With Elfi Dillon-Shaw
October 2 - 5, 2025
This is a dynamic Haven program that teaches erotic literacy for body, mind and heart
- Do you experience anxiety, heartache, confusion or apathy connected with sexuality and relationships?
- Do you want to learn erotic skills for enhanced arousal and orgasmic states as well as clarity, communication and connection?
This program teaches erotic literacy for body, mind and heart through surrendering to the ocean of erotic energy within. It demonstrates how we can steer our sexuality with erotic honesty in community and in our partnerships.
The program is for people of all genders and orientations who would like to:
- Address and reduce sexually related anxiety, guilt and shame
- Learn diverse perspectives on sexuality throughout the life- and relationship-cycle
- Learn erotic skills to enrich their life
- Make more conscious and healthful sexual choices
- Learn about the power aspects of sexuality and discover how to have fun in a safe way
- Find eros in the natural world
- Discover where spirituality and sexuality meet
In an atmosphere of consent and confidentiality, we will strengthen our vitality through breath work, movement, listening, reflection and sharing. We will explore ancient tantric and taoist wisdom, as well as modern sexology and sexual health sciences.
This program is intended for everybody. It is not designed specifically for couples, although couples are certainly welcome to attend.
For more information about the program please feel free to contact Elfi at 250 247 9504 or firstname.lastname@example.org
Our Earlybird tuition price of $650 is available up to one month prior to the program start. Full tuition is $710. Full payment is due one month before the program start date regardless of tuition pricing.
We are offering private and shared room options.
You can find our cancellation policy here
Your program begins with dinner at 6pm and your first session at 7:30pm
- Breakfast 8:00 – 9:00am
- Morning session 9:15am to noon
- Lunch noon to 1:00pm
- Afternoon session 3:00 – 6:00pm
- Dinner 6:00 – 7:00pm
- Evening session 7:30 – 9:30pm
Afternoon and evening sessions can vary. Your program finishes with lunch on the last day
If you are travelling to Gabriola as a foot passenger on the Gabriola Ferry a shuttle to The Haven can be requested. Information on this option will be included in your pre-arrival email.
Admission requirements: The student must have the desire and ability to learn. Must demonstrate a capacity for responsible self care, responsible self organization and sound mental health. The student must understand and speak English.
This program does not require approval by the registrar of the Private Training Institutions Branch (PTIB) of the Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills and Training. As such, the registrar did not review this program. What does this mean? Click here to learn more.
Elfi Emaya Shaw, DipC, has facilitated sexuality retreats for women, all genders, single, and partnered folks for twenty-five years. She has a “hands-on” practical approach to teaching. Her goal is to help each person open to their own unique erotic nature, to enrich their bodily and spiritual life, deepen their relationship to self, nature and their beloveds and to let go of guilt and shame about their being. She welcomes clients in her private studio on Gabriola Island and along with her partner Gary Kekoa assists Couples to navigate the waters of the erotic in their relationship. She was a…
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