Relationship
Training Retreats
Sacred Relationships...
...Intimacy Training Retreats
with Toni De Marco ©
I invite you to join me on this amazing journey to learn how to
connect with your partner with loving and respectful
communication, joyful self-fulfillment, and the possibility of a
relationship made in heaven.
Having made my own personal life’s journey a continuous search for
the understanding and perfection of body, mind and spirit has led
me to many different modalities which I now bring with me into my
trainings. Mastering these skills has also given me the strength
and wisdom to pass it on in a way that you can actually come to
know what you want, know how to ask for it, and actually be given
what you want (and have always wanted) – love, freedom, and a
relationship that feels so good, that you will never, ever want to
go anywhere else other than towards the heavenly lifestyle that I
skillfully present to you over this magically effective four-day
intensive training.
To give you an idea of how appreciative people are, having
received the gift of this retreat, please read of few of their
testimonials:
Dear Toni -- Many
thanks for an excellent course. What a beautiful four days -
opening our hearts, exchanging thoughts that so often lie dormant
in the general helter-skelter of life and exploring new ways to
make meaningful contact and forge a deeper union with our
partners. Just wonderful - will recommend to all friends looking
to further their relationships, whether they've been in them so
long they are jaded or just starting out and want to really get to
know each other intimately in the most loving of ways…
Neal, Bali, Indonesia
Namaste Toni -- I came into your course with some confusion
with my current relationship and some very deep insecurity issues.
Frankly, I have to pay my deepest respects to your amazing gift of
stripping away the things that hold us back. For the first time in
15 years of being sexually active, I have begun to not only “say”
but “feel” what I want and need, ant not only sexually -- because
I also have leaped forward in letting go of old aggressive and
non-communicative behaviors that have had such a long term
control...
Linda, USA
Before we came to do the workshop, Janie and I had been having
some problems both in our sex life and in our relationship. I
decided to go along to the workshop. It was Janie’s idea and I
have to admit, I was feeling rather skeptical about the whole
thing but I was willing, as I want the relationship to work
between us so much, I was willing to try anything.
I was taken by complete surprise at how informative it was … it
has helped us rebuild some of the holes in our relationship …. It
has been a truly moving and enlightening experience...
Olly Banks, UK
Toni’s workshop was really powerful, inspiring and life
changing. It really made me realize the sexual power I hold within
me … During the workshop I learned amazing techniques and got
insight how to be true to myself and own my own sexuality and
desires. Toni’s gentle and open nature created a safe space to
express my vulnerability and allow some deeply hidden passed
(sexual) issues to come up to the surface and to be dissolved…
Renske, Netherlands
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My Own Story
I haven’t always had great sex. I married at age 23 and my husband
had convinced me that I was frigid. I didn’t ever come. He came in
the first 15 minutes.
This relationship was not great – we had no idea about sex or
about how to communicate. The several other relationships I had
after my marriage broke up, deteriorated quickly after the first
year or two. I kept recreating the same problematic experiences I
had in my marriage. I brought along my excess baggage – my
childhood patterns -- to each one of them.
My heart goes out to couples who are needlessly going through what
I went through for many, many years in several long term
relationships that took up half of my life.
I started teaching Sacred Relationships training because, for me,
it became the only path – my love of spirituality and sexuality
eventually merged into my own way of expressing enlightenment.
Because I have been through it all and come out the other end
(albeit a bit battle-scarred and wrinkled) considerably more
enlightened, you can trust that I will be your perfect guide. Now
it is my joy to lead you to learning tools that provide a
short-cut to the sacred relationship that has always been your
secret desire.
I want to give you the opportunity to experience this special
training and resulting potential for bliss without having to spend
30 years of struggle to get there. I have nothing to give or to
receive except to allow my compassion and love for people to set
themselves free.
I had to free myself from the major sexual repression I
experienced as a “good Catholic girl.”
My first Tantra training was so amazing, intense, and
revolutionary, that I walked out thinking that I was either going
to be struck dead by lightening, or that I was going to have an
amazingly, wild, sexual, sacred, fulfilling life. You guessed it
-- I am still alive and well -- lightening never struck.
