Posts Tagged ‘Radically QUEER Toronto’

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Sweet Juicy Heart at the Awaken Studio Toronto

How is it possible to find JOY in anything?

Today as I prepared food for the gathering of the Queer Heart Talking Circle I found myself in a totally joyous state. A state similar to what I might find myself in as I prepare to go on a vacation, prepare my home for a special guest, or drive to the airport in anticipation of bringing home a family member. This JOY seemed strange to me and I pondered for a few moments and realized the profound and grounding effect of preparing food for the group of men who will gather, share their stories, lives and loves.

The Queer Heart Talking Circle has become a tradition within my realm, my life. Just as some celebrate the tradition of Christmas, get excited, feel joy and thrill at the preparation involved. Once a month I prepare for for this gathering of men, I get excited, feel joy and I get totally thrilled as I prepare food, prepare the space, polish the talismans that we will hold as we speak, place the candles and open the door.

This thrill and total state of JOY is something that I hold dear to my heart. I feel myself becoming powerful, free and clear as I enter this state of JOY. I know that this state is possible as it comes out of the tradition that we hold in the Queer Heart Talking Circle. This tradition of being KIND, GRACIOUS and CONSIDERATE of others, this tradition of feeding one another and holding space for each other as we each take our space, this tradition of gathering and holding each other in loving light. These traditions create a unique and distinct atmosphere, an atmosphere and place where we can truly be ourselves as we create expressions and extensions into the world, of our unique and individual LOVE and JOY. Writing this thrills me. Posting this thrills me. Feeling the JOY of anticipation thrills me.

I am so totally looking forward to gathering and being held within the next Queer Heart Talking Circle.

The Queer Heart Talking Circle monthly at the Awaken Studio in Toronto. Share the JOY.

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

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

 

 

Awaken Studio
Looking to the future

June 1, 2016 – As I begin the cycle and prepare the foundations for the practices and explorations that will be created at the Awaken Studio over the the next months and indeed into and through the remainder of 2016 and the first half of 2017. The focus of this next journey at the Awaken Studio and within my practice with clients and my own personal practice is the exploration and embodiment of Masculine Energy.

The JOURNEY to the Divine Masculine – Sacred Male Energy

“Male Shakti is one of the most potent powers on the planet. What are you using it for? What are you living for? Are you fighting against love or for love? Are you fighting from your wounds? From your anger, your fear, your disappointment, and disempowerment? Are you lashing out to hurt others because you have been hurt yourself? Are you programmed to defend because you have felt attacked so many times? Is there a cold place in your heart that no longer cares?”

From: True Masculine Essence

Come Out and Come In and Come Home – Awaken Studio Toronto

The Program and Event Calendar for the period of September 2016 to August 2017 will be populated over the next few weeks. Please check the web page for current events at: Awaken Studio Calendar Events with Phillip Coupal

A welcoming, safe and supportive environment for all men, to explore erotic and sexual experience, through exploratory education, experimentation, play and willing curiosity.

The Awaken Studio provides a space where with communal and humanistic intention all men are welcome to dynamically and fluidly, create, explore and or re-experience sexual story and history.

Men awaken, transform and ascend to a state of powerful, peaceful, joyful, and ecstatic transcendence.

 

 

March … the month of NEW beginnings
Begin something NEW this week at the Awaken Studio
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Tuesday March 8 – 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Naked Yoga for Men
http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/event-1987705
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Wednesday March 8 – 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Explore Tantra for Men
http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/event-2002045
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Thursday March 10 – 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Orgasmic Energy Exploration for Men
http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/event-2006882
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Saturday March 12 – 10:00 am to 11:30 am
Naked Yoga for Men
http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/event-2008392
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Sunday March 13 – 1:00 pm top 5:30 pm
Queer Heart Talking Circle
http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/event-2031674
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Registration continues for
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Ecstatic Path Weekend Experience
with William McMeniman and Phillip Coupal
April 29, 30 and May 1
http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/event-2099932
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Kamasuta the Pleasure Journey
Summer Day Camp for Men
July 2 to 8
http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/event-1996740
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Information – Curiousity – Questions
Email Phillip at phillip@phillipcoupal.ca

Tuesday March 8 - 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm Naked Yoga for Men  http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/event-1987705

Tuesday March 8 – 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Naked Yoga for Men
http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/event-1987705

