Medicine of Eros: Exploring Shadows and Sexual Healing
With Marc Peridis and Shelby Clark
January 7 - 14, 2024
Awaken greater power,
Explore deep and meaningful connection.
– How does sexuality connect us to source, and to our truth?
– How do we channel this energy for more healing and growth, including that of others?
– How do we play with our fantasies, even shameful ones, in a way that can be nourishing and inspiring?
– How do we integrate these ideas about sexuality in a world where they are uncommon?
It can help us achieve altered spaces of consciousness, find deep presence, connect to our truth, heal old wounds.
8:30 – Morning energy practice
9:00 – Breakfast
10:00 – Morning workshop
13:00 – Lunch
14:00 – Free time (optional open practice-space in the afternoon)
16:00 – Afternoon workshop
19:00 – Dinner
20:00 – Evening Practice
21:00 – Free time
Please note: Mornings will be silent till breakfast.
Who are seeking to become facilitators or hold space for the transformation of others.
Experienced facilitators who want to gain new abilities for somatic, energetic or sacred intimacy work to expand their practice.
PLEASE NOTE: this course is open to men of all ages, racial backgrounds, body shapes and sizes.
No Previous experience of this type of work is required.
Yet a willingness to go deep is necessary.
Those seeking to learn mainly about intimacy and sexuality practices with other men.
Those who are looking to exchange massages and or learn massage techniques.
PLEASE NOTE: All the above can be wonderful things!
However those with these above expectations will be sorely disappointed if they were to join this course.
✔ As your facilitator I will be responsible for maintaining the sense of safety of the group container.
✔ Each participant will also be responsible for their own body, for respecting their desires and boundaries.
✔ Nudity and self/mutual touch, including genital touch will be welcome, however they will not be compulsory. Each participant will be able to decide “how far” they choose to go. While everyone is invited to meet their edges, you will never be asked to go beyond your limits.
✔ Partner practices will be part of the workshop but are not compulsory.
✔ Pairings will be randomly assigned. Therefore participants choosing to participate in partner work must be open to interacting with anyone. Participants however will be able to choose the level of interaction they are comfortable with in any moment, ranging from eye-gazing to more explicit touch and interaction.
✗ Penetration and oral sex will not be allowed.
Use of electronics will be strictly limited to the bedrooms.
Electronics such as phones, iPads or laptops will not be able to be used in any public areas.
They will be able to access the course at a greatly reduced price. Accommodation will be in a camping tent rather than a cabin.
In order to qualify for this, a participant needs to send us an email speaking of their motivation for joining the course as well as describing the nature of their difficult financial situation.
*Please note: A 13% Tax will be added to all costs
-Accommodation
-3 vegetarian organic meals / day
-All workshops and practices
-Airport transfer to the Jungle Gayborhood (at specific times)
-Flight
-Any visas that may be required
All payments are non-refundable
PARTICIPANT AGREEMENT: The Medicine of Eros and the Jungle Gayborhood aim to inspire personal exploration, radical self expression, and a sense of connection – internally, with community, and with nature. We actively cultivate practices that support these goals by consciously exploring embodiment practices, authentic relating, somatic movement therapy, shamanism and sacred sexuality.
To create a predictable and safe environment conducive to this type of healing, growth, reflection, and expansion, we ask all that come to our home align around these community agreements.
Marc is a somatic therapist and shamanic practitioner specialised in the Medicine of eros, healing practices related to eros and sexuality.
His work has two main focuses:
1- Supporting the transmutation of shame, trauma and shadow to power, purpose and mastery.
2- As a teacher’s teacher, he trains facilitators, therapists and teachers by supporting their development of new abilities.
His practices, which are often considered radical, combine talk therapy, with experiential processes involving the soma (the body), energy transmission and sexual explorations.
Interactions can range from gentler ones including soft touch, cuddling and conscious stillness to more radical ones such as dark-room therapy, and re-enacting kinky, taboo and shameful sexual scenarios in healing and conscious ways.
Today, he shares his work through 1-1 sessions, online and in-person, residential and non-residential courses and workshops, and online live and pre-recorded courses.
After spending over a decade training in somatic movement therapy, energy work and sacred sexuality, his own practice emerged as a result of his years spent observing behavioural responses in 1-1 and group therapy sessions worldwide.
As well as being a trained somatic movement therapist, he has also been initiated into shamanism in 2015 and in the Mystery School as a student in 2013 and a guide in 2018.
He is also senior faculty at the Shakti Shiva Academy since 2021.
While his process and practice are open to people of all levels of experience, he tends to work mostly with advanced practitioners, people who are keen to become facilitators, and facilitators wishing to develop new skills.
Photo: The Upper Falls, Jungle Gayborhood, Diamante Valley
PRECIO TICO: For Costa Rican nationals we offer a 50% discount on listed prices. Please email junglegayborhood@gmail.com for further information. A Costa Rican passport or identity card is required.
About the Facilitators
Marc Peridis
Marc is a somatic therapist and shamanic practitioner specialised in the Medicine of Eros, healing practices related to eros and sexuality. His work has two main focuses: First, supporting the transmutation of shame, trauma and shadow to power, purpose and mastery. Second, as a teacher's teacher, he trains facilitators, therapists and teachers by supporting their […]
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Shelby Clark
Following a life-changing sacred plant ceremony at the tail end of yoga teacher training, I have focused my life on providing consciousness-expanding experiences to people that could benefit from them. As they have helped me heal the many traumas of growing up gay, I have been particularly passionate about the healing that could be brought […]
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