Intimacy Bootcamp

Welcome to Intimacy Bootcamp Retreat for Couples!

Welcome to the Couples Intimacy Bootcamp Weekend for a Love-Changing experience that will create a lifetime of memories for you and your partner!

This is a very special weekend retreat that combines Dr. Ava Cadell’s Passion & Healing Power seminars, and Dr. Hernando Chaves’s Sexual Boundaries program for couples who want to reignite their intimacy and expand their sexual horizons. Plus special guests to be announced soon!

All rates are inclusive of workbooks, handouts, pleasure products and adult toys, refreshments and gourmet breakfast, lunch, high tea and dinner by Chef Jeff.

Your Pleasure Oasis Awaits at Shangri-La!

Enjoy paradise with your partner at Malibu’s magical Shangri-La, a romantic hideaway with unobstructed ocean views and a relaxing retreat surrounded by a beautiful Buddha Garden.

Accommodations are separate and Malibu has plenty of premier places to spend two romantic nights from beach front Hotels and breathtaking Airbnb’s to minimalist Motels.

Workshop Highlights Include

Create the Intimacy Your Desire!

For many couples, once you’ve spent time together, passion fades often due to a lack of intimacy, physically or emotionally. Your relationship can continue, but it won’t thrive unless you add intimate communication skills and excitement back into your love life.

The Intimacy Bootcamp can help to heal a hurt relationship; it can break down defensive walls, improve intimate communication and enrich a relationship that has lost its sizzle and spice. For women, it can empower and fulfill their sensual needs, for men it can open up a whole new world to intimacy and it can give them the tools to become multi-orgasmic. For couples it’s an opportunity to create a more meaningful and intimate connection. So, get ready to explore new sexual territory, expand your ideas about your relationship, intimacy and sex with experiential exercises such as Sexycises, Yin Yang Yoga for Intimacy and feeding each other seductively on a romantic picnic overlooking the ocean.

Lovers can stay connected on their journeys
to sexual fitness & satisfaction

The Intimacy Bootcamp Retreat for Couples is guaranteed to:

  • Improve your communication skills
  • Take your relationship to a higher level of intimacy
  • Increase the passion in your love life
  • And, improve the quality of your life together.

3-Day Couples Intimacy Bootcamp Retreat Schedule

Friday

  • 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm A private one-hour Counselling Session with Dr. Ava Cadell, or Dr. Hernando Chaves. Take this opportunity to ask our team of Sexperts questions about any relationship concerns, intimacy desires, wants, needs or fears you have that you want to resolve in our Couples Intimacy Bootcamp. We want to make sure that you get all your needs met for your own wellbeing mentally, emotionally, physically and sexually.
  • 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Cocktail Party to Meet and Greet Everyone.

Saturday

  • 8:45 am Arrive at Shangri-La to have breakfast with Dr. Ava Cadell, Dr. Hernando Chaves and special guests.
  • 9:45 am – 10:30 am TBA
  • 10:30 am – 11:00 am Meditation with Dr. Ava.
  • 11:00 am – 12:00 Noon
  • 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm TBA
  • 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Lunch Break
  • 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm TBA
  • 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm TBA
  • 4:30pm – 5:30 pm TBA
  • 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm TBA
  • 6:30 pm – Cocktails followed by dinner

Sunday

  • 8:45 am Arrive at Shangri-La to have breakfast with Dr. Ava Cadell,  Dr. Hernando Chaves and special guests.
  • 9:45 am – 10:30 am TBA
  • 10:30 am – 11:00 am Meditation with Dr. Ava.
  • 11:00 am – 12:00 Noon
  • 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm TBA
  • 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Lunch Break
  • 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm TBA
  • 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm TBA
  • 4:30pm – 5:30 pm TBA
  • 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm TBA
  • 6:30 pm – Cocktails followed by dinner
  • Closing Circle

Your Intimacy Team

Dr. Ava Cadell

Dr. Ava Cadell is a Clinical Sexologist and AASECT Certified Sex Counselor with Doctorates in Human Behavior and Human Sexuality. She was voted the first “Sexpert of the Year” in 2015 by the Sexual Health Expo and she has hosted her popular sexuality news and education blog www.Sexpert.com for over 20 years.

Dr. Ava is the author of eleven books including NeuroLoveology: The Power to Mindful Love and Sex, which was endorsed by Dr. John Gray, bestselling author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. Her latest book is on Healing from Loss & Abuse with Loving Solutions to Live Your Life to The Fullest, is also her latest multi-media 7-hour course for LoveUniv.com. You can download some of her books for FREE at https://www.avacadell.com/author/

Dr. Ava has written and narrated an instructional video series entitled, Dr. Ava’s Guides for Evolved Novelties and Zero Tolerance Entertainment.

Penthouse Magazine appointed Dr. Ava as their monthly sex columnist and engaged her to create a series of instructional courses on videos for them entitled, My Sex Academy. Provocative titles included, Sex Academy Erotic Massage for Couples, Masturbation, Sexual Positions, Swingers, Amazing Anal Sex and Ultimate Oral Sex.

As the Founder of Loveology University® Higher Learning and Loving in 2007, Dr. Ava has taken on the role of mentor to share her vast knowledge on love, romance, relationships, intimacy and human sexuality with motivated students who train to become Certified Love Coaches, Master Sexperts and Relationship Coaches. The curriculum at https://www.loveuniv.com/ is accredited by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists as well as the American College of Sexologists International. Dr. Ava’s mission is to promote the benefits of healthy love and sex and training students worldwide is one way to spread her positive message.