Wednesday March 8 - 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm Explore Tantra for Men http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/event-2002045

Wednesday March 8 – 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Explore Tantra for Men
http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/event-2002045

Thursday March 10 - 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm Orgasmic Energy Exploration for Men http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/event-2006882

Thursday March 10 – 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Orgasmic Energy Exploration for Men
http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/event-2006882

Saturday March 12 - 10:00 am to 11:30 am Naked Yoga for Men http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/event-2008392

Saturday March 12 – 10:00 am to 11:30 am
Naked Yoga for Men
http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/event-2008392

Sunday March 13 - 1:00 pm top 5:30 pm Queer Heart Talking Circle http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/event-2031674

Sunday March 13 – 1:00 pm top 5:30 pm
Queer Heart Talking Circle
http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/event-2031674

Ecstatic Path Weekend Experience with William McMeniman and Phillip Coupal April 29, 30 and May 1 http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/event-2099932

Ecstatic Path Weekend Experience
with William McMeniman and Phillip Coupal
April 29, 30 and May 1
http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/event-2099932

Kamasuta the Pleasure Journey Summer Day Camp for Men July 2 to 8 http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/event-1996740

Kamasuta the Pleasure Journey
Summer Day Camp for Men
July 2 to 8
http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/event-1996740

 

Wanna PLAY with DICK

Experiential Erotic Explorations
for Men – PLAY Day
March 6, 2016

A full day of exploration, experiment and education.

This day will feature, demonstrate and create a laboratory for safe, uplifting and conscious exploration of full bodied and genital touch.

The workshops takes place in a playful and creative setting. The techniques involved include: demonstration, play, touch, visualization, meditation, breath and movement. We will explore both sensual and erotic touch techniques through the day.

In the laboratory of this experimental educational event questions, uncertainty and wondering are all welcomed.

The workshop is delivered in the well equipped and private space provided by the Awaken Studio.

We will start at 10:00 am and be complete by 6:00 pm. Please arrive a little early (15 minutes) to ensure a prompt start time.

If you have concerns questions or need more information please contact me for an introductory interview before registering for this workshop. phillip@phillipcoupal.ca

Participants will be asked to make a personal agreement before you attend this event. This agreement about group behaviour will be outlined in a confirming letter and delivered to all participants.

Spaces are limited this group is limited to 10 participants.

If you are curious about this group and would like to have more information before you register please email and let me know your questions, comments or concerns at phillip@phillipcoupal.ca

These full day offerings can serve as a springboard to deeper understanding and self empowerment
Register and Pay in advance and SAVE
Register and pay on the website up to 7 days prior to the event and pay $95.00 Within the 7 days prior the fee is $150.00

There is no drop in available for this class all registrations must be complete the day prior to the class taking place.

Webpage for Registration and Information
http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/event-2007391

Wanna PLAY with DICK - Full Day Exploration at the Awaken Studio Toronto www.phillipcoupal.ca

Wanna PLAY with DICK – Full Day Exploration at the Awaken Studio Toronto http://www.phillipcoupal.ca

JOY!
The pleasure and power of gathering with a group of men.
We talk, we laugh, we feel any range of emotions. We share our lives, our struggles, our triumphs, our sadness and our joy. We all have an opportunity to open ourselves and our hearts to the men who are gathered.
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As the time passes, and we have gathered now for years, there is a greater sense of wellbeing within the group.
As the time passes, and we have used this talking circle for countless rounds of sharing, there is a greater sense of community within the group.
As the time passes, and we have seen life pass through this gathering, there is a greater sense of power and strength in numbers.
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The Queer Heart Talking Circle has become this place where we can share freely, deliver both the good news and the bad news, smile with one another, put a helping hand forward, offer ourselves to one another or simply take a little step back and witness.
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The Queer Heart Talking Circle meets on the Second Sunday of the month through the year. We gather at the Awaken Studio in Toronto. We share time by speaking and sharing in the ritual of the Circle. We spend time winding in and then after a time silence begins and we wind back down talking into ourselves the fruits that have shared our witnessing. The Circle disperses and we carry each other to share a dinner to which we all contribute. The offerings are rich and full of the loving kindness, compassion, respect and honour that we all have grown to have for one another.
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All men are welcome to share in this event. The next gathering is: Sunday March 13.

http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/Radical-Queer-Community-Heart-Talking-Circle

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

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

Men 4 Men Touch Exchange – Erotic Touch with Taoist Massage – November 15, 2015

Words of the men this evening as they left the Awaken Studio.
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“Kindness…”
“Compassion…”
“A generous act of self love…”
“The beauty of emptiness…”
“Peace…”
“Gratitude…”
“The blessing of giving and the joy of receiving…”
“Joyful at being safe, respected and welcomed”
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From my SWEET Juicy Heart –

I believe that this is a pathway to peace. I am blessed to be such a lucky, lucky man having an opportunity to bring the practice of loving kindness and compassionate generosity to my community.

