About us
A series of workshops for Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer men exploring the healing, empowering and nourishing effects of heart-centred, conscious touch. Some workshops will focus on different types of hugs and cuddles, others will be more shiatsu-massage based.
See individual upcoming events for more detail.
You don't have to bring a partner.
You will remain fully clothed so please wear warm, loose, comfortable clothing.
Upcoming events
3
- £60.00
Elements of Tantra Massage and Bodywork - with Andy
Seven Dials Playhouse, 1A Tower Street, London, GBThis workshop will enable you to learn some skills and tools so that you can explore connecting with yourself and others through tantric touch and massage. We will integrate tantric philosophy, shiatsu, acupressure, reiki and oil massage.
After arriving and settling with a grounding practice and short meditation, we will lay out boundaries and agreements to ensure a safe and heart-centred space. We will then be ready to climb down deeper into our bodies, opening up, stretching and awakening lifeforce with do-in, qi gong and other movement practices. We'll then move into sensual connection with each other through gentle and thoughtful exercises, an undressing ritual and some simple bodywork and massage.
Please note that nudity is involved in some of the workshop.
This workshop is for you if:
- You are curious about understanding more about the essence of Tantra
- You want to feel more connected to your body and with others through touch and massage
- You are working on healing from negative experiences regarding your sexuality
- You want to become more mindful and more present
- You are looking to break out of patterns that no longer serve you
- You want more intimacy
- You are interested in working with energy
- You are interested in better sex, with yourself and with others
- You want to integrate sexuality with spirituality
Please note that as a group, we commit to holding a safe, boundaried, inclusive and respectful space. You need to be able to sit, kneel and move around in comfort on the floor.Andy Butterfield is an experienced group facilitator, having run many retreats and workshops for gay men and for the wider community. A respected somatic therapist, mindfulness, yoga and tantra teacher - he integrates the tools he has studied and practised during the last 20 years to help people to access healing from trauma, self-empowerment, growth and transformation. More details are available on his website.
1 attendee - £35.00
The Cuddle Exchange: Undressed
Seven Dials Playhouse, 1A Tower Street, London, GBPlease book your place in advance here.
Heart-centred, kind and respectful touch blesses both the receiver and giver. The nervous system relaxes, the breath deepens, the heart rate slows and we feel connected, calm and quiet.
Many of us can feel deprived of physical contact and touch and yet it is so vital to our wellbeing and happiness. Even if we have a lot of sex, a sensual element can be missing; that sweetness of just being held.
In this naked workshop, we will take this intimacy a little deeper and work together to create a safe space that meets people’s varying need for physical contact with others. Please book your place in advance here.
The session will involve movement, mindful awareness, shared touch and massage and partner and small group exercises. Each person will get to determine their own boundaries and preferences during the workshop.
Join us and inhabit your body more fully, relaxing into it with deeper compassion, appreciation and contentment.
ANDY is a Tantra Yoga teacher and somatic therapist and coach and has been facilitating spaces for gay, bi and queer men to connect from the heart for 9 years. He holds classes and private sessions in London and runs several wellbeing retreats for men during the year.
1 attendee - £60.00
Elements of Tantra Massage and Bodywork - with Andy
Seven Dials Playhouse, 1A Tower Street, London, GBThis workshop will enable you to learn some skills and tools so that you can explore connecting with yourself and others through tantric touch and massage. We will integrate tantric philosophy, shiatsu, acupressure, reiki and oil massage.
After arriving and settling with a grounding practice and short meditation, we will lay out boundaries and agreements to ensure a safe and heart-centred space. We will then be ready to climb down deeper into our bodies, opening up, stretching and awakening lifeforce with do-in, qi gong and other movement practices. We'll then move into sensual connection with each other through gentle and thoughtful exercises, an undressing ritual and some simple bodywork and massage.
Please note that nudity is involved in some of the workshop.
This workshop is for you if:
- You are curious about understanding more about the essence of Tantra
- You want to feel more connected to your body and with others through touch and massage
- You are working on healing from negative experiences regarding your sexuality
- You want to become more mindful and more present
- You are looking to break out of patterns that no longer serve you
- You want more intimacy
- You are interested in working with energy
- You are interested in better sex, with yourself and with others
- You want to integrate sexuality with spirituality
Please note that as a group, we commit to holding a safe, boundaried, inclusive and respectful space. You need to be able to sit, kneel and move around in comfort on the floor.Andy Butterfield is an experienced group facilitator, having run many retreats and workshops for gay men and for the wider community. A respected somatic therapist, mindfulness, yoga and tantra teacher - he integrates the tools he has studied and practised during the last 20 years to help people to access healing from trauma, self-empowerment, growth and transformation. More details are available on his website.
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