Archive for the ‘Reflections’ Category

I woke up this morning and went to sleep last night loving trees. I dreamt of the radiant green energy that radiates from the trees. I dreamt and fantasized about the radiant green energy that flows from my heart!

All this from the Breath – Movement – Meditation class last night at the Awaken Studio.

I am so glad that I opened the studio space for this. I am grateful for the wonderful pairing of Paul Galloro.

My body feels so great today as I channel the energy and power of the tree to my spine. My heart feels wonderful and light today as I feel the green energy seeping through me. Erotically and creatively I feel open and clear.

Grateful for the wonderful group of men who showed up for this event!

-♥-

TREE

The tree that I Hugged and Loved after the LIFE Force movement class at the Awaken Studio

Awaken Studio – LIFE Force Movement for Men for information about all events call 416-557-7312 or email me at phillip@phillipcoupal.ca

Busy days as I promote and put into the public view the new offerings of: Exploratory Erotic Events at the Awaken Studio

The most exciting of course are the monthly Weekend Events.

  • Experiential Embodied Erotic Exploration – Anal Touch in October 26, 27, 28
  • Experiential Embodied Erotic Exploration – Genital Touch in November 9, 10, 11
  • Experiential Embodied Erotic Exploration – Multi Orgasmic Experience November 30, December 1, 2

There also Sunday afternoon touch exchanges each month

  • Men Touching Men – October 14
  • Men Touching Men – November 18
  • Men Touching Men – December 16

Weekday Evening events offered Wednesday and Thursday

  • LIFE Force – Movement – Exploring Breath Movement and Meditation – Thursday Evenings
  • LIFE Force – Creative Source – Exploring erotic portraiture through visualization and artistic expression – alternating Wednesday Evenings
  • Erotic Education – Exploring sensual awareness and well-being through peaceful touch – alternating Wednesday Evenings

All this as I continue to see and work with

  • Counselling – Clients – Individuals and Couples
  • Coaching – Clients – Individuals by phone and in person
  • Bodywork – Clients – Individually exploring Erotic Education and Sacred Intimacy

For information or to book an introductory session for any of these services please contact me at phillip@phillipcoupal.ca or call me at 416-557-7312

Awaken Studio

Awaken Studio
Awaken LIFE Force – Awaken Kundalini – Awaken CHI

Touch Exchange today … -♥-

Yes, I look forward to these events. I have such a delight build in me as I prepare.

The atmosphere is soft and smooth. The men are curious and fearless. The event is full of new and unexplored territory. The actions bring soothing and healing. The outcome is an ever expanding sense of peace and connection.

I am glad and grateful that what I do can be so close to my heart.

Love- Phillip

I carry your heart with me

I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet ) I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you …

here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)

~ e.e. cummings

Balancing

Chakra Balancing

Beneath the surface there is something else? or beneath the surface is more of what is visible on the outside?

I wonder as I look at this painting … ?

There is such a visage on the exterior what is on the inside… ?

What was in Caravaggio’s spirit as he created this…?

How does my interior match my exterior? or do they?

Beneath - Toronto 2012

When you devote yourself to something and you are thinking about that something, practicing that something, living that something…

Does that mean that you are practicing devotion?

I like the idea that by devoting myself I can be devotional! ♥

The idea of being devotional and devoting myself to something sits much better with me than worshipful… meditation or prayer… and I imagine that devotion moves in the same realms as worship and prayer which must look like: dreaming life and making life happen…

Smiling and BEing devotional - January 2012

 

Today is the day… Eruption

The land has been building…

The outer layers have been stretching…

The motion has been stirring…

The heavy peaks have been massing…

The heat has been rising…

The eruption has been pressurizing…

Today is the day…

Bursting forth in a new and vibrant energy!

HA! Breath – Life HA!

What will happen after the eruption? No one knows… I imagine there will be some silence and then there will be another build of activity. Or there could on the other side be some tumultuous event… It is all the same really… motion into a new place.

Bursting forward... Hilo May 2012

Sometime I can become obsessed with a project…

Today when I mentioned this to my husband… I said something like … “I feel bad because I have become obsessed with this latest project” He in turn surprised me and replied. That my obsessions were some of my best attributes and sometimes the result of the obsessive work was some of my most brilliant creation.

I was surprised. I had always thought that those projects that could consume my entire energy were not my best moments… Sometimes I just have no clue of what those around me are truly thinking. I am glad my husband shared his experience. I am glad because I had a little insight into myself that I often do not see.

LOVE – PEACE – JOY

Sometimes things are not as they appear... Strega Rome 2010

 

The Journey

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice–
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do–
determined to save
the only life you could save.
~Mary Oliver~
 
Travelling today…
 

The Journey ~ Diamond Head - Hawaii - May2011

More about movement on the Journey of Life www.phillipcoupal.ca

 

Pretty much everything is not as it seems. There are always layers and layers under and over and in and out.

Today I will look through the reflection and see what is under the surface. Today I will look further inside and outside to see what is.

Perhaps it is nothing… – ♥ –

Perhaps it is everything… – ♥ –

Not as IT SEEMS – Indiana June 2009

For more about what is … www.phillipcoupal.ca

Today fresh and new. 

Starting from yesterday where I had to take a step I did not want to take. I wonder what will come today and which step I will take…  I love this poem it is so on about looking inside to begin.

From David Whyte

START CLOSE IN

Start close in,
don’t take the second step
or the third,
start with the first
thing
close in,
the step
you don’t want to take.

Start with
the ground
you know,
the pale ground
beneath your feet,
your own
way of starting
the conversation.

Start with your own
question,
give up on other
people’s questions,
don’t let them
smother something
simple.

To find
another’s voice,
follow
your own voice,
wait until
that voice
becomes a
private ear
listening
to another.

Start right now
take a small step
you can call your own
don’t follow
someone else’s
heroics, be humble
and focused,
start close in,
don’t mistake
that other
for your own.

Start close in,
don’t take
the second step
or the third,
start with the first
thing
close in,
the step
you don’t want to take

http://www.davidwhyte.com/

Start Close In - Indiana Highway June 2009