Kaggi
Valentine
Year of training:
2021
Related qualification:
CSB CSSE
How many and what type of workshops/classes have you previously facilitated?
oodles. FEAST 2023, 7 sisters opening and closing ceremonies (1st and 2nd) and workshops there. 4EE classes ISS EE classes. Years of ritual and ceremony
What qualities do you bring to your facilitation?
humour, groundedness, compassion, care, inclusivity, play, wisdom, curiosity. a can project my voice. Happy being vulnerable
What relevant skills and experience/qualifications do you have in addition to Sexological Bodywork?
STREAM. and all of the above. Like a Pro WofC and hopefully I will have done my working in groups training with WofC (i've applied to do the jan-feb one.
Facilitator Bio
I’m a wildly perimenopausal Eco-Sexual Pleasure Activist, Ceremonialist, Sex Bodder & Scar Remediation, Pelvic Care Specialist (STREAM). A constant theme in my personal & professional life has been to unearth & honour the wisdom held within the body. I love working with scars, both seen (physical) & unseen (emotional). In my “hands-on & in” practice I tend to attract clients who have had some kind of trauma, pain, numbness or disconnection & are reclaiming pleasure. To say I’m obsessed with smooth muscle is an understatement & I feel deeply privileged to be doing this work. I’m endlessly inspired by the courageous human heart & our capacity to let go & find new ways to express ourselves. I also have a passion for working in groups & have facilitated rituals & offered workshops for over 25 years. These days I love my work as a Sex Educator & currently offer in person workshops on Eco-sexuality, Anal Health & Pleasure, Breast Care & Genital Anatomy & Pleasure. I’ve been teaching weekly online Erotic Embodiment Classes for both the 4 Erotic Explorers and ISS for nearly 4 years. Somatic Practice is my jam.
Workshop 1 Name:
Cosmosis: You are the Universe Playing with Itself
# of participants:
Any
Workshop 1 duration:
2 Hour Workshop
Equipment needed:
Speakers, yoga mats, cushions, blankets (if it’s night and cold) or participants can bring their own.
Workshop 1's Intention:
This is an offering with Sam Beer, we would co-facilitate and collaborated on its design. It could work well as an Evening experience or a two hour day workshop
We will offer practices that connect participants to a sense of cosmic pleasure through explorations of ecstatic expansion and close attending to the subtle singularities embedded in all sensory experience.
We will devote our practice to celebrating the exquisite nature of aliveness, as beings made of eternal star stuff.
Our intentions are
* For participants to come away with a felt sense of the essential nature of all things: love.
* For participants to feel atomised and infinitesimally alive.
* For participants to reorientate senses to cosmic bliss.
* For participants to celebrate their eroticism as an expression of universal creative energy.
* For participants to have an experience of being deeply connected as they play as separate beings.
Workshop 1 rough format:
We will use the ESA(R) model to invite participants into connection with cosmosis.
ENGAGE
WITH SELF
Experiencing expansion and contraction in your body
* With breath
* With heart
* With cells, densities inside the body
* Spaciousness inside
WITH COSMOS
* Feel for edges in own body expanding outwards
* Light/love frequencies
* Stars
WITH OTHERS
Yedidya question
“What’s your most beneficial belief?”
STUDY
* Feeling for erotic energy as the fundamental force of creation, how the Universe Creates itself.
* How might we connect to this in our own erotic practice?
* How can we invite the movement of the universe into our present moment embodied experience?
* How can we invite the sound of the universe into our present moment embodied experience?
* How do we breathe the universe through us?
* How might we maintain connection to cosmosis while present to subtle sensation in our bodies?
Another question in small groups:
“What felt like a cosmic opening?”
ACTIVATION
Building the Multiverse
How?
* Inviting participants into an atomic state, setting up a solid liquid gas exploration.
* Everyone is an atom.
* Participants are offered a system signalling what state they are open to moving into and whether they are open to a touch engagement.
