Being Me, Loving You
Dr Charla, mature sensualist offers exercises to practice finding what you want, asking for it with ease, and fine tuning what your body truly enjoys. This week is designed with activities that put us in charge or our pleasure and teach us how to show up for it. All classes and activities are voluntary, you are always in charge!
We will practice expressing want we want and giving authentic feedback.
Dr. Charla, Senior Sensualist, will help you:
• Find your turn on, your flirt, and how to initiate play—your way
• Create safety around touching; without safety there is no sexy
• Learn to stop hoping for—and start asking ask for what you want, with confidence
• Express your erotic truth which will deepen, not disconnect, with a partner
• Fine tune any touch from OK to FABULOUS—it’s easy, I’ll show you how
Experiential exercises will fortify your core sense of self-worth and wellbeing. You cultivate new levels of sexual self-care, self-trust, and self-expression
Praise for Being Me Loving You
• “You make a difficult subject seem straightforward. I was clueless, but felt so comfortable.”
• “At first I thought I had to do something, but you teach how to receive without giving back—OMG, I’m a convert.”
• “I stopped thinking I should be feeling something that I’m not.”
• “I got past fear and went into feeling. I lost my embarrassment and just felt.”
• “I never felt safe and vulnerable at the same time before. Afterwards, I just wanted to hang out there a long time.”
• “I want to embrace your braveness, Dr. Charla, you are teaching me how to love my body.”
- Accommodations within steps of the Pacific and also a lovely pool
- Daily therapeutic yoga sessions with Michelle specifically designed to nurture you
- 3 Nutritious, locally sourced meals and pre-yoga snacks, coffee and juice, with excellent gluten-free and vegan options
- Specialty workshops: 6 half-days plus some bonus offerings
- Nature Immersion: Immerse yourself in the natural beauty of this beach, where the Turtle Hatchery releases baby turtles to make their trip to the ocean. Just a short walk south, explore otherworldly rock formations and hunt for seashells in the tidepools between the boulders.
- Zipline excursion (we often see parrots and sloths!)
- Horseback riding on the beach
- Surf lessons
- Transformational Bodywork appointments with Michelle
Base Package: $2,100 per person by September 15
the base package includes
- All retreat activities listed
- 3 meals a day, plus coffee and fruit
- shared housing
Separate family housing is available, as well as childcare. Please inquire for options.
We have all the logistics dialed in for effortless travel. The beach is beautiful, and the pool is lovely! Join us on this transformative journey as we celebrate and honor the divine feminine within us all! Embrace your own unique feminine identity, reclaim your power, and ignite your inner radiance like never before. Together, let us create a space where the feminine can connect, grow, and thrive.
Workshops run Sunday-Friday. Travel will happen on Saturdays, or if your flights differ, let us know and we’ll discuss options.
Customize your experience with optional housing upgrades:
- private villas
- private rooms
- air-conditioning
- private baths
- queen & king beds
- ocean views
- direct pool access
- beachfront balconies and Casitas
Meet The Instructors
Dr. Charla Hathaway
I believe good lovers are made, not born. I believe accurate, positive sex education is a basic human right, and it can change your life.
I received my PhD. in clinical sexology at the Institute for the Advanced Studies of Human Sexuality with a specialty in teaching intimacy. I’m a Certified Surrogate Partner Therapist through the Institute for Mind Body Therapy. My books on enhancing intimate relationships, 8 Erotic Nights and Erotic Massage, have been translated into many languages. I’m a certified Sexological Bodyworker, and studied to be a Sacred Intimate at The Body Electric School. I’ve studied Tantra and sensual massage at Esalen Institute.
As founder of Austin’s BodyJoy Intimacy School, for twenty years I help thousands of students learn new ways to touch, talk and play (that feel safe and authentic) in classes, workshops, retreats, Meet up groups, newsletters, as well as private sessions. I encourage students to slow down, listen to their body, value their desires, articulate them, change their minds, and always respect the choices and boundaries of their partner(s). Recently, I turned the reins of my school, BodyJoy, over to my mentoree, Melissa D.
I’ve presented at national conferences including the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists, have written numerous magazine articles, was a columnist for my local newspaper for ten years, taught erotic massage classes around the world and on international cruises. Producing two solo shows on sex work, my first short video, Uncle Bob is Dressing Like a Lady, won the People’s Choice award at Austin’s Erotic Film Festival.
I’m grateful for the gifts aging brings to my body and relationships I feel more pleasure, curiosity, and aliveness–along with ease and appreciation. Being authentic in the bedroom, spirals into confidence in the boardroom…and all life. When we honor our bodies and give voice to our desires while respecting other people’s choices, we feel the joy of intimacy.
Michelle Fleming
Michelle is a Yoga Therapist, a Thai Bodyworker, a Nerve and Artery specialist and a Board Certified Structural Integrator in the lineage of Ida Rolf. It was through these complementary practices of wellness that she healed her body - and from there Orthopedic Yoga Therapy was born.
