April 17, 7pm – 9:30pm

$15 ($10 for members)

Erotic polarity is created by masculine and feminine energy sources in proximity and sparks both of them. It fascinates us and is the heart of love affairs.  This spark that is being talked about here has nothing to do with gender or your sexual orientation.  It is a lot more delicious that that!

Erotic polarity ebbs and flows in relationships depending on safety, depth of consciousness, development, emotional states, hormonal balances, stressors, and the mysteries of human intimacy.

The archetypes of the masculine as warrior and man of wisdom, and the feminine as fountain of love and divine feminine knowing arise from all cultures and all worldviews, and always exist in energetic interplay with each other. They are embraced and enhanced or circumscribed and distorted depending on mostly unconscious cultural factors. As we deepen we can access these mythic forces to benefit ourselves, our lovers, and human kind.

Lovers first meet and their complementary dreams and wounds interweave with their masculine and feminine aspects to form attractions, repulsions, and erotic charges. As intimacy deepens, the neurochemistry of romantic infatuation transforms into intimate bonding where family of origin defenses and associations intrude into the relationship, often compromising erotic polarity. All these processes involve more or less conscious awareness, and can be enhanced by mindful loving, which in turn can be hugely informed and optimized using perspectives and techniques sourced in quadrants, lines, levels, states, and types.

During this talk we’ll discuss concepts, listen to music, and observe enactments of core principles. It will be informative, transformative, and fun.  You will certainly take something back home to your current Beloved or the one that is waiting to find you in the near future…

Dr. Keith Witt (www.kwwitt.com): Author of, The Gift of Shame, The Attuned Family, Waking Up, and Sessions, offers 35 years experience as a therapist, lecturer, and teacher.  He has conducted fifty thousand therapy sessions in Santa Barbara with individuals, couples, and families from all walks of life including the film and music industries, corporate management, information technologies, engineering, academia, the law, and a full spectrum of other cultures. He is a professor at the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute.