NEXT EXPERIENCE | JUNE 13, 2026
EPIC Intimacy Lab
EPIC = Erotic. Playful. Intimate. Creative.
A guided couples experience in embodied connection.
What If Intimacy Didn’t Require a Long Talk First?
Most couples don’t lose love.
They lose momentum.
You’re lying in bed next to each other.
You think about reaching for them… but you hesitate, unsure how it will land.
So instead, you both roll over.
And somewhere in the back of your mind you tell yourself, maybe tomorrow.
Over time, touch starts to feel familiar instead of electric.
Initiating begins to feel heavy, like there’s more at stake than there used to be.
The desire is still there.
But neither of you quite knows how to begin.
And the longer you wait, the harder it feels to bridge that space.
But what if you didn’t have to talk your way back into connection?
What if you could simply feel your way there?
INTRODUCING THE EPIC INTIMACY LAB
NEXT LEVEL CONNECTION
Erotic. Playful. Intimate. Creative.
A live guided intimacy practice, open to a limited number of guest couples.
Inside the Eden Sanctuary, we don’t assume connection. We practice it.
EPIC is one of the ways we do that.
For 90 minutes, you and your partner will be guided through structured, embodied exercises designed to help you:
- Break out of autopilot touch
- Reawaken anticipation and polarity
- Feel seen while staying physically connected
- Explore new pathways to desire in a grounded, contained way
You practice privately with each other fully guided by a seasoned intimacy expert, held in a sacred and safe container.
No spotlight on your relationship. No forced sharing. No performance pressure.
Just the two of you, led step-by-step, experiencing each other differently than you have in years.
WHY THIS WORKS
Desire changes over time. Most couples keep running patterns they created decades ago. EPIC gives you a guided on-ramp back in. Because long-term love doesn’t lose passion from incompatibility, it loses passion from lack of deliberate attention.
Erotic
Awakening desire and aliveness in the body. Devoted to igniting sexual love and desires, the Erotic quadrant centers on “arousal,” inviting you both to explore and play with the dynamic energies of heightened sensuality and desire.
Playful
Lightness, curiosity, and experimentation. Playfulness invites you and your beloved to reconnect through fun and light-heartedness, creating a joyful space with games, rituals, and guided exercises to explore sensual desires, deepen your connection, and celebrate your love and commitment in fresh, exciting ways.
Intimate
Emotional closeness and attunement. Intimacy is about deepening emotional and physical connection in a safe, distraction-free space where you can explore vulnerability, romantic love, and sexual closeness, fostering a more meaningful bond through presence, honor, and undivided attention.
Creative
Expanding how you connect and express. Bringing creative energy into your EPIC transforms imaginative ideas into reality, opening an inspirational space for deep conversations that shape the vision, life map, and mastermind plan of your Coupleship.
THIS EXPERIENCE IS FOR COUPLES WHO:
Are doing great and want more tools
Have been too busy to make time for physical connection
Want a safe path back into intimacy
Are willing to explore new ways to connect
Feel a plateau in their physical connection
Sense subtle distance and want to address it early
Are open to being guided instead of guessing
This is not for couples in active breakdown or separation.
It’s for couples who want to stay connected, curious, and growing.
Love this but cannot make it?
SAVE MY SPOT FOR THE NEXT ONEABOUT THE CONTAINER
The EPIC Intimacy Lab takes place inside Eden Sanctuary, a private membership association where relationships are practiced, not taken for granted.
Each month our community of couples gather in a curated, peer-level environment built for discretion, maturity, and real connection.
You’re not entering a public workshop.
This is not a webinar.
You’re stepping into a contained, intentional space.
Many couples who attend have been a part of our community for years.
JOIN THE UPCOMING EPIC INTIMACY LAB
Space is intentionally limited to preserve the quality of the container.
Both partners attend together.
Both partners participate privately.
You’ll receive full access details immediately upon registration.
If your physical intimacy has been sitting on the back burner, this is the moment to bring it forward.
Because chemistry doesn’t rebuild itself.
It responds to attention.
Reserve your place inside this EPIC Intimacy Lab.
Step in together.
Reconnect on purpose.
Discover new ways to feel physically close and connected.
This Month’s EPIC Intimacy Lab is all about…
CELEBRATE
For this EPIC Intimacy Lab, Jaye & Joe from Relationship Tripping will guide us into MORE THAN ROOMMATES. A guided intimacy practice for couples who love each other, but miss feeling fully alive together.
Most couples are not missing love.
They are missing access to the part of the relationship that feels alive, awake, intimate, and real.
For this EPIC Intimacy Lab, Jaye & Joe from Relationship Tripping will guide us into More Than Roommates, a couples practice for entering a more expanded state of presence, aliveness, and connection together.
This practice explores “the field,” that place many of us know in glimpses.
The moment when you feel more open.
More awake.
More connected to yourself, your partner, and life.
Inside this practice, you and your partner will explore how to drop into that field together, notice what pulls you out of it, and expand your capacity to stay present, alive, and connected beneath the busyness of everyday life.
This is a celebration of being alive as a couple.
Inside this EPIC Intimacy Lab, you’ll explore:
• How to access more presence and aliveness together
• What “the field” feels like in your body and relationship
• What habits or patterns pull you out of connection
• How to support each other in returning to presence
• How celebration can become a felt experience, not just an idea
Come practice the art of being fully alive, fully present, and fully with each other.
Intimacy Lab is from 5-6:30pm PT
Rono K Smith & Sierra Sullivan
Rono & Sierra are the founders of Eden Sanctuary and longtime partners in both life and leadership. What began as a friendship and creative collaboration evolved into romantic partnership and has now spanned decades of shared growth, business building, and devotion.
For over 15 years, they have designed private masterminds, immersive retreats, and curated relational experiences for couples who care deeply about their partnership. Their work centers on helping long-term couples deepen connection, refine intimacy, and stay engaged as life expands, careers grow, and responsibilities increase.
They bring structure, lived experience, and grounded leadership into the room, creating environments where couples can explore with maturity, respect, and intention, and keep their relationship as a power source rather than an afterthought.
Jaye Johnson & Joe Richman
Jaye: I am an award-winning journalist. My TED Talk, What We Don’t Teach Kids About Sex has been viewed nearly 4 million times. I love amplifying the stories of women and girls who have broken free of their good-girl conditioning to expand the margins of what is possible for the rest of us. I write about culture and pleasure at The Pleasure Report.
Joe: I am a long-time producer of public radio documentaries and podcasts that tell the extraordinary stories of ordinary lives. You can hear three decades of storytelling at RadioDiairies.org
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Couples Councils
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Exclusive Events & Retreats
Online and in-person experiences designed to fast-track breakthroughs in intimacy, vision, and connection.
Erotic. Playful. Intimate. Creative.
A live guided intimacy practice, open to a limited number of guest couples.
Inside the Eden Sanctuary, we don’t assume connection. We practice it.
EPIC is one of the ways we do that.
