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2025 Workshops

Book Don for your next workshop or event. Don is available to present on various topics related to sacred intimacy, connection, authentic expression, body, and breathwork. He loves to collaborate and create tailored experiences for clients—flexible scheduling, travel, and pricing available. Reach out to set up a time to chat. 

don@donshine.net
513-549-5434

North American Bear (Men) - Bear Body Beautiful (2 Hours) 

February 20th-23rd (3 workshops)

Thiese workshops will lead participants though a guided journey of self-love, both inside and out. We'll practice opportunities and skills for deeper connection, intimacy, and acceptance that attendees can apply at NAB weekend and beyond. We'll examine our relationship to pleasure and notice our habits related to shame, fear and guilt, while exploring the expansive healing power of Eros. We will be modeling and practicing consent and choice, as participants are invited to shed layers that no longer serve. And we'll have a lot of fun in the process. NAB Weekend Home Page

Celebrating the Body Erotic (Men) - 2 days - March 1-2  Cincinnati OH

Take your first step towards new levels of intimacy, vitality & self-acceptance within a carefully structured program that integrates body, heart, mind, and spirit. As the introductory course of the Body Electric school, this workshop includes guided exercises that focus on conscious breath, movement, process work, heart-centered touch, and full-body massage. You will learn about giving and receiving deeper pleasure, opening new channels of personal healing with erotic energy.  The workshop is conducted in a setting that is playful, safe, respectful and honoring. 

March 29 - April 6: Mature Eros (Blue Oso, Costa Rica) 7 days

What does it mean to have a great life as an older gay man? How do we continue to celebrate our sexuality? Come to paradise for this weeklong retreat and learn to Live Long and Prosper with mature eros! Registration includes meals and lodging at the beautiful Blue Oso Resort in Costa Rica. 

Learn more at: Mature Eros Event Page

April 26-27, Celebrating the Body Erotic (Men), Fort Lauderdale, FL (2 days)

Embark on your journey enhanced intimacy, vitality, and self-accept through a thoughtfully designed program that harmonizes body, heart, mind, and spirit. This introductory workshop at the Body Electric school features guided centered around conscious breathing, movement, process work, heart-centered touch, and full-body massage. discover how to give and receive deeper pleasure while unlocking new pathways for personal healing erotic energy. The workshop takes place in a playful, safe, respectful, honoring environment. Learn more at: Fort Lauderdale Registration Page 

May 2-4, CBE 2 - Intro to Anal Pleasure (Men), Fort Lauderdale, FL (2.5 days)

Give yourself permission to go deeper in exploring pleasure! Body Electric offers the perfect opportunity to uncover one of the best-kept secrets in our culture: exquisite anal pleasure. If this topic makes you excited, this workshop is for you. If this workshop topic terrifies you, this workshop is for you too! As the introductory course of the Body Electric school, this workshop includes guided exercises that focus on conscious breath, movement, process work, heart-centered touch, and full-body massage. You will learn about giving and receiving deeper pleasure, opening new channels of personal healing with erotic energy.  The workshop is conducted in a setting that is playful, safe, respectful, hygenic, and honoring.  Learn more at: Fort Lauderdale CBE 2 Registration Page

May 16-18, CBE 2 - Intro to Anal Pleasure (Men), Colorado (2.5 days)

Discover the freedom to delve deeper into the exploration of pleasure! Body Electric presents a unique opportunity to reveal one our culture’s best-kept secrets: exquisite Anal pleasure. Whether this topic excites you or fills you with apprehension, this workshop is designed for you! As an introductory course of the Body Electric school, it features guided exercises that emphasize conscious breathing,, process work, heart-centered touch, and consent based full-body massage. You’ll gain insights into giving and receiving profound pleasure, unlocking new pathways for personal healing through erotic energy, all in a playful, safe, respectful, hygenic, and honoring environment. 

