Integrated Eros

Wheel of Consent class in Berkeley - in person!
2023-01-27 18:00 - 2023-01-29 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Berkeley, CA
Why is it so hard to ask for what we want? What gets in our way? How can we learn to know what we want, trust in our own desires, and communicate that to others?
Join us for a weekend guided practice laboratory to learn skills from the Wheel of Consent®. The Wheel of Consent® is a model of consent based on the idea of consent as an agreement between people, with a clear understanding of who an action is for. This practice allows for a much deeper engagement with understanding our own wants and desires and our boundaries and limits.
Register here
At the end of this course, you’ll:
-Have a deeper understanding of how to know what it is you want
-Be able to trust and value your desires
-Better know in your body your authentic “yeses” and “nos”
-Be more awake to the pleasure of touch
-Have some tools to communicate your wants to others
Because of who we are as teachers, we offer a space that raises up marginalized voices instead of mostly the default white, western, cis/het voice. We are offering a coalition space (hat-tip to Bernice Johnson Reagon) for practicing and learning the Wheel of Consent.
This is an in-person class, held in Berkeley, California.
We will meet Friday Jan. 27 6-9pmPT and Saturday/Sunday 1/28 and 1/29 10am-6pm
During the course we offer the opportunity to explore conscious touch. Each person will be invited to explore what feels good for them in solo practice, and partner work. These exercises are often limited to the hands. Touch is always optional. We are not inviting touch at the genitals or touch that is designed to arouse at this workshop.
Couples are welcome and we encourage experimenting with touch with other participants. Please attend to your touch agreements with your partner beforehand.
COVID-19/Health Policy:
We require participants to be fully vaccinated and have had a booster within 6 months of the workshop date. We also will require a rapid test before each day of the workshop. You are welcome to wear a mask if you wish, but they are optional. If you have any cold-like symptoms or symptoms of unexplained rash or skin lesion, please take of yourself and others, and stay at home. In this case, if at the last minute, you will receive a 75% refund. Since we are meeting in person, we ask that participants take reasonable precautions in the week before we meet together.
Your Workshop Leaders:
Max (he/him) is a Black, queer trans man who has been on a life-long journey of learning about and re-connecting to his body. He has been fascinated by the body, the spirit, and culture, and more particularly, the ways in which these meet, interact, and connect. He has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, and a Certificate in Theological Studies from Pacific School of Religion. He started a Buddhist meditation practice in 1990. He has been trained in a wide variety of embodiment modalities, including Authentic Movement and classical Tantra. He has spent his vocational life in a wide variety of endeavors, from academia, to non-profit technology, writing, and most recently, teaching mindfulness, emotional awareness, consent, and embodiment. He is a certified facilitator of the Wheel of Consent. He lives and works on a ranch in unceded Kashia Pomo territory, also known as Cazadero, California.
Sasha (they/them) is a white Jewish queer non-binary trans person who finds joy in teaching from and about the body and how we connect our insides to the outsides. They have worked with movement, sexuality, gender, bodywork and consent education for over 20 years. They are certified as a STREAM practitioner and are a certified facilitator with the School of Consent. They have taught and danced all over the world in contact improvisation, aerial/circus and integrated dance companies, universities and spaces. Other influences in their thinking include years of hospice care work, elections work, and cooperative business and living structures. They currently work as a Somatic Sex Educator based in HoChunk land called DeJope (Madison, WI, US).

Couple's Massage Class through A Woman's Touch February
2023-02-11 12:30 - 14:30 (America/Chicago) | Online
Enjoy some quality time with your partner and reconnect using the power of touch with this Couple’s Massage class with Sasha Lasdon. You’ll learn basic massage techniques and communication skills so that together you can share in the nurturing, relaxing and therapeutic benefits of massage. We’ll explore non-sexual touch only. A wonderful idea for a gift or date night! We will offer a safe, friendly learning space for all bodies and levels of experience.
All couples over 18 welcome. Please contact A Woman’s Touch with any questions: 608-250-1928
Please register with a practice partner (price is for 2 people). To register, click here
The class happens via Zoom. We invite you to be in a space with visual and sound privacy. Wear comfortable clothing and have yoga mats, pillows, bolsters and anything else you need to make yourselves comfortable with you. A link with complete info will be shared with you the day before the class.

Couple's Massage class through A Woman's Touch March
2023-03-18 12:30 - 14:30 (America/Chicago) | Online
Enjoy some quality time with your partner and reconnect using the power of touch with this Couple’s Massage class with Sasha Lasdon. You’ll learn basic massage techniques and communication skills so that together you can share in the nurturing, relaxing and therapeutic benefits of massage. We’ll explore non-sexual touch only. A wonderful idea for a gift or date night! We will offer a safe, friendly learning space for all bodies and levels of experience.
All couples over 18 welcome. Please contact A Woman’s Touch with any questions: 608-250-1928
Please register with a practice partner (price is for 2 people). To register, click here
The class happens via Zoom. We invite you to be in a space with visual and sound privacy. Wear comfortable clothing and have yoga mats, pillows, bolsters and anything else you need to make yourselves comfortable with you. A link with complete info will be shared with you the day before the class.

Couples Massage Workshop

Wheel of Consent online 6 week series
2023-03-20 19:30 - 2023-04-24 21:30 (America/Chicago) | Online
REGISTER HERE
Why is it so hard to ask for what we want? What gets in our way? How can we learn to know what we want, trust in our own desires, and communicate that to others?
Join us for a 6-week guided practice laboratory to learn skills from the Wheel of Consent®. The Wheel of Consent® is a model of consent based on the idea of consent as an agreement between people, with a clear understanding of who an action is for. This practice allows for a much deeper engagement with understanding our own wants and desires and our boundaries and limits.
All classes will happen on Zoom. Mondays, March 20-April 24, 2023 5:30-7:30pmPT/8:30-10:30pmET
REGISTER HERE
At the end of this course, you’ll:
Have a deeper understanding of how to know what it is you want
Be able to trust and value your desires
Better know in your body your authentic “yeses” and “nos”
Be more awake to the pleasure of touch
Have some tools to communicate your wants to others
Because of who we are as teachers, we offer a space that raises up marginalized voices instead of mostly the default white, western, cis/het voice. We are offering a coalition space (hat-tip to Bernice Johnson Reagon) for practicing and learning the Wheel of Consent.

