What is Yu Renew?

We live each day through our senses--what we see, what we hear, what we smell, what we taste—and define our experiences on how they make us feel.  Yet the feeling to which we seem to pay the least attention is exactly that—feeling.  Sensation.  Touch.  We focus on our reports and listen for the kids and narrowly save the food from burning and all the while we stop listening to the needs of our own body; we put our feelings aside and let them build up for later.  We store up layer upon layer of deferred gratification, IOUs like carpets piled high in a Marakesh market, and have to grit our teeth and clench tighter and tighter and find prescriptions to hold in the stress that keeps straining to burst outward.  But in our sterile modern world, we insulate ourselves from the tactile paeans that are one of nature’s ways of defusing and diffusing tension.  We immerse ourselves in audiovisual modalities.  We have taken the third dimension out of life, extracted away the thickness to create the flat tabula of LEDs to make the video screens seem that much brighter and more powerful. We connect across miles, through the air, and so we are losing the ability to reach out and interact and really be present.  We have lost touch with the reality that touch is reality, in the most fundamental sense.

But Touch is also something deeper. When someone truly touches you, it is not on the surface; your entire being has been affected.  They have made a change in your Self. You are a different person than you were before.  Deep, spiritual, healing, restorative touch is something that transcends the physical connection and establishes a more primal, more essential communion.  It is immediate and urgent, yet at the same time transient and ephemeral.

Renew is an exploration of touch and sensation, of pressure and release.  It is an exercise in communication and collaboration, of mutual respect and appreciation. It is about creating a safe space for woman where she can feel completely at peace, completely safe to be exactly who she is and do whatever she wants.  It is about never being judged and always being celebrated.  It is about exploring the vast landscape and architecture of our magnificent senses, discovering a banquet and bouquet of sensation and delectation already tingling in anticipation just beneath the surface of our own bodies. In her place, where she is in control, a woman can find a place where her deepest tensions can be exorcised.

Renew seeks to integrate multiple disciplines to explore the uncharted frontiers of bliss—absolute joy in the moment, unbridled celebration of sensation and relaxation.  When a smile comes to her face and her eyes squeeze moist with emotion and she holds her breath in rapture at the Present, a woman can be truly Renewed. Moments of supreme energy. The birth of a baby.  The tender passion of a first kiss.  The moment of consummation.  Being part of the genesis of that kind of Beauty is indescribable.  It is the crescendo of a symphony, sunset on the savannah, the rush of descent down the slopes, sublime and perfect and unique and melodious.  The experience of healing through touch is the apogee of satisfaction and fulfillment.  Bringing heaven to someone, or someone to heaven, is an experience like no other.