Our Faculty
All of our faculty are trained and skilled in teaching a variety of ways for people to get in contact with their erotic and spiritual nature. This training includes erotic touch, sensual massage, erotic massage, taoist erotic massage, breathwork, tantra, yoga, dance, life coaching and more.
Dave Allen
is a life coach and a body coach. He believes his life work is to assist men to find success, fulfillment and the ability to live connected, rich, powerful and pleasurable lives, with a special emphasis on their erotic lives. As a coach, mentor, trainer and workshop facilitator, he honors his beliefs and his values of curiosity, practice, connection, eroticism and synergy in his work. Dave’s inspiration comes from many traditions including power dynamics, mysticism, Tantra, various spiritual paths including Christianity and Native American spirituality. www.coach4men.com,
John Ballew
is a licensed professional counselor and a massage therapist in private practice in Atlanta. He has an MS in Clinical Psychology and is a member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. He facilitates workshops in gay spirituality throughout North America, emphasizing the connection between body and soul. His work embraces both Eastern spiritual practices and a sex-positive Christian tradition. See bodymindsoul.org
Collin Brown
is a teacher, life coach and spiritual counselor who has developed and facilitated experiential learning courses for 30 years. A graduate of Harvard College, he served as the director of The Body Electric School for 15 years and created the Wildwood Conservation Foundation in 1999, which owns and operates the Wildwood Retreat Center. His private practice, based in Port Townsend, WA, includes clients from around the globe. See deeperrealms.com
Michael Cohen
works as a personal life coach and as a gestalt psychotherapist in New York City. A Body Electric-trained Sacred Intimate, his interests also include exploring the healing power of play and helping people create meaningful lives. See lifecoachmichael.com.
Emaya Dillon
is an erotic educator, Sacred Intimate, and psychotherapist. She has been on faculty for Body Electric since 1998, and has produced and taught independent workshops nationally.
Mark Fleming
weaves tantric principles, energy/somatic work, and shamanic practices together to facilitate wellness in body, mind and spirit. He has worked in the fields of sexuality, spirituality and health for 20 years. He is very grateful to Rudolph Ballentine, his tantra teacher.
Alex Jade
is an erotic educator, sacred intimate, and psychotherapist. She has been on faculty for Body Electric since 1998, and has produced and taught independent workshops nationally. Alex’s specialties are gender exploration, classical Tantra, SM, and exploring with an open heart and mind.
Andrew Lawler
is a writer and teacher who has been involved with Body Electric for more than a decade. An alumnus of Rudy Ballentine’s Tantra teacher training course, he has organized and taught workshops in the Northeast. He also maintains a sacred intimate practice.
Selah Martha, MA
served as the Director of Body Electric Women’s programs for 10 years, where she developed and instructed pioneering curriculum. She is the author of Circle Work: Intuitive Technology, a process that uses group energy to evolve consciousness. A Kundalini Yoga instructor, she loves the balance between subtle embodiment and unfolding spiritual awareness.
William McMeniman
is a massage therapist and Sacred Intimate with a private practice in the greater Boston area. He has a background in mental health, education and breathwork. He seeks to integrate the ecstatic path into everyday life through his teaching.
Lizz Randall
is a Sacred Intimate and long-term student of tantra. Her work as an integrative body worker and educator offers a holistic and fun, open-hearted approach to wellness, passion and aliveness in body, mind and spirit. She believes the body is a potent gateway to pleasure, healing and wisdom.
Steven Schwartzberg
holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and is a practitioner of several healing arts, including psychotherapy, sacred intimacy, and body-oriented approaches to emotional well-being. He spent 15 years on the attending faculty of Harvard Medical School and has written several books, including A Crisis of Meaning: How Gay Men are Making Sense of AIDS.
Al Waddell
is an erotic educator, a Sacred Intimate, and a long-standing member of the BDSM community with a strong commitment to education. He believes that consensual BDSM can be fun, exciting, challenging, erotic, spiritual, and transformative. When not facilitating workshops or riding his motorcycle, Al spends his time making high-quality BDSM toys. See PaddleDaddy.com.