Workshops at REAF 2012
We are lining up an exciting weekend of workshops. All are included at no extra charge in your daily admission ticket except the Crossdressers Makeover Day.
For more information see Workshop Presenters, Performers, and Vendors.
How to Take Better Intimate Photographs at Home
Presenter: Featured Photographer Scott Church
Join this year's featured artist for a beginners course in do it yourself erotic photography. This class will focus on how to capture amazing intimate photographs at home without spending a fortune on professional lighting and equipment. Fun will be had by all!
Crossdressers Makeover Day
Presenter: Lady Ellen of Le Femme Finishing School
Transformation makeover day for crossdressers of any experience level. Classes will be held in a private suite at the Radisson Riverside Hotel on Saturday from 10am-6pm. You'll be all dressed up with somewhere to go... the REAF Dinner Party at 6:30!
10:00-11:00 Walking Like a Lady
11:00-12:00 Choosing a Wig
12:00-1:00 Lunch Break
1:00-2:00 Dressing for Your Body Shape/Undergarment Selection
2:00-3:00 Trying On Outfits for Dinner
3:00-5:30 Makeup
5:30-6:15 Dress for Dinner
6:30 REAF Dinner Party
Cost: $100 includes all workshops, box lunch and clothing to wear. Dinner Party, add $45. If you'd like to enjoy the festival on Friday, add $15 (reduced rate). Reserve Your Spot Now.
Limit: 10 participants. Once you have registered, you will receive a survey to help us plan the clothing that is needed for the day. If you would like to bring your own clothing, wigs, shoes, and makeup, that would be great but not required!
Erotic Tickling: Making Every Square Inch Count
Presenter: Lee Allure
Exploring erotic tickling. Lee shows you how to get the very best response from your partner through erotic tickling. Different toys, tools, techniques and touches to make your partner react, laugh and beg for more.
Mental Orgazmics - Erotic Hypnosis
Presenter: Lee Allure
Bring your partner to unexplored worlds of eroticism using your voice and their mind. From fantasies which you may have thought would remain unfulfilled, to instant orgasms, to chastity and ever increasing pleasure, this class focuses on using hypnosis to achieve all the above and more.
Pole Dance Fitness
Presenter: Jennifer D'Ovidio
Pole Dance Fitness class does more than give you a fabulous physique, it allows you to be comfortable in your own skin and embrace being a woman. It's about feeling empowered. So whether you're trying to build up your confidence or you are wanting to feel sexy again, there is something here for everyone. Ladies of all ages, shapes and backgrounds are joining the party.
Get fit, have fun and let your hair down - this is XPolsé, where ladies come to play!
DOODLES Erotic Drawing
Host: Otter
Doodles and giggles, boobies and sketches... enjoy a playful, relaxed drawing session with Otter.
He'll tease out your creativity with his mangled humor, tantalizing models, and wacky prizes!
Rope Bondage 101
Presenter: Brett
If you have any curiosity about the sensuality of rope on skin and want to experiment, this is the place to begin! Brett has many years of experience with rope bondage, and has developed this highly recommended class in rope bondage for beginners. The underlying premise is "safe, sane and consensual." Rope will be provided for you to use in class, and then take home with you.
Rope Bondage 101: safety, single column tie, double column tie, hobble tie, chest harness, waist harness.
Cardio Strip
Presenter: Bethany Swank
Put some "Va" into your "Voom!". This class will prove to be sexy, sassy and FUN!. In Art of Exotic learn to hone your skills as a Goddess as Bethany will teach you movements to use for seduction, fun and fitness!
Art of Exotic
Presenter: Bethany Swank
Put some "Va" into your "Voom!" This class will prove to be sexy, sassy and FUN! Chair or Lap Dancing is a fun and exciting way to tone up and shed pounds. This unique class combines technique, cardio and muscle toning into one sexy work-out. This class will offer fitness but also some hot dance moves that will keep you and someone’s lap happy. So check your inhibitions at the door and pull up a chair.
Beginning Belly Dance
Presenter: Bombshell Belly Dance Company
Belly Dance is one of the oldest and most evolved forms of dance in the world. Stretch and tone your body while you learn this ancient and beautiful feminine art! The movements of belly dance will sculpt and firm your body, while increasing your stamina and grace, all without stress and fatigue. Belly Dance also promotes weight loss by burning calories, building muscle, and stimulating your digestive system. Class will include warm-up, basic moves, techniques and choreography. All ages and body types welcome...check your inhibitions at the door!
"OOMPH! HALLELUJA! MOJO! YUMMM!" [OH MY!]
Power, Sensuality, Sex and Pleasure for Every Gender and Gender Bender
Presenter: Emme Edmunds
Interactive workshop with humor- Sensual movement & touch
- Subtle power exchange techniques
- Emotional and Physical Anatomy will be Explained, Honored & Wooed from fingertips to prostate to nape of neck to g-spot to toes and tip of nose.
Includes a brief entertaining tour of the fluid landscapes of gender/sex/pleasure in several cultures through history, including India and Native American cultures.
Explore why NOW is a pivotal time for people who are invested in sexual and gender rights to share information about pleasure and to help melt frozen hierarchies!
Bring a partner or not! Like most pleasure, these techniques and ideas can be shared with yourself or another. Come ready to move a little, to laugh and [maybe] to touch & be touched. There will be a dialogue towards the end for sharing what we know with each other...