EcoSex Docu Trailer – Playa Azul I Love You – The Fun of Marrying a Caribbean Beach

It turns out so many people are still very curious about #Ecosexuality and #EcosexualLove. Here’s a fun way to get closer to that.

Today we offer a trailer of Playa Azul I Love You, the film that documents the first Plural Wedding of Ecosexual Love in Puerto Rico.

For the first time on YouTube, and complete with subtitles in English and/or Italian!

Welcome to this teaser. Enjoy it while we also prepare the premiere of the full movie, also for the first time of YouTube, with subtitles in English and/or Italian.

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Opening up to Health and Happiness: Awareness, Safety, and Care in Covid Times

What is safety and what does it look like in Covid times? How can we self-source the safety we desire to be caring and aware of ourselves and those around us? How can we share responsibilities for the community awareness we all desire? How can we converge this energy in the in-person events in which we choose to participate?

These questions are probably on your mind as we all open up to being part of events in-presence this summer.

At the School of Ecosexual Love we feel inspired to offer a perspective that we feel is both responsible and empowering, and includes a framework for thinking about them, a list of sources, and some specific guidelines.

We understand you are considering participating in one of our in-presence events in the 2020 summer. We kindly ask that you become familiar with our perspective and ask yourself how well you can align with it. Please feel free to respond and comment. Thank you!

Reflections

For those of us in The Resilience of Love, the online journey that started back in March, we have practiced sourcing happiness and health from within ourselves in many ways. These include the expanded Inner Smile, to cultivate our inner balance and well being, the Wheel of Consent, to become aware of our boundaries and of where we position ourselves in a given interpersonal exchange, and more. We’ve also become aware of how the more simple life required by a quarantine can have its own beauty and happiness, for ourselves, and for all forms of life that accompany us on this journey on planet Earth, including animals, plants, and other ecosystems that benefit from a cleaner environment.

As options for meeting in person with others become more open, and as we choose to respect required practices of public health, we may want to elaborate together a notion of safety that we can all consent to, and that involves practices in which we each take responsibility for ourselves and for those impacted by our behavior.

Rather than accepting the master narrative that outsources “safety” to a hypothetical vaccine and asserts this as the only way to restore the “normalcy” that has been, we propose to imagine a “new normalcy” where the source of safety is in in the empowered awareness that resides within each and everyone of us.  This “new normal” can be co-created and, I dare say, can even be fun!

The “new normal” we propose here is a dynamic strategy to access the kind of self-sourced safety that comes from the eclectic perspective of #EcosexualLove. It navigates the explorable waters between the two main current thought collectives in relation to public and personal health: the allopathic collective, that interprets diseases as “enemies,” and the holistic collective, that interprets diseases as “messages” that call our attention to some need for change.

Sometimes these collectives are also envisioned as, the one made of supposedly powerful people who “conspire” to deceive common folks, and the one made of those who willingly listen to whistleblowers adept in theorizing what these conspiracies might be all about. While it’s important to be conscious observers willing to listen to a wide array of sources that can be contrasting with one another, especially when many unknowns are still in play, it is also known that excessive attention to “conspiracy theories” and to “conspiring” can produce worries and inner imbalances that are not always useful and can often be undesirable.

We propose a healthier and happier alternative: listening deeply to ourselves. We believe that, from within ourselves, we can summon the courage of sourcing the measure of “safety” we need to get together and trust one another. As a collective, we can become more aware of how we exist symbiotically in relation to each other. As we practice personal responsibility, we contribute to the sense of safety of others. This confidence and trust can generate the freedom we all need to source courage in these not quite post Covid times. It can converge health and happiness into the journey we will share at Suncave Garden.

Sourcing Safety

Where does safety reside? It’s an important question to address for anyone wishing to join an event in presence at this time when a significant pandemic has scoured the planet. Here are some of the healthy ways to position “safety” that we, at The School of Ecosexual Love, intend to propose.

      1. Safety resides in our inherent ability to activate the competence of our immune systems by taking good care of our personal ecosystem.
      2. Safety resides in our sense of personal responsibility in containing exposure and thus minimizing risk for ourselves.
      3. Safety resides in our sense of collective responsibility in being accountable for our contacts to those who share a germicule with us, and for being willing participants in any necessary contact tracing. (A “germicule” is a household or group of people who have been Covid bonded during quarantine time.)
      4. Safety resides in our awareness of existing cures, in our trust in our competence in researching them and making them known and accessible, while still refraining from interpreting the existence of these cures as excuses to overlook the need for risk containment.
      5. Safety resides in our ability to stand in a place of confidence in the curability of the Covid-19 desease, while realizing that in practice this may not happen overnight for everyone.
      6. Safety resides in our ability to be models in overcoming the fear of death that a presumed incurability disseminates.
      7. Safety resides in our ability to say “NO” to any invitation to an activity in a journey, activity in which we don’t feel fully prepared to participate at the time when the invitation is made.
      8. Safety resides in our ability to choose social distancing during an in-presence event, to the extent that we feel so inclined, and, to choose to shorten distances on as as-we-go basis with participants who also, by consent, feel so inclined.
      9. Safety resides in our choice to bring a tent to sleep or book a single room if we choose to isolate during sleep hours, and to consume our meals away from others if that’s what we desire.
      10. Safety resides in our commitment to be totally non-judgmental of our own decisions in these regards, and of those of others.
      11. Safety resides in our willingness to be inspired by the miracles that this symbiotic new normal can create.