About your facilitators:
Max (he/him) is a Black, queer trans man who has been on a life-long journey of learning about and re-connecting to his body. He has been fascinated by the body, the spirit, and culture, and more particularly, the ways in which these meet, interact, and connect. He has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, and a Certificate in Theological Studies from Pacific School of Religion. He started a Buddhist meditation practice in 1990. He has been trained in a wide variety of embodiment modalities, including Authentic Movement and classical Tantra. He has spent his vocational life in a wide variety of endeavors, from academia, to non-profit technology, writing, and most recently, teaching mindfulness, emotional awareness, consent, and embodiment. He is a certified facilitator of the Wheel of Consent. He lives and works on a ranch in unceded Kashia Pomo territory, also known as Cazadero, California.
Sasha (they/them) is a white Jewish queer non-binary trans person who finds joy in teaching from and about the body and how we connect our insides to the outsides. They have worked with movement, sexuality, gender, bodywork and consent education for over 20 years. They practice as a Somatic Sex Educator and are a certified facilitator with the School of Consent. They have taught and danced all over the world in contact improvisation, aerial/circus and integrated dance companies, universities and spaces. Other influences in their thinking include years of hospice care work, elections work, and cooperative business and living structures. They currently work and live in HoChunk land called DeJope (Madison, WI, US).
Our refund policy: 100% refund up to 7 days before the start of the course. Before the first class, we will deduct a $50 administration fee. If an emergency arises after the first class, and you cannot attend future classes, email us to let us know – we can give 100% credit for a future series.
For more on why I do this work, check out this blog post!

Couples Massage class through A Woman's Touch July 2023
2023-07-22 12:30 - 14:30 (America/Chicago) | Online
Another opportunity to take the Couples Massage class online in July!
Enjoy some quality time with your partner and reconnect using the power of touch with this Couple’s Massage class through Woman’s Touch with Sasha Lasdon. You’ll learn basic massage techniques and communication skills so that together you can share in the nurturing, relaxing and therapeutic benefits of massage. The class is experiential and you and your partner will be guided through each of you getting to give and receive a massage. We’ll explore non-sexual touch only. A wonderful idea for a gift or date night! Sasha offers a safe, friendly learning space for all bodies and levels of experience.
All couples over 18 welcome. Please contact A Woman’s Touch with any questions: 608-250-1928
Please register with a practice partner (price is for 2 people). To register, click here
The class happens via Zoom. It lasts for two hours. We invite you to be in a space with visual and sound privacy. Wear comfortable clothing and have yoga mats, pillows, bolsters and anything else you need to make yourselves comfortable with you. Sasha teaches the class from the perspective of working on the floor, with suggestions for adjustments to suit your needs. Your questions and reflections are welcome in the class.
We will send a link with complete info to you the day before the class.
About your teacher:
Sasha Lasdon trained as a massage therapist in 2003 and currently works as a Somatic Sex Educator in Madison, WI. They offer direct touch work and embodied teaching about pleasure and consent. They offer scar tissue remediation as part of their practice. They incorporate bodywork into their dance teaching, leading hands-on body-centered warm-ups regularly. Sasha deeply enjoys helping people learn to touch each other nicely and has been teaching this class with A Woman’s Touch for almost 7 years. Please join them for class!

Couples Massage Workshop

Join us for this Couples Massage class online in July!

Wheel of Consent workshop in Chicago August 2023
2023-08-18 18:00 - 2023-08-20 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Heartwood Center, 1818 Dempster St., Evanston, IL, 60202, United States
We have postponed this event until the spring due to family medical emergencies for both facilitators. Stay tuned!
Register here for How Do We Ask for What We Want? A Wheel of Consent workshop
Why is it so hard to ask for what we want? What gets in our way? How can we learn to know what we want, trust in our own desires, and communicate that to others?
Join us for a weekend guided practice laboratory to learn skills from the Wheel of Consent®. The Wheel of Consent® is a model of consent based on the idea of consent as an agreement between people, with a clear understanding of who an action is for. This practice allows for a much deeper engagement with understanding our own wants/desires and our limits/boundaries.
At the end of this course, you’ll:
Have a deeper understanding of how to know what you want
Be able to trust and value your desires
Better locate your authentic “yeses” and “nos” in your body
Be more connected to the pleasure of touch
Have new tools to communicate to others about your wants and limits

Because of who we (Max and Sasha) are, we offer a space that raises up marginalized voices instead of the default white, western, cis/het voice. We are offering a coalition space (hat-tip to Bernice Johnson Reagon) for practicing and learning the Wheel of Consent. For this workshop, we will reserve 50% of the participant list for BIPOC registrants in order to fully inhabit that coalition space. (Why are we making this choice?)
This is an in-person class, held in Chicago, IL, at Heartwood Center.
We will meet:
Friday Aug. 18 6-9pm CT
Saturday Aug. 19 10am-6pm CT
Sunday Aug. 20 10am-6pm CT
During the course we offer the opportunity to explore touch in a mindful way. Each person will be invited to explore what feels good for them in solo practice and partner work. These exercises are often limited to the hands. Touch is always optional. At this workshop, we are not inviting touch to the genitals or touch that is designed to arouse.
Couples are welcome and we encourage experimenting with touch with other participants. Please attend to your agreements with your partner beforehand.
COVID-19/Health Policy:
We require participants to be fully vaccinated with a booster within the last year or have had covid within the last year of the workshop date. We also will require a rapid test before each day of the workshop. You are welcome to wear a mask if you wish, but they are optional. If you have any cold-like or allergy-like/conjunctivitis symptoms, please take care of yourself and others, and stay at home. In this case, if at the last minute, you will receive a 75% refund. Since we are meeting in person, we ask that participants take reasonable precautions in the week before we meet together.
Your Workshop Leaders:
Max (he/him) is a Black, queer trans man who has been on a life-long journey of learning about and re-connecting to his body. He has been fascinated by the body, the spirit, and culture, and more particularly, the ways in which these meet, interact, and connect. He has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, and a Certificate in Theological Studies from Pacific School of Religion. He started a Buddhist meditation practice in 1990. He has been trained in a wide variety of embodiment modalities, including Authentic Movement and classical Tantra. He has spent his vocational life in a wide variety of endeavors, from academia, to non-profit technology, writing, and most recently, teaching mindfulness, emotional awareness, consent, and embodiment. He is a certified facilitator of the Wheel of Consent. He lives and works on a ranch in unceded Kashia Pomo territory, also known as Cazadero, California.
Sasha (they/them) is a white Jewish queer non-binary trans person who finds joy in teaching from and about the body and how we connect our insides to the outsides. They have worked with movement, sexuality, gender, bodywork and consent education for over 20 years. They are certified as a STREAM practitioner and are a certified facilitator with the School of Consent. They have taught and danced all over the world in contact improvisation, aerial/circus and integrated dance companies, universities and spaces. Other influences in their thinking include years of hospice care work, elections work, and cooperative business and living structures. They currently work as a Somatic Sex Educator based in HoChunk land called DeJope (Madison, WI, US).

