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Quodoushka

A shamanaic approach to sacred sexuality for your health and well being.

October 5-9, 2022
Santa Fe, NM

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“Since most of us come from families where meaningful guidance about sex was scant if it existed at all, many of us are hungry to find sensible approaches for creating healthy intimate relationships. For me, discovering the teachings and practices of Quodoushka dramatically changed the course of my life. They not only offered an inspiring system of integrated knowledge, they expanded my whole view of sex, orgasms and relationships. They helped me accept the unique characteristics of my sexual anatomy and most importantly, showed me how we can learn through pleasure in order to become more sensitive, creative lovers.”
 
– Amara Charles

 

Working with the healing power of sexual union and orgasm, Quodoushka offers a path to repair emotional wounds and sexual insecurities, revive monotonous relationships, discover our true sensual selves through understanding our unique sexual anatomy type, and discover the sweet medicine of sex.


Discover the Path of Quodoushka


Quodoushka 1 

Return to Innocence

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Quodoushka 1 consists of transformational shamanic sexuality teachings and guided exercises to bring more care, quality and passion into your intimate life. The ‘Q’, as it is often called, clears away your blocks to pleasure, uplifts your understanding of sex, and gives you amazing tools to create more loving, intimate relationships. You may attend Q1 as a single or with a partner.

  • Shift your entire paradigm around sex and sexuality.
  • Heal wounding, beliefs and perceptions that may be blocking you from living an ecstatic life.
  • Learn how to move beyond tension release and disconnected sex into having more heart-felt, deeply loving orgasmic experiences.
  • Practice exercises to reach higher levels of orgasm, renew relationships and discover the healing power of sex.
  • Discover how your sexual energy is your aliveness — the energy of creation expressed through you.
  • Learn how to perform powerful sexual healing energetic work with the chakras and light body.
  • Most of all, Quodoushka instructors are highly skilled teachers who create a safe place where you can accept yourself for who you really are.
     

 

If you’re interested in feeling the full beauty and power of your sacred life-force energy and you’d like to make profound shifts in your world, then you are ready for a Quodoushka 1.

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Praise for Quodoushka 1

“An essential life training for all human beings, whatever age. A much needed teaching to clean up the current mess/confusion around the whole area of sex/sexuality in society. I will be suggesting to my daughters that they attend Q1 as a basic life skills/education program. Words cannot describe the importance of this teaching to mankind.”

Bruce Irvine

Company Director, Auckland Ne Zealand 


“I cannot begin to tell you how much the recent Q1 has changed me. I had never gone through such a profound transformative process within the course of a single weekend. I rejoice in knowing that freedom, love and great sex are my birthright.”

Annette Sand

Physical Therapist


Quodoushka 2 

Empowerment and Healing of the Masculine and Feminine

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Quodoushka 2 shows you how to use your new-found connection to your core sexual energy in order to heal the rift between men and women. You will release deeply held resentments that hold you back and start to break through the armor that keeps you from fully feeling sexual pleasure. You will also learn detailed shamanic lover’s techniques to share with a partner – whether you are in a relationship or are looking for one. As in Q1, you may attend Q2 as a single or with a partner.
 

The Quodoushka 2 takes you on a shamanic journey to cut through the pretenses and defenses you’ve built against the opposite sex. It will help you understand how ways you’ve tried to protect yourself have also prevented so much pleasure and joy. The profound ceremony will inspire you to find the courage to express what you truly need in order to enjoy a healthy sexual life. You will return home knowing how to make clear sexual agreements that work for you as well as how to sustain more passionate and kindhearted intimacy in the bedroom and beyond. The Q2 will not only enhance your sex life; it will infuse all your relationships with much more compassion, love and joy.

Quodoushka 2 will help you:

  • Shift your entire paradigm around sexual relationships
  • Embrace your sexual energy to heal the rift between men and women.
  • Get clear about what you want and what you don’t want in your intimate life
  • Communicate your truth and create sexual agreements that work for you
  • Release deeply held resentments that hold you back from fully feeling your sexual pleasure.
  • Practice exercises to reach higher levels of orgasm and ecstasy
  • Discover practical ways to call forth and use sexual energy wisely.
  • Learn amazing shamanic lover’s techniques to share with a partner – whether you are in a relationship or are looking for one.
  • And as always, Q2 gives you permission to really accept yourself for who you are while giving you a safe, sacred place to explore.

