About Rod & Martina

Our Vision

At Intimacy Oasis, we - Martina Hughes and Rod Gordon - walk beside those who long for deeper love, meaningful connection, and more profound intimacy.

We’ve each spent decades exploring the inner terrain of sacred intimacy, emotional healing, and conscious relationship.
Our paths have been shaped by our own lived experiences: years of personal transformation, professional study, and deep listening to the relational dynamics between women and men.

Martina comes from a background as a financial controller and went on to become a pioneer in the sacred sexuality space, guiding thousands through the landscapes of intimacy, shadow, and embodiment.
Rod brings 30 years of holding space as a hairdresser - where he quietly learned the art of deep presence, active listening, and the sacredness of being seen.

Their work now weaves Alpha & Omega embodiment, meditation, and somatic attunement.

Together, they offer mentoring, retreats, and one-on-one spaces for singles and couples - not to fix, but to remember.

Their work invites you into the possibility that relationship can be a path of awakening.
Not through performance.
Not through striving.
But through presence.
Through softness.
Through love as a living practice.

We hold a simple vision:

That love can unfold gently, even through life’s deepest challenges.

Intimate relationships carry the power to awaken, heal, and allow what was once closed to soften and gently open.

But few of us were ever shown how to meet one another with true presence, deep listening, and embodied love. Most of us were never taught how to stay open in the moments we want to close. How to speak when we want to hide, or how to listen when we feel overwhelmed.

In this space we walk beside you, we offer gentle, grounded guidance through loving presence, not as experts fixing what is broken, but as guides opening you to the possibilities unseen or unknown.

Together, we hold the possibility of discovering a new way of relating - where both partners grow spiritually, emotionally, and sexually through love and trust.

Here, you are not alone.

Around this work, a living community has gathered - people are learning to love more openly, navigate challenges with grace, and deepen into true intimacy.

When two people meet each other with openness, willingness, and care, love becomes a living practice - one that grows stronger with each breath, each conversation, one moment at a time.

If this feels like what your heart is quietly seeking, or you’re curious to explore this way of being, you’re invited to walk the path of sacred intimacy - where love becomes the teacher, and intimacy becomes the way.

About Martina

"It is possible..."

I have known both the deep fulfillment and the painful ache that relationships can bring.

So often, we carry the belief that intimacy should just happen - that love, once found, will somehow take care of itself.

But while we are wired for connection, most of us carry patterns that quietly pull us away from the intimacy we long for.

I've walked through the places where I didn’t know how to communicate, didn’t know how to stay open, and didn’t understand how to create the closeness my heart longed for.

I know how it feels to not be fully seen, heard, or met.
To feel the quiet ache of disconnection, even in relationship.
And to wonder if the kind of love I sensed was possible even existed.

Through over 20 years of personal exploration and professional work, I’ve come to know:

It is possible.

There is a way to meet ourselves and each other with tenderness.
To build intimacy that grows, transforms, and deepens over time.
To walk together in sacred union - where both people feel truly met.

My work is dedicated to holding space for women and men to gently open into this new way of relating - one rooted in presence, trust, and love.

With love,
Martina

Martina's Professional Journey

Martina Hughes has spent over two decades walking the path of sacred sexuality, supporting others to awaken through love.

Her journey began far from where she is now - from a structured corporate career as a Financial Controller, into years of deep study across yoga, meditation, breathwork, rebirthing, energetic healing, food as medicine, shiatsu, tantra, and emotional transformation work.

Since 2005, Martina has been a pioneer in sacred sexuality and intimacy in Australia and internationally. She has guided thousands of men and women through retreats, events, and mentoring spaces designed to open the body, the heart, and the soul to new ways of being in relationship.

As founder of Tantric Blossoming, she created powerful events such as Tantric Nights, Blossoming Woman, Being Man, Walking on the Edge, and Integrating the Shadow - experiences that reshaped the landscape of intimacy work in Australia.

Over time, Martina felt called to move beyond the neo-tantra framework, listening closely to the deeper integrity that her path required. This transition marked the beginning of a new chapter - one rooted in love, trust, and devotion.

Today, Martina co-creates with her husband Rod Gordon through Intimacy Oasis, a sacred space where singles and couples can experience what becomes possible when sacred intimacy becomes a way of life.

Together, they guide individuals and couples through embodied processes that transform relationship pain into lasting love - not through performance or fixing, but through awareness, sensitivity, and deep listening.

Their work offers a living invitation:
To relate from the deepest part of you.
To grow spiritually and sexually.
To let love become the path itself.

About Rod

"There Is Another Way To Be A Man In The World"

For much of my life, I carried a quiet sense of not fitting in.

