This will make you say “O”-MG.
As sexual wellness retreats boom, one California haven offers an orgasmic week-long trip to Joshua Tree where participants can explore their sexuality — for an eye-watering price tag of $15,000.
“Connecting to our bodies without shame is essential for empowerment, pleasure and freedom,” Back to the Body founder Pamela Madsen told Vogue.
“But the reality is, most women have never been taught how to access their own erotic energy. We’re taught to perform sexually, but not to receive or explore what turns us on without guilt.”
Madsen, a former kindergarten teacher who is now a somatic sex educator, was inspired by her own life, experiencing infertility and wanting to explore her sexuality within her marriage. According to Vogue, she discovered that women experience a sexual satisfaction gap, dubbed “pleasure poverty.”
The Back to the Body seven-day retreat is a transformative getaway meant to close that gap, using breath work, movement, conversations and even guided touch.
During the retreat, somatic (body-focused) sex educators use toys, tools and their hands, which are covered in gloves, to help women reconnect with their bodies and sexuality — a method that has participants raving.
“My table sessions helped me realize that I was in charge of cultivating my own erotic energy,” 47-year-old Hazel Stricker, who hails from San Diego, told Vogue.
“I felt more empowered, alive and at ease with myself.”
At one point in the week-long retreat, a 60-year-old attendee — who, per Vogue, was “sexually dormant” after years of being in a sexless marriage — lay on a massage table and “guided to climax” in front of the group of women who were each waiting for their turn.
Another exercise called “The Art of Adoration” instructed the women to dress in something that makes them feel the most beautiful as they lay on the floor blindfolded. As music plays, the practitioners touch their thighs, play with their hair or graze their skin with various textures, like fur.
“It’s like you’ve been walking around in this incredible sports car that no one has driven correctly,” retreat participant Erinne Branter, 46, from Canada, told Vogue.
“And suddenly, someone knows how to drive your sports car and you realize that the sports car that the world has told you is too small, too big, too fat, too hairy, and not enough was actually perfect all along.”
But a week of life-changing orgasms will cost you.
The Back to the Body retreats range from $8,000 to $18,000 for seven days of lavish living — the sexual exploration comes with a private chef, pool, hot tub and other amenities — while a three-day stay will cost $750, not including lodging.
A more-affordable online masterclass is also offered virtually, as well as a self-guided class.
“I want every woman to have access to this kind of healing, but we also have to honor the labor and expertise that goes into providing it,” said Madsen.
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