SPECIAL: Erotic Massage Practicum - w. Reid Mihalko

Over dit evenement

🩷This is a full-day, hands-on practicum: from restorative touch to sensual touch, and - if you choose - erotic touch and expanded pleasure. Principles, not routines, so you become more present, intuitive, and responsive. Beginner or experienced, you leave with skills you can use right away.

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TL:DR / MOST IMPORTANT NOTES
➤ You can come with a partner(s), or come alone. We help you find (but do not guarantee) a partner at the event.
➤ We will send you an email with practical information a few days before the event. Make sure to sign up with your most used email address (when you have unsubscribed from our newsletter, our emails can’t reach you) or that the person who bought your ticket forwards these emails to you.
➤ You have to bring a waterproof sheet or blanket at least the size of a mattress to play. No sheet = no play.

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WHAT THE DAY LOOKS LIKE
The doors open half an hour before the starting time. Make sure to be on time! Once we have started we cannot let latecomers in!

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: EROTIC MASSAGE PRACTICUM
Massage starts as a way to relax. It can also become a doorway to deeper trust, intimacy, and pleasure - for giver and receiver both. That's today.

Gain more confidence touching and being touched. A deeper connection with your own body. Trust to communicate desires and boundaries. More presence during intimacy. Better body awareness. Comfort letting pleasure unfold without rushing.

(Times are indications)

MORNING (11:00-13:00) - Restorative Touch, Presence, Attunement (fully clothed)
We build safety before exploring erotic energy - settling into your own body before guiding someone else's:
- Grounding and presence
- Breath to calm the nervous system
- Listening through your hands, not "fixing"
- Reading body language, responding with care
- How pressure, pace, and attention change everything
- Giving and receiving feedback without breaking connection
These foundations make every kind of touch more connected.

LUNCH BREAK
Rest, eat, connect, integrate.

AFTERNOON (14:00-18:00) - Sensual & Erotic Massage (clothing optional, explicit demonstrations)
We expand into sensual and erotic touch through live demonstrations, guided practice, and questions - how breath, movement, rhythm, and curiosity awaken pleasure through the whole body, not just the genitals. We also look at how shame interrupts pleasure, and how consent and honest communication open space for deeper arousal.
You practice with your partner while Reid and Wilrieke coach. Everything is optional - pause, observe, or take notes.

🌿 Throughout the Day
Breath, movement, and attunement. Building trust through touch. Helping partners feel safe enough to receive deeply. Whole-body erotic massage. Communicating desires and boundaries with kindness. Following pleasure instead of chasing performance.

🤝 Coming Solo or With Partners
Bring a partner, or come solo - we'll help you find practice buddies, but can't guarantee a match. No partner? Observe, take notes, or practice on yourself - watching counts as participation. Your body, your boundaries, your pace, always.

👥 Who Is This For?
Adults of all genders, bodies, orientations, and relationship styles who want more confidence giving massage, deeper intimacy with a partner, and a consent-centered space to explore sensual and erotic touch.

This is a RED event.

FOR WHO IS THIS EVENT?
This event welcomes folks from all walks of life. We are LGBTQIIA+ informed (Wilrieke and most of their team identify as such), slut-friendly, trauma-informed, and non-monogamy informed. White folks are overrepresented in our team and life experiences are colored through that lens. We do come from different social backgrounds and have different life experiences when it comes to health, wealth, neurodiversity, gender, sexual orientation, etc.
We welcome people with specific needs as much as able-bodied folks. Feel free to reach out if you have specific needs that you wish to share with us.

👋 ABOUT REID MIHALKO (USA)
Reid Mihalko (he/him) of ReidAboutSex.com is an internationally known sex and relationship educator helping adults become the change they want to see in the bedroom by creating more self-esteem, self-confidence, and greater health and accountability in their relationships and sex lives. Reid uses an inspiring mixture of humor, personal stories, keen insight, and comprehensive sexual health information to change the lives of his audiences and clients.

In early 2018, some very brave people came forward during #MeToo sharing harms that Reid had caused them. Reid stepped down from teaching and initiated a restorative justice-based accountability process to address his misconduct and make amends if and where possible. The formal, year-long process along with Reid’s apology and resources were shared publicly and can be found at TinyURL.com/reidaccountability. Going forward, Reid’s projects and appearances will include pointing people towards resources and experts on restorative and transformative justice-based accountability processes.

Reid’s workshops and college lectures have been attended by over 60,000 people from all over the globe. His Youtube videos have been viewed over 5 million times. He has appeared in media such as Oprah's Our America With Lisa Ling on OWN, NETFLIX, Montel, Dr. Phil's The Doctors on CBS, Bravo's Miss Advised, Fox News, in Newsweek, Seventeen, GQ, The Washington Post, and in thirteen countries and at least seven languages.
Reid is also founder of Sex Geek Summer Camp, Sex Geek Conservatory, and Sex Geek School for Gifted Sex Geeks, which help sex educators learn valuable business skills that allow them to reach more people with greater ease, transform more lives, and make a better living as sexperts.

Instagram: https://instagram/ReidAboutSex
TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@ReidAboutSex
Facebook: https://facebook.com/ReidAboutSex
YouTube: https://youtube.com/ReidAboutSex

👋 ABOUT WILRIEKE SOPHIA
Wilrieke Sophia (they/them) is a sex & intimacy educator, (TEDx) speaker, advisor & coach for creative makers and scientists, author, and founder of Exploring Deeper and Cuddle Workshops International.

The main focus of their work is empowerment through self-knowledge and understanding, radical self-inclusion, the embodied experiencing of boundaries and desires, and an extensive practice of consent – all based on a foundation of trauma awareness and neuroscience, embedded in experiential spaces based on interpersonal connective practices. They collaborate with artists and scientists, and are a supervisor and mentor.

With their project Red Flags in Workshops, Wilrieke creates free materials on e.g. accountability, abuse, and power dynamics in the intimacy and wellness communities.

www.exploringdeeper.com
www.redflagsinworkshops.com

SOME PRACTICAL INFORMATION
The week before the event, you will receive an email with detailed information for the day, including the address and what to bring. Make sure you sign up with the email address that you use. Check your spam filter if you did not receive an email five days before the event (if you have unsubscribed from our newsletter, these emails cannot reach you!).

ACCESSIBILITY
This workshop space is called Awananda. The elevators in this building are out of order - the owner won’t fix this to our regret. There are stairs to enter the building. On the ground floor is an all-access bathroom. The workshop is on the first floor. There are two stairs to get there. There are several bathrooms on the first floor (no all-access bathrooms), and a small kitchen with a fridge and a microwave. There are mattresses in the workshop space. There is no shower.

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