Wheel of Consent® Workshops
Embodied Agency and Desire: The Wheel of Consent at Breitenbush Hot Springs
Breitenbush, OR
with Jess Kramer, Roxie Hunt, and Ruth Bryan
When: December 13th - 17th, 2026
Where: Breitenbush Hot Springs Retreat Center.
Join us for a 4 night- 5-day immersive retreat exploring desire, boundaries, embodied consent, and the nuanced art of receiving and giving. Nestled in the forest and mineral waters of Breitenbush Hot Springs, this retreat offers a unique opportunity to slow down, soften, and deepen into relationship with yourself and others through the framework of the Wheel of Consent.
Together, we will engage in somatic (body-based) practices, discussion, reflection, and consensual touch exercises designed to help you become more aware of your wants, your limits, and the places where your body says yes, no, maybe, or not yet. Through guided exploration, participants will practice making agreements, understanding boundaries, communicating limits, asking for what they truly want, and discovering greater clarity around giving, receiving, choice, and agency.
Developed by Dr. Betty Martin, the Wheel of Consent is a powerful relational model rooted in touch practices that illuminate the dynamics of human interaction far beyond physical touch alone. The Wheel distinguishes between who is doing and who an interaction is for, opening pathways toward greater clarity, honesty, freedom, trust, generosity, self-tending, and embodied awareness in all relationships.
This retreat welcomes both newcomers to the Wheel of Consent and experienced practitioners seeking a rich environment for embodied practice and integration. Workshops will be balanced with spacious personal time for soaking in the hot springs, resting, journaling, connecting with others, and integrating the work at your own pace. Optional practice spaces throughout the workshop will offer additional opportunities for reflection, embodiment, and community connection.
Over the course of our time together, we will explore:
Agency and Desire through YES and NO
An Embodied exploration of the nuances of Receiving and Giving through take, allow, accept and serve.
Increasing one’s capacity to receive while opening one’s heart to give.
Recognizing habitual patterns that move us out of consent agreements.
Cultivating clearer language and communication skills, trust, and relational awareness.
Our days will unfold through a gentle rhythm of morning and evening workshops, shared meals, optional practice space and optional ritual, quiet integration time, and restorative soaking beneath the Winter sky. The retreat begins with an Opening Circle on the evening of December 13th and concludes with a Closing Circle on the morning of December 17th.
Whether you are single, partnered, dating, married, divorced, monogamous, polyamorous, curious, or simply longing for more honest and embodied ways of relating, this retreat offers a grounded and spacious container for exploration, practice, restoration, and discovery.
*This is a clothes-on workshop retreat, and participation in all practices is entirely optional. While this work can profoundly impact intimacy and sexuality, the focus of the retreat is not sex, but cultivating deeper awareness, choice, connection, and consent in relationship with ourselves and others.
The Wheel of Consent was created in the context of people working with consensual touch. It turns out, these practices apply far beyond touch, intimacy, and sex. People engaging in these practices seem to find endless value that applies to multiple areas of life - from work, feelings of safety and trust, to expanding sense of enjoyment and pleasure including and beyond sex and eroticism, to insight into power dynamics and how to find more freedom and agency.
The Wheel of Consent has been developed by Dr. Betty Martin who is a former chiropractor and currently a sex and intimacy coach, sacred intimate and sexological bodyworker. Check out her free video resources on her website: bettymartin.org
More Weekend Wheel of Consent Classes coming soon…
The Wheel of Consent is a powerful tool to improve the quality of your relationships, your touch, and your sense of safety, while creating clear agreements so you can experience satisfying connection to yourself and others.
This is a clothes-on workshop. Participation in any somatic and touch practices is completely optional. This workshop is not about sex though can be applied to all relationships, including sexual.
This workshop is about:
Gaining communication skills– noticing, valuing, and trusting desires, having the courage to ask for what you want, and having the courage to set limits.
Identifying and exploring YES and NO somatically
Building self-trust and why that is important for trust inside of relationships
Exploration to find and follow wants and pleasure
Making choices – learning about personal agency and how to choose for yourself
Understanding the nuanced dynamics of Receiving and Giving
Understanding consent (beyond sex and intimacy) and clarifying who is doing what, and who it is for.
Learning the difference between giving and doing, and active versus passive receiving
Increasing ability to receive (and why that is important)
Decreasing risk of consent injuries and providing a common language for communicating agreements.
Who is this workshop for?
This workshop is for anyone who is interested in building agency and self-trust, learning more about themselves and improving the quality of their relationships – personal or professional, with friends, parents, children, colleagues or lovers. No prior experience necessary. For those who have been exposed to the Wheel, and those who haven’t, there are always new levels of discovery to be found in this workshop. For anyone who is interested in learning more about their own desires and how to find more pleasure and play in their life.
Modern life disconnects many of us from our sense of agency, our right to say no or feel our desires, and ability to feel safe and settled. We offer this workshop as a space and playground that allows people to connect (re-connect) with each other and a sense of agency, rest, and trust(worthiness).