renature your earthbody:
1:1 sensual movement sessions
Can we listen for the body's erotic wisdom? Can we practice building safety in being seen and expressing our most pleasure-forward selves? Can we unwind shame from our somas? Can we enter into the body's knowledge + intelligence? Can we release the oppression that lives within our tissues? In this virtual space, we will dive into the liberatory power of sensual movement.
This offering is for you if:
You are 18+ years old and any of the following apply...
You are desiring to (re)connect with your sensual body
You want to build safety in being seen and freely express your most pleasure-forward self
You want to practice embodying liberation through dance
You want to deepen attunement and trust with your body's knowledge + intelligence
You want to get to know the movement storyteller/dancer within you
You are an experienced dancer healing from the wounds of perfectionism
You crave to see, feel and experience your body as nature
You are LGBTQ+ and/or BIPOC and looking for a justice-rooted, trauma-aware container that affirms and celebrates your existence
You just want to play and have some fun getting intimate with yourself!
Accessibility:
No prior dance experience necessary. Closed captioning can be provided. These sessions can also be recorded upon request. Open to folx of all races, abilities, genders and sexual orientations.
Guiding frameworks…
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Eco-eroticism is a way of knowing and living that centers the earth as an essential secure attachment and lover. To treat this planet as an erotic beloved is to repair the earthbody severing caused by colonization and recognize our bodies as inextricable from the earth. Eco-eroticism can guide us to deconstruct cisheteronormative constructs of gender, pleasure, sex and sexuality, as well as human exceptionalism.
This practice invites us to expand our pleasure potential and sense the more-than-human world with love and care. It invites us to center consent in our interactions with the earth and with all living beings. It invites us to experience the erotic as not just sexual, but as a life force energy that is in everything. And it invites us to experience our bodies as water, land, fire and air.
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The discipline of Authentic Movement was created in the 1950s by a dance therapist named Mary Starks Whitehouse and then expanded through one of her students, Janet Alder.
Authentic Movement is a practice rooted in presence and somatic awareness that allows whatever needs to emerge via movement to do so. Traditionally, one moves with eyes closed, without music, in the receptive presence of an experienced witness. The form is simple and profound and strengthens the experience of the body as an infinite, intelligent resource, rather than as an object to be directed, controlled or exploited.
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My space holding is deeply shaped by my O’odham ancestral knowledge, centering respect, ritual, reclamation, relationship and reciprocity. This learning space invites us to decolonize our bodies and root into collaborative liberatory praxis.
My role as a facilitator…
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This is a radical, decolonial, erotic space. We will practice setting clear boundaries as an act of love and co-creating trust. Your wholeness is welcome and celebrated here. You can touch, include and tend to any part of your body in your exploration, especially the parts that long to be unshamed. You can express pleasure, pain, joy, anger, and any other emotion that is asking to be moved through. Clothing is optional in this container as well.
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reflect + affirm your experience and share my own lived experience when relevant
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encourage, celebrate and hold you accountable to your desires. offer guidance and invitations when wanted. center you as the expert of your own body and experience.
My practice honors the emotional, physical, spiritual, ancestral and ecological parts of your humanity. Utilizing creative forms of bodymind communication that go beyond able-bodied and neurotypical norms, I am committed to co-creating containers that center the 10 principles of disability justice written by Patty Berne and Sins Invalid, including but not limited to interdependence, collective access, recognizing wholeness and collective liberation.
“This experience changed me, grew me. It brought me further along the sacred journey of reclaiming and redefining who I am. Che Che, thank you for holding such a big mirror with an open heart full of gold. The work you show up for and help facilitate is holy. Eternally grateful."
Carriese Broussard
“If you get the opportunity to be a part of Che Che's sessions, there is nothing I can recommend higher as a gift of self love.”
