Comment from Kris Ang
There are a total of seven rituals for couples to practice and each ritual taught, brought us to a deeper level of understanding towards our spouse and as a group. Every experience touched us in more ways than one, and at the end of each practice every single soul in the room is able to connect at different levels…
Kris Ang, Private Member Organization, Malaysia
Comment from Dr. Rosemarie S. Monaco, Life Balance Coach and Chiropractor
If you want to improve your relationship, you can see a therapist for months on end, or you can ride on the nosecone of the Hedy and Yumi Schleifer rocket and accomplish the result in a weekend. You’ll be grateful for every minute and every dime you invest because the knowledge is long lasting and sure to be life altering.
Comment from Alice O’Rourke, Retired Educator
If you thought Tom Cruise was crazy in his enthusiasm about Katie Holmes, wait until you try this relational workshop and see your partner with “new eyes”!
Comment from Bruce M. Hyman, Psychotherapist
Hedy is the finest presenter I have ever seen. The chemistry with Yumi is inspiring and opens up for me a possibility for a relationship I had not known.
Comment from Laura Girardeau, Writer
Hedy and Yumi’s incredible warmth, humor, and intuition make their workshops move to the spiritual level. Their emphasis on the connection process as sacred ritual rather than just dialogue sparked a spiritual, magic fire that we can keep glowing at home.
Comment from Jeff Strobel, Arbonne International
When my wife and I went to lunch and were trying to talk about something using the “cross the bridge” technique, I started getting angry and thinking how this was ridiculous and didn’t work. But as lunch continued, we tried it a little more and I had the breakthrough that I was able to separate our relationship from the problem. Thank you!
Comment from Stephen Fairley, President, Today’s Leadership Coaching, Inc.
As an executive coach, this workshop sharpened my ability to impress upon company leaders how to build powerful, dynamic relationship. As a husband, it equipped me with insightful tools to take the relationship with my wife to a deeper level of intimacy. Thank you! Thank you!
Comment from Steve Kairis, Executive
We are not taught to successfully communicate with our spouses. This workshop provides an excellent method to create communication and growth as individuals and as a couple.
Comment from Sauda Garett, Life Coach
Although we were unlike the other workshop participants, the issues of couples are the same and transcend sexual preference, gender, race, class and age.
Comment from Renee Tucker, Teacher
After completing the workshop, we will now be able to show our small daughters what a loving relationship looks like.
Comment from Gil Blackburn, Business Owner
An eye-opening experience that allowed us to look at our relationship in ways we couldn’t before. Worth every minute of our time and every dollar. A great investment in ‘US’.
Comment from Dr. Cheri R. Hadley, Dept. of Chemistry, University of California
My husband and I had been working on our troubled marriage for a while. This three-day, wonderfully experiential workshop suddenly clarified for us the tools at our disposal and gave us a deep perspective on the purpose and potential of our relationship. My investment in our relationship shifted when I realized, after years of not believing so, that this marriage CAN be the nurturing, lively, fun primary relationship that I have wished for. A terrific bonus of this workshop is that you get to spend three days with two persons, a teacher-couple, who were struggling mightily and who, with steady determination and consciousness, molded a union that is truly inspirational.
Comment from Loren Eddelman, Johannesburg, South Africa
When I got engaged I knew I had a future, now I have a vehicle to ensure I get there.
Comment from David Steele, LMFT
Hedy and Yumi are unique – human, open, authentic, absolutely real. They put their heart and soul into connecting with every participant, combining their material with unconditional love, humor, and incredible wisdom, to provide a life changing experience that can’t be duplicated.
Comment from Ross Solomon, Johannesburg South Africa
Wow!! It seems like for the first time in my life I have managed to open my heart and not my head in a workshop. And it feels exciting, scary, tearful, joyous, rapturous and sore.
Comment from Haydee Rojac, Orlando
I did not think such a workshop existed; I have re-discovered love, fun, excitement within me. I have hopes and dreams of what can be. I leave with a bigger smile, a bigger heart and a newly discovered love for my partner and life in general.
Comment from Greg Lauber, Executive Consultant
The principles and rituals we learned in the workshop will be a part of our lives, and our family’s for a lifetime.
Comment from Enid Ponn, Attorney
This workshop was beyond magical, beyond miraculous. It was not only “relationship-saving”, it really felt “life-saving” emotionally and spiritually.
Comment from Layla DiMeola
The experience was more than I could have ever hoped for and brought so much life and completeness into what I thought was a lost cause at one point. And for giving us this gift, I thank Hedy with all my heart (because she truly IS a gift herself!).
Comment from Jennifer Steil, Artist, Spiritual Director
This has been a powerful holistic experience. I feel I have been guided into the sacred of relationship by spiritual masters. A great gift; a divine bless of God; a great healing.
Comment from Jim Lovewell, Engineering Manager
Hedy and Yumi bring the richness of their love for each other as living examples. I thank you for your humanity!
Comment from Barbara Fagan-Smith, CEO
Hedy and Yumi are a beautiful, living example of how sweet and rich relationships can be!
Comment from Mike Lewandowske, Pastor/President & CEO
Rarely are we given a gift that the whole world can benefit from, and (the workshop) is one of those gifts.
Comment from Tad Ferguson, Business Owner
If you are willing to keep your mind, heart, and being open during Hedy and Yumi’s workshop experience, you will be blessed with life fulfilling gifts to carry with you for the rest of your days.
