Bia Bliss Holistic Intimacy
Bia
Bliss
Year of training:
2016
Related qualification:
CSB and currently enrolled in CSSE
How many and what type of workshops/classes have you previously facilitated?
I lost count... since 2017, facilitating at festivals in NZ, running my own workshops and play parties.
since 2020 offering Erotic Embodiment Classes with Uma.
workshops range between breathwork, orgasmic yoga, play parties, erotic massage, sex education, tantric sex, authentic intimacy, embodiment practices.
What qualities do you bring to your facilitation?
I bring a strong foundation in emotional intelligence, compassionate listening, authenticity and embodied presence, creating an
environment where participants feel safe, and supported to explore their edges.
What relevant skills and experience/qualifications do you have in addition to Sexological Bodywork?
I am currently enrolled in CSSE. Have taken the Certificate in Embodied Counselling with ISS.
I also am a Certified Aletheia Coaching and have a background in counselling. My work integrates somatic, trauma-informed, and IFS parts-based approaches with a foundation in nondual presence. I have experience facilitating peer pods, mentoring students, and holding space for diverse clients, including those with complex trauma, neurodivergence, and shame-based blocks. I’m passionate about soul-aligned service and support clients to reconnect with their bodies, truth, and joy. I also bring creative expression, poetry, and transmission as tools for integration and healing.
Facilitator Bio
Bia Bliss is a Certified Sexological Bodyworker, Sex Educator, Embodied Counselling Practitioner, Aletheia Coach, poet, mystic and student of life. Her work focuses on emotional and sexual healing, self-empowerment, and awakening personal inner truths.
Bia supports deeply feeling humans to reconnect with their body, mind, heart, and pelvis to embrace pleasure, and cultivate authentic intimacy in and out of the bedroom through 1:1 online sessions, workshops/events, online courses and retreats. Learn more at https://biabliss.com
Workshop 1 Name:
Inner Beloved Journey
# of participants:
60
Workshop 1 duration:
90 Minute Workshop, 2 Hour Workshop
Equipment needed:
Speaker, Mic, Cushions
Workshop 1's Intention:
'- participants will learn to cultivate self-love and inner nourishment from the inside out using breath, sound, movement, touch, and awareness.
- Experience what it feels like to slow down and listen to the body's wisdom when it comes to pleasure and desire
- Leave with a full heart, a grounded body, and a sense of aliveness
Workshop 1 rough format:
'- Introductions: group check-in, confidentiality agreements, and intention-setting.
- Warm-up: guided breath, sound, and movement practice
- Sharing
- Inner Beloved Journey guided somatic practice to connect with self-pleasure and self-love.
- Sharing circle, Q&A
Workshop 1 program description:
Forget porn, fantasy, or looking outside yourself for pleasure or love. Your Inner Beloved is calling you to return inward and rediscover the source of pleasure and aliveness already within.
The Inner Beloved Journey is a practice where you’ll explore the forgotten realms of self-love and pleasure using tools you already possess: breath, sound, movement, touch, and awareness.
Through slowing down and practising listening, you’ll awaken your body’s natural capacity for joy, pleasure, intimacy, and connection.
Come home to yourself, fill your own cup, and remember that the source of pleasure and love you’ve been seeking has always lived within you. Leave with a full heart, a nourished body and tools that will serve you for life!
Does W1 actively invite nudity?
It's optional but not a central part
Workshop 2 Name:
Handy Tips for Penis Lovers
# of participants:
60
Workshop 2 duration:
90 Minute Workshop, 2 Hour Workshop
Equipment needed:
Speaker, Mic, Cushions
Workshop 2's Intention:
'- Learn unique handjob strokes that take pleasure-giving from mechanical to toe curling.
- Boost confidence in giving (and receiving) touch that feels connected, skillful, and fun.
- Understand how to bring presence, breath, and rhythm into erotic touch for more connection and pleasure.
- Leave with practical skills and the confidence to bring more pleasure into every hand-led encounters.
Workshop 2 rough format:
'- Introductions, group check-in, confidentiality agreements, and intention-setting
- Somatic Warm-up (solo and group)
- Group discussion on hand jobs
- Strokes Demo
- Strokes Practice
- Group sharing (reflections, Q&A)
(Note for organizers: delivery can adapt to festival needs/stream available. It can either be PG with practising on phallic objects or R-rated, a mix between practicing with an object, self-practcice for penis owners or BYO penis owner to practice with.
Workshop 2 program description:
Tired of the same old piston stroke? Want to upgrade your handjob skills?
Say goodbye to routine and hello to creativity with Handy Tips: a fun, educational handjob workshop for phallus lovers of all genders and orientations!
You’ll learn handjob strokes that will make them curl their toes and beg for more.
Whether you are new to hand-pleasure giving or a seasoned hand artist, you’ll leave with practical handy tips you can use right away, more confidence, and a grin on your face!
Participants can practice on phallic objects provided.
Optional self-practice for penis owners, or BYO consenting practice partner for interactive practice.
Does W2 actively invite nudity?
It's optional but not a central part
Workshop 3 Name:
Dance Your Eroticism
# of participants:
60
Workshop 3 duration:
1 Hour Morning Practice/Offering
Equipment needed:
Speaker, Mic
Workshop 3's Intention:
'- Awaken sensuality through movement, breath, sound, touch, and awareness.
- Explore the edges of eroticism with music and guided practice.
- Give the body full permission to lead the movement and move however it wants.
- Leave feeling energized, juicy, and at home in the body.
Workshop 3 rough format:
'- Solo and group somatic practice
- guided movement warm-up & reflection on practices
- Semi-guided practice – Dance Your Eroticism:
- Installation
- Group Share, Q&A
Workshop 3 program description:
Dance Your Eroticism is an invitation to give your body full permission to move as it desires. Through breath, sound, movement, touch, and awareness, you’ll explore the edges of your eroticism and awaken the aliveness that lives beneath the surface.
This playful morning practice invites you to drop self-consciousness, activate your sensual power, and let your inner stripper, wild one, or sacred lover move freely. It's not about steps, style, or performance.
Come as you are, no experience needed, just a willingness to let your body lead.
Does W3 actively invite nudity?
It's optional but not a central part
Are you happy to facilitate support pods?
Fuck yes!
Are you interested in contributing to/facilitating at pre-retreat events
I live in New Zealand and I'm happy to engage with community online.
Is there anything else that you would like us to know as organisers?
I’m based in New Zealand and have wanted to attend FEAST for years, however travel costs have been a barrier.
I’m currently a CSSE student and attended the SexBod Intensive in September — it was such a nourishing experience and reminded me how powerful it is to gather in person.
If I’m able to facilitate at FEAST, it would make the trip financially viable in 2026, and my partner is keen to join me.
I also work for ISS and stay connected with the community through my admin role. It would mean a lot to come to FEAST and share my facilitation gifts in person with the community I’m already connected to online.
At present, I don’t hold active insurance as I took a break from sessions due to my mother’s illness, passing, and subsequent burnout this year, but I can easily reinstate it if accepted.
Thanks for considering me.