Touching Desire: The Art of Pleasure

Do you wish to unlock your body’s natural ability for more ecstasy?

Would you like to learn how to exchange pleasurable, whole-body touch?

Enjoy an experiential weekend dedicated to exploring sensuality, sexuality and awakening your desire through the Tantric art of touch!

Join Sara and Thomas Stout, Certified SkyDancing Tantra teachers, in this transformative seminar that weaves together sensuality and spirituality. Whether you attend partnered or solo, you’ll discover touch as a doorway to enlightenment.

• Learn extensive tools to enliven your capacity for ecstasy.
• Fine tune your skills in the art of Tantric touch
• Learn sensuous, healing, and pleasurable whole-body touch
• Integrate spirituality and physical pleasure
• Open new doors to the heart, and allow more pleasure and trust in your relationships.
• Develop true alignment with your desires.
• Have fun!

Employing conscious touch, ritual, and communication as the foundations of this sensuous weekend seminar, you’ll experience deepened connection with yourself as the difference between self and other dissolves into a harmonious flow of ecstatic energies.

How is Touching Desire a “tantric” practice and differs from other forms of touch such as massage? In a traditional massage, we recline on the table and receive, entranced. Touching Desire (Level 1) includes interactive elements such as eye contact, communication, breath awareness, sensory play, and energy movement along with touching the whole body.
Get more of what you want and discover new and a wider range of pleasure. Come away with lifelong tools to increase intimacy and connection with yourself and others.

This exploration of desire through touch is for everyone regardless of how easily you feel desire. These practices support you in knowing what is pleasurable and how to feel more with your entirety.

Open to everyone. No previous experience necessary.

All genders, orientations, and relationship configurations are welcome. Those who arrive partnered may work together exclusively during the workshop or with others if they wish. If you identify as feminine, watch this video: how does SkyDancing Tantra support you?

Touching Desire (Level 1): The Art of Pleasure is designed for people who are ready for more aliveness, love, and consciousness in their relationships and intimate partnerships.

“I was profoundly moved by the loving energy of Sara & Thomas as teachers and as a long time married couple. They are caring, very open and clear communicators.”
C. M., Ohio

“They were amazing, grounded, loving, skillful and personal in their explanations. I liked most that Sara & Thomas brought in their own practical and personal experiences.”
Meenal K. Ventura, CA

“Thomas and Sara are a dynamic teaching partnership. Their different styles complement each other and bring unity, strength, safety, fun, and a deep sacredness to space.”
Diane Divone

This workshop serves as a prerequisite for the Love & Ecstasy Training Cycles.

Sara and Thomas Stout, Certified SkyDancing® Tantra teachers, founders of LovePassionately® ~ School of Mindful Intimacy, and Directors of the SkyDancing Tantra Institute® – USA. They teach seminars in sacred sexuality around the USA and internationally. Married for over 30 years, Sara and Thomas bring great warmth, insight, and humor into their workshops. With backgrounds in psychotherapy and bodywork, Sara and Thomas have cultivated what they call “the art of bodyful intimacy,” which they beautifully demonstrate through their workshops and coaching. They are also never-ending students of meditation, yoga, sexuality, and interpersonal dynamics.

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Practical Information:
Teachers: Sara & Thomas Stout
Location: Guest House Retreat Center, Chester, CT
Start: Friday, Aug 8, 2025, at 6pm with registration/dinner
End: Sunday, Aug 10, 2025, at 12:30pm
Cost: $755-$795 per person includes:

• full weekend seminar
• delicious and wholesome meals (Friday dinner to Sunday brunch)
• access to Guest House amenities (including its beautiful land, trails and more)
• lodging options (listed at registration)

Register Now at Touching Desire

Deposit: $250 per person; full payment due by June 24, 2025
Knowledge or experience of SkyDancing Tantra is not necessary.