Couples Massage class through A Woman's Touch September 2023
2023-09-09 12:30 - 14:30 (America/Chicago) | Online
Another opportunity to take the Couples Massage class online in September!
Enjoy some quality time with your partner and reconnect using the power of touch with this Couple’s Massage class through Woman’s Touch with Sasha Lasdon. You’ll learn basic massage techniques and communication skills so that together you can share in the nurturing, relaxing and therapeutic benefits of massage. The class is experiential and you and your partner will be guided through each of you getting to give and receive a massage. We’ll explore non-sexual touch only. A wonderful idea for a gift or date night! Sasha offers a safe, friendly learning space for all bodies and levels of experience.
All couples over 18 welcome. Please contact A Woman’s Touch with any questions: 608-250-1928
Please register with a practice partner (price is for 2 people). To register, click here
The class happens via Zoom. It lasts for two hours. We invite you to be in a space with visual and sound privacy. Wear comfortable clothing and have yoga mats, pillows, bolsters and anything else you need to make yourselves comfortable with you. Sasha teaches the class from the perspective of working on the floor, with suggestions for adjustments to suit your needs. Your questions and reflections are welcome in the class.
We will send a link with complete info to you the day before the class.
About your teacher:
Sasha Lasdon trained as a massage therapist in 2003 and currently works as a Somatic Sex Educator in Madison, WI. They offer direct touch work and embodied teaching about pleasure and consent. They offer scar tissue remediation as part of their practice. They incorporate bodywork into their dance teaching, leading hands-on body-centered warm-ups regularly. Sasha deeply enjoys helping people learn to touch each other nicely and has been teaching this class with A Woman’s Touch for almost 7 years. Please join them for class!

Couples Massage Workshop

Join us for this Couples Massage class online in September!

Wheel of Consent online 6-week series October/November 2023
2023-10-16 19:30 - 2023-11-20 21:30 (America/Chicago) | Online
REGISTER HERE
Why is it so hard to ask for what we want? What gets in our way? How can we learn to know what we want, trust in our own desires, and communicate that to others?
Join us for a 6-week guided practice laboratory to learn skills from the Wheel of Consent®. The Wheel of Consent® is a model of consent based on the idea of consent as an agreement between people, with a clear understanding of who an action is for. This practice allows for a much deeper engagement with understanding our own wants and desires and our boundaries and limits.
All classes will happen on Zoom. Mondays, October 16-November 20, 2023 5:30-7:30pmPT/8:30-10:30pmET
REGISTER HERE
At the end of this course, you’ll:
Have a deeper understanding of how to know what it is you want
Be able to trust and value your desires
Better know in your body your authentic “yeses” and “nos”
Be more awake to the pleasure of touch
Have some tools to communicate your wants to others
Because of who we are as teachers, we offer a space that raises up marginalized voices instead of mostly the default white, western, cis/het voice. We are offering a coalition space (hat-tip to Bernice Johnson Reagon) for practicing and learning the Wheel of Consent.

About your facilitators:
Max (he/him) is a Black, queer trans man who has been on a life-long journey of learning about and re-connecting to his body. He has been fascinated by the body, the spirit, and culture, and more particularly, the ways in which these meet, interact, and connect. He has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, and a Certificate in Theological Studies from Pacific School of Religion. He started a Buddhist meditation practice in 1990. He has been trained in a wide variety of embodiment modalities, including Authentic Movement and classical Tantra. He has spent his vocational life in a wide variety of endeavors, from academia, to non-profit technology, writing, and most recently, teaching mindfulness, emotional awareness, consent, and embodiment. He is a certified facilitator of the Wheel of Consent. He lives and works on a ranch in unceded Kashia Pomo territory, also known as Cazadero, California.
Sasha (they/them) is a white Jewish queer non-binary trans person who finds joy in teaching from and about the body and how we connect our insides to the outsides. They have worked with movement, sexuality, gender, bodywork and consent education for over 20 years. They practice as a Somatic Sex Educator and are a certified facilitator with the School of Consent. They have taught and danced all over the world in contact improvisation, aerial/circus and integrated dance companies, universities and spaces. Other influences in their thinking include years of hospice care work, elections work, and cooperative business and living structures. They currently work and live in HoChunk land called DeJope (Madison, WI, US).
Our refund policy: 100% refund up to 7 days before the start of the course. Before the first class, we will deduct a $50 administration fee. If an emergency arises after the first class, and you cannot attend future classes, email us to let us know – we can give 100% credit for a future series.
For more on why I do this work, check out this blog post!

Wheel of Consent 3 day online intensive November
2023-11-03 19:00 - 2023-11-05 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Online
Register here for How Do We Ask for What We Want? A Wheel of Consent workshop
Why is it so hard to ask for what we want? What gets in our way? How can we learn to know what we want, trust in our own desires, and communicate that to others?
Join us for a weekend guided practice laboratory to learn skills from the Wheel of Consent®. The Wheel of Consent® is a model of consent based on the idea of consent as an agreement between people, with a clear understanding of who an action is for. This practice allows for a much deeper engagement with understanding our own wants/desires and our limits/boundaries.
At the end of this course, you’ll:
Have a deeper understanding of how to know what you want
Be able to trust and value your desires
Better locate your authentic “yeses” and “nos” in your body
Be more connected to the pleasure of touch
Have new tools to communicate to others about your wants and limits

Because of who we (Max and Sasha) are, we offer a space that raises up marginalized voices instead of the default white, western, cis/het voice. We are offering a coalition space (hat-tip to Bernice Johnson Reagon) for practicing and learning the Wheel of Consent. For this workshop, we will reserve 50% of the participant list for BIPOC registrants in order to fully inhabit that coalition space. (Why are we making this choice?)
This is an online class. We are offering an intensive to help increase access. If a 6 week series is more to your liking, please join us for our 6 week series of the same material here.
We will meet:
Friday Nov.3 5-8pm PT/8-11pm ET
Saturday Nov. 4 10am-4pm PT/ 1pm-7pm ET
Sunday Nov. 5 10am-4pm PT/ 1pm-7pm ET
Each person will be invited to explore what feels good for them in solo practice and partner work. At this workshop, we are not inviting requests that involve touch to the genitals or touch that is designed to arouse. As we will be online, the actions will not be taken. With that, we are practicing choosing, which is more important than the doing in this context.
Couples are welcome and we encourage experimenting with other participants. Please attend to your agreements with your partner beforehand.

