About this Course
❥ Do you have a sense that there is more to Lovemaking and do you feel ready to explore?
❥ Do you struggle having sex that brings fulfilment, joy and bliss, especially after the honeymoon phase?
❥ Do you want to enter new areas of pleasure, honesty and love together?
❥ Do you long for your relationship to be a place where sexuality contributes to growth and sustainability?
❥ Do you long to meet yourself and each other on deeper levels?
In this course we will explore how to manifest the potential of the couple. For your love relationship to be a place where sex can be experienced as the most vibrant energy on the planet.
We will explore how Making Love can function as the base of a nourishing relationship. How to use sexual energy as a force that can contribute to love, healing and growth, in your relationship as well as in other areas of life.
In this six full Sundays online course for couples, Making Love will be specifically part of the curriculum.
Course content
Why is it so difficult to keep the spark, flow, and ease that is often there at the beginning of a love relationship?
If you chose to be in a couple, why not invest in making it a place where two people get nourished and love can grow and deepen over time?
This course focuses on exactly that.
We will explore
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Our ‘shoulds’ and ‘have to’s’ in sex and how to move into a direction of Making Love that is welcoming whatever is there.
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Self-connection in movement, stillness, alone, together, in dialogue and in Lovemaking.
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Masculine and Feminine - from differences to complementary.
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The art of making love: how we can cultivate love through sex.
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How sex can be a healing experience.
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Savouring our pleasurable experiences.
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How to support your love relationship by yourself and in connection with your partner through: Dialogue, Self-connection and Making love.
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Sensing/sensitivity/sensuality - pleasure and pain as a source for creation.
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Celebration and Appreciation - The fuel for LOVE & LIFE.
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Moving from focussing on ‘doing’ in sex to focussing on ‘being’, in sex.
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and more
When
Between 16 February - 16 March 2024.
Dates:
Friday 16 Feb: 19:30-21:30
Sunday 18 Feb: 09:30 -21:15
Sunday 25 Feb: 09:30 -21:15
Sunday 03 March: 09:30 -21:15
Sunday 10 March: 09:30 -21:15
Sunday 17 March: 09:30 -21:15
Sunday 24 March: 09:30 -21:15
Structure of the day
09:30-12:30 bodywork & Teaching / learning / practising
12:30-13:30 Lunch (offline)
13:30-15:00 Teaching / learning / practising
15:30-18:00 Lovemaking in the privacy of your own bedroom (offline)
18:00-19:30 Dinner (offline)
19:30-20:15 Rounding up of the day: Harvesting and sharing circle
20:30-21:15 Deepening skills and body work
What to Expect
☆ Choice! Nothing in this course is obligatory. The focus is on self-connection, getting to know your longings, your YES and your NO.
☆ A safe space to share and be held in all that arises.
☆ Guided, silent and active body and mind practices, to grow self-connection and sensuality/sensitivity.
☆ Group time where we can share our mournings and celebrations to learn from each other and create community connection to support the couple.
Practical information
This course is designed for heterosexual couples as Bonno and Marije teach from personal experience.
Since NVC is very much the base of this course and we won’t focus on the basics of NVC, we recommend for both people a minimum of 60 hours NVC learning experience (preferably with Connecting2life). If one of you has less experience, questions or doubts, you’re welcome to share this with us and we can figure it out together.
Price
A choice of between € 525 - € 1150 pp
→ The choice of fees depends on your income and free will. The idea behind a sliding scale is that we all have different current financial situations, and we like to be flexible so that your financial contribution fits your financial situation as well as your personal wish to support us.
Registration:
This course is offered by Connecting2Life
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Intro:
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Discover the Art of Making Love
Bonno Lange
I was introduced to NVC by attending a workshop of Marshall Rosenberg’s in 2008. I was completely touched by his message. As if by accident I discovered a secret manual about how to live life.
Marshall’s principles on self-expression and listening to myself and others at first seemed so radically different from how I was educated. So different, that I thought this will never be realised for me, at least not in this lifetime!
Without much expectation I started to follow courses, the result being that I have been practicing NVC ever since. Now I teach NVC and I give private sessions and mediations.
I was born in Holland and teach in English and Dutch. I’m also a cellist and composer, an Alexander Technique teacher and a cook.
Marije Roos
I’m passionate about re-sensitizing and trusting my body, to follow her innate wisdom. Yet it’s not something I have learned while growing up. How to listen to my pain?
When I finished the art academy in 2009 I was feeling confused, insecure and too afraid to create anything…
I started practicing and teaching Yoga & Meditation. That brought a big shift in the relationship I had with my body; for the first time I started to hear her, notice how she was constantly talking to me. I became more aware of my thoughts too, that was confronting! The way I talked to myself created so much pain: “You are so dom”, “Again you didn’t finish your to-do list!” etc.
When I met NVC in 2014 I had a profound experience: “Life is not about feeling good. Instead my feelings are there to care for me.” This brought a sense of: “I’m welcome as I’m”. I finally got the clarity on how to connect to life in me and in others. This clarity is making my life worth living, supporting me daily in connection with my children, my partner and myself!
In 2018 when my relationship ended, I started teaching NVC and supporting couples and individuals. It made me realise many human-beings struggle in their relationships: (Unspoken) shame, guilt, expectations etc. seem to kill love and sexuality. Yet I also realised that deep down most human-beings long for a relationship where they feel fully seen, loved and supported. I find sexuality such a powerful and potent energy, I feel passionate to listen to the shame, fear, guilt and longings we might carry around sexuality and how we can use our sexual energy not only for pleasure but also to make love that reaches beyond the bedroom into all areas of our life.