VANESSA VANCE

VANESSA VANCE
Perth, Australia
 
CONTACT
contact@vanessakvance.com
www.vanessakvance.com
www.wildcorewisdom.com

​AVAILABLE FOR
Follow-up questions from the festival workshops
One-on-one consultations
Skype sessions
Workshops
Group work
Relationship counselling

I am a counsellor, coach, sex educator, and shamanic facilitator based in Perth, Western Australia. I use an eclectic approach to therapy and coaching incorporating psychodynamic, existential, and humanistic perspectives; as well as mindful and embodied based practices and techniques based around the Sexological Bodywork framework.

​I combine expressive art and eco therapies and create shamanic spaces with ritual and ceremony for exploration, learning, and healing. I love to work with individuals and groups to deepen their relationship with their body and identity as sexual, sensual, and sovereign beings.  I am deeply motivated and passionate about furthering the culture of consent, embodiment, and sexual freedom.

WORKSHOPS AT CELEBRATING SEXUALITY
Cuddle Party 
Cuddle Party is a playful social event designed for adults to explore communication, boundaries and affection. You can come to a Cuddle Party to meet new people, to enjoy amazing conversations, to touch, to be touched, to have fun, to practice asking for what you want, to practice saying “no” to what you don’t want. Touch for some adults has only been appropriate in activities like sport or sex.

​At a Cuddle Party sexual touch is taken off the menu which opens the way for other wonderful forms of touch to be explored such as affection and kindness. When we can distinguish between touch and sex it becomes easier to ask for what we want. Cuddle Parties are in a setting that is structured to be a safe place for exploration and enjoyment, and you never have to cuddle at a cuddle party, ever...unless you want to!

Erotic Nature
A personal eco-erotic self-pleasuring journey. Through discussion, embodiment practices and self-pleasuring ritual we will explore what it means for us to express our erotic innocence as creatures of the earth, one with the natural world, wild and free.

Claiming our erotic sovereignty puts us in direct connection with the earth as a lover; soft hills, curved valleys, dark moist caves and hard mountain peaks can be found in our own bodies, to be explored in deep reverent communion. Erotic activation is shamanic medicine for ourselves, for our communities and for our environment.

When a community of present and grounded sovereign sexual beings gathers together in their own pleasure the earth vibrates with orgasmic bliss! We are nourished, and the earth is nourished too. 

Cuddle and Play Essentials: Tools for Communicating your Desires
Been to a Cuddle Party and want to learn more about communicating and taking things to the next level? Been to a play party where there seemed to be no rules and a lot guessing about how to have a great time?

In Cuddle and Play Essentials we explore in partnered exercises ways to give and receive, offer and request, and exchange touch in full consent; getting more of what you want and playing within the limits of where you’re willing to go.

Drawing on tools from Cuddle Party and The Wheel of Consent, we will unpack touch dynamics to find more rewarding ways to engage while losing the guessing game. There will be opportunities to ask questions, discuss, share and play. Bring a partner, friend or go for potluck. Asking for what you want is truly the fast path to fulfillment!