Are you ready to own your sexuality, to reclaim it, heal it and celebrate it? If you are ready to explore and transform your sexuality, join sexuality educator Amy Jo Goddard and some of the former participants of the Women’s Sexuality Empowerment Apprenticeship program for a free introductory night. Amy Jo will help women to assess where they are currently in their own sexuality and lead them in a guided meditation and interactive discussion. There is no obligation to take the program, and you will definitely walk away with some clarity and action steps about your own sexuality.
“I know there is a deep need for safe spaces where women can study and grow their sexuality, so I’ve carefully constructed a framework where women can learn experientially and share with each other aspects of their sexual selves that have been in hiding. I want to see women be truly empowered sexually. I want to see women support each other. I want women to have the intimate relationships they dream of. I want to support women to take the risks required to become their most authentic, fulfilled sexual selves.”
For more info or to sign up, go to:
www.amyjogoddard.com
This training is for you if you think you would benefit from opportunities to:
- Explore and examine how sexual norms and sexual shame have affected or inhibited your sexuality
- Step outside of cultural limitations for relationships, identity, and gender
- Challenge and confront body image issues
- Explore sexual identity and develop ideas based on feminist and progressive approaches
- Educate yourself about your own sexual and reproductive health and well-being
- Practice and learn about sexual pleasure and sexual energy
- Deepen your ability to experience intimacy
- Learn sexual skills including communicating sexual needs, desires and boundaries, safer sex practices and new ways of experiencing pleasure
- Examine sexual patterns that may or may not serve you
- Connect your sexuality to your spiritual practice
- Express your sensual self in a safe and loving context
- Experience a sexual archetype ritual that helps you to examine how your sexual self benefits or suffers because of the sexual archetypes you personally carry
- Utilize ritual to invoke the sexual being you dream of and who is already there, waiting to be claimed
“I now stand more grounded in who I am as a sensual being, swing my hips with more awareness of my body, flirt with more confidence, speak to my lover with a deeper and more honest intention, pray with a bit more attention, make love more deeply/wildly/soft/without walls OR sometimes I retreat back to where I was before yet I’m more mindful about it. It is an everyday (sometimes extremely hard) journey no doubt. However, the tools and energetic fuel I have gained from the WSEA workshops keep me mindful and intentional and capable of saying yes everyday, no matter how quiet or LOUD! I seriously whole-heartedly recommend this journey to all women wanting to live a fulfilled life in every way and are willing to accept the challenge to do so.”
–Kiki, Women’s Sexuality Empowerment Apprenticeship participant, 2010
The class will take place on 9 Tuesday nights and 3 full Saturdays with Saturday night events.
TUESDAYS from 6:30-10 pm
September 21, 28
October 12, 19, 26
November 2, 16, 30
December 7
SATURDAYS 10 am-6 pm, then reconvene around 9 for evening events:
September 25
October 23
December 4
BIO:
Amy Jo Goddard, M.A. is a sexuality educator & trainer, writer, performing artist and activist. She travels to colleges, universities, communities and conferences teaching workshops and speaking about sexuality and maintains a private sex coaching practice. She is co-author of Lesbian Sex Secrets for Men and is a contributing author of All About Sex: A Family Resource Guide on Sex and Sexuality. Her article about queer performance artists and activism was published in 2007 in the Social Justice Journal and she has been published in numerous other publications including LOFT and Bust Magazine. Amy Jo was host of cherrybomb.com’s web stream program “Fresh Advice,” developing, researching, writing and performing over 60 episodes on women’s sexuality. A professional trainer of sexuality professionals, medical students, college students and youth for fifteen years, she has taught courses relating to sexuality at the City University of New York and the University of California at Santa Barbara. Amy Jo has taught breast and pelvic exams to medical/nursing students for 8 years and she is director/producer of the forthcoming documentary, At Your Cervix, a film that depicts this unusual work. She facilitates the Women’s Sexuality Empowerment Apprenticeship in New York City.
