Join us on July 21 for the monthly meeting of the Goddess Collective Marin with guest presenters Meriana Dinkova MFT and Sandra Edwards.
(one only women can attend the event)

Meriana DInkova MFT will be presenting on OVERCOMING SELF SABOTAGE
Sandra Edwards will be presenting on UNDERSTANDING THE SELF WITH HAND ANALYSIS.
For more info go here: http://www.meetup.com/Get-Out-Of-Your-Own-Way-Conquering-Self-Sabotage/events/23620881/

SENSATION AS A TOOL FOR EXPLORATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS

When: Wednesday, July 6 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Where: 49 Zoe St, San Francisco, Ca
We will explore different ways of utilizing the felt experience of sensation, as a vehicle for diving deeper into the fabric of experience.
Shara will be also doing a brief introduction of the practice of Orgasmic Meditation (Om) from that perspective.
For more info and to register go to: http://www.meetup.com/SexMagicSF/events/16431795

ENERGETIC PATHWAYS FOR SEXUAL ENERGY and ENHANCED ORGASM FROM A TANTRIC PERSPECTIVE

When: Tue 07th of June 7-10pm
Where: 298 Laidley St @ Miguel, San Franicisco

In this evening workshop Meriana Dinkova MFT and Sherry Froman- Tantrika and Sex Educator will be introducing you to some internal, external and energetic techniques on heightening your bliss, prolonging (or postponing) your orgasm and on using some of the energy pathways in your body to increase ecstasy and connection.

Admission -$15-25 sliding scale. ($15 available only in presale until 1 day to the event at www.meetup.com/SexMagicSF- join and mark yourself attending and it gives you the pre-sale option)

THE EVOLUTION OF SEXUALITY PANEL @ Lightening In A Bottle
When: 12-1pm on Sunday May29th
Where: The Lumi Cafe @LIB

Have you ever wondered why sexuality has been a taboo subject for so long? Or how people from different walks of life handle their sexual differences? If so, please join us as Sherry “Huggi-Ma” Froman leads a group of diverse sexual healers, educators, and activists in a live interactive panel discussion around subjects concerning how to embrace the growing popularity of diverse sexuality in today’s day and age.

Overcoming Self Sabotage Evening Workshop
When: May 24th 7-9pm
Where 2931 Barrett Ave , Richmond, Ca 94804
To RSVP go here

GETTING WHAT YOU WANT IN LOVE SEX AND INTIMACY

‘Sex Magic Meetup’ meets Soulful Communication- evening workshop with Meriana Dinkova &Taber Shadburne
When: April 1st 7-10pm
Where: 1550 5th St, Oakland, CA 94607
Cost: $20
For more information go to: http://www.meetup.com/SexMagicSF/events/16066932/

OVERCOMING SELF SABOTAGE - free introductory evening
When: March 30th 6.45pm- 8.45pm
Where: 164 Duncan Way, Oakland 94611
http://www.meetup.com/Get-Out-Of-Your-Own-Way-Conquering-Self-Sabotage/events/16713252/

The DATING Matrix - Discover your Dating- and-Relationship Blueprint
In this evening Workshop Meriana Dinkova MFT and Michael Gelbart LCSW will take you on an exploration of the inner workings of your Dating- and Relationship Blueprint.

We will look into the ways you seek connection, generate turn-on and all the conscious and unconscious mechanisms which play a part in the ways we select, attract and sustain our intimate relationships.

When: Friday, March 4th, 7-10pm
Where: Authentic SF ,1072A Folsom St San Francisco, CA 94103 map
Cost: $15 presale, $20 at the door (to buy presale tickets join the Meetup here). In the last hour there is wine a cheese social.

Discover your conscious and unconscious ‘dating templates’ and your ‘dating operating system’

Understand the language of attraction and resolve the ways you play the attraction game in a way that doesn’t betray yourself or your dating partners.

Clarify your working paradigm, your conscious or unconscious contracts and agreements and identify your ‘blind spots’ and your traps.
For more information or to get prepaid tickets go: here

Jan 28th, 6.30- 8.30pm “GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY- Overcoming Self Sabotage’
For more info go to: http://www.meetup.com/Get-Out-Of-Your-Own-Way-Conquering-Self-Sabotage/calendar/15716613

THE MATRIX OF RELATIONSHIPS
RECOGNIZE AND TRANSFORM YOUR RELATIONSHIP BLUEPRINT

An evening workshop with Meriana Dinkovava MFT and very special guest Morgan Godlander - founder of Lifematrex and Director of the Gestalt Institute of San Francisco

When: Friday, January 21st, 7-10pm (with wine and cheese social towards the end)
Where: 1550, 5th St, Oakland 94607 map (one block from West Oakland Bart)
Cost: $15 pre-sale, $20 at the door (to RSVP and get the discount go here)

-Discover your unconscious relational patterns

-Become more aware of your unmet needs, hidden desires, and unacknowledged fears

-Practice being fully present, recognizing and owning your truth, and relating from the power of your authenticity.

