Evalena Rose, M. A.,, enjoys offering MetaTherapy, multi-dimensional healing and channeled readings to help people heal emotionally and spiritually and has for 28 years. Twelve years of leading Sacred Sexuality workshops for women led to the founding of the LoveJourney community in 1997.

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.

Consider a personalized ceremony or puja for your birthday,
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"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

Shakti Shen teaches tantra in various healing centers across America (see sacredspaceinstitute.com for her teaching schedule). 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.

Connie Berens comes to us as our new logistics coordinator, with many years of experience as an organizer and circle leader. A creator of sacred ceremonies and rituals, she is most at home in sacred circle and supporting healing and transformation. She leads many of our workshop chants and creates the incredible altars for the temple. When first approached about this position at LoveJourney, she explained, "This is my dream job!" She also is a web designer and has taken over that task as well. (BerensDesigns.com)

She is committed in her life to growth, learning, and cultivating loving kindness for herself and all beings.

Lucy Blais is our new office administration gal. Her sweet voice is usually the first you hear of LoveJourney. She answers the phone and handles registration for our events and all the many tasks involved in creating events here at LoveJourney.

Lucy Blais, originally from Burlington, VT, came to our community in early 2007, having years of unofficial tantric experience, but long study of ritual in such haunts as Reclaiming, the Unitarian Universalist church, and several smaller groups. She types at blinding speed, and her smile and loving disposition are right at home at our front desk.

Sharon Neal Williams is a Fine Artist who has practiced Zen Buddhism for 20 years and is a continual student of relationship and of living with simplicity and peace. She partnered with Evalena in creating LoveJourney, creates our graphics, and brings her knowledge of astrology and the enneagram to our understanding of the women we serve.

Sharon is Evalena's land partner and is enjoying the art of relationship with herself as her best beloved. She assisted in the workshops for six years, demonstrating ways of bringing these arts into intimacy, offering women a chance to witness how Tantra enhances real life. She now fulfills a new role she loves, keeping the kitchen and warming the hearth for all who come.

Guest Teachers and Assistants
The ancient peoples understood it takes a community of trained priestesses to support the process of opening one's sexuality and learn the arts of sacred love-making. They peopled their temples with dakinis (sexual healers). We people our workshops with women who've studied Tantra for many years and give of their time for the beauty of assisting other women to open. Many are trained in bodywork, therapy or healing, able to deeply support women in dropping old wounds and held emotions.

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. To explore doing dream work, contact her at alyssajm@igc.org.

Sonya Brewer, is a transformational healer, Tantra coach, sexual health educator and workshop facilitator who founded Sacred Journeys as part of her mission to transform the planet with love. She teaches people to delve into the infinite well of love that is present in every being, embrace the sexual as spiritual and live fully and authentically in the present moment.

Sonya has been a student of Tantra for over six years, and now makes this Spirit-centered path of sexual healing available to individuals and couples through her private practice in Oakland.

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 was especially excited to have at each workshop "a live model" (in Sharon and Evalena) of conscious relationship in action."
- V. K., participant

Evalena, your effort has been outstanding, well-choreographed, confident, creative, expansive, safe, and very loving. Sharon, you are a shining star!"
- P.R., participant

"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., participant

Evalena's and Sharon'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)

Evalena & Sharon were completely flexible and present in a way that was healing and kind. It particularly amazes me that you both seem to have so little ego-investment. Humble to the tantra itself. "
- L. M. participant

"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