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Dissolving the Barriers to Love

Do you feel alone, like a stranger with your partner, family or even yourself? Want to be understood, to feel desired and have warm, loving relationships...

Do you feel alone or like a stranger with your partner, your family or even to yourself?   We want so much to be understood, to feel desired and have warm, affectionate, loving relationships with a partner or group…why is it so painfully absent or difficult to access from the people in our lives? 

The roots of this separation and isolation go deeper than the daily problems at work, the kids’ busy schedule, or a stressful financial year. For many, the loneliness and the sense of not being understood have been our only companions. 

Feeling a connection is important. Intimacy is a human feedback loop that begins with knowing and loving oneself, that grows to include a partner, a family or a community and returns to nourish the self. Our intimate understanding of this connection acknowledges it as the source of life sustenance that is within each of us. Intimacy is “the root & fruit” of being human. 

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Yet most of us think of intimacy as something that only happens behind a bedroom door. According to Dictionary.com, the meaning encompasses much more,

“in·ti·ma·cy

1. a close, familiar, and usually affectionate or loving personal relationship with another person or group.

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2. a close association with or detailed knowledge or deep understanding of a place, subject, period of history, etc. 

This Saturday, author, Billy Sunday Mars will be presenting “Hunger for Intimacy” at Body Kinetics Health Club and Spa in Novato at 12 p.m.

“Most of us seek to find love. Few realize to find it we must become it!”

~Billy Sunday Mars

He will be discussing what keeps us isolated and where to begin the change. Are we surrounded by the wrong people or not allowing love in? Are we blind to the love around us or do we sabotage it?  Why do we build barriers around our hearts? Teaching self-awareness and empowering with compassionate tips, this talk is designed to open our minds and hearts to those things that separate us from others. With ground breaking science, this compelling program will open your eyes to the powerful impact of intimacy on one’s health and life.

Billy asks the progressive question, “Now take this one step further, what does intimacy mean in terms of and as part of our very evolution as humans?”

His personal story is powerful. Burdened and blessed, Billy Sunday Mars’ life is one of healing and helping. By age 15, Billy was alone. His father died when he was a small boy and his mother lost the battle against cancer as he entered high school. He was left to assemble his life with people and experiences that became his teachers. He had to overcome bulimia, witnessed his brother’s alcoholism, and death from kidney failure, as well as a cousin’s death to drug addiction.

Out of these difficulties Billy developed an indomitable courage, a physical and spiritual muscle that took him around the world researching movement, neuroscience, physiology, evolutionary psychology, anthropology, spirituality, and sexuality. This bright, funny and movingly compassionate speaker is a trained athlete, boxer, exotic dancer, trainer, and student of martial arts. He is an expert on the powerful link between movement and the intimate relationship with oneself, a partner and a community. His book, Fit for Love, is recommended by John Gray, author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.

“Billy Sunday Mars is an amazing blend of East meets West. He combines Spirituality, Science and Sexuality in a master mix that is sure to get you fit for love!”

John Gray, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

 

Date: February 11, 2012

Time: 12 - 1 p.m. Q & A follows

Location: Body Kinetics Health Club & Spa, 1530 Center Rd., Novato

Cost: $5 Club Members, $15 Public

 

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