Questions for you. How do these ways to self-sourced safety resonate with you? How many of them are you willing to practice? Do you feel inspired about them? Do you feel they align well enough with your philosophy and practices of health?

Addressing these questions well ahead of time offers everyone a chance to reflect on what we propose and evolve a deeper alignment and sense of trust in your own ability to self-source your own sense of safety and to care about that of others. Enjoy the empowerment this brings up!

Thank you!

Guidelines

The next in-person event we are co-creating is the Alchemy of Ecosexual Love, which will happen at Suncave Garden, August 28-30. The lush, fertile, nature of this garden is healthy and vibrant with fruiting plants, and water-based amenities like pool and jacuzzi. Our hosts, Leslie and Hoppy, are excited to be there for us and offer their Casa Vacanze home style hospitality. It will be a small event to have more space for everyone, with all activities in open-air spaces except for sleep time. The exceptional Italian style cooking of the house is based on locally grown products, with luscious meals and beverages offered in the décor of a blooming garden.

This seems to us an ideal place to practice self-sourced safety with awareness and care for others. The sources that empower groups safety are reflected in the following guidelines we propose for the event:

      1. Monitoring our health in the period immediately prior to the event, and being cognizant of any symptoms that might arise. For example, monitoring one’s temperature if one feels it might have gone up.
      2. Minimizing one’s exposure to risks in the two weeks prior to the event, so as to also minimize the amount of risk each person brings to the collective of participants.
      3. Being accountable about our participation in a presential event that might involve touch with those people who share a germicule with us and are not coming, so that they might respond and protect themselves to the extent that feels necessary to them.
      4. Remembering that Covid consent, namely the choice of shortening distances or not doing so, is negotiated as we go like any other consent.
      5. Being willing to take responsibility for making our own choices and for respecting those of others.
      6. Being aware that at any time during the journey together, we each can choose to shorten our distance from others and/or to practice social distancing, to the extent that it is possible and practical.
      7. Being aware that, if one requires isolation for sleep time, reserving a single room and/or bringing one’s own tent is advisable. Suncave Garden has limited space and we may not have a single room for everyone. The garden is wide and is spacious enough to consume meals at various distances from one another.

Finding a consensus on these guidelines will greatly empower your facilitation team and hosts to offer an ideal context where to open up to health and happiness in Covid times. We hope that you resonate with these guidelines and we invite you to take them into your heart. We ask that you accept them agreement upon which the whole group will come together in safety and trust.

Can you please confirm your alignment with this agreement and can you please let us know in writing? You can email your response to serena.anderlini@gmail.com. A simple message on WhatsApp will also work, please send to +39 329 4779406. Please make sure you clearly refer to the document “Opening Up to Health and Happiness.” Thank you!

Welcome to The Alchemy of Ecosexual Love, August 28-30 at Suncave Garden. We have a few spaces left and, unless you’ve already claimed a spot, we invite you to do so by paying the very modest course fee of € 127 now. If you’ve saved a spot and are no longer interested in coming, please let us know so we can save it for another person and send you a refund. Thank you!

If you have a ticket to the course, this is a perfect time to choose your favorite accommodation! Please see the venue map and prices. Thank you!

Please Note: Room and full board will be due in cash at your arrival at Suncave Garden.

Daily prices in full board per person run asfo. Single room or double room used as single: € 85. Double room and multiple room with reduced occupancy: € 70. Tent (not provided): € 65. The weekend journey includes 2 nights with breakfast, and 4 main meals, for a total of 2 days in full board, starting with dinner on Friday, the 28th.

The venue is available to guests who wish to stay extra days at the same conditions, and many of us on the team are planning to stay. If you can, you’re welcome to book extra days now!

Thank you all for being inspired by opening up to health and happiness in Covid times!

Preparation

Thank you for reading so far. The world has changed as a result of this pandemic. And we believe there is a chance for positive evolution in every crisis.

