Play

for extraordinary relationships

Level 1 (3 months) Sept 19 - Dec 19

in Sebastopol, CA (7th cohort)

Join the last intro Sept 5 (Sebastopol)
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Top 3 reasons people come to Play:

  • You want to go deeper with your current partner(s)

  • You ended (or are outgrowing) a relationship & want new skills so the next one is better

  • You have never had a steady secure partnership & really want one (& to start a family)

You are:

  • Seeking an embodied community of practice

  • An intimacy facilitator, therapist, embodiment guide, sacred space holder, or performing artist (or you aspire to be)

  • Energized by dancing & moving big energy 5+ hours a day

Benefits:

  • Learn & interrupt energetic armoring patterns (from Wilhelm Reich) to access presence, eros, & secure attachment

  • Expand your body’s capacity to feel, organize, metabolize & exchange more energy (including grief, eros & desires)

  • Grow emotional & erotic sovereignty that frees you to make more aligned relational choices

  • Dismantle social conditioning around sex, power, kink & gender

  • Connect more authentically & euphorically with your experience of gender

  • Release shame & grief so your body can feel your true essence & desires

  • Learn to clarify & express your desires & boundaries

  • Explore dominance & submission for spiritual intimacy through partner dance

  • Distinguish who touch is for in the moment, refine how you play with sensation vs power

  • Get to the root of what needs to heal to have secure attachment with yourself

  • Build shame resilience & grace for receiving tender feedback from loved ones

  • Grow secure attachment with loved ones & community 

  • Clarify your vision for your relationships & erotic life within these 3 months

  • Bring your vision to life with community & 1:1 support

  • Embody more love in erotic embodied dance community

  • Experience your personal eros as a part of a larger collective embodiment of passion & liberation

What does it look like ?

Cohort dates

All applicants are required to attend 1 intro, if you have not already.

Intros

Immersion (Sebastopol)

1. Sat, Sept 19, 2 - 7 pm

2. Sat, Sept 26, 2 - 7 pm

3. Sat, Oct 3, 2 - 7 pm

4. Mon, Oct 5, 6:30 - 8:30 pm Relational Mapping (online, open to loved ones & community)

5. Sat, Oct 10, 12:45 - 9 pm Grief Eros Ritual (open to community)

6. Sat, Oct 17, 2 - 7 pm

7. Sat, Oct 31, 2 - 7 pm

8. Sat, Nov 14, 1 - 7 pm Deep Dive Weekend

9. Sun, Nov 15, 1 - 7 pm Deep Dive Weekend

10. Sat, Nov 21, 2 - 7 pm

11. Sat, Dec 12, 2 - 11 pm Grad Party! (invite your loved ones)

12. Sat, Dec 19, 2 - 7 pm

Our Time Includes

  • 12 village sessions (66 hours)

  • Daily presence practice (approximately 20 min)

  • 2 to 3 hours of homework assignments after each session to practice & integrate what we learn. This includes both solo & small group assignments to deepen connection with other participants.

  • Two 30 min 1:1 coaching sessions (you may add on 1:1s)

Testimonials

I’m grateful for how you’ve helped me to slow down and do the work that I needed to do but didn’t want to do… grief and self-attunement work.



Power and play with Z is a profound and unique experience to get to explore eros and power, which are the building blocks of relational trust and vibrancy. The container held is deeply safe, yet appropriately edgy. Z is really grounded in helping us to find our authentic, vulnerable, bright and true expressions. Z also holds a clear consciousness around race, gender and other socialized power dynamics. This work is liberatory in all senses of the word. - H Cowart, Animist, Mythic Storyteller, PsyDc, SEP



I didn’t know a body could do that until I saw you do breath and energy orgasms, that's when I started having kundalini awakening!



I learned life-changing skills & technologies about being present to pleasure in my body. I learned how to ground & get in touch with my personal power.” - Veenaa Saynana, Relationship & Tantric Coach, Medicine Woman



Play helped me connect with my erotic energy in a deep, vulnerable, playful way. I have such a more clear visceral sense of what deeply healing power dynamics feel like. To play with power in this way is so deeply liberating, joyful, and helped me process so much.” - Somatic Psychotherapist



This experience will change you. I came away from Play with a sense of grounded security in myself. I experienced an abundance of erotic & source energy. I opened to the endlessness possibilities & magic this life has to offer.” - Mo Katzman, Dancer & Teacher



Play is a container for practicing co-liberation. It allowed me to connect my desire & eros to my larger prayer for collective healing & collaborating across caste. - Activist, Dancer, Creator of Community



Play is not just about gender & sexuality. It’s about coming home to yourself & your belonging to a wide web of love & eros. That’s when you learn what it really feels like to play.” - Dylan C-H, Dancer, Therapist



You will learn that kink isn’t just ropes and floggers, it much more than that. This workshop will bring you closer to yourself, your patterns, your desires, and expand your emotional range. I am able to stay connected to myself while connecting with others more than ever before. - Charlie, Dancer




There is so much possibility for safety-making, discovery of desire and authenticity, and transforming our experience of these bodies in the care of community with the ritual guidance of Z, the worlds we dream of feel possible! - Bea, Sex & Reproductive Health Educator




These tools & practices awakened parts of my identity I longed to have the space to explore. - Alex Kennedy




Z’s passion for liberation through dance power and play is contagious. They bring spaces alive with their magical presence. - Joy Jaco LMFT




Z has a vastness of embodied wisdom, and a compassionate, yet clear and firm leadership style. Their awareness of systemic oppression and realities inform this playful gender-bending, work that at the core is about love, connection and liberation for all! - Julia, Filmmaker & Activist




Brought so much clarity, discernment, and opportunities for authentic connection. I found depth and ease exploring my own edges & the edges of our beautiful collective group in a playful boundaried and creative way. - Rebecca Studer




I discovered a new found respect through experiential learning for gender expression and the value of eros that will serve me in both personal and professional context to create more inclusion, inspiration and love in the world. - Daniel Swid, Facilitator



Play was transformational for me. I entered with the hope that I could access more of myself, be honest about my insecurities, and stay connected to my heart center while doing all of this. I got this and much more! I had the honor of hearing others' desires and wishes and to be witnessed in my own. I grew in ways that I did not expect. I highly recommend any of their offerings if you are excited about living an authentic life!

Facilitation Team

photo of Z & E by Elly Bernstein @fourcubes.photography

🏳️‍🌈 Z Griss (lead facilitator, they/them)

has guided dance for erotic liberation since 1999! Z is a relationship coach passionate about secure attachment, kink, & erotic embodied dance community. Z has been poly for 25+ years & loves supporting students to create the soul based relationships of their dreams. You may read the full bio here.

🏳️‍🌈 E Lowry (assistant, they/them)

a trauma informed kink explorer, an erotic energy channeler, & dancer who has been holding space for people on healing journeys for 20+ years.

🏳️‍🌈 We love teaching together & sharing from our experience as life & kink partners.