Carli Jones
“I'm blown away with the space Che Che creates for folx to move so freely; the way they create a container so safe for authentic sensual expression and the release of guilt, shame, and insecurities is unwavering and so deeply profound. As someone who has struggled with chronic anxiety, depression and a life-time of guilt, shame, and self-doubt, I can honestly attest to how freeing it feels to be able to express such genuine movements -- movements that are typically frowned upon and hold such a negative stigma by society. To be guided by Che Che in dismantling internalized systems of oppression and remembering the sensual parts of myself has been so important in my journey back home, and I am eternally grateful for this offering. If you have a single desire within your soul to experience the expansion of your sensual self, I highly advise you lean in to Che Che's offering.”
Ashley Wright
More about these sessions:
These 70 min zoom sessions are a space of experiential unfolding, relational interdependence and presencing.
We get to discover what the body can teach us about our innate erotic energy. In this space, we are not asking the mind to lead, we are asking the body. We will practice softening our grip on knowing and strengthening our capacity to listen. In this container, you are The Mover and I am The Witness. The intimate relationship between mover and witness is the heart of the work. This container is the practice of relationship - a practice in which the central experience involves our seeing and being seen by each other.
I’ll offer 2 options for how you can enter into your movement:
To wait to be moved - following subtle or big impulses and practice opening to the unknown with curiosity
Entering with a specific question, prompt or inquiry that feels alive for you. I can also provide a question to guide you, if you’d like.
After your move, we will come together and process, reflect and integrate what was uncovered.
Categorized into 3 tiers:
$77 - this is for folx who are experiencing marginalization that affects their finances
$88 - this is for folx who fall within middle socioeconomic class and/or who have some type of relative privilege
$111 - this is for folx who have some type of proximity to generational wealth and/or fall within upper socioeconomic class and want to make this course more accessible to community in need
Investment:
This collaborative space invites you to see the body as nature, as innately sensual, as erotic aliveness.
In the words of Rotana,
"Erotic aliveness as life-affirming resistance that refuses to accept the violent conditions imposed on us. Erotic aliveness as fearless storytelling and collective memory in the face of colonial gaslighting."
Meet the facilitator, Che Che Luna
Che Che Luna (they/them) is a movement storyteller, (eco)erotic artist, certified sexuality educator and sensual embodiment facilitator dedicated to collaborative liberatory praxis. Their lens as a queer, trans, Autistic, kinky, polyamorous, Indigenous-chicanx informs their multidisciplinary work, which includes ecosystem-based philosophies, inherited ancestral knowledge rooted in the O’odham lifeways, social justice frameworks and multi-cultural dance studies. It is their honor and life’s work to support underserved communities in reclaiming the body as a source of pleasure, elemental wisdom, expansion, transformation, erotic aliveness, autonomy, interconnectedness, and love. Luna evokes permission for others to live into their truth, heal from systemic oppression, embody their desires, and find their own access points into the sensual body and the collective interdependent body of the more-than-human world.
Che Che was born and raised on the sacred lands of the Chumash people (Santa Barbara, California). Their papa’s ancestors are indigenous to the desert of Sonora, México and South Central Arizona. Their mama’s ancestors are settlers from England and The Balkans. Che moves through the world with a deep and humbling awe for the ways that their chosen family, friends, beloveds, teachers, mentors, collaborators, plant + animal allies, landscapes and histories, in all of their constellations of existence, come together to shape who they are today and inspire them to be the ancestor our future needs. To build a sense of belonging, reconnection and repair to their origins, Che Che has a life-long practice of dancing with the earth and listening to the beingness of relationship that is our connection to each other, the land, and the multiplicity of beings within and around us. This practice has become foundational in their space holding over the last decade of co-creating body based experiential workshops, 1:1 sessions, gatherings, ceremonies, celebrations and performances that center QTPOC. A forever student, they are devoted to a lifetime of (un)learning, decolonizing, and providing deep community care.
Some of Che Che Luna’s groundlaying trainings and certifications include…
Nationally Qualified Level 10 Gymnast, B.S. in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Dance Minor from the University of California, Santa Cruz, Certified Holistic Sex Educator from the Institute for Sexuality Education & Enlightenment (ISEE), and they are currently moving through the justice-rooted ANTEUP! Sexuality Educator Certification program