May 30 - June 1: Power, Surrender and Intimacy (Asheville, NC) 2.5 days

Power Surrender and Intimacy (PSI) brings Body Electric’s commitment to ethical and intentional erotic play into realms of intense body sensation and sexual power dynamics.  In a safe space with guided facilitation, you learn about expressing conscious eroticism in an intentional erotic community.  Along with erotic touch, you will learn about creating conscious intentions, identifying and asking for what you want, and practicing exquisite attention.  Methods used include spanking, bondage, flogging and other practices of high body stimulation, as well as reclaiming and examining masculine icons. 

June 5-8, Bi-Curiousity Summer Camp, Heartwood, GA (4 days)

Take your first step towards new levels of intimacy, vitality & self-acceptance within a carefully structured program that integrates body, heart, mind, and spirit. We offer an opportunity for experiments that might shake up patterns and habits related to how we live in our erotic body, and the potential for healing in all aspects of our lives. There will be invitations for nudity, breathwork and erotic touch practices conducted in a safe, consent-filled, and carefully facilitated setting.

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July 12-13, Celebrating the Body Erotic (Men), IMEN - Maryland (2 days)

Embark on your journey enhanced intimacy, vitality, and self-accept through a thoughtfully designed program that harmonizes body, heart, mind, and spirit. This introductory workshop at the Body Electric school features guided centered around conscious breathing, movement, process work, heart-centered touch, and full-body massage. discover how to give and receive deeper pleasure while unlocking new pathways for personal healing erotic energy. The workshop takes place in a playful, safe, respectful, honoring environment. Learn more at: IMEN CBE Registration Page

August 6-10, Butt Camp (Men), Heartwood, GA (5 Days)

Imagine the summer camp of your dreams while we learn way to establish new relationships to our beautiful, sacred, and pleasure-filled butts! We'll build upon experiences gained in CBE2 and take them to the next level in a fun summer camp environment led by Don Shine and Jojo Bear! 

August 15-17, Celebrating the Body Erotic (Men), GNI Pocanos (2.5 days)

Take your first step towards new levels of intimacy, vitality & self-acceptance within a carefully structured program that integrates body, heart, mind, and spirit. As the introductory course of the Body Electric school, this workshop includes guided exercises that focus on conscious breath, movement, process work, heart-centered touch, and full-body massage. You will learn about giving and receiving deeper pleasure, opening new channels of personal healing with erotic energy.  The workshop is conducted in a setting that is playful, safe, respectful and honoring. 

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September 5 - 7: Mature Eros (Fort Lauderdale) 2.5 Days

What does it mean to have a great life as an older gay man? How do we continue to celebrate our sexuality? Come to paradise for this weeklong retreat and learn to Live Long and Prosper with mature eros!

November 1-3 - Celebrating the Body Erotic (Men), Camp Buckwood, IN

(2.5 days)

Take your first step towards new levels of intimacy, vitality & self-acceptance within a carefully structured program that integrates body, heart, mind, and spirit. As the introductory course of the Body Electric school, this workshop includes guided exercises that focus on conscious breath, movement, process work, heart-centered touch, and full-body massage. You will learn about giving and receiving deeper pleasure, opening new channels of personal healing with erotic energy.  The workshop is conducted in a setting that is playful, safe, respectful and honoring. Registration includes lodging and meals at beautiful Camp Buckwood, a gay men's campground in Indiana - (which will be closed for the season). Learn more at: Camp Buckwood Event Page 

November 8-10 - Body Electric 40th Anniversary Gala (Palm Springs, CA)

Join the celebration of 40 Years of Love and Eros. Be delighted reuniting with folks you have shared Body Electric experiences with in the past and make new friends in the BE Universe. Learn about new programing and how Body Electric is growing. Chat with Joseph Kramer, Annie Sprinkle, and others about the past and where we go from here.

40th Anniversary Gala Event Page

Oct 27 - Nov 2: Into the Heart of Eros (All Gender/Easton Mountain) 7 days

More information to come. 

Learn More About The Body Electric School

Don is an emerging faculty member with the Body Electric School. For over 30 years the work Body Electric School has supported thousands of people in the U.S.A., Canada, Australia, and Israel.  Through expertly guided educational workshops, grounded in the erotic and its integration with the sacred, we have provided transformative personal and communal experiences through somatic education. Learn more about the school at: BodyElectric.org

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don@donshine.net

513-549-5434 (phone or text)

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