Radical Intimacy: The Yoga of Telling the Truth
With Taber Shadburne & Deborah Taj Anapol
July 28-Aug 4 on the Big Island of Hawaii

Let’s face it! We all long for more love in our lives. We want to create deeper, more intimate relationships and true community. Yet, it often turns out that we, ourselves, are sabotaging the openness we want with our defensive conditioning and old patterns of fear, dependency, and blame. How are we to drop this rusty armor so that we may, at last, see each other clearly and hold each other closely? Real spiritual evolution is often challenging. It requires really facing ourselves. It asks us to learn to skillfully engage our conditioning, to intentionally drop the defenses which keep us trapped in fear and separated from others, no matter how much we might intend otherwise.

Such is the promise of radical intimacy and spiritual friendship. By sharing ourselves deeply with others, we reveal ourselves to ourselves. By sharing the truth, we bring that which was in the shadows, hidden, out into the light of shared, compassionate awareness, where healing and deep forgiveness are possible. We realize that the barriers to intimacy we have erected are also barriers to being fully alive and free. We use the mirror of relationship to get a good look at these walls and battlements, and we help each other dismantle them. In this way, even the loneliness, fear, and conflict that intimacy sometimes brings to the surface become a source of creativity, a womb for the birth of a new way of being. As we let go of fearful beliefs and emotional reactivity, love becomes effortless – our own true nature.

This retreat is dedicated to Healing the Healers! If you often find yourself holding space for others, come nurture yourself in the Garden of Eden with supportive community, delicious healthy meals, and communion with dolphins and Madame Pele while learning new communication tools to share with others.

Cost: $1495 includes delicious meals, lodging, & retreat (visa/mc ok)
Save! Special early bird price before June 15: $1295
To register: Phone 415.507.1739 or visit www.sevenlawsoflove.com/store


Taber Shadburne, MA helps people transform their lives. He’s studied comparative mysticism, Buddhism, psychology, and conscious communication since the early ‘80’s, and has been teaching and counseling since 1990. Taber completed two years in residence at Dharma Rain Zen Center, dozens of silent meditation retreats, training as a Community-Building facilitator by M. Scott Peck’s F.C.E., & certification as a Radical Honesty Master Trainer. Taber is also a gifted singer-songwriter, & founder of the Church of Soul, a community center for transformation, celebration & service in Oakland, CA. See www.churchofsoul.org.

Deborah Taj Anapol, Ph.D. is the author of The Seven Natural Laws of Love and The New Love Without Limits, and has led seminars internationally on conscious relating and sexual healing for over two decades. She was initiated into the Sufi Order of the West by Pir Vilayat Khan in 1978 and has followed an eclectic spiritual path ever since. She now offers relationship coaching and sexual healing for couples & singles worldwide via telephone. See www.lovewithoutlimits.com and www.lokahifarm.com