Love Your Body, Love Your Sex Program

“The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself ” –Mark Twain

In this experiential program we begin with the tender query – how does your relationship with your body affect your experience of sex?

Together, over the course of the program, we will consider and explore this powerful question. You will be gently guided through exercises to explore attitudes and ideas about your body and your sex, what turns you on or off, where we have shame, and what it means to engage in heart-based sexuality.

In the Love Your Body, Love Your Sex program we will consider what ‘heart-centered sexuality’ actually means. How the paradox of vulnerability and boundary setting is key to intimacy. How having a healthy, loving relationship with our own bodies helps build a strong foundation for intimate relationships.

For most of us, sex is hyper-focused on the “other.” Attracting others, harmonizing with others, and perhaps attempting to please others. As a result, many of us miss the foundational piece of developing our personal sexuality – learning and appreciating our bodies, finding and strengthening our authentic voice, freely exploring fantasy, etc. In this workshop, we explore the intrinsic link between loving our own sexuality and thriving in our sexual relationships with others.

Our online workshops use Zoom to create our own version of what we affectionately refer to as the “Room of Love.” HAI Facilitators are masters at quickly creating a beautifully intimate and safe space for deep sharing and valuable learning. The group will be led through a series of gentle exercises designed to open a doorway towards more enjoyable and empowered sexuality.

“I was a bit resistant to doing emotionally evocative work in an online environment, but this workshop really worked for me. It felt to me that the whole “room” went very deep, very quickly. The facilitation was powerful and loving and the heart-centered material touched me deeply and profoundly.” – Chas August, Workshop Participant

The Love Your Body, Love Your Sex program has two parts. First, we invite you to attend an online weekend workshop. You will experience engaging exercises designed to strengthen your self-acceptance and confidence, and simultaneously, help to clarify your unique path towards a more satisfying and nourishing sex life.

Following the weekend workshop is our Integration Practicum, a 6-week coaching program. With the support of your Facilitators and practicum cohort, you will be challenged and supported to bring the material you learned in the Love Your Body, Love Your Sex weekend workshop into your daily life as you practice your new skills.

Weekend Workshop

In this workshop we will explore shame and tackle fear. We will practice creating connection and play with the magic of flirtation. We will embrace the ever-evolving narrative of our sexual history – and look to creating the next best chapter of our story.

Our goal for you when you attend this workshop is that you come away understanding:

When we feel free and connected to our bodies without shame, we enjoy sex more.
When we are able to sense and communicate our needs – anything from a desire to hold hands, or to make eye-contact, to the bigger things, such as how we like to be touched and for how long and in what way – we experience far greater emotional closeness.
Accepting and loving our physical body helps us to appreciate the pleasure it can bring.
Sex is not just about touching and feeling good. It is a form of interpersonal communication and emotional connection.

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Integration Practicum

Have you ever come away from a workshop thinking that you got the key ideas and the magnitude of the transformative experience while at the workshop, but then struggled to apply what you learned in your daily life? Developing any new skill takes time and practice – which is why we’re offering this program to ensure that you have someone to walk beside you as you continue to grow and develop yourself.

The Love Your Body, Love Your Sex Integration Practicum is designed to accelerate, refine, and reinforce your understanding and experience of the concepts offered in the weekend workshop. At each weekly meeting you will receive coaching, share your insights with others, and gain confidence in what you have learned.

“A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” –Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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While struggling with the nuances and delicacy of sexuality is a common experience among people, there are skills and tools at your disposal to make it easier and more enjoyable.

Love Your Body, Love Your Sex brings together the accumulated wisdom and knowledge from HAI’s 50-plus years as a leader in the field of human relationships and reflects cutting-edge research in the field of human sexuality. Discover how to build a strong, loving relationship with your body that supports fulfilling and healthy sexuality.

Love Your Body Love Your Sex is a radical departure from in person workshops...AND it is not a "sit at your desk" experience of listening to someone talk. What has been created here is an invitation to pursue your own fullness as a sexual being. You will be connecting with others in a carefully crafted space of respect, laced with vulnerable connections, and you will have opportunities to experience your own sensual and sexual self, completely held and respected as you are.

– Marci Graham