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🌶️🌶️🌶️High Spiciness (clothing optional events that may include sexual touch)
This event is for cisgender men, non-binary AMAB (assigned male at birth), trans men, intersex, and two-spirited people of all sexual orientations. If you have questions or specific needs, please contact the coordinator at chicago@bodyelectric.org.
About the Workshop
Power, Surrender, and Intimacy provides a compassionate, trauma-informed environment to explore power, vulnerability, and physical sensation. Here, we invite the “shadow”—the suppressed or misunderstood parts of our sexuality—into the light, creating a path toward deep healing, boundary reclamation, and personal freedom.
Power, Surrender, and Intimacy (PSI) brings Body Electric’s 40-year legacy of ethical, intentional connection into the world of conscious kink.
True healing often requires us to look at the “shadow”—the parts of our sexuality, desires, and emotional history that we have kept hidden or felt shame around. When approached with intention and self-awareness, play dynamics like spanking, bondage, and flogging become powerful somatic tools. They allow us to process past trauma, release stored nervous system stress, and safely reclaim our personal power.
At the heart of conscious play is the art of negotiating desire—learning how to voice what you truly want while honoring your absolute right to say no. In this retreat, you will practice utilizing your authentic yes and no to set empowered boundaries in real time.
Learning to embody a clear, unapologetic no in a safe environment does more than protect your space—it completely transforms how you walk through the world. When you trust yourself to hold boundaries in high-intensity moments, that confidence naturally ripples into your career, everyday decisions, and personal relationships, empowering you to live and love with far greater authenticity.
We take consent seriously because we helped shape how the world understands it. This very workshop served as part of the incubator from which the School of Consent was birthed. Here, we utilize foundational exercises like the famous 3-Minute Game—a simple yet profound tool that helps you separate giving from receiving, clarify your authentic desires, and practice asking for what you truly want without fear, guilt, or obligation.
Through guided exercises, group sharing, and gentle, hands-on practices, you will learn to navigate sensation and power dynamics with exquisite attention and deep care. You’ll leave not only with practical skills for conscious play, but with a grounded sense of self-trust, emotional freedom, and integration.
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.
“I was surprised by how gentle yet profound the PSI weekend was. I felt safe enough to explore parts of myself I usually hide, and I came away feeling more integrated, connected, and deeply understood by the group.”
Ask your coordinator if there’s a promo code or discount available for you. To learn more, contact the coordinator at chicago@bodyelectric.org.
This workshop will take place on the traditional and ancestral lands of the Potawatomi, Ojibwe, and Odawa peoples.
