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EXCITED -♥- Juicy Heart

Posted: August 6, 2013 in Coaching, Embody Erotic Desire, Erotic Bodywork for Men Toronto, Erotic Education, Erotic Exploration Workshops, Experiential Erotic Education, Intimate Touch Exchange for Men, Joy, Learning
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Excited today.

A flash of awareness occurred to me over the weekend as I prepared for vacation.

This flash was about structure, the unpredictable and what surprise does to me. Surprise does excite me and stimulates me. Even BAD surprise.  BAD surprise, GOOD surprise they both pool together in breath… and lead to EXCITEMENT.

The excitement will only come through me when I have rid myself of the structure, have played in the unpredictable and been able to totally and viscerally swim in my POWER. This POWER is the POWER to choose. The CHOICE is always about choosing to know that I have POWER at least the power to choose the attitude that I will have towards the surprise, the unpredictable, the lack of structure.

Over time I have learned as well that if I can not adjust my attitude towards whatever it is that is blocking excitement then I really need to get curious. CURIOUS about everything! curious about all that is around me, my history, my present and my future. Curiousity is a great anecdote for my need of structure, my fear of the unpredictable and when I am lacking of surprise.

Treat yourself to a SURPRISE today and get CURIOUS. You might find yourself really, truly EXCITED.

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Life is TOO important to be taken seriously. www.phillipcoupal.ca

Life is TOO important to be taken seriously.
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June 2013 Update -♥- Juicy Heart

Posted: June 5, 2013 in -♥-, Abundance, Announcement, Coaching, Embody Erotic Desire, Erotic Bodywork for Men Toronto, Erotic Education, Intimate Touch Exchange for Men, Reflections, Relationship, Sex, Touch Exchange
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Awaken Studio 
News Update and Events June 2013  
Phillip Coupal 
Counselling + Coaching + Bodywork

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Newsletter
June a Month of Emancipation and PRIDE

 
Events June 
 
 
 
 
Movement for Men
Awaken Kundilini Life Force Energy 

 

 Community Gathering
Heart Jam
For Men Loving Men		 Touch Introduction
Explore and Define Erotic Touch
Ninety minutes on Thursday evenings, dedicated to opening the body with Breath, Movement and Meditation. Experience intimacy on a journey into often unexplored territory.Offered
Thursday 7- 8:30 pm
Information
Life Force Movement		 Join in with a group of whole hearted men. Be seen, heard and witnessed. This sharing circle is rooted in the work of Harry Hay and forms a bonding and safe place for free expression.Offered
Saturday June 29 7-10
Information
HEART JAM for MEN		 Want to know more about your body and the relationship between Body and Spirit. Would you like to let you body come alive without shame or guilt. Begin the voyage of discovery with a Private Introductory Session.Offered
Wednesday 7-10 pm
Information
Touch Explorations 
 

 
 
Touch Exchange
Sensual Touch
Tantric Exploration		 Individual Session
Erotic Healing
Touch  Experience		 Touch Exchange 
Taoist Erotic
Massage Exchange 

 
New for the Summer. Sensual and healing touch combined with a Tantric Exploration. 
Discover the Healing Power of Pleasure, Breathe into sensation.Offered
Saturday June 8 1-6
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Pride Edition
Friday June 28 1-6
Register for this Event		 Explore the power of sensual and erotic touch. Registration for Session is now offered on line. Create safety and expand into a new awareness.Offered
Evenings and Weekends
Book your session on-line or email Phillip at:phillip@phillipcoupal.ca
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Visit the Webpage

 

 A stimulating and energizing experience. Embody the pleasure of giving and receiving genital touch in a safe, honouring and playful environment.Offered
Sunday June 16 1-6
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Pride Edition
Saturday June 29 1-6
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Summer Pleasure Camp
Create Your OWN
Kama Sutra		 Studio Project
Play OUTSIDE
of YOUR Closet
 Community Creation
Create an
Awakening Tree 

 
Awaken the Pleasures and Treasures of your Erotic Life. 
Summer Intensive – Play Camp for Men at the Awaken Studio downtown Toronto. July 14 to 21.
The pricing for the workshop has changed, please note that the fee for the whole week is $500.00 with registration and payment prior to June 30 and $750.00 from the 1st of July until the 13th.This workshop is limited to 10 participants.
Offered
July 14 to July 21
Information
Kama Sutra Pleasure  		 Picture a place where you can play.Play in an atmosphere where you are not judged, shameless, free of guilt. Come and play in the closet of your choice.A new addition to the space at Awaken Studio. This will be in place for the fall season. Picture how much fun this could be.Donate
If you have a contribution or a donation that you can make to either closet please let me know by email at:phillip@phillipcoupal.ca		 As part of my work this summer. I will be building, nurturing and creating a project that will manifest in an “AWAKENING TREE“.This tree will be a landing place a nest and home for wishes, desires, hopes, dreams and all that anyone might wish to have awaken in their life. The project is inspired by the  YOKO ONO Hope Tree and the Peggy Guggenheim in Venice.Email your words to:
phillip@phillipcoupal.ca
I will hang them in the tree, or you can bring them yourself.
 
