SD Massage for Dummies with/ Dave, Monique, and Peter

A space to enhance touch and massage skills while improving communication around touch, consent, and boundaries.

Welcome lovers of touch! We are so excited to bring you this touch laboratory.

This will be a space to both learn and improve your touch and massage skills as well as your communication skills around touch and boundaries. It will also be a space to fill up your cup with some oxytocin 🥰

This workshop is an iteration of a workshop that Monique and Dave started leading 15 years ago! It was our first collaboration and we’re thrilled to be bringing it back with all the new tips and tricks we’ve learned in our many, many years of touching bodies. Between Monique, Dave and Peter we’re bringing over 50 years of experience in the world of intentional touch and massage.

You don’t have to be a dummy to come to this workshop! All levels are welcome and everyone will learn something and get a chance to practice their skills. The best part about a touch and massage workshop is that you’ll be receiving half the time! Speaking of receiving, this is a great opportunity to work on receiving… to open yourself to more pleasure… to speak into your desires and communicate your boundaries. All of that is welcome at the touch laboratory.

Take time to slow down, and learn how a body can whisper exactly how it would like to be touched in any moment.

Cost:

$79 early bird / $89 general admission / $145 for pairs

Facilitator Bios:

Dave Booda is a writer, musician and social entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of IntimacyFest and hosts the Darkness Experiment, a 5-day relational retreat in the complete dark. He has led over 450 workshops on connection, touch and relationships and has consulted for and facilitated experiences for companies, communities, retreats, festivals, conferences, birthday parties, weddings, funerals, and gatherings of all kinds — with the intention to inspire authenticity, connection and group cohesion. He has published over 200 essays for boodaism.com and played over 1000 shows as a touring singer/songwriter. As a musician he also moonlights as his alter-ego “Boodananda“, an enthusiastically spiritual, narcissistic shaman who performs at festivals with the purpose of educating the public about abuser and predator warning signs. He is also a former Naval Officer and graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, currently serving on the board of directors for the Foundation for Intentional Community while living in rural San Diego, California.

Monique Darling, Author of 'Beyond Cuddle Party' and workshop facilitator extraordinaire, 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 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.

PLEASE NOTE: once you buy your ticket, you will receive a welcome email giving you all the information you need to know to attend the event like the address and what you need to bring. If you feel like you have not received it please check your spam or junk folder first before contacting us about where the event address is, thank you!