Luscious Coaching
Josslyn
Owleye
Year of training:
2024
Related qualification:
Somatic Sexological Bodywork
How many and what type of workshops/classes have you previously facilitated?
I am a former teacher and group facilitator with many years of experience in education and community services. I have experience facilitating workshops on a broad range of topics such as vicarious trauma, anxiety, sexual education, social skills, mindfulness etc.
In my current role I co-facilitate groups for women recovering from family violence and sexual assault.
I am a certified children’s yoga teacher. In 2022 I wrote and facilitated an 8-week yoga program for children 7-12.
I am a poet and board member of QLit – The Queer Festival of Words. In 2022 I facilitated a workshop about embodied writing and queerness, and read my work in several showcases during the 2022-2023 festivals.
In my work as a sexological bodyworker I have facilitated three workshops, two queer focussed erotic temple spaces, and one cuddle gathering. A big focus of these workshops has been the teaching of embodied consent, exploring our relationship to touch and somatic attunement.
What qualities do you bring to your facilitation?
I am a joyful, energetic woman who enjoys creating and sharing sensual experiences. I am highly focussed on emotional and physical safety. Due to my background as a teacher, I bring a high degree of competence in the structuring and scaffolding of learning experiences.
What relevant skills and experience/qualifications do you have in addition to Sexological Bodywork?
Undergraduate and post graduate degrees in education and counselling, more than 10 years experience as a therapeutic professional, training in Reiki, restorative yoga and children's yoga, extensive professional development in working with complex trauma.
Facilitator Bio
Josslyn Owleye (She/her) is an experienced psychotherapist, group facilitator and recent graduate of the Certificate in Somatic Sexological Bodywork. She is a poet, creator and green witch. Joss aims to create delicious sensory experiences that involve ritual and deep nourishing connection to self, others and nature. As a trauma professional, her top priority is co-creating a container of safety, where all participants feel welcome, nurtured and empowered.
Workshop 1 Name:
Eco-sexual delights
# of participants:
10-16
Workshop 1 duration:
90 Minute Workshop
Equipment needed:
A space outside where participants can enjoy the natural environment, natural items for sensation play, clays for body painting, paint brushes.
Workshop 1's Intention:
The intention of this workshop is to create space for participants to explore and expand their erotic relationship to the natural world. Participants will explore a natural space through movement and touch. Participants will use natural materials to play with sensations both individually and with others.
Workshop 1 rough format:
Engage:
Participants will be led through a guided visual meditation related to an erotic experience of the natural world.
Study:
What is eco-sexuality? A short exploration.
Activate:
Participants will journey in a natural space exploring through movement and touch to a particular location where natural materials/items will be set up. Participants will then have the choice to either:
1. Practice sensation play with the materials individually or with others or
2. To use the clays provided to paint on their own body or the bodies of others
Reflect:
Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on the experience, popcorn style.
Workshop 1 program description:
The earth, in her delicious abundance, opens herself to you, to explore, journey and play. Eco-Sexual Delights is a workshop designed to shift your relationship with the natural world from a place you simply inhabit to a living being, a lover. Come and play with us. Unravel, unwind, re-wild.
Workshop 2 Name:
Writing from the Body - An erotic rendezvous with words.
# of participants:
8-15, 10 is ideal.
Workshop 2 duration:
2 Hour Workshop
Equipment needed:
Cushions or chairs, paper, pens/pencils/markers, speaker.
Workshop 2's Intention:
Participants will learn to write erotic poetry/prose through sensory exploration, using movement, breath, sound and touch. Participants will learn to play with language in unexpected ways.
Workshop 2 rough format:
Engage:
Participants will attune to themselves and the topic through guided sensory experiences/activities set up as stations to explore, inspire and delight.
Study:
The facilitator will share examples erotic, sensual writing from a diverse group of writers and will guide participants to draw out the techniques, themes and tropes used by these writers.
Activate:
Participants will explore creating their own erotic work. Both on paper and if they wish, using the body as a canvas.
Reflect:
Participants may choose to share something they have written or reflect on the experience in a closing circle.
Workshop 2 program description:
Come and explore how words taste in your mouth, how they smell, the colours they evoke, the sensations they cause to swim in your chest and stomach, to resonate between your thighs. This workshop will assist you to create your own erotic writing pieces. All are welcome from experienced wordsmiths to amateur love-letter-writers alike.
Workshop 3 Name:
Divine Body Worship
# of participants:
8-15 people, ideal 12.
Workshop 3 duration:
90 Minute Workshop
Equipment needed:
speaker, cushions, small basins of water, face-washers, towels, coconut oil or other body safe oils, items for adornment (I will bring scarves, costume jewellery, eco-glitter, mirrors )
Workshop 3's Intention:
Participants will learn the art of showing divine reverence towards their own bodies and the bodies of others. The genesis of this workshop occurred during my SexBod training in the form of an Orgasmic Yoga Meditation I wrote and submitted to Joseph Kramer. This workshop is about slowing down and dropping in. Seeing oneself with the eyes of your heart and falling in love with yourself. Treating the body as a precious and sacred object through care and loving reverence.
Workshop 3 rough format:
Engage:
Participants will drop in to their bodies through movement and music. Attuning to self and to others in the space. Activities such as eye gazing, mirroring, hand circle dance.
Study:
Participants will be led in a short brainstorm about their bodies and all the roles they play/have played (vehicle, live-giver, producer/creator, worker, battle ground, disconnected entity, story keeper, pleasure vehicle, temple).
What does it mean to show reverence towards, to worship your body or the body of a lover?
Activate:
Divine body worship - Participants can work in pairs or as individuals. Participants will observe and explore, wash, dry, oil and adorn their bodies or the body of their partner
Reflect: popcorn style.
Workshop 3 program description:
Together we will worship each other’s bodies with reverence and care as though this body was a sacred object, precious and divine. A slow, sensual, spiritual practice to show love for another and for self. Step into this loving, playful, joyous, embrace and emerge fully seen.
Are you interested in/able to facilitate any other group experiences?
I’m happy to assist with check in circles or co-facilitate a cuddle or play space with another SexBodder.
EO: Support space / info booth:
I would be more than happy to provide emotional support either with individuals or in the context of a check-in circle. This is something I am highly experienced in. I am open to doing two shifts also happy to help as needed.
I would not be good at an info booth as I am not details/logistics oriented.
Is there anything else that you would like us to know as organisers?
I attended Feast in 2022 and it changed my life. It was one of the first times in my adult life where I felt seen and loved by others who were just like me. People who value deep, safe, nurturing connection with themselves and others. People who are wild, sensory seeking, deliciously queer, open and curious. People who are fully alive and not afraid to be in their bodies. It was what pushed me to invest in my SexBod training in 2023. To participate in Feast 2025 as a facilitator, and share the gift I was given, would be a massive privilege.