Your Workshop Leaders:
Max (he/him) is a Black, queer trans man who has been on a life-long journey of learning about and re-connecting to his body. He has been fascinated by the body, the spirit, and culture, and more particularly, the ways in which these meet, interact, and connect. He has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, and a Certificate in Theological Studies from Pacific School of Religion. He started a Buddhist meditation practice in 1990. He has been trained in a wide variety of embodiment modalities, including Authentic Movement and classical Tantra. He has spent his vocational life in a wide variety of endeavors, from academia, to non-profit technology, writing, and most recently, teaching mindfulness, emotional awareness, consent, and embodiment. He is a certified facilitator of the Wheel of Consent. He lives and works on a ranch in unceded Kashia Pomo territory, also known as Cazadero, California.
Sasha (they/them) is a white Jewish queer non-binary trans person who finds joy in teaching from and about the body and how we connect our insides to the outsides. They have worked with movement, sexuality, gender, bodywork and consent education for over 20 years. They are certified as a STREAM practitioner and are a certified facilitator with the School of Consent. They have taught and danced all over the world in contact improvisation, aerial/circus and integrated dance companies, universities and spaces. Other influences in their thinking include years of hospice care work, elections work, and cooperative business and living structures. They currently work as a Somatic Sex Educator based in HoChunk land called DeJope (Madison, WI, US).

Couples Massage class through A Woman's Touch November 2023
2023-11-11 12:30 - 14:30 (America/Chicago) | Online
Another opportunity to take the Couples Massage class online in November!
Enjoy some quality time with your partner and reconnect using the power of touch with this Couple’s Massage class through Woman’s Touch with Sasha Lasdon. You’ll learn basic massage techniques and communication skills so that together you can share in the nurturing, relaxing and therapeutic benefits of massage. The class is experiential and you and your partner will be guided through each of you getting to give and receive a massage. We’ll explore non-sexual touch only. A wonderful idea for a gift or date night! Sasha offers a safe, friendly learning space for all bodies and levels of experience.
All couples over 18 welcome. Please contact A Woman’s Touch with any questions: 608-250-1928
Please register with a practice partner (price is for 2 people). To register, click here
The class happens via Zoom. It lasts for two hours. We invite you to be in a space with visual and sound privacy. Wear comfortable clothing and have yoga mats, pillows, bolsters and anything else you need to make yourselves comfortable with you. Sasha teaches the class from the perspective of working on the floor, with suggestions for adjustments to suit your needs. Your questions and reflections are welcome in the class.
We will send a link with complete info to you the day before the class.
About your teacher:
Sasha Lasdon trained as a massage therapist in 2003 and currently works as a Somatic Sex Educator in Madison, WI. They offer direct touch work and embodied teaching about pleasure and consent. They offer scar tissue remediation as part of their practice. They incorporate bodywork into their dance teaching, leading hands-on body-centered warm-ups regularly. Sasha deeply enjoys helping people learn to touch each other nicely and has been teaching this class with A Woman’s Touch for almost 7 years. Please join them for class!

Couples Massage Workshop

Join us for this Couples Massage class online in November!

Couples Massage class through A Woman's Touch December 2023
2023-12-09 12:30 - 14:30 (America/Chicago) | Online
Another opportunity to take the Couples Massage class online in December!
Enjoy some quality time with your partner and reconnect using the power of touch with this Couple’s Massage class through Woman’s Touch with Sasha Lasdon. You’ll learn basic massage techniques and communication skills so that together you can share in the nurturing, relaxing and therapeutic benefits of massage. The class is experiential and you and your partner will be guided through each of you getting to give and receive a massage. We’ll explore non-sexual touch only. A wonderful idea for a gift or date night! Sasha offers a safe, friendly learning space for all bodies and levels of experience.
All couples over 18 welcome. Please contact A Woman’s Touch with any questions: 608-250-1928
Please register with a practice partner (price is for 2 people). To register, click here
The class happens via Zoom. It lasts for two hours. We invite you to be in a space with visual and sound privacy. Wear comfortable clothing and have yoga mats, pillows, bolsters and anything else you need to make yourselves comfortable with you. Sasha teaches the class from the perspective of working on the floor, with suggestions for adjustments to suit your needs. Your questions and reflections are welcome in the class.
We will send a link with complete info to you the day before the class.
About your teacher:
Sasha Lasdon trained as a massage therapist in 2003 and currently works as a Somatic Sex Educator in Madison, WI. They offer direct touch work and embodied teaching about pleasure and consent. They offer scar tissue remediation as part of their practice. They incorporate bodywork into their dance teaching, leading hands-on body-centered warm-ups regularly. Sasha deeply enjoys helping people learn to touch each other nicely and has been teaching this class with A Woman’s Touch for almost 7 years. Please join them for class!

Couples Massage Workshop

Join us for this Couples Massage class online in December!

Couples Massage class through A Woman's Touch January 2024
2024-01-13 12:30 - 14:30 (America/Chicago) | Online
Another opportunity to take the Couples Massage class online in January!
Enjoy some quality time with your partner and reconnect using the power of touch with this Couple’s Massage class through Woman’s Touch with Sasha Lasdon. You’ll learn basic massage techniques and communication skills so that together you can share in the nurturing, relaxing and therapeutic benefits of massage. The class is experiential and you and your partner will be guided through each of you getting to give and receive a massage. We’ll explore non-sexual touch only. A wonderful idea for a gift or date night! Sasha offers a safe, friendly learning space for all bodies and levels of experience.
All couples over 18 welcome. Please contact A Woman’s Touch with any questions: 608-250-1928
Please register with a practice partner (price is for 2 people). To register, click here
The class happens via Zoom. It lasts for two hours. We invite you to be in a space with visual and sound privacy. Wear comfortable clothing and have yoga mats, pillows, bolsters and anything else you need to make yourselves comfortable with you. Sasha teaches the class from the perspective of working on the floor, with suggestions for adjustments to suit your needs. Your questions and reflections are welcome in the class.
We will send a link with complete info to you the day before the class.
About your teacher:
Sasha Lasdon trained as a massage therapist in 2003 and currently works as a Somatic Sex Educator in Madison, WI. They offer direct touch work and embodied teaching about pleasure and consent. They offer scar tissue remediation as part of their practice. They incorporate bodywork into their dance teaching, leading hands-on body-centered warm-ups regularly. Sasha deeply enjoys helping people learn to touch each other nicely and has been teaching this class with A Woman’s Touch for almost 7 years. Please join them for class!

Couples Massage Workshop

Join us for this Couples Massage class online in January!

