Listening is Love

An Exploration in Conscious Relationship

The When and Where

Bellingham Washington @ Full Bloom

Saturday June 14th & Sunday June 15th 2025

10-6pm Each Day

“The first duty of love is to listen.”
— Paul Tillich

We’ve all glimpsed it. Maybe even been lucky enough to have experienced waves of it throughout our lives:

A deep, fulfilling experience of love, understanding and connection. Easefully oozing passion, presence, purpose and playfulness. Naturally unfolding in ways that support each of us to be our best selves We all sense that this is the potential in our intimate relationships.

And yet for most of us, our day to day experience of relationships is far from this.

Why? And how to do more than glimpse our potential, how to experience this as not state but stage?

In the Listening is Love workshop we will explore these most serious questions in a light hearted way.  

Listening is Love is an immersive and heart-opening journey into the art of deep listening, attuned presence, and conscious loving. Whether in intimate relationships, friendships, family, or community, the way we listen determines the depth of our connection. This workshop invites you to slow down, soften, and learn how to meet others—and yourself—with radical presence, curiosity, and love.

The What

In this weekend workshop, we’ll explore:

Healing Old Patterns in Relationship – Bring awareness to conditioning, attachment wounds, and unconscious relational habits, and learn how to create new, more empowering ways of connecting. We will explore the patterns in life and relationship that are common blocks to living this realization. We will discover what’s specifically preventing you from experiencing this fully for yourself.

Deepening Awareness of the layers of protection in your system - the ways that you might defend, sabotage, and push away. Said differently, we will refine the awareness of the ways that you might defend yourself from real and imagined threats.  Also understanding your partner’s defensive strategies, and how they interact with yours.

Bringing Awareness to the subtle, subconscious agendas you engage in when out of touch with your capacity to Self Resource. The ways you might try to get your cup filled externally. Deepening your capacity to meet with compassion and discrimination the parts of your partner’s that are subtly, or not so subtly, and trying to get you to fill their cup.

Navigating Conflict with Love – Learning how to stay open and grounded in the face of triggers, expressing boundaries with clarity, and repairing disconnection when it arises.

Somatic & Energetic Awareness – Understanding how your body, breath, and nervous system shape your experience of connection.

The Art of Deep Listening – Cultivate the ability to listen beyond words—to energy, emotions, and what is left unsaid. Learn to create a felt sense of safety in your interactions.

The Sacred Gift of Being Heard – Experience the profound healing of feeling truly received, understood, and met in your authenticity.

We will play with autonomy and connection, freedom and security, and we will explore strategies to strengthen, and soften, your boundaries in a way that supports this living unfolding.

This is not just a theoretical workshop—it is a deeply experiential journey where you will practice these skills in real time, within a safe and supportive container of like-hearted individuals.

The How

All of this will be achieved through deep listening, learning to be truly curious about our own truth and that of our our partner. As we listen to ourselves we first meet the layers of protection: the voices that seek to protect us. As we continue listening, we may meet the wounded places within that are crying out for holding, for love, for seeing. As we keep listening, the deep wisdom within emerges.

This same depth of listening can help us to experience clarity about our partners, and receive their wisdom, allowing us to let go of our stories of who they are, or who we need them to be.

The natural outcome of this work is the acceleration of the process of individuation – a flowering of the individual’s soul with its unique capacities and gifts, while resting in an experience of wholeness. From here we can relate to others from a place of abundance, generosity and security, rather than from any place of need.

The Why

Listening is Love is more than just a relationship workshop—it is an invitation into a new way of living relationship. When we learn to listen with presence, we transform not only our connections but also the world around us.

Most of us were not taught how to listen in a way that creates true intimacy, healing, and trust. Instead, we inherited patterns of:
Talking over others, invalidating their feelings or waiting for our turn to speak rather than receiving.
Shutting down, withdrawing, or avoiding difficult conversations when discomfort arises.
Trying to fix, analyze, or “help” instead of truly witnessing and holding space.

But what if there is another way?

This workshop offers a new paradigm: Listening as Love. When we learn how to be present with another—without judgment, agenda, or the need to respond—we become vessels of healing, truth, and deeper intimacy.

The Who

This workshop is open to all individuals, regardless of relationship status, gender, ethnicity, creed, experience level, etc. The only prerequisite is a willingness to explore, feel, and grow. Whether you are currently in single, or involved in an intimate relationship of any structure, join us to learn the tools and techniques on offer, which can work through the layers of wounding, all the way down to the *core* where we discover Essence – the True Healer. What’s more, by understanding our own needs for healing, we learn how to support our partner in their healing journey as well.

