Classes
Sept 23 Klaus: Voice, Body, Music - Playfully explore your voice in new ways [Forest Love EB]
Playful & embodied explorations to facilitate more comfort using (more of) your voice in any situation. Solo, partner, group exercises. Expressing your needs, pleasures, and speaking up when it matters. Experience the magic of making music together with others... No prior experience needed! What you have is enough. Your voice is enough. You are enough.
Klaus’ somatic practices include contact & vocal improvisation. Part of why he practices improvisation is to cultivate curiosity over ambition, be with awkwardness, and find joy & playfulness in the moment; some days that works better than others. He is influenced by the work of many wonderful people such as Bobby McFerrin, Benoît Lachambre, Nita Little, Carmen Serber, and… his desk job. He likes having plenty of time & space to start slowly and hopes to be able to share some of his excitement for moving in alignment with the felt sense and curiously witnessing what emerges from that with you.
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klaus.neuhold@gmail.com
Oct 7 Victoria Angel Heart: Tap Into Freedom: Intro to The Emotional Freedom Technique For Sexual Liberation [Forest Love EB]
Tap Into Freedom is a transformational growth modality that harnesses the power of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) to unlock profound sexual wellness and personal growth from your body’s innate wisdom. Woven in are aspects of IFS, NLP, Hypnosis, Integral Psychedelic Therapy, and Tapping out of Trauma.
In this introductory experience, you will learn how we use EFT, or "tapping," to release emotional blockages, limiting beliefs, and unresolved traumas that may be impacting your sexual well-being. By stimulating specific meridian points while focusing on your unique challenges, we create powerful shifts in your energy and consciousness.
In a safe, nurturing space, you'll be guided through tapping sequences specifically designed to release sexual shame or guilt, and awaken your body's natural capacity for pleasure and intimacy.
This process often leads to profound sexual healing, allowing you to overcome blocks, heal from past traumas, and cultivate a deeper, more fulfilling connection with your own sexuality. Whether you're seeking freedom from sexual anxiety, past trauma, relationship patterns, or simply desiring deeper self-connection and sexual fulfillment, Tap Into Freedom coaching offers a pathway to profound healing, enhanced intimacy, and personal growth. When done in community, you experience the power of collective and transpersonal healing, too.
This intro experience is a taster for Victoria’s ongoing in-person, online and 1:1 containers. More information can be found here: https://www.victoriaangelheart.com/tap-into-freedomVictoria Angel Heart, M.Ed, CMT-P, is a passionate pleasure permissionary, dedicated to empowering folx to embrace intimacy within themselves, their relationships and with all of life. She’s the founder of Heart Integrative Healing and Tap Into Freedom: Psychedelic EFT. Alongside her work as a plant medicine and embodied intimacy guide, she weaves her original “hypnotic hymns” and empowerment anthems as a permissionary of song and full embodied expression of feeling. She organizes engaging music and intimacy events regularly throughout the Bay Area. Victoria believes in the power of the transformative healing that occurs when we connect with ourselves and embody intimacy, together.
www.victoriaangelheart.com
Oct 14 Faruk Ates: How to Become a Magical Creature [Forest Love EB]
Unleash your inner magic and transform into the extraordinary being you were always meant to be. Through guided visualizations, creative role-playing, and somatic practices, you'll explore and embrace your unique magical identity. This workshop will guide you on a journey of self-discovery, inspired by personal experiences of becoming connected to non-human energies. Learn to break free from societal norms, open yourself up to possibilities beyond your human dreams, and unlock your inner magical creature.
Faruk Ateş is a transformational coach offering leaders and entrepreneurs heart-centered training in performance, productivity, culture, and connection. Faruk teaches a course on rewiring your brain and elevating your game, bringing together the latest research in positive psychology, neuroscience, flow state, and human connection.
Oct 21 Alyssa Anaya: Reverence Tantra Evening [Forest Love EB]
The Reverence Tantra evening is a special experience of coming home to ourselves and one another. In partner exercises, Alyssa will guide you through heart centered practices that awaken your senses and enliven your spirit. Neo tantric practices to open your kundalini energy with breath work, eye-gazing, and consensual touch are shared. Clothes on. Boundaries honored and celebrated.
