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Sexual Tension among Men

I just read an invitation to a Naked Yoga event. Part of the invitation was that I would be able to gather in a rare space, a space that let men be together, be naked and be in a space where there would be NO Sexual Tension.

This made me laugh!

When men gather together there will always be some form of sexual tension, cloths on or cloths off. Add into the equation that many of the men are likely Gay, Bi or Queer and this adds into the mix of thoughts, chemicals and posturing that will increase the Sexual Tension. 

What would happen to Sexual Tension, if like that little fish that you catch, you know the one that is so small you can not keep it, you could learn to release Sexual Tension or let Sexual Tension go, rather than deny or think that Sexual Tension simply does not exist. Don’t get me wrong I am not talking about some form of Happy Ending. I am speaking to the fact that as human beings it serves our humanity well when we can be more humane and more humanistic with ourselves.

I pride myself in creating a space where that Sexual Tension can be addressed in a safe, honouring and uplifting manner. To say that there will be no Sexual Tension when men gather together, lacks an awareness of human nature. It is funny how we humans deny how much like dogs and other animals we are. I am happy to know, fully in my being, that the services I provide, the events that I create and the space that I manifest at the Awaken Studio can provide men a forum and a laboratory to experience, work with and play with the Sexual Tension that is in each of us. This laboratory allows for the safe expression of this Sexual Tension rather that the suppression and denial of what exists within the human condition.

Treat yourself to some new awareness and experience the pleasure of being able to be HUMAN – MALE and NAKED! Welcome yourself into a space where you can be empowered by your sexuality and your gender. WELCOME and HONOUR your masculinity, be aware and capable of your desire.

Come on OUT to the next Naked Event for Men at the Awaken Studio – Toronto

Awaken Studio - Naked Events for Men - www.phillipcoupal.ca

Awaken Studio – Naked Events for Men – http://www.phillipcoupal.ca

Awaken Studio – January 6 through 12 

January 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
Individual clients. – Talking Touching and Experiencing
Phillip Coupal – Counselling + Coaching + Bodywork

January 8
Naked Yoga for Men – 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Awaken a NEW Relationship to your Body

January 12
Queer Heart Talking Circle – 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Creating Radical Queer Community 

Coming up:

January 19
Erotic Touch with Taoist Massage – 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Explore Experiential Erotic Embodiment

For information or to register contact Phillip at phillip@phillipcoupal.ca

Awaken Studio www.phillipcoupal.ca Radical Queer Community Toronto

Awaken Studio
http://www.phillipcoupal.ca
Radical Queer Community Toronto

December 13, 2013Reminder of Events and Gatherings at the
Awaken Studio December 2013

Men 4 Men Sensual Touch

Sunday December 15 1:00 to 6:00
Heart Jam for Men who LOVE Men
Sunday December 15 7:00 to 9:00
Queer Hear – New Year
Wednesday January 1 2:00 to 5:00
Queer Heart Talking Circle
Sunday January 12 12:00 to 6:00
Naked YOGA for Men
Tuesday Evenings 8:00 to 9:30

Men 4 Men
Sensual Touch
Tantric Exploration

More Information

Afternoon
Sunday December 15
1:00 to 6:00

Sensual Touch and Tantric Exploration Sunday December 15

Sensual Touch and Tantric Exploration
Sunday December 15

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Heart JAM
for Men who LOVE Men
with Gregory Saliba

More Information

Evening
Sunday December 15
7:00 to 9:00

Heart JAM for Men Sunday December 15

Heart JAM for Men
Sunday December 15

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Queer Heart
Welcoming the New Year

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Afternoon
New Years Day
Wednesday January 1
2:00 to 5:00

Queer Heart New Year 2014 Wednesday January 1, 2014

Queer Heart New Year 2014 Wednesday January 1, 2014

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Queer Heart
Talking Circle
Creating Radical Community

More Information

Afternoon
Sunday January 12
12:00 to 6:00
Join in the inauguration
of this new group.
An experiment in CREATING
Radical Community
and an Exploration of
Heartfelt Connection
for Men who LOVE Men.

