Who this program is for:

This workshop is for cisgender men and non-binary people AMAB (assigned male at birth). Please contact us if you have questions about which workshop is right for you.

What this program is about:

Across a week of guided erotic rites, you will cross the thresholds that shape you — where you yield, where you stand, and where you choose. Through initiation, power exchange, S&M and ritual, you will strip away what has kept your authority veiled and your worth contained. As you surrender performance and expectations, your agency deepens. What remains is not new — it is the original current of your power, undeniable and already alive within you. You are not learning to become the icon. You are remembering that you are one.

The Power, Surrender and Intimacy (PSI) workshop brings Body Electric’s commitment to ethical and intentional erotic play into realms of intense body sensation and sexual power dynamics. In this intensive we will again create a safe space with guided facilitation for you to learn to deepen your experience of conscious eroticism in an intentional erotic community. Along with erotic touch, you will use your skills of creating conscious intentions, identifying and asking for what you want, and practicing exquisite attention and care. A key component will be honing skills of negotiation to expand the realm of what is possible for you – for your partners. Methods used include spanking, bondage, flogging and other practices of high body stimulation, as well as living into your power as an icon.

Body Electric understands the importance of privacy and confidentiality. They have been an integral part of our work for over 40 years. If you have concerns, just ask your coordinator.

How to prepare for this program

There will be specific homework that must be completed before arriving at the intensive. Instructions will be in your registration confirmation letter.

Suggested reading: Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics, and Practice by Mark Thompson.

Ask your coordinator if there’s a promo code or discount available to you. Contact beevents@bodyelectric.org.

This workshop will take place on the traditional and ancestral lands of the Mohican and Mohawk peoples.