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Workshops Facilitated by Phillip Coupal

Dancing on the Ecstatic Path

Bridging the Energy of Earth and Sky with the Energy of the Heart

A Weekend Exploration of Erotic Energy flow.

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Friday August 31st Saturday September 1st and Sunday September 2nd

September 2012

Dancing on the Ecstatic Path is a new exploration. The September 2012 presentation has been expanded to include an evening opening session on Friday night. This session will take place from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. The workshop will continue on both Saturday and Sunday from 9:00 am to 7:00 pm. There will be breaks through the day for lunch.

The regular registration fee has been reduced to $295.00 for the weekend. If you can plan early and register by August 15, 2012, you will receive a discount making the registration fee $250.00. Please contact me for more information.

If you need information or suggestions and assistance about travelling to Toronto please let me know I have a great suggestions and lots of helpful travel information

Techniques will involve Touch, Trance, Breath and Movement.

The workshop will explore: touch, trance, movement and breath while delving into an ecstatic experience. The exercises are designed to stimulate an introspective opening into the body and the body’s response to touch. Touch will take place in various positions and not always use the table.

This workshop is experiential and the educational erotic explorations will take place in a safe, respectful, uplifting, sane, consensual and reverential space.

There will be some new levels of connection and communication explored within this Erotic Education offering.

 Dare to experience possibility and opening by daring to experience your hearts desire and your bodies passion.

Registration is required prior to this event.

For More information about Dancing on the Ecstatic Path please email me at :

phillip@phillipcoupal.ca

 

Dancing on the Ecstatic Path

Dancing on the Ecstatic Path

 

The fall season at awaken studio starts out with a workshop to stir your imagination and fuel your dreams.

Dancing on the Ecstatic Path ~ Bridging the Energy of Earth and Sky with the Energy of the Heart

Friday August 31 from 7:00pm to 10:00pm, Saturday September 1 and Sunday September 2 from 9:00 am to 7:00 pm.

This workshop has been expanded to begin on Friday evening as we prepare to dive deep into desire and pleasure. There are new lower prices for the fall season. The full 22 hour workshop is now $295.00. If you register and pay before the 15th of August I can reduce the rate to $250.00.

Dancing on the Ecstatic Path
Bridging the Energy of Earth and Sky with the Energy of the Heart
A full weekend exploration of Erotic Energy
Techniques will involve Touch, Trance, Breath and Movement
Explorations will Inform Experience, Experiment AND Embodiment of Eros
The workshop is playful and celebratory honouring  human nature and the bodies deepest desires.
Awaken Studio  - Toronto – Ontario – Canada  -  August 31, September 1 and 2, 2012

Information and Registration: phillip@phillipcoupal.ca
Please visit the website at Dancing on the Ecstatic Path

 

Dancing on the Ecstatic Path Fall 2012

 

In June of 2012 I resigned as the Toronto Coordinator for the Body Electric School. For personal growth workshops in Toronto that work with sex, sexuality, eros, and erotic explorations visit my website at www.phillipcoupal.ca Please see the Calendar link on the left or visit the News page

Power Surrender and Intimacy

with Dave Allen

June 8th, 9th and 10th for the first time in Canada. Make sure to be a part of this ground breaking venture as Canada plays a greater role in the work of the Body Electric School. No need to travel into the United States, east or west as we are now offering this workshop in Canada. We will be using the new awaken studio safe space specifically design to accommodate the work of the Body Electric School in Toronto. There will be French speaking men staffing this workshop in order to accommodate all needs. In Toronto we are very proud to extend a warm welcome to men from all parts of Canada and beyond.

Join in a journey that honors the dynamics of S/M play and its role in expanding self-awareness. This workshop creates a safe space for establishing connection, exploring intense body sensation and expressing intentional physicality. Along with erotic touch, emphasis is placed on creating conscious intentions, learning how to know and ask for what you want, and practicing exquisite attention. Methods used include spanking, bondage, flogging and other methods of high body stimulation as well as reclaiming masculine icons for ourselves. Expect heightened awareness of your body’s capacity for sensation, a greater sense of personal empowerment, and appreciation for the connection between the divine energy of power and the human energy of surrender.

