“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action.”
Have you ever noticed if your creative energy shifts depending on whether you're in a relationship? Does being with a partner ignite your creativity, or does it sometimes feel like it drains your artistic spark?
Or when you're not in a relationship, do you find that your creative energy expands, allowing you to transmute your sexual energy into your art?
Have you’ve ever faced a creative block and felt unsure how to move past it?
If these questions resonate with you, it might be time to explore the deeper sources of your creative power. Join us for a 5-week CyberCourse designed for artists* and creatives who want to harness their erotic energy—Eros—as a wellspring of creative expression and authenticity. Eros is more than just sexual energy; it’s the life force that fuels passion, presence, and inspiration. By connecting to this potent energy, you can break through creative blocks, elevate your artistic voice, and infuse your practice with vitality and depth.
What You’ll Experience:
-Weekly Guided Sessions that explore the connection between erotic energy and creativity, helping you understand how your creative energy flows differently when in a relationship or when transmuting that energy into your work.
-Embodiment Practices that help you ground in your body, awaken your passion, and channel this life force into your art, providing tools to navigate and overcome creative blocks.
-Creative Exercises designed to translate your inner experiences into authentic artistic expressions across various mediums—whether writing, visual arts, performance, or something uniquely yours.
-Community Connection with fellow artists and creatives committed to exploring the dynamic interplay between Eros, creativity, and authenticity, providing support and inspiration as you deepen your practice.
What You’ll Gain:
- Enhanced Creative Flow: Learn how to access and sustain a deeper state of creative flow by connecting to your erotic energy.
- Overcoming Creative Blocks: Gain practical tools and strategies to move through creative blocks with ease and confidence.
- Greater Authenticity in Your Art: Cultivate a stronger sense of self-awareness and embodied authenticity in your artistic expression.
- Renewed Passion and Inspiration: Reignite your passion for your creative practice by tapping into the life force energy of Eros.
- Supportive Creative Community: Build connections with like-minded artists and creatives who share your commitment to growth, authenticity, and artistic exploration.
Why This Course Matters:
Our creative energy is deeply intertwined with how we relate to our inner desires, our relationships, and the world around us. Understanding how Eros influences our creativity—whether amplified in moments of passion or harnessed during periods of solitude—can empower us to reclaim our authentic artistic voice. In this course, you will learn to turn inward, listen deeply to your desires, and move past creative blocks with renewed clarity and purpose.
Whether you’re a seasoned artist looking to reignite your creative spark or someone facing a block and seeking a way forward, this course offers the tools, insights, and community support to reconnect with your inner source of inspiration.
*In this context I mean folx creating original works in the visual/literary/performing/digital arts arenas. If you are an artist & you think I’ve omitted your area, let me know.
I’d like to have a Zoom call with you so we can both be sure that this is the course for you. Please read the FAQ & Course Policies below before scheduling a chat.
Attendee testimonials
“The container was very safe, boundaries were clear, and M'Kali Hashiki's integrity and ability to hold space for and with others was super apparent and strong.”
“I also learned how to centre myself in ways that have improved my work.“
“I actually felt like a new person leaving the workshop.”
“I learned that my body has all the information I need to take my next best step in engaging pleasure in my practice.”
Registration Rates
Instead of a sliding scale I have 3 different payment tiers. All tiers give access to the same information/attention. There is nothing you have to prove to me about your financial situation, I don't ask for your tax returns or pay stubs. I simply ask that you do some honest reflection about your current financial reality from a mindset of abundance rather than one of scarcity & then choose the tier meets that reality.
The tiers are named as they are to reflect the amount of “green” you have access to. The Meadow Tier is my “market rate”; Garden Tier is for those for whom market rate would be a hardship; and Savanna Tier is for those with abundant discretionary income.
Savanna Tier $625
Meadow Tier $500
Garden Tier $375
Practice Pals: register with a buddy & you’ll each save 20% on the Meadow Tier Rate!
Payment plans, limited Pay-What-You-Can & limited work-trade slots available. There is also a small scholarship fund for POC who would not otherwise be able to attend.
your guide for this journey
I’m M’kali-Hashiki, and I’ve been engaged in healing work in one way or another my entire adult life—professionally since 2004. I’m a Certified Sexological Bodyworker; a Certified Sound, Voice, & Music Healer; and a Certified Tantric Sacred Intimate. I offer group intensives, and erotic empowerment coaching for individuals, couples, and triads. Learn more about me as a person in the video. Learn more about my experience & philosophy here.
Please read the FAQ & Course Policies below before scheduling a chat.
Frequently Asked Questions:
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This class meets 5 times starting Saturday October 19 at 1pm PDT (Click here to convert to your time zone). Each session is 90minutes.
There are also “office hours”, 1 hour each week at varying times if you need more support.
