THE ART OF SACRED INTIMACY 2026
In-Person | For Singles & Couples
Austin, Texas | October 9–11, 2026
A 3-DAY IMMERSION INTO THE ART OF SACRED INTIMACY
WITH JOHN WINELAND
Most of us simply weren’t taught that sexual intimacy is an art form. Like all forms of beautiful artistic practice, it requires breath, intention, devotion and time on the mat. The truth is, we use only a fraction of our hearts and bodies in relating and lovemaking. There is so much more available in us, and through us.
The challenge for most people is we collapse into relational patterns that feel safe simply because they are familiar, even when they leave us hungry for something more.
This is the work that
changes that.
You will practice the ancient dance of masculine and feminine polarity, not as rigid or stereotypical roles, but as energetic forces you learn to wield with artistry, magic, and devotion.
You’ll train your nervous system in real time to hold the full spectrum of your partner’s expression: their desire, their rage, their grief, their most unbound sexual energy. Your closures have been grooved tens of thousands of times. This is where you begin to unwind them, learning to stay present and open where you once braced, fixed, or checked out.
This is not theory. It is embodied practice. You will touch, breathe, move, and feel your way into a depth of intimacy beyond habit and pattern, learning to hold two truths at once: grief and pleasure, anger and openness, all inside a shared field of love.
For LGBTQ+ attendees: This workshop is available to all practitioners regardless of gender identity and sexual orientation. It is designed to help you embody the innate masculine and feminine energetics that all humans possess.
“My confidence in how to open myself and my partner up to love is at an all-time high.
I see my love as something more than something just for me and him. I now see it as an act of service to the greater field of love. I feel like I entered a magical world of possibility and permission. My heart is forever altered.”
— CALLIE MAE
Embodiment Teacher & Somatic Practitioner
how the weekend moves
This is not a lecture. Every teaching is brought immediately into the body through breath, movement, relationship, and direct experience.
Over the weekend you move through a progression of practices that build on one another:
Separate masculine and feminine sessions, where you practice alongside others who share your essence and receive the particular nourishment and refinement these dedicated spaces make possible.
Co-ed polarity practice, where you meet another person in the living dance of masculine and feminine energy, learning through direct experience rather than theory.
Guided somatic practice with breath and movement, training your nervous system to stay open and present through desire, grief, anger, and everything in between.
Direct teaching and live feedback with John, where your real questions meet insights you can bring into practice that same day.
for the masculine
Most men hit their edge when their partner is in full expression. When she’s radiant, chaotic with emotion, fully alive in her feeling body, more is needed from you. This is where you train and expand your nervous system’s capacity to receive, hold, and meet her in love and depth.
This is something most men were never taught.
What you will practice:
Building nervous system capacity to hold massive amounts of sexual and emotional energy without reactivity or collapse. When your partner is fully expressed, in pleasure, grief, or rage, you remain spacious, grounded, and present.
Cultivating embodied presence a partner can feel and trust. Not force or performance, but the steadiness that comes from living fully in your body and breath.
Creating meticulous sacred space so intimacy becomes a devotional ritual where erotic magic naturally emerges.
Making your partner an ally in your quest for freedom. Cherishing her wisdom as your oracle, allowing her feedback to deepen you rather than collapse you.
Meeting her heart and body with grounded, embodied presence, so intimacy becomes an act of worship rather than habit.
You’ll practice in masculine-only sessions and co-ed polarity work, with
direct feedback from John and your practice partners. You will not be
lectured. You will be in your body, learning to lead from devotion rather
than habit.
for the feminine
Maybe you’ve learned to withhold or manage your full expression. Rage gets smoothed over. Grief gets swallowed. Desire and wild sexual energy get clamped down because somewhere along the way you learned that your fullness is too much. Or you blast it out in ways that overwhelm rather than invite.
You’re not too much. You were just never shown how to offer all of you as a pure expression of love.
What you will practice:
Moving with your full emotional range, desire, grief, rage, pleasure, tenderness, and joy, letting it flow with beauty and power rather than being withheld or weaponized.
Communicating your deepest desires as a pure expression of yearning, not demand or strategy.
Awakening erotic transmission, not through performance or seduction, but as a sacred offering that emanates from the depth of your life force.
Feeling the difference between expression that amplifies the field of love between and expression that diminishes it.
