Phillip Coupal - Juicy Heart
April Events at the Awaken Studio.
Soon you will be able to book your counselling sessions online.
Very EXCITED about the Kama Sutra Camp in July!
Contact me for more information.
Create Your OWN Kama Sutra The Journey into Pleasure and Healing – Erotic – Awakening Spirit and Desire Summer Camp for Men
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Creating a sense of Safety for all that is and developing and experiencing a sense of Comfort.
Becoming a better LOVER.
After the event at the Awaken Studio yesterday I was struck by how often men would comment on how safe the exploration felt. From that sense of safety these men seemed to derive a sense of comfort in the experience. This in-turn seemed to release a sense of pleasure into the room.
My question to myself was, “How did that happen?”
Building Safety
All these above and being able to hold the part of one’s intention where one can access a sense of graciousness and kindness. This graciousness and kindness concentrated on oneself, the other and the group. This is when the sense of comfort comes into play and the sense of safety within is amplified and then begins to move through the individual, the couple or the group.
When we are breathing and smiling and connecting to the other and our highest powers are being utilized. One might find that one can be a “better” LOVER.
NOT, to say that we are not wonderful LOVERS to begin with and these elements of concentration and physical release in the face for fears, anxiety, critical self thought, self doubt and strong emotion can bring us into a place where we can connect and find ourselves in that Exquisite and Ecstatic state where we can feel everything that we might be and we are joined in giving and receiving in a what can be described as a Sacred Union.
I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it.
I circle around God, around the primordial tower.
I’ve been circling for thousands of years
and I still don’t know:
am I a falcon,
a storm,
or a great song?
~ Ranier Maria Rilke ~
The next Men 4 Men Touch Exchange events will take place on Sunday April 7 and Sunday April 21. For more information visit the website at:
Phillip Coupal – Men 4 Men Touch Exchange Events
Awaken Studio – The Gathering http://www.phillipcoupal.ca
The RITES of SPRING
Celebrating freedom and fertility. There is something immensely exciting about the spring and about the transformation that takes place in this time of opening – coming OUT.
The Awaken Studio is a year old over this weekend. The move took place over the Easter Weekend in 2012. This event brings up a lot of emotion and many thoughts. Most of all it brings up the triumph of my own internal Rite of Spring. The word that I would like to write and I constantly put back into the box is EMANCIPATION. In my own journey, opening the studio and beginning on a path to my own personal and professional fruition has been like being on a path to, through and into FREEDOM.
This new-found place of FREEDOM is a place that is full of many new-found elements: Strength, Confidence and Balance. This place of FREEDOM constantly relies on: Graciousness, Kindness and Generosity. This place of FREEDOM grows into: LOVE, ECSTASY and PLEASURE.
This weekend and particularly today… Good Friday in the Christian tradition… a day of Celebration and Service in my tradition. Today there will be 20 men at the Touch Exchange event taking place at the Awaken Studio. This I Celebrate. This is a Triumph to me. This is all a blessing of the earth and the universe and this blessing humbles me.
Joy to the World ~ I hope that today the world will feel full in the EMANCIPATION of the earth in the RITES of SPRING.
LOVE and JOY and PEACE to all
Celebrating the Awaken Studio and Emancipation
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Awaken Studio
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Toronto, Ontario Canada
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Holi – a festival of abandon.
References to this event are often made as playing Holi. This festival of colour and a celebration of the riot that happens as Spring takes over the world holds a place dear in my heart.
I love the idea of playing with abandon and letting oneself get into the muck of what is. Playing in all this colour and the riotous quality of what one has no control over can be exhilarating and freeing. The story of Krishna playing with the milk maids as a lowly goat heard is inspiring… The thought that good can transcend evil and that everything will be okay as long as we remain faithful is a source of strength. God to me is the divine nature and internal source that we all have in our own individual self.
Here is a description of the background of the festival:
Originally known as the ‘Holika Festival’, this ancient Indian festival has been part of the nation’s tradition for over centuries already. It is celebrated on the last full moon day of Phalguna, a month in the Lunar Calendar which falls between February and March. It marks the beginning of the spring season where colors spring to life to beautify the surroundings even more. Furthermore, it is the day when the Hindus pay homage to their legends.
According to Hindu beliefs, Holika is a devil who has the gift of immortality. He was defeated by Vishnu, the main Vedic god of preservation and the universe. It is this story of good triumphing over evil which is the main cause for the Holi Festival. It constantly reminds the people that everything will be okay as long as they remain faithful to their gods.
However, it is not only the religious anecdote in which the whole celebration is based. The act of wetting people with scented water and subsequently dumping them with bright powder colors came from the Hindu belief that the god Krishna is fond of playing pranks on little girls. He loves dumping them with water and bright colors.
