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 link.  Playa 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”

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”

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”