Middletown, CA 95461, USA
Up to 24 in group
Feb 12 - 14, 2027
About this Retreat
Certified SkyDancing Tantra Teacher, Psychotherapist, Coach, and Artist
Sara Stout is a deeply compassionate guide in the realm of intimacy, embodiment, and personal transformation. After 32 years as a psychotherapist, she transitioned into teaching Tantra with her husband, Thomas, drawn by the profound and lasting transformations she witnessed in her students. Eleven years ago, she immersed herself in the study of SkyDancing Tantra, and today, she wakes up each morning excited to share what she loves.
As a Certified SkyDancing Tantra Teacher, coach, and sex therapist, Sara brings warmth, expertise, and a wealth of knowledge to her students. With over 25 years of experience supporting individuals and couples in deepening their relationships and embracing their sexuality, she is passionate about helping people embody self-love, reduce body shame, and increase pleasure and passion. Her specialties have been inspired by her time studying with Margot Anand, and include cultivating sexual energy, teaching the power of manifestation, and guiding people toward greater emotional and physical intimacy.
Sara co-founded LovePassionately: School of Mindful and Bodyful Intimacy, where she and Thomas create safe, transformative spaces for people to explore love, connection, and embodied living. She is also a teacher and director of SkyDancing Tantra Institute USA, continuing the legacy of this renowned lineage.
Tantra Teacher, Sexological Bodyworker, Massage Therapist, and Aquatic Bodyworker
SatchiJo (Thomas) Stout is a deeply intuitive and heart-centered teacher dedicated to helping others awaken to their full sensual and energetic potential. With over 40 years as a massage therapist and 10 years as a Sexological Bodyworker, Tantra Teacher, and Aquatic Bodyworker, he brings a profound understanding of the body and its innate wisdom.
Thomas has a gift for creating nurturing, healing spaces where individuals can relax into trust, presence, and connection. His expertise in conscious touch, breathwork, and somatic healing allows him to support students in subtly awakening their bodies and expanding their capacity for intimacy and pleasure. He has studied with several Tantric Masters, including Margot Anand, Laurence Heitzmann & Laurent Lacosse, and Essense Tantra.
Together with his wife, Sara, Thomas has been married for over 31 years. They co-founded LovePassionately: School of Mindful and Bodyful Intimacy, an international Tantra coaching program that empowers individuals and couples to cultivate deeper connection and self-awareness. As teachers and directors of SkyDancing Tantra Institute USA, they continue to share the life-changing practices of Tantra with a growing global community.
Details of this retreat
A Valentine's Weekend Retreat for Couples | An Introduction to SkyDancing Tantra
❤️ This Valentine's Weekend retreat is designed exclusively for couples attending together. We warmly welcome couples of all genders, orientations, and relationship structures.
Are you longing for more passion, connection, and aliveness in your relationship? Do you want to feel more playful, confident, and deeply connected with one another?
Awakening Passion: Trust, Play & Love is a beginner-friendly introduction to the transformative practices of SkyDancing Tantra. Created especially for Valentine's Weekend, this retreat offers couples a safe, welcoming environment to explore intimacy, communication, and authentic connection through experiential learning.
Rather than chasing passion, you'll discover how it naturally emerges when you cultivate self-awareness, embodied presence, and relational trust.
If life has begun to feel routine or disconnected, this weekend offers an opportunity to slow down, reconnect, and rediscover the joy of being together.
Who Is It For?
This retreat welcomes couples of all genders, orientations, and relationship structures who want to strengthen their relationship through the practices of SkyDancing Tantra.
Whether you've been together for decades or your relationship is just beginning, you'll explore practical tools that help deepen trust, improve communication, and create more ease, playfulness, and intimacy together.
This retreat is exclusively for couples attending as a pair.
What You'll Experience
Throughout the weekend, you'll experience guided partner exercises, movement, breathwork, meditation, group teachings, playful experiential practices, and time for reflection and integration. Every practice is fully guided, consent-based, and invitational, allowing you to participate at the pace that feels right for you.
❤️ Learn Tantra as a practical life skill you can continue bringing into your relationship long after the retreat ends.
❤️ Develop embodied communication through practices that strengthen boundaries, consent, attunement, and honest expression.
❤️ Explore breathwork and connection rituals that increase vitality, presence, and emotional intimacy.
❤️ Experience structured partner exercises that encourage self-trust, mutual respect, and playful exploration.
❤️ Create a personal integration plan that connects your values, desires, and everyday relationship practices.
About the Facilitators
You'll be supported by Sara & Thomas Stout, whose more than 30 years of marriage reflect a lived commitment to conscious relationship. They bring warmth, wisdom, and practical experience, creating a space where couples can explore vulnerability, intimacy, and growth with both depth and lightness.
"Thomas/SatchiJo and Sara are impeccable leaders in the often tender and vulnerable space of self-love and sensuality."
~ WN, Wisconsin
The Deeper Invitation
This retreat was created in response to couples who wanted deeper intimacy without losing themselves.
Many relationship challenges don't come from a lack of love. They arise as stress, responsibilities, and old patterns slowly create distance.
Together, you'll explore how to:
❤️ Maintain a strong sense of self while opening more fully to connection.
❤️ Balance attachment with healthy autonomy.
❤️ Build trust through clear boundaries, consent, and emotional safety.
❤️ Cultivate the kind of presence that allows closeness, respect, and lasting partnership.
As you reconnect with yourself, you'll naturally reconnect with one another. Tension softens, joy expands, and intimacy becomes something you intentionally create rather than hope for.
And yes...we believe growth should include laughter. Expect meaningful conversations, heartfelt moments, and plenty of opportunities to play together.
Ignite Passion in What Matters Most
Together you'll explore how to bring more passion and vitality into every area of life, including your love life, sexuality, creativity, purpose, joy, and the unique gifts you're here to share.
Do you long to feel more relaxed and at home in your body and sexuality?
Experience the freedom that comes with greater acceptance, self-love, and embodied confidence.
*******New to Love Passionately?********
If you're new to Love Passionately, please contact us before registering to schedule a brief conversation. This gives us an opportunity to ensure the retreat is a good fit, answer your questions, and help you arrive feeling informed and supported.
What You'll Take Home
You'll leave with practical communication tools, connection rituals, and embodied practices that continue supporting your relationship long after the retreat ends.
Whether you're navigating challenges, celebrating life's joys, or simply wanting to feel more connected in everyday moments, these timeless principles of SkyDancing Tantra offer a path toward a relationship that feels more authentic, playful, and alive.
Testimonials
"It's a beautiful way to begin a journey of self-exploration in a container that provides safety, fun, listening, and learning."
~ Diane Divone
"This weekend helped us reconnect in a way that felt both playful and deeply meaningful."
~ Retreat Participant
Financial Details
A deposit is required to reserve your spot through Retreat Guru. Payment plans may be available upon request.
Upon acceptance into the retreat, final payments become nonrefundable within 30 days of the retreat start date. This policy is separate from the refundable deposit made through Retreat Guru.
Please review the full cancellation policy before registering.