Intimate Arts Curriculum

Category Overview

Individual Class Descriptions

Remember, all classes are for Men & Women, unless noted!
Alphabetical within each category. 

1.    Solo-Skills Workshops, Playshops & Classes

These classes focus on Solo or Self-Skills -- the techniques, inner tools and skills that you can develop within your Self, to learn to expand your repertoire of what’s possible. We each have the ability to experience amazing pleasure, access ecstasy, create and increase our own arousal, and play with our sexual energy. These foundational classes will give you the tools to do so. Learn to play your own instrument and become a virtuoso of your own sexuality!

Anatomy of Arousal

– Three versions. All are hands-off lectures & lushly illustrated powerpoint presentations.

Anatomy of Arousal

(Combo class of male & female equipment)
Learn the whole truth about what’s there, why, how it connects and how to make it work wonderfully. More accurate maps enable men and women (and their lovers) to experience their full pleasure potential. We know you think that you already know so we promise--if you don’t learn something new, the class is FREE! (So far no one, including doctors, midwives, sexuality teachers and other professions, has taken us up on this offer.)  

Men’s Anatomy of Arousal — Secret Maps to His Buried Pleasure

(For men and women)

Discover just how much you’ve been missing. The male pleasure equipment includes the foreskin, the prostate and the anus. Discover the sliding skin system and the internal pleasure parts as well as the oft-ignored and underexplored perineum and pelvic floor muscles.

Secrets of Female Pleasure — Women’s Anatomy of Arousal

(For men and women)
Women have as much erogenous erectile tissue as men do. Discover just how much you’ve been missing! There’s more to the clitoris then meets the eye, and more to women’s arousal then the clitoris. In a fun, fascinating and highly useful talk and powerpoint presentation, you’ll discover the Female Erectile Network (including the G-spot and so much more) and the whole network of structures responsible for female sexual pleasure.When you fully understand the elegant, integral and multi-purpose female sexual/reproductive system, you’ll be enabled to expand your (or your partners’) arousal and orgasm and experience your full pleasure potential.

This “clothes-on, hands-off” class for men & women offers essential, empowering information and unique new anatomical diagrams. Draws from and expands upon on the award-winning acclaimed book of the same name.

Think that you already know? Take the FEMALE GENITAL ANATOMY QUIZ & find out!    

   FREE Mini-Maps:

A FREE short version of the radical, essential & transformative Women’s Anatomy of Arousal class with some juicy and useful tidbits of information to get you started on your voyage of discovery.

Ask A Saucy Sexpert Anything!  — I Was Just Wondering …

Ask the questions that you’ve always wanted to but didn’t know who to ask or maybe, didn’t dare! Opportunities for both secret written questions and more overt out-loud ones!

Aural Sex  - Freeing Your Personal Soundtrack of Pleasure

Inside you the sounds of passion await release. Sound has tremendous power to free your sexual energy, to provide expanded focus, to communicate with partners and to amplify sensation. Learn to free the soundtrack of your arousal.

Ecstatic Breathing

Discover how your breath is the bridge between conscious and unconscious, the pathway to the altered state of arousal. Breath is the foundational tool in your toolbox to enhance your erotic experiences. We'll play with breath patterns and techniques to explore where the power of breathing can take us.

Ecstatic Dancing - Moving into Orgasm

Discover how by playing and moving (with yourself), you can use movement, combined with music and sound to carry you into the realms of the ecstatic. Come dancing!

Energy Sex Skills: Basics

Learn to play with sexual energy using breath, sound, movement and vision to cultivate, access, enhance and channel you own erotic power.

Energy Sex Skills: Advanced

Expand your ability to play with sexual energy using advanced skills.

Exploring The Mystery of Female Sexuality For Men

Guys, you can help your partner reach her full orgasmic potential and reap the benefits. This workshop offers men the opportunity to learn the information, skills and strategies that you need to enhance your partners’ sexual functioning, improve your relationships and create more pleasure for everyone. Sheri teaches the truth about women’s anatomy, including all the parts that they really have, how they work together and how best to use that knowledge to promote their partner’s sexuality. Includes advanced tips, tricks and techniques that focus on concrete suggestions of how to apply your new knowledge. Learn how to best worship the wild goddess in your bedroom. Your partner will thank you in all the best ways. This workshop has 6 hours of teaching time plus we’ll take a lunch break. For MEN ONLY.

