Conscious Intimacy Basic Training (CIBT) Live Intensive

 August 7-9, 2026 · Mandala Springs, Barnardsville, NC

Most people are starving for real connection.

You can be in a full room and still feel unseen. Unheld. Alone. We build walls out of old pain, and those same walls keep out the very closeness we ache for.

Somewhere along the way, you learned to become a character. A version of you shaped to fit in, to stay safe, to be accepted. It worked. It got you here. But that character is not who you actually are, and living inside it is exhausting.

This weekend is about unbecoming that character.

Not adding more to yourself. Removing what was never you to begin with, so the person underneath, your true, authentic Higher Self, can finally step forward and be seen.

Over three days in the mountains outside Asheville, you will not just learn about connection. You will live it. You will experience what it feels like to be fully met, and you will walk away with the actual tools to create that experience again and again, in your relationships and in the rooms you will one day lead.

Here is what we move through together:

We open with the Gatekeeper Games. Bold, honest self-disclosure. We lead with the truth we most want to hide, because that is what dissolves the walls between us and sets the tone for the entire weekend.

Then we build the Seven Fundamentals, the talk-based skills at the heart of the work: separating facts from stories from feelings, and learning to truly listen, reflect, and validate another human being.

And we deepen through the Five Forms, the touch-based practices. Gazing. Holding. Hugging. Cuddling. And finally Bathing, where the whole group channels its full presence into one person. Every layer held inside clear boundaries and consent, always.

We move through the darkness to get to the light. Honest words first. Conscious touch second.

The three days:

Friday, Initiation. We open the portal through exceptionally deep sharing. Saturday, Dancing with the Darkness. We meet the character you built to survive. Sunday, Leading with the Light. We come home to who you actually are.

Schedule: Friday, August 7: 6:00 to 9:00 PM (doors close at 6:30, no late entry) Saturday, August 8: 12:00 to 6:00 PM Sunday, August 9: 12:00 to 6:00 PM

Where: Mandala Springs, Barnardsville, North Carolina. A quiet stretch of mountain land twenty minutes from Asheville, built for exactly this kind of work.

This training is for coaches, healers, facilitators, and anyone ready to stop performing connection and start living it.

Come as the character. Leave as yourself.

Spots are limited by design. This work only happens in a small, held container.

Reserve your place now.