Home Base - Mindful, guided exploration of sensual and erotic play space. *Winter Edition '25*

- Home Base - 

Mindful, guided exploration of sensual and erotic play space. 

Do you want to feel more at home in your sensual self? To feel clearer, more articulate, and more curious about the ways your sensual and erotic selves meet? Are you open to, and actively desiring, mindful, curious, consensual and responsive, juicy and nourishing experiences with other humans?

Yes?

Great.

Come explore. 

‘Home Base’ is a carefully curated space that welcomes the exploration of the sensual and erotic through the following understanding:

1. As human beings with physical bodies, we always have access to sensation. 
2. With the addition of time, curiosity, and safety, sensation can open into sensuality. 
3. When sensuality meets sexual energy (that is consciously held within clear boundaries and well negotiated consent culture) erotic experiences can bloom.

Putting down as many of our labels, expectations, and stories around sensuality, sex, and eroticism as we can, we will strive to firstly show up as fully human and connect from a space of curiosity and honesty. This is not a space to put on your ‘sexy self’ and demand a certain kind of experience, more a space to invite yourself to explore sensations and desires in a deeply curious, non-judgemental space and see what happens.

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What That Will Look Like:

We will start, fully clothed, with an opening circle and platonic touch and connection exercises to awaken and heighten our sense of touch, our ability to communicate, and a sense of feeling welcomed and supported in our selves and within the group. Clear guidance, practice, and expectations around navigating consent and overall safety will be interwoven throughout at the night, especially in this initial period.

We will then soften the edges and be invited to reveal a little more - shed some clothing perhaps, be a little more fully seen and heard in more ways than one.

Dotted around the space will be ‘Elemental Stations’. As a way to help break out of old defaults when it comes to touch, pleasure, and ‘knowing what I like’, we will use ‘Earth, Air, Fire, and Water’ as starting points for sensations… Which may become sensual and/or erotic. (Maybe, maybe, we’re not forcing anything, we’re just exploring.)

Think gentle caresses with feathers in ‘Air’, grounding, pleasurable ‘squishes’ in ‘Earth’, perhaps ice drawn across sensitive skin in ‘Water’, and delicious, spicy hair pulls in ‘Fire’. These are just some of the possibilities, there will be open space and support/guidance for you to explore in your own way. Curious creativity is so, so welcome!

Finally, to close, we will gather and share, and mindfully find ways to transition back to ‘the everyday world’.

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Practicalities:

Where: Tinbeerwah, address on ticket purchase.

When: Saturday 28th June. Doors open 5pm, we officially begin at 5:30pm. Event finishes at 10:30pm. 

How much: $75 per person (Ticket includes generous snacks for midway munching!)

*IMPORTANT NOTE*
While this space is welcoming of erotic exploration, it is NOT a sex party. By attending this event, you agree to the following:

• Underwear bottoms stay on.
  
• No penetrative sexual activities.
  
• This is 100% sober, unaltered event.
  
• You will adhere to, and strive for, the clearest, safest approaches to consent possible. You will watch for, and absolutely respect any verbal or non-verbal ‘No’ or ’Stop’ you are given.
  
• You will arrive and participate as a full faceted human.This space is not suitable for those wanting to adhere to a particular kink or fetish. While BDSM dynamics and labels can be juicy AF, this is not the space for them. We will be focusing on real-time exploration of senses and experiences and leaving kink labels and complex sex practices for another time.
  

If you are deemed to be violating any of these agreements you will be asked to leave the event and no refund will be provided.

More specifics around what to bring and other practicalities will be sent after booking.

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Who is this event for?

Anyone who is looking for a mindful experience of sensual and erotic group spaces. Whether you are a complete newbie to these kinds of spaces, or a veteran of all the wildest things, the intention of ‘Home Base’ is to do it more gently than most, with more space for simple curiosity. What would ‘coming home’ feel like and look like for you? Maybe we can help each other find out…

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About your host:
Assisted by an able team of sensual & erotic explorers, this adventure will be lead by me, Gabriella Salmon. I’m a highly experienced facilitator with over 15 years experience across multiple modalities. I hold a Bachelor of Counselling, a Graduate Certificate in Mental Health & Neuroscience, and qualifications in yoga, massage, music therapy, and theatre arts.

I have personally been exploring more conscious, creative experiences of sensuality, eroticism, and relating since I was a teenager, and am a persistent advocate for examining all of our inherited relational defaults. I have been offering Platonic Pleasure sessions publicly since 2021, and after the resounding success of the very first 'Home Base' in March, am stoked to bring it back for the Winter '25 edition. (Yes, the venue will have the heaters on!)