As a global speaker, Dr. Ava has traveled the world lecturing to Fortune 500 companies, conferences and healing retreats across the U.S., Europe, India, Asia, Australia, and Africa, bringing her message of sexual empowerment to the masses. She has also worked on behalf of such top pharmaceutical companies as Bayer, Amgen, and Wyeth, to help promote sexual health and wellness.

As a Media Therapist, Dr. Ava has appeared on a myriad of TV shows, from Good Morning America to Anderson Cooper 360, EXTRA and Geraldo at Large. She has also appeared in reality shows like, Gene Simmons Family Jewels and Kendra On Top, helping celebrities navigate their love lives. IFC producers of Gigi Does It cast Dr. Ava to play herself opposite renowned actors, David Krumholz and Ricky Mabe.

Many magazines have interviewed Dr. Ava’s, such as Marie Claire, Cosmo and Sexual Health Magazine, Women’s Health, Men’s Health, Brides, LA Parent, Redbook, Prevention, Glamour, Esquire, Self, Maxim, Huffington Post, Star, Globe, OK, National Enquirer and Us Weekly.

Through her private practice in Los Angeles, she counsels individuals and couples on personal issues including infidelity, orgasm barriers, performance problems, sexual compulsion, shame and guilt, parental concerns, power struggles, anger management, fear of intimacy, lack of communication and lack of desire. Dedicated to helping people overcome obstacles, Dr. Ava is passionate about the power of love and how it can improve the quality of life!

Dr. Hernando Chaves

Dr. Hernando Chaves holds a B.A. in Psychology from University of California Santa Barbara, a M.A. in Marital and Family Therapy from University of San Diego, and a D.H.S. Doctorate in Human Sexuality from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. He is a licensed marriage and family therapist in CA specializing in intimacy and relational difficulties, sexual concerns and dysfunctions, and sexual minority communities (LGBTQ+, BDSM, fetish, sex work, nonmonogamy).

Dr. Chaves is an MFT sexuality graduate school professor at Pepperdine University, a past regional president and Board of Directors member for the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, written/consulted for 14 instructional media sex education projects, including co-host for Penthouse’s Sex Academy instructional series and BaDoinkVR virtual reality sex therapy instructional video, and a contributing author to the International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality.

Chef Jeff Sundy

Jeffrey Sundy’s love of cooking began in Hotel Hospitality School in his native South Africa. As soon as Jeff graduated, he took the opportunity to see the world as a traveling chef by working in restaurants in Italy, France, Greek and Spain before coming to America. His passion for food led him to opening his own restaurants in Los Angeles, including a Brazilian night club, a bagel nosh diner and a picnic business in Malibu called Malibu Picnic Celebrations.

Now Jeff is offering gourmet meals at Shangri-La for Dr. Ava’s Couples Intimacy Bootcamp, which includes an elaborate breakfast buffet, romantic picnic lunch, high tea and delectable sunset dinner. You can let Jeff know about any dietary requirements, allergies, and intolerances in advance and he will gladly comply.

Chef Jeff’s beautiful picnic feast at Shangri-La!

Reignite Your Passions!

You don’t have to be a couple in crises to enjoy the benefits of this Couples Intimacy Bootcamp Retreat. Embarking on a retreat with your significant other is beneficial whether you are just dating, living together, having a long-distance relationship or you’ve been married for decades.

By spending quality time with each other in a unique setting led by experts in the field of love, relationships, romance, intimacy and sexuality, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain!

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Intimacy Agreement

Please sign Intimacy Agreement via Docusign:

https://na2.docusign.net/Signing/?ti=f01447dcad974669862af69e1489179b

Client understands that all Couples Intimacy Bootcamp Retreat classes are on social, romantic, relationship, intimacy, sexual health and pleasure issues.

Dr. Ava Cadell, Dr. Hernando Chaves and guests are not medical doctors and the services provided by them should not be construed in any manner as a substitute for consultation with a qualified medical professional to meet health or medical requirements.

In signing below, client acknowledges that Dr. Ava Cadell, Dr. Hernando Chaves, Kudos, Inc or Loveology University makes no representation or warranty of any outcome. In no event, shall they be liable for any compensatory, special, incidental, consequential, punitive, direct or indirect damages, or any other damages of any kind, whether in an action in contract or tort, or otherwise, arising out of or in any way connected with this service.

Couples must send proof of Covid test or vaccination to attend event.

If you have any questions, please, e-mail [email protected].

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*PLEASE NOTE: Tickets are limited to 10 couples only! Reserve your ticket early before they are sold out! EARLY BIRD PRICING IN EFFECT UNTIL DATE TBA! Early bird Tickets will be on sale from DATE TBA. Regular Tickets on sale at full price until DATE TBS, or until tickets are all sold.

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What’s Included?

Tickets include the admission to the event at Shangri-la Oasis: 1 ticket per couple, which includes all workshops, workbooks, handouts, pleasure products and adult toys, refreshments and gourmet breakfast, lunch, high tea and dinner by Chef Jeff. Couples will also get a private one-hour Counseling Session with Dr. Ava Cadell or Dr. Hernando Chaves.

Tickets DO NOT include accommodations. Malibu has plenty of premier places to spend two romantic nights from beach front Hotels and breathtaking Airbnb’s to minimalist Motels.

You can book your accommodations here: https://www.expedia.ca/Malibu-Hotels.d10217.Travel-Guide-Hotels

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  • Looking forward to meeting you at the retreat!
  • ~Dr. Ava Cadell