05/31/2020, 3549 Devon Dr
Join Peter Petersen and I along with two very special guests, Dc’s own Iva Vest, creatrix of Courageous life Design,
and her beloved Ross Lewin for this extraordinary version of Love The Skin You Are In: Through Your Senses
LEARN TO CREATE & EXPERIENCE…
♡ FREEDOM FROM THE FEAR OF OPENING UP
♡ DEEP, SOULFUL CONNECTION AND CLOSENESS
♡ COMPLETELY UNREASONABLE DEGREES OF PLEASURE
♡ HEALING AND TRANSFORMATION THROUGH INTIMACY
♡ LEARNING TO LOVE YOUR UNIQUE BODY AND IMAGE
♡ PERSONAL PHOTO SHOOT CAPTURED THROUGH ROSS’S MASTERFUL CAMERA (optional)
♡ STEP INTO A WORLD OF DELIGHTS YOU’VE NEVER KNOWN AS IVA TAKES YOU ON A JOURNEY THROUGH THE SENSES WITH FOOD.
♡ USING MOVEMENT AND ENERGY TO CULTIVATE MORE PLEASURE AND PASSION THROUGH QIGONG AND DANCE WITH PETER
♡ AUTHENTICITY AND VULNERABLE CONNECTION AND INTIMACY EXERCISES TO MELT YOUR HEART AND JOIN YOU SOUL TO SOUL LED BY MONIQUE
We attach the word ‘sacred’ to any practice, experience, or way-of-being that slows us down and deepens our experience of being alive. Our sensuality is a manifestation and expression of our vital life-force and creative energy. It can play, move, and be shared and enjoyed in many ways.
Come with your desire to unmask the secrets of your heart, ready to release all that holds you back from manifesting and experiencing love. (Especially to yourself) Come explore ways to more fully experience joy in your life.
We will provide a safe place where everyone gets to see each other with new eyes. Through sight, breath, touch, sound, scent, taste, Soulful Communication and energetic expansion, you will open your heart and surrender to bliss filled ecstasy. Then will you begin to connect with wonder, curiosity, and deep awareness, celebrating the divine presence within us all. You will have delightful fun exploring deep within yourself and others.
Peter will be offering QiGong to open our sacred space. He brings his love of a moving meditation from China called Qigong.
For thousands of years people have captured the essence of these simple movements to maintain balance and to heal themselves mentally and physically. Qigong accelerates healing and has a positive clinically recognized effect on almost all physical symptoms. Qigong helps heal the physical body and release stress of the mind. By moving your body, releasing trigger points, and stimulating your circulatory system, you literally become your own massage therapist. Simultaneously these movements help release negative emotions and memories that you no longer need and allow yourself to be much more present in your “now” so in a sense you become your own psychiatrist at the same time! Come learn how to build the foundation of being your own health advocate and enjoy emotional freedom and connection to all that is!
He will also be offering a dance of the 5 elements to incorporate movement on our senses and self love journey.
Iva’s Offering~
The practice of cultivating self-love often begins by simply noticing how you relate to your body’s own physical needs. How do you treat yourself? Do you give yourself the same care + attention that you would to someone you love?
Eating food is one of our most basic physical needs… and just as important as what we eat, is how we eat. Discover mindfulness tools + let Iva guide you on a journey through your senses with food and cultivate a new, loving awareness of your relationship to your mind, body, + spirit.
Iva, Monique, and Peter will also be leading one of our favorite ways to experience the senses, the elements of touch massage!
Ross will take you on a guided journey to seek out the places in your body that hold tension against your will, and gently replacing that tension with something more pleasurable. Bathing the body in compassion + acceptance allows the wisdom of the body to choose the right combination of medicinal, healing, biochemicals to send inward. Prepare for this powerful Loving-Kindness Body Scan by being totally open and available to listen to whatever comes up for you, and be ready to to meet it with radical acceptance.
*Optional 3 minute personal photo shoot after lunch
Monique will be offering what she loves best… depth and vulnerability, helping us get in touch with whatever we have in the way of loving ourselves, loving our body, accepting all those pieces that society, lovers, parents, or others have said are too much or not enough. So that by the end of the day you have the tools to love and accept yourself, total permission to be at peace with all of YOUR parts.
A mind, body and heart blowing experience. Honoring the dance of the divinity and humanity within us by simply bringing our senses into actions. Boundaries will be negotiated and all no’s will be graciously honored.
Come ready to savor each extraordinary delight.
(If you come with a partner you may choose to remain with that partner for the entire day)
About Your Facilitators:
Iva Vest’s passion is sharing authentic, conscious living and holistic wellness. She is a dynamic, spirited wellness practitioner dedicated to the art of intentional life design and to achieving the fullest potentials of human consciousness. She lives to witness and inspire others toward true self-love, acceptance, and greatness by powerfully facilitating awareness of their true path, reminding them that all they desire is available to them, in every moment.
www.courageouslifedesign.weebly.com/sacred-invitation.html
A lover of nature, food, movement, and the raw experience of being human, even when it is heart-wrenching and pride-swallowing, Iva seeks to nurture, harmonize, and hold sacred the full spectrum of what life has to offer. Her extensive dance and yogic background fosters a deep love of sacred movement, which provides a strong framework for fostering mind/body awareness throughout her offerings.
Iva offers nutritional and food preparation coaching, specializing in multiple symptom conditions, weight loss, ADHD, depression, anxiety and other mood disorders, adrenal fatigue, candida overgrowth, digestive disorders, and food allergies. Iva offers Reiki energy healing, sacred movement, and dynamic goal setting sessions. She received her health certification from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in 2010 and is certified through SUNY and the American Association of Drugless Practitioners.
Ross Lewin, a professional photographer, dancer, and meditation facilitator, brings his love for connection and movement into practices that amplify the experience of being alive. By actively surfacing the medicine within all of us, Ross believes that the tools to manifest abundance are available at a moment’s notice… and when you decide to pick up and use them, your body rewards you by making you feel really, really good.
Monique Darling, Author of ‘Beyond Cuddle Party’ and workshop facilitator extraordinaire has led over 2000 workshops in the past 10 years. She is the founder of Everyday Tantra an organization dedicated to empowering people who are questioning the assumptions of how their life should be and to offering tools for self expression that create trust, inner knowing and wisdom to enjoy the life they have. Monique has taught at colleges across the US including Yale. She has been featured on TLC and The Dr’s as well as various radio shows, podcasts and magazines across the globe. She specializes in helping others reclaim their power and natural sensuality by transmuting fear and repression into courage, self-love and freedom. Her primary purpose is helping folks bring out their vulnerability, energetic embodiment and fearless relating. Learn more about Monique by going to www.everydaytantra.com or track her whereabouts at www.whereintheworldismoniquedarling.com
Peter Petersen’s 3 main passions in life are movement, music, and meditation. He has been teaching qigong for 19 years and has been a certified Sheng Zhen Qigong teacher for the last 17. He has taught in health clubs, hospitals, retirement villas, and several different wellness/spa resorts in Mexico and the United States, such as Rancho La Puerta, Mayacamas Ranch, and Present Moment Retreat. Peter has traveled and taught with Monique Darling for over the last 5 years teaching Tantra and his own style of qigong/dance all over North America, the EU, Asia, and Australia. Helping people to see what is intensely alive in their heart and helping them to export that passion to the world is why Peter loves his job and will do this till his final breath.