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  How to Get and Give the Touch you Want

with sexual empowerment coach Charla Hathaway

Workshop for couples and singles, Central Austin, $55/person/or bring a friend $50/each

Next Date:  TBA

The 3 Minute Game provides structure for you to tune into your body, your desires, ask for what you want, and respond to other’s requests. Playing is easy–you gain confidence and new ways to get more touch in life.  You feel safe, your body relaxes, and you experience more pleasure.

Often we say ‘no’ to intimate touch because we are afraid things won’t go our way–or spin out of control–so we  stop before we start…and end up feeling lonely and touch-starved. In this workshop you learn one-way touch (with permission) that translates into choice, trust and safety.  You’ll learn if the touch is ‘for you” or “for me” and why that is important.

Players of the game often remark, “time stopped, I could feel more, I didn’t have to worry about guessing or getting it right, everything slowed down.” In this context, you may be surprised how comfortable it is to give and receive touch in a group setting. In just a few rounds of the game, your performance anxiety and fear melt away and your natural curiosity and self-expression emerge.

You will both give and get just what you want…nothing more or less. Playing the game takes your intimacy skills to the next level and opens new doors. Workshop activities are sensual, not sexual, and clothes remain on. Couples may practice with each other, and singles are welcome.

Charla Hathaway, certified sex educator, sexological bodyworker and intimacy coach, is author of 8 Erotic Nights: Passionate Encounters that Inspire Great Sex for a Lifetime, and Erotic Massage: Sensual Touch for Deep Pleasure and Extended Arousal (available in nine languages). Charla, founder of Austin’s BodyJoy Intimacy School, has helped thousands find new ways to touch, talk and play that feel safe, sensual and satisfying. Sign up for her monthly newsletter.

March 10, Thursday, 8 pm (go early for a seat), Art Authority

Charla will perform at the Bedpost Confessions, a sexy new venue put on by women for erotic storytelling that’s darn right bawdy and ballsy!

Austin’s sassy and savvy women take center stage and pour out their deepest longings, hottest fantasies and most devilish deeds…often to a standing-room-only crowd that’s thrilled with such Feminine Bravado, or is it Bravada!

Charla will unburden her heart by sharing her true story of how a shy, skinny girl from the Midwest became a Big Texas City sex worker.  Goodbye to the corn fields and innocence, and hello to a Smooth Sultry Slide to the South!

Come on down to the Bedpost at Art Authority and hear Charla’s Confessions and more.  Join the dazzled crowd that pulses to the beat of Austin’s new eclectic outlet for communal sexy storytelling, laughs and longings–oh, Walt Whitman,  I, too, sing of the Body Electric!

Thur. April 14, 7-10pm, $40/person, private home in central Austin

limited to the first 30 people who register via paypal

Enjoy an intimate and informal meeting with Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D Hear her tell stories of her radical sex evolution from prostitute/porn star to sexologist/artist!  She has devoted the 35 years to researching and exploring sexuality, from the sacred to the profane, documenting and sharing her experiences through explicit films, photography, and sex workshops. For two decades she has toured with her controversial theater shows to enthusiastic audiences around the world.

Annie’s motto is “eroticize” everything, even breast cancer.” The first porn star to earn a Ph.D., Sprinkle is into nature fetishes and an avowed “ecosexual.” She’s shifting the metaphor from “Earth as mother” to “Earth as lover.”  Currently her work is about love, relationships, aging and the place where ecology and sexology intersect, which she calls Sexecology.  Today she is an out “ecosexual.”

7:00 – 8:30 pm:  Annie’s slide show presentation and discussion.
8:30 -10 pm;  Mingling, sip wine and sparkling cider, munch cheese and crackers, network and bask in the afterglow.

Presented by Charla Hathaway, sex coach, author, speaker, www.bodyjoy.org

Annie will also presetn Sat, April 16, 1:30-3:30pm, a slideshow retrospective of her life in burlesque Sat at Forbidden’s Fruit’s Texas Burlesque Festival. Tickets are $15 advance/$20 at door.  Annie will also perform at the Vortex Theatre.