NOTE:  START DATE HAS CHANGED TO 10/8/09!!!!!!

MEN’S SEX, INTIMACY & SPIRIT GROUP

  **Special Program Men's Group to Liberate & Connect your Sexuality & Spirituality

8 Thursdays: 10/8 - 12/3/09 (not mtg Thanksgiving), 7 - 9 pm
• $15-$30/session sliding scale
• $5/session Manifest members
Participants must register & pay for entire series before or at 1st session.
Location:  group meets a few blocks north of Lloyd Center

In today’s world, too many men are distracted through unfulfilling work, entertainment, and quick fixes and artificial nourishment. The time has come for men to reclaim and step into our power and purpose, to show up in full-bodied presence, to offer our deepest gifts and love to the world, and to honor and celebrate the sacred masculine. It is time for men to heal the shame around our bodies, our sexuality, and our aliveness.

Men from diverse backgrounds and orientations will explore our authentic sexuality:  our fears, our desires, our questions, and our true expressions.

With the support of other men who are committed to honesty and compassion, you’ll practice being fully present to your sexual energy as it changes and as it is.  While we won’t be taking off our clothes or pursuing erotic desires during the our work together, we will be gently expanding your awareness and acceptance of your full, authentic sexuality & spirituality.

* It is recommended that participants in this group also take the Intro Workshop on Sunday, 9/13/09, 5-8pm.  (You are not required to take the Sunday Workshop to join the weekly support group nor vice versa.)

* This group will be closed to newcomers after the 1st session.

FACILITATOR:  David Franklin, a Certified Sexological Bodyworker (trained at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco), has facilitated men’s explorations of sexuality, passion, and spirituality through ritual, movement, workshops, and one-on-one coaching for the past six years.  His work is heavily influenced by his long-time study & practice of Vipassana meditation, Co-counseling, Naka-Ima, ecstatic dance, & sacred sexuality.

GROUP GOALS:
- Expand awareness around your sexuality, eroticism, and desire
- Connect with other men, and learn about how other men of diverse backgrounds & orientations relate to sexuality
- Integrate and align your sexuality and spirituality
- Transform fear into openness
- Learn practices to embody and integrate your sexual presence

GROUP ACTIVITIIES:
- Movement, breathwork, discussion, embodiment practices

BENEFITS REPORTED BY PREVIOUS PARTICIPANTS:
- Feel sexier, more alive, and energized
- More in touch with my authentic sexual power and potential
- Easier to know & express deeper needs and desires
- More Aligned and integrated in my heart, spine, sexuality, and spirituality
- Have more confidence and clarity around my sexuality

SPONSOR:  Donations benefit Manifest, a non-profit men’s wellness community that empowers diverse men to pursue their wellness visions & passions together.  No one turned away for lack of funds; work-study available if you call 503-223-8822 x2 in advance to schedule your work-study hours.

BRING:
- A journal, your calendar, & pen

INFO:  David at 503-223-8822 x1