Yedidya Benjamin Zion
Yedidya
Zion
Year of training:
2019
Related qualification:
ISS Graduate. CSB. CSSE
How many and what type of workshops/classes have you previously facilitated?
Sexological body classes at the intensive during second year (2023), third year (2024) and as an assistant facilitator (2025)
Online workshops on sexuality and NLP
In person Osho Meditations, original meditations, group sharing circles and workshops with participants up to 70 at a time.
What qualities do you bring to your facilitation?
Presence, humor, fun, reverence, clarity, theatricality, flow, deep listening, reflecting back, a range of tempos and styles.
Harnessing what is coming up in the room to deepen connection, understanding and inspiration.
The intention to attune to what is currently present for the participants, in myself, in the room, in the moment, and placing the learning at the center so we may listen together for what it has to teach us all.
What relevant skills and experience/qualifications do you have in addition to Sexological Bodywork?
Somatic sex educator, Embodied counsellor, Somatic sex coach, ISTA practitioner, Massage and Reflexology, Working with Vaginismus, NLP master-practitioner, Hypnotherapist, ISS sexological bodywork certification assistant facilitator
Facilitator Bio
Yedidya grew up in a family of educators, though he was never quite satisfied with the lesson plan. At fourteen, after stepping away from religion, he wandered into a bookstore and asked for books on sexuality. The owner gave him an inquisitive look, then a knowing smile, and went to the shelves to find a map for a path he didn’t yet know existed.
A few weeks later, while practicing one of the exercises in those books, he experienced his first spiritual, embodied, ecstatic, fully altered state. Out of his mind, staring into the eyes of the Beloved he did not know to name, the course was set—a life devoted to embodied practice, exploring sexuality as a pathway into the mystery realms of consciousness, while also searching for belonging, for a lineage of teachers.
Since then, he has wandered, gathering tools and more questions—mixing somatic sexology, sexological bodywork, somatic sex coaching, two-way touch, embodied counseling, NLP, practical psychology, and hypnosis—learning how to show up fully with others, in curiosity, courage, and humor. He accompanies individuals, couples, and groups into the unknown, helping them meet themselves and each other with presence and openness.
Yedidya works both online and in person and serves as assistant facilitator in the Certification for Sexological Bodywork at the Institute of Somatic Sex
Workshop 1 Name:
The Teacher Within
# of participants:
no limit
Workshop 1 duration:
2 Hour Workshop
Equipment needed:
Speaker, Mic, Cushions, Whiteboard
Workshop 1's Intention:
Explore the Teacher archetype — what makes a teacher truly meaningful, and what qualities awaken trust, inspiration, and depth.
Reflect on the teachers who have shaped their lives, and make personal contact with the lasting impact these teachers have had.
Share stories and learn from one another through the lens of lineage — the teachers who have guided us, and the presence of the Inner Teacher within each of us.
Explore and give shape to their own Inner Teacher — including the aspects of the lover as teacher, the embodied person as teacher, and the somatic sex educator as teacher.
Create a personal symbol or totem to express the many layers and dimensions of their inner teacher.
Weave a deeper embodied relationship with the Inner Teacher as a living source of wisdom, guidance, inspiration, and inner authority.
Workshop 1 rough format:
We’ll begin by exploring the theme of “the teacher” through the lens of meaningful teachers in our own lives.
Through reflection, conversation, and gentle somatic exploration, participants will look at what made certain teachers so impactful — what qualities they carried, how they showed up, and what it felt like to be in their presence.
From there, we’ll turn toward the inner teacher — the inner voice that calls us toward authenticity, wholeness, and integrity. We’ll draw inspiration from the Japanese symbol “sensei” (先生) — the one who has walked the path before — as a way to connect with our own inner guidance and lived experience.
Using simple creative materials, each person will craft a symbol, metaphor, or totem for their inner teacher. Together, the group will also create a shared symbol that reflects the field of wisdom and presence we hold together.
In the final part of the workshop, we’ll explore what it means to teach and guide from an embodied place. This includes touching into the experience of being a lover as teacher, an embodied person as teacher, and a somatic sex educator as teacher — one who walks the path of sexuality as sacred, meaningful, and integral to human wholeness. Through this exploration, participants will deepen their connection with their inner teacher as a living source of wisdom, love, and embodied integrity in their life and work.
Workshop 1 program description:
Teaching, like any truly human act, emerges from one’s inwardness. As we teach, we project the state of our own soul onto students, subjects, and the way we share space. What if teaching could be more than technique or knowledge—what if it reflected the heart, body, and soul, guided by sexuality, embodiment, and presence? In this workshop, we meet the Teacher Within, stepping into the quietly brave territory where teaching is an act of soul-bearing and presence. We honor the teachers who shaped us, feel their influence in our bodies, and turn inward to discover what is ours to bring. Through symbol, metaphor, movement, and attentive listening, we move beyond agenda into presence, curiosity, and soul-resonance—offering ourselves as teachers, broken, whole, and wholly broken open.
