Evalena Rose, M. A.,, enjoys offering MetaTherapy, multi-dimensional healing and channeled readings to help people heal emotionally and spiritually and has for 30 years. Twelve years of leading Sacred Sexuality workshops for women led to the founding of the LoveJourney community in 1997. Since that time, she has been sponsoring workshops and supporting a compassionate community practicing the highest erotic and romantic arts.

Bisexual and openhearted by nature, Evalena has made a study of relationships, sexuality, and healthy intimacy that allows all people to be fully who they are. She brings to this work her degrees in psychology and decades of study in alternative healing, shamanism, and Eastern spiritual paths. She entered the world of Tantra in 1987 and realized its potential for helping achieve a wholeness beyond what therapy can offer.

Evalena coaches women and couples in how to apply Tantra in their lives and in developing communication that sustains intimacy. Each learns to ask for what she wants through effective erotic communication. The explorations, especially the Sacred Evenings for Lovers and longer intensives, may include Tantric breath practices, body image, sensual massage, movement and ritual. With warmth and humor, she creates safe and sacred space for emotional and sexual healing that clears trauma and abuse, opening the way for new levels of ecstasy.

"Evalena, I love the way you teach. You open your heart so beautifully to all of us. You are definitely an inspiration to me as a teacher, healer, and friend."
- A. L., Assistant

"I was amazed by the endless tools you have in your bags and so enjoy and depend on the net Evalena weaves to hold us all in whatever the day becomes. Sharon's creative force and limitless friendliness make it all so safe."
- L. M., participant

Sharon Neal Williams is the kitchen support for our workshops, as well as Evalena's personal assistant during the week. An artist specializing in the art of scratchboard, her artwork graces our walls and she is also an illustrator with work on various wine labels. Originally partnering with Evalena in the creation of LoveJourney, Sharon is Evalena's land partner where she grows and tends vegetables in the back garden. Being a student of Zen Buddhism, Sharon enjoys living on the land in simplicity and peace and finds her practice a support in her work. After being an Assistant in the workshops for six years (demonstrating ways to bring these arts to intimacy and helping model how Tantra enhances real life), she finds this role of kitchen and personal support a perfect fit for her life now.

Shakti Shen is a national tantra teacher. She teaches tantra in various healing centers across America. She brings a spirit of freedom from practicing Tantra for thirty years. Shakti has developed Ecstatic Touch Kundalini Bodywork from her decades of study in the fusion of therapeutic and tantric bodywork styles, and she brings this ecstatic art to life with her poetic and passionate teaching style. Shakti chants ‘tantric music’ in our workshops that she has gathered from various spiritual ashrams around the world, and unites singing circles in the one voice of passionate Spirit.

Alyssa J. Morrow, M. Div, is a counselor for people with mental illness and a teacher, who has practiced daily meditation and Siddha Yoga for over 12 years. She studied pastoral counseling at Starr King, the Unitarian-Universalist Seminary of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, resulting in a Masters of Divinity. Her current passion is dream analyzing and she is starting a dream group in Sebastopol, CA, based on the work of Jeremy Taylor.

Lindy James is a Certified Tantric Educator, through Source Tantra . She has been a practitioner of tantra for over 18 years. She offers sessions in the Art of Conscious Loving for individuals, couples and groups.

Lindy's work is influenced by other tantric teachers as well, such as Daniel Odier , David Deida , and Margot Anand . She is a graduate of the 2-year training at the Hakomi Institute of San Francisco , and works as a counselor in private practice in Santa Cruz, CA.

Sophia, SongHealer, is an internationally acclaimed recording artist who has been performing since the sixties. Her music is healing, uplifting and inspiring. Her "voice of gold, full of power and love" is often heard in Tantric rituals and love-making. Her latest masterpiece, Chakra Healing Chants, which guides you on an amazing journey through the chakras, is available here. Her albums, on which she is accompanied by inspired virtuosos along with her own zither, tamboura, percussion, dulcimer and guitar, are available through www.songhealer.com. She can be reached at songhealer@earthlink.net.

"I have so much respect for the assistants gift of time spent with us. More than anything I see you all letting the bird of our new community fly out of your hands--we retain the shelter as our wings spread ever further.
- L. M., participantEvalena's explanations and demonstrations have been consistently excellent, and their and the assistants' availability and willingness to provide emotional support to women who want it is one of the features of this workshop that really set it apart from others I have participated in."
- N. V., participant (Katie was a former co-teacher in 1990-2000)"When we entered the Tantric temple you all created, we dwelled in a sacred space where we were lovingly supported and nurtured in our healing work."
~N.V., participant

"I always feel held in the most beautiful way."
- J. T., participant