Lifematrex is a state of the art Personal Development System authored by Gestalt Institute of San Francisco Director Morgan Goodlander. It is an integration of Gestalt, NLP, EST, Zen, and epistemological constructivism.

For more information go here

THE YIN-YANG OF VINTIMACY- VULNERABILITY, STRENGTH & TURN ON

Jan 7th 2011 7-10pm

For more info visit: http://www.meetup.com/SexMagicSF/calendar/15468669

Dec 1oth 8pm- Interview on ‘Mental Foreplay’ on the radio show “Sexploration with Monika” on FCCFreeRadio.com

MENTAL FOREPLAY AND EROTIC LEADERSHIP - One Day Workshop in SF

When: November 13th, 9.30am- 6 pm

Where: HYATT at Fisherman’s Wharf, 555 North Point St, San Francisco, 94133

I am excited to announce this upcoming one-day workshop and am trilled to have David Shade as a gust speaker and co-facilitator. David Shade is well known as ‘America’s Renegade Sex Expert’ and is the bestselling author of ‘Secrets of Female Sexuality’ .

For more info and to register visit:

http://www.mentalforeplayworkshop.com

To find out more about David Shade go to  masterful-lover.com and for info on his cutting edge products go : here

Nov 11th:

San Francisco Lair Presents: An Evening With David Shade and special guest Meriana Dinkova.

http://www.meetup.com/David-Shade-Masterful-Lover/calendar/15186769/?from=list&offset=0

Where: Hyatt at Fisherman’s Wharf, 555  North Point St, San Francisco 94133

When: 7pm

Cost: $10

For more information go to: http://www.meetup.com/David-Shade-Masterful-Lover/calendar/15186769/?from=list&offset=0

SEX MAGIC

Monthly Workshop/Lecture Series:  

Next meeting: Oct 22nd 2010, 7-10pm

Location: 1550 5th St, Oakland, Ca 94607

For info on the workshop on Oct 15th (this one is on SEDUCTION Part II) and on past ones,visit:

http://www.meetup.com/SexMagicSF/calendar/14906703/?from=list&offset=0

• What kind of erotic presence do you hold?
• What is the range and depth of you sexual embodiment?
• What can you call forth from your lover?
• What are your edges and how do they hold you back from expressing and enjoying your full erotic potential?

SEX MAGIC

SEX MAGIC is a monthly workshop series, in which we will share and play with some conceptual and technical tools, designed to bring more wholeness and expression in our erotic being, as well as to deepen awareness and enhance pleasure & connection during a sexual encounter.

I am co- facilitating each meeting with different speakers/ workshop leaders from related ares.

We are excited to open our toolboxes, which we have created in many years of studying and practicing a variety of approaches to influencing, attuning and aligning mind and body. We are also curious what new tools will come to life through your participation. There is a Sex Magician in every one of us.

SEX MAGIC is a combination of external techniques and internal practices. Most of them are aimed at heightening our ability to feel into the intricacies of our experience, to influence it’s quality and to strengthen our presence. We will also show some of its uses in uncovering, evoking and embodying erotic archetypes. They can be valuable and exciting allies for heightening sensitivity, strengthening awareness, sexual healing and for widening the range of erotic play.
This monthly event is meant to be a laboratory for diving deeper into the fabric of human experience and the energies of intention, bliss and presence. We will experiment with different ways of using these energies as vehicles for consciousness exploration.

Through lecture, sharing and exploratory exercises, we will journey on a discovery process that will deepen our erotic self and strengthen our ability to use different aspects of our consciousness to bring more awareness, richness and pleasure in our life.

Come solo or with a partner, but come prepared to discover new ways to make your experience magical!

I am co-facilitating most evenings with different guest speaker- experts on related subjects such as mindful sexuality, seductive presence, tantra, sexual artistry, female ejaculation, multiple orgasms, orgasmic meditation and more.

Admission will be $15-25 sliding scale. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

For more information on future events register to: http://www.meetup.com/sexmagicsf

Meriana Dinkova is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MTF Lic#45696) and Life- and Relationship Coach in private practice in SF. For the last 16 years she has studied and practiced a variety of tantric, meditative and therapeutic methods involving the connection between spirit and body and the ways our attention influences our experience, particularly in the realms of connection, mindfulness and sensuality.