Couples Massage class through A Woman's Touch February 2024
2024-02-17 12:30 - 14:30 (America/Chicago) | Online
Another opportunity to take the Couples Massage class online in February!
Enjoy some quality time with your partner and reconnect using the power of touch with this Couple’s Massage class through Woman’s Touch with Sasha Lasdon. You’ll learn basic massage techniques and communication skills so that together you can share in the nurturing, relaxing and therapeutic benefits of massage. The class is experiential and you and your partner will be guided through each of you getting to give and receive a massage. We’ll explore non-sexual touch only. A wonderful idea for a gift or date night! Sasha offers a safe, friendly learning space for all bodies and levels of experience.
All couples over 18 welcome. Please contact A Woman’s Touch with any questions: 608-250-1928
Please register with a practice partner (price is for 2 people). To register, click here
The class happens via Zoom. It lasts for two hours. We invite you to be in a space with visual and sound privacy. Wear comfortable clothing and have yoga mats, pillows, bolsters and anything else you need to make yourselves comfortable with you. Sasha teaches the class from the perspective of working on the floor, with suggestions for adjustments to suit your needs. Your questions and reflections are welcome in the class.
We will send a link with complete info to you the day before the class.
About your teacher:
Sasha Lasdon trained as a massage therapist in 2003 and currently works as a Somatic Sex Educator in Madison, WI. They offer direct touch work and embodied teaching about pleasure and consent. They offer scar tissue remediation as part of their practice. They incorporate bodywork into their dance teaching, leading hands-on body-centered warm-ups regularly. Sasha deeply enjoys helping people learn to touch each other nicely and has been teaching this class with A Woman’s Touch for almost 7 years. Please join them for class!

Couples Massage Workshop

Join us for this Couples Massage class online in February!

Couples Massage class through A Woman's Touch March 2024
2024-03-09 12:30 - 14:30 (America/Chicago) | Online
Another opportunity to take the Couples Massage class online in March!
Enjoy some quality time with your partner and reconnect using the power of touch with this Couple’s Massage class through Woman’s Touch with Sasha Lasdon. You’ll learn basic massage techniques and communication skills so that together you can share in the nurturing, relaxing and therapeutic benefits of massage. The class is experiential and you and your partner will be guided through each of you getting to give and receive a massage. We’ll explore non-sexual touch only. A wonderful idea for a gift or date night! Sasha offers a safe, friendly learning space for all bodies and levels of experience.
All couples over 18 welcome. Please contact A Woman’s Touch with any questions: 608-250-1928
Please register with a practice partner (price is for 2 people). To register, click here
The class happens via Zoom. It lasts for two hours. We invite you to be in a space with visual and sound privacy. Wear comfortable clothing and have yoga mats, pillows, bolsters and anything else you need to make yourselves comfortable with you. Sasha teaches the class from the perspective of working on the floor, with suggestions for adjustments to suit your needs. Your questions and reflections are welcome in the class.
We will send a link with complete info to you the day before the class.
About your teacher:
Sasha Lasdon trained as a massage therapist in 2003 and currently works as a Somatic Sex Educator in Madison, WI. They offer direct touch work and embodied teaching about pleasure and consent. They offer scar tissue remediation as part of their practice. They incorporate bodywork into their dance teaching, leading hands-on body-centered warm-ups regularly. Sasha deeply enjoys helping people learn to touch each other nicely and has been teaching this class with A Woman’s Touch for almost 7 years. Please join them for class!

Couples Massage Workshop

Join us for this Couples Massage class online in March!

Wheel of Consent 3 day online intensive May 2024
2024-05-17 19:00 - 2024-05-19 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Online
Register here for How Do We Ask for What We Want? A Wheel of Consent workshop
Why is it so hard to ask for what we want? What gets in our way? How can we learn to know what we want, trust in our own desires, and communicate that to others?
Join us for a weekend guided practice laboratory to learn skills from the Wheel of Consent®. The Wheel of Consent® is a model of consent based on the idea of consent as an agreement between people, with a clear understanding of who an action is for. This practice allows for a much deeper engagement with understanding our own wants/desires and our limits/boundaries.
At the end of this course, you’ll:
Have a deeper understanding of how to know what you want
Be able to trust and value your desires
Better locate your authentic “yeses” and “nos” in your body
Be more connected to the pleasure of touch
Have new tools to communicate to others about your wants and limits

Because of who we (Max and Sasha) are, we offer a space that raises up marginalized voices instead of the default white, western, cis/het voice. We are offering a coalition space (hat-tip to Bernice Johnson Reagon) for practicing and learning the Wheel of Consent. For this workshop, we will reserve 50% of the participant list for BIPOC registrants in order to fully inhabit that coalition space. (Why are we making this choice?)
This is an online class. We are offering an intensive to help increase access. If a 6 week series is more to your liking, please join us for our 6 week series of the same material planned for October 2024.
We will meet:
Friday May 17 5-8pm PT/8-11pm ET
Saturday May 18 10am-4pm PT/ 1pm-7pm ET
Sunday May 19 10am-4pm PT/ 1pm-7pm ET
Each person will be invited to explore what feels good for them in solo practice and partner work. At this workshop, we are not inviting requests that involve touch to the genitals or touch that is designed to arouse. As we will be online, the actions will not be taken. With that, we are practicing choosing, which is more important than the doing in this context.
Couples are welcome and we encourage experimenting with other participants. Please attend to your agreements with your partner beforehand.

Your Workshop Leaders:
Max (he/him) is a Black, queer trans man who has been on a life-long journey of learning about and re-connecting to his body. He has been fascinated by the body, the spirit, and culture, and more particularly, the ways in which these meet, interact, and connect. He has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, and a Certificate in Theological Studies from Pacific School of Religion. He started a Buddhist meditation practice in 1990. He has been trained in a wide variety of embodiment modalities, including Authentic Movement and classical Tantra. He has spent his vocational life in a wide variety of endeavors, from academia, to non-profit technology, writing, and most recently, teaching mindfulness, emotional awareness, consent, and embodiment. He is a certified facilitator of the Wheel of Consent. He lives and works on a ranch in unceded Kashia Pomo territory, also known as Cazadero, California.
Sasha (they/them) is a white Jewish queer non-binary trans person who finds joy in teaching from and about the body and how we connect our insides to the outsides. They have worked with movement, sexuality, gender, bodywork and consent education for over 20 years. They are certified as a STREAM practitioner and are a certified facilitator with the School of Consent. They have taught and danced all over the world in contact improvisation, aerial/circus and integrated dance companies, universities and spaces. Other influences in their thinking include years of hospice care work, elections work, and cooperative business and living structures. They currently work as a Somatic Sex Educator based in HoChunk land called DeJope (Madison, WI, US).

