touch essentials 101: a consent weekend workshop

This experiential workshop, comes from a lineage of offering consensual touch practices for those seeking an embodied experience of receiving and giving. It aims to provide you with tools and practices to create safe-enough protocols and agreements to negotiate your needs for touch and intimacy with others.

when

Saturday & Sunday
July 8 & 9
10am – 2pm

where

True North Yoga
1512 10th St. Boise, Idaho, 83703

Who is this for?

  • For people who want to learn how to trust both their boundaries and their desires.
  • For folks looking to gain greater fluency in asking for what they truly want from others.
  • For people looking to identify and understand common reasons why people operate out of consent (including habitual patterns, held religious trauma, institutionalized systems of oppression and power).
  • For people looking to gain access to more choices for themselves in their body and in their relationships.
  • For individuals looking to learn a more nuanced understanding of giving and receiving touch outside of the cultural expectations of sexual relationships.
  • For people who want to cultivate the skill of differentiating between the act of giving versus doing, and between active and passive receiving states.
  • For those seeking to decrease the risk of harm by learning and using a common language for communicating consent within a community container.

what is this about?

What would it be like to be gentle, clear and respectful – as you ask for what you want?

What would it be like to feel comfortable saying No or setting a limit, and doing so with clarity and grace? 

Many people take this workshop to clarify and enhance their personal or intimate lives. What surprises them is how much it affects the rest of their lives too. 

Drawing deeply from the model of The Wheel of Consent, created by Dr. Betty Martin, this model of interaction is based on exchanges of touch – but applies to so much more.

It sheds light on troublesome and confusing interactions and clears them up. It invariably describes and teaches an embodied understanding of the fundamental dynamics of most human relating.

The Wheel of Consent distinguishes between who is ‘doing’ and who it’s for. With this distinction four kinds of touch become possible, opening a rich and varied possibility of experience. It shows you how to notice what it is you want, how to trust that, value it and communicate it.

The real meaning of ‘Receiving’ and ‘Giving’ become clear – and they are not what you might think they are! You learn to tell them apart, learn when to use each of them, and come to appreciate and enjoy each of them. 

Many people have found this workshop and the Wheel of Consent to be life-changing. The Wheel brings clarity, ease, freedom, gratitude, and generosity in all your interactions.

what do you need to know about this workshop?

~ You do not need a touch partner for this workshop

~ is experiential – you will have the opportunity to practice and explore. 

~ respects your boundaries – you never have to touch anyone you don’t want to. 

~ lets you start right where you are. New to the idea or wildly experienced.

~ gives you a game to take home that makes the whole thing easy, fun, and if you like, sensual and sexy.

~ teaches you the 4 Quadrants – how to create them, find them, feel them, and a glimpse into where they can take you. 

~ is fun!

how much?

$50 – $125 sliding scale

how do i sign up?

Step One: To sign up and reserve your place in class, click here to book your spot. 

Step Two: [PLEASE CHOOSE FRIENDS & FAMILY OPTION] Send $125 non-refundable class fee through Venmo @Sherika-Tenaya and in the memo please put your name, email, phone number and workshop title in the memo.

OR

You can send your fee through Paypal @ sherkamartinez@gmail.com