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 ecosexual 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”

Drumming Toward an Ecosexual Zeitgeist

Dear Earthlings-

We know you’re stressed out around this thing that has happened and that is the unnameable of our time.

We at #Ecosexuality encourage you to look at the wider horizon.  We asked ourselves:  What kind of transformations may this bring about, what new zeitgeist is emanating out of us, together?

Here we share our answer:

Toward and Ecosexual Zeitgeist: Transforming Fear into Courage

Diversity is the nature of being.

All nature, human and non human, is an aggregate of interconnected ecosystems.

Difference and repetition are the fractals that mirror the world of life where symbiosis drives evolution.

Respecting those different from us is a way to get to know ourselves more deeply, more fully.

It is done by practicing open mindedness and good listening.  It leads to a wider and deeper truth.

A way to embrace diversity in all its enchantment, beauty, resilience, joy, sustainability, collaborativeness is to practice ecosexual love:

What is #EcosexualLove?  The love that reaches beyond genders, and race, and ages, and origins, and species, and biological realms, to embrace all of life as a partner with important and enduring rights.

ecosex-frontcover-revised2Now that the illusion of “American exceptionalism” is shattered is the time to act.

There are a million ways to practice #EcosexualLove.  Find yours in #Ecosexuality: When Nature Inspires the Arts of Love.

 Here we offer a special one: “Transformation,” by Saffire Bouchellion, where he evokes the divine magic of the sea in Yemaya.

Transform fear into courage through Yemaya.  This divine force so long denied is resurging.

She is the liquid element of Gaia.    screen-shot-2016-10-09-at-5-51-11-pm

We urge you to get inspired and energized!

Contribute to Practices of Ecosexuality and Sex-Positive Education.

Call open till November 30.  pes2017-studentsbottom4-copy

Blessings and enduring ecosexual love.

Dr. SerenaGaia and Lindsay Hagemen

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