Includes watsu, reiki, more dance and drumming, assorted improvised co-creations, aguinaldos, burlesque . . .
–What to bring: your charming selves, a cheerful mind, a lovely smile, an open heart, swim suits, towels, comfort food, water, comfortable beach clothing for workshops time, pillows and soft stuff to find comfort on beach floor, eagerness, participation
–What to expect: magic, beauty, enchantment, love, healing, sharing, company, fun, joy, moderation, respect, continuity, togetherness
–Once we start the workshops, the group will be formed. We will expect continuity, and admission to subsequent workshops is subject to participation in previous ones. Presence is required. The degree of participation can vary.

Parking: Please park on the street and Access the beach from the callecita to the south of the Condominio Punta Arenas. At the beach, turn right and go toward to oak tree, palm tree, and uva playera trees.

We look forward to sharing this magic day with you!

Planning a trip to the enchanting island of Puerto Rico for the occasion? It’s easy. Book flights into the Aguadilla/BQN airport. Reserve a rental car. You will be only a 40 minute drive from the events. For housing, let our local contact Maria Preston, in the Cabo Rojo/Playa Azul area, do the job, at 787 360 3396. She will reserve a beautiful and affordable beach front apartment you can share with friends. Enjoy!

Make sure you arrive early enough to also attend Practices of Ecosexuality: A Symposium, on January 28-29. This event is also part of our gift economy. You can attend and present too. We accept proposals until December 13, 2015. Check out details on the Facebook or Blog page.

This program is part of the project Islas Maravillas: Ecosexual Education and Extensive Research at UPRM, for PI SerenaGaia, aka Serena Anderlini.

The project is under the auspices of the College of Arts and Sciences, UPRM, and is supported by Puerto Rico’s Department of Natural Resources.

Practices of Ecosexuality: A Symposium – Practicas de Ecosexualidad: Un Simposio

This event will introduce #Ecosexuality to the people of Western Puerto Rico, to all interested students and community members of UPRM.

What is #Ecosexuality? How can we practice #EcosexualLove? What is its transformative potential for our ecosystems, our regions, ourselves, the world? What is the #EcosexualMovement? How can we bring its excitement and effervescence into our lives, communities, learning practices, and academic discourse?

These and more questions will be addressed in two days of symposium activities designed to offer a diversity of participating options, including: panels, videos, films, dialogs, staged readings, book presentations, poems, art, songs, workshops, and other kinds of creative events. Join us! Invite your students, colleagues, partners, friends.

–Thursday the 28 will be our theory day: Meet us in the Teatro Figueroa Chapel, Lobby, RUM.
–Friday the 29 will be our practice day: Meet us in the Cafeteria Annex, RUM.
–Ecosex movies are planned for both days.
–Local, fresh, and in-season delicious foods are also in the works.

The Symposium is free of charge and open to the public. You are welcome to mark yourself as attending on the Facebook page. The event can be attended for credit as a one-credit course by students in any department of the UPR Mayaguez system. For details see the description above. To enroll, download and print this pre-signed authorization form.

Here are some tag lines for #Ecosexuality:

–Ecosexuality is often thoughts of as the cultural practice that enables our species to reconnect our metabolism to the metabolism of the partner we all share: the Earth.

–Ecosexuals often imagine the Earth as a lover rather than a mother.

–Ecosexual Love is the love that reaches beyond gender, numbers, orientations, ages, races, origins, species, and biological realms, to embrace all of life as a partner with equal rights.

–It’s exciting to think of love as the ecology of life.

–Eros is an untapped renewable energy of our time.

–It’s great to love the Earth we make love on.

Our call for contributions is now open. Here to the right for details. Have you been thinking along any of these tag lines? Many exciting proposals have been pledged by participants, local and world wide. If you feel inspired to participate, please do send us your idea and will will consider it for inclusion in the program. Thank you!

Please make sure you tell us what you want to do on or before December 13. Thanks!

The Symposium is based on the recent publication, Ecosexuality: When Nature Inspires The Arts Of Love, edited by Serena Anderlini and Lindsay Hagamen. The first world wide collection of writings on this topic, the book brings together the voices of 30 leaders to converge the multiple energies of the ecosexual movement, its versatility of styles and diversity of genres convey a compelling variety of perspectives on this emerging social movement.

The event is part of the UPRM-based project Islas Maravillas: Ecosexuality Education and Extensive Research at UPRM, whereby PI Serena Anderlini and her teams intend to “manifest a convergence of energies to awaken the Area Oeste, the Colegio, and the entire region that surrounds the University to the experience of ecosexual love naturally inspired by the gentle and caressing nature of the Caribbean.” It intends to design public private alliances that organize local resources into eco-sustainable initiatives across the region.

This Symposium a beginning. It will be followed by Te Amo Playa Azul I Love You Two, a Plural Wedding of Ecosexual Love, on January 30th. This event is also free of charge and open to the public. Here’s your invitation. Space is limited in both events. So save your spot early. Let us know you are joining on Facebook, or by email at serena.anderlini@gmail.com, or (for UPRM students) by signing up for the course. Thank you!

