Pono is a self-pleasuring enthusiast and activist who encourages everyone to create their own regular self-pleasuring practice. He is a Somatic Sex Educator, a Sacred Intimate, and a Body Electric Facilitator, who joyfully lives and works on the unceded land of the Cowichan people who were part of the Coast Salish People, in what is colonially known as the Cowichan Valley, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada