Authentic Relating Games & Cuddle Party with Major, Monique, & Peter

Effective immediately, all event attendees will be required to provide a pre-entry negative COVID-19 test (24 hours). Given the recent increase of cases, the requirement we’re adopting has become necessary to help keep our community safe. While we don’t want to add to the stress, we do want to make sure we are doing what we can to keep our spaces as safe as possible.

Your negative COVID-19 test must be:

• an official document

• clear & legible

• dated within 24 hours prior to the event start date

Contact your healthcare provider or visit your state, tribal, local and territorial health department’s website to find the latest local information on testing (the type of tests offered may differ by location). An efficient way to procure testing is to reach out to friends and family that may have been tested through work or somewhere else other than waiting for hours in line.

We respectfully ask you to stay home if you:

• are sick or showing symptoms of illness

• have been near someone who thinks they may have or have been exposed to COVID-19

(If you cannot come because you’re sick, we can offer you a refund or a credit to a future event.)

There will be no required vaccines or mask wearing, but you can absolutely choose to have either of those things. We invite you to come if you don’t require those things to be mandatory in your self care. Please understand, you are attending these events at your own risk and are solely responsible for your own health. You are expected to take necessary steps to protect yourself and others.

We reserve the right to deny entry or to ask anyone to leave if they are showing any signs of illness before or during the event. If this happens, no refunds will be provided. These requirements will remain mandatory for ALL events through September 2021. As it’s a complicated situation that is rapidly changing, we are closely monitoring what’s going on and will re-evaluate event requirements in a couple months.

We are incredibly grateful for your understanding and continued support & connection. Stay safe and take care of eachother!

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Join Major, Monique and Peter for a night filled with authentic connections! Beginning with some authentic relating games and ending with a Cuddle Party.

Be the Authentic You! Connect with others! Experience more self awareness. Practice more heart connection. Meet new friends.

Come and connect with others in a fun, safe, playful environment.

What is this!? What are Authentic Relating Games?

Authenticity is acting and speaking in alignment with our inner feelings, desires, and needs—our truth. Authentic Relating (AR) is the practice of bringing our truth into connection with others’, so that we can weave a more rich human experience.

Authentic Relating Games are an easy and fun way to introduce these practices into daily life. They can help us experience deeper connections, boost empathy, see the world through others’ eyes, and understand ourselves better so that we can enjoy life more. The games are fun, highly interactive partner and group exercises that demonstrate and explore AR, and getting to know yourself better while at the same time learning to see and appreciate more about everyone you connect with.

Authentic also means that there is no cookie-cutter mold for how you “should” be or what relating “should look like”. Everyone is a complete universe unto themselves, has a unique style, personality, and integrity that is perfectly them, and everyone is perfect and amazing as they are (including in their belief that they aren’t.)

The games provide a variety of experiences from movement, dance, communication, talk, listening...

Join us for a FUN night of connection! Be the Authentic YOU!

What exactly is a Cuddle Party?

Cuddle Party is a 3-hour workshop experience where participants engage in communication exercises, explore touch in a non-sexual space, experience personal exploration and intimacy, and have fun with like-minded friends from the community.

Nurturing and consensual loving touch is good for maintaining healthy blood pressure, a strong nervous system, and a balanced emotional health. One’s ability to connect with and develop greater trust in others is emphasized during the group exchanges during Cuddle Parties. Self-care is a cornerstone of Cuddle Party experience.

As seen on CBS’s the DR’S - http://www.thedoctorstv.com/videos/cuddle-parties

Cuddle Party is a formal, non-sexual event that offers participants an opportunity to explore intimacy with like-minded others. In a relaxed environment that upholds personal boundaries and maintains a professional atmosphere at all times, one is encouraged to engage in communication and touch in a non-threatening, share-affirming setting.

Cuddle Party is a holistic, social environment, that attracts fascinating people from all walks of life. It provides a special and unique opportunity for connection, learning, and growth. Come cuddle with us!

About Cuddle Party

Cuddle Party experiences teach participants that they alone create their own safety container. How did it change my life? When I was growing up and received a NO, it felt like I was being rejected. The result was my emphasis on being nice, being lovable, and being unconditionally available. The profound learning came when I realized my unyielding YES’s became a subconscious inability to trust another person’s YES without their own personally vocalized NO!

I am very appreciative and honored by the courage shown by those who have clear boundaries and an ability to voice their YES and NO decisions without guilt, shame, or fear. It gives me the confidence to ask for what my own heart desires instead of censoring myself, knowing the receiver of my request has the voice and courage to embrace or withdraw based on their own perimeters. “Thank you for taking care of yourself.”

IMPORTANT CUDDLE PARTY NOTES:

BRING: Comfortable PJs, Blankets, Pillows and any kind of soft fluff to enhance your experience.

Feel free to bring a dish to share.

PLEASE BE ON TIME: Make certain to account FOR TRAFFIC AND PARKING. Doors will be closed at 7:45 pm and late arrivals will not be admitted.

Doors will lock for new comers at 8:00pm. The opening Welcome Circle is for introductions and to go over the rules of Cuddle Party. This is an important aspect of the Cuddle Party experience and creates a safe container for all participants. It is essential that everyone be on time.

Love exchange $60, early bird $50

PLease RSVP HERE:

ABOUT YOUR FACILITATORS:

Major is an intimacy coach/facilitator at Consciousplay.net, Cofounder of Temple Of Hedonism and Co-Producer of VirtualIntimacyRetreat.com.

Trained as an authentic relating facilitator, he utilizes Integral Theory to create exercises in different practices acting, movement and intimacy. My innovation and penchant for levity creates a brave experiential container for people to blossom open, and deepen the relationship to self and others. Authentic Relating Games allow you to intimately know yourself and create a space for decentralized processing.

His intention is to show up authentically to create safety and permission for others to show up fully. My containers are for deep intimacy and growth. I believe when we locate and push against our edges, that is where the growth can happen.

Monique Darling, Author of 'Beyond Cuddle Party' and workshop facilitator extraordinaire, was born on this planet with the unique gifts and soul calling to help you remember how magnificent you truly are! Messages from your ancestors, your spirit guides, your body, nature, your soul, are all called upon and utilized so that you walk away knowing how deeply the cosmos loves you for YOU, exactly as you are, so you can begin to love and accept yourself too.

YOU, you are the gift!

Monique has led nearly 3000 workshops in the past 13 years. She has taught at colleges across the US including Yale. She has been featured on TLC and The Dr’s as well as various radio shows, podcasts and magazines across the globe. She specializes in helping others reclaim their power and natural sensuality by transmuting fear and repression into courage, self-love and freedom. Her primary purpose is helping folks bring out their vulnerability, energetic embodiment and fearless relating. Learn more about Monique by going to www.everydaytantra.com

Peter Petersen has been teaching qigong for 18 years and has been a certified massage therapist for the last 16 years. Peter has been teaching in health clubs, hospitals, retirement villas, and several different wellness/spa resorts in Mexico and the United States, such as Rancho La Puerta, Mayacamas Ranch, and Present Moment Retreat. Peter is also a personal wellness coach. This Qigong practice helps people ground themselves into their “now” to increase their present moment awareness of their behaviors, and find simple solutions to problematic habits such as: eating, moving, negative thinking, and sleeping. The result of this tool box of healthy information is that clients become their own health advocate and regain a sense of stability, peace, and well-being into their everyday lives.

Event Venue

Austin, United States