Portland's Largest Cuddle Party ever: With Monique Darling, Peter Petersen

This is a space to be soft, real, playful, and connected, with yourself and with a room full of heart-forward humans. All fully clothed.

🌟 Portland’s Largest Cuddle Party EVER! 🌟

Come be held, heard, and celebrated, just as you are.

With Monique Darling & Peter Petersen and organized by Portland's own Tastes of Tantra, Susan Cohn.

What is a Cuddle Party?

It’s a 3-hour guided experience where we practice something most of us were never taught:

💖 How to say no without guilt

💖 How to ask for what we want

💖 How to receive safe, nurturing, non-erotic touch

This is a space to be soft, real, playful, and connected, with yourself and with a room full of heart-forward humans. All fully clothed. All fully consensual. All deeply nourishing.

Why I’m So Passionate About This Work (From Monique)

I’ve facilitated more Cuddle Parties than anyone else on the planet. Seriously. Thousands. All over the world.

I even wrote the book Beyond Cuddle Party to help people understand the power behind these deceptively simple rules of connection.

When I first began facilitating, my own sons were little, and they got to hear me practicing the Cuddle Party agreements aloud at home. They grew up learning about consent, boundaries, and how to honor their own yes and no. And I’ve watched those lessons shape them into incredible men.

This work changes lives.

I’ve had people come up to me on five continents and tell me:

🌀 “Cuddle Party helped me reclaim touch without fear.”

🌀 “I finally learned how to say no and mean it.”

🌀 “This made intimacy feel safe for the first time in my life.”

Touch is often tangled up with sxx in our culture. We collapse the two without even realizing it.

Cuddle Party untangles that, offering a space where you can feel safe enough to ask:

“How do I want to be touched in this moment?”

And know it never, ever, ever goes erotic.

It’s tender. It’s freeing. And it’s life-changing.

I host the world’s largest annual Cuddle Party each year in D.C., and our local host, Susan C, "Bring that magic to Portland!" with a huge ballroom and a big vision. Now we're asking:

✨ Will you help us make history?

Come play. Come be held. Come see why this changed my life—and so many others.

Peter Petersen will open the space with Qigong

Peter will guide a gentle, grounding Qigong practice to help you release tension, connect to your breath, and arrive fully in your body. These ancient movements are like a moving meditation—calming your nervous system and bringing you into presence before we begin.

What to Bring:

Cozy pajamas or soft comfy clothes

Blankets, pillows, or plushy things

Water bottle and your beautiful self

IMPORTANT: Doors lock at 7:30 PM

Please arrive by 7:00 PM to check in, get comfy, and settle in.

The Welcome Circle starts at 7:30 PM sharp—this is where we go over the rules and agreements that make Cuddle Party so safe, empowering, and magical. If you miss it, you miss the event. So please plan ahead for traffic and parking.

Love Exchange:

💖 $35 solo Pre sale

$40 @ door

💖 $60 per pair

Once you purchase your ticket, please check your email for the welcome letter on directions of where the venue is located and what to bring.

RSVP now for Portland’s Largest Cuddle Party ever

Let’s fill this ballroom with softness, boundaries, connection, and joy.

👉 RSVP HERE

We’ve got the space. All we need is you. 🫶

ABOUT YOUR FACILITATORS:

Monique Darling

Author of 'Beyond Cuddle Party' and workshop facilitator extraordinaire, Monique was born on this planet with the unique gifts and soul calling to help you remember how magnificent you truly are! Messages from your ancestors, your spirit guides, your body, nature, your soul, are all called upon and utilized so that you walk away knowing how deeply the cosmos loves you for YOU, exactly as you are, so you can begin to love and accept yourself too.

YOU, you are the gift!

Monique has led nearly 3000 workshops in the past 13 years. She has taught at colleges across the US including Yale. She has been featured on TLC and The Dr’s as well as various radio shows, podcasts and magazines across the globe. She specializes in helping others reclaim their power and natural sensuality by transmuting fear and repression into courage, self-love and freedom. Her primary purpose is helping folks bring out their vulnerability, energetic embodiment and fearless relating. Learn more about Monique by going to www.everydaytantra.com

Peter Petersen

Peter has been teaching qigong for 24 years and has been a certified massage therapist for the last 20 years. Peter has been teaching in health clubs, hospitals, retirement villas, and several different wellness/spa resorts in Mexico and the United States, such as Rancho La Puerta, Mayacamas Ranch, and Present Moment Retreat.

Peter is also a personal wellness coach. This Qigong practice helps people ground themselves into their “now” to increase their present moment awareness of their behaviors, and find simple solutions to problematic habits such as: eating, moving, negative thinking, and sleeping. The result of this tool box of healthy information is that clients become their own health advocate and regain a sense of stability, peace, and well-being into their everyday lives