About Don

I believe our bodies hold tremendous wisdom. They carry our stories, our longings, our joy, our wounds, and our capacity for connection and pleasure. Much of my work has grown from a simple curiosity: What becomes possible when we learn to listen to our bodies rather than judge them?

My own journey into this work has been one of learning to live more fully and authentically in my body. Along the way, I discovered the transformative potential of touch, intimacy, pleasure, vulnerability, and Eros—not simply as sexual experiences, but as pathways toward deeper connection with ourselves and with one another.

How I Came to This Work

My work as a facilitator grew through my involvement with the Body Electric School, where I began my journey in 2014. What I encountered there changed the way I understood the relationship between body, spirit, sexuality, and connection.

Over the years, I've moved from participant to facilitator, leading workshops and retreats that invite people to explore embodiment, intimacy, consent, pleasure, vulnerability, and authentic expression. I've had the privilege of working with people from many different backgrounds and at many different stages of their lives.

My work continues to be influenced by Body Electric as well as traditions and practices drawn from Tantra, Taoism, sacred intimacy, conscious touch, and embodied learning. I don't believe there is one path or one answer. I'm interested in creating spaces where people can become curious about themselves and discover what is true for them.

What I Believe

I believe pleasure matters.
I believe our bodies are sacred and deserve reverence
I believe Eros is much larger than sex. It is the energy that draws us toward life—toward creativity, connection, beauty, desire, intimacy, and one another.
I believe healing can happen when we are given enough safety, choice, and permission to encounter parts of ourselves we've learned to hide or judge.
And I believe authentic intimacy begins with learning to listen—to our bodies, our desires, our boundaries, and each other.

Why I Do It

Again and again, I've watched people arrive carrying beliefs about themselves—their bodies, their desirability, their sexuality, their age, their worth—and discover that another way of relating to themselves is possible.

Those moments matter deeply to me.

I do this work because I believe we deserve opportunities throughout our lives to reconnect with our bodies, reclaim our capacity for pleasure, deepen our relationships, and become more fully alive.

My role isn't to provide the answer. It's to help create a space where you can listen closely enough to discover your own.

Experience and Training

Faculty, Body Electric School — I took my first Body Electric workshop in 2012 and joined the faculty as a facilitator in 2022. I now lead and co-facilitate experiential workshops and retreats exploring embodiment, intimacy, conscious touch, Eros, pleasure, and authentic connection.
Retreat & Workshop Facilitator — I facilitate immersive experiences throughout the United States and internationally, working with individuals and groups around intimacy, embodiment, connection, sexuality, aging, body acceptance, and personal exploration.
Sacred Intimate & Intimacy Coach — My one-on-one work combines coaching, ritual, breath, conscious touch, bodywork, and sacred intimacy, creating opportunities to explore pleasure, desire, boundaries, receiving, and deeper connection with the body.
Wheel of Consent & Embodied Intimacy Training — I have attended Wheel of Consent training as well as trainings and experiences in Tantra and related embodied intimacy practices, including Gay Tantra for Men. My work is also informed by Tantric and Taoist approaches to breath, touch, energy, and pleasure.
Intimacy Coordinator — I served as Intimacy Coordinator for Himeros.TV's production of Campground Confessions, supporting performers and production staff in creating clear agreements around boundaries, consent, communication, and intimate performance.
Workshop Creator — In addition to facilitating established programs, I develop original workshops and experiences exploring body acceptance, intimacy, aging, masculinity, Eros, belonging, pleasure, and authentic expression.
My education in this work is ongoing. I continue to learn from teachers, colleagues, participants, and the people who trust me to accompany them in their own exploration.

My Approach

Whether I'm facilitating a retreat, leading a workshop, coaching someone individually, or working through touch and sacred intimacy, I strive to create a warm and nurturing environment grounded in curiosity, consent, choice, respect, and humor.

My approach is experiential and embodied. I draw from ritual, breath, movement, conscious touch, and practices influenced by Tantra and Taoism to help people slow down, become more present in their bodies, and explore their capacity for receiving pleasure and connection. In one-on-one work especially, music, breath, ritual, and touch can help create a kind of temple space—an invitation to listen more deeply to the body and encounter parts of ourselves that may have been hidden by shame, fear, judgment, or simply the demands of everyday life.

Sometimes this work means exploring desire. Sometimes it means practicing boundaries, asking clearly for what we want, allowing ourselves to receive, or discovering what a genuine “yes” or “no” feels like in the body. Sometimes it brings laughter, exhilaration, tenderness, tears, release, or something entirely unexpected. Each experience is different because each person is different.

Choice and agency are foundational to everything I do. Before any one-on-one experience involving touch, we talk openly about intentions, boundaries, limits, and consent. In group work, participants are similarly invited to make their own choices about how and whether they engage with each experience.

I'm not interested in pushing people toward a particular outcome or telling them who they should become. My role is to offer invitations, support, and opportunities to explore—to create the conditions where you can listen more deeply to yourself and discover what feels authentic for you.

There is room for depth in this work, but there is also room for play, laughter, pleasure, and joy. Again and again, I find that these experiences can become another way of coming home to ourselves.

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