Phillip Coupal - Juicy Heart
When you start to crack open, don’t waste
a moment gathering your old self up
into something like you knew before.
Let your new self splash like sunlight
into every dark place and laugh and
cry and make sounds you never made
and thank all that is holy for the gift,
because now you have no choice but to
let all your love spill out into the world.
Phillip Coupal Couynselling + Coaching + Bodywork http://www.phillipcoupal.ca
Naked Yoga for Men at the Awaken Studio Toronto
Resuming Fall 2014
Session runs Tuesday evenings September 16 to November 18 2014
Make sure there is space for you… register for the series of 10 before September 16
10 classes $175.00
Drop Ins always welcome.
Single Class $20.00
This practice is open to all men and Awaken Studio welcomes all diversity.
Free your MIND. All men are welcome. There is no experience qualification, body shape or size restriction or age restriction.
Free your BODY. Please arrive a little early to settle into the first pose. We will have dimmed the lights, warmed the space, created a welcoming environment to welcome you into your body.
Free your SPIRIT. Share breath, stretching and opening of your body. As a group we move through the fluidity of experience flowing through what might appear to be stress and into freedom and relaxation.
Join a weekly gathering to share a Naked Yoga practice with Men.
This yoga experience will focus on gentle and safe exploration through an alignment-based Hatha practice.
This sessions will be held on Tuesday evenings from 8-9:30 at Awaken Studio (270 Carlaw Ave Unit 102).
This is a quiet, warm and private space to make discoveries and deepen our practice. There is a washroom onsite.
Register for a series of 10 classes Awaken Studio Toronto Naked Yoga for Men Series of 10 Classes
Drop ins are welcome, the fee is $20.00 for each class.
Send Phillip a note and let him know you will be joining in: phillip@phillipcoupal.ca or register online at Awaken Studio Toronto Naked Yoga for Men
We have extra mats and towels if you should need. There is no charge for this service and all we ask is your gratitude.
Please email Phillip for information about dropping in
Namaste
Fall Series Classes on: September 16, 23, 30, October 7, 14, 21, 28, November 4, 11, 18 The next series will start the week following.
Awaken Studio Toronto
Naked Yoga for Men Tuesday 8:00 pm http://www.phillipcoupal.ca
– …about so much more than Erotic Massage and Yoga practices.
– Enjoy the simple pleasures of being yourself in a group of men
– A sanctuary for men to gather and explore erotic energies in a community environment
Coming for the Fall and Winter of 2014
The Awaken Studio is open to all who manifest as MEN in the world. The studio welcomes Diversity. The studio acknowledges that we can learn, grow and develop through allowing diversity to enter our lives and experience. Participants are not segregated or delineated into categories of age, race, belief, sexual orientation or any other segregating factor. All MEN are welcome.
Let’s open the door and learn from each other.
Awaken Studio Fall 2014 Events and Programs for Men who LOVE and Have SEX with Men http://www.awakenstudiotoronto.com
Awaken Studio Fall 2014 Events and Programs for Men who LOVE and Have SEX with Men http://www.awakenstudiotoronto.com
Hello Lover
Here are the Events for June at the Awaken Studio
Please know that the Awaken Studio welcomes all men. If you have questions or uncertainty of any of the events please feel free to give me a call at 416-557-7312 or send me an email at phillip@phillipcoupal.ca.
I take great pride in offering events and space for men to explore their desire. It is my pleasure to hold and offer space for all men to create a dynamic and fertile erotic life for themselves and their lovers. I hope that the world might be a better place as we communicate and live with whole hearts as vibrant and gracious sexual human beings.
Best of everything
Phillip
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News Update and Events June 2014
Phillip Coupal
Counselling + Coaching + Bodywork
Awaken Studio – Toronto
Awakening the heart and spirit of men to the
peace and surrender of masculine erotic power.
Weekly Events
Tuesday evenings
Naked Yoga for Men with Gregory Saliba
Tuesday Evenings – through July 22
You are welcome to Drop In to these sessions
$20.00 for the class
Email if you plan to attend
Sorry there is no touch exchanged at this event.
Phillip@phillipcoupal.ca
Thursday Evenings
Touch Practice for Men with Phillip Coupal
Thursday Evenings – through July 17
You are welcome to Drop In to these sessions
$30.00 for the evening
On Line Registration
June Weekend Events
Queer Heart Talking Circle
Sunday June 8 – 1:00-5:30
PWYC Suggest $10.00
Sorry there is no touch exchanged at this event.
