Intimate Reconnections

For the heart of your relationship

Reconnections Experience & Relationship Immersion

I offer two types of retreats for couples. The Reconnections Experience, and Private Relationship Immersion.


The Reconnections Experience:
Heart Opening Extended Weekend

A three-day couples' group tranformative retreat in a restorative setting with relationship therapist Linda Weiner and Thai yoga massage teacher Sherry Summers. You will learn to connect with your beloved through the experience of touch, to build trust, create heartfelt sensory connections, learn your partner's heart language, and expand your vocabulary of love. You will also learn to establish free time and space for yourself and your beloved in order to facilitate true openness, presence and bliss, and unleash the radiance of your heart's desire to feel love, give love, and receive love. You will come away with a creative structure of daily and weekly heart practices to honor your connection and bring joy to everyday life. Our final day together will focus on ways to sustain your loving intentions and new practices upon your return home. The Reconnections Experience is more about taking the time to experience and reawaken your hearts toward one another than it is about psychotherapy. This long weekend is designed to bring your hearts together in gratitude.

Here is an example
Reconnections Experience Schedule:

Thursday

3:00 PM or after:  Arrive, check in at the Bed & Breakfast, go out for dinner or settle into your room.

7:00 - 9:00 PM:  Meet together for a welcome, overview of our schedule, and gentle "Yoga Nidra" deep relaxation practice.

Friday

10:00 - 12:00 AM: Guided breath and Heart-opening, gentle yoga.

12:00 - 3:00 PM: Couples may, at their leisure, dine at a local cafe, bicycle on the Katy Trail, visit the many unique local shops, or have a private couple's consultation with Linda or Sherry for more in-depth and personal guidance.

3:00 - 5:30 PM: Couples meet in a group with Linda to learn about communicating without wounding or defensiveness and how to address differences with kindness.  We will also have discussion, handouts, and experiential exercises with your partner.

5:30 - 7:00 PM: Couples at their leisure may dine at local restaurants, eating very lightly (please) before taking Sherry's Thai Yoga Massage Workshop.

7:00 - 9:00 PM: Thai Yoga Massage Workshop for couples (in loose clothing). 

Saturday

10:00am - 12:00 PM: Restorative Yoga, guided visualizations for positive energy flow for couples.

12:00 - 3:00 PM: Couples are at their leisure, with the option of private consultation with Linda or Sherry.

3:00 - 5:30: Group session with Linda on expanding  your vocabulary of love through words and actions, including discussion, handouts, and experiential exercises with your partner. 

5:30 PM on: Couples at their leisure to experience the playful and loving practices identified in your session.   

Sunday

9:00 - 11:00 AM: Last meeting with Linda to establish a supportive ongoing structure for your intentions and new relationship learnings.  We will close with a meditation.

 

 

Private Relationship Immersion
with Linda Weiner in St. Louis

A relationship therapy experience in historic St. Louis for those who are experiencing difficulties with emotional or sexual intimacy, or both. The Immersion is taken privately, with you individually and as a couple, working with Linda daily, or several times daily in her St. Louis office, for a weekend or longer. Your relationship immersion will extend to your evenings when, as you wish, you may practice relaxation and mindfulness tools that I will be offering.

This time away from family and daily concerns will allow us to work on all aspects of your relationship -- emotional, physical, spiritual, sexual -- as you combine daily work with Linda with your own exploration of St. Louis and your own private time.

The Park Avenue Mansion bed and breakfast overlooking the oldest public park west of the Mississippi, in historic Lafayette Square, is a warm and private oasis at the end of your day. St. Louis is rich with restaurants and food culture, significant architecture, museums, a world class symphony, great rock venues, and a blues and music tradition with deep connections to Chicago, Memphis, and New Orleans.

We will work together to build or rebuild your connection to one another.

I understand how a couple can lose their connection as natural familiarity, raising a family, building careers, frequent business travel, illness and other life issues slowly wear away at their relationship; how one day, they look at one another and wonder what happened, and they wonder how the relationship that was once so charged with laughter and intimacy can be restored.

I have twenty plus years of guiding couples back to being the intimate partners they once were.

I can help.

Prior to the retreat experience:

  • We'll talk on the phone about relationship strengths, concerns, and goals for the Immersion.

During the retreat experience you will:

  • learn how to experience mindfulness and relaxation through a series of experiential exercises

  • be given the opportunity to practice communication skills and learn various techniques to improve problem solving and intimacy

  • be invited to incorporate Tantric techniques as one modality of experiencing renewed connection

  • carry out suggested sensual/sexual experiences in the privacy of your accommodations in order to re-establish and strengthen trust and connection, and later process these exercises with me

  • experience a jump start effect which can be re-integrated into your everyday life.

This experience leaves plenty of time to learn and relax together without the typical interruptions of everyday life.

After the immersion experience:

  • Couples are scheduled for three monthly coaching check-ins (by phone, of up to 30 minutes each) to help assure a successful transition back into the pressures of everyday life. These check-ins are intended to help sustain your progress.

A note about sexual difficulties:

  • Lack of desire for sexual relatedness, and/or sexual boredom, are common threads for couples who have become disengaged. These sexual concerns will likely improve as a result of this Immersion experience.

  • Sexual difficulties such as erectile dysfunction, orgasmic or pain difficulties will be addressed as needed during the Immersion.



Just a note: At no time will individuals or couples be asked to engage in physically intimate activities outside of their own rooms. I am a therapist who works through communication with couples rather than through observational or demonstrative methods.
Your privacy is always paramount.

Intimate Reconnections | 7396 Pershing Avenue | St. Louis, Missouri | 63130
Phone: 314-588-8924 | FAX: 314-621-0391
intimatereconnections@yahoo.com