Passionate Partners
A Vermont Couples Retreat
Fall 2024 TBA
If you often or sometimes...
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Don't know what you want or how to ask for it.
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Feel stressed or burnt out, or complacent and uninspired.
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Want sex but think you don't have enough time to be sexual.
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Feel self-conscious in the bedroom, or fear rejection or disappointment.
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Trust your partner(s) but sex and communication feel disconnected or anxiety-producing.
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Feel stuck in your head, and have difficulty feeling good or present in your body.
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Struggle to reach orgasm, or feel physical pain during sex.
This retreat is for you!
Join us if:
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You value sexuality.
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You understand that communication is an art and are willing to work on it.
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You want an alive exciting partnership that feels inspiring, supportive, and secure.
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You are committed and loving toward your partner(s) and want to grow together.
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You want adventure, playfulness, and deep connection in your relationship.
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You are willing to be vulnerable to get what you want.
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You believe that pleasure is a right for everyone, including yourself.
Passionate Partners is here to help you increase your intimacy and strengthen your communication with your partner(s).
Although sex is ever present in our world, our sexual health and functioning are often overlooked in our relationships. We assume that we understand our sexual desires and those of our partner(s), but how often do we explicitly discuss the things that bring us pleasure? Sex and intimacy are things we practice and get better at. Sex education is so much more than what we learned in grade school.
Good sex requires being connected to your body and desire, as well as superb communication. The best foreplay happens outside of the bedroom. It's easy to love the person you're with, and it takes more energy to communicate vulnerable things with your partner. Verbalizing unspoken and subconscious expectations and assumptions is important to sexual communication, and sometimes we need support from a third party to do this.
Over the course of the weekend, we will explore the topics of communication and sexual health and learn how improving sexual health can strengthen our relationships with our partner(s) and ourselves. Specifically, we will discuss the meaning and importance of pleasure, play, desire, and eroticism. We will practice getting out of our heads and into feeling sensations. We will engage in fun and relaxing activities designed to connect you to your partner and your body.
Our sexual health, much like our physical, spiritual, relational, and mental health, is a critical component of our overall well-being. In order to have fulfilling relationships with our partner(s) and ourselves, we need to nurture our sexual health. This weekend will help you and your partner explore and enhance pleasure in your relationship. My hope is that you will leave our time together feeling hopeful, connected, and inspired.
Sex lubricates relationships!
What else can talking about sex can do for your relationship?
Feel alive and inspired in your relationship.
Bring more play, creativity, and imagination to your relationship.
Feel closer with your partner.
Decrease negative feelings and sensations.
Understand and speak your desires and your needs.
Increase healthy pleasure in your life.
Connect with your erotic selves.
Address desire discrepancies in your relationship with love.
*Desire discrepancies are normal in relationships. Two different people are never going to want exactly the same thing at exactly the same time!
Discover and explore your erotic blueprint.
Jaiya's erotic blueprints:
Energetic
Sensual
Sexual
Kinky
Shapeshifter
What's included?
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A small, personalized experience with no more than 5 couples where you will get the exquisite attention you need to feel seen and grow in your relationship(s).
Lodging and Meals
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3 nights in a beautiful BnB with a sauna and hot tub
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3 meals per day including tea, coffee, and snacks catered by an amazing private chef!
All Inclusive
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$1825 per person
Vacation
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Time to relax and play with your partner in the Vermont wilderness
Couples Counseling
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As needed throughout weekend
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1 preparation therapy session with Ally before the retreat and 1 aftercare therapy session with Ally to support integration ($450 value)
Experiential Learning
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Empowering workshops on communication, pleasure, and relationships
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Mindfulness and embodiment classes
Sample Schedule
Day 1 - Thursday :
4:00pm Arrival and check-in to BnB
5:15pm Dinner
6:30pm Welcome, Co-creation of Set and Setting
Day 2 - Friday:
8:15am Optional yoga/embodiment practice
9:15am Breakfast
10:15am Workshop on Communication/ Imago
12:00pm Lunch
1:30pm Workshop on Desire
3:30pm Siesta
6:00pm Dinner
7:00pm Special Guest Teacher
Day 3 - Saturday :
8:00am Optional yoga/embodiment practice
8:45am Breakfast
9:30am Pleasure and Sensation Focus
12:30pm Lunch
2:00pm Erotic Blueprints
4:00pm Siesta
6:30pm Dinner
Day 4 - Sunday :
8:30am Breakfast
9:30am Closing Ceremony
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About Ally (she/her)
Ally’s mission is to help people build relationships that make them feel alive and loved. She has spent the last ten years honing her empathy, insight, and imagination to support people through their relational challenges. She has cultivated a successful private practice where she helps people improve their communication and therefore connection, feel secure in themselves, and feel pleasure in their bodies.
Over the last six years, she has been on a personal quest to reclaim pleasure in her own life. She has studied sex and relationship therapy with the Gottmans, Esther Perel, and Jaiya, who created the Erotic Blueprint Framework, among others. She completed the California Institute of Integrated Studies Certificate in Sex Therapy and is now an AASECT-certified sex therapist.
Ally is proud to host this retreat as an experiential milestone along your journey to the sex and relationships of your dreams.
Guest Teachers and Facilitators
Why attend a retreat?
This retreat offers a unique experience that cannot be provided by weekly therapy. Most importantly, the weekend will provide you with the opportunity to:
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Enjoy an immersive experience where you can practice the skills you're learning throughout the weekend
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Connect with your partner(s) in an intentional weekend getaway.
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Disconnect from your day-to-day routine; focus on your intimacy goals; and relax and rejuvenate in the beauty of Northern Vermont.
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Connect with like-minded people and grow from listening to others' experiences.
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Learn from multiple hand-picked professionals about your sexual, physical, and relational health.
Fall in love with Vermont
Upon confirmation of your sign-up, you will receive a questionnaire to begin the preparation process. Ally will provide one counseling session before the retreat to take a brief history of the couple and better understand the hopes and fears, patterns, desires and needs they have. If the clients are already in counseling with Ally, the couple may use this session to address their intentions and goals for the upcoming retreat. When you return home from the retreat, Ally will provide another session to help integrate the lessons you have learned, as well as specific recommendations and homeplay for the couple.
Payment plans are available. Reach out at ally@moonlitcounseling.com.