 

Quodoushka 1 is a prerequisite for this workshop.
 

If you’re interested in feeling the full beauty and power of your sacred life-force energy and you’d like to make profound shifts in your world, then you are ready for a Quodoushka.


 Meet Our Quodoushka Facilitators

Amara Charles  Keeps the Fire

Amara Charles is a trusted and highly acclaimed sacred sexuality mentor to thousands and the best-selling author of The Sexual Practices of Quodoushka. 

With her experiences teaching Quodoushka workshops for over 30 years, Amara is a fiercely compassionate advocate for those who want the relationship of their dreams to come true… so that both couples and singles of all persuasions can have relationships that are filled with joy, honesty and friendship… where the ability to enjoy sexual intimacy unfolds naturally.

John Kent  Spinning Coyote

John Kent is a Spiritual Warrior –committed to integrity and quality in all their forms. He leads the Shamanic De-armoring intensives and Quodoushka worldwide.

He is a hunter, martial artist and shooting instructor. As an apprentice to the Sweet Medicine Sundance Path since 1996, John underwent deep spiritual sexual transformation through his training and practice with Thunder Strikes. John brings a natural, balanced masculine presence that is truly rare. His care for the people and his giving spirit enrich and nourish the programs.

 

 

Kristen Viken  Golden Ring Snake

Kristin Viken, a native of Norway, currently resides in Phoenix Arizona. With studies in Philosophy and Comparative Religion at the University of Bergen, she apprenticed to the Sweet Medicine Sundance Path in 1989. Kristin is an experienced, authoritative and enlivening guide and for the last 18 years, she has lead seminars and retreats all over the USA, Canada, Norway and Australia. She facilitates Shamanic De-armoring programs, Quodoushka, women’s empowerment teachings, Rites of Passage ceremonies, and yearlong programs for those dedicated to healing and awakening.

Michael Stein  Star Dreamer

Michael is a Sweet Medicine SunDance Path apprentice and has been a member of the Quodoushka teaching team for over 20 years. Michael has been a facilitator for the Men’s Health Teaching Group of the UNC Chapel Hill Medical School and a guest presenter for the American Association of Sexuality Educators Counselors and Therapists. As a Certified Trainer of NLP, an Ericksonian style hypnotist and a master storyteller, Michael leads widely acclaimed team-building programs for individuals, corporations and organizations across the United States. He currently lives in Chapel Hill, NC.

 Quodoushka Transformations

“As the next Quodoushka workshops approach I’m wishing I were there with you guys! I’m currently setting up my business. It is extremely hard work and is taking everything I’ve got. The only reason I’ve got the power to do it, is because of you guys and the Q magic – after what you guys showed me, there’s no way I’m leaving this amazing planet with my music still inside me!”

Lee Burger

UK


“I am particularly grateful at the level of safety and opportunity that your team generated. This environment gave me the opportunity to stretch, which I repeatedly felt empowered to do. So I stretched and stretched some more. I feel profoundly transformed!”

Pat Mueller

Psycologist

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Frequently Asked Questions

Can I come to Quodoushka without a partner?

Yes! You may attend Quodoushka 1 and 2 as a single or attend with a partner. For Quodoushka 3 and 4 you must attend with a partner.

Is it better to come with a partner?

Many people ask this question because they think, “oh, I can’t explore anything about my sexuality until I have a partner.”

I would say, please do not wait to have a partner to attend a Quodoushka!

It’s a common relationship mistake to think that our sexual sense of self comes from outside. The truth is, our life force energy is ours, and until we feel good, whole and healthy in our own skin, and learn to accept ourselves – we will always have trouble receiving pleasure from someone else. And there is so much to explore about ourselves sexually.

If you attend as a single, (even if you have a partner), you will untangle so many beliefs about sex, and get so clear about your own feelings that you will return to your everyday life with such an attractive glow about you that people will ask you what happened? (We hear this all the time.)

