TRUSTING YOURSELF IN LOVE
For women who long to love deeply without losing themselves
4-week live-online experience for women
with Martina Hughes
Trusting Yourself in Love
For women who long to love deeply without losing themselves
4-week live-online experience
The women I work with are strong, capable and independent. They trust themselves to make decisions, navigate challenges and find their way through the many complexities of life.
And yet, when it comes to intimate relationship, she questions herself.
Can I be all of who I am here? Can I reveal my deepest thoughts and feelings?
Her attention shifts outwards. What does the other person want or need?
Perhaps, if she meets his feelings and needs first, she will feel safe to share her own.
Her attention remains on him, watching, waiting and anticipating his response. As she waits for some sign from him, her body tightens. The bracing is here. She’s become armoured in the waiting.
Reaching out energetically, to see what parts of her are welcome here.
Testing the water to see how he may respond to her feelings, her needs, and her desires.
But underneath the bracing, she’s lost the thread that connects her to life and vitality in the moment.
Keeping her life force on hold.
She filters her inner world through what she senses may be welcome here. Measuring how much she reveals to him.
Hoping he will give her the permission to open more fully.
Without pausing to give herself that permission.
And in that space, she misses out on meeting herself more fully in the container of relationship.
This is why I created the upcoming 4 week live online program, Trusting Yourself in Love. It’s for women, both single and partnered, who have wondered,
“How can I open my heart to love again?”
“How can I love deeply without losing myself?”
Starts Saturday 19th September via Zoom.
Scroll down for further logistical details.
Yes please!"My biggest realisation was that I (and all women) have a
phenomenal amount of inner wisdom
we just need to know how to access and recognise it"
Nathalie
Women often leave feeling...
"Letting go of fear, and falling into trust and faith."
"A powerful container for healing."
"Being discerning with my energy and where I want to place it."
Who is "Trusting Yourself in Love" for?
Women who:
- Trust themselves in many areas of life, but question their feelings, needs or choices in intimate relationship
- Read the room, watching another person’s responses or anticipating what they may need
- Adapt themselves or manage another person’s feelings in order to maintain connection
- Struggle to stay connected to themselves when faced with conflict, anger, disappointment or uncertainty
- Long to express their feelings, needs and desires more openly
- Are single and want to enter future relationships without losing themselves
- Are partnered and long to experience greater openness, intimacy and trust while remaining connected to themselves
Over our 4 weeks together, you will be invited to explore:
Recognising when your attention leaves you
Becoming more aware of the moments you begin reading the room, anticipating another person’s response or adjusting yourself to maintain connection.
Staying with yourself in emotional intensity
Learning to breathe into strong emotions as they rise, noticing the urge to run, placate, manage or fight, while remaining curious about what is happening within you.
Listening to the deeper wisdom of your body
Learning to discern between familiar habit patterns and the deeper response arising within you. Giving permission to acknowledge all of your feelings, needs and desires, without needing to act on everything that arises.
Receiving without immediately giving yourself away
Exploring what happens in your body when love, affection, kindness or pleasure comes towards you. Opening to receive without immediate reciprocity.
Leaning back into the spine when it matters most
Trusting your yes, your no and your desire as they arise. Being present to subtle shifts in your body and the relational field.
Meeting the moment in intimate relationship with an open heart
Exploring what it means to love deeply while remaining connected to yourself, even in moments of uncertainty, difference, disappointment or emotional intensity.
You will receive:
- 4 x 2-hour live online experiences
- Embodiment practices and reflections between sessions
- A private WhatsApp group for connection and gentle support throughout our 4 weeks together
- The opportunity to connect and journey alongside other women in an honest and supportive space
Logistical details:
- Time: Saturday mornings, 9am to 11am, AEST.
- Dates: 19th September, 26th September, 3rd October, 10th October.
- Location: Zoom
- All sessions will be recorded and shared with everyone registered for the event, so you are welcome to attend live or participate in your own time.
- Investment: $177 AUD paid in full or 2 x $95 AUD payment plan.
- Intimacy Oasis members: see Community Sanctuary for your discount code to access the special member rate of $44 AUD.
What if intimate relationship is not only a place to meet another, but a place to meet more of yourself?
"One of my greatest takeaways was learning how to stay connected to my body through simple, doable activities that don’t feel overwhelming. It was empowering to realise that embodiment doesn’t have to be complicated — it can be gentle and accessible."
L.E.
Yes please, I'm ready!
About Martina:
My work and my life have been a continuing exploration of love, intimacy, relationship and what it means to remain deeply connected to ourselves while meeting another person.
My own relationships have been some of my greatest places of learning. I have experienced profound love, intimacy and connection, alongside moments of uncertainty, challenge and disconnection.
Through these experiences, I have discovered that intimacy isn't created by getting everything right. It deepens through our willingness to remain present, to feel what is arising, to listen to the wisdom of our bodies and to have the conversations that matter.
I don't hold myself up as an example of a perfect relationship. I am a woman continuing to learn about love, intimacy, trust and what it means to meet another person fully.
For more than two decades, I have worked with women, men and couples, supporting them to explore their relationships, inner worlds and the patterns that can arise when love and intimacy matter deeply.
"I released a lot of holding in my womb area, I could breathe deeper, I moved through grief. I became more aware of patterns of perfection that do not serve me, and I could feel an opening of what could be."
Marina.
"I was able to access deep love for myself. It felt wonderful to feel love and connection for self."
Jane
"I have benefited greatly from the many beautiful and sacred practices Martina has shared with me and I have had so many revelations and aha moments."
Shelley
"My greatest insight was using embodied practices to welcome the gifts of becoming a wise woman."
Sandrine