* Solids are open to physically connecting with others - cuddle puddle, other body contact. Movement is slow/ still.
* Liquid atoms may have transient contact here is contact, but it’s moving.
* Gas is an excited fast moving state, but no contact with other atoms.
* Possibility of entraining to the frequency of another near or far
REFLECT
Solo installation followed by group reflection
Workshop 1 program description:
Come along with Sam Beer and Kaggi Valentine (of the 4 Erotic Explorers) to explore the PleasureVerse. Here you will know yourself as infinite love incarnated into a finite sensual body made of star stuff.
The Universe calls us to open to love, to surrender to love, to seek & give love. Each of us is imbued with extraordinary capacity for feeling, for expanding & contracting, for being in separateness & union. We are how the universe plays with itself.
This workshop offers an embodied exploration of metaphysical & existential questions. It offers a devotional space for celebrating cosmic connection.
Cultivate your erotic energy, the fundamental creative force of the universe, connect to pleasure & curiosity as your cosmic compass & be in cosmosis.
Workshop 2 Name:
Where Mapping meets Masturbation: Explore sensation in your genitals & expand your self pleasure practice.
# of participants:
30 to 50 (but it could be more) main thing is it's a warmish enclosed space
Workshop 2 duration:
90 Minute Workshop
Equipment needed:
Participants will need to bring a towel, and or sarong I would like you to provide Gloves and lube and little cups, hand sanitiser and bin. Speakers I will bring coconut oil
Workshop 2's Intention:
Intentions and benefits
* For participants to map their own genitals for sensation (whilst learning some anatomy)
* To expand participant awareness of their genital sensation and the benefits of slowing down.
* To possibly offer new ways of touch that they may not have considered before
* To offer an experience pleasure in a group setting whilst being present to own body
* To offer an opportunity to create new names for their anatomical structures.
* To sensitise the hands and to explore the benefits of mindful self pleasure practice.
* To celebrate self pleasure
* To move at their pace and choose the level in which they participate in guided practice, practising agency
* Why mapping is foundational to sexological bodywork
* To own and be response-able for own pleasure exploration and the benefits of exploring masturbation outside what is their usual practice.
Workshop 2 rough format:
ESAR model
Explain intention, the parameters of this and optional space (following our EE protocols, safety and respect for other participants)). OHS (gloves, towel) and that nudity is welcome and indeed encouraged, however not essential if participant wants to map through clothes.
Participants find their own space.
(Probably start with remaining clothed)
Engage: by mapping the pelvis in relation to the ground and connecting to heart and awaken hands.
Come together first in a small group what did you notice about the practice.
Group share.
Study
* Why we map
* Why it’s useful to expand self pleasure practices
* A note around language I’m planning on using and invitation for participants to suggest other words for me to incorporate into practice and also invite people to let me know if there is a particular word or two anyone would prefer I didn’t use or replace a word in their imagination that suits them better.
Set up own space with gloves, oil/lube if participant chooses to be naked from waist down.
Activate
(music: first in background, louder for free play part of this piece)
* Guided touch practice centering and feeling for the engorgable tissue beds.
* A bit of anatomy
* Playing with breathing
* Moving the pelvis
* Sounding
* If it feels good to the participant: engage brain and be aware that in own practice in sex positive space and does that affect erotic experience. Option to focus on own practice
* Playing with exploring language to describe what they are experiencing.
* Popcorning into the space any of those words.
* Installing rest
Reflections in small group and with collective
Workshop 2 program description:
Where Mapping meets Masturbation: Explore sensation in your genitals & expand your self pleasure practice.