Comment from Jan Friedle, Portfolio Manager
What does it mean to be alive? The first steps to answering that question are to be found in Hedy and Yumi’s workshop. Fantastic!
Comment from Howard Rock, Professor of History
A great exploration of self and of relationship with a magnificent sense of professionalism.
Comment from Chris Hundhausen, Professor
Fasten your seatbelt, and get ready for the ride of your life with your partner. You will learn new skills that will take you and your partner to uncharted lands of connection, growth, and communion.
Comment from D. Heartlife (Hearty), Earth Capades Environmental Vaudeville
Hedy and Yumi are authentic, dynamic and incredibly funny human beings. They make it a joyful experience to learn how to go deep into exploring, healing and celebrating our relationship.
Comment from Anne Dobbie, Life Coach
The Rolls-Royce of conscious loving.
Comment from Lisa Ahearn, Billing Consultant
I wish I had come last year! I feel confident that my husband and I can finally be connected and I will have the love/lover I’ve always wanted – and thought divorce might be the only way.
Comment from Clayton Heathcock, Emeritus Professor
Hedy and Yumi are an awesome example of a connected couple.
Comment from Atousa Hajshirmohammah, University Faculty Member
Your workshop opened my eyes & my heart to parts of me, my partner, and the rest of the world which I didn’t know existed.
Comment from Couple from Tampa, FL
We were at your retreat last weekend in Miami. I can’t begin to describe the impact you had on our relationship – we feel like we’re on our honeymoon, only 40 some years later. No longer in conflict, we do a “Bridge” every evening before dinner, no longer walking on eggshells. We’re a team again!
Touching, talking.
Thank you, thank you so much for your help and insight, and personal advise.
Comment from Cathy and Alan Rosenberg
My husband Alan and I did your workshop in Ft. lauderdale, FL in 1990?. My son was a baby and we were struggling with our relationship. Our weekend with you changed the course of our relationship.. showed us that we were our own teachers and the perfect pairing. We are so joyfully in love and laugh every day. My son is 16 and my daughter is 13. We thank you for your wisdom and for sharing it with us when we needed it so desperately.
You changed our lives forever and we always remember you with great admiration and fondness.
Comment from Lola and Greg Sendler
Dear Hedy and Yumi
You may not remember us, but I thought you would appreciate knowing how we are doing.
We “bridge” once or twice a week, and we have become practiced enough with this tool that we now have complete trust in the process; we have come to know that whatever needs to come to the surface will indeed come, even if we are not conscious of it when one of us invites the other to come over the bridge into their world. We also have experienced, time and time again, that there is nothing too great, or too small, for a bridge visit. Infrequently, when we have not crossed the bridge in the space of a week, we find ourselves longing for that special intimacy that a bridge crossing invariably renders.
Just yesterday, a series of circumstances and casual choices led to a breaking point for Lola, who told me, quite emphatically, that we needed a bridge crossing. One year ago, a statement like that would have threatened me greatly, and my defenses would not have allowed any real communication to take place between us in this area of need. Now, one year later, I truly welcomed this as a heartfelt gesture of love and trust from my partner. As a visitor, there is no fear, because, no matter how deeply the surface issue may be connected to formidable and ancient wounds, I am being welcomed into some of the most secret and intimate corners of my partner’s life. And when I am the one inviting, I never cease to be moved on the deepest level of my being by the soft and open eyes of my visiting partner, looking right into my soul with only love and acceptance. Areas that once were terrifying and dangerous now become sacred meeting places. Areas that may have seemed long dead, chilled by resignation or even frozen with cynicism, now spring to life with unimagined possibilities. Space between us that was littered and clogged with emotional garbage, polluted with creeping toxicity, became clean and clear, open and safe. And into this newly open and clear space rushes compassion, tenderness, understanding, renewed attentiveness, and sometimes, even arousal!
After receiving all that Lola needed to share with me, it occurred to me that this bridge crossing was perhaps the most fitting way to mark and celebrate the first anniversary of our particular Intimacy workshop. We consider that workshop one of the best investments we have ever made! We both could thank you for the rest of our lives, and it would not be enough. We thank you not only for what you gave us, but for the great love you two demonstrated in conducting the workshop. You gave us all 100% of your presence. In our faith, there is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends; Hedy and Yumi, you laid down your lives for strangers. God bless you and your work for always!
Lola and Greg Sendler
Comment from Sharon Cappellazo
Hedy & Yumi Schleifer have been married for 42 years, she calls him her 18th husband very early on in the 3 day Adventure in Intimacy workshop. The “Adventure” is based in part on Imago Therapy developed by Harville Hendrix. I had a very powerful unexpected life changing ah ha experience during the workshop which Hedy gently guided my through. I think Hedy needs to be seen around the world and Oprah has the right forum for her. She is an illuminating exuberant force. You can feel her presence, always. Not only do they teach you how to be a better, partner, communicator, person etc. they show you and are living examples. Their workshop gives you the tools to have a successful and loving relationship. They create a safe positive atmosphere and teach you how to take it home. The world needs a dose of Hedy and Yumi. I could definitely see Oprah producing the Hedy and Yumi Show. I urge you to take the next step in researching this amazing couple; I promise you will have one of your best shows ever. My partner and I would be willing to answer any questions you may have.
Letter written to Oprah from Sharon Cappellazo after attending the workshop