Come solo or with a friend or partner, all are welcome. Your full presence is requested, no mind-altering substances please. Participants across the gender spectrum and of all sexual preferences welcome.
Wear something comfortable that you feel beautiful or great in.
For more info on Reverence: www.reverenceoftheheart.comAlyssa has studied spiritualities and traditions from around the globe, earning a Masters in Divinity in spiritual counseling. She has been studying, practicing, and teaching Sacred Sexuality and Tantra internationally for over 20 years, including being passed the teachings and lineage from her mentor Evalena Rose. Her career has included extensive counseling, working with clients in the fields of addiction, death and dying, trauma, and sacred sexuality. She’s certified in Reiki and Sacred Sexuality Bodywork, and has studied several modalities of healing touch and counseling.
Alyssa’s Tantra teachers include Evalena Rose, Sofia Sundari, Lindy James, and Steve and Lokita Carter. She facilitates Tantra events in the SF Bay Area under the name Reverence, and has a private practice, where she works with individuals and couples in strengthening their relationships by finding their spiritual fulfillment and transcendental levels of ecstasy.
Oct 28 River & Chuck: Subconscious Keys to Heightened Pleasure [Forest Love EB]
Uncover exactly what turns you on. Sexual experiences are most potent, memorable, and fulfilling when the feelings they evoke match the feelings we subconsciously long to experience. It’s not the sexual actions that turn us on, but rather the feelings evoked deep inside of us.
Do you want to feel adored, cherished, and ravished? Perhaps you desire to feel powerful, naughty, and trusted. Most of us resonate with a combination of feelings unique to us. In this workshop, we’ll help you identify the feelings that hold the most erotic charge and the accompanying words and touch that ignite your eros. What you’ll discover will help you communicate to your partners your deepest turn-ons, helping you and your partners get what you desire most in bed!
There will be guided meditation, discussion in small groups, and time to practice giving and receiving. Expect embodiment, role play, and interaction.Chuck’s passion is to empower people to bring more pleasure and sensuality into their lives. He combines lessons from the Somatica® Institute, the Orgasmic Meditation community, NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and developmental psychology to teach about touch, emotional intimacy, and hidden routes to pleasure. As a facilitator, he is skilled at creating a container of safety, acceptance and eroticism that lays the ground for deep transformation and freedom. Chuck’s a certified Somatica Sex And Relationship Coach, Orgasmic Meditation Life Coach & Trainer, and NLP Master Practitioner.
www.chuckrockey.com
River Black (she/they) is a Sacred Intimate and a Somatica-certified sex and relationship coach. As a sexual healer, they believe all bodies are sacred. They create loving presence, witness without judgment, and hold space for transformation to emerge. As a coach, River teaches workshops on embodied boundaries, consent, and polyamory and sees clients on Zoom and in her practice in Berkeley, CA. She founded the first-ever Sex Workers Student Union while in grad school and is passionate about ending sexual shame, expanding the menu of options, and creating more avenues for pleasure."Insta: ariverblack
Nov 4 Heather Atles: Dimensions of Touch Workshop [Forest Love EB]
Explore the nuanced experience of consensual, stimulating, sensual (not overtly sexual) touch in the ""Dimensions of Touch Workshop."" This class offers a safe(r) and supportive space for participants to become attuned to their own bodily sensations and those of their partners, enhancing their understanding of consent and boundaries. Through eye contact, non-verbal communication, and a variety of touch techniques, attendees will foster deeper connections and learn to express their desires and boundaries confidently. Join us to experience the playful and sensual aspects of connection in a respectful and inclusive environment, emphasizing the values of community and self-awareness.
Heather Atles is a trauma informed Relationship, Sex, and Intimacy Coach who works with couples, individuals, and polycules to design and create the most luscious, empowering, nurturing intimate relationships possible. She has over 20 years of experience in shame resiliency, pleasure exploration, embodied breath work, and non-traditional relationships. Along with a degree from Emerson College, she has trained with the Somatica Institute, the Human Awareness Institute, Mastery in Transformational Training, The Pathway, Landmark Education, Insight Seminar, and more. She has extensive experience with modalities such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Byron’s Katie’s “Work,” Non-Violent Communication, and The Courage To Heal.
