About this Retreat
Certified SkyDancing Tantra Teacher, Psychotherapist, Coach, and Artist
Sara Stout is a deeply compassionate guide in the realm of intimacy, embodiment, and personal transformation. After 32 years as a psychotherapist, she transitioned into teaching Tantra with her husband, Thomas, drawn by the profound and lasting transformations she witnessed in her students. Eleven years ago, she immersed herself in the study of SkyDancing Tantra, and today, she wakes up each morning excited to share what she loves.
As a Certified SkyDancing Tantra Teacher, coach, and sex therapist, Sara brings warmth, expertise, and a wealth of knowledge to her students. With over 25 years of experience supporting individuals and couples in deepening their relationships and embracing their sexuality, she is passionate about helping people embody self-love, reduce body shame, and increase pleasure and passion. Her specialties have been inspired by her time studying with Margot Anand, and include cultivating sexual energy, teaching the power of manifestation, and guiding people toward greater emotional and physical intimacy.
Sara co-founded LovePassionately: School of Mindful and Bodyful Intimacy, where she and Thomas create safe, transformative spaces for people to explore love, connection, and embodied living. She is also a teacher and director of SkyDancing Tantra Institute USA, continuing the legacy of this renowned lineage.
Tantra Teacher, Sexological Bodyworker, Massage Therapist, and Aquatic Bodyworker
SatchiJo (Thomas) Stout is a deeply intuitive and heart-centered teacher dedicated to helping others awaken to their full sensual and energetic potential. With over 40 years as a massage therapist and 10 years as a Sexological Bodyworker, Tantra Teacher, and Aquatic Bodyworker, he brings a profound understanding of the body and its innate wisdom.
Thomas has a gift for creating nurturing, healing spaces where individuals can relax into trust, presence, and connection. His expertise in conscious touch, breathwork, and somatic healing allows him to support students in subtly awakening their bodies and expanding their capacity for intimacy and pleasure. He has studied with several Tantric Masters, including Margot Anand, Laurence Heitzmann & Laurent Lacosse, and Essense Tantra.
Together with his wife, Sara, Thomas has been married for over 31 years. They co-founded LovePassionately: School of Mindful and Bodyful Intimacy, an international Tantra coaching program that empowers individuals and couples to cultivate deeper connection and self-awareness. As teachers and directors of SkyDancing Tantra Institute USA, they continue to share the life-changing practices of Tantra with a growing global community.
Details of this retreat
Do you wish to unlock your body’s natural ability for more ecstasy?
Would you like to learn how to exchange pleasurable, whole-body touch?
Enjoy an experiential weekend dedicated to exploring sensuality, sexuality and awakening your desire through the Tantric art of touch!
Join Sara and Thomas Stout, Certified SkyDancing Tantra teachers, in this transformative seminar that weaves together sensuality and spirituality. Discover touch as a doorway to enlightenment.
◦ Learn extensive tools to enliven your capacity for ecstasy.
◦ Fine tune your skills in the art of Tantric touch
◦ Learn sensuous, healing, and pleasurable whole-body touch
◦ Integrate spirituality and physical pleasure
◦ Open new doors to the heart, and allow more pleasure and trust in your relationships.
◦ Develop true alignment with your desires.
◦ Have fun!
Employing conscious touch, ritual, and communication as the foundations of this sensuous weekend seminar, you’ll experience deepened connection with yourself as the difference between self and other dissolves into a harmonious flow of ecstatic energies.
How is Touching Desire a “tantric” practice and differs from other forms of touch such as massage? In a traditional massage, we recline on the table and receive, entranced. Touching Desire (Level 1) includes interactive elements such as eye contact, communication, breath awareness, sensory play, and energy movement along with touching the whole body.
“They were amazing, grounded, loving, skillful and personal in their explanations. I liked most that Sara & Thomas brought in their own practical and personal experiences.”
~ Meenal K. Ventura, CA
Get more of what you want and discover new and a wider range of pleasure. Come away with lifelong tools to increase intimacy and connection with yourself and others.
This exploration of desire through touch is for everyone regardless of how easily you feel desire. These practices support you in knowing what is pleasurable and how to feel more with your entirety.
Open to everyone. No previous experience necessary.
All genders, orientations, and relationship configurations are welcome. You may work together exclusively during the workshop or with others if they wish. If you identify as feminine, watch this video: how does SkyDancing Tantra support you?
Touching Desire (Level 1): The Art of Pleasure for Couples is designed for people who are ready for more aliveness, love, and consciousness in their relationships and intimate partnerships.
"I have a deeper relationship with myself and my partner in ways I didn’t know possible. I gained the freedom and permission to seek what I desire without fear." - Hayley Higgins.
"You may feel that this is out of your comfort zone. You may feel apprehension, fear, and anxiety, and yet, if you trust you will be met with the most beautiful container, the most safe space to lean into, and experience a part of yourself that perhaps you had lost or did not know was there. You are in good hands with Sara and SatchiJo (Thomas)!"
- Chris Brawer.