Queer Heart Talking Circle - Creating Radical Community Sunday January 12

Queer Heart Talking Circle – Creating Radical Community Sunday January 12

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Naked YOGA
for all Men
with Gregory Saliba

More Information

Drop Ins are WELCOME
Session Continues
to February 18
Tuesday Evenings
Note the resumption of classes
Wednesday January 8
Continuing Tuesday January 14
8:00 to 9:30

Naked Yoga with Gregory Saliba

Naked Yoga with Gregory Saliba

Thanks for continuing to read and support the Awaken Studio.There will be a full listing of all events for the first 4 months of the New Year in the next 10 to 14 days or so. Please continue to follow all the happenings at the Awaken Studio. The studio is live and current on Facebook, Daily xtra and on the website event calendar.Phillip Coupal – Counselling + Coaching + Bodywork

For Phillip’s occasional ramble and a continued view of creating Radical Queer Community check out the JUICY Heart blog.

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If you are interested in attending any of the events listed above, please take a moment and visit the registration pages, indicated on the links for information and on the visual icon on the right. If you need more detailed information simply email me phillip@phillipcoupal.ca.

If you would like to meet and talk let’s do it!
If you want to meet and touch let’s do it!

If you have already registered for these events: Thank You!

There will be a full news letter and event listing for January in the next few days! As we head into the holiday season please treat yourself will and kindly . To all of you who celebrate the holiday at this time of year, Happiness and Joy to you. To all of you who are find yourself wondering about all of the HUB BUB, Happiness and Joy to you.

I look forward to seeing – touching and connecting with you. The Awaken Studio awaits the delicious pleasure of your bountiful energy.

LOVE
Phillip

 

Today World AIDS Day. December 1, 2013

Waking up to feeling like the MISFIT that I am. Realizing and knowing that I don’t really fit in, I don’t really belong and I never have. Even in the groups and organizations that I felt like I belonged to and was a part of for so long I realize now that I was simply too different to fit in.

For a long time I felt that being so different was a problem. Being so different made me an outcast and undesirable. Something is different today. Something inside of me has changed.  Something is different and I am finally, after cresting past middle age, realizing that all the stuff that makes me so different and such a MISFIT is actually what makes me myself. I don’t have to be a victim of this MISFIT, QUEERNESS.

Today I feel powerful and I can actually let all that QUEER ENERGY and all that sense of not belonging feed my POWER and my SENSE OF SELF. This is the place where I can make that QUEER MISFIT, into a BEING that is FIERCE and BOLD and full of the wholesome richness of life and love. I do not have to be afraid, ashamed or guilty that I am so different. I can bring that BIG, BOLD and FIERCE, QUEER out into the world and some good and kind and gracious LOVE into the community that I am a part of. 

I finally able, at this point in my life, to look at myself and feel good about what I have done and what I am doing. What is that you ask? What are you doing?

What I am doing with my life these days is creating a space, a community that welcomes and embraces all that is diversity in men who LOVE men. The Awaken Studio is that physical place. A space and place for men to come together and be a part of. A part of what we can create together, a part of what we each put in and a part of what we will each take away. An urban space and downtown place welcoming all of the energy of not belonging. An open, welcoming and hospitable place where men can bring their queer energy.  This queer spirit can be focused and channeled and sculpted  into creating community,events and gatherings for all men who love men.

Check out the Queer Heart Talking Circle, a gathering for all queers and all men who are willing to dedicated themselves and create a safe, welcoming and honouring environment. A gathering where men who love men can come together and share their Queer Heart and LOVING Gay Spirit.

For more information about the Queer Heart Talking Circle gatherings contact Phillip and the Awaken Studio at: phillip@phillipcoupal.ca

Queer Heart Talking Circle - Awaken Studio - Toronto MORE? phillip@phillipcoupal.ca

Queer Heart Talking Circle – Awaken Studio – Toronto MORE? phillip@phillipcoupal.ca

Awaken – Waking up to what will come in 2014 at the Awaken Studio

GAY Men in Community

Awaken Studio OPEN House & IDEA Exchange.

