Tantra for Gay Men- “a rigourous practice that harnesses sexual energy as fuel for spiritual development and personal growth”
Awaken Studio 2015/2016 Season The POWER of LIFE Force energy
Awaken Studio 2015/2016 Season The POWER of LIFE Force energy
All men are welcome to join in this class. We will explore through an embodied experiential process, participating in exercises that seek the educational information that can be a tool to create new behaviours and change unwanted habits.
Create your own guide to the mysterious and sensual art of Tantra for Gay Men.
Classes take place from 7:00 to 10:00 pm and will meet once a month on Wednesday evenings. The 2015 through 2016 schedule is: September 9, October 14, November 11, December 9, January 13, February 10, March 9, April 13, May 18, June 8 and July 13.
Some of the principles that will be explored in a variety of exercises:
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Exploring Everything as an Experiment 2-
Balancing Interior experience with External projection 3-
Balancing Expansive Energy and Contractive Energy 4-
Balancing Masculine and Feminine energies 5-
Balancing the JOY of giving and receiving 6-
Exploring the HEALING Power of Pleasure
It feels like I have been searching all my life for a group that is like me.
I have decided to give up that search. I feel like I will never find that group. I feel that I will never find a group of men that will not want to make me change to be like them.
There has been a process involved with coming to the realization that I simply need to stay within myself.
The start of the process was the never ending feeling, thoughts and stories that I gave to myself and took into myself that there was something “WRONG” with me. This is an ever ingrained story that I have been taking and then placing on myself for all of my life. I felt as a young child that there was something “WRONG” with me. I did not want to play the way the other children played. As a teen ager and as a young man I felt that there was something “WRONG” with me. I did not want to socialize and “date” in the way that seemed acceptable. I wanted to be with others who were like me. The longing to be with those who thought like me began at this time of my life. I believe that it is in my teen years that I really began to feel that I was damaged and I was at this time that I began to really feel shame about who I was. As a young man I simply felt freakish and sought out others that were freakish. Our shared freakishness was never the same. I was simply comfortable to be together with another group that seemingly felt the same push back from the world around them. As I grew older I isolated more and more and felt more and more separate from the world around me. I was fortunate in that I had a great partner and we have had a wonderful life together. The separateness and difference became all the more evident to me as I grew older and I simply could not identify with the roles. The names, labels, the identities that the world put on me never seemed to fit, I continuously worked to fit and see if I could “morph” myself into an acceptable form. The cloak of shame had hardened into a shell of resistance to the world and to those that would push their identity onto me.
There have been many “morphs” in my adult life, as I would work in earnest and deliberate ways to change myself to fit the role that I thought would work best for me to fit into the place that I was at in my life. There has been a lot of pain and emotion in this desire and effort to simply “FIT” in. I have never “FIT” in.
Time now, with this latest foray into yet another world of men, to stop working, efforting and trying so hard to “FIT” in. It is finally time for Phillip to STOP searching. Finally time for Phillip to simply surrender to the fact that he is perfect just as he is.
For all my life I have never fit in. I am well beyond the middle of my life. It is time to rest assured in myself. Time to come out yet again as a builder of safety, a powerful being and a man full of the skills of life that make him able.
I have lots of experience as being and feeling safe, powerful and able. It is now time to build on these experiences of being, time to stand steadfast in my knowing that I am here to assist others in finding their own safety, their own power and their own ability.
I am curious about how this newfound energy and newfound sense of direction will work to build more safety, power and ability in the world around me, as I share my gifts and the truth and beauty of who I am with the world and the men that grace me with their presence in my life and in the community that I live in.
Create an EROTIC adventure.
Explore the path of PLEASURE.
October 31, Novemebr 1 and 2 at the Awaken Studio – Toronto
Registration is open. We are at 14 participants looking for 2 more.
This is proving to be the most dynamic group I have gathered.
I am looking forward to the power, peace and surrender that can be stirred in the cauldron of our creation.
