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Coming Soon Events
Due to popular demand, we have added an extra day to this year's New Year's Retreat. Now you will have six days and five nights to rejuvenate for the year ahead.
In this very special workshop, Kevin Kortan combines his passions for life and erotic exploration, as he guides you into ever-deepening experiences of intimacy, body, breath, Eros and Spirit.
Are you looking for greater intimacy in your life? Is something preventing you from fully enoying the touch of another man? Do you want to better express yourself through touch? Are you wanting deeper and more meaningful relationships? Then this is the workshop for you!
Thatch Caye, Belize
April 24, 2010 to
May 01, 2010
Our first retreat dedicated to couples! We take over an entire island off the coast of Belize for eight days of celebrating our togetherness. There are only enough rooms on the island for ten couples, so register early.
Egypt and a Nile Cruise
May 2, 2010 to
May 15, 2010
Come experience Egypt as few people ever will as we make special arrangements to be allowed inside the Great Pyramid and to get up close and personal with the Sphinx, things that are off limits to the public and have been for many years. These are just two of the many opportunities that wait for you on this special journey.
Join Spirit Journeys for four days of rejuvenation and reawakening. The fusion of the powerful and complementary practices of Tantra and Yoga allows you to harness your sexual drive and awaken your Kundalini energy. Once harnessed, this energy is channeled into a dynamic and healing force in your life.
August 08, 2010 to August 14, 2010
There is extraordinary power to be found in a community of gay men gathered together for seven days in such an intimate setting. With the loving encouragement of brothers, we are able to see ourselves more clearly and empower each other in realizing our life's potential, taking small steps and sometimes leaps, toward living life to the fullest.
Jemez Springs, NM
August 18, 2010 to August 21, 2010
Come and play in a group of erotic explorers and open up the amazing potential that lives within your erotic self. Identify and cultivate the spark that stirs inside you, trusting it to lead you to your erotic fire.
Interrupt the patterns of habit, judgment, or comparison that block your sexual freedom. Practice surrender and spontaneity. Be real. Have fun. Step fearlessly into the ecstasy that lives inside your body and soul. Can you imagine that? | |
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Dear Spirit Journeyers,
Just a short note to say thank you for all the love that has been sent my way this past year. It has not gone unnoticed.
This holiday season, I wish all of you as much love as your heart can hold and as much joy as your spirit can carry.
Much Love and Many Hugs to all of you,
Calendar Updates
Come prepare yourself for the year ahead... There is still time to register and sill room at our New Years Retreat being held near Santa Fe, NM.
Our first event at the Kirkridge Retreat Center, just 90 minutes from Manhattan, is now available. Intimacy and Eros is scheduled for April 23-25, 2010. Join Kevin Kortan for a weekend exploring how to allow ourselves to be more intimate.
This Month's Special Focus
This month I present a short piece I wrote about the gift of being gay.
SpiritFund Information
No matter how you choose to support SpiritFund, with either direct donations or by buying items at SpiritWear, know that your donations and efforts are making a difference in people's lives.
Here is a comment from one SpiritFund Scholarship recipient:
"The scholarship that I received allowing me to attend gave me the opportunity to experience a truly wonderful, spiritual event that has left its mark on my heart, where it will remain for years. Attending this workshop has given me the opportunity to follow through on a goal that I've had for a long time, and has given me the courage to pursue other dreams and goals."
Donations and applications for scholarships can be made online at the SpiritFund page. On the SpiritFund page you will also find a list of Frequently Asked Questions that should explain everything about the scholarship program.
Total Donations Last Month: $45.00
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Total Income to Date: $2502.00
Total Expenses to Date: -$108.00
Total Net SpiritFund Income to Date: $2394.00
Number of Scholarship Applications: 28
Total Number of Scholarships Accepted: 5
Total Amount Awarded: $1950.00
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In the past few years, the LGBT community has done much in the arena of equal rights and acceptance. We have fought hard to become accepted by, and even welcomed into, our neighborhoods.
However, in our effort to show the world "that we're just like everybody else", let's not forget the fact that we are NOT like everybody else. Our Creator made us different. Let's celebrate the gifts that being different have to offer us.
I know from personal experience that the gift of being gay gives us a unique perspective on life. I also know that somehow our gift frequently makes us more receptive to the "unseen" things in life.
We frequently are healers and shamans. Many of us are seen as unifiers; people with the ability to bridge gaps between others and heal relationships of all kinds. We all have much to offer the world.
I love the following quote from Marianne Williamson. Even though it is not directly addressed to our community, I think it speaks deeply to the gay experience of hiding ourselves and our gifts from the world:
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
May your light shine brighter this holiday season...
Namaste,
Howie |
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