425-765-6733 - Nevada City, CA

Tasting Life Temple
Tasting Life Temple

425-765-6733 - Nevada City, CA

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PRIVATE RETREATS

PRIVATE RETREAT FOR COUPLES

CUSTOM SEXUAL HEALING RETREAT

CUSTOM SEXUAL HEALING RETREAT

We invite you into an immersive retreat where sex and relationship coaching, Tantra, and kink come together in a safe, playful, and experiential laboratory. You will be guided to explore what you truly want, expand your possibilities, and breathe new life into your relationship.


What you’ll experience together:

  • Playful practices that spark new conversations and perspectives
  • Opportunities to clear blockages that prevent closeness and connection
  • Revitalized eroticism and passion in your relationship 
  • Ways of touching with attunement, power, and impact 
  • Practices that cultivate profound intimacy and trust
     

Details for your very own private retreat:

  • Location: Tasting Life Temple, Nevada City, CA 
  • Includes: Residential retreat + all meals 
  • Schedule: Check-in at 4 PM | Check-out at 1 PM 
  • Cost: $3,500 per couple (2 nights) | $4,500 per couple (3 nights)

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CUSTOM SEXUAL HEALING RETREAT

CUSTOM SEXUAL HEALING RETREAT

CUSTOM SEXUAL HEALING RETREAT

Step into a private retreat devoted to your erotic healing and awakening. Here, you’ll be invited to release old wounds, reclaim your pleasure, and recognize your body as a temple of vitality. This is more than a retreat — it is a sanctuary of healing, renewal, and sacred self-discovery.


What you'll experience:

  • Attuned touch and transformative practices to open new pathways of sensuality, freedom, and pleasure
  • Exercises to awaken and amplify your sexual energy as a source of vitality for your life
  • Practices to increase your sense of fully owning and inhabiting your body
  • Sexological bodywork session 
  • Body scrub and moisturizing treatment


Retreat Details:

  • Location: Tasting Life Temple, Nevada City, CA 
  • Includes: Residential retreat + all meals 
  • Schedule: Check-in at 4 PM | Check-out at 1 PM 
  • Cost: $2,500  (2 nights) | $3,250  (3 nights)

contact us to register or inquire

GROUP RETREATS

TASTING ALIVENESS - INTRO TO TANTRA

TASTING ALIVENESS - INTRO TO TANTRA

TASTING ALIVENESS - INTRO TO TANTRA

Meets prerequisite requirements for SkyDancing Tantra USA Love and Ecstasy Training. 

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 for 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


When: Friday, 9/19/2025 - Sunday, 9/21/2025

Cost: $700 - $900, depending on lodging option 

FLAVORS OF DESIRE - INTRO TO KINK

TASTING ALIVENESS - INTRO TO TANTRA

TASTING ALIVENESS - INTRO TO TANTRA

Meets prerequisite requirements for SkyDancing Tantra USA Love and Ecstasy Training. 

This Tantra laboratory provides an opportunity to deepen your relationship to power, pleasure, intimacy, and play. This workshop is designed for beginners and the curious, whether solo or partnered. Come discover, learn, and awaken new dimensions of desire, freedom, and sensation in a welcoming, boundaried, and judgment-free space. Join us for a guided exploration weaving our experience as energy bodies with 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


When: Friday 10/31/2025 - Sunday 11/2/2025

Cost: $700 - $900, depending on lodging option 

IGNITITING THE FIRE WITHIN: A 5-DAY WOMEN'S EMBODIMENT AND SELF-EMPOWERMENT RETREAT

In collaboration with Centered.one, we are thrilled to co-create Igniting the Fire Within. This 5-day residential retreat in Weert, Netherlands will use the full range of skills from four seasoned therapists, midwives, shamans, body and energy workers, and the heart-opening power of psilocybin. We will experience fire transmutation exercises, processes to descend into our own internal landscape, find the dance that comes from the depths and embody our unformulated expression. 

WEERT, NETHERLANDS

Where: Mother's House, 

When: November 11 - 15, 2025

Cost: $2000 - $2800 (depending on lodging choice, ranging from dormitory style to private rooms, limited availability)

Facilitators: Vicki Marnin, Ilana Grace, Annette Ephroni Grace, Tamara Slock

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GROUP CLASSES

POWER OF TOUCH (3 HOUR CLASS)

BECOME THE AUTHOR OF YOUR STORY, FOR WOMEN

BECOME THE AUTHOR OF YOUR STORY, FOR WOMEN

TOUCHING WITH INTENTION & IMPACT 

To touch a body can be a powerful conversation, a delicious, rich and decadent meal that nourishes both sides. As a giver, do you want your receiver's body quivering or deeply relaxed? As a receiver, do you know how to surrender  and fully receive? Do you know what you like?  This sensual evening for solos  and couples is an opportunity to drop into deep connection and pleasure.

Learn to:

  • Create the touch experiences you desire
  • Attune energetically and touch the nervous system, as well as the physical body
  • Identify what you need to find surrender and fully receive


When: Friday 9/5/2025, 6:30 - 10:00 PM

Cost: $75 per person, $130 per couple 

Where: Tasting Life Temple, Nevada City, CA

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BECOME THE AUTHOR OF YOUR STORY, FOR WOMEN

BECOME THE AUTHOR OF YOUR STORY, FOR WOMEN

BECOME THE AUTHOR OF YOUR STORY, FOR WOMEN

EMPOWERED PRESENCE AND FULL PARTICIPATION IN LIFE

This class is designed to help you cultivate embodiment skills to nurture your authentic and empowered engagement in life. Find your voice and step into ever increasing self-sovereignty.  

Learn to:

  • Shift from a reactive to a self-authorized mindset
  • Ensure that you know when you are making choices for you or for others 
  • Harness your desires as a primary vehicle for generative, loving interaction with others
  • Increase the ease with which you identify, communicate and negotiate your desires and boundaries 

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INDIVIDUAL SERVICES

SEXOLOGICAL BODYWORK SESSION (3 HOUR SESSION)

BODY SCRUB & MOISTURIZING TREATMENT (2 HOUR SESSION)

BODY SCRUB & MOISTURIZING TREATMENT (2 HOUR SESSION)

AWAKEN TO INCREASED SENSATION, PLEASURE & ALIVENESS

The intention is to generate a deeply integrative full body experience, where you can be with your responses and keep finding your way into relaxation, trust, safety and pleasure. Discover the potential of releasing long-held physical and emotional blockages, creating space for a new range of experience.


Time is dedicated at the beginning of the session for preparation and intention setting, and at the end for integrating the experience. 


Cost: $600

Session Length: 3 Hours

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BODY SCRUB & MOISTURIZING TREATMENT (2 HOUR SESSION)

BODY SCRUB & MOISTURIZING TREATMENT (2 HOUR SESSION)

BODY SCRUB & MOISTURIZING TREATMENT (2 HOUR SESSION)



Cost: $350

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Tasting Life Temple

Nevada City, California 95959, United States

425-765-6733

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