Maintaining an alive and enriching connection with an intimate partner today requires a whole new vision and approach: We need to recognize personal love as a call to awaken to our deepest nature. Relationship is a powerful vehicle for this awakening because it inspires openness and expansion, while also stirring up conditioned patterns from the past that block loving presence. Here at this juncture- where our small, reactive self and our larger, open nature intersect- is where real transformation happens and relationship becomes a sacred path.

True intimacy is only possible when two people connect being-to being. The conditioned personality functions in defensive, reactive ways, and is therefore incapable of real intimacy. This workshop facilitates a shift from personality to being so you can be more present in yourself while relating to others. This deeper quality of presence-- more than any strategy or technique-- is what provides a true resolution to most relationship problems.

The format consists of talks, experiental exercises, communication practices, and meditation. Previous meditation experience is not necessary, just a willingness to engage in this practice.

Required reading: Welwood, Love and Awakening: Discovering the Sacred Path of Intimate Relationship. Recommended reading: Welwood, Journey of the Heart: The Path of Conscious Love