A body poetics workshop for getting in touch with your own unique sensuality through poems, songs, lit fragments, anecdotes, some meditation, breath work, and other quirky hybrid improv stuff. Your sacrum is your root chakra, the tip of your tail bone, you anchor and drive. Poetics is not words and lines, but pulse and sensation. Let's explore. This workshop can take many directions depending upon participant expectations and interests, so bring your sensual, poetic hopes and intentions! Find out more about me at writetoconnect.blogspot.com I am a poet, performance artist and CA-certified sexological bodyworker. People of all ages (18 and up), shapes, sizes, genders, and orientations welcome! Artsy-types of all kinds welcome (not just poets) Bodyworkers too...! Starts August 16th, 3:30pm at Wilson's Book World . $10 suggested donation.

This comedian lady at Portland's version of TEDTalks explains Exactly what it felt like when I was at sex school in San Francisco this April. She also helps me out of the rut I have been in since last week, when a very artsy, zany red-headed naked lady came up to me at Caliente (where supposedly, I was might find a welcoming community of clients and fellow explorers). This lady looked at my flyers for intro to sex bod classes, laughed and said, "Oh honey, I already know how to masturbate." The rut wash;t about her misconception, but my failure to articulate how much and more and how much less it was then that, the zen of it. Eva says "I wanted to know what was beyond this place [...] I had come to this class for erotic embodiment [...] throwing myself off the cliff of sexual vulnerability [...]" And she explains why poetry, or stand-up, or artful telling, is the hilarious, strange, beautiful moment of orgasm and failure and being alive.

I've just returned from San Francisco, where I was working toward my certification as a somatic sex educator at the Institue for Advanced Studies in Human Sexuality . The Write to Connect website will appear a bit disheveled as I re-invent it to express my new focus. I am looking for new volunteers, clients, and workshop participants interested in erotic wellness and creativity. More info coming soon, but don't hesitate to be in touch!