Does W1 actively invite nudity?
No
Workshop 2 Name:
Full Body Flirt
# of participants:
20-50
Workshop 2 duration:
2 Hour Workshop
Equipment needed:
Speaker, Mic, Cushions, Whiteboard
Workshop 2's Intention:
Participants will be invited to play in the space between intention and action/ interest and established connection.
To experience various ways of connecting to their embodied curiosity for others, and to signal it
To deeply engage with their own experience of flirtation - fear and uncertainty? Enjoyment? Nervousness? Socially conditioned?
To explore their own embodiment and tendencies in flirting so they can connect to their own unique style
To experience flirting as an end in itself rather than as a means to an end!
Workshop 2 rough format:
Engage:
Engagement with flirting/ signalling interest through animal play
Small group - what is flirting? What is your relationship to it? What is your story? What is in your body?
Study:
Nod to differences in experience, rejection, safety (being perceived to be leading someone on, friendliness perceived as flirting),
Flirting with your whole body - breaking it up in to parts - how do your eyes flirt? Your chest and shoulders? Your legs? Your pelvis? Your hair?
Small group reflection, supporting each other to feel for their style.
Activate:
Non-verbal speed dating
Reflect:
Small then big group reflection
Workshop 2 program description:
Join Sam and Yedidya for a playful exploration of flirting. After exploring how you relate to flirting, what it means to you, and what might hold you back, you will let go of the stories and bring it all into the body to find how to move with confidence in your own unique style. Expect to engage beyond human constructs, leave words behind and make flirty connections that feel really good for exactly what they are.
Does W2 actively invite nudity?
It's optional but not a central part
Workshop 3 Name:
It is I
# of participants:
40
Workshop 3 duration:
2 Hour Workshop
Equipment needed:
Speaker, Mic, Cushions, Whiteboard
Workshop 3's Intention:
Explore the tender line between meeting and using, between seeing and labeling.
Feel, in your own body, what it is to be objectified—and to objectify.
Notice how desire, power, and projection shape the way we touch, look, and relate.
Experiment with the difference between contact that takes and contact that meets.
Remember what it feels like to be met as a whole person, not a role or idea.
Practice presence that sees without grasping, that stays curious without control.
Touch the possibility of relating where nothing needs to be done—only met.
Leave with a living sense of what it means to be fully human, and to meet another as one.
Workshop 3 rough format:
We’ll begin with grounding and arrival practices — gentle movement, breath, and touch — to bring awareness into the body and awaken curiosity for how we meet one another.
From there, we’ll enter the I–It world: through playful, edgy partnered and group exercises, we’ll explore how we objectify others — by gaze, by language, by assumption, by use. Participants will have the chance to notice what it feels like to be turned into an object, and to turn someone else into one.
Then we’ll shift into the I–Thou field — through embodied empathy practices, somatic mirroring, and slower relational contact — exploring what it takes to see and be seen as a whole person. Reflection, journaling, and brief teaching will weave through the process, giving meaning to the raw immediacy of experience.
In the final phase, participants will bring these learnings into conscious erotic and relational engagement — meeting others through presence, curiosity, and aliveness. The exercises will invite participants to be daring and go deep, to step toward the edges of comfort while remaining grounded in respect and choice — discovering how sexuality, when rooted in subject-to-subject awareness, becomes both sacred and deeply human.
Workshop 3 program description:
“All real living is meeting.”
What would it feel like to meet another human fully—not as a role, label, or fantasy, but as a whole, alive, unpredictable being?
What arises when we turn someone into an object—and what surprises emerge when we feel objectified ourselves?
This workshop invites you to linger in that edge, where I–It meets I–Thou, and where desire, presence, and intimacy spark in unexpected ways. You’ll explore the full continuum of object and subject, sensing how projection, expectation, and attention shape connection, and how boldness, tenderness, and presence can transform it.
A space to stretch, risk, and lean into delight and discomfort, to touch without claiming, see without reducing, and simply be with what is alive. Come curious, come bold, come ready to be surprised—and perhaps risk feeling fully truly met.
Does W3 actively invite nudity?
Yes, it is a key part of the process
Are you happy to facilitate support pods?
Fuck yes!
Are you interested in contributing to/facilitating at pre-retreat events
happy to be part of it
Is there anything else that you would like us to know as organisers?
Just recently moved to Australia so some of my local setup business wise is still in motion.
After years of waiting to be here for this festival, I am so looking forward to be there, get to meet you both, connect with community and hopefully get to be part of the team this year.
Here to help and support in whatever way I can.
with deep gratitude for your dedication, devotion and care.
you two are AMAZING!
much love,
Yedidya