The cultural idea of what it meant to be a man never sat easily with me - the roles, the pressure, the performance. Even when I did everything I was taught to do, a quiet hollow feeling remained.

I did all the things I was taught and told I was supposed to do, and yet a deeper longing remained - as though some part of me knew: there must be another way.

But I saw few examples.

I didn’t want to conform to the old, hardened models of masculinity. But I also didn’t resonate with the newer ones - they still didn’t feel fully true.

So I searched. I travelled. I questioned. I studied, I practiced, and slowly I opened into something new.

What I discovered is this:
There is another way to be a man.
A way that holds strength without armoring.
Presence without collapse.
Spiritual depth without losing grounded engagement with life.

This path became not just my own healing, but my calling.

Now, I guide others in finding their own way - supporting you to meet old wounds with love, to build intimacy with skill, and to awaken into love’s deeper current.

You can be deeply spiritual, fully alive, profoundly intimate, and fully engaged with the world. You do not need to be a monk in a cave to heal & awaken.

This path is not about becoming someone else.
It’s about returning to what has always been waiting within you.

With love,
Rod..

Rod's Professional Journey

Rod Gordon holds space with deep presence and loving awareness - guiding others into the versions of themselves they’ve long intuited, but perhaps never believed were truly possible.

He is a practitioner of Sacred Intimacy, emotional healing, Alpha & Omega embodiment, and relational meditation - working with individuals and couples who are ready to meet themselves and each other more fully.

Rod brings to his work an unexpected and powerful foundation:
Three decades as a hairdresser.
In those years of daily connection, Rod discovered his natural capacity to listen, to hold space, and to meet people’s vulnerability with care.
What began as a love of helping women feel beautiful became something deeper - a devotion to presence, to understanding, to the unspoken language that flows beneath words.

That same devotion now shapes his work in intimacy.

Rod meets people where they are — gently, honestly, without judgement.
His rare ability to see what’s unspoken and to call forward deeper awareness makes him a powerful companion for transformation.

He continues to deepen his practice through ongoing study with global leaders in the fields of sacred intimacy, consciousness, and emotional integration - always returning to the core truth that presence is the greatest teacher.

Rod now co-creates Intimacy Oasis with his wife Martina Hughes, guiding others into intimate partnership as a path of awakening — where truth, love, and embodiment become one lived reality.

Listen to the Podcast About Our Journey...

Awakening Through Love

Rod Gordon & Martina Hughes guide you to a deeper understanding of how to awaken spiritually and sexually alongside your intimate partner.

The podcast also includes a 5 part series on both Rod and Martina's personal journeys that many people find incredibly helpful.

Start Listening...

Our Adventures

Rod and I go on 'adventure days' regularly. These days can include going to new places, walking in the bush or on the beach, 4WDing, motorbike rides, catching fish in the ocean, or discovering new cafes. We both enjoy being spontaneous and having new experiences together.

Our Wedding

On Saturday 6th November, 2021, at Little Bay, NSW, we celebrated our love with indigenous ceremony and sharing of personal vows.

The land and the ocean held us with our celebrant's loving guidance, and we were witnessed by friends, family, and wildlife.

So many things did not go to plan on the way to our wedding. However, we took it as another opportunity to trust, trust, and trust some more.

Looking at the photos reminds me how love filled, intentional and connected each and every moment of the day was.

There is a sense of something in me having been deeply and profoundly transformed through the ceremony and rituals of our wedding day.. even though I can't put into words what it is.

There's simply a feeling of more love, more trust, more depth, more magic, more presence, more commitment and more, more, more...

Our Home

We both love living near nature, and one of the reasons we chose our home is because we have a beautiful reserve full of magnificent trees behind us. Since we moved in here in December 2020, we have been expanding our gardens - adding new soil, nutrients, new trees and flowers, and creating a veggie garden. It's so fulfilling to watch vegetables grow and to walk outside to pick vegetables for our meals.

We love creating spaces that feel intentional, nourishing and beautiful. Rod is a big fan of a project - so we have been doing house and garden projects to beautify our home as well as giving us the working and meditation spaces that support us in our inner and outer journeys.

With these projects Rod leads the way and does a lot of the heavy work, and I am the happy labourer following his instructions.

We consider our home to be a cocoon - a space that is functional, inspiring and supportive of transformation.

One of our favourite parts about living here is that we have visits from kangaroos, kookaburras, rosellas, turtles, and frogs.

It is important for us to live near the beach for ease of beach walks and ocean fishing! Nature is a constant teacher to us, showing us more of our own nature, and the nature of humanity.