Touch Exchange – Erotic Touch with Taoist Massage
Sunday June 15 – 1:00-6:00
$45.00 for the afternoon
on Line Registration
Sensual Experience with Tantric Exploration
Sunday June 22 – 1:00 to – 6:00
$45.00 for the afternoon
on Line Registration
Self Pleasure Meditation for Men
Monday June 23 – 7:30 to – 9:30
$30.00 for the evening
on Line Registration
Naked Yoga for Men – World Pride Edition
Tuesday June 24 – 8:00 to – 9:30
$20.00 for the class
Email for Attendance
Sorry there is no touch exchanged at this event.
Rosebud Anal Exploration for Men
Wednesday June 25 – 7:30 to – 9:30
$30.00 for the evening
on Line Registration
Touch Practice for Men – World Pride Edition
Thursday June 26 – 7:30 to – 9:30
$30.00 for the evening
on Line Registration
Surrendering to Sensation
Friday June 27 – 7:00 to – 10:00
$50.00 for the evening
on Line Registration
Pleasure Play with Cross and Sling
Saturday June 28 – 10:00 to – 6:00
$125.00.00 for the day
on Line Registration
Registration for all events at http://www.phillipcoupal.ca
World Pride 2014 Events at the Awake Studio http://www.phillipcoupal.ca
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“The erotic is the nurturer or nursemaid of all our deepest knowledge.” – Audre Lorde
Awaken Studio
270 Carlaw Avenue
Toronto, ON Canada
416-557-7312
phillip@phillipcoupal.ca
http://www.awakenstudiotoronto.com
Awaken Studio – A welcoming, safe and
supportive environment for all men, to explore erotic and sexual experience, through exploratory
education, experimentation, play
and willing curiousity.
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 transform and ascend to a state of powerful, peaceful, joyful, and ecstatic transcendence.
From Daily xtra Toronto Sex and Sexuality Awaken Studio in xtra Daily
I have known Phillip Coupal for barely two hours when I find myself browsing through his collection of leather jackets, high heels and a variety of flogging tools. Coupal smiles and laughs as he demonstrates his favourite, a black faux-fur whip, on my arm. A massage table sits in the middle of his studio, which is decorated with Coupal’s own artwork and an array of eccentric ornaments, including a wooden penis sculpture and a full-sized St Andrew’s cross. Behind cupboard doors, visitors can find neatly labelled bins containing ropes and ties, a few wooden spoons and more dildos than the average imagination knows what to do with.
Regardless of what his collection might suggest, Coupal’s work at Awaken Studio , located at 270 Carlaw Ave, seeks to take the focus and emphasis off sex and create a safe, pleasurable environment for queer male individuals, couples and groups to explore their sexuality.
Visitors can book part-day, full-day or weekend sessions with Coupal, which he describes as an “experiential embodied erotic exploration,” or attend structured group-touch exchanges, like “Taoist Erotic Massage” and “Sensual Touch and Tantric Exploration.”
Clothes are removed at the beginning of these five-hour group seminars, which usually consist of about 10 people. Coupal welcomes the tension that accompanies stripping down with a group of strangers. “Being naked makes everyone equal because clothing takes away from who we are as sexual beings,” he says. “We as a society are not educated that it’s natural to be sexual.”
Coupal says that there is sometimes a misconception about what takes place at his studio. His practice’s goal is not to contribute to the unattainable standard that the queer male community is presented with, but rather to teach his visitors to come as they are and accept themselves. “Sex sells. Naked sells. Communication is different,” Coupal says. “The focus is on the whole body to be an organism of sexual pleasure.”
Sexual pleasure definitely makes its way into the seminars. During “play days” at Awaken Studio, guests are put into pairs for 20 minutes to experiment with their own sexual desires. One activity has partners take turns filling in the blanks in the sentence, “For my pleasure, I would like you to ___________.”
“The biggest thing people take away is asking for what they want and not giving what they think they should be giving,” he says.
However, Coupal also works with clients who keep their clothes on during their time at his studio. He says his role fills Toronto’s need for a bodyworker that isn’t all about sex, but he also describes himself as a counsellor, sex coach and educator.