But most important, you will not only be blessed with a temporary glow, you will learn practical intimate communication skills that will enhance your relationships for a lifetime.

That’s why I say “Do not wait to attend a Quodoushka.” If you attend as a single now you’ll be in a much better place within your self to find, attract, or rekindle a current relationship.

What if I want to come with my partner?

Of course you can come with your partner, and if you choose, you can do all the exercises together to share an exquisite and profound healing space for your relationship. The Quodoushka experience is simply an amazing, intimate way to celebrate your union. You will learn ways to talk about and make clear sexual agreements around things most of us often mistakenly take for granted.

We’ve even had couples whom chose to come to Quodoushka to celebrate their honeymoon, and to recharge a ‘broken’ relationship.

If you think you already know what your partner likes and wants it’s more than likely not exactly so. All partners can benefit from learning more, especially about yourself first. There’s so much that happens in both QI and QII that will give you practical insights about how to shift habits and patterns that keep you stuck in doing the same things over and over in your intimate life.

While we cannot guarantee Quodoushka will fix every issue in your relationship, we can say you will receive the tools to create enduring and more fulfilling sexual intimacy.

What if my partner doesn not want to go?

It’s often the case that one partner wants to go and one is not ready. I always say, if that’s the case, one of you should go, make clear agreements, and then share what you’ve learned with your beloved when you return. If you need help doing this, our staff is here to help you before and after the Q.

Many times when one partner goes, later, when they’ve seen the positive changes, the other partner wants to attend! Then you can have one go as a single, or you can both come to experience the Quodoushka together.

What if I am in the LGBTQ community, will I benefit?

Yes! Quodoushka celebrates the full gender spectrum.

Quodoushka celebrates wherever you are across the gender spectrum. When we refer to ‘man’, it means ’the masculine’ and ‘woman’ means ’the feminine’. Referring to ‘man’ and ‘woman’ makes it easier to get the teachings across by keeping it simple. Quodoushka fully embraces LGBTQ. The teachings and practices shared in this workshop are beneficial to all gender preferences.

Quodoushka is open to all sexual orientations. We honor and teach that we all have a choice about what kind of relationship we could best learn and grow from. It’s one of the most accepting and loving spaces you will find to celebrate, share and express who you truly are.

If you have questions or concerns about how you would like to participate, our staff is ready to help you before, during, and after the Q.

What about sexual safety?

We take great care to create a sexually safe environment, and we fully advocate and practice safe sexual practices.

Is there nudity in Quodoushka?

This is the next big question. First of all, in all Quodoushka workshops there is never anything that you must do, it is all voluntary. There’s so many things in our sexuality that we do because other people told us to, or because other people wanted something. Sometimes we were not sure what we wanted, and sometimes we didn’t know how to say no and maybe regretted that. All these sorts of things happen in our intimate life.

That’s why one of the focuses in the Q1 is getting to YOUR OWN “YES! This is what I want.” And, about getting clear about YOUR OWN “NO. This is not what I want.”
The Q1 experience is about learning to feel, clarify and express what we want in our intimate life. And it’s a chance to practice saying it.

This is a round about way of saying that there will never be anything in a Quodoushka workshop that you need to do if you don’t want to. You will always have the choice every step of the way. So with nudity, you may practice everything clothed, or you may choose to do the exercises without clothing. That’s entirely up to you. I will say that the vast majority of people who come to Quodoushka experience a level of safety and respect with a group they’ve never felt in their lives. So, if you’re nervous about that, please don’t worry, a lot of other people are too. The most important thing is that Quodoushka is a safe place to practice making and expressing your own sexual agreements.

I think the hidden question is, and perhaps the question people want to ask but often shy away from, is about the other people. They wonder if there will be sexual advances, or if there will be sexually explicit things going on.

Firstly, our trained staff speaks directly to every person who attends Quodoushka to determine whether they are ready to attend upon registration and there are no sexually explicit exercises in Q1 or Q2. We do have frank discussions about sexuality, orgasm and sexual anatomy, and there are exercises that involve touch. We encourage an atmosphere where it is okay to talk about, feel and express orgasmic energy, and each person is at choice with how they make agreements and do each exercise.