Like A Pro in Manchester, MI Feb 26- March 2, 2025
2025-02-26 08:00 - 2025-03-02 17:00 (America/Chicago)
Join us for Like A Pro in Manchester MI! To apply, go here!
Like A Pro is a Wheel of Consent workshops for professionals, offered through the School of Consent. More info on Like A Pro on the School of Consent’s website is here.
Like a Pro brings the transformative model of the Wheel of Consent to professionals working with topics of consent, boundaries, relational intimacy, body sovereignty, trauma recovery, sexuality, communication, and touch. Originally developed for touch practitioners, the course has, by popular demand, expanded to include non-touch professionals like therapists, coaches, teachers, and workshop leaders.
Like a Pro guides you into a personal somatic experience of The Wheel, and then teaches you how to integrate it into your practice, to make all your sessions safe, effective, and satisfying.
How is taking Like a Pro different from the Wheel of Consent workshop series I’ve offered and been teaching? The main differences are in the time and depth, as well as in who it’s for (see what I did there?). Like a Pro is a 5-day workshop. The Wheel of Consent workshops I teach are about 2.5 days worth of material (even in series form).

Like a Pro is for you if…
You have a professional practice and…

you want to bring the Wheel into the one-on-one work you are offering
you’ve read the book and you want to practice what you’ve been learning
you’ve taken a Wheel of Consent workshop or been introduced to the Wheel in another training and want to go deeper
you want to clarify the dynamics of working with clients
You are a body worker, physical therapist, psychotherapist, healer, sex worker, teacher, workshop leader, life coach, intimacy or relationship coach, surrogate partner, cuddle therapist, tantric practitioner, massage therapist – if you work with people, you need this course!

I’ll be co-teaching this class with my colleague (and teacher/mentor) Robyn Dalzen. Please apply to join us!

I will also be co-teaching Like A Pro in DC in May and a queer-centered Like A Pro in the Bay Area in July. Stay tuned!

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Couples Massage class through A Woman's Touch September 2025
2025-09-27 12:30 - 14:30 (America/Chicago) | Online

What Do I Want? & How Do I Ask For It? A Wheel of Consent workshop
2025-10-17 18:00 - 2025-10-19 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Mystic Medicine KC, 1310 NW Vivion Rd Suite 109, Kansas City, MO, 64118, United States
Register here!
Join Sasha and Tunde J.O. in Kansas City, MO October 17-19, 2025 for an in-person Wheel of Consent workshop!
About the event

Do you ever marvel at the audacity of children to declare no and/or ask for what they want? Want to get back in touch with that?
How To Ask For What you want is a weekend immersion that primarily invites you to notice yourself and practice making choices.
Through the practices of the Wheel of Consent®, guided embodiment, and optional structured touch, we’ll practice:

shifting out of over-giving and into clarity
identifying and honoring our current yes, no, and maaaybe
making clear agreements
giving and receiving

You may find that you also reconnect with your body, your boundaries, and your ability to ask for what you truly want. This isn’t about performance or pressure. It’s about presence, and more intentional connection — with yourself and others
Whether you’re struggling to find your voice, seeking a refresher on (or never learned) how to be your own cheerleader, or are simply longing for more intimacy — this workshop offers a supportive space to slow down, tune in, and learn to receive without guilt or apology.
No previous experience with consent work or touch-based practices is necessary — just a willingness to show up with honesty and curiosity. In this workshop, we will remain clothed and will not engage in or invite touch of a sexual nature. You do not need to engage in touch to participate fully. Attend solo or bring a friend or partner(s).
Time & Location

Oct 17, 2025, 6:00 PM CDT – Oct 19, 2025, 6:00 PM CDT
Mystic Medicine KC, 1310 NW Vivion Rd Suite 109, Kansas City, MO 64118, USA

Schedule
The Workshop will take place:
FRI Oct 17 | 6pm – 9pm
SAT Oct 18 | 10am – 6pm
SUN Oct 19 | 10am – 6pm
Pricing Tiers*

Abundance– $725 (No code) Subsidizes another person.
Supporter – $625 (Code: 625) Cover your spot and help fund another partially
Sustainable – $525 (Code: 525) This is our starting sustainable rate.
Access – $425 (Code: 425) For those with limited income. (3 spots available)
Supported – $350 (Code: 350) For those who need significant financial help (2 spots available)

(Use Codes in Coupon Code at checkout)
*We want more people to have access to this work. It can be more potent with a variety of us in the room. In order for this to work, we need folks buying at the sustainable rate or above if they’re able. The sustainable rate is what we would ask if everyone was paying the same amount. We are working on the honor system. Please only select the supported or access tier if it reflects your current need.

Your Facilitators
Sasha (they/them) has worked with movement, sexuality, gender, bodywork and consent education for over 20 years. They are a certified facilitator of the Wheel of Consent and faculty with the School of Consent. They are in private practice as a Somatic Sex Educator (Integrated Eros). They have taught and danced all over the world in contact improvisation, aerial/circus and integrated/disability dance. Other influences in their thinking include years of hospice care work, elections work, and in cooperative business and living structures. They are a white Jewish queer non-binary trans person who finds joy in teaching from and about the body and how we connect our insides to the outsides. Sasha currently works and lives in HoChunk land called DeJope (Madison, WI, US).

Tunde J.O. (Maer/Mer, She/Her) is a facilitator, educator, and coach with a focus on identity, consent, and dismantling systemic oppression.
She takes joy in helping clients recognize their individual relationships to power, and then offering somatic tools for compassionately addressing their histories and socializations to make strong choices and take needed steps toward their own (and therefore our collective) liberation.
Tunde, also an educator and visual/performing artist, holds a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis, is a certified Diversity Facilitrainer with NCCJ St. Louis, a certified Big Leap Coach through the Hendricks Institute, a certified Urban Tantra Practitioner, a STARLING Healer, and a Wheel of Consent facilitator in training. In mer free time, Tunde can be found exploring the world through taste/flavor and taking copious pictures of delicious food, captivating skylines, and pets (mers and yours if you’ll let mer).

Diagram of the Wheel of Consent

Couples Massage class through A Woman's Touch November 2025
2025-11-01 12:30 - 14:30 (America/Chicago) | Online
Another opportunity to take the Couples Massage class online in November!
Enjoy some quality time with your partner and reconnect using the power of touch with this Couple’s Massage class through Woman’s Touch with Sasha Lasdon. You’ll learn basic massage techniques and communication skills so that together you can share in the nurturing, relaxing and therapeutic benefits of massage. The class is experiential and you and your partner will be guided through each of you getting to give and receive a massage. We’ll explore non-sexual touch only. A wonderful idea for a gift or date night! Sasha offers a safe, friendly learning space for all bodies and levels of experience.
All couples over 18 welcome. Please contact A Woman’s Touch with any questions: 608-250-1928
Please register with a practice partner (price is for 2 people). To register, click here
The class happens online via Zoom. It lasts for two hours. We invite you to be in a space with visual and sound privacy. Wear comfortable clothing and have yoga mats, pillows, bolsters and anything else you need to make yourselves comfortable with you. Sasha teaches the class from the perspective of working on the floor, with suggestions for adjustments to suit your needs. Your questions and reflections are welcome in the class.
We will send a link with complete info to you the day before the class.
About your teacher:
Sasha Lasdon trained as a massage therapist in 2003 and currently works as a Somatic Sex Educator in Madison, WI. They offer direct touch work and embodied teaching about pleasure and consent. They offer scar tissue remediation as part of their practice. They incorporate bodywork into their dance teaching, leading hands-on body-centered warm-ups regularly. Sasha deeply enjoys helping people learn to touch each other nicely and has been teaching this class with A Woman’s Touch for almost 7 years. Please join them for class!

