Playful Erotic Workshop Melbourne
Event description
Welcome to our Playful Erotic Workshop!
This is a playful, fun and dynamic workshop space to help you discover more about yourself, your own erotic energy, your desires in how you want to be met and how you can expand your own pleasure. his event will have a focus on heart space, self connection and energetics of erotic energy. We will play with how to cultivate and understand your own erotic and creative energy (eros), how to hold it and how to play with others' energy in a conscious and safe environment.We will be doing a workshop during the day exploring the idea of the playful erotic followed by an evening event to put all these fun new skills into practice and have some fun!
Workshop will be from 3:30-6:00 with a break for you to get changed if you feel like it and grab some dinner before the night's antics unfold from 7:00-9:00 pm.
❖ This is a Queer encouraged and sex worker positive event
❖ Welcome to come alone, with a partner, or with friends!
This workshop is for you if:
❖ You are already on the journey of embodiment and want to learn new and different ways to connect deeper with you own body, energetic boundaries and life force energy (eros)
❖ You are wanting to rediscover your own aliveness, creativity and play in all areas of your life including intimate relating
❖ You're feeling stuck in your intimacy with yourself and others or feel like you are just going through the motions
❖ You want to learn how to listen to the energy in-between the breaths and the subtle aliveness within yourself and others
❖ You are looking to deepen into your understanding and knowledge of what tantra is and how to cultivate this in your own life and with others
❖ You want to tap into more joyful, playful expressions of pleasure!
THE VIBE:
❖ Fun, comfortable and playful (many giggles)
OUR VIBE TOGETHER AS FACILITATORS:
❖ Relaxed and embodied in our pleasure
❖ Living the joy of being in our bodies
❖ Meeting the aliveness between breaths and business
❖ Laughing and engaging with life in a way only those who know the true heaviness of it can
❖ Cultivating playful, fun and authentic energy with ourselves and others
THINGS TO NOTE:
❖ This event is NOT A PLAY PARTY / swingers event / excuse to try and hook up
❖ You may go the whole workshop with no physical contact with anyone if that is what you choose as the focus in on cultivating and playing with the subtle energy body
❖ Any physical contact will only follow enthusiastic consent and verbal boundary negotiations
❖ We are creating a safe, inclusive and fun space and will give you options to engage to the extent you're excited about!
❖ Dress code is comfortable, playful and your version of sexy
❖ Wheelchair access available
❖ There are several food options in the area for your afternoon snack, but if you have strict dietaries, feel free to BYO
THINGS TO BRING:
❖ Notebook & pen
❖ Water bottle
❖ Change of clothes to something even more playful for evening activities (if desired)
❖ Props or fun additions to a playful temple space (e.g. belly dancing gear, ribbons, poi, pixel whip) (if inspired)
ABOUT US:
ESTHER OGILVIE
Esther Ogilvie is a Trauma, Sexuality, and Somatic Embodiment Therapist based in Melbourne leading the charge in transformative healing. With nearly a decade of expertise, Esther guides individuals and couples toward empowerment by untangling the complexities of human experience.
Drawing from her mastery in trauma therapy, sexual embodiment, and somatic practices, Esther offers profound insights into the complexities of human suffering. Her deep understanding of issues like family violence, sex trafficking, and human trafficking informs her compassionate approach to healing.
Esther's global impact and experience extends her reach across diverse communities (including LGBTQIA+ sex worker allied), where she lends her expertise to foster resilience and growth worldwide. At the heart of her practice lies a commitment to creating safe, inclusive spaces where individuals can explore their inner landscapes with courage and authenticity.
Through workshops and therapeutic interventions, Esther skill-fully navigates the realms of relationships (including ENM), trauma, intimacy, tantra, and kink, guiding participants toward profound connections and embodied presence. With a focus on nervous system regulation, she equips individuals with tools to navigate life's challenges with resilience and grace.
Passionate about empowering individuals to reclaim their agency and vitality, Esther's work in trauma, somatics, and nervous system regulation offers a pathway to profound healing and transformation."
Website: Psychology Today
Instagram: @estherogilvie
SUSIE KIM
Susie Kim is a relationship & intimacy expert based in Sydney with a playful & unique approach to sexuality & relationships. She helps people create deeply connected & wildly nourishing relationships, with both self and other. A trained therapist as well as a darling of the temple arts, she bridges the tantric path of universal love & erotic aliveness with a practical, grounded approach to emotions, pleasure and relationships.
Susie works with individuals and couples on the topics of dating, relationships (including ENM), sexuality and embodiment, and facilitates a therapy group based on the neurobiology of attachment theory. Her signature audio course, Relationship is a Skill, teaches people how to get really good at relationships.
In a past life, Susie was a criminal lawyer (prosecution) and she brings the same clear-headed practicality to the world of relationships & pleasure. Susie view emotions, energies, sensations & relations through a logical as well as magical lens, and regularly works with people across the spectrum from 'normie' to 'completely out there'.
In a party, she’s best found activating eros with a willing group of participants or buried in a life-changing D&M.
Website : www.susiekim.com
Insta : @susiekimlove
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