In this training, you will learn how to lead your own Intimacy and Attraction Workshop® so you can bring this timely work of intimacy and connection to your community.
The Intimacy and Attraction Workshop® is a potent set of techniques and exercises for inviting presence, connecting through the heart, and exploring the play of erotic aliveness.
This training provides you with the turn-key blueprint for a full The Intimacy and Attraction Workshop®, including training on how to create a safe container for deep practice.
Learning this potent set of tools will enable you to accurately, cleanly, and powerfully explore the realms of polarity and heart connection in your own life and with others. This material serves as a means to radically deepen your personal understanding of your own journey, as well as furnish you with the tools to guide others.
The training is designed to offer you an immersive experience in which you will receive live instruction from Michaela and Steve, immersive class experiences, in-depth lectures, teaching scripts, and more.
While this program is designed as a teacher training, many participants have taken it as a means to deepen their own personal practice and gain deeper experiential understanding of Michaela’s body of work.
Michaela and Steve have developed The Intimacy and Attraction Workshop® during the past decade of teaching internationally and have created brand new methods and updated techniques. This is the first training with the updated practices and materials. You will learn innovative ways to induce deep connection, relaxed heart opening, and fresh access to creating strong erotic tension regardless of sexual orientation or preference.
This is an in-person 5-day training August 24-29, 2025 in Portugal.
Day 1: Check after 3pm & evening programming
Day 2: All day programming
Day 3: All day programming
Day 4: All day programming
Day 5: All day programming
Day 6: Morning programming & departure by Noon
There are limited places available, and registrations will be accepted in the order received.
You can find accommodation options below on this page. Room prices include room, 3 meals a day, tea/coffee breaks, and use of the entire property.
NOTE: Study Group and Teacher Training members are entitled to your 50% discount. Please note, discount applies to retreat tuition only and not to the accommodation fee. Please apply discount code at checkout.
Details, locations and logistics are provided below.
Introduction to the Course
The Method
Principles of Intimacy
Barriers to embodiment
and connection
Dimensions of Heart Connection
Safe Facilitation &
Group Containment
Erotic Friction
Class Sequencing and Design
Teaching philosophy
Business
Monte da Orada, Odemira, SW Portugal
Monte Da Orada has been a place of pilgrimage for hundreds of years. Situated in a remote and magical valley the retreat center offers the perfect backdrop for our explorations.
It offers us the privacy and support to immerse deeply. The stunning views, calming water, untouched nature and nourishing environment assist and enhance our explorations and provide space for ritual.
The kitchen provides flavorful, locally sourced vegetarian meals and hence can support those with food sensitivities and allergies.
There are a variety of housing options to accommodate your preferences.
Ready to join us?
The closest airports to the retreat center are the Lisbon airport (220km) and Faro airport (160km).
We offer easy and affordable shared shuttles on arrival and departure days from both airports.
Buses, taxis and car rentals are also options for travel to and from the airports.
Detailed travel details and ride share options will be available upon registration.
Michaela Boehm teaches and counsels internationally as an expert in intimacy and relationships. Born and raised in Austria, Michaela combines her training in psychology and extensive clinical counseling experience with her in-depth training in the yogic arts. A gifted speaker and counselor, her unique body of work centers on the intersection of intimacy and embodiment. Known for her work with high-performing individuals, her ongoing private clients include Oscar-winning actors, multiple Grammy-winning musicians, producers, and business pioneers. Michaela is the Author of “The Wild Woman’s Way” and the founder of The Non-Linear Movement Method®, a powerful somatic release modality. Her work has recently been featured in Gwyneth Paltrow’s Netflix Show “Sex, Love & goop” and Will Smith’s bestselling memoir ‘Will’. She lives on an organic farm in California where she rescues and rehabilitates animals.
Steve James travels internationally teaching somatic practices and meditation, as well as leading explorations in contemplative, mystic, and relational realms.In addition to private client work and public workshops, Steve is the host of the Guru Viking Podcast and has released a DVD series of his movement approach called the Movement Koan® Method, a fusion of joint-nourishing movement and body-based mindfulness. Steve’s unique range of experiences and understanding of human behaviour, high performance, spirituality, and interpersonal relationships is highly sought after by leading figures at the highest levels of the arts, entertainment, and business. In his private client practice he specializes in the unique interpersonal and strategic challenges faced by very successful and highly visible individuals. Ongoing clients include Oscar-winning actors, multi Grammy winning musicians, CEO’s, and multi-billion dollar fund managers.
Tuition covers your retreat workshop fee, in addition choose whichever price level of accommodation suits you.
Accommodations cover your choice of room, 3 meals each day, all day coffee, tea, and fruit + our group has the exclusive use of the full property for your entire stay.
Tuition and accommodations are priced separately.
This event welcomes all genders, singles and couples, and all s3xual orientations.
If you are attending with a partner you have the option of participating only with each other in the paired exercises should you prefer to do so.
Feel free to reach out to our team at workshops@michaelaboehm.com for more information.
This course is not a substitute for therapy or medical treatment. If you have a history of trauma, mental health issues or medical conditions, please consult your physician or mental health care practitioner to determine if somatic movement modalities are appropriate for you.