Michelle has spent thousands of happy hours teaching yoga classes and private sessions everywhere from hospitals to schools to Gillette Stadium. She has taught in conjunction with Johns Hopkins Medical School on Yoga for Brain Disorders. She was on staff at Spaulding Rehab Group working with orthopedic patients and has spoken at Grand Rounds hospitals on the "Applications of Yoga in Clinical Settings". For more than 10 years she ran summer camps to bring holistic healing to young women with anxiety and mood disorders.
Michelle was the owner of Sanctuary Studio in Massachusetts, the founder of Transformational Yoga, Ritual Vinyasa and Orthopedic Therapy. She is a Board Certified Structural Integrator having studied with the acclaimed Tom Myers of "Anatomy Trains" fame, as well as a Thai Massage practitioner, a Neurovascular Bodyworker and the author of the upcoming book "Orthopedic Yoga".
She has been teaching and studying the science behind yoga for almost 20 years. She now teaches internationally, bringing her unique style of yoga to students of all levels, ages, shapes and sizes. She has taught thousands of yoga students and believes it is a blessing to be able to bring people the gifts of a strong body, a quiet mind and a blissful spirit.
After booking, please inform us of any food allergies & sensitivities for advanced planning!
Day 1:
Dinner:
Chicken Tacos with home made corn tortillas, gallo pinto (spiced beans and rice), fresh guacamole fresh pico de gallo, cheddar cheese, jalapeño crema, and mixed greens.
Fresh Limeade
Day 2
Early morning cleansing snack:
Assorted fresh fruit, local coffee, fresh coconut milk
Breakfast:
Protein pancakes with passion fruit honey sauce (GF)
Scrambled eggs
Assorted fruit
Fresh pineapple juice
Lunch:
Spring rolls with peanut sauce (V) or chicken satay, cashew nut stir-fry (V), and coconut rice.
Cucumber mint cooler
Hibiscus tea
Dinner:
Filet Mignon / Cauliflower steak (V) with sweet plantains, mashed potatoes and Arugula Salad.
Hibiscus tea
Day 3:
Early morning cleansing snack:
Assorted fresh fruit, local coffee, fresh coconut milk
Breakfast:
Vanilla cardamon chia pudding with fresh fruit and passion fruit purée
Grilled sourdough with smashed avocado
Assorted fruit and yogurt
Fresh watermelon juice
Lunch:
Empanadas with beans, rice, and roasted root vegetables.
Crispy plantain chips with fresh guacamole and pico de gallo
Ginger and lemon tea
Dinner:
Chicken Piccata/ Picatta Primavera (V) over pasta or rice
Kale salad with apples and pepitas
Hibiscus limeade
Day 4
Early morning cleansing snack:
Assorted fresh fruit, local coffee, fresh coconut milk
Breakfast:
Huevos Rancheros
Yogurt and fresh granola
Assorted fruit
Fresh passion fruit juice
Lunch:
Falafel with freshly baked pita bread, hummus, and tabouleh salad with craisins and almonds
Cucumber mint cooler
Dinner:
Pesto chicken with or without mozzarella, with roasted vegetables, and arugula salad with dates and nuts
Hibiscus tea
Day 5
Early morning cleansing snack:
Assorted fresh fruit, local coffee, fresh coconut milk
Breakfast:
Nica Tipico: Scrambled eggs, gallo pinto, fresh guacamole and pico de gallo
Grilled local cheese
Assorted fruit
Fresh pineapple juice
Lunch:
Beetroot salad with feta cheese, caramelized walnuts and a balsamic glaze
Tostones con Queso
Cucumber mint cooler
Hibiscus tea
Dinner:
Grilled Mahi-mahi with sweet plantains and vegetable fried rice.
Hibiscus tea
Day 6
Early morning cleansing snack:
Assorted fresh fruit, local coffee, fresh coconut milk
Breakfast:
Protein pancakes with passion fruit honey sauce (GF)
Scrambled eggs
Assorted fruit
Fresh pineapple juice
Lunch:
Spring rolls with peanut sauce (V) or chicken satay, cashew nut stir-fry (V), and coconut rice.
Cucumber mint cooler
Hibiscus tea
Dinner:
Filet Mignon / Cauliflower steak (V) with sweet plantains, mashed potatoes and Arugula Salad.
Hibiscus tea
Day 7
Early morning cleansing snack:
Assorted fresh fruit, local coffee, fresh coconut milk
Breakfast:
Protein pancakes with passion fruit honey sauce (GF)
Scrambled eggs
Assorted fruit
Fresh pineapple juice
Lunch:
Spring rolls with peanut sauce (V) or chicken satay, cashew nut stir-fry (V), and coconut rice.
Cucumber mint cooler
Hibiscus tea
Dinner:
Filet Mignon / Cauliflower steak (V) with sweet plantains, mashed potatoes and Arugula Salad.
Hibiscus tea
Day 8
Early morning cleansing snack:
Assorted fresh fruit, local coffee, fresh coconut milk
Breakfast:
Protein pancakes with passion fruit honey sauce (GF)
Scrambled eggs
Assorted fruit
Fresh pineapple juice