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Instead of a sliding scale I have 3 different payment tiers. All tiers give access to the same information/attention at the events. There is nothing you have to prove to me about your financial situation, I don't ask for your tax returns or pay stubs. I simply ask that you do some honest reflection about your current financial reality from a mindset of abundance rather than one of scarcity & then choose the tier meets that reality. The tiers are named as they are to reflect the amount of “green” you have access to. The Meadow Tier is my “market rate”; Garden Tier is for those for whom market rate would be a hardship; and Savanna Tier is for those with abundant discretionary income.
The ticketing app that I use charges a fee (pretty much all online ticketing apps do). For the Meadow & Savanna Tiers, the fees are included in the rates listed. For the Garden Tier, I absorb the fee.
If you have wealth, I ask you to strongly consider paying at the Savanna tier to support this work & the community of folx who desire it. Your payment at this tier allows me to continue to sustainably offer low cost or free events.
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Choose Savanna Tier
if more than one of the following is true for you:
You have a large discretionary budget.
You own your own home or rent a high-end property.
You own more than one home.
You have investments, retirement accounts, or inherited money.
You are unemployed or underemployed by choice.
You travel frequently for recreation.
You have access to family money and resources in times of need.
You have a relatively high degree of earning power due to level of education (or gender and racial privilege, class background, etc.) even if you are not currently exercising your earning power.
You want to financially support making this work financially accessible for others.
Choose Meadow Tier
if you can comfortably invest in your own personal growth without negative financial consequences, even if you have to make some sacrifices here & there (sacrifice is different from hardship).
Choose Garden Tier
if more than one of the following is true for you:
You are on a limited or stretched budget.
You have no savings.
You have dependents or significant debt that sometimes prevents you making ends meet.
You receive public assistance.
You are unemployed or underemployed.
You have medical expenses not covered by insurance
You are eligible for public assistance
You have immigration-related expenses
You are an elder with limited financial support
You are an unpaid community organizer
You are a returning citizen who has been denied work due to incarceration history
These are simply guides to what I feel is an ethical way of making my work as financially accessible as possible. Pay what feels right given your situation.
Examples taken from Little Red Botanicals
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To keep the group as intimate as possible, there is a limit of 15 attendees.
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Anyone who wants to understand Eros' place in the creative process & better harness their erotic energy to enhance their creative energy. This includes but is not limited to writers, painters, actors, musicians, dancers, singers, and performance artists.
Also, because this is a group program, you need to play well with others & have the capacity for kindness for other people's stuck places.
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This space is not for folx harboring a hierarchical value system for human bodies’ worth. This is not a space for people invested in isms/phobia (including but not limited to less commonly mentioned ones: transphobia/erasure; anti-sexworker beliefs/equating sexwork with sex-trafficking; fatphobia).This is NOT a good fit for you if you are in a tumultuous time of life; moving, new job, new baby, etc. To receive all the benefit, you need to be able to dedicate time and energy to the practices.
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In addition to making sure that this course is the right fit for you, I also want to make sure that is a space where all attendees will feel comfortable enough to be vulnerable. If this sounds like a course that will be helpful for you, click the “Let's Chat” button. It will take you to a page to schedule a time to chat with me. The purpose of the chat is to make sure that this material will be relevant for where you are in your life. I don’t want you to waste your time with a course you won’t get any use out of. You won’t be asked to part with your money until you’re sure this is the course for you.
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Ideally, this group will be a multiracial, mixed age, mixed gender, mixed sexual orientation space. The group is Queer & Trans People of Color-centered, meaning that it is centered around the lived experiences of folx in those communities (QTPOC are not a monolith). The group is also explicitly welcoming to folks who are older, fat, disabled, single, current/former sexworkers or in any way a part of historically marginalized communities. No bullshit will be tolerated. If you aren't cool being in a group with any of these, please don't apply.
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Because this is an online course, all of our course sessions will be recorded, so you can always listen later if you can’t make a session live. You’ll also be able to tailor your practice activities in between course sessions to the schedule that works best for you because our course interactions will all take place online. Whether you’re on vacation, at home, or out working at a coffee shop, the course contents and platform will be accessible you.
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Actually, it’s really simple to engage in an online course! All you need is an internet connection and a computer, or a tablet (preferably with a keyboard, but that’s up to you). We’ll be using Zoom for each session and “office hours”. We’ll be using an optional bulletin board, a google-group email list to stay in touch during classes, and may use flipgrid to record brief videos (it’s sort of like Marco Polo, but specifically for “classrooms”).
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I’ve worked to create a manageable course. Each week, we’ll be in a course session for 90minutes and I will suggest additional practice and reflection work for you to engage. Depending on you, these practices could take you an hour, or several hours—relative to the time you have and the way you work. With the addition of some time spent online connecting with your course mates and posting your thoughts in the private forum, I expect this course could take 3-5 hours a week—or as much as you’d like to give it. Of course, the more you put in, the more you’ll get out.
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Yes! All you need is an internet connection and a device with a camera (laptop/desktop/smartphone/tablet)!