Heather has worked as an entertainer, community organizer, corporate trainer, and motivational speaker. However, nothing brings her more joy than having a positive impact on people’s self-image, embodiment, and relationships. She has dedicated her life to personal growth, self-actualization, and service to others.
Nov 11 Mike Gillerman: Presence Through Play [Forest Love EB]
Deepen your presence & strengthen your intuition through the joy of play!
🧠 Do you overthink things? Do you wish there was an easier way to quiet your brain and stay in the moment?
Learn how to use the power of play (inner kid, not sexy adult😁) to connect to the same deep, focused flow states as meditation. Through guided somatic exercises, visualizations, art and improv, you’ll explore what it’s like to play purely for the sake of it–and the freedom that comes from letting go of the result.
🧘♀️Whether you’re a seasoned meditator or have been unsuccessful with traditional forms of meditation–you’ll learn playful ways to quiet the mind and open to possibilities. You'll uncover your natural authentic play style so play becomes easier and discover how to use improv principles to create deep authentic connections with others. You'll leave feeling more empowered, creative and have FUN doing it! 🎉Mike Gillerman is a neurospicy🌶️ facilitator, ADHD coach, improviser & artist with a passion for flow. A former graphic designer; he now helps others connect to and live from their own creative, authentic expression so they can reach their full potential. He's a featured facilitator for FLOWN—a startup that helps remote employees use flow to increase their productivity, has over a decade of experience in mindfulness and meditation practices and has developed workshops to help others improve their focus. In his free time he loves writing music, relaxing in GGP and losing himself at Ecstatic Dance. 🕺
Nov 18 Sasha Wright: Polarity Play [Forest Love EB]
This workshop invites participants into conversation and congruence with our internal parts. We will weave principles of Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy & Internal Family Systems parts work into an immersive guided venture to get in touch some of our resources, vulnerabilities, and protectors from the inside out. This workshop focuses specifically on polarizations within the system: parts that can feel at odds and create internal conflict in our psyche. Embodied explorations will allow us to feel the contours of these seemingly opposed aspects of our deepest truth, gain insight into how they actually work together, and cultivate greater harmony within. Participants will be guided to greet these unsung heroes of the subconscious with curiosity and care, and will have opportunities to moderate level of participation at every turn. This intimate inquiry will include inner explorations, relational revelations, and opportunities to resource and integrate the gems we unearth together.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an evidence-based model of psychotherapy that restores wholeness by addressing and integrating one’s multiple inner “parts.” It is based on the premise that all parts contain valuable qualities and our core Self knows how to heal. https://ifs-institute.com/
Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy integrates principles of nonviolence and mindfulness with a comprehensive and experiential body-centered methodology. https://hakomiinstitute.com/Sasha Wright, LCSW is a somatic psychotherapist, an avid dancer, and an earthy soul enamored with the natural world. Her gift is to guide people into shared experiences of creative connection and embodied aliveness. Curiosity, experimentation, and attunement are her allies. Sasha leads dance workshops and retreats involving contact improvisation, authentic movement, nature-connection, and other conscious dance modalities. Sasha guides embodied earth-based rituals where dropping into body wisdom and synching to natural rhythms connect people to an authentic experience of their own magic and meaning. Sasha has been practicing psychotherapy in the East Bay for over a decade, and is trained in both Hakomi and IFS. She provides somatic psychotherapy that supports inner alignment and the mindful embodiment of one’s wholeness.
sashawrighttherapy.com
inbodyritual.com
Nov 25 Prateek Singhal: Attuned, slow, arousing touch [Forest Love EB]
We move so fast in our lives that we forget to slow down and breathe. There is so much juice that exists within these layers of slowness. This workshop will be an exploration of these layers, guiding participants through various forms of touch, reminding everyone to slow down and revel in the nectar of attunement, presence, love, and care! We're used to arousing our erogenous zones in our pleasure practices, but we often do not pay enough attention to the rest of our body, which deserves equal amounts of love. A fully aroused body is a portal to bigger experiences and orgasmic explosions.
