Our senses are powerful gateways to pleasure, intimacy, emotion, and connection. In this workshop, we’ll dive into the rich world of sensory play—where touch, temperature, sound, smell, and taste become tools for discovery, delight, and creative expression.
Through guided exercises, playful experiments, and a menu of sensations to try, you’ll learn how to both stimulate and deprive the senses to heighten awareness, deepen connection, and expand your play. Whether you’re drawn to the soft and subtle or the sharp and intense, this workshop gives you the tools to build your own sensory play scenes.
Touch between bodies and with tools – from featherlight to firm
Temperature play – hot wax, cold ice, and the mellows in between
Playing with smell, taste, and sound – how everyday sensations can become extraordinary
Sensory deprivation – removing one sense to awaken the others
This workshop welcomes all bodies, all genders, and all experience levels. Come curious and open to exploring. Bring a partner to explore with to make sure you get the full experience.
LGBTQIA+ describes the full spectrum of non-mainstream sexual orientation and/or gender identity, meaning: lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, non-binary, genderqueer/fluid, queer, intersex, asexual, aromantic, agender.
Friends describe people of any and all kinds of gender and sexual identities who are aware and respectful of the necessity, needs, and boundaries of a queer space and its marginalized community.
When you consider yourself a friend you show acknowledgement to and are respectful of everyone’s self-expression and do not assume, presume or project non-consensual ideas onto others. You actively request and use people’s chosen pronouns. You remain mindful of the fact that Karada House is first and foremost a space for queer people that you are also invited to attend. You have a genuine concern for the well-being of LGBTQIA+ people and remain in awareness of heterosexual and gender-straight privileges.
Friends don’t have to be perfect. None of us are. We request that we all proactively work and strive to be good friends and allies to marginalized people.