Curious about the Awaken Studio? Never been here and want to know what goes on? Want to meet Phillip Coupal in person? Want to ask some questions about what these Experiential Embodied Erotic Explorations are all about? Open up your curiosity at the IDEA Exchange and OPEN House.

Come to the Awaken Studio on Sunday November 3, 2013. The doors will be open from 2:00 until 5:00 . Satisfy your curiousity.

The Studio’s closets will be open and I will show you how deep they are, all in an effort to have you come out of yours. There might be some fun and pleasurable surprises in store for you.

This is an informal drop in event and I hope that you will come to the Studio to see, feel,touch and experience the place and get a taste of what it is all about. Join me for a coffee and a cookie. Share in my excitement as we together open the potential for a safe, welcoming space to explore ourselves and as a community filled with spirit, strength and compassion.

“Oh the places you’ll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.” – Dr. Seuss

I look forward to seeing you on Sunday November 3

— at Awaken Studio 270 Carlaw Unit 102 Toronto Ontario

GAY Men in Community - Awaken Studio Toronto Ontario Canada www.phillipcoupal.ca

GAY Men in Community – Awaken Studio Toronto Ontario Canada http://www.phillipcoupal.ca

How long will this continue?

How many times do I have to feel the rush of anger and the push of BIG emotions that rise through me as I hear the words over, and over and over again?

“You are irrelevant! Everything that you are doing is IRRELEVANT! What you want for your self, your group and your community are totally IRRELEVANT and what ever we want we will do…”

When I hear this statement going off in my head I begin to get very sensitive. What happens in my head is like the ear worm song that I can not eject, and the ear worm keeps playing, over and over and over again. I am simply left to wonder how many times will this go on in my head, repeating incessantly. I begin to fear that this statement will begin to invade my heart, my passion and my spirit. When I am beginning to be afraid that this statement is taking over my life, my actions and all that I do I simply have to do something intensly relevant, loudly different! That relevant something is usually pretty outrageous, and sometimes boldly daring.

Answering my own Question.

So the answer to my question of how long this belittling and degrading message will continue.

I feel I need to say forever! Or at least until the success, the daring and the brilliance of my self can take root and overpower the dark overbearing and bullying statement that this was.

MY BIG FEAR!

I have been afraid to write about this as when I have spoken of it or written about it in the past I have been threatened, yet again, over and over, often with legal action.

When I have begged the compatriots of this bully to reign him in I have been told, “You will just have to remain silent. The perpetrator is indeed a bully. This is how he has acted all his life and besides he is a number 8 on the “Eneagram” scale and has no control over his emotions.”

I am shaking as I write this. This story and statement feeds into every historical act of outrageous and cruel, torturing and belittling bullying and degrading taunts, punches and kicks  that were perpetrated on me a a child, a young man, a gay boy simply one who could not fit in.

The weird thing of all of this is that my silence perpetuates the story and makes the story more real in my heart. My silence creates more fear and my fear amplifies the story.

What to do to Move Ahead?

What to do… Yes what to do.

All I am left to do is get up off the floor, dust myself off and look around. As I look I seek out those who I am able to align with. I seek out those who have matching experiences. Then I do my best to stand tall, stand proud and deliver all that is my best all that is relevant. Delivering my best and everything that is full of my passion, my zeal and all of the care and LOVE that I can bring to my band of lovers and warriors lets me feel relevant. This action of delivering my best reverberates in my psyche and allows me to rebuild myself. This self is stronger, more compassionate and more generous than each time before.

What I can say about all of this.

Don’t fall into the trap of the bullies! Don’t let yourself be a victim! Offer all you have! Give until you can give no more! Keep searching for those around you who care and who will hear you and see you for all you are.

AND know this! NO human being is ever IRRELEVANT. Every human being matters.  Let your voice be heard.

If you have no place to tell you story… If you have no place to be heard… If you feel unwelcome, rejected, lost or alone… Call me! Write to me! Connect with me and together we can change the world.

