When I worked through my level three Somatic Sex Education course, aptly named, “Establishing a Somatic Sex Education Practice” I had some thoughts about how I wanted to set out with this new branch of work. Some of the pieces fit neatly within things I have already been doing for years, and other pieces were…
I am over the nearly full moon with excitement about this weekend’s workshop. You can read more about it in detail and buy tickets here. Sharing these skills and practices over the internet is really pretty awesome, because a big part of what our bodies need to let go and integrate is comfort and patience….
I am looking forward to starting the scar workshops I have scheduled to be starting next Sunday, and wanting to share the invite to these workshops with a bit more of my perspective. Before I had my first top surgery in 2020 I had the typical conversations with the surgeon about what my surgical goals…
When I was first a participant in Pleasure (your) Chest I had been looking at it for weeks. I was already in some contact with Jess and saw her promotional posts as they went out, thought about it, maybe even wrote it into my calendar. But I didn’t sign up. And then the day it…
If you haven’t already, I invite you to join me on Patreon where I am now on month 3 of a new series, called “BE THE: “. Each month I use the imaginary exploration of an ecosystem to explore awareness, somatic practices and relational alliances with the non-human world. As I post a new exploration…
Within the field(s) of work that my coaching offerings land in there is often some question of “what is it, exactly, that we do anyways?” I have trained with the Institute of Somatic Sex Education (up to level 3), completed Intimacy Educator training with Caffyn Jesse, and supplemented that with many other shorter trainings, lots…
This Wednesday is already the last one of the month! Which means it is time for my monthly online event – Soft Touch Intimate Craft Crossover. This month, the theme is zine making. Without fully knowing that is what I was doing, my friends and I made our first zine in 1991 with a typewriter…
As a student of somatic sex education I find myself prompting students and clients to notice sensation in their bodies in the ways that I have learned to practice through studying in this field. It took me some time to get to the place where I could understand that the assignment was often just to…
A few months ago my pierogi (a term of endearment for one of my polyamourous partners) Caitlin, came to Jess and I with an idea. The progressive church, Open Way, where they are co-pastor curates a community building, educational offering each year, focused on a different matter of collective liberation. This year, they proposed, members…
Next month, rather than planning a 3rd Wednesday afternoon Craft Crossover (especially because the 3rd wednesday is the 25th) I’m cooking up something else instead. I’m trying doing 2 different times, one in the afternoon and one after my kid’s bed time. I hope that y’all will join me to explore and practice tools and…
After wrapping up the 5th cohort through the “Pleasure (Your) Chest” workshop series we wanted to give an update to the folks in our community who have been helping us keep this going. As you probably know, we offer this to folks on a sliding scale. We know that there are significant, compounding axis of…
I have been having a lot of fun so far this year working on my Halloween costume, which, to be real, is mostly a very intricate hat. But, as I am taking cues from my daughter who says, “for halloween, I am always the main character, papa is the goofy guy i meet along the…
Hello kind internet friends,I know I have not been doing the best job keeping things up to date here on the website front- I have been as trapped in the dopamine & engagement mines as the masses, but am often annoyed & discouraged by the ways that algorithm driven platforms that have the user reach…
Hey folks, I haven’t been keeping up with posting here as often these days. For all the reasons, the algorithm pages and my supporter sponsored Patreon get all the freshest news and updates, and it can take me minute to bring the news over to these parts. First thing, you might have gotten an email…
Announcing the next round of Pleasure (your) Chest: A Workshop Series for Transmasculine Spectrum Folks. If you are a person on the transmasculine spectrum who will have had top surgery before the January 20th we would love to have you join us! This Workshop is For You: * If you have had any type of…