Coupal holds a certification in life skills from George Brown College and has worked as a counsellor since 2005. He became a coordinator for Body Electric School, which offers workshops in personal growth, eroticism and consciousness, but after leaving his position to host his own seminars, he was able to open Awaken Studio in January 2012.
The Queer Heart Talking Circle is a new monthly session Coupal is offering to queer males who feel isolated from the “big gay world.” The circle held its first meeting at Coupal’s studio on Jan 12, and he says the group is already looking forward to its next meeting, on Feb 9 at 1pm.
The eight members will be seeing Manon, Sandra and the Virgin Mary at Buddies in Bad Times as part of their plan to go on cultural outings in the queer community. Coupal looks forward to new members joining the circle, and says, “This is about building community right here in the city. It’s open to the queer world; everyone is welcome.”
Phillip Coupal at the Awaken Studio Toronto
http://www.awakenstudiotoronto.com
What is a heart circle?
Heart circle is one of the central traditions of radical faerie community. Faeries come together in a circle to speak from the heart, and to listen to one another through our hearts. Usually a talisman of some kind (a talking stick, a shawl, a day-glo bubble wand) is used to identify the faerie who is speaking — as long as that faerie holds the talisman, that faerie speaks, without interruption or feedback, and everyone else listens, with as much attention and compassion as we can muster. In some heart circles the talisman is passed around the circle and each faerie has that opportunity to speak or to pass the talisman. In other circles when one faerie is done speaking, any other faerie may ask for it. Either way, passing the talisman is an intimate exchange, often accompanied by a hug or a kiss.
Speaking from the heart is difficult to define, but we know when we’re doing it, and when we’re not. The quality of a heart circle comes as much (or more) from the listening as from the speaking. Many of us have had some or our most deeply emotional, healing, transformative experiences in heart circle. A heart circle can go on for a long time. It’s generally okay to join the circle in progress (between speakers, as the talisman is passed), to take a break, or to leave entirely, although the reason they go on so long is that they’re so wonderful nobody wants to leave.
From: radfae.org
If you want more informaiton or have some questions about this Heart Circle happening in Toronto on January 12th let me know at phillip@phillipcoupal.ca
Come OUT and feel a part of.
Bring yourself in as we explore Queer and Radical. All who manifest as men in the world are welcome.
What does it mean to be a Queer… Faerie… Faggot… ?
Being QUEER is this Radical?
Being DIFFERENT is this Radical?
I don’t know the answer to these questions. I have been looking, seeking and sorting out where I fit in in the BIGGER QUEER community.
Over the years, I have gone along into so many different groups and events, places and communities, searching for that QUEER identity. I have looked for the place that I will fit in. I have found identities that seem relevant to me and yet I have never been able to experience that integrated feeling of FITTING IN. I have looked at what FAERIE means. I have looked at what GAY means. I have looked at QUEER SPIRITUAL communities. I have looked at the MEN’S movement. I have looked at WORKSHOPS and RETREATS for GAY MEN. Although I can identify I never really feel that I am a part of that bigger gay or queer world.
I have discovered that this feeling of difference is rooted for my in my inability to assimilate myself into whatever group I might be a part of. Not that I don’t long for that feeling of being a part of. Not that I don’t yearn for that feeling of being like everyone else. I do. I want so much to be able to fit in and when I am unable I am often disappointed.
Recently I have looked at the work of Harry Hay, supposedly a founder of MODERN QUEER culture. What I got from reading and exploring Hay was that the act of ASSIMILATING is contrary to QUEERNESS.
“We know how to live through their eyes. We can always play their games, but are we denying ourselves by doing this? If you’re going to carry the skin of conformity over you, you are going to suppress the beautiful prince or princess within you.” ~ Harry Hay
I can totally understand this. At this point in my life, my inability to be chameleon like and simply conform myself and bend myself and my expression of who I am into any structured or even unstructured group seems an impossibility. This is at the root of why I never felt like I fit in. I simply was not able to give myself over to ASSIMILATION. I have never, in all of my life, been able to say to any group I am fully a part of you. I have never been able to say I identify so strongly with your beliefs that I can say YES I am this kind of QUEER, YES I am this kind of MAN, YES I am this kind of MALE, YES I am this kind of GAY. Until reading Hay, and understanding his statement about ASSIMILATION and how QUEER this inability to ASSIMILATE actually is. My own identity has become stronger in knowing that I DO NOT have to ASSIMILATE. I can actually feel myself as QUEER.