We understand that deciding to participate might involve a process of preparation that includes spiritual, organizational, and practical aspects. We are offering two online meetings on Zoom, on two Thursdays in August, the 6th and the 20th, 4-6 PM Central European Time. These meetings are designed to address any practical or energetic questions you, as a participant, might have.

Please join us on these meetings. We intend to listen to your questions and assuage all doubts. Thank you!

For those who choose to stay at Suncave Garden after the 30th, private sessions might be possible based on practitioners’ availability. Please contact them now! Thank you! There may also be a chance to experiment with beta testing the Symbiosis course, a course we plan to launch in the near future. The beautiful hills and gardens, the naturist pool and jacuzzi, the healthy foods will be there to enjoy for your happiness and health and share with others! We hope many of you will make that choice with us. The same daily rates as for the weekend will apply. Please do let us know of your interest in this option asap, so that our hostess may save a seat for you. Thank you!

Happy deciding! We are confident you will make the best decision for you at this time. We look forward to your confirmation that you resonate with and agree to the proposed guidelines. We are excited to host you at the preparation meetings in August we have designed.

And finally, we are eager to share the journey of The Alchemy of Ecosexual Love with you at enchanting Suncave Garden.

Welcome to the School of Ecosexual Love.

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, + 39 329 477 9406

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”

Note: The content of this article was designed in late June, 2020, by Dr. SerenaGaia, with contributions by Tanya Rozenthal and Adi Ananda. Its content is the basis for activating in-presence events for the 2020 summer with the School of Ecosexual Love.

 

Bonobo Coaching – Sustainable Paths to Ecosexual Love

Bonobo Coaching – Sustainable Paths to Ecosexual Love

A Coaching Practice by Dr. SerenaGaia

Are you ready to embrace the Earth as your partner, as the partner you share with fellow humans an all other forms of life.

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

This style of love is based on four principles and the alchemy of their related practices.

  • Know and love the ecosystem called thyself.
  • Know and love the temple of the other
  • Know and love the partner we all share: the Earth
  • Know and love those who share this partner with you: Humankind

These practices apply basic principles from Tao, Tantra, amorous inclusiveness (aka polyamory), and sexual fluidity (aka bisexuality).

When you train in these practices, you are ready to become an artivist of love. Artivists of love are beings capable of generating all the love they need and then some. They aspire to align their own health and happiness with each other, and with the health and happiness of all beings that form the ecosystems that impact them.

Artivists of love are beings of light who often manifest alchemies of ecosexual love that create balanced symbiotic connections all around.

If you envision yourself in this horizon, if you wish to practice love expansively, if you aspire to become an artivist of such expansive love, you can benefit from attending a series of weekly meetings that Dr. SerenaGaia offers online. One is known as The Resilience of Love.

Dr. SerenaGaia’s personal coaching sessions can support you in integrating your learning process with your experience and personality and in pursuing your aspirations further.

Her presential courses will resume when possible, and they include the Alchemy of Ecosexual love, and The Symbiosis of Ecosexual love.

If you are longing for transformations in your life that will empower you to navigate a given crisis and envision the symbiotic opportunities it brings to your life, you can start now.

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Here are some questions that you might have already considered:

Are you longing for expansive ways to practice love that also support your natural sense of honesty and integrity? Do you sometimes experience monogamy as a social norm that curbs your natural capacity to express yourself as a being capable of love? Do you experience a natural desire to share yourself widely as a resource of love? Would you like to experience a natural sense of fluidity, inclusiveness, and elation when others share themselves in these capacities as well? Have you thought of what exclusivity means to you, and in what kinds of contexts you would like to experience it?

If some of these questions resonate with you, you are not alone, and you came to the right place.

The desire to practice inclusive styles of love is pervasive today.  In the age of Gaia, humankind is becoming more aware of the symbiotic nature of existence as beings who share a planet and a world. Many people are now aware of planet Earth as a generous partner and hostess. We all share this partner we love, and so when we consider sharing our resources of love in generous and inclusive ways, we know that we also honor her.

Loving fluidly and inclusively is ecosexual! Exclusivity is wonderful as long as it is an agreed upon choice in romantic, amorous, collaborative, and/or sexual aspects of any relatedness. People’s belief in the social norm of monogamy is eroding, in the context of problematic experiences in conventional marriages.  Many of us make the intentional choice to love the person, not the gender, and to espouse feminine and masculine principles within ourselves. As more scientific evidence becomes available, it becomes apparent that monogamous and monosexual behavior in humans result from culture rather than nature. At this time of accelerated change and transformation, hearts and minds connect in the noosphere and cultural notions of evolution are revisited, as people search for more symbiotic ways to relate within and around ourselves. However, not many people know how to navigate the transition from exclusivity to fluidity and inclusiveness in balanced, sustainable, compassionate ways.