 
 
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Hearing and witnessing the depth of life stories as men become more accepting, understanding and compassionate in their lives, nurturing: truth, hope and kindness.

Individuals and Couples		 Working with men and male couples to: vision, develop and implement new problem solving skills and behaviours, allowing for sustainable, maintainable results.Individuals and Couples
Working with all who manifest as men, to create a safer, more peaceful and loving world with conscious expression of erotic and life force energies, embodied in touch.
 
Individuals and Groups
 

Emancipation -♥- Juicy Heart

Posted: June 3, 2013 in -♥-, Coaching, Dreaming, Experiential Erotic Education, Gratitude, Inspiration, Joy, Learning, Relationship
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Celebrating FREEDOM.

An introspection one year after setting myself free. Freeing myself from a business model and a business liaison that was, from my experience, unsupportive to me and the community that I represented, confrontational and blind to working and creating business from a heart centered model.

Today, as I was breathing and enjoying the freshness of my early morning walk, I pondered what this FREEDOM has meant for me. One year later and I am no longer shackled by the constraint of a larger body, domineering, bullying and demanding. In my business I have been able to open to a heart centered, more compassionate and gracious model of carrying on my LIFE work. In this freedom I have had to look to see where I go to exercise discipline and  to remain on course towards my goals.

These goals very simple and include:

  • Living from a SHAMELESS base
  • Enjoying Celebrating my FREEDOM
  • Flowing from my CREATIVITY
  • Being KIND, COMPASSIONATE and TRUTHFUL
  • Walking GENTLY on the EARTH
  • Giving from a POWERFUL place
  • BUILDING and FOSTERING COMMUNITY
  • Offering from my heart, with GRACIOUSNESS and KINDNESS.

This personal and business FREEDOM has not had it’s fair share of challenges. The greatest of these is the sense of isolation I feel when I look around. I sometimes find it very difficult to see others who are living their passion and their heart from a business model that I am able to identify with. I have been working on opening my vision farther and farther, seeking out others who can operate their business and live their lives, opening their heart and offering to the world with, FEARLESSNESS, LOVE and COMPASSION.

As part of my work this summer. I will be building, nurturing and creating a project that I will call the “Awakening Tree“. This will be  tree in which one can place their personal wishes for what they would like to “AWAKEN” in their life. This project is inspired by the YOKO ONO HOPE TREE and the Guggenheim in Venice. For more information about the “AWAKEN TREE PROJECT” contact me at phillip@phillipcoupal.ca . Watch for more blogs about this project.

 

Celebrating my First Birthday and my Emancipation at www.phillipcoupal.ca

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Tourist -♥- Juicy Heart

Posted: June 1, 2013 in -♥-, Coaching, Reflections, Trust
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Being a Tourist in my life.

Today as I went for a walk I pictured the importance of being a tourist. I experienced the freshness and the excitement of new simply by visiting a familiar spot and opening myself to a fresh perspective.

This tourist is able to see and experience what is new, what is unknown, what has not been experienced. This tourist is on an adventure, a voyage of discovery. The vibrancy and impact of seeing and experiencing, even the vaguely familiar, from a fresh or different view-point  can be a huge pick me up.

This morning being a tourist while on my walk gave me some information. This was to experience life from a fresh perspective,  this can be a different and maybe even exciting perspective, a perspective where everything can be seen, experienced, savoured as being new. From this view-point, this observation deck I can bring the energy and the open mind of a tourist into my own life.

Today I will explore being a tourist in my life.

Life as a Tourist www.phillipcoupal.ca

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Within -♥- Juicy Heart

Posted: May 26, 2013 in -♥-, Bliss, Coaching, Dreaming, Erotic Bodywork for Men Toronto, Flowers, Gratitude, Intimate Touch Exchange for Men, Joy, Relationship
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As I approach the final anniversary in May, I am again reminded of the power that emanates from within.

Last night at dinner, with a wonderful group of men, I was asked about how things in my life, were going. Yes there was the usual surface gratitude. And then, when I checked for a moment, inside, I was overcome with a greater sense of deeper gratitude and power, an internal and much more earthy gratitude. I was aware of a deep and rich sense of gratitude and power that radiated directly from my source.

This reminder brought up a great well of very lovely, juicy and fertile energy. My greater sense reminding me that this richness resides within me and flows from my source. The source of life, the within. This within, the place where I am nothing but myself: a beautiful and meaningful, radiant, blissful being.