Finding The Lover Within

You are your own best lover and lifelong primary partner. Learn to look inside and free your sexual self. Be your own extraordinary lover. Fall in love with yourself. These are skills needed by all of us, single or partnered.

Fire Breath Orgasm Meditation

In the first part of the class we focus on Hands-Off Self-Arousal Skills, the techniques, inner tools and skills that we can develop to learn to expand our repertoire of what’s possible using Hands-Off self arousal skills. Sheri creates a safe and comfortable environment, guiding you through a series of exercises to build the skills and abilities that awaken your inherent aptitude to become turned-on and ecstatic. We'll practice techniques using breath, movement, sound, intention, imagery and awareness to learn to increase your own arousal and develop your orgasmic capacity. In the second half of the class, she guides you through a rousing Fire Breath Orgasm Meditation, an ancient energy meditation utilizes those techniques to create and move sexual energy throughout the body leading to the experience of enhanced arousal and full-body energy orgasm.

The Fountain Of The Goddess - The Art Of Female Ejaculation

Learn the skills to expand your repertoire to include the ability to pour forth the sacred Amrita or Nectar of Life, as female ejaculate was known in ancient India. Starting with the anatomy we shall discover where the fluid comes from and then proceed to learn the skills to call it forth.

Maps of The Clitoris

(Yes, this class is now renamed Women's Anatomy of Arousal - see above for description)

Orgasmic Abundance For Women

Learning the skills to create arousal and experience orgasm in a safe and comfortable environment. Focuses on learning the truth about female anatomy and what to do with it, as well as skills of breath, movement, imagery and sound that can expand arousal, intensify the ability to focus and become absorbed in sensation and to learn to surrender and relax into orgasm. A Hands-Off, Clothes On class. Women only.

Awakening Your Pelvic Power - Priming the Pelvic Pump

Revitalize your sexual and vital energies in this unique program of specially designed movements and exercises. Starting with a short and simple explanation of the muscles and structures of the pelvis, with an emphasis on the pelvic floor, we follow with a session of movements and exercises that integrate visualization, breathing and energy work to improve flexibility in the pelvic region, increase awareness of the wonderful potential of the pubococcygeus and associated muscles, and awaken pelvic energy. Love to revel in the power and prowess of below.

Seven Chakra Orgasm Meditation

Using basic sexual energy skills of breath, sound, movement, imagery and intention, Sheri guides you through a rousing energy meditation. Learn to open and charge each chakra or energy center to allow waves of pleasure to flow through your body and open to experience full-body ecstatic orgasm. A shorter and simpler variation of the Fire Breath Orgasm Meditation class.

SexCraft: Hands-Off Self-Arousal Skills & Sexual Energy Skills

Learn how to come without using your hands (or anyone else's) in this hands-off self-arousal class, focusing on the techniques, inner tools and abilities that we can develop to learn to expand our repertoire of what’s possible. We each have the ability to experience pleasure and ecstasy, to create and increase our own arousal and to build, move and dance with our sexual energy. Learn techniques using breath, movement, sound, intention, imagery and awareness to increase your own arousal and develop your orgasmic capacity. Sheri creates a safe and comfortable environment and guides you through a series of exercises to build the skills and abilities that awaken your inherent aptitude to become turned-on and ecstatic.

 Wholistic Sexuaity

Discover a new philosophy that re-integrates our sexuality with our selves and our world, in an empowering paradigm of pleasure, passion, power and possibilities. The essential concepts of the new paradigm of Wholistic Sexuality are introduced. In the longer version the ideas are presented interspersed with fun and easy exercises to embody the concepts. This class is for those who want to begin to allow and encourage sexuality to be a powerful force of energy, growth and healing, as well as an ecstatic source of pleasure and joy in your life.

2.    Relation-Skills Classes

Advanced SexCraft For Partners -Arousal & Sexual Energy Skills Intensive

Learn techniques that utilize breath, movement and imagery to create and share arousal and move sexual energy in circuits throughout your own and your partner’s body. In the first part of the class we focus on Hands-Off Self-Arousal Skills, the techniques, inner tools and skills that we can develop to learn to expand our repertoire of what’s possible. Sheri guides couples through a series of exercises to build the skills and abilities that awaken your inherent aptitude to become turned-on and ecstatic, together. A full day class with 5 – 6 hours of teaching time and a lunch break. For partners of all sorts.