This workshop will have participants pair up for exercises and we will switch partners often. Please bring a blindfold with you to surrender more to the experience.Prateek is a lover of deep, heartful, intense connections that arise from our body and are sustained by our breath. He's on a mission to spread heartfelt orgasmic pleasure, conscious sensuality and sacred sexuality through exercises that allow every fiber of our body to be witnessed, loved, and caressed. Prateek has produced and led several small scale events, and he is ready to take the next step and share his gifts with the broader community." "I don't have a website for my work as I'm quite new to it.
Dec 2 River & Chuck: Connection Games for Lovers [Forest Love EB]
Do you want to up the intimacy with an established partner? Maybe some distance has developed or things have simply gotten stale. Maybe you want to get off to a really sexy and fun start with a new lover. You’ve done the consent and STIs conversations, which are important but not that sexy and can often put you in your head.
How do you get back into your body and back to sexy? These games will help you drop into physical connection in an easeful, embodied way. You will learn a few different connection exercises that incorporate communication, disinhibition, presence, and attunement– and touch! Gain clarity on your Venn diagram of yes’s, no’s and maybe and set yourself up for a terrific time.
Expect experiential learning, practice with multiple partners, and a mix of heart-connection and playfulness.
Chuck’s passion is to empower people to bring more pleasure and sensuality into their lives. He combines lessons from the Somatica® Institute, the Orgasmic Meditation community, NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and developmental psychology to teach about touch, emotional intimacy, and hidden routes to pleasure. As a facilitator, he is skilled at creating a container of safety, acceptance and eroticism that lays the ground for deep transformation and freedom. Chuck’s a certified Somatica Sex And Relationship Coach, Orgasmic Meditation Life Coach & Trainer, and NLP Master Practitioner.
River Black (she/they) is a Sacred Intimate and a Somatica-certified sex and relationship coach. As a sexual healer, they believe all bodies are sacred. They create loving presence, witness without judgment, and hold space for transformation to emerge. As a coach, River teaches workshops on embodied boundaries, consent, and polyamory and sees clients on Zoom and in her practice in Berkeley, CA. She founded the first-ever Sex Workers Student Union while in grad school and is passionate about ending sexual shame, expanding the menu of options, and creating more avenues for pleasure."Insta: ariverblack
Dec 9 Rachel Currie: Hypnotic Heart Activation [Forest Love EB]
Rachel will be facilitating self-regulatory tools to optimize the participants overall sense of self... providing spaciousness and cultivating the compassion muscle starting with self-regulatory hypnotic tools. All hypnosis is self-hypnosis and empowering people to feel in control of their experience is precedent in both private and group hypnosis sessions. This workshop will begin with tools to empower the participant, by learning how to create a hypnotic suggestion/an affirmation that allows the subconscious to easily and effortlessly digest. This will promote ways to release limiting beliefs around personal desires by activating end state energy and cultivate heart coherence, novelty, and dopamine without the critical faculty of the mind interjecting.
This workshop will include but not limited to:
⭐ Tools to self-regulate (science backed self-directed neuroplasticity)
⭐ Thought pattern interrupts
⭐ Sustainable forms of movement/free form movement
⭐ Shaking medicine
⭐ Expanding awareness by noticing resistance through proprioception without judgement
⭐ Foster awareness in what you truly and deeply desire
⭐ Guided visualization to support your personal manifestation
This session is designed to integrate your relaxing experience as a sustainable mindset to empower you in all the places you need it the most.
Are you ready to learn new ways to become more open hearted and optimize how you are feeling? Let's become even more aware of your internal landscape despite what is going on in your external reality. Afterall dipping into your heart space.. now... will optimize your pleasure receptor sites in your brain;)Rachel is a wellness practitioner and the founder of her business, Thriving in Theta. She has her B.A. in Sociology, is a RYT-200 Vinyasa and Yin-Yang Yoga Teacher, 15 years of classically trained ballet, a Certified Hypnotist, and a Certified Integrative Subconscious Coach. She is trauma informed and has a mission to empower others around their journey in self-discovery and healing. Rachel has invested in her continuous education to provide many different tools and resources to equip participants with safety and care in their wellness journey. She works with private clients primarily online and facilitates workshops and pop-up classes in various corporate settings. She has led retreats as well as supported other facilitators around the world with her expansive skillset in self-directed neuroplasticity, compassionate space holding capacity, and subconscious integration. Rachel’s mission with her yoga classes, hypnosis workshops, hypnotic events, and 1:1 clients is to cultivate a safe container to heal.
