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Radically QUEER -♥- Juicy Heart

Posted: December 10, 2013 in -♥-, Announcement, Awaken Studio, Queer Heart Talking Circle, Radically Queer, Relationship, Sex, Trust
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Being QUEER is this Radical?

Being DIFFERENT is this Radical?

I don’t know the answer to these questions. I have been looking, seeking and sorting out where I fit in in the BIGGER QUEER community.

Over the years, I have gone along into so many different groups and events, places and communities, searching for that QUEER identity. I have looked for the place that I will fit in. I have found identities that seem relevant to me and yet I have never been able to experience that integrated feeling of FITTING IN. I have looked at what FAERIE means. I have looked at what GAY means. I have looked at QUEER SPIRITUAL communities. I have looked at the MEN’S movement. I have looked at WORKSHOPS and RETREATS for GAY MEN. Although I can identify I never really feel that I am a part of that bigger gay or queer world.

I have discovered that this feeling of difference is rooted for my in my inability to assimilate myself into whatever group I might be a part of. Not that I don’t long for that feeling of being a part of. Not that I don’t yearn for that feeling of being like everyone else. I do. I want so much to be able to fit in and when I am unable I am often disappointed.

Recently I have looked at the work of Harry Hay, supposedly a founder of MODERN QUEER culture. What I got from reading and exploring Hay was that the act of ASSIMILATING is contrary to QUEERNESS.

“We know how to live through their eyes. We can always play their games, but are we denying ourselves by doing this? If you’re going to carry the skin of conformity over you, you are going to suppress the beautiful prince or princess within you.” ~ Harry Hay

I can totally understand this. At this point in my life, my inability to be chameleon like and simply conform myself and bend myself and my expression of who I am into any structured or even unstructured group seems an impossibility.  This is at the root of why I never felt like I fit in. I simply was not able to give myself over to ASSIMILATION. I have never, in all of my life, been able to say to any group I am fully a part of you. I have never been able to say I identify so strongly with your beliefs that I can say YES I am this kind of QUEER, YES I am this kind of MAN, YES I am this kind of MALE, YES I am this kind of GAY. Until reading Hay, and understanding his statement about ASSIMILATION and how QUEER this inability to ASSIMILATE actually is. My own identity has become stronger in knowing that I DO NOT have to ASSIMILATE. I can actually feel myself as QUEER.

This sense of INDIVIDUAL QUEERNESS is totally RADICAL to me!

I think I have finally found my QUEER IDENTITY. This identity is rooted in that part of me that feels so different, so unlike what is out there. I feel best when I simply embrace my difference and let myself feel powerful. I feel much better, much happier, when I am able to feel myself as being, UNUSUAL and INDIVIDUAL. This RADICAL INDIVIDUALITY is not unlike each star, planet and constellation all through the universe. Each are individual and totally different. I am able to be myself when I realize and operate out of a principle or value that says it is OKAY, actually GOOD be be DIFFERENT, to NOT ASSIMILATE and let my RADICAL QUEER SELF shine.

This great sense of difference has led me to a place where I am calling out to those others who feel this difference. Those who feel this queerness. Who feel separate from the rest. This call is to gather, share, and commune together. Celebrating DIVERSITY. Celebrating DIFFERENCE. Celebrating QUEERNESS.

Please know that I am looking for a group of committed and loving men to start this journey into QUEER COMMUNITY. This communing will take place at gatherings that I will call the: Queer Heart Talking Circle.

For more information about these gatherings, which will take place on the second Sunday of any month, at the Awaken Studio, please contact me through the website or email me at: phillip@phillipcoupal.ca

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Naked Yoga for Men at the Awaken Studio – Toronto -♥- Juicy Heart

Posted: December 4, 2013 in -♥-, Announcement, Awaken Studio, Erotic Education, Gratitude, Inspiration, Naked Yoga, Relationship
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Naked Yoga for Men at the Awaken Studio Toronto

Tuesday evenings Join in a Naked Yoga Practice welcoming all men.

The sessions will be held on Tuesday evenings from 8-9:30 at Awaken Studio (270 Carlaw Ave Unit 102).

Gregory Saliba will be leading the session that covers December 2013 to February 2014 We will be welcoming Andy Sinclair back in the session that starts up again in February.

Drop-ins are welcome. Please make sure to contact Phillip and let him know that you will be attending. The space is limited and we want everyone to be satisfied, peaceful and content. This is a quiet, warm and private space to make discoveries and deepen our yoga practice. There is a washroom onsite.

This yoga experience will focus on gentle and safe exploration through an alignment-based Hatha practice. All who manifest male in the world  are welcome.

