Passion and Presence
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Currently offering couple's retreats online, co-leaders Maci Daye and Halko Weiss will teach you how Mindfulness enlivens Eros and opens a path to healing and transformation. Many couples get stuck in disenchantment once the initial excitement wears off and think that adding new things is the only way to spice things up in the bedroom. The focus is on working with your consciousness to source novelty with your long-term partner by cultivating presence, curiosity, and an exploratory attitude.
07/13/2026
When they came to a Passion and Presence retreat, they were attending to an area of their lives they had nearly written off.
Something they had learned to live around.
What they left with was hope.
Not because everything had been solved, but because there was space to turn toward what had been quietly set aside. To listen again. To meet each other with more presence than habit.
This is what the work makes possible.
Couples retreats are listed at passionandpresence.com.
06/22/2026
S*xual boredom is one of the most common, and most quietly painful, experiences in long-term love. And yet it is rarely talked about.
It creeps in slowly. Repetitive routines. Low expectations. Mechanical interactions. Over time, we stop seeing our partners as the dynamic beings they are, and instead confine them to the limits of our own perceptions.
Most relationships move through two stages. First, Enchantment, when we are intoxicated by novelty and possibility. Then, Disenchantment, when responsibilities multiply, stressors accumulate, and the initial magic begins to fade.
We may still love our partners deeply. But the spark of curiosity wanes.
The way through is not a new technique. It is presence. Being fully engaged in the moment, open to what is actually here, willing to let go of the scripts we have written about each other.
When we meet our partners with fresh eyes, as if for the first time, something begins to shift. Not because we have changed them, but because we have changed how we are showing up.
Read the full reflection: https://www.passionandpresence.com/beyond-boredom-rediscovering-passion-through-presence/
Pleasure activists, from Emma Goldman to Audre Lorde to adrienne maree brown, have long argued that pleasure is essential fuel. Especially in times of strain.
I think about this often in my work.
When we help our partners, our clients, and ourselves access pleasure, we are not escaping reality. We are strengthening our capacity to meet it. Eros is a life force. Generative, connective, creative.
A reminder that pleasure is not a luxury. It is a core human capacity.
*xTherapy
06/08/2026
There is a quieter way back to connection.
Not through performance. Not through technique. Not through trying harder.
But through presence. Through bringing gentle attention to our own bodies and to each other. Through softening the scripts and routines, and meeting what is actually here.
This is the heart of what I teach. That sensuality is not a skill to perform but a way of being, available the moment we slow down enough to notice it.
When we wake up to our own experience, we wake up to our partner too.
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