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Diana and Richard Daffner

Diana and Richard Daffner have been leading Intimacy Retreats for 23 years in places like Siesta Key, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Jamaica. Responding to our new, socially distant world, they have successfully taken their retreats online. Virtual weekends will be held July 17 through 19, August 7 through 9 and September 11 through 13, starting at 6:30 p.m. EST on each Friday until Sunday evening, so that couples can attend in different time zones.

The group sessions are live and experiential, and screen time is spread out over the weekend. Between sessions, couples are given “home-play” assignments to enjoy in private that reinforce and personalize the workshop’s teachings, providing life and loving skills that will be with them forever.

The Daffners’ easy, meaningful and fun practices are drawn from tantra, mindfulness studies and relationship trainings in communication, movement and touch. Married since 1985, they are co-authors of Tantric Sex for Busy Couples: How to Deepen Your Passion in Just Ten Minutes a Day. Both Diana and Richard are certified sexologists, and Diana holds a master’s degree in counseling.

 

For more information or to register, call 941-349-6804.

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