PLAYING IN THE DARK: Reclaiming Our Shadows Through Connection & Eros - 2DAY WORKSHOP

Playing in the Dark: Reclaiming Our Shadow Through Connection and Eros

Join us for a 2-day immersive workshop exploring our shadows taught by Adam Chacksfield.

Link to Registration Form:

https://forms.gle/Vd7wRfhguBRN4sTu9

We warmly invite you to join us for a playful, 3rotic, and deep journey of self-discovery. Together, we will alchemize the shame that has us playing small and develop the sense of self-trust and confidence that comes with getting to know all parts of ourselves.

What happens if we dare to embrace the shadow parts of us that we’ve been taught to reject, deny, and shame? Have you ever noticed how make-up s3x is often so hot precisely because the feelings we normally resist are finally surfacing? When we give ourselves permission to play with supposedly “bad” feelings such as anger, jealousy, humiliation, domination, fear, or neediness, we can discover how to enjoy the ar0usal within them.

Our workshop offers a loving container to tap the 3rotic vitality of the parts of us that we’ve obscured or shut down. This is an invitation to use the pleasure of play and er0s to bring our shadow parts out of exile and back into consciousness and connection.

Shadow play is not about fixing anyone, but it is profoundly transformative. We get to end the struggle against ourselves and relax into the vast natural wholeness that we are.

Exploring our shadows can be both exciting and scary. This retreat will support you to discover the safety that you need to really attune to yourself and others. Your choices will be honored and you won’t be pushed to do anything you’re not ready for.

🌱 What’s Possible:

~Transform relational friction into juicy s3x.

~Alchemize the shame that has you playing small.

~Release the fear, anxiety, and confusion that comes from avoiding your own shadows.

~Develop the sense of self-trust and confidence that comes with getting to know all parts of yourself.

~Access a wider range of the possibilities within you.

~Express and unleash the censored parts of you.

~Learn a new playful modality to get free and clear in the places you feel stuck and uncertain.

~Reconnect with deep sources of vitality and arousal that have been shut down.

~Take pleasure in the er0tic heat of jealousy.

~Savor forbidden feelings of control, domination, and power.

~Discover the turn-on in humiliation and shyness.

~Deepen intimacy with yourself and others.

🔥 What to Expect:

~A container that offers love and witnessing to all parts of you

~The development of a field saturated with love and presence

~Opportunities for structured embodied play and exploration by yourself, with partners, and in groups

~Support in identifying and playfully embodying the energy, movement, and words of your shadow parts

~Ongoing invitation to honor your desires, choices, and boundaries throughout the retreat

~An er0s-friendly space and opportunities for touch

💬 What Previous Participants Say:

"The weekend is still percolating and vibrating as I metabolize everything. Using er0tic pleasure as a kind of MDMA to help face and heal trauma is just mind-blowing to me. It opens up so much. I’m so grateful for the wealth of experience that showed up in the workshop. It feels good to be a newbie surrounded by such compassion." - Gary Antonick

"Deep, direct, gentle, and expedient alchemical transformation occurs in the context of this work. Profoundly healing and wholing." - Loren Swift, Author of "The Earth Keepers Handbook: Assuming Leadership in a New World"

"Deeply grateful for the powerful weekend! And it was so much fun. I even saw myself in a different light, and opened a new path to my inner work. The biggest bonus: the spiritual depth in relationship with my beautiful partner expanded into another dimension. Thank you, Adam, for your masterful facilitation, beautiful holding of the container, amazing presence, teachings, and holding." - Ram Massoudi

"Adam’s spacious aliveness allowed me to trust the container, and this workshop gave me a new embodied understanding of the power of repetition with agency. Doing a scene where I wanted to be humiliated and shamed for my body was such a powerful and gleeful healing. I found empowerment in a place of old wounding. I’ve always been such a “no” to humiliation and somehow here in this space it was joyful, hot, and fun." - E.V.

🌹 The Container:

Taught by Adam Chacksfield

Assisted by Veronica Funess and River Black

Date: Saturday, August 2 - Sunday, August 3, 2025

Time: 10am-7:00pm each day

Where: Private venue, Berkeley Hills, CA

🌶️ Adam Chacksfield:

Adam is devoted to empowering people to live inside awareness, love, and desire rather than shame and fear. He leads transformative retreats and workshops in North America and Europe, and coaches individuals and couples. Adam facilitates with embodied authenticity, love, and clarity. His teaching has been deeply informed by his work with the Light Dark Institute, The Somatica Institute, and Jeannie Zandi. http://www.adamchacksfield.com/

Questions: contact Adam achacksfield@yahoo.com

Registration:

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👉 Venmo Adam @Adam-Chacksfield or Paypal Adam achacksfield@yahoo.com

Final Discounted Price [limited availability]: $320

Regular Price: $345

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