I have been through hell and back with relationships. First, I
turned every man I ever spent time with into my Dad. I don’t blame
him because I understand he was just passing on what he got –abuse
by his dad, and so on, back generation after generation -- both
verbal and physical abuse that I would never wish on anyone. I’m
sure mine wasn’t nearly as bad as what my dad got.
My parents were either always arguing, or playing the nasty game
of “see, I got you back” -- my mom sending out these little
daggers of hate at the least expected and embarrassing moments.
Zing, zing -- stinging messages in response to repressed
expression.
I see it in my trainings. People do the same thing in silent
retribution to repression -- they withhold their love and their
sexuality. “I’ll never listen to you because I already know I’m
not going to like what you have to say.” “All you ever do is nag,
nag, nag.” “All you ever want is sex -- I just want to be left
alone” and it goes on an on. Zing, zing – the slingshot of violent
communication or no-communication at all.
It gives me such great pleasure to help someone to see the light,
to change their life in an instant -- to finally have the
understanding of how to get out of an impossibly jaded rut -- to
know now what to say – to express feelings, and to finally get
heard.
Transformation is my gratification. I live to serve all the people
stuck in relationship purgatory or perhaps absolute hell. Here you
will find the tools to leave those un-erogenous zones and move
into joy, sacred bliss and fulfillment
Learning in groups is ultimately one of the most fulfilling
experiences you can have. So much more can be gleaned from group
work than with individuals because it becomes an experience of
“knowing” from having seen, from one example after another, how we
are all of the same essence. You experience yourself as a spark of
divine evolution on a continuum of which we are an ongoing part of
the whole.
You start with one-on-one exercises with different people who,
initially, you don’t know. You can rest assured that the
information you share here never leaves the room. You may be shy
at first, but when you see that almost everyone has similar
experiences as you, you become much braver. “What the heck, I’m
pretty much like everyone else in here. What I’m going through is
not so unique after all” On the other hand your never have to say
anything unless you feel compelled to do so.
There are never any public displays of sex or private matters.
People are not going to take their clothes off and do the things
you will learn about in the training. This is not about having a
big orgy. This is about seeing that we are all spiritual beings
having a human experience.
You will feel safe, protected, and never vulnerable, unless that
is your desire. No one will ever make you feel embarrassed or make
you wish you had never come. No one is there to steal your lover.
Everyone is there to learn and come away with a feeling of joy in
their hearts – knowing that they now have the tools to transform,
electrify and jump-start their relationship with a charge that
will transform a once ordinary relationship into one of amazing
honesty, love and passion.
Should you (as a single or a couple) ever elect to have a private
session with me at some point, it can continue from where you left
off in the retreat, on to honing in on specific nuances and
techniques that will further the initial training.
My Bio
My extensive background in psychology, metaphysics, and health
gives me a holistic approach to relationships that few others can
claim. My own training in sacred sexuality includes having studied
with many of the world’s leading Tantra instructors* and I,
myself, have worked as a teacher, healer and counselor to both
individuals and couples for over 30 years. Additionally, I have
written and conducted scores of classes, lectures and workshops on
a wide variety of subjects including health & beauty,
spirituality, relationship, and yoga.
I have studied Tantric sexual healing through internationally
known teachers such as Lori Grace Starr and Robert Frey; Margot
Anand (author of The Art of Sexual Ecstasy); Kutira
& Raphael; Mare Simone and Corinna Clark; R.D. and Maralena Silby
(American Tantra); Miriam Serman & John Hill and
Carolline & Charles Muir (The Art of Conscious Loving Books).
My book, The California Way to Natural Beauty,
(published by Grosset & Dunlap) was met with positive critical
reviews from the NY Times, Cosmopolitan, Women’s Wear
Daily, and the NY Post as well as
having equally great popular appeal.
