01/31/2025 thru 02/02/2025, Las Vegas
Awaken as Eros: An Erotic Laboratory (Weekend Taster)
“It’s not selfish to put yourself first—it’s self-full.” ~Iyanla Vanzant*Eros*:
In Greek mythology, Eros is the god of love and sxxual desire. The term represents passion and attraction, embodying intense emotional and physical connections.
Join Reid Mihalko and Monique Darling for a transformative weekend immersion to explore your deepest desires. This immersive experience will help you break free from societal constraints and discover what you truly want in a highly curated environment. It will be a taste of our week long retreat, happening in Cabo, Mexico, May 7-14
There are so many erotic and sxxual spaces being offered in our communities, the challenge is many of them are not trauma informed. They use a sledgehammer to make a point, and often the facilitators are using the containers to fill up their own Eros tanks. Reid and I have crafted an event where you get to wake up your Eros. Subtlety, integrity, communication, and accountability are all pillars of this work for us, and we are conscious of coming into the container full, so we can serve you, not the other way around.During this weekend taster Reid and I will be offering snipets, samples, and tastes from the menu below, enough to give you new tools, skills, and confidence, but also leaving you wanting more……………
This retreat is designed to help you express your Eros without shame or hesitation, no matter your age, size, gender, or orientation. Dive into sensual anatomy, bedroom skills, and erotic demos. We will cover shame, guilt, the soul mate trap, dating your species, boundaries, and permission to be yourself. Engage in powerful rituals. Learn about speed rejection, pressure play, and create your own menu of desires during research and development sessions to try out anything and everything that interests you.In this highly tailored environment, you can release body shame and rewire rejection programming. Touch the shame, guilt, fear, and belief systems that hold you back from imagining what you really desire. If you can’t even imagine, no wonder you don’t have the skills to ask for it!
Key Highlights:
– *Discover Erotic Self-Expression*: Explore Eros and intimacy with minimal drama and maximum pleasure.
– *Overcome Sxxual Shame*: Replace shame with unbridled pleasure and aliveness.
– *Communicate Desires Effectively*: Learn to ask for what you want and handle rejections gracefully.
– *Engage in Powerful Rituals*: Participate in activities that help you explore your Eros in a caring environment with expert guidance. Learn to touch one another naked, with reverence, and begin to unravel unworthiness so you can truly ask for what you want in the bedroom and beyond.
-**Hone Your Listening (and Ability To Hear) Your Body and the Bodies of Others)
– *Pressure Play: Harnessing Your Pelvic Floor for Greater Health, Pleasure, and Bedroom Prowess!*: Learn how the muscles and ligaments in your pelvis work like ropes and pulleys to enhance pleasure, arousal, and body awareness. Activate your pelvic floor to boost bedroom skills, ease pelvic pain, and improve overall health.
-**Trauma and Repair
Learn how to hold compassionate space for lovers and yoruself when trauma and projection show up, and how not to deflect or attack but take steps towards resilience and repair.
This weekend immersion offers a unique opportunity to explore and experiment with new skills and techniques, leaving you with a deeper understanding and newfound confidence to be the lover you’ve always wanted to be. You’ll work with yourself, a partner, and in small groups to discover what truly turns you on, breaking old habits and exploring new passions. Start asking for what you want, practicing touch, and learning to fall in love with your body and genitals, as well as those you are blessed to interact with. Whether you’re new to exploring your sxxuality or looking to deepen your understanding, “Awaken as Eros” offers a mix of reverence and humor in a space where all of you is welcome to play.Awaken as Love is an evolutionary movement happening around the world.
Awaken as Eros is proud to be sponsored and co organized by Awaken as Love. I, Monique, am a lead faculty, and am awed in the ways that AAL has shaped, transformed and integrated my life these past 7 years, and I’m extremely excited to be leading an offshoot of it that combines Eros with Integrity and Evolution and Integration)
Cost $299 (with early bird special $249 for the first 10 tickets sold, and $199 Super Early Bird, for the first 3 people who say yes!)
RSVP
When Friday Jan 31-Feb 2
We begin at 7pm for our introduction to awaken as eros (if you aren’t certain about the weekend you can just buy a ticket for the night and then apply its cost towards the weekend if you decide to stay)
Sat and Sunday are 11-5 pm with an hour for lunch
Where at Nikki’s temple space in Vegas, that includes a hot tub and pool. Address will be given out when you buy a ticket, check out confirmation email for instructionsJoin us for even more Vegas events while we are in town:
ABOUT YOUR FACILITATORS
Reid Mihalko, sex and relationship geek, helps adults and college students create more self-esteem, self-confidence and greater health in their relationships and sex lives using an inspiring mixture of humor, keen insight, and comprehensive, pleasure-focused sexual health information.
Reid frequently speaks at colleges and universities on healthy relationship skills, and regularly appears in the media sharing his views on shame-free sexuality. In 2018, Reid began a restorative justice-based accountability process, stepping down from teaching, to address sexual misconduct and harms from 2010 that had been courageously shared as a result of #MeToo. The formal, year-long process was shared publicly and can be found at TinyURL.com/reidaccountability.
Reid’s workshops and college lectures have been attended by over 50,000 people. He has appeared in media such as Netflix’ Chelsea Does… with Chelsea Handler, Oprah’s Our America With Lisa Ling on OWN, the Emmy award-winning talk show Montel, Dr. Phil’s The Doctors on CBS, Bravo’s Miss Advised, Fox News, in Newsweek, Seventeen, GQ, The Washington Post, and in thirteen countries and at least seven languages. Learn more at ReidAboutSex.com.
Monique Darling, Lead faculty for Awaken as Love; author of ‘Beyond Cuddle Party’ and workshop facilitator extraordinaire has led over 2000 workshops in the past 10 years. She is the founder of Everyday Tantra an organization dedicated to empowering people who are questioning the assumptions of how their life should be and to offering tools for self expression that create trust, inner knowing and wisdom to enjoy the life they have. Monique has taught at colleges across the US including Yale. She has been featured on TLC and The Dr’s as well as various radio shows, podcasts and magazines across the globe. She specializes in helping others reclaim their power and natural sensuality by transmuting fear and repression into courage, self-love and freedom. Her primary purpose is helping folks bring out their vulnerability, energetic embodiment and fearless relating. Learn more about Monique by going to www.Everydaytantra.com