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 how to make
relationships work, has led me to many different teachings, some of which I now
bring with me into my trainings. Practicing and developing communication skills,
for example, or learning how to read body language, or any one of many
modalities that I have applied to my own life, has given me the wisdom and
skill I need to pass it on in a way that you can use it. And magically, life’s
grace has given me the intuition I
need to guide you through the process
of transformation.
You will 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 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 “loaded” little daggers of retribution 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 to silently get back at
their partner for repressing their words and feelings -- 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
The Trainings
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
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).
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.
Workshop Schedule First Quarter, 2009 Australia: Queensland and New South Wales Starlight Festival Presentation: Health Happiness & Soul Expo, Gold Coast Presentation Intros: Mullumbimby Gold Coast TSR 4-day Mountain Retreat, Sydney TSR Training – Living Essence Centre Retreat Timetable Day Friday Saturday Sunday Monday 10.00 – 13:00 Morning Session Morning
Session 12:00 – 18:00 Afternoon Session 11:00 – 14:00 Wrap-up Session And Good-Byes 13:00 – 15:00 Lunch & Break Lunch & Break 15:00 - 17.30 Afternoon Session Afternoon Session 17:30 – 19:00 Break 19:00- 22.00 Puja:Feast, Dancing
& Celebration
January
Toni is to make interactive presentations at the Starlight Festival at the Bangalow Exhibition Centre (Byron Area); and Health Happiness & Soul Expos in the Gold Coast area. See below for Presentations and TSR (Tantric Sacred Relationships) training dates and times:
Saturday, Jan 11, 12 noon – 2:00pm
Saturday, Jan 17, 3:15 - 4:15pm (Seminar Room Two)
TSR Booth Jan 16 – 18 10:00am – 7:00pm
HeartSpace (above Santos Health Food Store)
Wed, Jan 14 & Jan 21, 6:30 – 8:00pm
St. Bernard's Hotel, Tamborine Mountain
Fri Jan 23, 5:30 – 10:30pm
Sat Jan 24, 10:00 am – 6:00pm
Sun Jan 25 10:00am – 6:00pm
And Puja 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Mon Jan 26, 11:00am – 2:00pm
[Accomodations next door at Mt. Tamborine Motel]
Fri, Feb 27, 5:30pm – 10:30pm
Sat, Feb 28, 10:00am – 6:00pm
Sun, Mar 1, 10:00am – 6:00pm
And Puja 7:00pm – 10:00pm