How are exercises explained?

First, every exercise is demonstrated, then you practice the exercise with a partner, and then we gather to discuss what we learned. Some exercises are solo, some are with a partner, and some we do together as a group.

What is unique about Quodoushka?

Revealing these once-secret teachings for the first time, Quodoushka explains the physical, energetic, and sexual qualities of the nine male and female sexual anatomy types such as Coyote Man or Buffalo Woman and how to identify and best please each type as well as take pride in your own unique sexual anatomy. LGBTQ identify with your unique sexual anatomy in addition to the energy of that anatomy type, and how that translates in your sexual relating.

Quodoushka also describing the nine variations of orgasmic expression from avalanche to forest fire and provides exercises for greater sexual pleasure and increased orgasmic intensity, including the Chakra Merging exercise, a method for reaching a full-body orgasm through breathwork.

What happens in Quodoushka?

While we do not provide a schedule for Quodoushka, this is the general flow of the 3 1/2 day workshop (unless it is an extended Q).

Please note: These are just the bare bones of what happens in Quodoushka. (I have intentionally left out some of the most unique, fun and special things that happen during the weekend. Why? Because some people just love to be surprised).

Also, each Quodoushka Teacher may position topics and exercises in their own unique way. Every Quodoushka Workshop includes these essential teachings, exercises and practices:

First Evening
We open with introductions and a history of where the Quodoushka teachings come from. We do a few spoken teachings on relationship choices, and we use these teachings to share and listen to everyone’s intent for being here. This is followed by a ceremony to help everyone set their own intention for the weekend.

We also create specific agreements for the group, including the rules for safety and confidentiality. This ensures our rules of engagement during the weekend provide a safe container and a safe environment for each person to learn about and explore their sexuality.

First Day
We begin with morning teachings to open our senses and balance our energy. This is followed by exercises that bring these teachings into the body, such as chakra balancing as well as other exercises, which show us how to use our energy centers.

We serve a beautiful lunch each day.

The rest of the day is devoted to expanding our concept and awareness of what sexual energy is and what it isn’t. The afternoon is filled with more teachings about how we can feel, sense and use our energy centers in very specific ways to expand our awareness of self, life and others.

The evening is devoted to a demonstration and a Shamanic healing practice used to clear away blocks and pave the way for being able to feel more pleasure in the body.

We go late into the evening, taking advantage of the time together.

Second Day
This is an amazing day of discovering new things about your sexual self.

There are interactive teachings and healing exercises to help us ground, feel and express a more empowered sense of self. Teachings during the morning provide answers to questions about why we sometimes react so childishly, or with so much negative emotion when it comes to intimacy and sex. We start the day with practical tools to help us see ourselves with more awareness so we can wake up and take responsibility for what we want.

The afternoon is devoted to a very special Shamanic ceremony that is designed to help you lift deeply held layers of shame and guilt about your sexuality.

The evening‘s exercise and ceremony is designed to bring out different faces of your lover’s persona, and is designed to help you accept and feel worthy of more pleasure in your life.

Third Day
Part of the last day is devoted to learning amazing things about orgasms, levels of orgasms, and types of orgasms. There’s also ample space given to sharing and expressing the things we’ve learned and gained.

One of the most significant things that happens in every Quodoushka is that you will have the chance to hear about other people’s journey; what they’ve gained and what they’re giving away. In fact, sharing personal blocks, defeats and victories is one of the hidden treasures that happens in every Quodoushka, and it’s also where much of the healing happens, for we realize again and again, we are not alone.

Plus, sharing within the Q matrix is profoundly uplifting, for you will not hear or experience these kinds of amazing intimate breakthroughs anywhere else in the world.

Our final closing ceremonies are designed to help us ground our gains and seal the love to take it home into all our relations.

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Amara is a best-selling author, a three-decade veteran of the relationship space, and your new BFF! I believe that you CAN be the happiest, most fulfilled version of yourself without sacrificing anything. Whether you're searching for re-ignited passion, adventures in a new relationship or personalized expert sex and intimacy advice, you'll find your tribe here!

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