The Art of Impact: Foundations of Touch and Tools – An Impact Play Workshop

🕢 Workshop: 7:30–9:30 PM

🕤 Guided Jam: 9:45–11:45 PM (Practice & Free Play)

📍 Address: Provided in confirmation email. (Note: Location is a walk-up.)

📝 Note: This workshop centers on body-safe impact techniques and mindful connection. It is educational and experiential, not sexual or hookup-oriented. No prior impact experience is necessary.

Ready to strike with confidence, connection, and care?

Foundations of Touch and Tools offers beginners a welcoming, embodied introduction to the art of impact play. Through hands-on guidance and playful exploration, you'll learn how to use your body and basic implements to create satisfying sensations—ranging from thuddy to stingy—all while practicing consent, precision, and trust-building.

Meet your facilitator:

🔥 Rorpheus – Rope Ritualist, Pro Dom, kink educator, and primal movement coach, Rorpheus brings over a decade of experience in martial arts, body-based play, and consent-centered education. As a certified CPR & First Aid instructor, they weave trauma-aware safety and embodied connection into every class. Their approach blends technique, creativity, and embodied awareness—inviting students to experience impact as more than sensation, but as a dialogue of trust, presence, and personal expression.

💫 What You’ll Experience:

✋ Hands-On Striking: Learn how to use palms, fists, and other parts of the body to deliver safe, intentional impact—no toys required.

🪵 Tool Techniques: Explore beginner-friendly implements like paddles, floggers, and crops, with guidance on control, rhythm, and sensation.

📍 Impact Safety Basics: Understand where to hit, where to avoid, how to modulate force, and how to read your partner’s responses.

💞 Trust & Connection: Practice verbal and nonverbal consent tools that support mutual safety, care, and empowered play.

🌀 Guided Jam: After the structured class, stay and play in a supportive open space to practice what you’ve learned, get feedback, or simply observe and absorb.

🎒 What to Bring:

1. Comfortable clothes you can move in
2. Any impact tools you own or want to learn with (loaners available)
3. Water/snacks (optional)
4. Notebook or journal (optional)

👚 What to Wear:

Wear what feels good and allows movement. If you plan to receive impact, avoid clothes with buttons, underwires, or hard edges.

💰 Pricing:

Workshop Only: Tier 1: $30 | Tier 2: $40

Workshop & Jam: Tier 1: $55 | Tier 2: $75

⚠️ Disclaimer & Safety Statement

This workshop involves physical contact and hands-on practice with impact implements. As with all kink and movement-based activities, there are inherent risks, which may include:

1. Bruising, welts, or skin sensitivity
2. Muscle or joint soreness
3. Accidental impact to sensitive or high-risk areas

At The Art of Impact, we prioritize consent, care, and communication above all else. Everything practiced is grounded in an embodied yes—not just verbal consent, but a full-body readiness, clarity, and attunement between all participants.

To help lower the risk of harm and create a safe learning environment, we implement the following:

🔹 Anatomy & Safety Education: You'll learn what areas are safe to strike, what to avoid, and why.

🔹 Gradual Progression & Warm-Up: We start slow and build intensity with intention.

🔹 Technique Coaching: Clear demonstrations and hands-on guidance to support proper form, pacing, and rhythm.

🔹 Consent & Co-Regulation: We practice real-time communication, safeword systems, and body-check cues to help you tune into your partner’s comfort and your own.

🔹 Trauma-Aware & First Aid Informed: With a certified CPR & First Aid instructor leading, a first aid kit will be on-site.

🔹 Aftercare & Integration: Time and space for physical and emotional decompression is built into the container.

Your participation is entirely voluntary. You are always encouraged to speak up, step out, or pause at any moment. No activity will be performed without a clear, mutual, and embodied yes.

LATE ENTRY & REFUNDS

Doors close promptly to maintain a focused learning space. Late arrivals may not be admitted. Refunds will not be offered the day of. Requests must be made at least 7 days prior to the event.

Questions or concerns?

📧 Email: PagansParadiseNYC@gmail.com

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