Together we can stand in the face of the bully!

One final whisper to the perpetrator of this statement to me… SUE me! Take your legal action… bring it on. Your actions and your words will not kill me or silence me. Your words will only make my actions and my presence in the world stronger and will fan the flames of my passion for community, healing and love of all human-kind.

If this blog stirs something in you? Let me know, I want to hear from you. phillip@phillipcoupal.ca

PEACE and LOVE and ACTION

Silence = Death

How long will this continue... A story about relevance phillip@phillipcoupal.ca

How long will this continue…
A story about relevance
phillip@phillipcoupal.ca
phillip@phillipcoupal.ca

How long will this continue... A story about relevance phillip@phillipcoupal.ca

How long will this continue…
A story about relevance
phillip@phillipcoupal.ca

Men 4 Men
Erotic Touch
Taoist Massage

Saturday November 2 – 1:00 to 6:00

This gathering of men delivers the opportunity to give and receive full bodied touch.

The elements of Taoist Erotic Massage and erotic and genital touch as originally taught by Joseph Kramer are incorporated into each exchange.

There is a practice of Breath Work, Body Awareness and Conscious Heartfelt Touch.

Registration is available

Come to the Awaken Studio Explore and Discover 

Enjoy an erotic exploration of you body as you give and receive erotic genital touch playing with Taoist Erotic Massage .

Explore the Tantric principle of Pleasure as a Healing Source.

For more information about this event contact Phillip at: phillip@phillipcoupal.ca

Men 4 Men –  Erotic Touch and Taoist Massage
Afternoon Erotic Experience for Men

  • Gather together with a group of adventurous erotic explorers.
  • Open yourself to the pleasures and sensual qualities of your body.
  • Welcome yourself into a full-bodied erotic experience guided from a Tantric perspective.
  • Charge and nourish yourself with the energy of your desire.
  • Create a sense of knowledge and power based in the feelings of your body.
  • Mutual and consensual touch, in an uplifting and honouring environment.
  • Enjoy the simple pleasure of pleasure.
  • Give and Receive in a heartfelt expression of touch.

Namaste

Erotic Touch and Taoist Massage for Men Toronto www.phillipcoupal.ca

Erotic Touch and Taoist Massage for Men Toronto
http://www.phillipcoupal.ca

 

Intimate Touch and Erotic Education Events at Awaken Studio September 2013

Awaken Studio – September Events

September 15 to 21

Sunday September 15 – Afternoon –
++ Sensual Touch with Tantric Exploration 1pm to 6pm $45.00

Sunday Septemebr 15 – Evening –
++ Heart Jam for Men with Gregory Saliba 7pm to 10pm PWYC

Tuesday September 17 – Evening –
++ Naked Yoga for Men with Andy Sinclair (Full) 8pm to 9:30pm (Contact Phillip)

Wednesday September 18 – Evening –
++ First Touch – Introduction to Safe Erotic Touch 7pm to 10pm $50.00

Thursday September 19 – Evening –
++ Life Force Movement for Men 8pm to 9:30pm $10.00

Saturday September 21 – Afternoon –
++ Let’s Talk about Sex – Genitals 1pm to 4pm PWYC

September 22 to 28

Sunday September 22 – Afternoon –
++ Erotic Touch Taoist Massage 1pm to 6pm $45.00

Tuesday September 24 – Evening –
++ Naked Yoga for Men with Andy Sinclair (Full) 8pm to 9:30pm (Contact Phillip)

Wednesday September 25 – Evening –
++ Erotic Art – Creative and Artistic Expression 7pm to 10pm $50.00

Thursday September 26 – Evening –
++Life Force Movement for Men 8pm to 9:30pm $10.00

Saturday September 28 – Full Day –
++QUEER QUEST Rope Play 9:30am to 7pm $95.00

September 29 to October 5

Sunday September 29 – Afternoon – ++
++BUTT Touch External Anal Massage 1pm to 6pm $45.00

