Although those on retreats generally tend to be single adults, many spiritual centers welcome, or offer workshops for, couples, families, those in recovery, caregivers, racial and ethnic groups and gay or transgendered men and women.
She is the co-creator of the immensely popular Art and Science of Love weekend workshops for couples, and she also co-designed the national clinical training program in Gottman Couples Therapy.
Once when I was talking about this in an intimacy workshop for lesbian couples, a woman said, "All that foreplay could take at least 24 hours!" She'd been hung up on the "sex should be spontaneous" theme -- until she started remembering the elaborate plans she used to make in early dating days.
Should you choose to enter the 3-D realm, the ways to get started range from pretty easy to "hunker down in the garage workshop for a couple of weeks" hard.
We're about a tenth of that price, and instead of sending someone to a workshop for a couple of days, you pay the same for six months of training with us.
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"A lot of the tension may have been over the children," said Mary T. Kelly, a marriage and family therapist in Boulder, Colo., who leads "Married With Baggage" workshops for remarried couples.
To learn more about their upcoming workshops and retreats for couples and singles go to http://www.tantranova.com.
But there are so many great events going on every week in the Jewish community, plus workshops from InterfaithFamily for couples and new parents.
Susan Needles, a clinical social worker in Manhattan who holds workshops for Christian-Jewish couples sponsored by an organization called Interfaith Community, said the only way to reach a mutually satisfying arrangement is through careful discussion and negotiation.