Expect this workshop to be uncomfortable at times, challenging and deepening your understanding of consciousness, your Self and your relationships. This will be accomplished through Self-exploratory exercises and meditations, working with our own and our partner's deep conditioning held in the subconscious mind & body. There will be a mix of lecture and exercise, seriousness and levity, expansion and contraction, laughter and perhaps tears, all leading to transformation.

Join Us—Reserve Your Spot Today!

This is an intimate, small-group experience, and space is limited.

If you feel called to deepen your capacity for presence, love, and conscious relating, we invite you to take this journey with us and take the first step toward more attuned, loving, and transformative relationships.

This workshop will be largely experiential, and will include Group, Partner and Solo exercises. Join us if you are interested in:

  • Our Subconscious Relationship Blueprint
  • The Subconscious agenda
  • Uncovering your Personal Relationship Patterns
  • How our Sub-personalities Interact with our Partners'
  • Core Wounding
  • How to Fill your Own Cup
  • Projection & Transference
  • The 4 Phases of Relationship
  • Building the Capacity to Hold Emotional Energy
  • Deep Listening in the Midst of Conflict
  • Strong Yet Flexible Boundaries
  • Repair After Rupture
  • Individuation
  • Presence Filled Sexuality
  • Relationships as Spiritual Path

The Energy Exchange

TO BOOK YOUR TICKET:
To purchase your ticket and reserve your space please send payment along with your name(s) and contact information through Venmo (which is free to setup and use) to amitayus.syzygy@gmail.com

Tickets are offered on a sliding scale. You are invited to choose which of these fits your situation, with no questions asked.

PAY IT FORWARD RATE:
Individual: 500$
Couples/Bring-a-friend discount: 900$ (450$ each)

STANDARD RATE:
Individual: 400$
Couples/Bring-a-friend discount: 700$ (350$ each)

GRACE RATE:
Individual: 300$
Couples/Bring-a-friend discount: 500$ (250$ each)

Note: If the Grace Rate is not possible for you, please reach out and we can discuss work trade, and other discount possibilities.

TO BOOK YOUR TICKET:
To purchase your ticket and reserve your space please send payment along with your name(s) and contact information through Venmo (which is free to setup and use) to amitayus.syzygy@gmail.com

“Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.”
— L. J. Isham
“Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh

Your Guides on this Journey

Amitayus is a Yoga Teacher, as well as a Trauma-Informed, Somatic and Transpersonal Psychotherapist.  He began his Inner Journey 33 years ago and now specialises in IFS Therapy with a particular focus on Relationships, Grief, Trauma and Self Realisation.  He holds as his guiding value the belief that the path of healing and the spiritual path are one and the same.

Elica has been working as a Depth Psychotherapist for the past 14 years and has been on the Inner Journey for 30 years.  She specialises in IFS Therapy.  The Self and bringing spiritual insight into the therapy room.  This can result in whole soul healing and the unfolding and fulfillment of a full, real life

 

Below are the experiences of people who have worked with them in the past.

"Infinite gratitude for making such a beautiful event. The synergistic effect of your presence, the environment, the group of people, the topics, and the group-bonding activities worked wonders at creating a temporary haven where people were able to feel comfortable, connect with others, share with authenticity, and to ultimately feel less lonely in this increasingly individualistic ego-centered world. The happy tears seen a few times throughout the weekend gave testament to the powerful and positive feelings that many people were experiencing." ~ Paul in Seoul

“I want to share with you once again, that I am still applying the teachings from the relationship workshop. I am also sharing some of these insights with friends and it REALLY helps their relationships. I could not have done this without you. I am infinitely grateful to the teachings and to your guidance. Utterly life changing!!” ~ Daan in Thailand

“As an individual who hosts transformational workshop based festivals and who has personally attended 100's of transformation workshops, retreats and events. I can confidently promote Amitayus as being one of my favourite teachers and most competent and engaging workshop facilitators.

Amitayus has a honed ability to create safe, powerful and transformative containers. He is masterful at curating potent and engaging exercises to help you have an experiential and embodied experience of your own truth. He is highly skilled at  translating and communicating complex spiritual and psychological concepts so they are understood, remembered and easily applied. 

If you have the opportunity to experience his work, I strongly recommend you do.  My life and the richness of my life experience has undoubtedly been enhanced through my connection with Amitayus and for that I have immense gratitude." -Lauren, from Melbourne, Founder of Seven Sisters Festival