Offering your radiance, beauty, and turn-on as gifts to love, rather than something withheld until conditions feel perfect.
You’ll practice in feminine-only and co-ed polarity SESSIONS, discovering how devotion to the field of love transforms raw emotion into sacred offering.
as part of the Art of Sacred Intimacy experience you will...
Participate in real-time guided practices led by John that tune your nervous system to the deepest intimacy available in any moment.
In both group and partner practices, organically expand your nervous system to receive the fullness of love.
Receive the unique nourishment created in dedicated separate masculine and feminine sessions.
Work with John directly to receive nuanced feedback that immediately enlivens your intimacy.
Learn principles and practices that will expand your capacity to love for a lifetime.
“In fifteen years of attending workshops and retreats this was amongst the most impactful work I’ve experienced.”
— PAT DIVILLY
Bestselling Author and Facilitator
Inside, you will explore how to...
Transform habitual patterns of sexual relating into fresh, liberating, and depth-evoking skills.
Become the whole-bodied transmission of love and consciousness that awakens your lover’s aliveness.
Open through physical and emotional patterns to a new experience of pleasure, passion, and full-spectrum erotic magic.
Turn love-making into a healing and life-changing spiritual practice.
Attune your practice to the field of love itself, beyond you and your partner’s patterns and closures.
Whether You Come Alone or With a Partner
This work is for singles and couples alike. The room is meticulously balanced between masculine and feminine, so wherever you arrive, you’ll have partners to practice with.
For singles: You’ll practice with a variety of partners, experiencing how different nervous systems receive your presence and how yours responds in return. Along the way you’ll receive reflections that reveal your recurring relational patterns and shift the way you love, relate, and create intimacy, whether or not you’re currently in a relationship.
For couples: You’ll move through guided practice that reveals the unconscious patterns quietly shaping your relationship, giving you the chance to meet each other with more presence, understanding, and desire. Many couples describe leaving with a polarity and aliveness they thought was behind them.
“We get to see it, move with it, and eventually, with practice, heal and open to an even more authentic layer of loving and living.”
— KIANA REEVES
Somatic Sexologist, Teacher of Embodiment & Sexual Polarity
how we hold the space
Depth requires safety. The entire weekend rests on two simple agreements: honor self and honor other. You are always the author of your own experience, and every boundary is agreed upon and respected.
Throughout the practices, one simple signal keeps you in the driver’s seat. Raising your hand means slow down, and the space responds. There is no pushing past your edge and no performance. This is a clean, grounded container where you choose, moment to moment, how far you go.
Program Schedule
ALL TIMES ARE LISTED IN AUSTIN, TEXAS TIME ZONE (CST)
SEE TIME ZONE CONVERTER HERE.
Start times are firm. End times may extend slightly depending on the depth of the work. We encourage you to clear your schedule so you can be fully present throughout the weekend. Practices will be offered during meal breaks. The venue location will be shared upon enrollment.
Friday, October 9
1:00 PM – 10:00 PM CST
Doors open at 12:30 PM for check-in check-in and close at 12:50pm. Orientation begins at 1pm.
Saturday, October 10
10:00 AM – 10:00 PM CST
Sunday, October 11
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM CST
TUITION INCLUDES PARTICIPATION ONLY. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR TRAVEL, FOOD AND LODGING. (INFORMATION ON VENUE LOCATION AND LODGING SUGGESTIONS WILL BE SHARED AFTER TUITION AND WAIVER IS SIGNED.)
WE METICULOUSLY MONITOR THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE BALANCE FOR THIS EVENT. PARTICIPANTS IN THE SPACE WITH BE PEOPLE WHO REGISTER HERE AND STUDENTS OF OUR TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM.
THIS EVENT IS NON-REFUNDABLE AND TRANSFERABLE TO ANOTHER JOHN WINELAND EVENT WITHIN ONE YEAR IF CANCELLATION IS RECEIVED PRIOR TO 30 DAYS OF THE EVENT START DATE. IF CANCELLATION IS RECEIVED AFTER 30 DAYS, TUITION IS FORFEITED.
For our refund policy, please see our Terms and Conditions.
EARLY BIRD: SAVE FOR A LIMITED TIME
Regular $6,300
couples
in-person
$6,300
Payment plans available at checkout. This workshop sells out every year.
Singles
in-person
$3,600
Payment plans available at checkout. This workshop sells out every year.