She does this by empowering participants to experience and obtain sustainable and accessible tools for self-regulation and provides a spacious practice for all levels to navigate. Her embodiment classes bring an experience for the participant to explore their proprioception while actively becoming more aware of their internal process both consciously and subconsciously. Rachel is an advocate for learning, growth, exploring nuance, and being deeply open hearted. She is excited to be here and cannot wait to breathe, dance, and move into activating heart coherence and feeling deeply free with you.https://www.instagram.com/thrivingintheta_hypnosis_yoga/
Dec 16 Fruit & Be: One Rope Play [Forest Love EB]
One Rope Play is a practice of rope bondage that as you guessed, involves one rope. It is a beautiful foundation for both rope beginners and an approach that highly experienced riggers find to help deepen their practice. It’s a way to get out of your head about tying knots, focus on the connection and following intuition/impulses in the moment.
You’ll learn how to manipulate someone's body and support them into positions that feel safe, secure and a sense of being held, to allow for letting go and surrendering. You’ll get to experience both roles, being the one creating the experience and the one receiving.
This will be a partnered practice so you can either come with someone or the first few exercises will allow people to build some trust/rapport and eventually sink into the rest of class with.
All rope will be provided for the playshop.Be (pronouns Be/Bee’s) is passionate about the intersection of embodied movement/dance, sensuality/sexuality and kink/BDSM. Be is committed to creating spaces centered around safety, inclusivity and permission for play, exploration, growth, and healing as a means of becoming more fully who we are. Be is currently most excited about creating a new dance culture aptly named Everything Everywhere All At Dance. www.EEAADance.com
www.RopePlay.Dance
www.YourKinkCoach.com
Fruit (they/them) is an Identity Exploration Specialist — both personally a crusader for expansion, playfulness, and expression through creativity, and as a champion and inspiration for others to do the same. Fruit embraces multiple mediums, roles, projects, and versions of themself and funnels their experience into their facilitation.
Their experience is grounded deeply in dance, yoga, and identity play through the lens of fashion. They started facilitating personal growth and development in 2019 and are now stepping into facilitating that in ways that are closer to their heart in the realms of attunement, embodiment, connection, somatics, kink, intimacy, and play.
Dec 23 Philippe Lewis: The Art of Sensation Play [Forest Love EB]
In this fun, hot and playful class, you and your partner will begin to expand your repertoire of touch skills and role play. First, you will learn simple yet powerful embodied ways to interact somatically with others such as caresses, nails, bites/nibbles, light hair pulling, grabbing, kissing, light spanking, pushing/pulling, wrestling/pinning, flirting/teasing, and more. Next, you will discover and practice fun roles to embody while using these skills such as an animal, the god*dess/human, the nymph, the fairy, and the satyr.
This practice is much like learning how to communicate with your lover in a language of physical touch, pleasure, and sensations. You will have the opportunity to “speak” to each other through the combined various touch skills and role play and will be able to "read" your lover’s responses through breath, movement, sound, and touch. And as you become more and more fluent in this language, the result will be greater and deeper ease in communicating through touch and play and better listening to your partner when it comes to connecting with their body and making them feel loved and cherished in your dance.
Consent/Sovereignty: All skills and roles will be taught in a container of consent to make all engagements pleasurable and powerfully transformative for everyone.
Who: This class is both for single and couples. Friends coming with friends with the desire to practice these skills is also great.
What to bring/wear: Participants should wear comfortable clothes that allow access to the body and skin. Optionally, you can bring a belt or sarong for one of the exercises.
“It was so great to take your class on sensual touch.... I learned a lot and I’m sad to have missed you’re other class! I can’t wait to talk with you more. I really appreciated your dynamism, realness and sense of humor!”
