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

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 Judi Spendelow, PsyD

This workshop has contributed immensely to my ability to connect with Michael, my beloved partner of 20 years plus. We continue to practice “Crossing the Bridge” regularly, and have in fact created our own sacred space in our living room for this practice. With much love to you, Hedy & Yumi!

Comment from Judi Spendelow, PsyD – Couple’s Counselor

I should add for the benefit of others that I have found the concepts, approach and skills offered through Adventures in Intimacy to be so powerful that “Crossing the Bridge” is becoming increasingly central to the work that I do with my own couples, as well as to my own connection with my partner. I can’t wait to receive additional training in Hedy’s Master Class to spread the word about this most deeply intimate way of connecting with one’s partner and healing one’s own wounds. Judi Spendelow, Denver, Colorado

Comment from Heather Reed

My partner and I loved the workshop. We were completely comfortable being in the company of Hedy and Yumi as an openly gay couple. We are able now to seek our visions and live harmoniously because of what was presented and what we observed from Hedy and Yumi. Thank you

Comment from Mark Boyd

My partner and I had life changing experience and we hope to continue applying what we learned.. Thank you Hedy and Yumi, you were both inspirational.

Comment from Nancy Coyne

Hedi and Yumi changed our lives in a profound way. I learned more in a weekend than in many years of psychotherapy. I am working up to 100 loving gestures a day.

Comment from Ilana Spodick

Hedy and Yumi’s Adventures in Intimacy workshop is were you want to be. My husband and I can already feel a shift in our relationship just having been to the workshop. We are starting to use some of the techniques and our relationship space is calmer. Now when we have an issue arise I feel hopeful about its resolution where as before I felt frustrated, stumped, and doubtful about my choice of partner. I always heard that you marry someone like your mother/father and that you choose a partner to heal your childhood, and this process really helped me ‘connect the dots’ with my past and see how it effects us in our communication. I learned a greater appreciation of where my partner is coming from and a deeper compassion for myself through our childhood experiences.
Both my husband and I have mother’s that are therapist, we have been to an Imago workshop before, and have done some couple counseling, though no other process has ‘cut to the chase’ with such immediate results. It melts away years of anxiety, fear, and apprehension surrounding relationships. All of a sudden it feels like we can do this and live ‘happily ever after.’

Ilana Spodick, Salem, MA

Comment from Kursner David

Mon épouse et moi venons de faire le stage Adventure in Intimacy pour la deuxième fois en compagnie de Hedy et Yumi. Ce fut une nouvelle fois une magnifique expérience, une ouverture du coeur vertigineuse! Un bonheur fou pour notre couple. Contagieux qui plus est, notamment pour nos trois enfants.
Grâce à Hedi et Yumi, je perçois le couple comme un lieu de guérison, et non plus comme un lieu de compromis. Un lieu de guérison non seulement pour soi, son partenaire, sa “lignée”, mais encore pour l’humanité entière. La profondeur et l’amour dégagés par cette simple présence offerte dans “le Pont” semblent faire s’ouvrir le Ciel et la Terre, s’arrêter le temps. Le présent comme un Temple sacré, offert dans l’amour du couple.
Ça paraît mystique, près été ainsi, mais tous ceux qui étaient présents ont pu le ressentir par eux-mêmes, même les plus sceptiques.
J’encourage donc quiconque tenté par l’aventure de s’y plonger, une fois dans son existence. Cela vaut tous les voyages.
David, Lausanne

Comment from Ali, UK

Hedy and Yumi are extraodinary, not only do they teach an amazing model, they model every bit of what they believe in in their own relationship. We have gained so much, the beautiful, gentle and caring relationship we now have is all down to ‘crossing the bridge’ its the most valuable ‘tool’ i and we have ever learned and it is helping us to develop and grow our understanding of one another in ways we never thought was possible. We help each other all the time, we laugh, we heal and listen and validate. Its beautiful and now we have also been lucky enough to be with Hedy & Yumi while they shared how to help other couples, we are already making a difference to mothers and daughters and partners and using the method in business too. Its the best few days we have spent and Hedy is one of the most amazing presenters I have ever had the pleasure to experience and learn from. Please go and spend some time with them, your lives will be forever enriched.
Ali, Derbyshire, UK

Comment from Michael Schneider

While I had to “drag” my partner to the event, he turned out to be the one most committed to the weekend and the relational change it proposed. It is not easy to really make change and become cognizent to one’s negative interpersonal dynamics. But the exercises help make it more palatable as the awareness and stretching certainly continue beyond the 3 days. One starts to look at a whole range of things differently, including how one spends one’s precious time (do we really want to exercise our cerebellum with this violent movie?). We now find ourselves laughing aloud when we catch eachother following old patterns (“admitting illegal aliens” into our communications for instance). We owed ourselves this focus on the health of our relationship not previously taken. The material could not have been better presented and extends to relationships beyond that with my partner.

Comment from Catherine & Marty McHugh

Our dream of quitting the power struggle and dropping the shit were transformed into a slice of paradise as we ‘crossed the bridge’ in the Art of Sexual Connection workshop! Elegant – sensual – holy – amazing!!