Play: for your relational & erotic desires

This is an intro to Level 1 (3 months)

Sept 19 - Dec 19, in Sebastopol, CA (7th cohort)

You are:

• Seeking an embodied community of practice (we practice dance, energy skills, breaking life long reactive patterns, grief & eros ritual)
• An intimacy facilitator, therapist, embodiment guide, sacred space holder, or performing artist (or you aspire to be)
• Ready to heal your attachment system for deep healthy secure bonds
• Desiring to explore Dominance & submission as a spiritual path to grow your erotic power
• Energized by dancing & moving big energy 5+ hours a day

Benefits:

1. Increase your embodied energy awareness 
2. Learn energetic armoring patterns (from Wilhelm Reich) that interrupt presence, access to eros, & secure attachment
3. Grow competence to consistently shift from reactive pattern to presence (including noticing & interrupting co-dependence)
4. Expand your body’s capacity to feel, organize, metabolize & exchange more energy (including grief, eros & desires)
5. Cultivate receptivity for more spiritual, energetic & erotic aliveness in your body
6. Grow emotional & erotic sovereignty that frees you to make more aligned relational choices
7. Dismantle social conditioning around sex, power, kink & gender
8. Connect more authentically & euphorically with your experience of gender
9. Release shame & grief so your body can feel your true essence & desires
10. Express your attachment, erotic, dominance & submission desires
11. Explore dominance & submission through partner dance
12. Distinguish who touch is for in the moment, refine how you play with sensation vs power
13. Get to the root of what needs to heal to have secure attachment with yourself
14. Build shame resilience & grace for receiving tender feedback from loved ones
15. Grow secure attachment with loved ones & community 
16. Clarify your vision for your relationships & erotic life within these 3 months
17. Bring your vision to life with community & 1:1 support
18. Embody more love in erotic embodied dance community
19. Experience your personal eros as a part of a larger collective embodiment of passion & liberation

What does it look like ?

You can teach what you embody

I love supporting leaders in the intimacy, dance & relationship field. Often you are so passionate about your work, yet have your own healing journey with attachment & eros. Come be well held, as you rewire your attachment system & expand your erotic capacity. Our community of practice is often the most vulnerable, authentic, intimate experience participants have had. Your body will be different after this training at the deepest energetic level. The more satisfied you are in your relationships & erotic life, the better you can serve your people!

Cohort dates

All applicants are required to attend 1 intro, if you have not already.

Intros

• Sat, Aug 1, 2 - 6 pm (Sebastopol)
• Sat, Aug 8, 2 - 6 pm (Oakland)
• Sat, Aug 22, 2 - 6 pm (Berkeley)
• Sat, Sept 5, 2 - 6 pm (Sebastopol)
• Or if you attend my Dominance & Submission workshops at Frequency, Firelight, SoulPlay, or Revel.

Immersion (Sebastopol)

1. Sat, Sept 19, 2 - 7 pm
2. Sat, Sept 26, 2 - 7 pm
3. Sat, Oct 3, 2 - 7 pm
4. Mon, Oct 5, 6:30 - 8:30 pm Relational Mapping (online, open to loved ones & community)
5. Sat, Oct 10, 12:45 - 9 pm Grief Eros Ritual (open to community)
6. Sat, Oct 17, 2 - 7 pm
7. Sat, Oct 31, 2 - 7 pm
8. Nov 14, 1 - 7 pm Deep Dive Weekend
9. Nov 15, 1 - 7 pm Deep Dive Weekend
10. Nov 21, 2 - 7 pm
11. Dec 12, 2 - 11 pm Grad Party! (invite your loved ones)
12. Dec 19, 2 - 7 pm

Our Time Includes

• 12 village sessions (66 hours)
• Daily presence practice (approximately 20 min)
• 2 to 3 hours of homework assignments after each session to practice & integrate what we learn. This includes both solo & small group assignments to deepen connection with other participants.
• Two 30 min 1:1 coaching sessions with (you may add on additional 1:1s)

Investment

This group is intentionally small and not for everyone. This is an advanced training. Investing is not just about money, it’s about choosing to focus your time and energy to grow your presence skills, your relationships, & your erotic expression. This training will transform your life, choose wisely if & when to join us. Tuition is $6,000. Payment plans available.

How to Join Play

1. Hold the dates in your calendar & budget for tuition
2. Attend an intro
3. Apply (applications open Aug 1)
4. Select applicants will be invited to interview
5. If you are invited to join, confirm your space with payment

How long does it take to change my life?

Play 1 will absolutely change your life, however, it’s recommended to train for a minimum of 2 years. Why? Because the first time you experience Play 1, you will have so much new awareness & perspective. Yet the body needs repetition & time to integrate. Play 2 is 6 months. 

You are highly encouraged to repeat Play 1 & 2 giving your body repetition & time to integrate healing from life long patterns. This repetition also gives you the felt sense of playing for a desire until it comes to life, multiple times! Over 2 years you will dare to desire more & to trust your capacity to have what you want. This may look like:

Slow & steady path: Play 1, Play 1, Play 2, Play 2

Spiral path: Play 1, Play 2, Play 1, Play 2

Some people continue to train for 10, 20, 30+ years, especially if they desire to teach similar work.

Facilitation Team

🏳️‍🌈 Z Griss (lead facilitator, they/them)

has guided dance for erotic liberation since 1999! Z is a relationship coach passionate about secure attachment, kink, & erotic embodied dance community. Z has been poly for 25+ years & loves supporting students to create the soul based relationships of their dreams. You may read the full bio here.

🏳️‍🌈 E Lowry (assistant, they/them)

a trauma informed kink explorer, an erotic energy channeler, & dancer who has been holding space for people on healing journeys for 20+ years.

🏳️‍🌈 We love teaching together & sharing from our experience as life & kink partners.