Bonobo Coaching opens paths to styles of fluid and inclusive love that are gradual, balanced, and sustainable for all those emotionally involved.  Your coach, Serena, has successfully transitioned to a rich personal life of amorous inclusiveness where relationships sustain each other in balanced and graceful ways.  She has studied inclusive styles of love like polyamory and bisexuality for over two decades.  She has practiced amorous inclusiveness at various levels for about three decades.  She is the founder of the School of Ecosexual Love.  She is a scholar in the arts of healing and loving, and a supporter of the Gaia Hypothesis. She is the author of several books on these interrelated subject, and has offered workshops and coaching sessions worldwide.  She can coach in English, Français, Italiano, and Español.  She is fluent and formally trained in these four languages.

Bonobos are one of the most amorous and peaceful species Gaia, our hostess planet, has ever seen.  They use grooming, cuddling, nurturing, pleasure, sexual fluidity, and amorous inclusiveness to resolve conflicts and to enhance social cohesion.  They are the primate species genetically closest to humans.  Bonobo Coaching is a style of coaching designed to sustain us humans in activating the virtues of our genetic kinship with Bonobos and put them to beneficial use.

When not freely chosen, exclusivity can be asphyxiating.  In the transition from exclusivity to expansive amorous inclusiveness, Serena has made all the mistakes.  However, she never allowed a mistake to kick her back into asphyxiation.  What matters about mistakes is the interpretation.  In offering coaching sessions, Serena promises to sustain you in interpreting each mistake as an opportunity to learn and move one step forward on the path to the expansive amorous inclusiveness and fluidity you heart and mind aspire to.

FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions:

Q: What is coaching? How does it differ from therapy?

A: Coaching is a way to develop through a confidential dialog with a person whose wisdom and experience one trusts. This dialog intends to help one move beyond an emotional place where one feels stuck due to societal and conventional limitations, when these fall short in appreciating one’s multiple capacities and talents for love. Coaching is for people who are well. It does not intend to cure any condition. However, it does intend to sustain one in developing one’s unique talents for love.

Q: What can coaching do for me if I’m seeking to develop an inclusive style of love?

A: Inclusive love is a way of love that expands beyond the mono paradigms typical of Western cultures in the modern world: monosexuality and monogamy. Its basic premise is that love is an art whose conscious practice helps people develop their basic talents as amorous persons, and become more abundant resources of love for their communities and life as a whole.

Q: How can I get some coaching?

In general, Dr. SerenaGaia prefers to offer coaching sessions to people who have already followed and participated in one or more of her journeys, either in-presence, or online, or both. In fact, in these contexts it is easier to get to know each other in a preliminary way and to establish trust and contact. If you have already met Dr. SerenaGaia in one of these contexts, do not hesitate to contact her for one or several coaching sessions, either in-presence and online. Write to dr.serenagaia@gmail.com, or send a message on WhatsApp to +39 329 4779406. You are super welcome *. Thank you!

If you have not yet had the opportunity to attend an event led by Dr. SerenaGaia, you can request a preliminary interview with her by email or phone. In response to your request, a short preliminary assessment interview may be arranged. If Dr. SerenaGaia feels that her coaching can support you in your desire to move forward on the path of inclusive love, she will make a coaching appointment with you. Enjoy the adventure of transformation and bon courage!

Coaching can often produce results in one to four sessions. Coaching sessions can last from one to two hours each, organic time. The cost is $ 80 per hour per person. You are invited to pay your sessions in advance, by bank transfer or by Pay Pal.

For a payment on Pay Pal, use the address serena.anderlini@gmail.com. You can send what you need as a money to friends, and add a note to specify what it is for. Thanks!

If you prefer to make a bank transfer, you can use this international account:
Serena Anderlini – IBAN: DE97 7001 1110 6052 5144 00 – BIC / SWIFT DEKTDE7GXXX – Adddress: Handelsbank, Elsenheimer Str. 41, Munchen 80687 Germany.
Be that as it may, send a payment only AFTER your first coaching appointment has been scheduled. Thanks!

Appreciation: “Thank you so much for all your support and your brilliant consulting in Malpensa! It has been really helpful…” Ryan from Vienna

Q: What kinds of coaching sessions are available?

A: Coaching sessions are available in presence, when possible, and especially during and after presential courses. See also The Garden of Pleasures. They are also possible long distance, on zoom.

Coaching sessions can be individual or with two or more participants. Typically, participants are involved in some shared love practices. Each participant is evaluated individually before coaching can start. The hourly cost of a multiple session is established according to the needs of the group or dyad. It is usually less than separate individual sessions.

Q: Are seminars also offered?

