Shadowplay Personae: Roleplay on the Dark Side with Dossie Easton - September 13, 2009

Sandwich Social 5:00p - 6:00p
Program 6:00p - 8:00p
Center for Sex and Culture
1519 Mission Street (Between 11th and South Van Ness)
Note: This class is open to Janus members and non-members
Cost: $5 (Janus members and reciprocal organizations)
$15 (All others)
Sandwich Social $5 (Come eat, meet and mingle with some fun people before the class)

"I know my fantasies have dirty roots"

When we explore the dark side of our fantasies we can reclaim forbidden feelings, live out all of our personae, explore archetypal roles, and use the special boundaries of an erotic role play to safely experience parts of ourselves that don't fit in everyday reality. In this workshop we will learn how to provide for emotional and physical safety as we plan our journeys into the shadowy sea of our deepest unconscious selves. Who are your precious inner sexy characters? How can you enact them and let other people interact with them? And then what might happen? Let's try it and find out! We will use tantric breath work and shamanic journeying techniques to bring our precious inner perverts into consciousness and into connection. As a therapist, Dossie has been invited into the darker sides of many people's psyches, and has much to say about how our fantasies can inform our growth and also promote wonderful connections and sexual journeys.

About our Presenter:

Dossie Easton, a long time player on the San Francisco S/M scene and well-known killer bottom, is co-author with Janet Hardy of The Ethical slut, The New Bottoming Book and The New Topping Book, When Someone You Love is Kinky, a book designed to give to outsiders to inform them about our lifestyle, and Radical Ecstasy: SM Journeys to Transcendence. The second edition of The Ethical Slut was released in April of 2009, bigger and better and all round sluttier.

Dossie is a licensed psychotherapist working with individuals, couples and more in her private practice, with a particular interest in how SM journeys into Shadow can bring old wounds into the healing light of consciousness and give them a shot of life force in the form of good hot sex.

An active sex radical since 1961, Dossie was a member of the first Board of Directors of the Society of Janus in San Francisco in 1974. In the eighties under the name of Hidebound Leatherware, she had a business crafting whips and restraints. Currently she makes her home in the mountains north of San Francisco, travels around to teach at conferences all over the world, and spends her nonexistent free time hiking the hills declaiming filthy poetry to the vultures and hosting outrageous pajama parties. You can check out her website at www.dossieeaston.com.

Following the program, Dossie will have copies of her books available for purchase and signing. If you haven't picked up the new edition of The Ethical Slut, this will be the perfect opportunity.