Creating Authentic Relationships: Exploring Conscious Connection

What would it be like to design relationships that are perfect, consensual, fluid, and open to evolution? Are there options beyond monogamy and adultery? I believe that there are an infinite number of ways to be in relationship with others based on being utterly true to yourself and in  honest communication and loving connection with others. Explore designing conscious relationships & creating sustainable love. What are the 10 keys to authentic sustainable intimate relationship? What are we in relationships for, anyway? Come and explore these and other questions, issues and opportunities that our relationships provide.

Energy Sex Skills: Partner Play

Learn to play with your partner using and co-creating sexual energy to share ecstatic states. Intensive focus on techniques using breath, movement and imagery to create and share arousal and move sexual energy in circuits throughout your own and your partner’s body.

A Feast Of The Senses Ritual

Sheri guides you through a fun and luscious ritual designed to delight each of the senses. This process provides an opportunity to practice the Yang skills of Appropriate Giving and the Yin skills of Active Reception. Learn to expand your ability to become absorbed and explore working with and moving energy.

Getting Off On Going Down & Giving Head

Porn fantasy? Impossible dream? No, it’s a learnable skill! Give fabulous oral pleasure and learn how to get off on it!  In fact, you can learn to come from anything! Start with learning basic Hands-Off Self-Arousal skills, than learn to use them while pleasuring others.

Playing Nicely With Others- Partner Communication Skills

Learn to give exquisite feedback, communicate constructive criticism, decode gender communication styles and work through stuck places in relating. Everything works better when we develop the skills we need to navigate the complexities inherent in intimate relationships.

Pleasure Temple Rituals

Explore the sacred realms of pleasure in an intimate setting with others, all within the boundaries of your own choosing. These rituals are designed in a variety of ways depending on the setting, so I can create a wide spectrum of ritual experiences.

The Pussies and Puppies School of Love: Mastering the Dance of Feminine and Masculine

As we all know, male and female sexuality are different. But in what ways? Is there a simple way to understand the complexities of erotic energy? In this class, master teacher Sheri Winston shares a simple, practical framework for understanding the complementary masculine and feminine operating systems and how they tend to play out for men and women; the dynamics of attraction and desire; the polarities of sexual desire; ways to keep the juice flowing in long-term relationships; and how to play really nicely with others. You'll leave this class with fresh insights into your own core erotic nature, that of your partner(s), and how to find that special hot & empathetic groove, whether it's your first time together or you've been sharing a bed for decades. 

Sacred Boundaries: The Art of Exquisite Edges

Our boundaries are where we meet the world around us. Learn to have healthy, clear, flexible and appropriate boundaries by cultivating a 4-step process for identifying, marking, gate-keeping and defending one’s personal limits and borders. Exercises are set within a conceptual framework of manifesting the archetypes and energies of the Divine Goddess/God, the Teacher, the Guardian/Gatekeeper and the Warrior or the Lover. Learn to experience infinite freedom within your own precious sacred boundaries.

Safer Sex: Making It Work, Making It Fun

Sexual Health, Sexually Transmitted Infections & Safer Sex. This program is designed to educate people about the risks involved in sexual activity; how to make responsible decisions regarding their choices; how to protect themselves appropriately; communication, refusal and negotiation skills. Presented in a sex-positive, empowering context that emphasizes autonomy, self-awareness and practical skills for actually putting the information to good use.

Touch Magic - The Dance Of Contact and Connection

Learn the skills and techniques to become an accomplished dancer in the improvisational flow of touch. Discover your ability to appropriately give and to actively receive the sublime gift of conscious aware touch. See how intention is transmitted, how to tune into subtle cues and how to lose your mind in the absorption of contact and connection.

Wild & Wanton Words – Expanding Erotic Communication Skills

Words can be a powerful tool to turn ourselves and others on. Learn to use yours to tease and titillate, to arouse and entice. And best of all, use your words to give erotic education, communicating your preferences, desires and fantasies to your partner in ways that increase the passion instead of having critical feedback derail the action. Become a master of erotic communication.

Yin & Yang – Playing With Fire & Water

Learn to understand the dynamic interplay of desire and attraction we have with others, how to use that energy to create passion and keep our relationships hot and juicy. Play with complimentary energy using breath, sound, movement and vision. Learn to open and receive as well as to send and give.

My partner was less than comfortable with the idea of coming to her Sexcraft intensive.  But she created such a supportive and unintimidating experience where we could all honor his willingness.  I could feel her respect for him.  Her acceptance of my body was contagious. 

