Dates: Thursdays from June 27th - 17th July 27th June, 3rd, 10, 17 July Time: 18:00 - 20:30 / 21:00 PM Where: Habitus Wellness, 61 Loop Street Bookings: Through the link here Facilitated by Nico Athene , this 4 part entry level course builds a better understanding of consent through embodiment. This work offers a gentle yet powerful invitation to notice the gross and subtle moments  we step out of self-consent—or  consent with others. Through clear frameworks and embodied dialogue, we begin to unravel our habitual patterns of giving, taking, allowing, and receiving, cultivating tools that help us experience each of these realms with greater clarity and choice. Becoming more conscious in these dynamics, we can step out of old cycles of resentment, entitlement, or manipulation and into relationships grounded in authenticity, intimacy, and open-heartedness. Learn to recognize and advocate for your desires and limits, creating the space for nourishing and adventurous connection. This approach can enhance your ability to: Feel and trust your authentic yeses and noes Clearly express your desires and limits Navigate consent within a variety of relational dynamics Create structures that support emotional and nervous system safety Identify and work with your triggers Experience intimacy in a more present, wholehearted way Expand your capacity for enjoyment, pleasure, and connection Each 2.5-hour workshop offers deeply embodied practices and nervous-system-informed tools for exploring consent. Sessions include take-home reflections and preparation to support integration between workshops. We work with touch-based exercises and some basic principles of Contact Improvisation, weaving them with Dr. Betty Martin’s Wheel of Consent. As the series unfolds, we touch briefly on a broader, more dynamic and archetypal lens on consent—one that honors complexity, and depth. While partners are welcome to attend together, participants will be asked to work with a variety of people in the space. This creates a rich opportunity to practice consent across diverse relational contexts. Students repeating Touch as Technique are welcome to use the code TAT2 for a discount. This series is both a beautiful introduction and a powerful deepening into the work—ideal preparation for, or clarification of, The Erotics of Rupture, Residential Retreat. Upcoming 2025 dates TBC.   Reviews from the previous workshops: 'Nico facilitated this important work around Betty Martin's Wheel of Consent with all the embodied clarity and insight of one who has been working actively for years with conscious movement, performance and sexuality. I really feel like I have more practical tools for my engagement with others more meaningfully in the sensual and other arenas.' - Adam 'I just finished Touch as Technique, the last weekly series that Nico hosted... It was really really really amazing to realize how much the body is able to consent to things or not consent to things that we think we are okay with. That the brain and the body can sometimes differ with its yeses and its nos. Consent is real