Couples Massage Workshop

Join us for this Couples Massage class online in November!

Couples Massage class through A Woman's Touch February 2026
2026-02-21 12:30 - 14:30 (America/Chicago) | Online
Another opportunity to take the Couples Massage class online in February 2026!
Enjoy some quality time with your partner and reconnect using the power of touch with this Couple’s Massage class through Woman’s Touch with Sasha Lasdon. You’ll learn basic massage techniques and communication skills so that together you can share in the nurturing, relaxing and therapeutic benefits of massage. The class is experiential and you and your partner will be guided through each of you getting to give and receive a massage. We’ll explore non-sexual touch only. A wonderful idea for a gift or date night! Sasha offers a safe, friendly learning space for all bodies and levels of experience.
All couples over 18 welcome. Please contact A Woman’s Touch with any questions: 608-250-1928
Please register with a practice partner (price is for 2 people). To register, click here
The class happens online via Zoom. It lasts for two hours. We invite you to be in a space with visual and sound privacy. Wear comfortable clothing and have yoga mats, pillows, bolsters and anything else you need to make yourselves comfortable with you. Sasha teaches the class from the perspective of working on the floor, with suggestions for adjustments to suit your needs. Your questions and reflections are welcome in the class.
We will send a link with complete info to you the day before the class.
About your teacher:
Sasha Lasdon trained as a massage therapist in 2003 and currently works as a Somatic Sex Educator in Madison, WI. They offer direct touch work and embodied teaching about pleasure and consent. They offer scar tissue remediation as part of their practice. They incorporate bodywork into their dance teaching, leading hands-on body-centered warm-ups regularly. Sasha deeply enjoys helping people learn to touch each other nicely and has been teaching this class with A Woman’s Touch for almost 7 years. Please join them for class!

Couples Massage Workshop

Join us for this Couples Massage class online in April!

Couples Massage class through A Woman's Touch April 2026
2026-04-11 12:30 - 14:30 (America/Chicago) | Online
Another opportunity to take the Couples Massage class online in April 2026!
Enjoy some quality time with your partner and reconnect using the power of touch with this Couple’s Massage class through Woman’s Touch with Sasha Lasdon. You’ll learn basic massage techniques and communication skills so that together you can share in the nurturing, relaxing and therapeutic benefits of massage. The class is experiential and you and your partner will be guided through each of you getting to give and receive a massage. We’ll explore non-sexual touch only. A wonderful idea for a gift or date night! Sasha offers a safe, friendly learning space for all bodies and levels of experience.
All couples over 18 welcome. Please contact A Woman’s Touch with any questions: 608-250-1928
Please register with a practice partner (price is for 2 people). To register, click here
The class happens online via Zoom. It lasts for two hours. We invite you to be in a space with visual and sound privacy. Wear comfortable clothing and have yoga mats, pillows, bolsters and anything else you need to make yourselves comfortable with you. Sasha teaches the class from the perspective of working on the floor, with suggestions for adjustments to suit your needs. Your questions and reflections are welcome in the class.
We will send a link with complete info to you the day before the class.
About your teacher:
Sasha Lasdon trained as a massage therapist in 2003 and currently works as a Somatic Sex Educator in Madison, WI. They offer direct touch work and embodied teaching about pleasure and consent. They offer scar tissue remediation as part of their practice. They incorporate bodywork into their dance teaching, leading hands-on body-centered warm-ups regularly. Sasha deeply enjoys helping people learn to touch each other nicely and has been teaching this class with A Woman’s Touch for almost 7 years. Please join them for class!

Couples Massage Workshop

Join us for this Couples Massage class online in the summer!

Like A Pro in Chicago, IL April 15-19, 2026
2026-04-15 10:00 - 2026-04-19 18:00 (America/Chicago)
Join us for Like A Pro in Chicago, IL! To apply, go here!
Like A Pro is a Wheel of Consent workshops for professionals, offered through the School of Consent. More info on Like A Pro on the School of Consent’s website is here.
Like a Pro brings the transformative model of the Wheel of Consent to professionals working with topics of consent, boundaries, relational intimacy, body sovereignty, trauma recovery, sexuality, communication, and touch. Originally developed for touch practitioners, the course has, by popular demand, expanded to include non-touch professionals like therapists, coaches, teachers, and workshop leaders.
Like a Pro guides you into a personal somatic experience of The Wheel, and then teaches you how to integrate it into your practice, to make all your sessions safe, effective, and satisfying.
How is taking Like a Pro different from the Wheel of Consent workshop series I’ve offered and been teaching? The main differences are in the time and depth, as well as in who it’s for (see what I did there?). Like a Pro is a 5-day workshop. The Wheel of Consent workshops I teach are about 2.5 days worth of material (even in series form).

Like a Pro is for you if…
You have a professional practice and…

you want to bring the Wheel into the one-on-one work you are offering
you’ve read the book and you want to practice what you’ve been learning
you’ve taken a Wheel of Consent workshop or been introduced to the Wheel in another training and want to go deeper
you want to clarify the dynamics of working with clients
You are a body worker, physical therapist, psychotherapist, healer, sex worker, teacher, workshop leader, life coach, intimacy or relationship coach, surrogate partner, cuddle therapist, tantric practitioner, massage therapist – if you work with people, you need this course!

I’ll be co-teaching this class with my colleague Marcia Baczynski. Please apply to join us!

I will also be co-teaching Like A Pro in Montreal in September and an online Like A Pro in November. Stay tuned!