Tuesday October 1 – Evening –
++Naked Yoga for Men with Andy Sinclair (Full) 8pm to 9:30pm (Contact Phillip)

Wednesday October 2 – Evening –
++Let’s Play Dress UP and Dress Down 7pm to 10pm $50.00

Thursday October 3 – Evening –
++Life Force Movement for Men 8pm to 9:30pm $10.00

Saturday October 5 – Afternoon –
++Sensual Touch with Tantric Exploration 1pm to 6pm $45.00

 October 6 to October 14

Sunday October 6 – Afternoon –
++Erotic Touch Taoist Massage 1pm to 6pm $45.00

Tuesday October 8 – Evening –
++Naked Yoga for Men with Andy Sinclair (Full) 8pm to 9:30pm (Contact Phillip)

Wednesday October 9 – Evening –
++First Touch – Introduction to Safe Erotic Touch 7pm to 10pm $50.00

Thursday Evening to Monday Evening October 10 – 14 – Long Weekend +
++Kama Sutra – Pleasure Journey October 10 to 14 $395.00
Please note there are limited spaces available for this event!

Fall 2013 at the Awaken Studio

Fall 2013 at the Awaken Studio Toronto www.phillipcoupal.ca Men Touching Men

Fall 2013 at the Awaken Studio Toronto http://www.phillipcoupal.ca Men Touching Men

Fall 2013 at the Awaken Studio Toronto www.phillipcoupal.ca Men Touching Men

Fall 2013 at the Awaken Studio Toronto http://www.phillipcoupal.ca Men Touching Men

Fall 2013 at the Awaken Studio Toronto www.phillipcoupal.ca Men Touching Men

Fall 2013 at the Awaken Studio Toronto http://www.phillipcoupal.ca Men Touching Men

Fall 2013 at the Awaken Studio Toronto www.phillipcoupal.ca Men Touching Men

Fall 2013 at the Awaken Studio Toronto http://www.phillipcoupal.ca Men Touching Men

Following the DREAM Living on the ECSTATIC Path

Starting the New Year out with the realization that I am a DREAM Chaser.  My life is enriched and

Following my DREAM has lead me into some very rocky ground and at the same time has lead me into the most fertile territories. The perseverance of following the dream has sometimes been a challenge. The loneliness is always there. The richness and delight that becomes manifest in my life when I let the dream unfold brings me a sense of worth and abundance. If I do no follow the course of my dream life is too dry and static, and is not worth living.

Part of following the dream is to be on an ECSTATIC Path. This path again is unknown and sometimes seems so formless that I might be frozen in fear. Letting myself open to the fullness of the fear and defrost the terror, I am always able to step through. The path always appears and supports me.

Following the DREAM and living on the ECSTATIC Path fills my life with unexpected JOY and soothes me with PLEASURE.

LOVING my life at the dawn of a New YEAR.

Following the DREAM Living on the ECSTATIC Path. www.phillipcoupal.ca

Following the DREAM Living on the ECSTATIC Path. http://www.phillipcoupal.ca

 

 

 

Kama Sutra Journey – Discovering the Treasure of your Erotic Life

Day Camp for Men in Toronto

Next offered October 10th (evening session) to October 14th

Awaken to your Erotic Potential

Discover the Deepest Pleasure and Treasure of your Body 

WEBSITE

Create Your Own Kama Sutra 

awaken the pleasures and treasures of your erotic life

Kama Sutra Journey for Men Toronto Information - www.phillipcoupal.ca/Kama-Sutra-Journey-forMen-Information

Kama Sutra Journey for Men Toronto Information – http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/Kama-Sutra-Journey-forMen-Information

Kama Sutra Journey for Men Toronto Information - www.phillipcoupal.ca/Kama-Sutra-Journey-forMen-Information

Kama Sutra Journey for Men Toronto Information – http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/Kama-Sutra-Journey-forMen-Information

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Spend a Glorious
Week in Toronto

Occupy a temple setting to explore and share new erotic discoveries. Bring the pleasure of understanding to your personal sexual treasures. Create reassurance and awakening around newly found information about yourself and your relationship to your erotic and sexual life. Explore new territory. Exercise, nourish and strengthen your internal wisdom to drop away layers of shame, guilt and sexual anxiety. 


