It's Sacred Sex Week at Good For Her!
Discover the multiple ways you can integrate your spiritual side with your sexy self to maximize your erotic potential.
All workshops are for everyone regardless of gender, sex, sexual orientation or partner status, unless otherwise specified.
Pre-registration is required for all events except Reclaiming Eros book launch on Thursday, September 25. Please click on any of the titles to sign up or call 416-588-0900.
Monday September 22, 7-9:30 pm
Aboriginal Pleasure, Power, and Sex Positivity
With Jessica Yee $35
Indigenous, matriarchal cultures around the world have strongly believed in the human power of pleasure and the sacredness of sex for centuries. This workshop will discuss the intersectionality of mainstream ignorance to acknowledge these significant origins, explore the roots of sex positive existence, and give tools and strategies for present day empowerment using the teachings many of the First Peoples actually began.
Tuesday September 23 7- 10 pm
Tantra For Two
With Pala Copeland and Al Link $70 per couple
This introduction to Tantric sex is for specifically for couples. Together you’ll learn basic practices that will transform your regular love life into sizzling sacred sex. Experiment with breath techniques. Learn about your “love muscles”. Discover how both men and women can become multi-orgasmic. Find out about the best intercourse positions for exchanging your sexual energy. Couples only. Heterosexual focus.
Wednesday September 24 7-10 pm
Sacred Sex Starts with Me
with Cheri Michael and Leah Burgess $40 (materials included)
What is sacred sexuality? Each person will discover the answer for themselves, as it is a personal evolving journey. Take some time to learn about your relationship with sacred sexuality. An evening of artistic exercises and discussion will help you begin to discover, understand and ripen your sacred sexuality.
Thursday September 25 7-9 pm
Book Launch for Reclaiming Eros: Sacred Whores and Healers
With Suzanne Blackburn, FREE! No pre-registration required
At WonderWorks (79A Harbord Street)
In this new revolutionary book, Suzanne Blackburn and Margaret Wade, Suade Publishing, challenge us to examine what roles eroticism and sexuality play in our lives, how we regard these powerful forces and how we might, if we dare, change our beliefs. Reclaiming Eros puts sexuality back where it belongs - with all of life that is sacred and beautiful. Hear her read, ask questions and get your own copy personally signed!
Friday September 26 7-9:30pm
Energy Sex Skills: Basics
with Sheri Winston $35
Learn how to "Run Energy". Play with your own sexual energy circuits by using breath, sound, movement and vision to cultivate, access, enhance and channel you own erotic power. A solo-skills class.
Saturday September 27 11 am-1:30 pm
Yin & Yang – Playing With Fire & Water
with Sheri Winston $35
Learn to understand the dynamic interplay of desire and attraction we have with others, how to use that energy to create passion and keep our relationships hot and juicy. Play with complimentary energy using breath, sound, movement and vision. Learn to open and receive as well as to send and give.
Saturday September 27 2:30 pm-5 pm
Shringar Ras: Celebrate the Sensuous!
With Veena Gokhale $35
Shringar Ras, the sensuous mood, originated in classical India, and continues to be a strong influence today. This participative workshop will immerse you in shringar ras with the Radha-Krishna legend, poetry, perfumes, visuals, and music, and discuss how to evoke the sensuous mood in your everyday life.
Saturday September 27 6-11 pm
The Kinky side of Spirituality and the Spiritual side of Kink
With Patricia Marsh and Carlyle Jansen $40
Explore how integrating kink and spirituality can build erotic ecstasy. Beginning with a short workshop, simple exercises will follow to deepen your understanding through practice. All exercises will involve choice in participation. Novices to kink/BDSM might find this a less intimidating way to enter the world of kink, and BDSM aficionados will enhance their practice through a deeper connection to their spirituality.
Sunday September 28 11:00 am-1:30 pm
Partner Yoga
With Gill Kranias and Juno Stewart, $75 per couple
This workshop celebrates a sensual, playful yoga. Learn new ways to stir up your tantric energy, then practice and explore some yoga postures with your partner. Brought to you by the teachers of Sex & Yoga. Bring a partner, wear comfortable clothes and don't forget your mat/towel. Couples of all descriptions welcome.
Sunday September 28 2:30-6:30
Reclaiming Eros: A Women's Temple
With Suzanne Blackburn, Barbara Brown and Carlyle Jansen $40
Join a circle of women to celebrate and honour our sexy/sacred feminine energies. Expand your awareness, sensation and pleasure potential through techniques honoring individual choice and rhythm. Reclaim the innate wisdom of your own body, mind, heart and spirit. Say "yes" to your life force in all its erotic power. Women* only.
Facilitators at Sacred Sex Week
Barbara Brown is a psychotherapist and craniosacral practitioner, whose work honors the body as central to healing and living fully. She is published in various anthologies and journals, and has written for CBC radio. Barbara is the initiator and editor of the book, My Breasts, My Choice: Journeys Through Surgery.
Carlyle Jansen is the founder of Good For Her. Since discovering orgasms in her late 20’s she has been an avid student, consumer, advocate and educator of human sexuality. She is also a proud mom of two!
Cheri Michael is a workshop and event facilitator for nearly a decade, an art curator and creatrix of “Night of Sirens” – showcasing the sensual empowered side of women through the arts.
Gill Kranias is a queer activist, adult educator, and mother of two. She has diverse experience with and continues to explore yogic, tantric and alternative approaches to living and loving.
Jessica Yee is the founder and director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network whose work is nationally focused on sexual health initiatives, cultural empowerment, and anti-oppression education.
Juno Stewart is a queer activist and sexual health educator, promoting (sexual) health and (sexual) creativity since 1993. He is also a certified yoga teacher.
Leah Burgess is a Spirituelle Diva with a delight for bridging the gap between the sacred and sexual while helping others uncover their own unique ways of healing, connection and freedom.
Pala Copeland and Al Link, authors of Soul Sex: Tantra for Two, have been practicing Tantra since 1987, teaching since 1997. Media coverage includes: Wall Street Journal, Globe and Mail, Playboy Radio, and Sex File. www.tantra-sex.com
Patricia Marsh is a legend and icon in the Fetish world - partly because she has been at it so long, and partly because she raised the bar in the realm of professional BDSM by creating a spectacular, world-renowned Fantasy House celebrating her imagination, tempered by her keen aesthetic sense.
Sheri Winston is a medical professional, sexuality educator and author who is on a mission to transform our culture's attitudes about sex. www.sheriwinston.com
Suzanne Blackburn is a sex positive activist, author and retreat leader dedicated to vibrant living through the reunification of sexuality and spirituality. Suzanne’s training includes Process Leadership Training at Shalom Mountain and Body Electric School body work. Suzanne’s new book Reclaiming Eros: Sacred Whores and Healers, reflects her commitment to living a passionate and “cuntscious” life.
Veena Gokhale is Indo-Canadian and developed this workshop as a tribute to the sensuous, in art and life. You can visit her website at http://www.veenago.com