- Zahava Griss,  Dance, Yoga, Meditation Instruction, Rituals in
Community, Undoing Racism. NYC, NY (LoveMakingDances.com)

 3. WomanCraft Curriculum

Birth & Sex: The Ecstatic Journey (A Sex-Positive Midwife’s Insights into the Original Mystery)

An integral view of the vital and fundamental relationship between birth and sex.
Sex doesn’t just get the baby started. It isn’t just an act that occurs behind a locked bedroom door. Sex is part of who we are, the vital life force, and the manifestation of creation energy. As birth-workers, we need to understand and appreciate the profound and fundamental connections between these two facets of sexuality. Labor and birth share the same equipment, as well as a similar electro-chemical and neurobiological milieu. Both are altered states of consciousness and psycho-somatic-spiritual journeys. By understanding the similarities of the two states and how each process as an essential part of the other, it’s possible to see them in a new light. This essential class describes the inherent connections between labor and birth, and sexual arousal and orgasm. Understanding the connections of these experiences will provide you with new tools and techniques to assist your clients in their passage, as well yourself in your own ecstatic journeys.

Healing The Pelvic Temple - An Intensive for Women

Within the bones of our pelvis we may carry wounds, blocks and inhibitions that prevent us from freely enjoying the wondrous gifts of our sexuality and our sexual and creative energy. Sometimes we have recurrent pelvic-related problems that keep us from having as much sex as we’d like. From post-sex discomfort, to chronic sexually-related vaginal or urinary infections, to emotional and energetic armoring, we shall explore ideas, information and techniques to keep everything in the pelvic bowl in juicy working order.  Women-only.

Maps Of The Clitoris Now known as Women's Anatomy of Arousal

See description above.

Red Power - Honoring The Wheel of the Moontime

A Celebration of Menstrual Health, Traditions & Wisdom. This program begins with an overview of female anatomy and the physiology of menstruation. The female fertility cycle is explained as the Medicine Wheel that it represents, as each cycle visits the 4 directions. From a positive, indeed celebratory perspective, healthy options for dealing with menstruation and any attendant problems are discussed. A positive outlook on the wondrous abilities and functions of the female body is stressed throughout. Healthy options for dealing with the bleeding times are presented. A cross-cultural perspective presents young women with the idea that their bodies are sacred and that their blood and cycles are magical and potent.

Vaginal Ecology: An Owner's Guide to Care & Maintenance

This is the basic information class that all women should have gotten when we were 13 years old, but its never too late to learn. Vaginal Ecology is a wholistic overview filled with useful facts, fascinating details and other information that will empower women in their health care, fertility management and sexuality. This is the stuff that all women need to know. Sheri discusses what constitutes a healthy vaginal environment and how to promote and maintain one. She teaches women how to learn to recognize the 3 most common infections (vaginal and urinary), how to treat them with alternative therapies and better yet, how to prevent them. She briefly covers how the menstrual/fertility cycle really works, how best to support menstrual health and alternative menstrual care options, as well as alternatives to hormonal birth control.

4.     Courses For Teens & Their Adults

Classes that focus on those who are at the beginning or early into their sexual journey and the adults that care for them.

Empowering Our Teens' Sexuality- A Class for the Parents of Teens

How do we or how will we talk to our kids about sex? What messages do we want to convey? What do they need to hear? In this class Sheri discusses what information is critical and suggest ways to express it to help us be better at this then our parents were. She covers issues relating to healthy boundaries, risk, responsibility, respect, decision-making, communication, self-care and connection. The information is set within the context of the Wholistic Sexuality paradigm, which includes an understanding that our sexuality is natural, healthy and essential, as well as a source of power, means of connection and a sacred gift. We'll have time for questions and answers as well as group discussion.

Transitions  - Journey Through  Puberty For Adolescent Women

Please call to discuss and arrange this special workshop for your pre- adolescent and adolescent daughters. This workshop is can be comprised of 1 or 2 parts. First, an educational session that reviews the wondrous female anatomy, discusses the changes of puberty, celebrates the menstrual cycle, and encourages self-respect and empowerment through knowledge. Sheri emphasizes a positive outlook that celebrates the changes of puberty, focusing on engendering a healthy body-positive perspective. Along with information on the physical aspects, she discuss the emotional, psychological, social and cultural aspects of this important transition. This program can be expanded to include a 2nd part comprised of a sharing circle, where the community of women who are there weave a tapestry of connection, inspiration, honor and sacredness for the young women.