This sense of INDIVIDUAL QUEERNESS is totally RADICAL to me!
I think I have finally found my QUEER IDENTITY. This identity is rooted in that part of me that feels so different, so unlike what is out there. I feel best when I simply embrace my difference and let myself feel powerful. I feel much better, much happier, when I am able to feel myself as being, UNUSUAL and INDIVIDUAL. This RADICAL INDIVIDUALITY is not unlike each star, planet and constellation all through the universe. Each are individual and totally different. I am able to be myself when I realize and operate out of a principle or value that says it is OKAY, actually GOOD be be DIFFERENT, to NOT ASSIMILATE and let my RADICAL QUEER SELF shine.
This great sense of difference has led me to a place where I am calling out to those others who feel this difference. Those who feel this queerness. Who feel separate from the rest. This call is to gather, share, and commune together. Celebrating DIVERSITY. Celebrating DIFFERENCE. Celebrating QUEERNESS.
Please know that I am looking for a group of committed and loving men to start this journey into QUEER COMMUNITY. This communing will take place at gatherings that I will call the: Queer Heart Talking Circle.
For more information about these gatherings, which will take place on the second Sunday of any month, at the Awaken Studio, please contact me through the website or email me at: phillip@phillipcoupal.ca
Queer Heart Talking Circle – Awaken Studio – Toronto MORE? phillip@phillipcoupal.ca
Come OUT and feel a part of.
Bring yourself in as we explore Queer and Radical.
What does it mean to be a Queer… Faerie… Faggot… ?
Being QUEER is this Radical?
Being DIFFERENT is this Radical?
I don’t know the answer to these questions. I have been looking, seeking and sorting out where I fit in in the BIGGER QUEER community.
Over the years, I have gone along into so many different groups and events, places and communities, searching for that QUEER identity. I have looked for the place that I will fit in. I have found identities that seem relevant to me and yet I have never been able to experience that integrated feeling of FITTING IN. I have looked at what FAERIE means. I have looked at what GAY means. I have looked at QUEER SPIRITUAL communities. I have looked at the MEN’S movement. I have looked at WORKSHOPS and RETREATS for GAY MEN. Although I can identify I never really feel that I am a part of that bigger gay or queer world.
I have discovered that this feeling of difference is rooted for my in my inability to assimilate myself into whatever group I might be a part of. Not that I don’t long for that feeling of being a part of. Not that I don’t yearn for that feeling of being like everyone else. I do. I want so much to be able to fit in and when I am unable I am often disappointed.
Recently I have looked at the work of Harry Hay, supposedly a founder of MODERN QUEER culture. What I got from reading and exploring Hay was that the act of ASSIMILATING is contrary to QUEERNESS.
“We know how to live through their eyes. We can always play their games, but are we denying ourselves by doing this? If you’re going to carry the skin of conformity over you, you are going to suppress the beautiful prince or princess within you.” ~ Harry Hay
I can totally understand this. At this point in my life, my inability to be chameleon like and simply conform myself and bend myself and my expression of who I am into any structured or even unstructured group seems an impossibility. This is at the root of why I never felt like I fit in. I simply was not able to give myself over to ASSIMILATION. I have never, in all of my life, been able to say to any group I am fully a part of you. I have never been able to say I identify so strongly with your beliefs that I can say YES I am this kind of QUEER, YES I am this kind of MAN, YES I am this kind of MALE, YES I am this kind of GAY. Until reading Hay, and understanding his statement about ASSIMILATION and how QUEER this inability to ASSIMILATE actually is. My own identity has become stronger in knowing that I DO NOT have to ASSIMILATE. I can actually feel myself as QUEER.
This sense of INDIVIDUAL QUEERNESS is totally RADICAL to me!
I think I have finally found my QUEER IDENTITY. This identity is rooted in that part of me that feels so different, so unlike what is out there. I feel best when I simply embrace my difference and let myself feel powerful. I feel much better, much happier, when I am able to feel myself as being, UNUSUAL and INDIVIDUAL. This RADICAL INDIVIDUALITY is not unlike each star, planet and constellation all through the universe. Each are individual and totally different. I am able to be myself when I realize and operate out of a principle or value that says it is OKAY, actually GOOD be be DIFFERENT, to NOT ASSIMILATE and let my RADICAL QUEER SELF shine.
