Our relationship with anyone—even with existence itself—begins in our own being. It is here that we create what happens or does not happen between ourselves and others. We let life touch us or we prevent life from touching us. On this depends whether intimacy can bestow its gifts on our lives. If we wish for intimacy we have to learn how to be intimate, and we can only learn this by opening deeply to our own inner life of feelings, senses, and sensitivities. This intensive explores ways of being touched at the deepest levels of our being. Working in small groups, pairs, individually, and with the whole group, we learn to embrace and befriend all that is touched in us as we open to all aspects of life. In this is found the real meaning of tantra. CE credit available.