Touching Desire (Level 1): The Art of Pleasure for Couples

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Middletown, CA, USA
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Up to 24 in group
Date
February 13 - 15, 2026

Retreat Highlights

  • Increase your capacity for pleasure, ecstasy, and desire in your relationship
  • Learn the Tantric art of sensuous, healing, whole-body touch
  • Deepen intimacy and trust through conscious touch, breath, and communication
  • Discover what truly brings you pleasure and how to communicate your desires
  • Integrate spirituality with physical sensation in a safe, guided environment
  • Practice interactive touch that includes eye contact, energy awareness, and sensory play
  • Connect authentically with yourself and your partner through sacred sexuality practices
  • Learn from married teachers with 30+ years of experience in Tantra and intimacy
  • Open to all genders, orientations, and relationship configurations
  • Enjoy delicious meals, beautiful nature trails, and pool at Four Springs Retreat Center

About this Retreat

Your Guides

Details of this retreat

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. 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.

“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

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. You 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 for Couples is designed for people who are ready for more aliveness, love, and consciousness in their relationships and intimate partnerships.

"I have a deeper relationship with myself and my partner in ways I didn’t know possible. I gained the freedom and permission to seek what I desire without fear." - Hayley Higgins.

"You may feel that this is out of your comfort zone. You may feel apprehension, fear, and anxiety, and yet, if you trust you will be met with the most beautiful container, the most safe space to lean into, and experience a part of yourself that perhaps you had lost or did not know was there. You are in good hands with Sara and SatchiJo (Thomas)!"
- Chris Brawer.

Schedule

Each session builds on the previous to offer a beautiful progression, culminating in a Tantric ritual. The days start with meditation before breakfast. You have a 2-hour lunch break for rest, walks in the trails, or connecting with other students.
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change

Getting Here

Location icon Love Passionately, School of Mindful & Bodyful Intimacy, Middletown, CA, USA

Directions

Most people fly into San Francisco or Sacramento. The drive in about 2.5 hours.

Accommodation

Lodging Categories & Rates: PCBC: Private Cabin with Bathroom for Couples Includes: Private cabin with 1 queen bed and 1 futon (4 cabins available), or a private cabin with 2 twin beds, may be separated or combined (1 cabin available). Selection is based on availability. All cabins include a private bathroom. Rate: $975 per person (includes tuition, meals, and lodging) DCSB: Duplex Cabin with Shared Bathroom Includes: Cozy duplex cabin with 2 twin beds (can be separated or combined) and a shared bathroom between duplex cabins Suitable for solos or couples Rate: $895 per person (includes tuition, meals, and lodging) SCCB: Shared Cabin with Communal Bathhouse Includes: 1-room cabin with 2 twin beds (can be separated or combined) and access to a communal bathhouse in a separate building Suitable for solos or couples Rate: $825 per person (includes tuition, meals, and lodging) IDC: Outdoor camping (available year round) $775 per person includes tuition, meals, and shared indoor camping space with access to a shared bathhouse. Year-Round: bring your own sleeping mat, bedding and other amenities $775.00 ODC: Outdoor Camping (RVs only November - April) $775 per person includes tuition, meals, and outdoor camping space with access to a shared bathhouse. Summer: bring your own tent, sleeping mat, bedding and other items for your comfort. * RV’s only November - April

Accommodation
PCBC: Private Cabin with Bathroom for Couples Includes: Private cabin with 1 queen bed and 1 futon (4 cabins available), or a private cabin with 2 twin beds, may be separated or combined (1 cabin available). Selection is based on availability. All cabins include a private bathroom.
Accommodation
DCSB: Duplex Cabin with Shared Bathroom Includes: Cozy duplex cabin with 2 twin beds (can be separated or combined) and a shared bathroom between duplex cabins Suitable for solos or couples
Accommodation
SCCB: Shared Cabin with Communal Bathhouse Includes: 1-room cabin with 2 twin beds (can be separated or combined) and access to a communal bathhouse in a separate building Suitable for solos or couples Rate: $745 per person (includes tuition, meals, and lodging)

Venue & Amenities

Venue & Amenities
Nestled in the rolling hills of Middletown, California, Four Springs Retreat Center offers an intimate sanctuary for deepening into pleasure and presence. This private retreat space is surrounded by pristine nature, where ancient oaks frame expansive views and meandering trails invite quiet contemplation.
The property features a sparkling pool (seasonal May-October) for unwinding between sessions, while secluded forest paths offer space for reflection and integration. With rustic accommodations

Meals

Menu Types

We have a personal chef that provides wholesome, nutritious and delicious meals. Through all our travels, we love Christine's food the best!

What's Included

  • 2 nights accommodation (Friday & Saturday nights)
  • All meals from Friday dinner through Sunday lunch
  • Full weekend Tantric touch and intimacy seminar with certified teachers
  • Guided practices in conscious touch, breath awareness, and sensory exploration
  • Communication and relationship enhancement exercises
  • Access to Four Springs amenities: nature trails and swimming pool.
  • Integration and sharing circles
  • Choice of lodging from private cabins to camping options
  • Small group setting for personalized attention

What's Not Included

  • Transportation

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