It was my fortune to also have spent many years integrating
holistic concepts into television programming including producing
and hosting a series of 55 half-hour talk shows, Making a
Difference with like-minded guests such as Dr. Deepak
Chopra, Willie Nelson, Kenny Loggins, LeVar Burton, Olivia
Newton-John, Dr. Bernie Siegel, Jon Voight, Jane Goodall, Arianna
Huffington, and Ray Bradbury. In my most recent venture into the
Video/DVD arena, I developed and produced, Tantric Partner
Yoga, as a tool to help couples to develop more intimacy
in their relationships through sensual partner yoga and Tantric
sexual healing techniques.
My knowledge and wisdom, combined with my personal warmth, humor
and charm has earned me the highest regards from students,
teachers, dignitaries and celebrities around the world.
About the Retreat
Sacred Relationships...
...Intimacy Training Retreats with Toni De Marco ©
You will be guided
through all the levels of
discovering your own
Sacred Sexuality. No previous experience is necessary. My
experiential hands-on approach is a refreshing journey into
learning practical techniques which can be used immediately to
enhance and improve your intimate relationships. Both singles and
couples are welcome.
In Sacred Relationships you will learn how to take care of
yourself in emotional and sexual situations, reach new levels of
passion, experience both the male and female aspects of the divine
that we all embody, and learn how to tap into the universal
ecstatic energy that flows through all of us.
You will experience acceptance and love of your own body, learn to
accept your feelings about yourself and your sexuality without
judgment, discover and create healthy boundaries, and open to love
and deeper levels of intimacy than you ever thought possible.
I will guide you, both as individuals and paired couples, through
many exercises that allow you to explore beyond your normal limits
in a safe and healing environment. My “hands-on,” experiential
approach to learning helps you to move quickly through barriers
and patterns that may have existed for years, and to get on with
the real work of realizing your relationship to the divine in all
aspects of life and well as in your own sexuality.
My relationship training retreats guide you towards being in the
moment by learning to “go with the flow.” You may be missing the
nuances of the moment that could be exciting and rewarding as a
result of forming your life around preconceived notions of how
things should be. Through the practice of awakening the sacred,
holistic (body, mind, spirit) aspects of love-making, one can
actually obtain enlightenment.
My training retreats are half about communication skills and half
about sacred sexuality. If you can't talk to your partner about
what you want, you won't be able to communicate sexually. Your
sex-life can be so much better when you and your partner know
exactly what you want because you’ve communicated exactly how you
want to get it.
In the Four-Day Intimacy Training Retreat, you learn
to speak to you partner in a way that you will he heard and
understood -- which creates actually getting what you’ve asked
for.
In relationships which have become stale, this offers the chance
to renew and/or rekindle the passion and to get past the feelings
of having become “stuck.”
If you are experiencing any difficulties in your relationship, my
expertise is to coach each person in how to overcome his or her
specific problem (s), be it chronic or recent, so that healing and
forgiveness occur, and (in most cases) the relationship can
continue with a fresh start.
Retreat Schedule
Koh Samui , Thailand
The Sacred Relationships One-Day Training will take place in Lamai
on Saturday, November 10th From 10:00am until 6:00pm. There will
be an hour and a half lunch break. Please arrive by 9:45am for
completing registration details. Directions to the Lamai
location will be given at time of pre-registration.
Koh Samui , Thailand
The Sacred Relationships Four-Day Intensive will take place in
Lamai from Friday, November 16th through Monday, November 19th.
Directions to the Lamai location will be given at time of
pre-registration. See timetable below for daily schedule.
Please arrive 15 minutes early to complete registration details.
Please register by email to:
globaltoni@gmail.com
Calls or Text Messages to Toni's local cell number 08 7677 5120
will also be accepted.
Retreat Timetable |
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Saturday |
Sunday |
Monday |
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10.00 – 13:00 |
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Morning Session |
Morning Session |
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12:00 – 18:00 |
Afternoon Session |
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11:00 – 14:00 |
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Wrap-up Session And Good Byes |
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13:00 – 15:00 |
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Lunch & Spa Break |
Lunch & Spa Break |
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15:00 - 17.30 |
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Afternoon Session |
Afternoon Session |
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17:30 – 19:00 |
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Break |
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19:00- 22.00 |
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Puja: Feast, and Celebration |
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