Wholistic Sexuality For Teens

This program for is for teens who are about to start or who have recently begun their sexual journey. The intention of this session is to provide teens with tools to navigate the complex waters of relationships, sexuality and intimacy. The philosophy of Wholistic Sexuality is that sexuality is first and foremost about our relationship with our selves, and then is about our relationships with everyone and everything around us. Focusing on the young person as the center of control, Sheri emphasizes making healthy choices for themselves and their partners, thus improving relationships, developing a sense of responsibility and ultimately increasing pleasure and satisfaction. The journey to a healthy, balanced and whole experience of sexuality is demystified so that teens will experience a greater sense of trust in their inner knowing, self-respect in decision-making and a feeling of power and autonomy that will guide them well through what can be a journey of joy and discovery, rather than the usual experience of powerlessness, lack of control and inappropriate risk-taking that has become the cultural norm. The session will touch on issues relating to healthy boundaries, risk, responsibility, respect, decision-making, communication, self-care and connection. The information is set within the context of the paradigm of Wholistic Sexuality, which includes an understanding that our sexuality is a natural, healthy and essential aspect of each of us and a source of power, a means of connection and a sacred gift. This class can be presented to either a single sex or mixed sex group.

5.    Wholistic Sexuality Courses For Professionals

These classes focus on the needs of health care and healing professionals to be able to understand and help their clients in the quest for sexual healing and wholeness. The basic class introduces them to the concepts of Wholistic Sexuality and provides pathways for incorporating this integrated model into their practice. Classes with more specific focus can be arranged.

Wholistic Sexuality for Professionals

How are your clients’ sex lives? What do you tell them when they complain of lack of libido, problems with orgasm or other sexual issues and concerns? Do you want to be able to help your clients achieve satisfying and pleasurable sexual experiences? Do you want to provide them with a pathway to their sexuality as an ecstatic source of joy, bonding and energy? You can! Come and learn the information you need to assist your clients in developing the skills and strategies to enhance sexual functioning, improve intimate relationships and release more pleasure.

Focused Wholistic Sexuality Seminars

Specific classes can be arranged to meet the needs of various school and organizations. Please contact the center for more details and to discuss the possibilities.

6.    Intimate Arts & Wholistic Sexuality Retreats & Intensives

Retreats and Intensives provide an opportunity for people to create a safe and accepting community so we can dive deeply into our sexual growth journey in a safe space with freedom to expand and explore. To be very clear, these retreats and intensives are not places for overt sexual expression. In other words, no group or partnered sexual activity occurs during our sessions, though there may be loving touch, sensuality and lots of sexual energy!

Wholistic Sexuality Intensives:

•     For Women Only
•     For Men & Women

How’s your sex life? Not so good? Just OK? Want it to be better, perhaps even great? Could it be an ecstatic source of joy, pleasure, bonding and energy? Yes, it can be! This workshop offers the opportunity to learn the information, skills and strategies that you need to enhance sexual functioning, improve relationships and release more pleasure in your life. Using easy exercises, movement, imagery and sound, together we will practice ancient and modern techniques for enhancing awareness, amplifying sensation and learning to work with sexual energy. This is a "clothes on, hands off" workshop for people who want their sexuality and sexual relationships to be an ecstatic source of joy, pleasure, bonding and energy. One or two day intensives. Can be arranged as a Women only or Mixed Gender group.

Wholistic Sexuality Seminar

An Exploration Of Fun & Freedom, Passion & Intimacy & The Creation of A Community Of Growth & Support Around Sexuality. A Series of Six Sessions, 2 ½ Hours on a weekday evening, with ½ hour social time. Mixed genders, couples, partners, singles or whatever. Closed circle (people commit to coming to the whole series, and can’t just randomly drop in)
Format:
•        Introduction of the Topic, Lecture, Discussion
•        Exercises & Games to explore and experience
•        In-depth Discussion, Sharing & Processing
For details of this seminar, please contact me for a discussion or a more detailed outline.

Sacred Sexuality Retreat for Men and Women

Sacred Sexuality Retreat for Women-Only

Intensives and retreats are opportunities to delve deeply into the mysteries of sexuality and spirituality in an intimate, caring and respectful community. Come and play with love, revel in the intensity and celebrate your sacred sexual self. For more information about retreats, or to discuss your concerns and questions,
please contact us.

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