Embodiment...

Embedded

For emerging and established leaders in consent-forward communities seeking skills to level up their knowledge base and facilitation skills.

These classes blend somatic awareness, pleasure activism, and practical facilitation tools for educators and leaders to incorporate for safer, sexier, and kinder communities of play.

Workshops

What's Up Danger: What to Do When You Have No Safety Tools

What happens when safety tools fail mid-game? A workshop for RPG designers, facilitators, and educators on creating emergent safety practices.

On Doing and Undoing Harm

Understand harm as behavior, not identity. Learn accountability practices, shame resilience tools, and approaches for interrupting cycles of harm.

Connecting with Others, Connecting with Ourselves

Through movement and meditation, discover embodied cues for trust, safety, and belonging while deepening relational presence.

Fighting with Your Fear Response

Body-based practices can bring up strong reactions. Are you equipped to handle them? A somatic workshop for martial arts instructors and enthusiasts.

The Art of the Grant

Grant writing made approachable. Learn the rhythms, pitfalls, and unspoken rules of grant applications with practical tools for creatives and nonprofits.

Workshopping Your Workshop: Presenter’s Skillshare

From idea to impact — learn how to craft compelling proposals, design flow, and confidently deliver workshops.

Samphire is a Delight Worker, offering embodiment workshops that explore joy, connection, and healing through somatic practices. Some workshops may include themes of intimacy. Please note that the somatic tools for pleasure offered here are the very same tools used for cultivating joy, resilience, and holistic well-being for trauma repair.

Safewords Are Not a Failsafe

Go beyond the basics--explore why safewords sometimes fail and learn trauma-informed tools for clearer, embodied communication.

Naming the Shadows in Polyamory

Bullying, abuse, and harm in metamour relationships are often unseen. Explore models of identifying and interventing in harmful patterns that disrupt healthy relationship networks.

AMA: Sex Educator Edition

Bring your wildest, weirdest sex and body questions and get grounded, shame-free, and (usually) well-cited resources to take to bed.

Risking Connection: Before We Even Touch

A touch-free workshop exploring intimacy, presence, and longing in safe, somatic ways for those navigating trauma, distance, or sensitivity.

Risking Connection: Setting Intent for Intimacy at Events

Learn how to set intentions, communicate goals, and ethically navigate intimacy in event settings.

Hotter, Safer Oral Pleasure

Hands- and mouth-on tips for giving safer, pleasure — with barriers, from an epidemiology-trained sex educator.

Deepening Your Deepthroat Practice

Bring your favorite props for this exploration of mindfulness skills, physiology, and somatic practice for connection and tension relief.

Whose Scene Is It Anyway? Improv Principles for Kink

Apply improv tools to negotiation, mid-scene adjustments, and creative play.

New Offering:

Somatics in Flight

New aerial-somatic workshops invite you to explore resilience, pleasure, and courage through movement in the air. These sessions are designed to welcome all bodies, blending the artistry of aerial work with trauma-informed somatic tools that support healing and delight. Join us for this one-of-a-kind offering and discover how embodiment can feel weightless.

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"Sam provides a safe container for exploration of new ideas, journeys, and career adventures; their vast knowledge of different fields and their lived experience occupying a variety of roles has been a vital model for me of building a life that works for me, and has shown me what is possible when we begin to relate to ourselves without the conditioning of capitalism and white supremacy."