The workshop begins Friday 7pm to 10, Saturday 9-7pm and 9 to7pm on Sunday The price of this workshop is $495.00 and the early registration $50.00 discount has been extended. The fee is $445.00 CDN dollars.

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

Presented by the Body Electric School – Toronto

What I see everyday…

I enjoy this business card so much. I don’t really know why I enjoy it, I have never really thought about it. But there it is, I look up . I enjoy the raw quality of this broken masculine image looking back at me.

I like that phrase … broken masculine image… ♥

Check the work of this local Toronto painter at Stev’nn Hall

This is also about the joy I have at having a camera in my hand all the time. I like where this photographic journal is going and the expression that it is generating. I love the ease of use.

View from my Desk - 9am - Toronto 2012

vis·ta

noun

1.

a view or prospect, especially one seen through a long, narrow avenue or passage, as between rows of trees or houses.
2.

such an avenue or passage, especially when formally planned.
3.

a far-reaching mental view: vistas of the future.

and on we GO! That word “ON” was very carefully chosen… Onward hoooo

Everything is full of contrast… light and dark, soft and hard, floating and still, fast and slow…

Finding the middle is a challenge and fun… The only thing that is not contrasted is the forward motion. I am moving ahead and there is nothing that indicates one step forward and two steps back.

ZOOM ZOOM

I can’t wait to see what happens with all of the movement.

Contrast + Motion - Rome 2009

Today I am UnWRAPPED

I usually carefully put myself together, wrapping myself up, making certain non of the loose ends are showing. There seems to be no wrapping today. I am full of all of my passions and full of all of my fears and full of all of the joys of my life.

I am particularly aware of how raw I feel when I hear, inconsistencies and unbalanced elements. Hearing imbalances, untruths, lies has me feel a little raw today. The world can be cruel and unkind. I will need to be extra generous with my own self care.

I will be sweet and kind and generous and finally extraordinarily gracious with myself in order to compensate for the: gas lighting, crazy making, unbalanced emotional response that takes place in me as I hear lies or untruths.

The sweetness and graciousness will allow me to glow. The glow will let me be safe and know that it is alright to be UnWRAPPED.

More about the Juicy Heart blog and about Counselling and Coaching Gay Men and Male Couples www.phillipcoupal.ca

I want a little sugar
in my bowl
I want a little sweetness
down in my soul
I could stand some lovin’


 

MMMMMMM YUM!

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

vi·tal

adjective

1.

of or pertaining to life: vital processes.
2.

having remarkable energy, liveliness, or force of personality: a vital leader.
3.

being the seat or source of life: the vital organs.
4.

necessary to life: vital fluids.
5.
necessary to the existence, continuance, or well-being of something; indispensable; essential: vital for a healthy society
 
-♥- Reaching down and into that part of me that is VITAL -♥-
-♥- Extending up and out of that part of me that is VITAL -♥-
 
 
 
Living in LIFE Force
 

Hungry today!

The state of being hungry can be the springboard to NEW.

Being in a state of desire and hunger for something has very often been a great place to start.When I am hungry I generally launch in. When I am hungry I usually am in for the whole meal. When I am hungry and I am cooking I am usually sampling and very much enjoying the act of creation.

I am enjoying all of the hunger that I am able to use as I plan my season for 2012.

Glad today to be hungry and working on my next steps. I am very excited about what I am cooking!

Hungry -♥- Juicy Heart - Toronto Spring 2009

If you would like more information about my offerings and new events contact me at www.phillipcoupal.ca
 
February 2012
Dancing on the Ecstatic Path
Spring 2012
Explorations in Rope
Spring 2012
Exquisite Connections
June 2012
Power Surrender and Intimacy by the Body Electric School in Toronto
 
 

The physical act of smiling.

The very action of smiling begins to shift me from what might be a hard focus, a stern gaze. Allowing for the physical action and the chemical stimulation that comes with smiling creates a shift in my being. This change in my being in turn shifts my attitude and shifts my focus, softens not only my physical countenance but softens my mental state.

If smiling could be the beginning of action this could be a good place to start any kind of action.

Today I will smile and soften.

Smiling INTO Action – November 2011
For more about living daily from a place of intention contact me at www.phillipcoupal.ca