With Brittany Policastro & Dr. Timaree Schmit

October 24-25 from 9-5pm Virtually

A 2-day intensive safely exploring sexuality and body image through yoga and wellness education.

We need to talk about sex…

So often sex is pushed into the shadows where it’s covered with shame and guilt and so much judgment. So let’s bring the sexual discussion into the light. From our bodies, to our orgasms, to our sexual health, it’s time to start talking.

Sexual Education and Conversation

In this unique and powerful collaboration I am teaming up with sexologist Dr. Timaree Schmit PhD. and we are bringing you tools, yoga practices, conversations and education about sex, sexuality and sexual health in a safe and judgment free environment.

The Details

Date: Saturday October 24 & Sunday October 25

Time: 9-5pm

Virtual Workshop via Zoom.

A virtual setting felt like the best way to keep everyone safe and honor the flow and dynamics of the workshop.

You will need a quiet space, a zoom account and yoga mat to participate.

The Layout

Day 1

9:00 am – Introductions

9:30-11am – Body witness yoga practice and meditation with Brittany

11:15-1pm – Body Love: Body image- Social Constructionist, Historical, body love and practical advice with Timaree

1-2pm – Lunch

2-3:30pm – Pleasure, Guilt and Needs- Chakras and Sex with Brittany

330-4:30pm – Sexercise workout Timaree

430-5pm – Closing Circle

Day 2

9-9:30am – Check in

9:30-11am – Sexual Awakening yoga practice and meditation with Brittany

11:15-1pm – Sexual Wellness: orgasms, guilt/shame, sexual health, getting away from goal-oriented sexuality with Timaree

1-2pm – Lunch

2-3pm – Forgiveness and healing our sexual stories with Brittany

3-4:30pm – Pleasure and Fantasy with Timaree

4:30-5pm – Closing circle

Course Modules

Yoga & Meditations

Each morning we will engage in a vigorous yoga practice designed to ground you into your body and awaken the 2nd Chakra energy that ignites sexual awareness and healing. We will be using the yoga practices and the meditations to embody a lot of the information we will discuss.

Body Love

Where do we get our ideas about what bodies “should” look like and do? We get a lot of messages about health and beauty- many of which are rooted in bad information, motivated by greed and used to sustain unequal systems of power. In this section we will examine and break down these messages, search our own relationships with our bodies and apply practical advice for building a better, more sustainable body image.

Pleaure, Guilt & Needs

The Chakras are energy discs or wheels in the body that offer a window of wisdom into our psyche, our personalities and our patterns. The 2nd Chakra specifically is connected to our reproductive organs, pleasure centers, sexuality, the ability to have our needs met and guilt. Here we will discuss how creating awareness and balance with the Chakras can help to heal and inspire our relationship with our bodies, our sexuality and our partners.

Sexercise

Train for the sport you want to play. Not only can sexual activity be a great workout, but working out can lead to better sexual experiences. Strength, flexibility, endurance and power are all facets of physical fitness that can be focused specifically for the bedroom. In this workout we will use conditioning lessons from the fitness world while discussing their direct sexual applications. You’ll never look at squats and planks the same way again.

Sexual Wellness

What does it mean to be sexually healthy? This workshop will not only address issues of pleasure and orgasm, but reframe sexuality in a more sustainable, less goal-oriented way. We will also look at overcoming the guilt and shame that hold us back from experiencing intimacy and pleasure.

Forgiveness & Healing

Often we are made up of all the stories we tell about ourselves, the stories others tell about us and the stories society tells us. Here we will be exploring which stories around our sexuality and sexual history we want to let go of, where forgiveness is needed and how to continue the healing process one loving breath at a time. Artist expression will be part of this process.

Pleasure & Fantasy

It’s important to do things just because we enjoy them, even if it’s not productive, lucrative or useful to others. Explore the power of pleasure and bravely look at what brings pleasure to you. Learn the skills of identifying and communicating what makes us happy, and come up with a battle plan against the obstacles that keep us from accessing enjoyment. Whether it’s a warm bubble bath or an indulgent kinky scene, we’re entitled to pleasure.

BRITTANY T. POLICASTRO

Brittany Policastro is a transformation coach writer and yoga teacher of 16 years whose mission is to empower people to love themselves fiercely and be themselves unapologetically.

Through her raw and vulnerable blog, The Breakthrough Blog and Instagram page Brittany challenges social norms through conversations around sex, STIs, relationships and Polyamory.

Brittany is currently in training to become an Authentic Tantra sex and relationship coach and sexologist.

She has been featured in The Huffington Post, Origin and Mantra Magazine, Women You Should Know, Elephant Journal and several podcasts.

DR. TIMAREE SCHMIT

Sexologist Timaree Schmit earned a Ph.D. in Human Sexuality Education from Widener University, the culmination of a lifelong search for rational, sex-positive, empirically-based knowledge about sexuality. She now works as an adjunct professor, guest lecturer, writer and consultant.

As the founding Chair of HSEDSO, the Human Sexuality Education Student Organization, and founding Laureate Counselor of Gamma Eta Rho, the first national honor society for students of Human Sexuality, Timaree has worked diligently to promote factual, comprehensive sexuality education and to enable other emerging professionals in the field of sexuality to bring useful, helpful and supportive information to the curious world at large.

Sex with Timaree podcasts cover a range of topics and feature amazing, entertaining guests whose lives and professions touch on sexuality. It was named one of the top sex podcasts by Daily Dot, Buzzfeed and iTunes. Her weekly column, Timaree’s Body, appears in Philadelphia Weekly and Philly Now and her sexuality advice column runs twice monthly at Philly.com.

There is so much to unpack around the topic of our own sexual being- so much that tends to get pushed down and repressed. This is an opportunity to come together in a safe, inclusive space to talk openly about your thoughts, feelings and curiosities around sex, body image, wellness and sexual health. Let’s bring the conversation out of the shadows and into the light. Together.

Investment:

$249 (early pricing before October 9 )

$299 (after October 9)

Sexual Being Intensive