Planning a trip to the enchanting island of Puerto Rico for the occasion? It’s easy. Book flights into the Aguadilla/BQN airport. Reserve a rental car. You will be only a 40 minute drive from the events. For housing, let our local contact Maria Preston, in the Cabo Rojo/Playa Azul area, do the job, at 787 360 3396. She will reserve a beautiful and affordable beach front apartment you can share with friends. Enjoy!

For Islas Maravillas, with your collaboration we look forward to evolving much more. Clusters in the projects include courses, field trips, internships, events, and seminars, for a University that extends its transformative influence over the territory.

Be part of the project! We look forward to making this happen with your enthusiasm and participation.

Let the gift economy occupy your heart. Enjoy the Holiday Season and look forward to our ecosex events in January.

In Shock and Awe: Bliss to the Passing of Deborah Taj Anapol

Dear Taj–

I am in shock and awe of the news while here in India, the home of conscious death. I respect and feel your energy coming within me. I am not accepting yet, but maybe I will. I will miss you, the world seems empty with a wider vortex without you. I felt a very deep affinity for you. You were someone I could confide in even the most personal secrets. When in a dilemma about an important decision, I could go to you. You were open, present, and intimate at all times, while respectful and sincere. Generous with your things. Thanks for all the beautiful gifts the world is blessed with from you.

Thanks also for your beautiful gift to Ecosexuality: When Nature Inspires The Arts Of Love. Is the Earth a he, or a she? Your prosody rich with warm emotion and intellectual brilliance resonates within me, as you leave these open questions with us.

Your hosts in England, Marta an Robert, write that you were ecstatic all day. That you showed them a video about “ecstatic death” before going to sleep. Was it conscious, was it ecstatic, was it orgasmic? What kind of death was it. I’m not sure. While in Auroville, India, about ten years ago, I heard of conscious death in reference to Sri Aurobindo, avatar of a yoga of doing. People said he passed consciously to enable the foundation of the intentional community named after him, the City of Dawn, or Auroville. Perhaps there is a city we are meant to found after your passing, Taj? Please help me, I’m confused. Thank you!

Thanks to those who delivered the news with grace and awe, KamalaDevi MacClure and Annie Sprinkle.

These memories are too recent to even think I’ve lost your company, at least in live existence. With Deborah Taj Anapol , at Open Secret Bookstore in San Rafael, California, summer 2010, and at Piazza del Pantheon, Rome, Italy, summer 2014.

MAKE LOVE the ECOLOGY of YOUR LIFE – ECOSEXUALITY NEWS

Sent Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Warmest greetings from the Caribbean. Here at 3WayKiss we have good news. Is nature inspiring the arts of love in your life and amorous communities? Are you making love the ecology of your life? Ecosexuality is SerenaGaia’s latest collaborative project. Its release is very recent. It is in this joyful occasion that we reconnect with you. Welcome to more spicy news from the Ecosexual Movement and the beautiful “spice” that have transformed our beloved ecosystem, Playa Azul. Stay tuned for special buy dates and click here to get your copies immediately. We are very excited about the book’s release. Thank you!

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Is Mass Incarceration Ecosexual? No!

Is mass incarceration ecosexual? No. Is the “war on drugs” ecosexual? No.

JimCrow What is then? Devotion to the virtues of plants. Freedom to appreciate their power serenely and with joy. Awareness of their presence as partners with the lover we all share. Moderation in their use as medicine.

A new “Jim Crow” is of course not ecosexual, but being aware that it’s happening largely on account of plants is. Awareness of how this affects young people of color, immigrants, their families, and communities under the current police regime is ecosexual as well.

Thanks Michelle Alexander. Your interview with Democracy Now! is great. I remember your book and your presentation two years ago in Hartford, CT. It made me cry, and helped me to understand my own predicament and the predicaments of those I love.

Remember: It’s time to make love the ecology of our life. It’s time to allow nature to inspire the arts of love. Namaste,

SerenaGaia

What are People Saying about Ecosexuality?

What are people saying about Ecosexuality? “A sumptuous feast.” Susan M. Block, The Bonobo Way. “The blueprint the world needs.” Robyn Vogel, Intimacy Coach. “Truly inspiring.” Dr. Anya, Author. “The potential to define a new era for humanity.” Christiane Pelmas, Author. Time to mark your calendars for the book’s release in May, 2015. The posted flier has the latest updates. A PR tool kit is available. We accept blurbs, gigs, keynotes. Connect with Lindsay Hagamen or Serena Anderlini. Stay in touch when you “like” the page. Visit the book’s website for updates. Enjoy the week. Make love the ecology of your life. Allow nature to inspire the arts of love. Gear up for abundant ecosexual love.

Namaste,

SerenaGaia