Nurturing Touch Training 2024
Two Trainings with 2 days possible for each topic: The weekend trainings are with the senior teachers Amara and Ray, and are full price. Weekday trainings are presented by Apprentices in training and are discounted. Bonus Friday Evening Event! Events can be taken individually
Friday Evening -Weekend Section
Snuggle Meditations
Friday Aug 30th, 7:15-9:30 pm
Closeness, awakening, presence, deep relaxation,
nurturing touch, peace, consent-
rolled all together at once.
Sound good?
What happens when all the performance pressure is off, and we are just together with no agenda but presence?
Magic happens.
Snuggle Power: A certain kind of deep, sub-conscious healing happens simply by being close, and letting our hearts and breathing synchronize.
Meditation: A deep harmonizing of all the chakras and energies happens when we engage in meditation.
Putting both these powerful things together creates amazing transformation.
Many people do not have enough touch in their lives, and many people need help simply relaxing and letting go.
Come join us for a special kind of snuggle ceremony, where we hold each other close, fully clothed. We relax while we stay present and aware, and focus our awareness on various meditations on being together.
Learn tools for using in any relationship to increase intimacy....Come alone, with a partner, or bring your friends!
"I deeply enjoyed this experience. Nice to be with men and women in a softening loving field of energy. I loved tapping into the soul energy transmission of our collective energy body. So deep, healing, and connecting.” Jennifer D, Kona, HI
$35 per person
Weekend Section: Nurturing
Heartbeat Nurturing Therapy
Returning to the infant state, being cradled in loving arms, letting go and trusting…
(Do you get enough of that?)
Come join us for a powerful and
healing event!
- Create deeper bonding in relationships
- Learn to transform needy childlike feelings
- Trust others more deeply
- Love and accept yourself more
- Hold space for nurturing others
A version of inner child therapy, this process works with accessing the infant self and memories still stored in our deep subconscious and cellular memory.
By using cradling, hypnotic induction, shamanic journeying, touch, sound and spoken words, we open a direct channel back to that time and those experiences around birth and infancy.
This intimate healing practice addresses the pain that many of us experienced as infants in our birth traumas, and the lack of enough skin to skin contact and breast feeding from our mothers after birth.
People attending beginning class do not need to come with a partner. It is a wonderful practice for couples to share. We will be trading a number of shorter sessions so we can experience being mothered and fathered.
Heartbeat Main Training, Saturday Aug 31
with Amara Karuna
and Ray Cohen
Begins at 10 am, ends at 6:30 pm
This retreat includes:
- Full day educational process and teachings, and an option to stay overnight for additional cost if you are taking more than one day.
- Bring your own lunches
Prices For Main Heartbeat Training:
- $135-250 sliding scale
See below for Weekday Apprentice Led training on the same topic.
Weekend Section: The Power of Conscious Touch
7 Secrets of Masterful Massage
7 Secrets of Masterful Massage
7 Secrets of Masterful Massage
Why do some people seem to have a golden touch that invites you to melt with pleasure?
What is the essential difference between a massage that feels businesslike or clumsy, and one that is deeply intimate and satisfying?
Learn the art of conscious touch
for the seven layers of the body.
There is so much more to massage, and healing touch than just giving some good rubs.
Our bodies are complex and amazing living systems with so many levels. With a little training, you can greatly upgrade your ability to give amazing touch!
This introduction compresses many years of training in many different types of massage into a sampler, to give you the basic ideas of how to effectively give pleasure and relief from pain to your loved ones.
Join us for a powerful exploration of the essentials of aware healing touch. This massage is done partially clothed and is non-sexual.
Your massages will never be the same!
7 Secrets Main Training
7 Secrets of Masterful Massage
7 Secrets of Masterful Massage
Sunday Sept 1st
with Amara Karuna
and Ray Cohen
Begins at 10 am, ends at 6:30 pm
This retreat includes:
- Full day educational process and teachings, and an option to stay overnight for additional cost if you are taking more than one day.
- Bring your own lunches
Prices for 7 Secrets Main Training:
- $135-250 sliding scale
See below for Weekday Apprentice Led training on the same topic.
Discounted Week Day Section
Apprentice Led Heartbeat Nurturing Training
Apprentice Led 7 Secrets of Masterful Massage
Apprentice Led 7 Secrets of Masterful Massage
Tuesday Sept 3rd
You may attend this extra day, if you are an apprentice, or someone who wants to support the apprentices in teaching and practicing the techniques.
Full day educational process and teachings, and an option to stay overnight for additional cost if you are taking more than one day.
- Option to purchase a prepared dinner for $20 per person
- Bring your own lunches
.
Begins at 10 am, ends at 6:30 pm
- $90-150 sliding scale
Apprentice Led 7 Secrets of Masterful Massage
Apprentice Led 7 Secrets of Masterful Massage
Apprentice Led 7 Secrets of Masterful Massage
Wednesday Sept 4th
You may attend this extra day, if you are an apprentice, or someone who wants to support the apprentices in teaching and practicing the techniques.