Check the website at http://www.phillipcoupal.ca
Registration is open for Ecstatic Path Weekend Experience with William McMeniman and Phillip Coupal October 31, November 1 and 2 at the Awaken Studio Toronto – We are currently at 11 fully registered participants. We will close registration when we reach 16. Please ensure that you receive the benefit of early registration. Before October 13 the fee is $300.00 and from October 13 until October 30 the fee will be $400.00.
Registration is open for Ecstatic Path Weekend Experience with William McMeniman and Phillip Coupal October 31, November 1 and 2 at the Awaken Studio Toronto – We are currently at 11 fully registered participants. We will close registration when we reach 16. Please ensure that you receive the benefit of early registration. Before October 13 the fee is $300.00 and from October 13 until October 30 the fee will be $400.00.
I am just home from delivering an afternoon of Taoist Erotic Massage for a group of men. The experience today was exhilarating and I found myself wondering what made a difference for me in the work that I offered today.
The first element was that the men who were there for this experience were: curious and willing. These men were resolute in their ability to address the individual concerns that brought them, powerfully diving into the experience where they would explore full bodied and genital touch with a group of other men. The courage and determination of these men was wonderful to see. I was inspired as these men came more fully into their bodies and became more of who they are as individuals and as human beings.
The second element of the afternoon was that the pace I took was slower than I have ever delivered. This slowness of pace brought forward a state of rich reverence with the men as they connected with each other. This state of reverence is an unusual place for men to be in. In everyday life outside of the Awaken Studio it is my experience, that men often: look and compare, look and objectify, look and diminish. Today was uplifting, without comparisons, without objectification and without diminishment. In this reverential experience of men connecting, looking and touching each other, the sacred quality of the body was delivered in ways that were mysterious and unknown. When men are able to look at each other and touch each other and stir erotic and sexual energies with each other, mystical and sacred energies begin to flow. Being in this energy was exhilarating for me, after the afternoon came to a close several of the men spoke of this exhilaration.
The third and most moving element of all is that there is a divine beauty in the men as they give and receive intimate and erotic touch. There is a section of the ritual where the back is touched and massaged. This is an introduction and way of introducing touch and breath and connection. The slow, gracious and graceful touch and connection between the men was beautiful and stirred passion. As the men circled further into a deeper place within themselves and with the fellows that they were touching and massaging, the beauty created a crescendo. Today this beauty built, grew and spiralled into the heavens. This beauty became a prayer, an homagé, an adoration. As the afternoon unfolded the depth of beauty within the room and within the men intensified.
Today I felt inspired. I felt the need in me to deliver more and more and more of this intensely personal and totally relevant work with men. I felt the need in me to be more human with others, as I am more human with myself. I felt connected to these men and part of a community of lovers and men who were willing to the REAL with each other.
How and where and when does this happen?
Yes, you can travel to the far reaches of the earth in search of kindness and human connection. Yes, you can spend hundreds and thousands of dollars seeking community and relevance. Yes, you can be told and taught how to be gracious and graceful. Yes, you can escape the need for human connection by dwelling in the world of a smart phone. I say, WAIT! I say, don’t bother with all of that!
Get real, get connected, get into yourself. Come to an afternoon at the Awaken Studio and practice the human art of connecting and loving, being vulnerable and curious, willing and courageous and you can come away forever changed. You can come away from an afternoon and feel. Feel better about yourself. Feel more peaceful and deeply connected to yourself. Feel empowered to bring more of the beautiful and brilliant parts of yourself to: who you are, to a group of men and ultimately to the world.
I am enjoying the rich and vibrant feelings that I have from just now coming home having given myself an afternoon of praying to male bodies, breathing in the richness of humanity, touching the divine and holding another man. All this from an afternoon at a Men 4 Men Touch Exchange exploring Erotic Touch with Taoist Massage at the Awaken Studio in Toronto.
Peace, Joy and LOVE
Phillip
There are many opportunities to practice touch and connect with other men.
Erotic Touch with Taoist Massage takes place on the 3rd Sunday of the Month.