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Desire, Consent, Intentional Touch - A Deep Exploration

  • Chakra Studios New York New York, NY, United States (map)

A 3 ½ hour event for self-identified men of exploring tantra, conscious touch, loving intimacy and exotic sensual pleasures in a group setting with other men.

Imagine being completely safe and secure, beyond even the possibility for harm and, at the same time, just as completely open, vulnerable, raw and primal such that you've disappeared entirely into the ecstatic ocean of sensing and feeling. This event invites a start down that road through the exploration of the ecstasy that's there in your body at this very moment and every other moment of your life. We've learned to turn away from it, mute it, hide it - this event is an invitation to explore beyond that conditioning.

At this event you'll be exploring your desires for touch, your capacity to open to, give and receive intentional embodied touch and your consent itself. You'll discover your body's innate capacity for pleasure, wisdom and ecstasy through giving and receiving intentional touch and through the process of identifying and asking for what you really want.

You'll discover how consent feels in your body and explore the ecstasy of how to show up fully as both a giver and receiver of touch. This exploration will be invited from different perspectives - you on you, you on other, other on you - within a strong container of consent.

You will be gently guided and powerfully held on this exploration. The program is great if you want to connect more deeply with yourself and other men in a loving and sensual way that is more intimate than the way men typically meet.

The focus is on building a foundation of intimacy, connection, love, sensuality, acceptance and openness that is spiritual and at times interweaving with your sexual energy. A focus on the sensual and sometimes sexual connections with an open and loving heart that welcomes all. Here is the possibility to learn more about yourself and to learn more about the basics of Tantra.

More Details:

For the first part of the event participants will remain clothed to focus on and, with guidance, develop the fundamentals of identifying desires, establishing consent and opening to giving/ receiving intentional touch.

For the second part of the event, the carefully guided touch experiments continue and participants will be invited to become as naked as they wish, including not at all.

During both parts you'll be randomly paired with one other participant to explore your desires, consent and the experience of touch itself. There will be multiple rounds of exploration that will allow for pairings with as many men in the room as possible in the time we have.

This will be a judgement-free, body-positive experience. Sexual arousal might occur or even be likely, it is natural and will not be shamed. You will be reminded to respect everyone's boundaries and to honor your own boundaries.

Admission: $60 cash at the door, Eventbrite or Venmo @Yogiedd (4504). Please arrive 5 - 15 minutes before class start time.

Recommended: come freshly cleaned and washed and avoid strong fragrances; do not come intoxicated; do not come unless you are symptom-free of any potentially communicable infections. Hand sanitizer is always available in the studio.