Course Content
Eros As Medicine
For transformation.
This retreat explores boundaries and consent
The first necessary and essential skill for safely working with Eros as Medicine.
Build your skills in feeling your authentic ‘yes’ and ‘no’ in your body and standing up for it. Standing in your centre when people don't respect your boundaries or try to persuade you to overstep them.
This retreat explores emotions
The second necessary and essential skill for working with Eros as Medicine
Practical tools to be with, fully feel, and express our emotional reality in a safe and healthy way - especially when it is scary or difficult.
This retreat explores nudity
How do we build intimacy, love, and trust with our own bodies? These beautiful animals that are so sensitive and carry us so faithfully through this life.
It will never be mandatory to be naked.
This retreat explores touch
How does your body really want to touch and be touched (or not)? What is it like to touch and be touched with complete presence in the service of divinity?
It will never be mandatory to touch or be touched by anyone.
This retreat explores sexual energy
Suitable for any gender, sexuality, or relationship style.
How does Eros (pure life force energy of creativity and passion) express uniquely through you when it is free from its box of conditioning and shame?
It will never be mandatory to share sexual energy with anyone.
This retreat explores shadow
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. “
-James Baldwin
Expect to be challenged, expect to face your demons, expect to be uncomfortable.
Eros as medicine, as potent as any plant medicine. Sometimes she takes you to the heights of ecstasy, sometimes she takes you to the depths of your tortured soul. We welcome it all.
This retreat does not explore genital penetration.
Penetration is out of the scope of this 4 day journey. Lingams are not to go into any bodily orifices and nothing is to enter a yoni.
As we journey past thresholds, we encounter deeper and deeper layers of the mystery that moves us. Beyond the known there is the unknown... and then there is the unknowable - the core of infinite potentiality. There are already infinite universes to explore before we reach penetration, which is a whole other layer of mystery.
“Thanks to the work of Joy, I can truly and honestly say that I’ve found what brings my soul to life and the person I am now is hugely different to what I thought of myself before”
We are tapping into the power of Eros, life force energy, to burn through all the blocks between you and your soul's fullest expression in the world.
Eros is the great magnifier for all the places within yourself that you don't like to look at - a perfect medicine to use shamanically to unearth the deeply ingrained patterns that are holding you back. It's not necessarily about having a good time - it's about being with whatever comes up, with acceptance and compassion.
It begins with an in depth learning about the essentials of boundaries, consent, and emotional maturity, through building a healthy relationship with your own body and the way eros moves through it, to (optionally) sharing it with others and divinity itself.
we are picking apart all of the baggage that we have confused with eros, and discovering the pure signal underneath the noise. We are getting back in touch with the sense of wonder, magic and joy in your relationship with your self and the world around you before you learned that there was anything to be ashamed or scared of, opening a pathway for the divine to flow through you.
"In the presence of love, all that does not know it is love yet, comes up to be met by love"
“Everyone moved at their own pace and got something out of each exercise. Sometimes small, sometimes massive and profound. I witnessed real changes in a very short space of time.”