Mapping is a primary tool of Sexological Bodywork. We map to learn more about our anatomy, to increase sensitivity & pleasure & to learn something new about our bodies. Self mapping both sensitises one’s hands & genitals to increase our capacity for pleasure & expand our masturbation repertoire. In this workshop Kaggi will guide a practice that allows you to get intimate with your own genitals & explore sensation & self pleasure in a sex positive community & go home with some new ideas on how you might like to play with yourself. Nudity is welcomed & encouraged though not essential & you will have the opportunity to explore your own agency by deciding exactly how you wish to participate. We will also play with languaging & share & invent new names for our pleasurable parts. Please bring a towel to lie on & a sarong if you would like to be covered. For all genital configurations
Workshop 3 Name:
Breasts & Chests Laid Bare
# of participants:
30-50 but flexible. It could be 2 hours (there is plenty of material) if that suits the program. I have developed it for 90 here.
Workshop 3 duration:
90 Minute Workshop
Equipment needed:
I will bring castor oil pack, and printed sheets for lymph drainage technique (to take home) Would be good to do this in a warm/sheltered space to take tops off, People could sit on chairs/floor/stand. Good to have chairs for those that wish to sit and speakers for activation.
Workshop 3's Intention:
Intention is to nourish and explore the relationship one has with one's own breast/chest. Learn about why it is beneficial to connect and tools for health and practices for pleasure.
Who it’s for. People with breast tissue, people who love breast tissue, people who have scars they would like to work with (top surgery/cancer/reductions/ enhancements.) People with chests who would like to cultivate more sensitivity. Any and all are welcome.
* To connect with heart, hands and chest
* To learn about breast care: why and how. Lymph drainage massage, some movement and castor oil packs and the whys, health, pleasure
* The breasts/chest as an erogenous zone.
* Connecting with breasts, nipples, genitals. Somatic experience
* Orienting to Energetic/Cosmic Breast as an act of self love/care.
Workshop 3 rough format:
Using ESAR model.
Engage.
Body scan
To connect to Subject. heart, chest, breast tissue, nipples. Connecting to group, through heart and each individuals unique experience, and to the Cosmic teat that is always nourishing us.
Feeling for intention for why coming to the workshop. (people may be more interested in one aspect of this workshop than another, that’s welcome!) 15
Study.
Possibly in a circle (depending on numbers)
Lymph drainage big 6 (10 mins)
Massage techniques for breast tissue (10 mins)
Use of Castor Oil (10 mins)
Shared favourite massage moves. (10 mins)
Questions during each step
Activate.
Body scan to feel how you would like to be with your chest.
May choose loving kindness, activate with element from study piece
Or drop into the invitation to go on a guided erotic journey exploring sensation. (20 mins)
Reflect in small, then larger group. (10 mins)
Workshop 3 program description:
Breasts & Chests Laid Bare
((After a breast cancer diagnosis & two surgeries in 2024 Kaggi became passionate about Breast & Chest education. Here they offer a nourishing workshop where we engage our heart & hands to explore our own relationship with our chest.))
**DELETE**: "A nourishing workshop where we engage our heart & hands & explore our own relationship with our chest. "
You will learn practical techniques: lymph drainage, use of castor oil & massage techniques to care for any breast & chest tissue, and/or scarring to optimise health and sensation in this area.
You will also be invited to explore & cultivate your erotic relationship with your chest area & feel into your relationship with your chest and genitals.
For all those who wish to connect lovingly with their own chest area, for health & pleasure and for those who are curious how they might like to play with milking their energetic connection to the Great Cosmic Teat as an act of self love.
**DELETE**: "After a breast cancer diagnosis & two surgeries in 2024 Kaggi is passionate about Breast & Chest education."
Are you interested in/able to facilitate any other group experiences?
Depending on what workshops and how many you pick. I could easily do a one hour embodied morning practice. I have so many. Probably only want to do this if I'm presenting only one workshop.
EO: Support space / info booth:
I am willing and able to be in the emotional support space. Again depends on what else I am doing, but speak to me if you are interested.
Is there anything else that you would like us to know as organisers?
I'm so grateful for all you do to create this event. I love our community and am keen to be a part of it and support how I can. If you have a gap or need other support please ask. If I can't offer it I can say no! I will be driving up from Wise Women Gathering the weekend before and aim to be in the area by Wednesday.