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Moving into Agreement: Wheel of Consent and Contact Improvisation workshop, Toronto May 2026
2026-05-07 10:00 - 2026-05-10 18:00 (America/Toronto) | Toronto, CA, Ontario, Canada
Moving into Agreement: A Wheel of Consent and Contact Improvisation workshop with Kathleen Rea and Sasha Lasdon. May 7-10, 2026 Toronto
Register here!
DESCRIPTION
Join Sasha Lasdon and Kathleen Rea for a 4-day exploration of the Wheel of Consent and Contact Improvisation. We’ll explore where the Wheel of Consent and CI (and associated movement practices) meet, how they can inform each other, and where they don’t overlap.
The first 2.5 days of the workshop will be a full introduction to the Wheel of Consent. The Wheel of Consent, created by Dr. Betty Martin, is a set of practices and ideas on how to detangle and explore receiving and giving. It helps us by asking the questions: “Who is doing an action?” and “Who is it for?” No prior experience with the Wheel of Consent is necessary.
We’ll have an opportunity to experience embodied practices that invite us to:

connect with and understand our desires and limits more deeply
explore and examine how we make choices
feel our Yes and No in our bodies
explore ways to create clearer agreements about what we may or may not participate in
experience a set of practices and tools

The last 1.5 days of the workshop will explore how the Wheel of Consent can inform Contact Improvisation. Contact Improvisation is a social dance involving touch, in which momentum between two or more people is used to create and inspire dance movements. Dancers move within a constantly changing physical reality. There are no set leaders or followers. While there is technique involved, the quality of the relationship and communication within a dance is the main focus. CI welcomes dancers of all levels and abilities.
Sasha Lasdon, a certified facilitator and faculty member with the School of Consent, will guide us through the embodied practices of the Wheel of Consent.
Sasha and Kathleen have both been practicing Contact Improvisation for over 25 years. They each bring a depth of experience in sensing agreements through movement with others. Both have experience exploring consent in CI and writing jam guidelines. The Wheel of Consent offers tools for exploring limits (what I’m not willing to participate in) and desires (what I want to participate in or make happen), bringing clarity to movement practices that include paradox and complexity. These practices and concepts can help us clarify moments and dynamics in our dancing by actively noticing and asking, “Who is it for?”
The CI component of this workshop is an opportunity to hone and deepen an existing practice of CI, dance, or movement. We may play with negotiated dances, witnessing, and moments of discussion.
THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR YOU IF:

you have experience navigating dance spaces, jams, workshops, or classes (any level of movement experience is welcome!)
you are able to learn in group spaces
you want to hone your consent skills
you’ve heard of the Wheel of Consent and want to learn more

THIS WORKSHOP MAY NOT BE FOR YOU IF:

you are in the acute stage of processing a consent violation in your life
you are not able to regulate your nervous system or identify what you need when upset
you experience active psychosis
you are not interested in dancing at all

For those who request it and complete the four-day workshop, a certificate of participation can be provided.
Optional pre-reading:
The Art of Receiving and Giving by Dr. Betty Martin
COST

Ocean – $900 (can afford extras like a vacation abroad)
Lake – $650 (need to consider my budget to attend)
Pond – $385 (need to carefully consider and plan my budget to attend — only 10 available)
Puddle – $300 (only way I can attend — only 3 available)

Event Information

Thursday, May 7, 2026 at 10:00 AM to Sunday, May 10, 2026 at 6:00 PM EDT
Bain Co-op Studio, 100, Toronto, ON, M4K 1E8, Canada.

REGISTER:
https://spring26torontowheelofconsent.eventzilla.net/e/2138676263

LOCATION:
100 Bain Ave, Toronto, ON, M4K 1E8
DATES:
May 7 to May 10, 2026
SCHEDULE
Day One (full Wheel of Consent day)
10:00 am to 5:00 pm – Workshop
Lunch and dinner provided
We will have 75 minutes for lunch and 1 hour for dinner
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm – Evening guided dance jam
Day Two (full Wheel of Consent day)
10:00 am to 6:00 pm – Workshop
We will have 75 minutes for lunch, and lunch will be provided.
Day Three (½ Wheel of Consent and ½ Contact Improvisation)
10:00 am to 6:00 pm – Workshop
We will have 75 minutes for lunch, and lunch will be provided.
Day Four (full Contact Improvisation day)
10:00 am to 5:00 pm – Workshop
75 minutes for lunch (lunch provided)
Snack time before jam
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm – Dance Jam
5:30 pm to 6:00 pm – Closing circle

BIOGRAPHIES

Sasha Lasdon (they/them) has worked with movement, sexuality, gender, bodywork, and consent education for over 25 years. They are a certified facilitator of the Wheel of Consent and faculty with the School of Consent. With a home base in the GLACIER community (Great Lakes Area Contact Improvisation Enthusiast Retreat), they have taught and danced internationally in Contact Improvisation, aerial/circus, and integrated/disability dance. In collaboration with their communities, Sasha co-wrote jam guidelines for both the Madison CI Jam and GLACIER. They are in private practice as a Somatic Sex Educator. Other influences include years of hospice care work, elections work, and experience in cooperative business and living structures. Sasha is a white Jewish queer non-binary trans person who finds joy in teaching from and about the body and how we connect our insides to the outsides. They currently live and work on Ho-Chunk land called DeJope (Madison, WI, US).

Kathleen Rea danced with Canada’s Ballet Jörgen, the National Ballet of Canada, and Tiroler Landestheater (Austria). She fell in love with Contact Improvisation 22 years ago and has been involved in the community ever since. She has choreographed over 40 dance works and has been nominated for five DORA Awards. Kathleen has a learning disability, meaning writing takes her six times longer than average; despite this, she loves writing and is a published author (The Healing Dance). She holds a Master’s in Expressive Arts with a minor in Psychology and is a certified teacher of the Axis Syllabus and Buteyko Breathing. Kathleen is the director of REAson d’etre dance, a Toronto not-for-profit CI-based company producing a weekly jam, a film festival, and dance theatre productions. She is autistic and works to educate about neurodiversity. She developed the widely read REAson d’etre Dance Jam Guidelines, which over the past 20 years have influenced consent culture in the global CI community. She is also the founder of the Contact Improv Consent Culture Blog.
Kathleen Rea’s Demo Reel

Archana Rama
Archana is a former Buddhist nun, retreat organizer, Reiki Master, Huna practitioner, certified gemstone healer, and aromatherapist. She is trained in chakra balancing, meditation, yoga, and works as a medical and spiritual intuitive.
https://archanarama.ca/home
CANCELLATION POLICY
We offer a 90% discount for all cancelations done tow week prior to workshop.
all cancelations including those due to illness done less than two week prior to workshop will receive a 75% refund.
ACCESS
The studio is wheelchair accessible.
Please contact us with access questions or requests.
HEALTH

All attendees will do a Flu and Covid rapid on the first day they arrive at the studio. We will supply the tests. Arrive early to do test before the start time.
Medical grade covering over any open wounds.
Masks are welcome and optional.
If you are feeling unwell, please do not come to the event. If you become sick during the event, we ask that you stay home. We offer a 75% refund for anyone needing to cancel last minute due to illness.

WORKSHOP AGREEMENTS
Please read prior to registering

QUESTION AND MORE INFORMATION:
Email Arhcena Rama at etgems@gmail.com

PRODUCED BY
REAson d’etre dance

Integrated Eros

and
Archana Rama