UPCOMING  ’GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY‘  Evening Workshop:

Thursday, Oct 29th, 6.30-8.30pm

Where:- 1550 5th St, Oakland, CA

The upcoming one will be on Relationship Sabotage, and I will be co-leading it with Life-and Relationship Coach Francisco Bujan from  vitalcoaching.com

For more info go to: here

GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY

A workshop about identifying and managing self-sabotaging forces

In this workshop you will open to more ease and aliveness through:

- learning to recognize self sabotaging forces/ voices/ behaviors

- gaining tools to manage them when they occur

- effectively dealing with inner conflict

Whether in the form of negative rumination, relentless judgment towards self or others, immobilizing fear or indecision, we all know forces in us that sabotage our happiness, productivity, and relationships. Some of these are more obvious, like constantly missing deadlines, overworking or overspending and being always broke or in debt. Others hide in attitudes that criticize, judge, compare and assume the worst, leading to chronic procrastination, self-doubt, guilt or depression. Some of them lurk in the voices that make us feel bad about healthy expressions of anger, or start whispering scary things in our ear whenever we say ‘no’ or set boundaries. And at times a strong spiritual inner critic that pushes us to be more compassionate, forgiving and open-hearted (and yet makes us feel inadequate) can be an inner saboteur, in a saint’s disguise.

These energies get experienced in a somatic way by some people and for others these energies can be felt like inner voices - easily to be confused with the voice of our aware self. We can learn how these voices impact our feelings and the way we act in the world and differentiate them from voices that actually serve us. We will practice becoming aware when grasped by those forces and gain choice of which channel we listen to.

In the introductory evening I will present a brief roadmap of the self and show a few ways to identify different parts of the self and to determine which energies or voices are serving us and our goals and which ones are working against each other. We will also learn some basic ways of breaking the grasp of negative or immobilizing forces and shifting into more functional ones.

During the full-day workshop we will go deeper into the origins and goals of these energies. We will learn to differentiate between innocuous ‘inner forces’ and the truly dysfunctional ones.  With some the task might be about taming or transforming them, while with others the approach may be about learning to be with them with more ease. We will also learn techniques to shift between different self-states in order to gain a larger, more grounded frame-of-reference.

In addition to learning to discriminate will also design new ‘inner voices’ that can step in and support us when the dysfunctional voices have become active.

Through lecture, guided exercises, sharing and mindful self-exploration, we will study how to get out of the way of our natural evolution and understand the specific ways we sabotage ourselves. Sometimes these ways may manifest as being self-critical to the point of immobilization while at other times it may be about being so perfectionistic that even trying seems pointless (and we procrastinate or give up).

There are many forces at work within the self and getting to know our ;inner parliament’ is the first step towards happiness. Different forces become active in different environments and we will look at how these forces show up in our work and our relationships.

Get to know the forces that help or harm you and learn how to work with them in a way that supports, rather than hurts. This can save you from weeks or years of negativity, helping you achieve personal and professional health, more fulfilling relationships with others and most importantly with yourself.

TESTIMONIALS:

‘I went to Meriana’s intro talk last weekend. I’m a fairly grounded and introspective person and wasn’t expecting to get much from a 2 hour intro talk. But from the moment I walked in I was engaged. The intro question alone made me reflect on things in a fresh way. By the end of the extremely interactive session, I was left with a great deal of food for thought and I feel like only a week later my mind has been opened to new ways of looking at things. I feel challenged as I wrestle with some of the questions raised within me during the talk. Somehow conversations I have in mind sound very different as I speak them out to another person, as what I thought was sound reasoning rings hollow. I feel like a more free and capable person with a few new tools. I highly recommend this workshop if you have the ability to attend.’
B. McDade, Berkeley

‘I am really looking forward to this one!!!! attended the intro talk and was pleasantly confronted. Meriana breaks it down very clearly into what major areas of your life you are shooting yourself in the foot and classifies the typical psychological patterns we use on ourselves to sabotage our progress. It Was a very interactive intro where we got to honestly evaluate our deepest habits of non achievement and ways of holding back. I can feel th etools are coming! Just getting to express the habits to another human being was powerful and catalyzing.’
I. Yacobson, San Francisco

“I really enjoyed the last workshop and truly came away from it with tools I have used often since that have indeed helped me. Thanks!!!”
M. Mitchell, San Francisco

On June 26th I was one of the featured speakers at the:

VISIONARY VOICES SALON - Sex & Magic, Women’s Perspectives

Location: Viracocha, 998 Valencia St, (between Liberty St & 21st St) , San Francisco, CA 94110 map