Altered & Aroused: Love in Adulthood Monthly [free]

Have you explored plant medicines for better sex? 🌿

Are you curious about how herbs, plants, and fungi can help us explore our pleasure? 🍄

Do you want to feel more of your breath, body, and arousal or change up your sexual routines? ❤️‍🔥

No matter where you are on your plant medicine journeys (or have never explored at all), this workshop is for you, curious one! In this playful and engaging workshop, a Sex Coach + Sex Therapist (with some special guests) will explore the magic of plant medicines for your mind, body, spirit, and sex.

We're not here to encourage anything, but we will share our honest experiences with plant medicines of all sorts. We'll also share current research, anecdotal evidence, and resources for consideration for your own experiences.

Here's more about what we'll explore together:

• How cannabis interacts with the nervous system and why that matters for arousal, presence, and pleasure (especially for women and those with estrogen-dominant bodies).
• How psychedelics can create a 'shared reality' for couples that can be healing and playful.
• Other very legal plant medicine allies that help us in our body + bedroom: cacao (chocolate), damiana, kanna, kava, maca and more.
• Why we've ditched alcohol for other medicines in our daily lives.
• The power of altered states: accessing deeper emotional intimacy with a partner (or ourselves), feeling into more sensation, lowered inhibitions/anxiety, healing the love/lust split, reduce performance anxiety and more.
• Creating felt-sense 'reference points' for deeper, more connected, powerful, Tantric experiences
• Other ways to play with altered states + open the portal to the unconscious mind: breathwork, arousal, meditation

A note, friends: This workshop is educational, not prescriptive. This is a judgment-free, curiosity-first conversation led by two trauma-informed sexperts. We're not encouraging illegal activity or telling you what to put in your body. Psilocybin remains illegal in California (with some cities deprioritizing enforcement), and cannabis laws vary by location, too. This will be an honest conversation about what many people are already exploring, so you can make informed choices for yourself.

Meet your Guides:

Andrea Devon Bertoli is a Pleasure Coach and Sex Educator who blends the spiritual and scientific to help you experience pleasure, power, and Love in Adulthood. She offers embodied coaching and practical wisdom for perimenopausal women (and their partners) who want to feel at home in their changing bodies and selves.

In her holistic approach to sexual wellness, she uses tools from Tantra, mindfulness, therapy, and yoga to help people find new ways of relating to their own body and others. She creates delicious online pleasure education on Patreon, and facilitates sacred spaces in workshops and classes online and in-person. She is certified as a practitioner of Urban Tantra, a certified Sex Educator, and has a Master’s degree in Gender Studies from University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is a queer, kinky Tantrika, and queer/trans/polyam/ENM friendly + positive 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ You can find Andrea’s Pleasure Education on Substack, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook.

Christopher Frier Brown, LCSW, CST, has over 20 years in practice as a Psychotherapist and Sex Therapist. His dynamic therapy practice draws on his many years of experience and some of the best training in the field, including the Baylor College of Medicine, The Menninger Clinic, the Gottman Institute, and the University of Michigan’s Sexual Health Certificate Program. Christopher works with individuals and couples on a range of mental health challenges and helps his coupled clients explore non-monogamy and build ‘rockstar relationships.’

Here are some testimonials from our previous events:

"Andrea and Christopher are such skilled facilitators—I'm in awe. I love that the skills we worked on feel so universal to just living a better life... and I loved that there was the undercurrent of something more erotic and sensual."

“Andrea and Christopher are sexy, fun, and loving teachers—it was very inspiring! I highly recommend this class to couples at any point in their relationship… and I plan to come back for another class!”

“If you are wanting to deepen your connection with yourself and others then I highly recommend working with Andrea. She is a wealth of knowledge and has training in so many interesting fields that come together in a way to really helps to integrate communication, understanding your own needs and others!”

“Andrea is a terrific facilitator who comes well prepared with interesting prompts and lots of her own experiences to share, and also creates space for everyone to participate with their own questions and insights.”

Age limit