A: Yes. Dr. SerenaGaia offers a series of seminars on Ecosexual Love, including The Resilience of Love, which is offered online, The Alchemy of Ecosexual Love, which is offered on an annual basis in Suncave Garden, nearby of Rome, Italy, in the summer, and The Symbiosis of Ecosexual Love, which is a new program in the process of being launched. Go to the Calendar tab and / or click on the links for details about events that are now scheduled.

Q: How can I bring a journey with Dr. SerenaGaia to my community?

A: Journeys are available on the basis of the request from already formed groups and communities. A minimum of 15 participants is required, plus a venue with comfortable and adequate activity space, and a local person in charge of the organization. One day, one weekend, or one-week journeys can be considered, according to the experiences and needs of the community in play. The cost of participation varies around $ 60 (€ 55) per day, to which costs must be added for the venue, meals and accommodation. It is always important that the person organizing contact Dr. SerenaGaia or one of the people in her team well in advance and with a well thought out event plan. Let’s wait to hear all the beautiful proposals that will arrive! Thanks!

Q: How can I reach Dr. SerenaGaia to book some of her services?

A: At the end of this blogpost you will find all contact by phone (WhatsApp) and by email. Make sure you clearly indicate Bonobo Coaching as the motivation for your message. Thanks! You can also connect on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Remember that Serena Anderlini’s Facebook profile has maxed out on friends. We invite you to like the Dr. SerenaGaia page. Welcome to our network! Thanks!

Works Consulted
  • Anapol, Deborah. Polyamory in the 21st Century. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010.
  • Anderlini-D’Onofrio, Serena. Gaia and the New Politics of Love: Notes for a Poly Planet. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2009.
  • Eros: A Journey of Multiple Loves. New York: Routledge, 2006.
  • Consiglio, Carlo. L’Amore con più partner. Rome: Pioda, 2009.
  • Fisher, Helen. Why We Love? The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love. New York: Holt, 2004.
  • Fromm, Erich. The Art of Loving. New York: Harper Perennial, 2006 (first published in German in 1956).
  • Kingma, Daphne Rose. The Future of Love. New York: Main Street Books, 1999.
  • Coming Apart: Why Relationships End. New York: Conari Press, 2000.
  • Millenson, Jock, ed. Liberating Love: Readings from the German Meiga Communities. Aberystwyth: Cambrian, 2007.
  • Robins, Suzann. Exploring Intimacy: Cultivating Healthy Relationships. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010,
  • Ryan, Christopher and Cacilda Jetha. Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality. New York: Harper, 2010.

Acknowledgment:
The name “Bonobo Coaching” came up in a conversation with multiple friends, and in particular Murray Schechter. His sense of humor always gives me joy. I am grateful.

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For more information and for scheduling, contact Dr. SerenaGaia asfo

dr.serenagaia@gmail.com, serena.anderlini@gmail.com, + 39 3294779406 (whatsapp), Serena Anderlini of Puerto Rico, on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Messenger, @serenagaia on Twitter. Thank you!

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
Contact: serena.anderlini@gmail.com, + 39 329 477 9406.
Academia.edu Profile
LinkedIn Profile
Fellow at the Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs (2012-13)
Project: “Amorous Visions: Ecosexual Perspectives on Italian Cinema”

 

Dear friends from social media families and tribes.

Dear friends from social media families and tribes.

I have a beautiful announcement that I feel inspired to share.

The School of Ecosexual Love offers alchemic journeys for those who wish to support and participate in sacred spaces where the energy of ecosexual love can expand and thrive, and where we share the earth so that she’ll keep us well and in good spirits.

This is so aligned with Gaian values that I feel strongly about sharing it here.

Thank you sisters and brothers for allowing me to do it.

I will share a trailer, a video, and some links.

Our offers are fun and educational. For 2020 we are in the Rome area in a magical exclusive location. Dates to be saved in July: 3-5 for Alchemy (intro path), and 5-11 July for Symbiosis (advanced path).

We are a management team that highly appreciates your values, and we hope to fertilize each other with our respective energies!

Curious? Here’s a trailer to visualize the atmosphere. https://vimeo.com/380809058

Here’s a link to the sign-up and info pages: https://serenagaia.org/calendar/

I’d like to add a few words about current needs of our groups. These are in fact some of the best opportunities for qualified interested readers.

Current needs:

2 priestesses or priests, possibly with experience in decorating, caring for and supporting temple spaces for tantric events.

1 or 2 people with linguistic talents and consecutive translation experience, Italian-English, Italian-French / Spanish, so we can welcome people with different native languages.

Are you there? If the challenge inspires you, it will be a very formative and resourceful experience for you and for your own groups.

