TOUCH Temple for Couples

The greatest medicine for these times is true connection and play - a return to our humanity.

Temples are ancient spaces.
They bring altered states.

This is not something I try to create; it’s the nature of Temple. It’s what happens when we are in Puja.

Each time I’m in a group space with the tantric practices, I’m sent back in time to when all this began.

And then I remember that this is how it was back then. I remember this is why it became what it is in the first place.

There are ancient memories we must remember.

There are ancient teachings we must embody. These cannot happen outside of Temple.

They seed inside the walls of worship and reverence. The containers curated for altered states, remnants and reflections of times we once knew - they still sing in our bones.

The Tantras were experienced in community. Each other holding the mirrors for reflection, each body a symbol of another facet of reality.

It’s the one place where we all unite, where academics and practitioners come to share their knowledge. Where chaos and silence collapse into one another.

Where desires are unashamedly expressed, where love emerges, where existence caresses. Where a body can fall back and know that it is held here, it is safe here.

It’s the place where doctors, lawyers, construction workers, poets, philosophers, school teachers, queers, mothers, brothers can all come together and unite for we all have one purpose, one mission. Love. To love and be loved. To express as love. To move as love.

We are love and I’ve seen time and time again that when we lay down our identity and let love in, we are all the same - Innocent and unravelled.

Undressed by the divine. Shuddering from the Illustriousness of reality’s loving.

Wet and panting with longing for life to penetrate every single space within our bodies and minds because when It does, it’s ineffable.

Ineffable... but familiar. We know this loving, for we have met it so many times before, for it is the very essence of us, and we cannot exist without the fabric of that which we are.

TOUCH Temple for Couples coming up 5th December.

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The Tantras are an incredibly erotic teaching.

They teach us about the nature of existence. It could be described as a map for living and loving. An important element of this teaching is that the body itself is this map, our eros a guiding compass to truth, as it is the very oracle of truth.

Let us show up to this Temple with what is alive inside our own hearts and the heart of our relationship – let this be our offering to the Divine.

The depth we will be experiencing together will be a facilitation into touch as a meditation. When we can touch our partner’s body without any agenda, or expectation of receiving something in return, when there is no seduction at play, when we are not taking from their body, when the mind can relax and when we enter fully into the erotic play of this moment, we enter what the tradition of Tantra calls a Puja—an act of worship.

This expression of reverence and devotion is pure medicine. It is the highest form of nourishment. It is a soothing balm for all our relational troubles. No matter where you are with your partner, you can keep coming back to this Puja, and you will always return to the heart of your relationship.

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WHO IS THIS FOR?

- Traditional Tantric practice remind us that we are the body of reality. To realize this quality is to indulge in the experience of our humanity. Moving away from any idea of goal and purpose, and to exist in this body as it is in truth now: No frills, no performance – just the raw, undulating essence of life expressing and experiencing itself

- Co-regulation, these practices serve as a soothing balm to the nervous system of our own bodies and the nervous system of the relationship we have agreed to, which is imperative if we want deeper connection, love, intimacy, desire, pleasure, orgasmic states, and truth with our partner

- True intimacy is dysregulating to our system if we have grown up in relationships where drama and intense sexual tension are what turn us on. We will learn how to re-regulate through the opening of intimacy, expanding our capacity for deeper feeling

- What happens in the body when we begin to feel safe with our partner

- How a dynamic can shift when touch becomes our spiritual practice

- What happens when we touch with our hearts

- Learning to express to our partner what we don’t like or asking for what we need by listening to our body’s true response through their touch

- Clearing out the energetic debris within our fascia and paving a new path for pleasure and connection with our partner

- Learning to listen with our hands

- Deeply connecting with their hearts while not losing ourselves in our own experience

- Tuning in to the love and the truth of our relational dynamic

- … & of course, inviting in spontaneous arising. The group brings the medicine, trusting that all who arrive in this space are meant to be together at this Temple

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