For millennia, seekers have used physical and emotional extremes to achieve transcendence and exaltation. Today, many BDSM and leather practitioners are discovering the potential of SM practice to reach personal, interpersonal and spiritual goals.
Perhaps you’ve touched the edges of transcendence during your play – you’ve had one or two experiences in which you’ve merged with your partner or with the whole universe, or lost your place in space and time, or left your body. Or perhaps you’re already a seasoned explorer in the realms of spirit, ritual, trance and ecstasy.
Either way, you’ll discover new pathways to bliss during this weekend of theory and practice with the authors of “Radical Ecstasy: SM Journeys to Transcendence,” the groundbreaking book exploring the interactions of leather, tantra and spirit.
From the basics of raising erotic energy through breath and movement, through more advanced exercises with clips and floggers, all the way to an end-of-weekend extravaganza of ecstasy, this will be a weekend you’ll never forget!
A few guidelines:
• Please be prepared to show up promptly; the weekend proceeds in sequence, and if you miss steps at the beginning you’ll get less from the whole experience.
• Attendees will be asked to participate fully. While there will be plenty of freedom to choose levels of intimacy and sensation that feel OK for you, everyone will be asked to at least try all the exercises. Some exercises will be solo, some with a chosen partner, some with a random partner and some as a group.
• Please bring a mat, blanket or towel, a small firm pillow or folded blanket, and a blindfold. If you have a favorite mild-to-moderate flogger, please bring it as well.
• If you have physical disabilities that will require accommodation, please let us know ahead of time so that we can ensure your comfort and participation.
Dossie Easton is a San Francisco therapist who has been an active sex radical since 1961. She is co-author with Janet Hardy of “The Bottoming Book,” “The Topping Book,” “When Someone You Love is Kinky,” “The Ethical Slut” and their most recent book, “Radical Ecstasy,” which explores and explicates the philosophy and energy that drives S/M. Long-time pagan, poet, feminist, mother, survivor of the politically correct era, leatherdyke, whipmaker femme slut, she has been following and teaching the path of Kundalini for decades. She focuses her spiritual practice and her SM practice on raising Eros and playing with fire in the bottomless pit.
Janet Hardy (aka Catherine A. Liszt and Lady Green) is the president of Greenery Press Inc. Under her various pen names, she is the author or co-author of ten books on sexuality, polyamory and BDSM, including "The Ethical Slut," "The New Bottoming Book," "Radical Ecstasy" and "The Compleat Spanker." Janet is a bisexual, polyamorous, gender-flexible SM switch who has shared her lifestyle knowledge at workshops and conferences internationally for more than 20 years. She was dragged kicking and screaming onto the path of spirituality but is now enjoying it tremendously.
Dates: Saturday, March 11, 10a-5p, and Sunday, March 12, 11a-6p. Lunch will be served on-premises both days.
Location: The Citadel, 1277 Mission Street, San Francisco.
Cost: $350 if payment is received before February 1, $375 thereafter.
Payments can be accepted by VISA, Mastercard, American Express, Discover or Paypal.
RSVP to Janet Hardy, jhardy@greenerypress.com, 510/530-1281.
If you’re traveling from out of town, the Rodeway Inn on Mission Street is next door to the Citadel and offers affordable, comfortable lodging.
Perhaps you’ve touched the edges of transcendence during your play – you’ve had one or two experiences in which you’ve merged with your partner or with the whole universe, or lost your place in space and time, or left your body. Or perhaps you’re already a seasoned explorer in the realms of spirit, ritual, trance and ecstasy.
Either way, you’ll discover new pathways to bliss during this weekend of theory and practice with the authors of “Radical Ecstasy: SM Journeys to Transcendence,” the groundbreaking book exploring the interactions of leather, tantra and spirit.
From the basics of raising erotic energy through breath and movement, through more advanced exercises with clips and floggers, all the way to an end-of-weekend extravaganza of ecstasy, this will be a weekend you’ll never forget!
A few guidelines:
• Please be prepared to show up promptly; the weekend proceeds in sequence, and if you miss steps at the beginning you’ll get less from the whole experience.
• Attendees will be asked to participate fully. While there will be plenty of freedom to choose levels of intimacy and sensation that feel OK for you, everyone will be asked to at least try all the exercises. Some exercises will be solo, some with a chosen partner, some with a random partner and some as a group.
• Please bring a mat, blanket or towel, a small firm pillow or folded blanket, and a blindfold. If you have a favorite mild-to-moderate flogger, please bring it as well.
• If you have physical disabilities that will require accommodation, please let us know ahead of time so that we can ensure your comfort and participation.
Dossie Easton is a San Francisco therapist who has been an active sex radical since 1961. She is co-author with Janet Hardy of “The Bottoming Book,” “The Topping Book,” “When Someone You Love is Kinky,” “The Ethical Slut” and their most recent book, “Radical Ecstasy,” which explores and explicates the philosophy and energy that drives S/M. Long-time pagan, poet, feminist, mother, survivor of the politically correct era, leatherdyke, whipmaker femme slut, she has been following and teaching the path of Kundalini for decades. She focuses her spiritual practice and her SM practice on raising Eros and playing with fire in the bottomless pit.
Janet Hardy (aka Catherine A. Liszt and Lady Green) is the president of Greenery Press Inc. Under her various pen names, she is the author or co-author of ten books on sexuality, polyamory and BDSM, including "The Ethical Slut," "The New Bottoming Book," "Radical Ecstasy" and "The Compleat Spanker." Janet is a bisexual, polyamorous, gender-flexible SM switch who has shared her lifestyle knowledge at workshops and conferences internationally for more than 20 years. She was dragged kicking and screaming onto the path of spirituality but is now enjoying it tremendously.
Dates: Saturday, March 11, 10a-5p, and Sunday, March 12, 11a-6p. Lunch will be served on-premises both days.
Location: The Citadel, 1277 Mission Street, San Francisco.
Cost: $350 if payment is received before February 1, $375 thereafter.
Payments can be accepted by VISA, Mastercard, American Express, Discover or Paypal.
RSVP to Janet Hardy, jhardy@greenerypress.com, 510/530-1281.
If you’re traveling from out of town, the Rodeway Inn on Mission Street is next door to the Citadel and offers affordable, comfortable lodging.
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