Posts Tagged ‘Joyful living’

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

When asked this morning what excites me in my life…

  • The JOY that I feel every morning when I wake up! ♥ 
  • The gratitude that I feel every morning when I discover that I am breathing! ♥
  • The bliss that I feel every morning when I choose to LIVE the next moment fully! ♥

YES! ♥ Oh yes, there were other thoughts that flew into my head but the simple JOY of waking up was what resonated in my heart!

Sunrise

 

www.phillipcoupal.ca

Counselling – Coaching – Bodywork for Gay Men and Male Couples Working with Individuals, Couples and Groups.

For information about Erotic Bodywork for Men in Toronto please visit my website at http://www.phillipcoupal.ca

As of the 1st of June 2012 I resigned as Coordinator for the Body Electric School in Toronto

I am now after more than 10 years of Facilitating Men’s Work presenting my own workshops

Experiential Embodiment Workshops for Men – Toronto 2012 Taoist Erotic Massage Workshops and Facilitated Embodiment Experiences Toronto Workshops Fall 2012

•Taoist Erotic Massage – September 21, 22 and 23

•Deeper Touch – Anal Massage  – October 26, 27 and 28

•Taoist Erotic Massage – November 9, 10 and 11

•Full Body Experiential Experiences and Multi Orgasm for Men – November 30, December 1 and 2

Workshop fee is $250.00 for the weekend Interview and Prior Registration Required

Contact Phillip Coupal Counselling + Coaching + Bodywork at: www.phillipcoupal.ca phillip@phillipcoupal.ca

Presented at the Awaken Studio

270 Carlaw Avenue Unit 102, Toronto Ontario, M4M 3L1

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For erotic bodywork in Toronto and to follow the Body Electric in Toronto visit my website at http://www.phillipcoupal.ca

Celebrating the Body Erotic

the signature workshop of the Body Electric School

presented in Toronto – Spring 2012

May 12th and 13th with William McMeniman

contact Phillip for more informaiton phillip@phillipcoupal.ca

Courage…

Courage to ask…

Courage under the barrage of information …

Courage under fire …

Courage … feeling the fear and doing it anyway …

I feel inspired to be courageous as I have just been in the presence of courage. The men who I was with on the weekend were very courageous and that informs me and inspires me… My dear friend William is full of courage and that inspires me… My husband fills me with courage as I see him move forward… I am more able to gather courage to me as I feel the courage around me. 

I like how I feel when I am wrapped in the warmth of courage and determination. I like how I feel when I am aware of the clarity I can maintain when I am filled with a sense of courage. I feel like I can be an inspiration when I can be aware and present to my courage and the source of that flow of information and awareness.

Today I will move forward filled with courage and inspiration.

 Check me out at www.phillipcoupal.ca

Kent Monkman

A little investigation into the creator of – “The Academy”

A CBC Documentary

http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/8thfire/2011/11/kent-monkman-1.html

His website

http://kentmonkman.com/main.php

Another part of …

http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/Meet_Kent_Monkmans_flamboyant_twospirited_alterego_Miss_Chief_Eagle_Testickle-8303.aspx

Miss Chief Eagle Testikle

Video

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

The EDGE…

Sometimes I fell like I will tumble over and sometimes I feel like I am balanced and able to negotiate my way without loosing my balance…

The edge is always there and I simply need to proceed. What is the worst that could happen? I could fall over or I could keep wandering along being fearful.

So I will dance on the edge and be naive and full of joy. Am I in denial of the edge? No! I am simply choosing to stay within myself and not let the outside elements affect me or make my experience something that is outside of me.

Today I will remain within my vessel, my integral space. I will dance and sing and be joyful when someone chooses to join. I will trust that I am being watched over and taken care of.

Watched over... Toronto January 2012

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.

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