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Definitely. It may also become an evergreen ecourse.
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I pay a lot of attention to the careful creation of containers, in which bodies can feel safe enough and relaxed enough to speak openly. Personally, I am non-judgmental, super accepting, and kind. I expect all the participants in this group to be so as well. It is a risk for everyone to show up vulnerably, and trust the group to hold them, so we will do our very best to make sure you are well met. If anything comes up that is distressing to someone in the group, every effort will be made to ensure they feel safe and welcome, even if at a growth edge. The code word is 'breath". I do distinguish between safety and comfort, and know that most of our profound transformative learning comes at that intersection.
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The course will be a great introduction to my guiding principles and to how I hold space as a facilitator. If you like, you will be able to continue working with me after the course is over (all attendees will receive a discount code for individual coaching programs).
If having read this far, you’re sure that you’d be better served working one-on-one with me, please click here to schedule a consultation.
Please read the policies completely before scheduling a call.
Course Container Policies
Agreements:
You agree to participate fully, and remain engaged for the duration of the course. If you are unable to do so, you agree to email your intention to leave to M’kali-Hashiki.
You agree to participate in all assignments and activities in ways that feel useful and relevant to you. You agree to modify assignments to meet your needs. If you get stuck, you agree to let M’kali-Hashiki know as soon as possible.
You agree to complete your homeplay assignments each week.
You agree to communicate directly with M’kali-Hashiki ASAP if you have any questions or concerns.
You agree to not share the content of this class without asking and receiving M'kali-Hashiki's permission. This includes not teaching these techniques to your clients.
You agree to having each session recorded. If the recordings are used for other online educational purposes, your likeness & voice will be edited out.
You will communicate any disability access needs and respect the access needs of others.
Feedback
As we come together in sacred community, one of the most useful gifts is the one of feedback. Please use the following criteria to discern and distill the feedback you give.
Ask yourself:
Is it helpful?
Is it timely?
Is it kind?
More on the word “kind.” In the context that it is used here, it means feedback given with the intention to support that person's learning as opposed to tear someone down.
If the answer to these questions is "Yes," please share that feedback.
If there are things in that feedback that trouble you, the invitation is to be with that discomfort for a little bit.
Culture of Welcome and Belonging:
The group is explicitly QTIPOC-Centered, meaning that the desires, lived experiences, and safety of Queer & Trans & Intersex People Of Color are centered; meaning that Whiteness, Cisness*, & heterosexuality are not the “default” human states, and that those experiences will not be centered at the expense of others. If you are White and/or Cishet* (or cis* & queer), please be mindful of the ways that your privilege impacts the safety of others, and be mindful of whether you can be comfortable in an intimate setting when you are not the “default human”.
We all have been inundated with kyriarchical** messages & may unconsciously replicate those viewpoints when communicating. When that happens, space will be made for anyone to be lovingly called-in (including M’kali-Hashiki). If called-in, you understand that this calling-in is a gift to stretch your understanding of the world & invite you to be in solidarity with people living in bodies marginalized or multiply marginalized by The State; you agree to take time and check in with your body for somatic signs of defensiveness (clenched jaw or butthole, tightness in chest, a halt in breathing, etc), and to relax those parts before responding. The code word is “comunidad”. If doing the calling-in, you agree to give the person time to respond. If you need support around being called-in or doing the calling-in, you may reach out to M’kali-Hashiki for that support.
With that said, anyone using overtly bigoted language (racist, homophobic, fat shaming, slut shaming, transphobic, ableist, sexist, etc.) in communicating with an individual or in the group will be withdrawn from the course immediately, and no refunds will be given.
If you have questions, concerns or comments, about anything said in the sessions please contact M'kali-Hashiki immediately.
All bodies are welcome in our CyberCircle: trans bodies, thin bodies, old bodies, cis bodies, intersex bodies, gender non-conforming bodies, currently-abled bodies, fat bodies, disabled bodies, young bodies, bodies of any class, religion, or spiritual tradition. While there's no way to guarantee that all bodies will be represented in each CyberCourse, it is my intention to have a diverse & welcoming space—so if you have problems being in community with any of the aforementioned types of bodies my events are not the right space for you.
As part of creating a culture of welcoming & belonging, everyone is expected to self-monitor & to take risks: if you are someone who usually talks a lot in group settings, you agree to take this opportunity to exercise & strengthen your listening & witnessing muscles; if you are someone who usually is quiet, you agree to take this opportunity to exercise & strengthen your communication muscles.
Refund Policy
There are no refunds once you have signed up for the program. This program is designed for folks who are ready to make a serious transformation in their lives, and the financial commitment is an important component of sticking with yourself. And really, the program is worth a lot more than what I’m charging, and it's a big pain in the butt to deal with refunds. That said, if you go all of the way through the course, come to all of the calls and complete all of the assignments and you end up not feeling like you got value out of it, I'll split the difference with you, and send you half of what you paid.