Touch Yourself! Queer Edition

❤️ TOUCH YOURSELF - WHAT'S THAT?

❥ Touch Yourself! is a workshop to explore self-pleasure through conscious touch, movement, breath, and voice
❥ It's a space to connect deeply with your body, and give yourself a profound experience of self-acceptance and self-love
❥ You have the chance to be witnessed as an erotic being in a supportive, lovingly-held environment
❥ Discover new ways of being intimate with yourself
❥ Welcome your whole experience - body, mind, emotions, and spirit - into your m*asturbation practice
❥ Free yourself of shame and and celebrate your body's ability to feel pleasure


🌈 In this edition we explore *queerness*

How could we relate to our bodies and our pleasure from queer perspectives? How can we queer our self-pleasure practices?

We'll explore our relationship to our gender, our genitals, and our fantasies through a lens of inclusive, curious queerness.


🧡 WHO IS IT FOR?

Touch Yourself! Is open to people of all genders and sexual orientations who want to deepen their relationship to their bodies, and explore their sexuality in a supportive space. If you want to liberate your pleasure, and feel seen and accepted as an erotic being, Touch Yourself is a space for you.

You do *not* have to identify as queer to join! This event is open to people of all identities who wants to explore their pleasure in new and curious ways.


💛 WHAT TO EXPECT

We will start with practices to help ground ourselves in the body, connect with the space, and create a container of safety with one another.

We will then explore different somatic/embodiment practices to open our bodies and start feeling more sensations. Drawing on queer theory and our experiences as queer lovers, we'll explore queer ways to touch ourselves and open to new worlds of pleasure.


We will then move into a self-pleasure practice, which is your opportunity to explore touching yourself, moving, dancing, breathing, making sounds. We take holistic view of m*sturbating - what are all the ways you can make yourself feel good through touch? Genital touch is welcome, and we also encourage full-body touch and movement. Nudity is welcome and fully optional.
We will guide you through the self-pleasure practice to encourage breathing, moving, and making sound, to help you discover new possibilities for feeling pleasure. You’re welcome to bring toys, lubes, or oils that enhance your experience.

You will be exploring self touch and self-pleasuring in a group. While you explore self-touch, participants will *not* be touching one another.


💚 WHY TOUCH YOURSELF IN COMMUNITY?

We receive a lot of cultural messages around m*sturbation, often laden with guilt and shame. Many of us grew up feeling that we had to hide our m*sturbating, and that we shouldn’t talk about it. In this ritual, we normalize self-pleasure, seeking to love and honor our bodies and our genitals.

There is tremendous power in being witnessed as erotic beings, without being objectified or reduced to body parts. In witnessing others, we give one another permission to inhabit our full selves without shame.

This is not a space for staring or gawking, rather we lovingly support one another with our gaze. By accepting and appreciating one another, we develop greater acceptance for ourselves.


💙 PRACTICALITIES

All participants will have a mattress to make your personal pleasure space. Please bring a sheet to cover the mattress, and a blanket to help make it more cosy.


💜 WHAT HAVE OTHER PARTICIPANTS SAID?

"It was amazing! To be in a group of like-minded people and have a guide for moving, making sounds, dancing, really helped me experienced new things."

"The facilitation was fascinating - the emotion, groundedness, Jason and Jeremy created a safe atmosphere while bringing creativity."

"This has been a unique experience and makes me enthusiastic about further self-exploration and sex-positivity. Both Jason and Jeremy were present, open-minded and calming whilst also energizing. You clearly have a lot of joy in facilitating this workshop!"

"The space was just perfect. It helped me realize that sexuality can be practiced, expanded, and loosened up."

"Very accessible for any level, including the experienced. I left happy and nourished."

"It was welcoming, inviting, and safe. I love the welcoming queer vibe."


❤️ FACILITATORS

Touch Yourself is facilitated by Jeremy Shub and Jason King. Jeremy currently works as a sex therapist, sex educator, Sexological Bodyworker and sex coach. He lives in Amsterdam. He identifies as polyamorous, sex worker, kinky and queer. Jeremy has university degrees in Education, Science, Creative Art and Sexual Health. He has facilitated many workshops on sexuality, relationships and frolicking. Learn more about Jeremy at jeremyshub.com

Jason King is a Sexological Bodyworker and somatic sex educator. He is passionate about helping people expand their sense of what’s possible in their sex lives. Jason works with individuals and groups to manifest powerfully healing embodied experiences, build community, and embrace our erotic oneness. Learn more about Jason at embodiederos.org

🧡 PRICE: €35. Participants with low or limited income can buy a ticket at €25.

💛 QUESTIONS? Send us a message!