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JOY – More JOY – Always JOY

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Pathways to PEACE at the Awaken Studio Toronto

Pathways to PEACE at the Awaken Studio Toronto

Men 4 Men Touch Exchange – Erotic Touch with Taoist Massage at the Awaken Studio Toronto
Join Phillip Coupal and an adventuresome group of men as they explore nudity, erotic touch and the pleasure of giving and receiving Taoist Erotic Massage. Awaken Studio Upstairs Unit 217B 276 Carlaw Avenue Toronto, ON M4M 3L1 Canada

Men 4 Men – Touch Exchange – Sunday Afternoon – Monthly
Taoist Erotic Massage – Ecstatic Experience with Full Body Touch

Celebrate your Erotic Body – Open your Mind, Body and Heart to a Sensual Erotic and Opening Experience

Men experiment with giving and receiving erotic touch in a safe, honouring, uplifting environment. Men 4 Men Touch Exchange. Taoist Massage a Ritual of Sacred and Ecstatic Touch.

Experiential Embodied Erotic Exploration – Healing Bodywork for Men

Celebrate your erotic nature, honour your self with heartfelt touch. Celebrate your desire with a bold group of men.

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. Each exchange is offered on a weekend afternoon and is held in the comfortable, well equipped and private space provided by the Awaken Studio.

Spaces are limited this group is limited to 12 participants.

If you are curious about this group and would like to have more information before you register please email and let me know your questions, comments or concerns at phillip@phillipcoupal.ca

Please note that all registrations must be confirmed with payment or alternate arrangement.

Please contact Phillip Coupal at phillip@phillipcoupal.ca if you are, for any reason, unable to complete the registration and payment within the on line system.

This Exploration is offered on:
November 15, 2015
December 20, 2015
January 17, 2016
February 21, 2016
March 20, 2016
April 17, 2016
May 15, 2016
June 19, 2016
July 17, 2016

Check the current Calendar at http://www.phillipcoupal.ca

Contact:

Phillip Coupal

phillip@phillipcoupal.ca

416-557-7312

http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/Touch-Exchange-Phillip-Coupal-Counselling-Coaching-Bodywork-Toronto-Gay-Men

Men 4 Men Touch Exchange - Erotic Touch with Taoist Massage Awaken Studio Toronto

Men 4 Men Touch Exchange – Erotic Touch with Taoist Massage Awaken Studio Toronto

Tantra Explorers

a Path to Spirit for Men

at the Awaken Studio 

Explore the Principles and Power of Tantra

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

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
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Balancing Interior experience with External projection
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Balancing Expansive Energy and Contractive Energy
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Balancing Masculine and Feminine energies
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Balancing the JOY of giving and receiving
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Exploring the HEALING Power of Pleasure

Registration is available online at http://www.phillipcoupal.ca  or email Phillip at phillip@phillipcoupal.ca

If you have Questions or Curiousity please contact Phillip by email or phone. 

http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/Tantra-Explorers-Awaken-Studio-Toronto

Tantra for Gay Men at the Awaken Studio www.phillipcoupal.ca

Tantra for Gay Men at the Awaken Studio http://www.phillipcoupal.ca

Phillip and HIS Kind… The search for… Community.

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.

 

Taoist Erotic Massage for Men

A BODY Prayer

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.

Next presentations are:

·         October 19, 2014

·         November 16, 2014

·         December 21, 2014

·         January 18, 2015

·         February 15, 2014

 

Check the website for complete details at: http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/Touch-Exchange-Phillip-Coupal-Counselling-Coaching-Bodywork-Toronto-Gay-Men

Erotic Touch with Taoist Massage at the Awaken Studio Toronto www.phillipcoupal.ca

Erotic Touch with Taoist Massage at the Awaken Studio Toronto http://www.phillipcoupal.ca