Hosted by
Jordan Hackett
& Susan Stark
The FEAST Foreplay Podcast is Here!
We are delighted to announce the launch of the FEAST Foreplay Podcast. A dedicated space for thoughtful, embodied conversations in the lead up to FEAST 2026.
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This series offers in-depth conversations with International Somatic Sex Educators who will be facilitating at FEAST 2026. Each guest offers a distinct body of work, each bringing their particular passions, experience, and knowledge about sexuality, embodiment and pleasure.
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With every episode, we will announce a new facilitator joining the FEAST 2026 program, along with the workshop they will be offering. This is an invitation to begin engaging with the festival, to sense what resonates, what challenges you and what you may wish to explore more deeply in person.
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The FEAST Foreplay Podcast is an invitation to expand your sense of what is possible in sexuality and pleasure and to begin connecting with the voices shaping our community.
Uma Ayelet Furman - Elder & Facilitator
Uma loves creating spaces that are rich in learning, inclusive and safe. Her work is warm, accessible, and full of love and passion.
She is an international leader in the field of embodiment & somatic sex education with decades of experience in private practice. As co-director of the Institute of Somatic Sexology she has also been training Sexological Bodyworkers for over 15 years.
Paula Andreazza - Facilitator
Paula has 30+ years in body-centered therapies, including 15 years focused on sexuality. She studied with leading teachers in 17 countries and developed a unique methodology integrating modern science with Taoist and Tantric practices.
Her mission is to train ethical, skilled, and confident therapists, as well as inspire & guide individuals who wish to explore and discover their erotic potential.
Anthony Smith - Facilitator
My name is Anthony and I work in Sex Coaching. My work explores sexual empowerment, intimacy coaching and conscious touch through one on one sessions, structured workshops and groups. I identify as a queer cis-male.
My work is informed by training in Sexological Bodworking, Interactive Erotic Education and Counseling. I incorporate elements of Tantra, Body Electric and Mindfulness to help discover new possibilities. I do this through Talk sessions, One Way Touch sessions and Two Way Touch sessions, Group Workshops and Online Sex Coaching.
Sam Beer - Facilitator
Sam has been bumping around the sexy education space for six or so years. In this time they have facilitated a wide range of group learning experiences, including erotic embodiment classes, workshops and professional trainings such as the Interactive Erotic Educator Training.
What can you expect with Sam? To come into a space where whatever you are bringing, and however you show up, is valued as part of the learning of the group, where the erotic potential of everything and every moment is celebrated. Sam’s offerings have a throughline of existential embodied exploration, intimate interpersonal engagement and sacred silliness, with a high value placed on willingness to try new things imperfectly.
Come along to their workshops to dance and play on the line between known and unknown.
David Thornby & Vida Oceana - Facilitators
David has taught erotic embodiment to clients and groups for nearly 10 years. He is a Certified Somatic Sex Educator and former president of the SSEAA, with special interests in the body-mind and nervous system, erotic motivations, sex education ethics, mid-life sexual expression, and expanding orgasmicity.
Vida has worked in various areas of the adult field for 15+ years. As a sex professional Vida works one on one with clients who wish to explore their eroticism, whether through kink and sluttiness, emotional intimacy, embodiment practice or conscious communication.
Deej Juventin - Elder & Facilitator
Deej loves creating spaces that are rich in learning, inclusive and safe. His work is warm, accessible, and full of love, playfullness and passion.
He is the founding President of the Somatic Sex Educators’ Association of Australasia, and the director of the Institute of Somatic Sexology.
Deej is highly motivated to install quality somatic learning programs across the planet, and bring together sex positive communities.
Lorraine Pentello - Facilitator
Lorraine (she/they/he) is a Somatic Therapist and bodyworker specialising in sexuality and trauma. She has worked in the field of sexuality for the past 27 years; starting in entertainment then shifting to somatic sexuality and healing in 2014.
Lorraine is passionate about creating trauma informed learning spaces where people of all genders can feel supported and connected to each other and to themselves.
Kaggi Valentine - Facilitator
I am a Somatic Sex Educator, Eco-Sexual Pleasure Activist & Ceremonialist with over 25 years experience facilitating groups. I love the shared learning & magic that can happen in the group field & how co-regulation and orienting towards pleasure & play supports our growth, creativity and freedom. I am also a Trauma-Informed Scar Remediation Pelvic Care Specialist.
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Laura-Doe Harris - Elder & MC
Laura-Doe is an award-winning somatic sex educator, comedienne, singer/songwriter and founder of the yOniversity. She works internationally using humour, song and science to help people connect to the wisdom and pleasure within their amazing bodies.
Laura-Doe created the Vulvalicious Cushions, beautiful anatomically accurate art pieces to help educate about the elegant design of the vulva owner’s arousal anatomy. She also wrote and performs a one woman comic cabaret called ‘Vaudeville of the Vulva’.
Her current projects include a program called ‘Older, Wiser, Sexier!’ and an annual intergenerational gathering, Earth Lodge Australia (earthlodgeaustralia.com), offering rites of passage for all ages.
Jo & Glenn - Facilitators
​Jo Marie, founder of Red Thread Education, is an experienced practitioner & facilitator working with people through transitions at the intersections of birth, love & sex. Her embodied skills include being with what is, allowing not knowing & trusting erotic body intelligence. Jo co-facilitates embodied consent practice groups.
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Glenn has walked alongside people curious to deepen capacity for intimacy, embodied presence, authentic relating, and access more pleasure, for over 30 years. They are passionate about facilitating transformational learning spaces that cultivate erotic empowerment and support life transitions.
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Together Jo and Glenn run Reclaiming Body Eros through which they facilitate professional development for Sexological Bodyworkers and Crucible of Love intimacy workshops for people from all walks of life.
Coming soon!
Myola Woods - Facilitator
I am a Somatic Sex Educator, Eco-Sexual Pleasure Activist & Ceremonialist with over 25 years experience facilitating groups. I love the shared learning & magic that can happen in the group field & how co-regulation and orienting towards pleasure & play supports our growth, creativity and freedom. I am also a Trauma-Informed Scar Remediation Pelvic Care Specialist.
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