About this Event
Step into a day-long sensual playground designed to help you and your partner or friend expand your capacity for pleasure, deepen connection, and engage fully with your five senses. This is an experiential, clothes-on workshop in a safe, trauma-informed space where curiosity, consent, and playful exploration are encouraged.
What You’ll Experience
- Playful experiments to discover what delights your senses
- Engagement of all five senses—taste, touch, sight, sound, and smell
- Embodiment and self-awareness exercises to connect more fully with your body
- Communication tools to ask for what you want clearly and authentically
- Partnered activities designed to deepen connection, trust, and intimacy
Each ticket includes entry for two people who have agreed to work together. This ensures every activity is experienced safely and meaningfully with a trusted partner.
Who This Workshop Is For
- Couples or friends curious about expanding sensual awareness
- Anyone wanting to improve communication and deepen authentic connection
- People open to exploring pleasure in a safe, playful, and non-sexual environment
Workshop Details
- Date: February 6, 2027
- Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM (one-hour lunch break)
- Location: Oakland, CA (provided after registration)
- Environment: Non-sexual, clothes-on, trauma-informed, supportive
This is the perfect experience for Valentine’s season: a day to explore, connect, and delight in the senses together.
Refund Policy:
- This is a small event (limited to 7 couples) and refunds make running these events unsustainable for the instructor so please be mindful when requesting a refund.
- Refunds will only be granted on a case-by-case basis and can not be made within 14 days of the event.
- The only excpetion to the above 14 day policy is if one or both of you is sick. This exception is to encourage those who are ill to stay home and not make others ill. If you cancle less than14 days before the event due to illness you will recive a credit for a future Pleasure Garden (offered once a year in Febuary).
About your facilitator:
Mara Roy (she/they) is a relationship and intimacy coach, educator and facilitator who has practiced and taught integrative body and breath work, movement, meditation, tantra, yoga and conscious touch for over 20 years. As a champion for overcoming shame and deepening fulfillment, she helps her clients and students explore and express themselves in a safe and supportive environment. Her work is trauma informed and focused on creating self-awareness, self-love, mindfulness and increased pleasure.
Mara was trained at The Body Electric School (where she is currently a faculty member), The Somatica Institute, and holds a CPCC certification from the Coaches Training Institute (CTI). Mara continues education in the areas of attachment theory, trauma, Compassionate Inquiry (as taught by Gabor Mate) and Somatic Experiencing.
When not teaching or coaching Mara can be found in the wild places of this beautiful planet cultivating wild Eros in deep communion with Nature.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Private Oakland Hills home, location shared at registration, Oakland, United States
USD 215.26 to USD 428.67
