Partner Massage Workshop - Oakland Oct 5

Details:

This is a workshop designed to sign up with a friend, roommate, partner, lover, family member, or anyone you have a comfortable touch-based relationship with. In this workshop, Marsha and Meghan will teach and demonstrate massage techniques that you can offer and receive at home.

This is a great opportunity to add to your self-care toolbox, filling the gap between bodywork sessions or other care appointments, to help alleviate aches and pains. Marsha and Meghan want to empower participants with some knowledge and techniques so you don’t have to feel as dependent on booking with providers whenever a new little body ache occurs.

We ask that you register with someone you have a foundation of communication and safety with, as we don’t have the time to facilitate building safety and trust amongst strangers to pair people up for this short, touch based workshop.

where & when

Workshop will take place October 5 from 4pm-6pm at 3527 Grand Ave in Oakland. This workshop will be clothed, outside, and you’ll only practice with the person you signed up with.

accessability

The patio is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible and there are 6 steps to access the space. We will survey all participants ahead of time about masking needs; if at least one person requests we all mask, we will all mask.

registration

Fill out the form here to register! You and your companion will both need to fill out a registration form and you can pay together or separately to secure your spot. Pay electronically in full when you complete the registration form. If you’d like to pay cash day of, please send a deposit of $20 to reserve your spot.

Looking forward to seeing you there! 

Best, Meghan and Marsha

Admin Hour - online/ongoing

a space to sit together, whine a little, and do the thing

“We take care of us” “it takes a village” “community care > isolationism” I hum to myself crying alone on the kitchen floor listening to the hold song with Louisiana DMV.

Navigating bureaucratic labyrinths and automated messages with endless loops of ‘your call is important to us’ for hours to be told we’re not in network or need to come in person. Many of our infrastructures are strained but we’re forced to keep an exhausted grip onto them order to get daily necessities like healthcare and transportation. There’s a LOT of waiting on hold.

Hi! I’m Meghan and I’m self employed and need a lot of external structure to get shit done. During a recent year of monumental changes, I really struggled supporting myself and figuring out how to ask for help around tackling an endless list of life admin tasks and bureaucratic battles. And often I just need a bud to sit next to me. So I’m offering Admin Hour! A parallel play space except for the hard-to-do life tasks we keep putting off.

Maybe you need some accountability around calling your doctor to make an appointment, calling your booking site to work out a glitch, calling your bank to dispute a charge, or getting ahold of your insurance company. Admin hour is a space to sit together, whine a little, and do the thing.

Maybe you aren’t in the midst of solving bureaucratic headaches but just want to set aside time for general life admin so those tasks don’t eat up your creative space.

where and when

Starting September 30, 2024, we’ll meet virtually on Mondays from noon to 1:30 PST. Here’s the link. I’ll do a tiny bit of facilitating for us to do short intros and share our goals for the hour and then we’ll silently make our calls or chisel at our admin to do list. We can occasionally ask each other questions, complain about terrible hold music, and cheer each other on. At the end we’ll check out, share how it went, and go on about our days.

This format is 100% inspired by a sweet little writing club I’ve been a part of started by Bear Hebert years ago. It was there I often found myself doing admin tasks in what I had endeavored to be a creative space. In an effort to delineate another space for that, here’s admin hour.

Registration

There’s no registration necessary! This a free, and low stakes space, so just join when you can. Whether you already have supports around these types of tasks or not, this can be a dedicated chunk of time to send the email, book the thing, make that call to self advocate for our lives to experience a little more ease. Is the thing you’ve been meaning to do been looming over your head and maybe slowing you down in other facets of life? Come here and we’ll do it together!