Full day educational process and teachings, and an option to stay overnight for additional cost if you are taking more than one day.
- Option to purchase a prepared dinner for $20 per person
- Bring your own lunches
Begins at 10 am, ends at 6:30 pm
- $90-150 sliding scale
The Facilitators
Amara Karuna
In 1989, she developed her own approach to peer counseling, called Holistic Peer Counseling integrating peer counseling with spiritual meditation practices, psychic healing, breath work and body centered techniques.
Amara developed Heartbeat Nurturing Therapy, a method of healing the inner infant-self using cradling, hypnotic induction and suckling to address emotional issues stemming from lack of breast feeding & loving closeness as an infant. She is the author of “Heartbeat Nurturing Therapy- Healing Our Hearts Together“.
Ray Cohen
Ray began his professional counseling career in 1981 helping people recover from substance abuse. In his private practice (www.ray-cohen.com) he specializes in issues of intimacy, and open relationships, working with both individuals and couples. He is passionate about personal transformation and is devoted to helping remove the blocks from intimacy and connection. In addition, Ray has been teaching with Amara Karuna since 2017. Ray also has maintained a personal fitness coaching practice since 1992 and a has had a lively career as a professional musician.
Housing Options
Payment and Logistics
Payment and Logistics
You may either stay at the venue overnight if you take more than one training, or go home if you live locally.
There will be extra programming in the evenings and early mornings for those who stay overnight.
You may choose to rent a heated yurt on site with a queen bed to stay overnight.
Or bring your RV, tent or stay in a dorm.
- Residential dorm (foam floor mattress) with your own bedding: add $55 per night
- Residential dorm (foam floor mattress) with venue bedding: add $55 per night plus $10 for bedding set
- Residential -you stay in your RV $50 per night
- Residential -you stay in your own tent with your own bed and bedding $50 per night
- Residential rent a private yurt with a queen bed $100 per night, 1-3 people (4 yurts, check for availability)
Payment and Logistics
Payment and Logistics
Payment and Logistics
We ask that people give an amount that is both generous and joyful. If you are unable to contribute at bottom of the sliding scale, please contact us.
Those of you who are able to pay at the higher end of the sliding scale enable us to hold this retreat in a spirit of generosity and inclusiveness.
To reserve your spot: Fill out the Application Form, then after you get the welcome letter, send the payment.
Bring your own food. We have use of an indoor kitchen. We can go out for dinner nearby or you can chose to buy a catered meal for dinners.
Airfare and airport transfers to the venue are not included. You can sign up on our ride form to share a ride. The site is 45 minutes drive south east from the Seattle, WA airport.
The Venue:
Wildfern Grove
Wildfern Grove
A lovely small retreat center in the Bonney Lake, Seattle, Washington area, surrounded by forest, with a hot tub!
Wildfern Grove
Wildfern Grove
Wildfern Grove
Come enjoy the beauty of the rainforest! The venue is rustic and private with outhouses for guests. There is lots of space for RVs and tents.
Pre-Event Safety Agreements
Pre-event Safety Agreements Summary. We will be taking steps to insure all of our safety, including:
*avoiding anyone who is sick,
*We will not ask you to do a rapid testing of yourself. But you can if you wish. Bring some tests in case you start feeling ill.
*If you have any symptoms of illness, please do not come to the training. If you need to cancel in the 7 days before the event because of becoming ill, we will refund all of your money if we can fill your spot, or half the money if we can't.
See details HERE.
Our Cancellation Policy:
Substitutions of attendees may be made at any time. Attendees must cancel by midnight, Pacific time, August 1st, 2024 to receive a full refund minus $50 cancellation fee per person. Cancellation requests received after August 1st, 2024 or failure to appear for the event will result in forfeiture of the entire course fee, unless we can fill your spot. In which case you will get all but $50 back.
Illness Policy
The exception to this is the illness refund policy, which states if you cancel in the last week because of a confirmable case of COVID, you can get all your money back if we can fill your spot, or half if we can't.
Cancellation requests
Cancellation requests must be received by email to Amara at amara@mindspring.com. You are responsible for ensuring that we receive your written request. We will reply by email with a written acknowledgement. Cancellation refunds will be completed via check or Paypal.
If we need to cancel
Amara reserves the right to cancel or reschedule events at any time. This is very unlikely to happen. If Amara cancels or reschedules the event due to low enrollment, weather, or unforeseen circumstances beyond the control of Amara, you are entitled to a full refund, but Amara is not responsible for travel arrangements, travel fees, or any expenses incurred by you as a result of such cancellation.
If Amara cancels an event is which you have registered, you will be contacted at the email address you provide when registering, so please be sure to provide a valid email address.
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