In oneself lies the whole world and
if you know how to look and learn,
the door is there and the key is
in your hand.

Nobody on earth can give you
either the key or the door
to open, except yourself.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

This voyage of discovery is taking place in  Downtown Toronto at the Awaken Studio, 

October 10 to 14

 

An experiential, educational, erotic exploration, this intensive workshop will take place in a day-camp style setting. 

The atmosphere will be inclusive and uplifting, welcoming of diversity. 

As a group we will gather and explore. 

We will play through three sessions per day, sharing many meals and breaks. 

There will be plenty of time for: relaxation, rest, integration & synthesis.


The event is limited to 10 participants. An interview either in-person or by telephone is required prior to registration. Please make certain to contact Phillip prior to registration.

Experience Your
Erotic Potential 


Discover the Deepest
Pleasure of Your Body

Create Your Own Kama Sutra

Intensive and in Depth
Experiential Embodied
Erotic Exploration

October 10 to 14
Awaken Studio ~ Toronto
www.phillipcoupal.ca/kama-sutra

This Experiential Embodied Erotic Exploration will begin with a gathering and welcoming ritual on the first evening and will close with an honouring and parting ritual in the ev ening of the last day.

Over the several days of this journey of personal exploration and discovery there will be many sessions to begin personal growth and open the field for new discoveries in relation to erotic spirit, self image and pleasurable, healthy erotic and sexual well-being.

The atmosphere and tone for the event is: respectful, playful, honouring and inclusive. As a group we will assemble and create a safe and uplifting space for each men to explore, discover and create new patterns and pleasures in their erotic life.

Registration for this Long Weekend event is:

$395.00

An interview and introduction as well as some discussion of intention with Phillip, is required prior to registration for this event.

 

Beauty, Truth, Freedom,
and above all Love

 


Kama Sutra Journey for Men Toronto Information - www.phillipcoupal.ca/Kama-Sutra-Journey-forMen-Information

Kama Sutra Journey for Men Toronto Information – http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/Kama-Sutra-Journey-forMen-Information

Printable Brochure

Registration

Come and BE Intimate

Create an erotic treasure map for yourself, dive deep into a safe harbor within your being

Explore your edges and beyond, thrill to undiscovered delight as you extend into unknown territories

Discover new treasure in your erotic life, as you breathe deeply with your gems of internal wisdom

Unlock, with new found keys the secrets of your beautiful, sensual and erotic feeling body

Unearth and dive into the essential treasure of your sex, pleasure, health and well-being

Experience new information allowing knowledge to create personal growth, knowledge and power

Bring forth: fantasy and the alchemy of desire as you create and manifest bliss, ecstasy and peace

Reward yourself with immeasurable sensuality and feel the ease of dancing on an ecstatic path

Share generously with others your discoveries, rewards and pleasure in a shameless journey

Treasure the Bounty of 
Spirit Within
 

For more Information 

Please Contact Phillip at: phillip@phillipcoupal.ca


Please be aware that this event might challenge old beliefs, create shift in your ability to be intimate, loving, playful and shameless with other men. Finally you might find within yourself new skills and knowledge to be a vibrant, connected and erotically energetic man in a peaceful world.

 

Conscious Expression of Erotic  and Life Force Energy


Programs and Events for Men who LOVE Men

Kama Sutra Journey for Men Toronto Information - www.phillipcoupal.ca/Kama-Sutra-Journey-forMen-Information

Kama Sutra Journey for Men Toronto Information – http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/Kama-Sutra-Journey-forMen-Information

Kama Sutra Journey for Men Toronto Information - www.phillipcoupal.ca/Kama-Sutra-Journey-forMen-Information

Kama Sutra Journey for Men Toronto Information – http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/Kama-Sutra-Journey-forMen-Information