Foundation for Sex Positive Culture presents: Embodied Eroticism & Owning Your Erotic Body
A pair of workshops that build upon each other.

Embodied Eroticism: Accessing the Animal Body (11AM to 1PM)

Despite all of our best efforts, eros will not be silenced. The erotic is waiting, curious and hungry, growing impatient for our acceptance. Ready to leap out at unexpected and inopportune moments. The erotic is nature.  It is our nature. The domestication of our primate souls cannot stamp it out nor the threat of stoning nor shame nor even the threat of death. Even when eros appears to have surrendered beneath a sea of calm, measured reason and propriety it is there… diverted into the car purchase, the affair, the internet shopping spree, the constant surfing and yearning to fill the empty spaces in our souls.

As we move forward in creating healthy communities and relationships, we will begin hold hands again with eros, unfettered, free and un-diverted into the thousand sublimations our culture demands. It is our life force!  It is our ground!

In this workshop, we explore through embodied practice the art of living erotically, with each other in community, with the earth, and with ourselves.  We play with the edges of appropriateness and subtlety to find the erotic expression that is essentially ours, unique and unfettered as the ocean or the wind.   We will find our animal intelligence at the root of erotic expression as we play in the realms of the uncivilized and the wild, liberating this animal that we are. This is a powerful practice for community that can lend huge amounts of play, energy, and affection to relationships of all kinds.  It's about getting over ourselves, getting our minds where they belong, so that we can really relate with other.

(There can be lot of fear around the erotic but we believe it is simply an organic force, like our breath.  Some people have had messy uncomfortable experiences trying to break out of larger cultural boundaries and don't want to play with the erotic at all, or aren't sure how to enter this territory safely.  We create a safe container where we can begin to open up to the possibility of a healthy community expression of the erotic without taking everyone over the deep end or pushing natural boundaries that are there for a reason.)

Owning Your Erotic Body and Speaking Your Erotic Truth (2PM to 4PM)

So you have given yourself permission to play fully with the erotic. Now what? How do you move beyond knowing “that you want” to discover “what you want” (or admit what you want).

In this playshop we will help you find your enthusiastic YES!, speak your radical truth and connect with the deep underbelly of your erotic wisdom.  We’ll begin with an embodied, experiential anatomy practice in which we will feel into the stories residing in our bellies, genitals, breasts, and bodies.  From this embodied place, we will play with transparency, communicating desire, deep listening, witnessing one another and supporting the emergence of your erotic intelligence.

Claim your erotic birthright!

(This workshop involves nudity and erotic touch in a safe and consensual container)

Cost at the door: $30 each class, or $50 for both.

About the Educators:

Victor Warring and Elena Zubulake are somatic educators, intimacy guides, and sexuality/relationship coaches. They have an interesting and unique style of work that interweaves experiential movement, improvisation, dance, music, body work, community building, conscious communication, sex activism, play, and contemplative practice into the realm of supporting all kinds of relationships. This work addresses intimate, community, and ecological relationships, and our most basic relationship with self. The Embodied Intimacy programs are fun, enlightening, and in depth.  Victor and Elena offer everything from 2 hour workshops to whole week retreats, as well as private coaching and bodywork.  In addition, the work can be tailor made to meet the needs of each community . Generally speaking, although the workshops are filled with juicy erotic content, there is no explicit sexual activity or nudity unless it is specifically requested by a group. You can learn more about Victor and Elena at http://embodiedintimacy.wordpress.com/

This workshop is presented by the Foundation for Sex Positive Culture. Please go to TheFSPC.org for more information.

This event is sponsored by the Center for Sex Positive Culture.