Conditions for these roles:

–Course fee: free.
–Cost of stay to be paid by those who qualify (Eu 50 per day all inclusive).

For those who are interested and feel qualified, do not hesitate to contact us, here or on whatsapp at 39 329 4779406 (Serena Anderlini). Call in the afternoon from Italy, in fact I am now in Puerto Rico.

I will be super happy to hear from you.

To complete my announcement, I’d like to also remind you that, for those who want to participate without team responsibilities, early bird registration is open for the whole month of people in love (February), with the intro course for only Eu 127 (plus food and accommodation to be paid on arrival).

Take advantage now if it inspires you. Thank you!

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I also wanted to share this important information with you.

The journeys of the School of Ecosexual Love integrate the values of expanding and sharing the energy of love with others, with ourselves, and with our hosting ecosystems, with a series of modalities that converge in creating sacredness, love and respect for nature and for our own nature, for our fluidity and inclusiveness.

They are offered in a programming spirit based on non-profit principles, that is dissemination, experiential education, sharing, and inclusion, as is appropriate for my “non-profit” called 3WayKiss.

At the School of Ecosexual Love we love beautiful and welcoming ecosystems. We appreciate the magic venues that host our groups in exclusive. And they reciprocate with beautiful gifts. Check out this video of the inner-cave jacuzzi our location has installed for the joy of its upcoming groups!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1002686523424194/permalink/1080155979010581/

Thank you for listening.

Questions? Clarifications? Ready to join? Go to our sign-up page with info: https://serenagaia.org/calendar/

Interested in our advanced course, The Symbiosis of Ecosexual Love (July 5-11)? Go to its own event for more info https://www.facebook.com/events/1687778868025596/

You can sign up for the Symbiosis as soon as you’ve signed up for the Alchemy intro. You can also sign up if you took the Alchemy in a past edition.

Sign up for Alchemy: https://serenagaia.org/the-alchemy-of-ecosexual-love-rome-july-3-11-2020-facilitation-team/

Sign up for Symbiosis: https://serenagaia.org/the-symbiosis-of-ecosexual-love-rome-july-5-11-2020-an-alchemic-journey/

Do not hesitate to contact us here.

All these events are 100 percent bilingual.

Thank you!

#schoolofecosexuallove, #alchemyofecosexualove, #drserenagaia, #suncavegarden, #July2020

The Alchemy of Ecosexual Love – Rome, Sept. 20-22, 2019 – A Weekend Intensive – Program

Welcome to The Alchemy of Ecosexual Love.

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

 If you do have a strong desire to love fearlessly and unconditionally, this alchemic cauldron is right for you.

When you overcome the main fears often associated with love, nothing can keep your loving nature from becoming fully expressed.

The program will take you on a path rich with rituals, principles, and practices from sex-positive education, an education that 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.

The practice of Ecosexual Love is based on the inner guidance that comes from the core of our “personal ecosystem,” and on our 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 diversity itself, as expressed in nature and humankind. 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.

This introductory training helps to create awareness of these eventual fears and identify your major energetic 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. You’ll be glad you did. Thank you! The Facilitation TEAM.

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

Our special theme will be water.

How do you relate to this element inside and around you?

We offer the resources to explore this (with Bruno and Jalesh).

For those who complete the course, on Sunday afternoon, we will open a GARDEN OF DELIGHTS, which includes a wide gamut of private sessions offered by experts specializing in the arts of loving and healing, in the space of the vibrant energy generated by the proposed experience that participants have shared.

WHERE?

The stunning location for this intensive is The Hill of Oaks (Il Colle delle Querce), a retreat center in the verdant hills of the Roman countryside.

How to Get There?

By Car:

An easy 40-minute drive from Rome’s historical center.

By Train:

There is a convenient urban train service. A one-hour ride from Termini Railway station takes you to Monterotondo, which is about 15-minute drive from the retreat center. A shuttle service is available from there, for only € 10-15 per leg, for up to 3 people. (Please reserve with Leonilde at + 39 392 670 1379, or call Luca with Uber, + 39 392 246 8013.)

By Air:

The Leonardo Express is a fast train between Rome’s main airport, Leonardo da Vinci (FCO) and the Termini Railway Station, where all urban trains are available. It runs every 15 minutes. A regular bus service is available between the Ciampino Airport (CIA) and Termini.

The Retreat Center

The Hill of Oaks (Il Colle delle Querce) offers a wide and elegant activity room with wooden floor, equipped as Love Temple, a lovely oak garden with a nearby outdoor pool, a gazebo, a café for refeshments, and a health-food restaurant. Amenities include a heated indoor pool for aquatic practices like Watsu, two massage rooms for private treatments, and much more. Comfortable accommodations are available in mini-apartments, located right next to the center, for 1, 2, 3, and up to 4 persons. The venue serves buffets made of excellent vegetarian foods from locally grown, organic, products.