I am filled with gratitude and pleasure as I realize that the past year has exercised, strengthened and enlarged this great pool of within and the personal strength that comes from my, within. My life source has been enriched by the experience of being made irrelevant and being cast aside.

The within in me, is the source of all of my life and my energy.  A year ago I would have never thought or even imagined that I might have within me the power to move ahead and become more myself than I have ever been.I am so very grateful to have been able to access and utilize and pump out from this well, this source, that accesses the within. The power within me to overcome those that would have me be powerless and without strength or individuality.

Today when I am utilizing this life force, when I am accessing and actively flowing from the source, I am letting myself come out to play and create and bring meaning to my world. I am full of relevance and fortitude and I even have power. I am anything but “IRRELEVANT” I am powerful and full of meaning.

A note to those that might feel bullied, coerced, forced to be something that they are not, shamed and dominated, made to feel powerless. Your LIFE source, the power within you, to be you, is within and is full of the brilliant radiance that is you. When you can let this source energy flow and be in the brilliance of exactly who, you are, you will have full and resolute power.

To those that have been bullied, please never take on the words, coercion, ridicule, shame or domination of those bullies. Please reach inside and bring out your brilliance, especially in the face of those who wish to wield power in a brutal and careless manner. The world can only be a better place if each and every human being, could live from the BRILLIANT RADIANCE that comes from source and resides in each of us, in the within.

LOVE ~ Phillip

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Living LIFE as a RADIANT BABY accessing the Bliss Body www.phillipcoupal.ca

Living LIFE as a RADIANT BABY accessing the Bliss Body
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Less SHAME More LOVE -♥- Juicy Heart

Posted: May 5, 2013 in -♥-, Abundance, Coaching, Embody Erotic Desire, Erotic Bodywork for Men Toronto, Erotic Exploration Workshops, Experiential Erotic Education, Gratitude, Intimate Touch Exchange for Men, Sex
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What is growing in your garden?

Living with shame can be toxic… dry… frozen. A life full of regret, anxiety and fear.

  • What can happen in life when one can shed the layers of shame, guilt, stigma?
  • What can happen when one replaces shame with honour, pride, respect?

Living without shame can be verdant… juicy… hot. A life full of joy, peace and love.

I believe that when we drop the layers of shame that we carry in our lives we can live more fully and freely. We will have more time and energy to express the verdant nature of our selves and true heart.

When you want to have  a conversation about how you can create a detox from shame, let me know I would be glad to have this conversation with you.

Phillip Coupal – Counselling + Coaching + Bodywork

Living life with less shame and more love. www.phillipcoupal.ca

Living life with less shame and more love.
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Celebrating -♥- Juicy Heart

Posted: March 29, 2013 in -♥-, Abundance, Bliss, Coaching, Gratitude, Reflections
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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 www.phillipcoupal.ca

Celebrating the Awaken Studio and Emancipation
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Play Holi -♥- Juicy Heart

Posted: March 27, 2013 in -♥-, Bliss, Coaching, Dreaming, Gratitude, Inspiration, Joy, Relationship, Trust
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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.

Healing through play… smiling helps and the JOY of life to be found in the act of Celebration.

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Colouring outside the lines -♥- Juicy Heart

Posted: March 21, 2013 in -♥-, Coaching, Embody Erotic Desire, Erotic Bodywork for Men Toronto, Erotic Exploration Workshops, Experiential Erotic Education, Intimate Touch Exchange for Men, Marriage, Reflections, Relationship, Touch Exchange
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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 have always coloured outside the lines
  • that my colouring outside of the lines can be a bold and edgy response to the world
  • when I colour outside the lines, there are often others who are curious and want to colour outside of the lines with me.
  • I am glad for all of those who are joining in and colouring outside of the lines with me.
  • I am sad for those that feel so stuck in their expression that they will stay inside of the lines
  • I will forever continue to encourage everyone to come and colour outside of the lines with me
  • The more colour there is and the messier the whole piece is the more fun I have and when I have fun, the energy that is brought to the world can captivate and entice another to come and colour outside of the lines with me

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!

Melting Crayon Heart

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

Who YOU Are -♥- Juicy Heart

Posted: March 2, 2013 in -♥-, Bliss, Coaching, Gratitude
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Be who YOU are
and
say what YOU feel
BECAUSE
those who mind don’t matter
and
those who matter don’t mind
Dr. Seuss

Happy Birthday to Dr. Seuss today March 2nd

  • Working today on constructive projects … a little castle cleaning …
  • Working on some props and costumes for the shows that are coming up…
  • Working to create… a mud-puddle that moves… a little fire for the dragon… a mustache for the princess…
  • Working is Playing
Dr. Seuss ... Happy Birthday March 2

Dr. Seuss … Happy Birthday March 2

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