Upcoming Events
Quantum Light Breath (QLB) Facilitator Training
At long last, in collaboration with his beloved KiKi, Richard Bock will share his life’s work in this much requested offering. Located in a private, forested retreat setting 10 minutes from downtown Nevada City, this residential training for facilitators will encourage a deep journey into simple transformative presence. The training begins with an individual Zoom session with Richard, in which you will experience his own modality, SomaRasa Lila. Group Zoom sessions and QLB practices beforehand will cultivate a structure that allows for deep personal growth and learning during the five-day in-person immersion.
When: Thursday, July 3 - Monday July 7, 2025
Where: Tasting Life Temple, Nevada City, CA 95959
Cost:
- Food and Lodging: options as follows, priced per person, all meals included in all options, paid to TLT:
$775 - Private room, shared bed (half of a couple)
$800 - Twin bed, shared cabin
$1100 - Private / solo cabin or room
$600 - Camping
$500 - Meals only, lodging off site
- Training: Sliding scale $1100-$1650, to be paid directly to Richard Bock
Deposit: $150
Tasting Aliveness
Intro Level Residential Tantra Workshop for Couples and Individuals
Love and live more blissfully and learn to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary! Tantra is a spiritual orientation that offers a way to experience cosmic connection through the encounter with our own body, other people, and ordinary life. Join us in this experiential laboratory, a structured container where we’ll create safe, sacred, and playful opportunities to explore different tools, weaving together your conscious awareness with your physical and energy bodies. Learn practical skills to increase your capacity to cultivate and sustain deeper, fuller, authentic relationships-- with your own body, with others, and with the energy pulsating throughout all of life.
- Tap into somatic wisdom and recognize your body’s yes and no.
- Cultivate full presence, and an understanding of what that is.
- Tune into your desires, and what you need to reach for them.
- Learn to create the conditions/containers for deeper intimacy.
- Embrace the possibility of surprise: new ways of relating in old and familiar contexts.
- Unlock the power of your sexuality to fuel your vitality.
- Experience an expanded sense of union with Self and Other.
Where: Tasting Life Temple, Nevada City, CA
When: Friday, 7/11/25 - Sunday, 7/13/25
Cost: $700 - $900, depending on lodging option
Facilitators: Ilana Grace and Annette Ephroni
Flavors of Desire: Level 1 Kinkshop
Intro to Kink Residential Workshop
Are you ready to deepen your relationship to power, pleasure, intimacy and play? This workshop is designed for beginners and the curious, whether solo or partnered. Come explore, learn, and awaken new dimensions of desire, freedom, and sensation in a welcoming, boundaried, and judgment-free space. Join us for a guided exploration into the fundamentals of kink and the everyday. Designed for those seeking to bring more intentionality, safety, impact, and freedom into their sensual and erotic expressions.
- Learn how to establish 'containers of safety' to maximize freedom.
- Explore your relationship to giving, receiving, taking, denying, and submitting.
- Understand your relationship with "NO" -- speaking or hearing it.
- Uncover what your "NO" is a "YES" to and vice versa.
- Learn to engage with presence, power, and purpose.
- Sample a range of power dynamics and sensations; discover what truly turns you on; and learn how to ask for it.
- Raise your potential for satisfaction by getting to know your kink-nature, giving it expression safely in the everyday realms of life.
Where: Tasting Life Temple, Nevada City, CA
When: Friday 8/15/25 - Sunday 8/17/25
Cost: $700 - $900, depending on lodging option
Facilitators: Ilana Grace and Annette Ephroni
Embodiment, Vitality, Empowerment Retreat
5 Day Residential Retreat for Women in the Healing Professions
For therapists, body and energy workers, medical professionals, teachers, chaplains, and others. How do we guide others in finding their own expressions of greater ease, wholeness, and freedom, while also nurturing our own vitality? Join us for a deep exploration of psyche, soma, spirit, and the profound question of what healing is. Uncover layers of your own embodied experience through somatic and experiential practices and group process, to help you show up more fully, vitally, and powerfully to yourself and those you serve.
- Inhabit your body with more awareness, presence, and sensation.
- Learn to “listen”’ to your body as a source of guidance in your daily living.
- Become more consciously the author of your life.
- Discover the power in your desire.
- Fine tune your capacity for touching desire and establishing/communicating boundaries so you can fulfill it.
- Embody your sexuality, using it as an engine for your vitality.
- Uncover what you need to fuel and sustain your full participation in the world.
* Continuing Education Units will be offered through Utah Mental Health Counselors Association
Where: Tasting Life Temple, Nevada City, CA
When: 8/28/25 - 9/1/25
Cost: $900 to $1100, depending on lodging option (meals included)
Facilitators: Ilana Grace and Annette Ephroni