Certification and experience
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Craniosacral
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Chi Nei Tsang
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Karsai Nei Tsang
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Swedish Therapeutic
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Myofascial release
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Stretching Therapy (AIS & Ki-Hara)
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Thai Massage
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Foot Reflexology
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200-hr Yoga Alignment Teacher Certification
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NeuroKinetic Therapy (NKT)
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Therapeutic tantric yoni massage
Certification and experience
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Craniosacral
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Chi Nei Tsang
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Karsai Nei Tsang
-
Swedish Therapeutic
-
Myofascial release
-
Stretching Therapy (AIS & Ki-Hara)
-
Thai Massage
-
Foot Reflexology
-
200-hr Yoga Alignment Teacher Certification
-
NeuroKinetic Therapy (NKT)
-
Therapeutic tantric yoni massage
Certification and experience
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Craniosacral
-
Chi Nei Tsang
-
Karsai Nei Tsang
-
Swedish Therapeutic
-
Myofascial release
-
Stretching Therapy (AIS & Ki-Hara)
-
Thai Massage
-
Foot Reflexology
-
200-hr Yoga Alignment Teacher Certification
-
NeuroKinetic Therapy (NKT)
-
Therapeutic tantric yoni massage
Certification and experience
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Craniosacral
-
Chi Nei Tsang
-
Karsai Nei Tsang
-
Swedish Therapeutic
-
Myofascial release
-
Stretching Therapy (AIS & Ki-Hara)
-
Thai Massage
-
Foot Reflexology
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200-hr Yoga Alignment Teacher Certification
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NeuroKinetic Therapy (NKT)
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Therapeutic tantric yoni massage

Sacred Union
An Erotic, Relational & Conscious Partnership Journey
West Vancouver, June 2026
“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
Rumi
Life gets busy, and connection is often the first thing to go. Between responsibilities and constant “adulting,” couples can begin to operate more like teammates than lovers. Emotional presence fades, communication becomes functional, and intimacy is postponed. Not anymore.

The Sacred Union Couples Retreat is an invitation to pause, reconnect, and remember why you chose each other. This immersive experience goes beyond sexuality alone, creating space to deepen emotional intimacy, strengthen communication, rebuild trust, and nourish the spiritual and energetic bond that holds a relationship together. Away from daily distractions, you’ll explore your partnership in ways that aren’t possible within the limited windows of time at home.
Through guided practices, meaningful conversations, and intentional time together, you’ll rediscover each other as lovers, friends, and allies. You’ll leave with practical, sustainable tools for intimacy, communication, and connection that integrate easily into everyday life. Sexual connection is honored as part of a much larger foundation of presence, safety, devotion, and shared growth.

“Take a lover who looks at you like you are magic.”
Frida Kahlo

Many of us search for deep love our entire lives, and when we finally find it, we forget to prioritize it. This retreat invites you back to the source of your love—renewed, reconnected, emotionally open, and deeply bonded, with your erotic fire fully reignited.
You will:
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Learn how to understand your lover’s Erotic Design—their unique desires, turn-ons, blocks, rhythms, and yearnings—and how yours interacts with theirs
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Deepen appreciation for your sexual differences, needs, and natures, and discover how to weave contrast into chemistry instead of conflict
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Cultivate the ability to create and sustain erotic charge, polarity, and anticipation—inside and outside the bedroom
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Learn how to care for one another sensually, emotionally, and energetically, so pleasure is supported by safety and trust
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Awaken to depths of pleasure and intimacy between you that you didn’t even know were possible
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Be guided through ceremonial and devotional practices that bring reverence, presence, and sacredness into your erotic bond
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Experience your partner through new lenses—somatic, emotional, psychological, erotic—so they feel freshly seen and desired
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Enter a space where you can ask honest, brave questions about pleasure blocks, mismatched desire, shame, confusion, or shutdown
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Learn communication tools that help you speak about sex, needs, fantasies, and boundaries without defensiveness, collapse, or power struggle
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Identify and dismantle relationship postures, patterns, and roles that quietly sabotage intimacy
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Discover the unconscious behaviors that keep you from getting what you want—and practice new strategies to replace them with clarity, agency, and erotic self-responsibility
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Take a deep dive into what originally brought you together, what has changed, and what the next horizon of your relationship is calling for
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Witness other partnerships in real time—pooling wisdom, vulnerability, and lived experience—so you’re not learning in isolation
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Practice erotic and sexual techniques under the guidance of two experienced facilitators, always within choice, consent, and comfort
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Leave with a deeper bond, intimate knowledge of one another, and practical tools you can continue using long after the experience
With the guidance of an experienced and practiced Sexologists and bodyworkers, you and your partner will come together in new ways to experience an exciting new level of physical, spiritual, and emotional connection in your partnership.
Sample Day
9am-10am- Facilitated Breathwork
10:00-10:30- Partner Connection
15 minutes Break
10:45-11:45- Group Circle
11:45-12:30 Somatic Exercises on connecting with your Erotic Self
12:30- Lunch
2:00-3:00- Touch Lecture & Demo on Types of Touch. Group Exercise on Touch
Demo on Partner Sensual Massage
15 minutes Transition
3:45-4:45 Massage on Partner 1
15 minutes Transition
5:00-6:000 Massage on Partner 2
End of Day