Please check the webiste for current information: Naked Yoga for Men at the Awaken Studio

July at the Awaken Studio -♥- Juicy Heart

Posted: July 1, 2013 in -♥-, Abundance, Announcement, Eros, Erotic Bodywork for Men Toronto, Erotic Education, Erotic Exploration Workshops, Experiential Erotic Education, Intimate Touch Exchange for Men, Joy, Relationship, Sex, Touch Exchange
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The latest Bulletin from the 
Awaken Studio 
News Update and Events July 2013  
Phillip Coupal 
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Newsletter
July a Month of Exploration and Discovery

 
Events July 2013 
 
 
 
 
 
Summer
Pleasure Camp
Create Your OWN 
Kama Sutra
 
  


Awaken the Pleasures and Treasures of your Erotic Life. 
Summer Intensive – Play Camp for Men at the Awaken Studio downtown Toronto.
Turn on the power of PLEASURE. Explore in uncharted territory, share the jewels of your discovery with other men on the journey.
 
July 14 to 21. 
$750.00 for the whole week including 18 sessions and all materials.
 
This workshop is limited to 10 participants. 
Offered
July 14 to July 21
 
Information:
 
Register and Pay Online
 

       

 
 
Touch Exchange
Sensual Touch
Tantric Exploration 		 Touch Exchange
Anal Exploration
For Men Loving Men		 Touch Exchange
Taoist Erotic
Massage Exchange
Sensual and healing touch combined with a Tantric Exploration.
Discover the Healing Power of Pleasure, Breathe into sensation.

Explore different postures or mudras for giving and receiving. Surprise yourself and find, play and nurture new pleasure points.

Offered
Sunday July 28
1:00 to 6:00 pm

Information:
 
 Slow down, discover the depth of feeling in the mystery of the ass. Create safety, and pleasure, honour and delight in this introduction to butt play.

Take a big deep breath and image the power that you will feel and the sense of relief flowing through you when you surrender to the permission to explore in forbidden territory.

Offered
Saturday July 27
12:00 to 6:00 pm

Information:
 
 A stimulating and energizing experience. Embody the pleasure of giving and receiving genital touch in a safe, honouring and playful environment. 

Find freedom techniques from the same old, same old ways of connecting. Discover the realms of ecstasy found in heart-felt connection with men. 

Offered
Sunday July 21
1:00 to 6:00 pm

Information:

 
 
 
 
Resuming Fall 2013

Events to Discover

Awakening Kundilini
Intro Explorations
Individual Experience
Heart Jam for Men

Check for the offerings at the Awaken Studio close to the end of July
Summer Break at the Awaken Studio
 
August 5
to
September 4
See you in September
if you need to reach me I can be contacted by email at :
Adult Sex Education and Personal Growth Experiences 
 
Explore
Discover
Share
 
Come OUT and Play OUTSIDE the Closet
 New for Fall 2013

Workshops Exploring

Oral Sex
Anal Sex
Sex Sex
Bondage

Check for the New offerings at the Awaken Studio close to the end of July
 

 

 
 
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Coaching		 Phillip Coupal
Bodywork
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
 

What if? -♥- Juicy Heart

Posted: June 13, 2013 in -♥-, Relationship, Sex
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What if you could simply be yourself?

What if you could simply be yourself and be with others?

What if you could simply be yourself, be with others and feel safe?

What if you could simply be yourself, be with others, feel safe and press to the edge?

What if you could simply be yourself, be with others, feel safe, press to the edge and feel exhilarated, happy, honoured for being you?

Come OUT and explore at the Awaken Studio.

awaken the Pleasures and Treasures of YOUR Erotic Life - www.phillipcoupal.ca

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Create Your OWN Kama Sutra – A pleasure CAMP for Men who LOVE Men

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
Register for this Event
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
For more information
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
Register for this Event
Pride Edition
Saturday June 29 1-6
Register for this Even

 
 
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.
 
 
 
Phillip Coupal
Counselling		 Phillip Coupal
Coaching

 

 Phillip Coupal
Bodywork
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

Celebrating my First Birthday and my Emancipation at http://www.phillipcoupal.ca

Erotic Treasure -♥- Juicy Heart

Posted: June 1, 2013 in -♥-, Embody Erotic Desire, Eros, Erotic Bodywork for Men Toronto, Erotic Education, Erotic Exploration Workshops, Relationship, Sex, Touch Exchange, Trust
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Sexy Summer Day Camp.

  • Come OUT and experience your Erotic Potential.
  • Discover the Deepest Pleasures of YOUR Body

Create your OWN Kama Sutra – awaken the Pleasures and Treasures of your Erotic Life
Awaken Studio July 14 to 21

www.phillipcoupal.ca — at Awaken Studio

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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

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

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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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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the END -♥- Juicy Heart

Posted: March 24, 2013 in -♥-, Erotic Bodywork for Men Toronto, Erotic Education, Erotic Exploration Workshops, Experiential Erotic Education, Reflections, Relationship
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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 www.phillipcoupal.ca

Awaken Joyful Living http://www.phillipcoupal.ca

For more information or questions about the work that I do with:

  • Counselling,
  • Coaching,
  • Bodywork,

please drop me an email at phillip@phillipcoupal.ca

 

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