Feeling inspired to participate?

Our early-bird option is open. A full two-day day intensive course for only € 127! [wpecpp name=”AlchimiaRomaSett20-22″ price=”127″ align=”center”]

Space is limited. Book your spot in the course now! This offer expires on Saturday, August 31st, 2019. Paid your course fee? Get your digital ticket here! Our specials support your partnerships, friendships, and frugality. All ticket owners can use these discounts. Which one is for you? Find out here. Choose the accommodation that’s right for you now here and let us know about your preference ASAP. (Your room and board payment will be due on arrival.)

Are you a graduate from the 2018 edition? Join the course and assist us at no charge! Confirm your attendance and save your spot here!

PROGRAM

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

The four elements energetically transform these fears into love when alchemically combined.

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.

Join us at  The Hill of Oaks (Il Colle delle Querce) for this new and special edition, September 20-22, 2019.

Become and alchemist of ecosexual love!

The weekend offers great opportunities to practice these freedoms in a comfortable and safe environment.

WE WILL START ALL AT THE SAME TIME TO ESTABLISH A SAFE AND SACRED SPACE. ALL PROPOSED ACTIVITIES ARE JUST INVITATIONS TO PARTICIPATE.

This timeline is orientative.

We will evolve together with ease and latitude, while being present to the energies in the room.

FRIDAY, September 20

4 PM. Arrival and accommodation in the rooms.

5-8 PM. Introductions and Activities.

We will hold an Opening Circle  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

Refreshhment Break: 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 relationship status, 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.
  • Celebrating Rituals of Ecosexual Love: a symbolic wedding to the hosting ecosystem
  • Gaia, symbiosis, love, and ecosexuality

Promise:

We will promise to allow ourselves to experience this retreat in 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 consent exercises
  • Body Communication
  • eye contact
  • sniffing
  • gentle touch
  • getting a NO!
  • Verbal Communication
  • making proposals
  • rejecting proposals
  • rejecting with redirection
  • Giving, Receiving, Taking, Allowing
  • 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
  • Angels Path
  • Oxytocin group hug
  • Screening of short film Playa Azul I Love You
SATURDAY, September 21

7:30-8:30 AM: Yoga Practice with Adi (optional)

8:30-9:30 AM: Breakfast

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

Ritual: 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:

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

SATURDAY, afternoon

3:00-4:45 PM: BREAK with OPTIONS

  • Relax and balance in water (in heated indoor pool, with Jalesh and Bruno)
  • Swimming in outdoor pool

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

6:30-7:00 PM: Break

7:00-8 PM: Let’s celebrate ecosexual love.  RITUALE: “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

9-11 PM: A facilitated “honeymoon” party to celebrate the wedding

Considering joining us?
Our early-bird option is open. A full two-day intensive course for only € 127! – CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP.
Are you a graduate from the 2018 edition? Join the course and assist us at no charge! Confirm your attendance and save your spot here!

SUNDAY,  September 22

8:00-9:00 AM: Yoga Practice with Adi (optional)

9:00-10:00: Breakfast

10-11:30 AM: Options for practice

  • The relax in water exercise
  • The pleasure emitter exercise
  • The curiosity in nature exercise
  • The cuddle exercise

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

12:30-1:15 PM:  Closing circle. Ritual. Contacts. Goodbyes.

1:15-2:30 PM: Vegetarian lunch with vegan options

FROM 3:00PM ONWARDS

GARDEN OF DELIGHTS – JARDIN DES PLAISIRS

Sunday afternoon until later at night will give us time to share. We will create a space of peace and harmony within which we will be able to ask questions, practice, expose doubts and share experiences, while sipping some good tea. This is the time when, for those who wish, it will be possible to book and receive private sessions with the operators of the Team:

Adi Ananda will offer Reiki sessions, combined with crystal therapy, Access Bars, Theta healing and shamanic purifications. Reservations: WhatsApp: +971 528780610 – calls +971 3208529201.

Jalesh will offer Watsu sessions for individuals and small groups. Reservations: + 393473635967.

SerenaGaia will offer sessions of Bonobo Coaching, for those who desire more open and fluid relationships. Reservations: + 39 329 4779406.

Bruno will offer postural and dynamic-functional assessment sessions in the context of holistic self-care. Reservations: + 347 3910761.

Descriptions, times, costs, and contacts: CLICK HERE.

Note: Participants are welcome to extend their stay at Colle delle Querce in the days before and after the intensive weekend. The extra night is only € 25 (with breakfast) for those who are part of the group. An amazing opportunity to further enjoy the welcoming structure and its amenities. Reservations: Leonilde + 39 392 670 1379. (A la carte lunch and dinner will be available and is not included. For all prices at hosting venue go here.)

