Product Details

• Directors: Jamie Morgan
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Alive Mind
• DVD Release Date: February 10, 2009
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001JQHT6M
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #121,180 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Workshop" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

In a wooded glade somewhere near San Francisco, THE WORKSHOP challenges the rules of modern society by pushing all boundaries of normal convention – especially the sexual ones. A group of people agree to take part in a 10-day workshop led by spiritual leader Paul Lowe in their search for a higher personal truth. On day one they are told to introduce themselves and meet everyone else – completely naked! Searing emotional honesty, full nudity, experiments in sexuality and the exorcising of inner demons are the hallmarks of this groundbreaking and provocative documentary.

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars less than meets the eye, April 18, 2009

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tamiii "tamiii" (San Juan Capistrano, Ca. United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Workshop (DVD)

You have to be from the seventies to really appreciate this film. It is hard to believe but we used to think this way. Paul, the guru, appears to be a genuinely kind man--sensitive enough not to push people when they don't need pushing but strong enough to say when enough is enough. Nevertheless, you must be kind when viewing this self-indulgent flick. Here, are people stripped (quite literally) and trying to cope with what turns out to be their own deamons. Nevertheless, these straight people reach their limits--and while there is one gay fellow exploring his world--in the end, their limits are, well, limited--which is to say, it is kind of a chick flick which some may find daring and others, well, interesting.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars NEW DOCUMENTARY CHARTS A COURSE FOR SELF-DISCOVERY, February 6, 2009

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Thom Browning (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Workshop (DVD)

Few films take on issues of sexuality and personal growth with as much integrity and clarity as Jamie Morgan's THE WORKSHOP. A work of such honesty is a rarity in the world of documentary.

Morgan adopts a confessional and intimate tone that allows viewers to get deeply inside the minds and souls of the participants of the titular workshop. Spanning the course of a ten-day program in self-discovery, the film provides us with close-up portraits of a set of diverse characters, all of whom stand both literally and metaphorically naked before the camera.

If you have ever considered where your own boundaries lie, or if you have ever been curious as to what desires and fears hide within you, this film will provoke you to consider those questions with greater insight. Beyond the implications of the subject matter, the sheer sincerity of the execution makes THE WORKSHOP a film well worth owning.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars My pussycat went and came back a linx, August 1, 2011

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SeaGoat under Sirius "911=Laws of Physics AWOL" (London) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Workshop (DVD)

Not bad
though not the greatest example of
a personal development (PD) camp workshop-seminar retreat
BUT
compared to anything on TV,
especially on Sky or Fox TV,
it's a blockbuster must-see!

Alas, this particular PD camp is just too 'mental'.
There is nothing at all spiritual,
or personal energy educational about this, though, as an insight into things you probably knew nothing about, a real eye-opener.

There is a group in Norway called "Aruna",
who do this kind of thing,
but a million times better - with spirituality (non-denominational!),
with education about personal energy fields - and support after stripping people of their egos!
These things Paul, the guru & 'star' of this docu, fail to give.
Paul is no doubt a very intelligent chap and he may well be a very balanced person but he strips people of their clothes, tells them to be themselves, in the here and now, then gives them no introduction to personal energy work, nor help with psychic self-defence, which, quite honestly, you need after being exposed within such a radical arena, with ever-present & ever-ready resident psychic vampires. Neither is there any spiritual development (whether that's an introduction to chakras, kundalini, qi gong, zen, et al, or something more involved); nor any protection against how suddenly stripping away ones inhibitions and programming may leave many very lost souls very angry or depressed ... or prone to sexual predators.
Lost sheep becoming lost wolves, in many cases. Though many do far better!
This film is not meant to be about sex though there are orgy and menage-a-trois scenes and more full frontal nudity than you get in "Shortbus", including ... quite frankly, more humanity
(and more exhibitionism!)

In summary, this is an insight into the kind of place where you can find yourself transformed for the better - for the much better - or for the orgy-wasteland worse.