AN OPEN, CURIOUS, NON-JUDGMENTAL PLACE TO TALK
In the theme of Sunday brunch and book club feels, join SomatIc Sex Coach & Grief Worker, Jess DeVries, and Tantra Coach & Sex & Intimacy Coach, Daniela Stevens, to discuss sexy, edgy things inspired by movies, TV, and music...and how we can bring them to life if we want to.
What got you HOT and BOTHERED about Dying for Sex? We wanna know!
$25 per person
$15 discounted rate
on Zoom (will not be recorded)
THIS GATHERING IS FOR YOU IF you watched Dying for Sex on Hulu or Disney+ and:
You want to talk about it openly without worrying about being judged
Felt aroused and don’t know what to do with the turn on
The show unlocked a new fantasy for you and you have complicated feelings regarding it
Learned you have a new desire and are worried you won’t be able to do anything about it
GATHERING FORMAT:
>> 10:00 - 10:15 am Introductions & grounding
>> 10:15 - 10:30 am Jess & Daniela help identify the differences between arousal, fantasy, and actual desire
>> 10:30 - 10:45 am Break out rooms or individual journaling time to explore episodes, themes, insights
>> 10:45 - 11:00 am More focused conversations on arousal, desire, and conflicted feelings
>> 11:00 - 11:30 am Q & A with Jess and Daniela about what Dying for Sex brings up for you
ABOUT YOUR FACILITATORS:
Jess DeVries is a queer somatic sex coach, sexological bodyworker and grief worker. She primarily serves the queer/trans community supporting folks in reclaiming body autonomy and to inspire curiosity about pleasure and sexual expression including expanding possibilities of what sex can be and guiding folks to define and pursue pleasure on their own terms. She is a grief advocate who regularly facilitates spaces for people to grieve, inviting the wisdom of the body to guide the grief process. She understands that there is a deep kinship between pleasure and grief and believes that they both deserve to be tended as full experiences of our humanity.
Jess provides 1:1 sessions online or by phone. She also facilitates workshops and grief circles online for queer folks, ex-Christians, and Covid conscious communities.
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Daniela (she/they) is a trauma-informed, certified Tantra Coach as well as a Sex and Intimacy Coach for couples and individuals as well as a speaker and writer practicing somatic abolitionism and appropriated tantra.
Named one of the ten best Sex and Intimacy Coaches of 2023 by DatingAdvice.com, she supports couples and individuals to experience more sex and deeper connection with themselves and with their partner(s) without pushing, avoiding, or performing.
With over twenty-four years of experience coaching people one-on-one and teaching in college classrooms and wellness spaces, she curates exercises and practices steeped in somatic attachment theory, neuroscience, embodied conflict resolution, trauma resolution, and modern psychology and inspired by ancient tantric and taoist wisdom.
Daniela is a queer cisgendered woman raced as white born in the Bay Area as well as a biological and transnational adoptive parent of three.
She lives and works as an uninvited guest on occupied Ohlone land that’s currently known as San Jose, California in the United States.
For her, nothing is more important than connection.