Skin - 2 - Skin Medicine

Full Body Massage Exchange - For all queers & friends
 

We invite you to our Full Body Massage Workshop – an evening dedicated to learning, exploring, and exchanging massage in a safe and supportive environment.

Queer massage exchange can be both empowering and nourishing. We believe that touch is essential to life, and that queer pleasure is rooting resilience in the body as well as in our communities.  Minority stress is very real and living a queer life demands lots of power and resources. We offer this space as a skin2skin medicine where our nervous systems can chill, reconnect, and regenerate.

What to expect

The first part of the day is about getting to know each other, our bodies and creating a shared language of touch, boundaries and desires. 

We will teach simple tools for consent, trustbuilding and explore how intuitive play aligns well with trust and yielding. You will learn some basic and practical massage techniques and how to combine the wishes of the receiver with the natural flow of the giver.

We will gradually build up to exchanging a 60-minute full body massage with oil. Nudity is welcome but not required. During a demonstration, we will also show a simple way of including the genitals as a natural and equal part of the whole body. Please note that our focus is not on high arousal or orgasmic energy, but on welcoming all parts of the body into a state of relaxation, pleasure, and regeneration.

Practical details

• We provide organic almond oil and coconut oil. If you prefer another type of oil, please bring it along.
• Please bring a large towel or sheet, as well as something cozy to wear such as a bathrobe or a big sweatshirt.
• We provide tea and snacks. We will make a dinner break and you can either bring your own food or buy something nearby.
• We begin promptly at 15:00, with arrival from 14:30.

About us

Ayo Gry (they/he) is a white, danish bodywork- and therapy practitioner with a background in Sexological Bodywork, Mind/Body Therapy, and The Pantarei Approach. They are co-founder of Skinship_Berlin, where they facilitate embodied workshops and collaborate in various art projects. Ayo believes in cultivating a sense of belonging within ourselves, to each other, and to nature as crucial for healing within and beyond.

Axel (he/him) is a white, danish bodyworker (The Pantarei Approach) and somatic practitioner (Somatic Experiencing) based in Berlin. He has a background in social justice and has mainly worked to improve access to health care for transgender and non-binary people. He works with an embodied approach to therapy, supporting people of all genders and sexualities to live empowered lives. He is part of the Skinship Collective and a co-curator of the Stretch Festival.

Friday 21st. Nov, 15:00 – 22:00
Price: 110 €. A limited number of reduced-price spots (60 €) are available, with priority for BIPOC participants. Please reach out if you’d like to reserve one.
Maximum number of participants: 10
For all queers & friends
@Skinship_Berlin, Rudolfstr. 11, 6th floor, right. Unfortunately without a lift.

Accessibility
Unfortunately the space is poorly accessible and requires stair climbing to 6th. floor. Please reach out if you have any other access needs that we should know about before the workshop. 

If you have any questions or need clarification before the workshop, feel free to reach out.

We look forward to sharing this experience with you.

Warm regards,
Axel and Ayo