”While at a conference in Hawaii, I was fortunate to attend a workshop facilitated by Philippe. This workshop focused on very light BDSM techniques pretty much for beginners although I cannot say that everyone in attendance was a beginner. I certainly was very new to this aspect of play and I found it fascinating. Philippe demonstrated many techniques (biting, nails, pulling hair, spanking and more) — all things that can either be extremely sensual or very scary to the recipient depending upon how they are delivered and the conversation that takes place ahead of time. Philippe was masterful at describing the conversation for agreement and then demonstrated each technique with a different volunteer from class. I thoroughly enjoyed the workshop and found it to be stimulating, sensual and informative. Plus, I was the hair pulling model and I found it to be much more yummy than I anticipated. Check Philippe Lewis out! He’s fun and hot!”
— Laurie Handlers, ISTA Lead Facilitor ~ ButterflyWorkshops.comPhilippe is a passionate relationship educator and founder of Exquisite ❦ Love. With a mission to empower men and women in making informed and positive choices for themselves and their partners, Philippe guides individuals on transformative journeys to become sovereign beings through the art of connection, trust, consent, intimacy, and love. Drawing from the profound insights of attachment theory, he helps people explore the depths of human connection and understand the dynamics that shape their relationships.
Philippe's impact in the realm of personal growth and self-discovery extends far and wide. As a co-founder of The Journey to Secure, he fosters a supportive community of like-minded individuals on a shared path of growth and an earned attachment style. Additionally, his role as a coordinator with the International School of Temple Arts, showcases his dedication to fostering open-mindedness and personal exploration.
Over the years, Philippe has been instrumental in founding vibrant communities that tackle essential topics. The Open Relationship Community, the Attachment Community, and the Consent Community provide safe spaces for individuals to engage in emerging discussions, redefining societal norms, and promoting healthier relationship dynamics.
Philippe is also well known for the creation of a vast array of conscious play spaces and playground such as Club Exotica, Love Underground, The Erotic Playground, and the FireLight micro-festival, as well as embodiment spaces such as The Somatic Playground where participants can find and learn about how to relate with each other at all levels.
While Philippe's professional accomplishments are inspiring, he cherishes a role that brings him immense joy and growth - that of a proud and loving father to a 13-year-old teen. This cherished relationship teaches him the invaluable lessons of surrendering to love and embracing life more fully with each passing day.
Philippe's life's work revolves around illuminating the path to enriched human connections and fostering a more compassionate and understanding society, one relationship at a time. His dedication to personal growth, coupled with his commitment to empowering others, sets him apart as a true visionary in the field of relationship education.
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Dec 30 Jeremy Daw: Emotional Cardio [Forest Love EB]
Emotional Cardio builds emotional resilience to meet the many challenges of modern life. Using a holistic and integrative approach to both body and mind, it guides participants on a deep exploration of their emotional systems and builds resilience by connecting them to the whole Central Nervous System (CNS) for a more easeful and effective way of meeting the world on its own terms.
Some popular tools which claim to be effective at emotional regulation teach students to treat all emotions as equivalent and to ‘release’ them with certain exercises. Such practices miss the mark in two fundamental ways: first, because not all emotions are the same; and second, because it is not actually possible to ‘release’ emotions (nor would you want to if you could). Emotions are more like muscles: first because the point is to strengthen them instead of ‘release’ them, and second because full body health requires different exercises to train different muscle groups - just like emotions. Consequently, EmoCardio teaches each of the six primal emotions in turn, so that participants can become fluent and easeful in every possible emotional expression.Whether you’ve begun a new spiritual path, a new relationship or are merely seeking better tools to navigate your complex life, Emotional Cardio gives you the tools to build your own personal resilience through a holistic and integrative approach to your CNS.
Jeremy Daw is an author and facilitator who lives on sacred land in northern California. As a graduate of both Harvard University and Highden Mystery School, he brings a unique approach to spiritual questions which bridges between the intellectual and esoteric. He is the creator of the Emotional Cardio program for emotional resilience and the author of five books, most recently his historical novel, The Erotic Gospel. You can find him at eroticgospel.substack.com.
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