The Body Love Experience
Body Love (aka Liquid Love) is an embodied and collective journey of sensuality and surrender. It can be the practice of letting go in the most pleasurable way, a deep dive deep into your senses, a place to integrate your playful and sensuous sides. It can also be a deep dive into your authenticity, a place to extend your awareness and your ability to listen to your body and enter into an exploration of your inner dialogue.
To a sensual musical backdrop we invite you to move and allow yourself to be moved with presence, consciousness and awareness. Releasing our usual desire to act on erotic sensations and thoughts, we invite you to relax, feel into the energy flowing within yourself and the bodies around you. Practicing a high degree of attunement, this experience allows you to engage with others using mostly body language and non-verbal cues. The Body Love space, while highly sensual, is non-sexual in nature.
This experience invites you to immerse yourself into a world without friction and one where different bodies melt into one to become a single living entity. It involves copious amounts of warm coconut oil, is clothing optional, done on the ground and with the eyes closed or blindfolded. We will pour warm oil onto your skin, from where it will spread out over your body and form a lubricious substance, which allows you to float in a sea together with other oily bodies. Everyone is invited to respect their own rhythm and limits to touch and nudity.
Our Body Love facilitators will safely and responsibly hold the space and provide guidelines and instructions for the group to follow on how to navigate this journey. They will guide you through an exploration of yourself and others around you. They will support the creation of a safer space, through an energetic and visual presence, while asking people to practice their own agency, sovereignty and self care. Within the boundaries discussed at the outset, you are invited to explore the experience in whatever way makes you feel most comfortable.
To a sensual musical backdrop we invite you to move and allow yourself to be moved with presence, consciousness and awareness. Releasing our usual desire to act on erotic sensations and thoughts, we invite you to relax, feel into the energy flowing within yourself and the bodies around you. Practicing a high degree of attunement, this experience allows you to engage with others using mostly body language and non-verbal cues. The Body Love space, while highly sensual, is non-sexual in nature.
This experience invites you to immerse yourself into a world without friction and one where different bodies melt into one to become a single living entity. It involves copious amounts of warm coconut oil, is clothing optional, done on the ground and with the eyes closed or blindfolded. We will pour warm oil onto your skin, from where it will spread out over your body and form a lubricious substance, which allows you to float in a sea together with other oily bodies. Everyone is invited to respect their own rhythm and limits to touch and nudity.
Our Body Love facilitators will safely and responsibly hold the space and provide guidelines and instructions for the group to follow on how to navigate this journey. They will guide you through an exploration of yourself and others around you. They will support the creation of a safer space, through an energetic and visual presence, while asking people to practice their own agency, sovereignty and self care. Within the boundaries discussed at the outset, you are invited to explore the experience in whatever way makes you feel most comfortable.
Participants Comments
Liquid Love offered something deeply unanticipated, almost unimaginable to me: something I feel my words limp behind my physical experience. - The "removal" of friction of our human bodies with the surface! Ahh...they normally rest on, stay, hold, rub on ground. But no - I experienced that in "Liquid Love" my body felt enabled and inspired to move into a realm "beyond my mind". What a discovery it felt! What a surprise! What a gift to receive!
Thank you Yvan and Shahreen, thank all of you who shared and celebrated this amazing experience. For me, the encounters with bodies this way transformed the physical experience into a spiritual one. While gravity slipped away, literally, and my “normally scaffolded body” merged into something I have no words for, but the memory of joy and happiness. Thank you!
Iris - Toronto
It's an event where no one can really explain what makes it so wonderful, you just have to find out by yourself"
"This is what community, warmth connection and sensuality is all about
Participant
To anyone who wants to experience the real meaning of being one with the universe and all beings on earth and in all dimensions; I absolutely suggest participating in a “Love Liquid” with the guidance of the lovely and beautiful souls of Yvan and Shahreen.
Being in a space that you will be given all the tools to make yourself safe and sovereign, to go beyond the physical forms and all the associated common judgmental narratives; brings the opportunity not only to connect to yourself deeply. And go beyond your head and limiting beliefs, to guide you through remembering we are all so connected deeply the moment we feel and breath through the window of our hearts.
During this experience I was able to go beyond my fears of not being able to say yes or no and sit with my maybe. And I was able to connect to human beings and their beauty without needing my head to analyze anything. This is exactly where I received the gift, I loved everyone unconditionally for who they were and the real beauty that were are holding inside. I felt alive, refreshed, rejuvenated, and loved and received after this expansive experience.
Hasti - Ottawa
Acknowledgments
Body Love was inspired by the Liquid Love format which was developed by Dr. Daniel Joseph Hayes, founder of The Touch&Play Project
Images are curtesy of Touch&Play Photo Archive and from past Liquid Love events
https://touchandplay.org/
Body Love was inspired by the Liquid Love format which was developed by Dr. Daniel Joseph Hayes, founder of The Touch&Play Project
Images are curtesy of Touch&Play Photo Archive and from past Liquid Love events
https://touchandplay.org/
