Faculty Member

Elfi Dillon-Shaw

Elfi Dillon-Shaw DipC is a massage practitioner, bodyworker and educator with 20 years’ experience fostering experiences of pleasure and well-being. She teaches programs on sexuality, body practices and stress management, including Sexual Intelligence, Stirring the Cauldron, and Eros and Intimacy (with her husband Gary Dillon). She has worked at The Haven since 1983.

Website: Heart Core Touch

Events with Elfi Dillon-Shaw

Sexual Intelligence
May 16 - 19, 2025

This is a dynamic Haven program that teaches erotic literacy for body, mind and heart  Do you experience anxiety, heartache, confusion or apathy connected with sexuality and relationships?  Do you want to learn erotic skills for enhanced arousal and orgasmic states as well as clarity, communication and connection?  This program teaches erotic literacy for body, mind and heart through surrendering to the ocean of erotic energy within. It demonstrates how we can steer our sexuality with erotic honesty in community and in our partnerships.  This program is for people of all genders and orientations who would like to:   Address and…

Women & Sexuality: Stirring the Cauldron
August 22 - 25, 2025

This 3 day program is for women of every age and lifestyle who want to taste the full energetic potential of their erotic body. Sexual energy flowing through the body allows for a more fulfilling erotic life, whether we are in relationship or not. The purpose of arousing this energy is to strengthen our Chi – life energy – for healing purposes, erotic autonomy, and just plain fun! In celebration together we will support each other to let go of old ways of living in our body Through exercises from the tantric and taoist traditions, we will experience the flow of sexual…

Sexual Intelligence
October 2 - 5, 2025

This is a dynamic Haven program that teaches erotic literacy for body, mind and heart  Do you experience anxiety, heartache, confusion or apathy connected with sexuality and relationships?  Do you want to learn erotic skills for enhanced arousal and orgasmic states as well as clarity, communication and connection?  This program teaches erotic literacy for body, mind and heart through surrendering to the ocean of erotic energy within. It demonstrates how we can steer our sexuality with erotic honesty in community and in our partnerships.  The program is for people of all genders and orientations who would like to:   Address and…