Menstruation Workshop: Come learn how to chart your cycle to learn all sorts of wonderful things about yourself and your life experience, your body, and mind. All you need is a spiral notebook and a pen. You will learn about the hormones of your menstrual cycle and how they work throughout, how they affect your energy, mood, sexuality, and health. You will learn techniques for developing a better connection and understanding of your body, spirit, and emotions. Please email me mjmacourek@aol.com or call 253-370-2452 for info. This work is based on the book I’m writing on the subject, due out 2009.
Sex Workshop: Twice a year I run a Free version of this in the Pole studio, but I am also branching out and taking this workshop into private homes for groups of women. Below is the description of each.
Sex Workshop (Free Version): This workshop lasts about 3 hours. We begin by watching a video from the Welcomed people (who have graciously given me permission to use it) of a woman who is a normal, natural looking person taking herself from an unaroused state through orgasm. This is an educational video I use to show how the pelvic floor changes through sexual engorgement, and she has a really clear Figure-8 muscle set that engorges, as well as her urethral sponge being exposed at times. I love teaching with this video, but if a woman is too shy or uncomfortable to view this, she can arrange to arrive after the video. After the video we view Betty Dodson’s drawing of the internal clitoris. After a short discussion of the videos we move into the lecture on the anatomy of the female pelvic floor, where I use a plastic model, and hand outs to teach the muscles, bones, and nerves. We move into pelvic floor awareness work, so you can get in touch with the deep layer as opposed to the sphincter layers, and feel how the support you in movement. I teach many kinds of articulation exercises for the pelvic floor, and then we end with sexual positions to feel what is happening in the pelvic floor during each and how the pelvic floor changes during different phases of engorgement and how that affects body positions. Please inquire for dates and times.
Sex Workshop (Paid Version): I am taking this workshop on the road. You can now arrange for me to come into you private space (where you are fee to enjoy alcohol, if you like, during the workshop as it is your own space). I tailor this workshop to whatever the group’s interests are. The workshop cost is $200 plus tax, and lasts about 3 hours. Please contact for more details.
Men’s Sex Class!- That’s right. Ladies, send your man to my workshop to learn the anatomy of the female pelvic floor and all it does, including how orgasms work, the 4 nerves that can trigger orgasm, how the PF changes with pregnancy and births, the menstrual cycle, and menopause. They will learn some of the issues women are prone to, as well as ways to support you in all parts of your life cycle with regard to sex and your pelvic floor health. Please inquire for dates and prices. (I love this class!)
First Bleed workshop: This is a special workshop for young women around the age of their first bleed (Menarche) and a trusted woman in their life. The woman to attend with the girl can be anyone, mother, sister, aunt, friend, etc. The age for attending is variable. This workshop is good for those who are close to having their first bleed, and those within the first couple of years after the first bleed.
The workshop teaches about the ways we could naturally cycle together as women, supporting one another as women. Cycle tracking, ways to honor your blood, and creating an alter as one way of honoring this Rite of Passage (for both the first bleed and all other feminine life transitions, including each cycle bleed). This is a paid workshop. Please inquire for dates and prices.
Shoulder Anatomy Workshop: This workshop is taught a couple of times each year, and is a biomechanic education of how the shoulder girdle works, what goes wrong, ways to work with it. This workshop is wonderful for anyone with shoulder issues, as well as all movement teachers, and pole dancers. Please inquire for dates and prices.
Pelvic Floor Workshop: This is my favorite subject to teach. Attendees learn the bone, muscle, and basic nerve anatomy of the female pelvic floor using a plastic model, handouts, and video. Then students are taken through movement awareness of their own pelvic floor through a variety of experiences. We study the difference between the sphincter layer, as opposed to the deep layer, front and back diamonds, how the PF changes through the menstrual cycle and life cycle, how it changes during sexual play, how it changes during pregnancy, post-birth, and common PF issues like prolapse, incontinence, nerve issues. We end this workshop by learning many kinds of pelvic floor exercises to specialize work and learn to articulate the PF in all the ways possible.
This workshop is good for anyone with a vagina ; ) and is especially good for women with PF issues, women’s care providers and movement teachers.
This workshop can be arranged to be brought into other spaces like midwife practices, OBGYN offices, Doula groups, etc.
Please contact Melissa for schedule and prices, or to arrange a private workshop mjmacourek@aol.com or 253-370-2452.
Women’s Retreat
I’ve begun to offer a women’s retreat which teaches Menstrual Cycle Tracking based on my book (due out 2009), educating you in the main hormones of the menstrual cycle and how each changes your life experience. I also teach the sex class in this retreat and tie it into the menstrual cycle work. We also meet each morning for meditation, somatic movement, and Pilates. This retreat is wonderful for those of you who cannot make the free monthly workshop.
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