This great sense of difference has led me to a place where I am calling out to those others who feel this difference. Those who feel this queerness. Who feel separate from the rest. This call is to gather, share, and commune together. Celebrating DIVERSITY. Celebrating DIFFERENCE. Celebrating QUEERNESS.
Please know that I am looking for a group of committed and loving men to start this journey into QUEER COMMUNITY. This communing will take place at gatherings that I will call the: Queer Heart Talking Circle.
For more information about these gatherings, which will take place on the second Sunday of any month, at the Awaken Studio, please contact me through the website or email me at: phillip@phillipcoupal.ca
Queer Heart Talking Circle – Awaken Studio – Toronto MORE? phillip@phillipcoupal.ca
Being QUEER is this Radical?
Being DIFFERENT is this Radical?
I don’t know the answer to these questions. I have been looking, seeking and sorting out where I fit in in the BIGGER QUEER community.
Over the years, I have gone along into so many different groups and events, places and communities, searching for that QUEER identity. I have looked for the place that I will fit in. I have found identities that seem relevant to me and yet I have never been able to experience that integrated feeling of FITTING IN. I have looked at what FAERIE means. I have looked at what GAY means. I have looked at QUEER SPIRITUAL communities. I have looked at the MEN’S movement. I have looked at WORKSHOPS and RETREATS for GAY MEN. Although I can identify I never really feel that I am a part of that bigger gay or queer world.
I have discovered that this feeling of difference is rooted for my in my inability to assimilate myself into whatever group I might be a part of. Not that I don’t long for that feeling of being a part of. Not that I don’t yearn for that feeling of being like everyone else. I do. I want so much to be able to fit in and when I am unable I am often disappointed.
Recently I have looked at the work of Harry Hay, supposedly a founder of MODERN QUEER culture. What I got from reading and exploring Hay was that the act of ASSIMILATING is contrary to QUEERNESS.
“We know how to live through their eyes. We can always play their games, but are we denying ourselves by doing this? If you’re going to carry the skin of conformity over you, you are going to suppress the beautiful prince or princess within you.” ~ Harry Hay
I can totally understand this. At this point in my life, my inability to be chameleon like and simply conform myself and bend myself and my expression of who I am into any structured or even unstructured group seems an impossibility. This is at the root of why I never felt like I fit in. I simply was not able to give myself over to ASSIMILATION. I have never, in all of my life, been able to say to any group I am fully a part of you. I have never been able to say I identify so strongly with your beliefs that I can say YES I am this kind of QUEER, YES I am this kind of MAN, YES I am this kind of MALE, YES I am this kind of GAY. Until reading Hay, and understanding his statement about ASSIMILATION and how QUEER this inability to ASSIMILATE actually is. My own identity has become stronger in knowing that I DO NOT have to ASSIMILATE. I can actually feel myself as QUEER.
This sense of INDIVIDUAL QUEERNESS is totally RADICAL to me!
I think I have finally found my QUEER IDENTITY. This identity is rooted in that part of me that feels so different, so unlike what is out there. I feel best when I simply embrace my difference and let myself feel powerful. I feel much better, much happier, when I am able to feel myself as being, UNUSUAL and INDIVIDUAL. This RADICAL INDIVIDUALITY is not unlike each star, planet and constellation all through the universe. Each are individual and totally different. I am able to be myself when I realize and operate out of a principle or value that says it is OKAY, actually GOOD be be DIFFERENT, to NOT ASSIMILATE and let my RADICAL QUEER SELF shine.
This great sense of difference has led me to a place where I am calling out to those others who feel this difference. Those who feel this queerness. Who feel separate from the rest. This call is to gather, share, and commune together. Celebrating DIVERSITY. Celebrating DIFFERENCE. Celebrating QUEERNESS.
Please know that I am looking for a group of committed and loving men to start this journey into QUEER COMMUNITY. This communing will take place at gatherings that I will call the: Queer Heart Talking Circle.
For more information about these gatherings, which will take place on the second Sunday of any month, at the Awaken Studio, please contact me through the website or email me at: phillip@phillipcoupal.ca
Queer Heart Talking Circle – Awaken Studio – Toronto MORE? phillip@phillipcoupal.ca
phillip coupal - sweet juicy heart 