This retreat is for couples who are:
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Wanting to come into a deeper sense of truth and companionship in their bond
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Who want inner exploration, accountability and to touch growth-edges for yourself in order to offer more to your beloved
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Open to expanding and exploring their sexual connection to experience dynamic paths to pleasure
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Ready to open their hearts to an even more intimate relationship with a deepened connection physically, emotionally, and spiritually
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Curious about how to give and receive in new, enriched ways that will broaden your sexual relationship with one another
There will be only a maximum of 5 couples on this retreat, and while you will share this beautiful house with other lovers, your privacy will be honoured and maintained throughout.


“The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.”
Cheryl Strayed
What’s included
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4 days of workshop with 2 experienced facilitators (see below) and an assistant
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Daily lunch catered by a private chef
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Daily Bodywork between you and your lover
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Detailed pleasure instruction and guidance
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Intimacy experiences you have never had with your partner before
Details
Non residential
Lunch included
To register, fill up the application form with the button below, and make a deposit of $1000cad with the information we'll send you.
Deposit non reimbursable, except if organisers have to cancel
Retreat to be held in a private house in a location to be announced

The Path of Beauty:
This workshop is for ALL lovers. Those exploring, those deeply committed, those who have deep love but haven’t had time in years to rediscover one another.
For those who are yearning for a space to be intentional with their eroticism in a healthy, deep, sacred and also educational space to experience new landscapes and possibilities with another.
What It is not:
It is NOT a place to worry about your body shape or if you are too old/too queer/too new/too married/ TOO ANYTHING. We celebreate LOVE and the deepening of love. You are welcome at the retreat as you are. Varying identities, shapes, sizes, lengths of experience together, couples, thruples and all kinds of diversity in partnership are DEEPLY enriching for everyone who takes part! Thank you in advance for contributing your beauty and spirit to our collective journey.
All Genders, ages and orientations welcome; we will provide for you in our schedule!
Are you ready to rejuvenate in a sacred retreat setting and leave feeling abundant, worthy and deliciously nourished? Spaces are limited.
About the facilitators:

Ashley Rose (She)
Ashley is an applied Sexologist from Vancouver, BC
Her background is in Harm Reduction Social work & anti oppression practices with family reunification & poverty, sexological bodywork & Rites of Passage work for teenagers.
Her somatic and therapeutic work is informed by Hakomi, Narrative Therapy, IFS, Relational Life Therapy for couples and transpersonal psychology inspired by the text “A Course In Miracles.”
Ashley is passionate about people being free to understand and feel their authentic eroticism beyond all the layers life can impose upon individuals.
She has many heroes in the field who are doing inspired work and is driven by a sense of collaborative genius, community & interdependence.

Martin Beaudoin (he/we)
Martin has a PhD in Linguistics and has been exploring the healing power of bodywork for decades. He has specialised in Applied Sexology for a decade.
He is further trained in various modalities, including Craniosacral, Structural/Myofascial Release, Neurokinetic Therapy, Swedish, Visceral manipulation, Chi Nei Tsang, Karsai Nei Tsang, Thai, Stretching Therapy, Foot Reflexology, Tantric Yoni Massage, Reiki, Alignment Yoga, Compassionate Inquiry.
Martin has dedicated his focus to woman’s health and bodywork, as he feels they are underserved by the current available (para-)medical systems. He lives in West Vancouver, BC, and offers private sessions and training in many other countries as well.
