Lovers Longing
A devotional bow into the heart of Eros through prayer, song, ritual, tantra and dance.
A foundational offering of the priestesses of Gaian Eros that seeds the LOVERS Path, a temple program that begins this fall.
June 27-29 at Ravenwind, Unity, NH
Facilitated by Olivia McCarthy ‘Nali Boa’ and Raylyn DiPaolo ‘Rahlune’
Move like a lioness, lythe, sensuous and strong.
Experience orgasmic, somatic belonging.
Learn how to allow Eros to guide your creative lovership with Earth, Source, the Muse and other humans.
What if you could truly live in deep erotic confidence, move in the world with irrefutable belonging, and experience the creational power of Eros in your daily life? Join temple priestesses, Nali and Rahlune for an immersion at the exquisite Ravenwind sanctuary where time slows and the feminine arts come alive through a weekend long erotic trance through the senses.
Through practices rooted in Tantric and Buddhist philosophy, you will experience heart-opening meditations to discover your inner Beloved, somatic practices to liberate the flow of life force through the body, and ecstatic intimacy rituals to experience a felt sense of embodied union with Creation and Creator.
Come melt the guarded heart to love, dissolve the shame that suppresses your flow of Eros, and open your channel between the Sacred and the Sensual that is the Lover’s Path.
In devotion to the Spirit of Unified Love, awakening in the hearts of all beings, here and now, we remember our primordial wholeness and empower sacred relationality within the web of life. We gather in recognition of our bearth-given belonging and in honor of our Souls’ deepest longing. We offer our hunger for oneness to Source, re-sourcing in our heart’s (w)holy spirit and opening our primal impulse to generate life with earthly, inspirited eros. This dance of love and longing that lives in us, moves us to create beauty as prayers of blessing and dedication to the Altar of Love.
Aiming Our Bow & Eros in Service to the Sacred
From the moment of conception, the Lover’s spiraling path unfurls uniquely for her to walk upon. When an insatiable hunger for the nourishment of original oneness grows within her, the longing calls louder and louder. Everywhere looking, looking outside of herself for the fulfillment of this sacred calling that she feels inside. No thing and no other can sustain the essence of what she most deeply craves. In order to fall in love, to reeeally fall in LOVE, she must fall… again and again, to her knees in surrender, in praise, in gratitude and faith in Mystery.
From the Bow, rises Eros. In the emptiness of surrender, there is finally space for the Beloved to fill her entire being with an erotic hum of pulsating lifeforce. This creational energy of the Goddess who longs to make love through her, just as Lover longs for sacred union with the essence of life. The magnetic current of eros points into the vast expanse of the heart field, a center space where matter and spirit converge and all aspects of reality are welcomed into unconditional loving embrace. The Lover awakens to her Beloved within and all around her in this heart home. She learns to aim her Eros here, and face all obstacles standing in the way of her connection to Divine Love.
As Lover opens her heart to Beloved Oneness, so too awakens the devotional one in her. She is a woman living in service to the Sacred, an instrument of Soul. Her journey of healing and wholling, bowing and rising, dreaming and waking, has shaped her into a Priestess of Gaia and Eros. She now channels her love and longing into offerings of her heart and soul to share with the Beloved One in all beings.
Blessed be the longing of She who dances with Oneness and separation. Holy is the tenderness of her forgetting, ecstatic is the ripening of her remembering. She whose origin story crescendos in the miraculous emergence of embodied individuality, giving birth to full spectrum possibilities of experience. She who wanders into timeless moments of unified presence and drinks deep the sweet nectar of the heart. And she who finds herself lost in the dream, lamenting with longing to dissolve all sense of separation into the blissful embrace of Her Beloved.
Flow
Friday
Set up camp with rolling arrival 3-5 pm
Opening Circle 5:30 pm
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Enter the Lover’s Temple of Be-Longing
Saturday
Morning prayer and movement
Beautyway Breakfast
The Sacred Heart’s Bow
Lover’s Lunch
The Tantric Tension of Aiming our Eros
Ceremonial Dinner
Ecstatic Be-Longing Ritual
Sunday
Morning prayer and movement
Beautyway Breakfast
Closing Circle
Breakdown camp & temple tidy @ noon
Exchange
$375 temple offering. $325 Coven rate.
Includes 5 meals (Friday Dinner to Sunday breakfast).
If you have the means, we welcome higher contributions as it greatly benefits our capacity to sustain accessible, nourishing ceremonial spaces for years to come.
This is an all camping gathering with indoor and outdoor bathrooms and outdoor hot shower.
Three glamping spots available in the bell tent for $25 extra. Choose Bell tent option when registering.
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Lovers Longing welcomes all women – cis, trans or otherwise – and nonbinary individuals who find their homes in women – and femme-centric spaces.
To Register:
If you have been at an event with us before and we have your contact info, you are welcome to use Venmo @Jonah-Ruh-Roberts with your contribution. Please include Lovers Longing in the notes.
Otherwise, please use the registration link below.
Facilitating Priestesses
Olivia McCarthy AKA ‘Nali Boa’
Nali is a priestess awakening to the Spirit of embodied Love, living in devotion to the temple mysteries of animate earth and eros. She is passionate about creatively expressing reverence for the sacred through being in intimate relationship with the natural world. A lover, dancer, wildling, bodhisattva, heart gardener and singer of praise. She bows to and stands with all the human and more-than-human guides that influence her journey. Woven within the fabric of the 13 Moons sisterhood, Nali continues to channel her priestess training into facilitating spaces for the multifaceted magnificence of the goddess to be honored and celebrated. She is a practitioner and chef at The Natural Dharma Fellowship, drawing much inspiration from the female Buddha, Tara, to live in service to the liberation of all beings. Nali indulges in the nectar of presence and pure delight as often as possible, resourcing in and radiating this all-encompassing love. As a village keeper for the Temple of Gaian Eros, ‘Boa’ invites sisters into the joyous embodiment of our sensual and interconnected nature as children, lovers, and priestesses of Mother Earth.
Raylyn DiPaolo aka ‘Rahlüne’
Rahlüne is devoted to becoming a living prayer of ecstatic aliveness through authentic emotional embodiment, liberated creative expression, and the cultivation of sacred love and conscious eros. She is both deep and playful, radiating and reflective. A creator of sacred spaces for folks to deepen their embodied connection to life as lover. She is passionate about supporting the re-integration of Goddess Temple Culture into the modern world. A weaver of song and dance and a fierce shadow walker committed to becoming a radically responsible member of her village. Devoted to learning and serving at the intersection of ancient mysticism and psycho-spiritual psychology, she believes in the wholing and healing of the human self, making space for true soul remembrance. She serves individuals, couples and groups through ceremonial embodiment arts and a transformational, Tantric approach to sacred love and conscious eros. Learn more at www.rahlune.com
544 Gilman Pond Road, Unity, NH 03773
603-863-2941 jo@unitymountainherbs.com