Is your relationship blocked or blissful? If you need a clear-cut path back to your partner -- or to yourself -- Greta Hassel's energetic, enlightening presentations are for you. A Marriage and Family Therapist who specializes in Sacred Sexuality, Greta has worked with hundreds of clients to heal and improve their relationships. Her breakthrough talks will give you the key to the chemistry of love and help you awaken new ecstatic states of being. "I shift people from gridlock and disillusionment into trust, joy, and the fulfillment," says Greta, who created "The Essence of Love: The Journey from Attraction to Ecstasy" for couples who want to deepen and heal their relationship.

Greta's dynamic talks on relationship and sacred sexuality show how to isolate the "core negative cycle" in your relationship and shift your attention to establishing emotional safety and trust. You'll learn how to tap the power of your natural sexuality, or life force, and release it to nourish, energize and heal as she guides you in simple breath, sound and movement techniques that dissolve body armor and holding patterns. These easy exercises allow you to experience the flow of subtle and sexual energies for physical rejuvenation, emotional fulfillment, and extended pleasure. "Once the new dance of heartfelt connection has been choreographed and awakened," says Greta, "access to deep caring, empathy, confiding and sexual pleasure is restored and expanded."

Greta also speaks on recovery from addiction. Having served on staff at a prominent Malibu recovery center, she has worked with hundreds of clients worldwide to successfully heal and achieve sobriety. Greta’s message that freedom from dependency is possible, and that chemically dependent people are not morally weak, offers help and hope. "Breakthrough research has determined that the brain of the addicted individual functions differently from the brain of someone who's not dependent on psychoactive substances," she says. You'll learn a new approach to addiction based on respect, care and treating the whole person -- biologically, mentally, emotionally, physically, socially and spiritually. "In this way," says Greta, "suffering and heartache can be transformed into a life of freedom, purpose and sparkling aliveness."

You'll leave Greta's inspiring talks with newfound passion and purpose, able to identify hidden obstacles that prevent you from finding your life's purpose and reaching your full potential. And you'll gain a newfound awareness of how the inner world creates the outer world, and how to align yourself with the courage, passion and focus it takes to create your most heartfelt dreams.

Presentations include:

The Essence of Love: A Map of the Journey from Attraction to Ecstasy
(for couples)
Discover the 7 Stages of Loving, from chemistry and attraction through the inevitable disillusionments, and, most importantly, how to recover, heal, and let your love rise to dance fully in the energies of Eros and ecstasy.

Breakthrough from Disillusioned to Delighted!
Identify the core negative dance that, like a black hole, pulls even good memories and experiences into it. You'll learn how to avoid this trap and instead choreograph positive dance steps that allow the fresh energies of trust, empathy and connection to be restored. This is foundation for jump starting your relationship back to its original glow or cultivating the principles of sacred sexuality to cultivate and sustain fulfillment for a lifetime of radiant joy.

Sacred Rites of Passage: From Wound to Wonder
The story of how a single grain of sand becomes a white pearl of transformation. Sacred Rites is a participatory ritual for women and men created from The Hero or Heroine’s Journey as crafted by Joseph Campbell. This myth is lived out by the man or woman who has battled past or creatively engaged their limitations to follow an inner calling and bring forth that which was never beheld before.

Addiction-Free and Loving Life (weekly teleconference call)
Weekly support for your concerns and questions about addiction and recovery, plus a time to share your personal experiences. Explore the neurobiology of addiction, nutrition and mindfulness. Identify triggers and gain coping skills and motivation for optimal well-being.

A therapist with over 20 years' experience, and a former staff member of a prominent Malibu recovery center, Greta Hassel, MFT, is committed to empowering you to overcome difficult challenges. She holds Master’s degrees in both Psychology and Divinity and specializes in treating relational and neurobiological aspects of stress, intimacy and dependency. Greta served as Director of Clinical Training at The La Vie Center in Pasadena and is President of Essence, Inc., which explores the role of the personality as a translucent window to the Divine Life within.

Her training includes the Enneagram, (Russ Hudson), Rumi and Hafiz’s poetry, Kabbalah, Joseph Campbell, Wisdom traditions in East and West, and Sacred Sexuality. Greta created a seven-stage model, "The Essence of Love: A Map of the Journey from Attraction to Ecstasy" for couples, and is a published writer. She's a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapy and the Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce in Pasadena. Greta sees clients in her Santa Monica office.