Just for Your Couple
A Private Retreat Just For Your Couple
Come on a curated retreat focused exclusively on your relationship and your erotic life led by Caroline and Karen.
Learn how to use sexual roadblocks as doorways to ripening your capacity for pleasure and deep connection.
Our professional experience in couple and sex therapy allows us to understand your history as individuals and as a couple to help you develop an erotic vision for the future. We draw upon decades of training in tantra, yoga and meditation to guide you through sensually rich exercises and unique conversations that will inspire you towards your full erotic potential.
Become the lovers you have longed to be.
What participants are saying after their private retreat
“My wife and I have struggled with sexual intimacy for many years. Over that time we have attempted treatment with different therapist and therapies with limited success – more of a bandaid. The 4 day ripening retreat we had with Dr Berry was truly transformational – we are now on an exciting journey of ever evolving growth and discovery. Dr Berry is the consummate healer who brings an unswerving commitment to ongoing extensive training and personal growth – she is a brilliant, empathic, intuitive, strong and passionate person. The environment Dr Berry provides for the retreat gives a sense of safety and permission to be vulnerable, creative and effective with each other.”
“The Ripening Retreat, carefully tailored and individualized to our couple’s specific needs, was without question the most positive and enriching thing we have done for our relationship! After 32 years of repeating the same arguments, (primarily having to do with sex and attachment) without resolution, Karen helped us to develop and utilize productive tools for repairing the hurt and anger we have caused each other, which has allowed us to ripen as people and as a couple. Karen kept our couple as the primary client while she delicately balanced and honored each partner’s individual needs to be heard, acknowledged, supported and feel safe, providing us the space we needed to be authentic and vulnerable with our emotions and bodies. She masterfully guided us through a variety of experiences and activities that, enhanced by her analysis, facilitated a deep understanding of our difficulties, empathy for each other, opportunities to practice repair, and ultimately, our reconnection The retreat was so powerful for us that we started planning the next one before we got home!”
“We headed into our retreat thinking we knew each other and we arrived home, 3 days later, strangers to one another in the best way possible. Our relationship, already strong and safe, now feels new and expansive with sensual possibility. A difficult interaction that plagued our sexual relationship for more than 2 decades now feels like an invitation to learn about each other. We are more relaxed and more knowledgeable. As our sex life becomes less focused on the sex and more about exploring states of deeper intimacy, self-awareness, ecstasy and transformation, the sex is even more delicious.”
Who Comes
Who comes on a Private Ripening Retreat?
Couples come to us longing for great sex. Often they are focused on sexual functioning and ask questions like: “Why won’t my body do what I want it to do?” “Why don’t I feel enough desire?” “Are we having enough or the right kind of sex?”
For some of our couples this is a first step. Others have already been to couple therapy. Some have even been in sex therapy or tantric training and may have felt a glimmer of what’s possible, but they come to us because they know they have only begun to explore what’s possible.
Preparing for Your Retreat
How it works
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A free 15-minute consultation by phone
Ask us lots of questions and tell us what you are looking for! Together we will decide if you are ready to set up an intensive assessment over Zoom.
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3-Hour Assessment over Zoom
Our intensive 3-hour conversation is an assessment and a launching pad all in one. You will get a sense of who we are and what it will be like to work together. You deserve to know that we are the right guides for your couple and that we will support and challenge you in the best ways possible. The conversation allows us to ensure that this is the right time for your couple to attend the retreat. You will find that the assessment alone inspires changes in your couple.
At the end of our 3-hour conversation we will know whether your couple is ready to proceed. If your couple needs some additional preparation, we will talk about how best to do that. If you are ready to schedule a Ripening Retreat, we will spend the last portion of our time discussing the various retreat options. The question to consider regarding selecting the right duration for you will be: how much intimacy are you ready to pursue?
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Attend your Ripening Retreat
We host your retreat at Dr. Berry’s home sanctuary in Warwick, NY. We will recommend local accommodations as you will be staying off-site and enjoying meals on your own.
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Follow-up Conversation
Two months after your retreat we will meet again on Zoom to celebrate changes that have occurred in your couple and highlight areas for future erotic and relational growth.
Welcome to your sanctuary.
What to Expect
Your retreat, held with care.
Private & safe
Your Ripening Retreat will be completely private and safe. Your couple will have our full attention and care. You will always be fully clothed in our presence and our interventions with you will never involve sexual contact.
Personally tailored
Your Ripening Retreat will be personally tailored to your relationship. This is not a one-size-fits-all approach. Our assessment process allows us to meet you right where you are in your development as individuals and as a couple.
Challenging & exciting
Whether you spend two, three or four days with us, our time together will be paced for optimal learning. You will move between guided experiences with us and time in your own private space to explore what you are learning. There will be breaks for lunch, for rest and for time outside. Everything that happens is for your sensual awakening!
Lasting change
Your Ripening Retreat will lead to lasting change. The skills you learn with us will be practical and yours to keep. You will marvel at how your erotic transformation extends beyond your time with us and far beyond the bedroom.
Skills You’ll Take Home
You will learn how to:
- — Create safety in your relationship that fosters ease, curiosity and playfulness
- — Enhance intimacy using eye gazing, breathwork, touch and movement
- — Understand the science of arousal — both sexual and relational
- — Develop a personal owner’s manual for yourself and your partner
- — Explore the erotic terrain beyond mutually satisfying sexual experiences
Next Step
Begin with a conversation.
Start with a free 15-minute phone consultation. Ask everything. We’ll help you discern whether a private Ripening Retreat is the right next step.
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