Play with Abandon
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Healing through play… smiling helps and the JOY of life to be found in the act of Celebration.
Next eventSunday April 7th 1:00 to 6:00 at the Awaken Studio
Men 4 Men Touch Exchange
Men learn to give and receive erotic and sensual touch in a healthy, safe,supportive, uplifting and honouring environment
This event welcomes all men no matter their sexual identity or orientation. Men of all levels of experience and knowledge are welcome, together we are able to learn from and with each other.
This event welcomes all who can open themselves to a sense of adventure and exploration in the realm of their body, on a physical level as well as on an erotic and sexual level.
If you would like further information please make certain to contact Phillip Coupal at phillip@phillipcoupal.ca
If you would like complete information or to register for the event please visit Men 4 Men Touch Exchange – Toronto
Visit the website at http://www.phillipcoupal.ca
Intimate Erotic Touch Exchange for Men – Toronto
Awaken Studio
http://www.phillipcoupal.ca
Conscious Expression of Erotic and Life Force Energies
Events and Programs for Men who LOVE Men and Men who have SEX with Men
Everything always seems easier with Gratitude.
I woke this morning and found that my heart was filling with fear at all that was in the day and the week…
Some of the questions that rolled in the fear were…”Had I not been asking for this for so very long?” “Here it was and what was I going to do? ” Would I be good enough?” “Would everything work out?”
All these thoughts filling me were not what I wanted. They were all elements that I had no control over.
A few breaths in and out and mind-fully letting go of the fear I wondered what might I fill my heart with.
What washed through me in my wondering, was GRATITUDE.
Gratitude that there was so much. Gratitude that everything was really so simple, Gratitude that I was full of LIFE and LOVE and that everything was just as it should be.
There was such a release in me that I could feel the whole of the day and the week falling together as I let the sense of Thank-fullness seep into every pore, nook and cranny of my being.
Grateful today.
Gratitude
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Counselling + Coaching + Bodywork
Gay Men – Male Couples – Queer Men
For more about practicing an Attitude of Gratitude in your life Contact Phillip at http://www.phillipcoupal.ca
Reassurance…
What will we know when it is all over? How will we know it is the end?
In the mean time I plan to live Joyfully ~ Awake.
I can always rest in the reassurance that it is not over.
Awaken Joyful Living http://www.phillipcoupal.ca
For more information or questions about the work that I do with:
please drop me an email at phillip@phillipcoupal.ca
A friend of mine pointed out to me the other day that I was colouring outside the lines.
This noticing on the part of my friend made me think for a moment about what I was doing, where I was going and what effect this might have on the world around me.
My noticing in response to this was:
I LOVE the way that the world works. I love that the world is responsive to the energy of LOVE
COME and COLOUR OUTSIDE OF THE LINES WITH ME!
Phillip Coupal and Colouring OUTSIDE the Lines
For more information about colouring outside of the lines with boldness, strength and vitality contact Phillip Coupal at www.phillipcoupal.ca
Welcoming Diversity at the Awaken Studio in Toronto.
Welcoming all sorts, all kinds, all paths to the work at the Studio.
You are WELCOME
Come to the Studio and Explore, Play in the Laboratory, Create a Path and Experiment with NEW Discoveries about YOURSELF.
Let me know how I can be of service to YOU.
Please check my website at www.phillipcoupal.ca send me an email to phillip@phillipcoupal.ca or call me at 416-557-7312
Awaken Studio
Welcoming DIVERSITY
Creating SAFETY
Personal Growth Work for all Men.
Phillip Coupal
Counselling + Coaching + Bodywork
http://www.phillipcoupal.ca
Next event March 29th 1:00 to 6:00 at the Awaken Studio
Men 4 Men Touch Exchange
Men learn to give and receive erotic and sensual touch in a healthy, safe,supportive, uplifting and honouring environment
This event welcomes all men no matter their sexual identity or orientation. Men of all levels of experience and knowledge are welcome, together we are able to learn from and with each other.
This event welcomes all who can open themselves to a sense of adventure and exploration in the realm of their body, on a physical level as well as on an erotic and sexual level.
If you would like further information please make certain to contact Phillip Coupal at phillip@phillipcoupal.ca
If you would like complete information or to register for the event please visit Men 4 Men Touch Exchange – Toronto
Visit the website at http://www.phillipcoupal.ca
Intimate Erotic Touch Exchange for Men – Toronto
Awaken Studio
http://www.phillipcoupal.ca
Conscious Expression of Erotic and Life Force Energies
Events and Programs for Men who LOVE Men and Men who have SEX with Men
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