An Erotic Touch and Orgasmic Yoga Training for Ecstatics with Joseph Kramer and Ellen Heed

This intensive training begins with a four-day retreat (20-24 October, 2010) at Gunnebah Retreat Centre, Murwillumbah, Australia, followed by a month of guided home practice sessions with friends and lovers (25 October—22 November).

Savoring Erotic Trance States offers you the skills, guidance, resources and motivation to create the most erotic month of your entire life. During our four days of living together close to the earth at Gunnebah Retreat Centre, participants will learn to give and actively receive Taoist Erotic Massage. We will also explore solo and partnered Orgasmic Yoga practices. Your learning and practice sessions will continue for thirty days when you return home, supported by weekly group phone coaching sessions, by an online course workbook and by more than forty hours of online video demonstrations at www.eroticmassage.com. All varieties of erotic pioneers and ecstatics are welcome in this training: couples, singles, women, men, straights, gays, extraverts and even hermits.

Gunnebah Erotic Touch Retreat 20-24 October 2010

The core learning in the four days at Gunnebah involves both savoring and making use of the astonishing erotic trance states produced by sustained erotic touch and Orgasmic Yoga. Communal erotic states experienced in nature are nourishing and transformative beyond what most of us think is erotically possible. Practicing Orgasmic Yoga liberates our hearts and genitals from habit. Giving and receiving Taoist Erotic Massage increases our capacity for intimacy and pleasure. During this retreat, you will consciously touch and be touched by your fellow erotic explorers. Committed couples can choose to practice intimate touch exclusively with their partners. You will be supported in carrying your retreat experiences into your month of home practice and beyond.

A Month of Expanding Erotic Capacities 14 October—15 November 2010

In the four weeks following our erotic touch gathering, we will continue to research the altered states of consciousness that come from practicing Orgasmic Yoga and from giving and actively receiving erotic touch. The online course materials, video demonstrations, and phone coaching sessions will support you in accessing and making use of a variety of erotic trance states. Since the most profound somatic learning is self-directed, you choose your own level of participation in this embodiment training. Some participants will commit to daily erotic practice sessions while others will choose to practice less.

The group phone coaching sessions with Joseph Kramer (18 October and 1, 8, 15, 22 November at 19:00 EST) will support your home practice. These optional phone sessions will include breathing meditations, guidance on benefiting from erotic trance states, and time for you to share about your experiences or to ask questions.

Sexual arousal may induce an altered state of consciousness that is available to anyone willing to explore it. But, as with meditation and shamanic journeying, the non-ordinary conscious state generated in sustained sexual arousal constitutes an opportunity one must learn to use.

Dr. John Ryan Haule
Indecent Practices and Erotic Trance

More about Taoist Erotic Massage and Orgasmic Yoga

Taoist Erotic Massage is an erotic-spiritual practice that connects the genitals with all parts of one’s body. The result is erotic embodiment. The massage involves conscious breathing, prolonged sexual stimulation and a yogic technique called The Big Draw. This massage has been called “the LSD of sex!!”

Orgasmic Yoga involves pleasurable, intimate and transformative practices that individuals, couples, or groups can do while sexually aroused. These practices always include mindful breathing, movement, touch and placement of attention. Orgasmic Yoga is both erotic meditation and profound somatic education.

Training Tuition

$1650 if paid in full before July 31.
$1950 after July 31.


Tuition fees are in Australian dollars and include GST. Tuition includes retreat accommodations at Gunnebah, online workbook, forty hours of video demonstrations at The New School of Erotic Touch, and group phone coaching. As soon as you enroll, you will have access to all the video demonstrations and teachings at The New School of Erotic Touch. Enroll now!

For more information and registration, contact Liana Gailand by email at lianagailand@bigpond.com

with Joseph Kramer PhD and Ariadne H. Luya DHS

Enroll Now: $395 for one year

The Yoga of Sex course invites you to experience how humans learn sex. Profound embodied learning takes place when we repeat a practice mindfully over time. Erotic practice is fun, rewarding and transformational when we use this conscious, focused yoga model of education.

The new profession of Sexological Bodywork is based on exactly this type of learning. Certification as a professional Sexological Bodyworker is available through the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco and through the International Institute for Sexological Bodywork in Zürich.

The Yoga of Sex course offers the entire Sexological Bodywork Training in a home study format. Home schooling has never before been so much fun. Although this course was designed for professional somatic sex educators, anyone interested in learning Sexological Bodywork as an erotic yoga practice can enroll. Upon enrollment, you will have access for one year to all the materials from the California State-Approved Professional Certification course including video teachings, an online course workbook, readings, and somatic assignments.

You can enroll in this course at anytime. Everyone chooses his or her own level of participation or non-participation. This format offers the flexibility that most benefits students directing their own somatic learning.

This course, sponsored by The New School of Erotic Touch, does not provide professional certification. Many students do use The Yoga of Sex in their professional lives and to prepare for future certification as Sexological Bodyworkers.

• An online course workbook that will guide your sexual practice sessions and your video education. Here is a segment sample from the workbook. The professional Sexological Bodywork Certification Training uses this same workbook.

• Ten sex education DVDs, The Erotic Mind by Jack Morin, and Joseph Kramer’s Introduction to Masturbation Coaching. ($185 value)

• A private online forum for communication among students and faculty, including an archive of all previous student postings.

• Periodic phone seminars with Joseph Kramer and The New School of Erotic Touch faculty on topics such as peak somatic learning, erotic trance states, sensory-motor amnesia, coaching erotic embodiment, shame and pleasure, and Taoist Erotic Massage.

• One year of membership to The New School of Erotic Touch, which includes unlimited access to all current classes and an expanding library of video teachings. If you are now enrolled in The New School, we will extend your membership by a year or adjust your tuition.

• Each Yoga of Sex student will receive a $200 scholarship towards the Professional Sexological Bodywork in Australia, Switzerland or California. The $200 scholarship is available for one year from your enrollment in the Yoga of Sex.

This abundance of sex education resources is available to everyone who wishes to explore somatic sex education in both theory and practice. As an adult learner, you choose your own level of participation.

Upon enrolling, all students must introduce themselves to Joseph Kramer, Ph.D. by email. Let him know your personal and/or professional reasons for joining this course. Be sure to include any education and experience you have in the area of bodywork or sex education.

The Yoga of Sex Home Study Course invites you to go deeper into the adventure of finding what is truly erotically possible for you, your intimates, your students and your community.

Enroll Now: $395 for one year of learning