Visit Il Colle delle Querce, the magical venue with a Love Temple and Watsu Pool that welcomes the group. (A 40-minute drive from Rome’s Central Station, Termini. A one-hour trip from Rome on public transport. A 15-minute drive from Monterotondo’s urban train station.)

Excited to join us?

Our early-bird option is open. A full two-day intensive course for only € 127! – CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP.

Space is limited. Book your spot in the course now! Offer expires on Saturday, August 31st, 2019. Paid your course fee? Get your digital ticket here! Our specials support your partnerships, friendships, and frugality. All ticket owners can use these discounts. Which one is for you? Find out how here. Choose the accommodation that’s right for you now here and let us know about your preference ASAP. (Your room and board payment will be due on arrival.)

Are you a graduate from the 2018 edition? Join the course and assist us at no charge! Confirm your attendance and save your spot here!

MEET YOUR AMAZING FACILITATORS:

Dr. SerenaGaia, aka Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD, is a teacher of #EcosexualLove.  She’s the inventor of this Alchemy and is in charge of the transformational process. She is a leader in the ecosexual movement and an expert in the ecology of love. She is trained in Tantra, Tao, ecosexual expression, and holistic bodywork.  She has facilitated in Hawaii, Sweden, Italy, the USA, Puerto Rico and Estonia.

She is a sex-positive educator and has been involved with the Ecovillage Movement since 2005. She keynoted at the Ecosex Symposium in 2012 and at Loving More in 2007. She presented at GEN in 2017and 2018.

An award-winning writer, activist, facilitator, scholar, filmmaker, professor, editor, 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.

Website: serenagaia.org

Facebook pages: https://www.facebook.com/AlchemyToo/https://www.facebook.com/GaiaBlessings/

FILM:https://vimeo.com/user52221909

Contacts: serena.anderlini@gmail.com +39329 477 9406

Adi Ananda Parashakti is a Holistic Spiritual Coach. She is a co-organizer and is in charge of rituals, harmonizing languages, and holding sacred space.

She began her learning focusing on the Mind: practicing meditation and Zen Buddhism, studying engram types & Numerology to better understand herself and other people.

Later, she sought ways to wisely re-connect with her Body: In 2004, she completed her Yoga Teacher Training in Swami Sivananda Asharm in India, where she learned about Pranayama, Mantras & Asanas. She has integrated this body/energetic consciousness learning Thai Chi Chuan, Wu style.

She expanded her knowledge and experiences learning about Energies: becoming a Reiki Master, a Crystal Therapist & Theta Healing Instructor. Deep inside, behind all these disciplines Adi’s wild instinctive nature was looking for a way to be understood and expressed.

Her wild inner voice screamed out making her literally fall in love with Tantra! Tantra offered her its magic power: the connection with Mother Earth, with her body, with the Energies, with others.

Claudio Jalesh Petrassi is a Watsu operator. He is in charge of the element of water and connections with the venue.

He studied clinical psychology and specialized in counseling for children and adolescents and the Art-Counseling. He held lectures at the School of Counseling “ASPIC.” He worked as a listening consultant in schools and carried out HIV counseling at the Policlinico Umberto I in Rome.

He leads groups on parenting, fear of flying and fear of water. He designed and lead sessions of Watsu support for children diagnosed with autism and disability in general. He gives Watsu sessions and leads multiple warm water events, including baby Watsu days for children and parents, AI-CHI group days (Taichi in water), and groups of hypnosis in warm water.

He also organizes training courses in Californian massage and was trained in psycho-body techniques such as the Californian massage and Jin Shin Do.

We also gratefully acknowledge the support of Monique Darling, Peter Petersen, Leslie Newell, and Supryia Shakti Ji in getting this new program off the ground!

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We appreciate your attention. Feeling called to participate?

Our early-bird option is open. A full two-day intensive course for only € 127! [wpecpp name=”AlchimiaRomaSett20-22″ price=”127″ align=”center”]

Space is limited. Book your spot in the course now! This offer expires on Saturday, August 31st, 2019. Paid your course fee? Get your digital ticket here! Our specials support your partnerships, friendships, and frugality. All ticket owners can use these discounts. Which one is for you? Find out how here. Choose the accommodation that’s right for you now here and let us know about your preference ASAP. (Your room and board payment will be due on arrival.)

Are you a graduate from the 2018 edition? Join the course and assist us at no charge! Confirm your attendance and save your spot 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, + 39 329 477 9406.

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

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Project: “Amorous Visions: Ecosexual Perspectives on Italian Cinema”
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