DC Cuddles and Cacao with Lea, Monique, Reid and Peter

Ever just need a HUG? Craving connection or wanting to meet new people?

Throw on your coziest PJ’s and come join us for a magical evening with Monique, Reid, Peter and Lea!

Monique has facilitated thousands of Cuddle Parties all over the world, and literally wrote the book on them! Reid invented them. Now they are teaming up with their beloved Cacao Queen, Lea, to bring you a night of heart-opening, soul-nourishing, oxytocin-filled goodness.

✨This is more than just a cuddle party, it's an EMPOWERING workshop on boundaries, consent, and communication.

And this time, I’m thrilled to announce… we’re adding CACAO to the mix!

🌱 Ceremonial Cacao is a rich, sacred drink made from the pure seeds of the Theobroma Cacao tree, once used as currency by Mesoamerican cultures. It’s the real deal: no fillers, no junk, just a deep, ancient plant medicine that opens the heart, stirs creativity, and invites bliss. Cacao contains theobromine and anandamide (literally named after the Sanskrit word for “bliss”!). No wonder it’s called Theobroma, or “food of the gods.”

So yes, prepare for some serious heart-opening vibes and delicious soul medicine.

✨ Monique, Certified Cuddle Party Facilitator, is honored to lead this cozy evening alongside Lea, our cacao mistress. Together, they’ll guide us through a warm and welcoming journey. You’ll learn how to express boundaries with clarity and compassion, say a confident NO, and move toward your full-body YES! These are skills that ripple into every part of your life, from work to love to friendship.

Expect:

💞 Connection

👯 New Friendships

🌱 Personal Growth

😄 Laughter

💆‍♀️ Healing Touch

👐 Giving & Receiving Affection

♥️ Lots and lots of cuddles

Think: hugs, back rubs, foot rubs, gentle nuzzling, head scratches, spooning… all non-erotic, consensual, and in a safe, sober space.

Details:

📍 Please arrive on time, we begin the Welcome Circle at 4:30pm sharp. Doors close after that. (If you're running late, just PM me!)

💸 $49 via Eventbrite / $60 at the door

🌐 RSVP HERE

🧘‍♀️ Drug & alcohol-free, 18+ only

💖 Learn more: www.cuddleparty.com

Note on Cacao: If you're on antidepressants, pregnant, breastfeeding, or have a serious heart condition, please message us beforehand—we’ll lovingly adjust your dose of cacao medicine.

We can't wait to share this deeply nourishing experience with you.

Come curious, come comfy, and come ready to be held.

ABOUT YOUR FACILITATORS:

Monique Darling - Awaken As Love Lead Facilitator

Author of 'Beyond Cuddle Party' and workshop facilitator extraordinaire, Monique was born on this planet with the unique gifts and soul calling to help you remember how magnificent you truly are! Messages from your ancestors, your spirit guides, your body, nature, your soul, are all called upon and utilized so that you walk away knowing how deeply the cosmos loves you for YOU, exactly as you are, so you can begin to love and accept yourself too.

YOU, you are the gift!

Monique has led over 3000 workshops in the past 15 years. She has taught at colleges across the US including Yale. She has been featured on TLC and The Dr’s as well as various radio shows, podcasts and magazines across the globe. She specializes in helping others reclaim their power and natural sensuality by transmuting fear and repression into courage, self-love and freedom. Her primary purpose is helping folks bring out their vulnerability, energetic embodiment and fearless relating.

-Lèa Benavides

Lea is a connection educator, full of love and smiles. Based out of Austin, Texas, her mission in life is to spread the magic of presence through connection. She loves spreading the gospel of self-love and living in ultimate truth.

She is currently growing the Austin community through dance, facilitation in authentic relating, connection, and tantra workshops. Which include weekly classes in Zouk (a Brazilian partner dance), a monthly dynamic meditation dance called Latihan, monthly 🌙 moon ceremonies, a monthly Women's Circle group and one-on-one/couples training in the tantra lifestyle.

She is excited to fuse her dance background with her love of Kundalini & Tantra in order to reach a new level of awareness and energy through awakening the senses. She is fun-loving and is excited to meet new people with the mindset of self-growth and awareness of the divine potential in all of us!

Reid Mihalko: As seen on NETFLIX' "Chelsea Does..." alongside Chelsea Handler, Reid Mihalko (he/him) of ReidAboutSex.com is an internationally known sxx and relationship geek who helps adults create more self-esteem, self-confidence, and greater health and accountability in their relationships and sxx lives using an inspiring mixture of humor, personal stories, keen insight, and comprehensive sxxual health information.

In early 2018, some very brave people came forward during #MeToo sharing harms that Reid had caused them. Reid stepped down from teaching and initiated a restorative justice-based accountability process to address his misconduct and make amends if and where possible. The formal, year-long process along with Reid’s apology and resources were shared publicly and can be found at TinyURL.com/reidaccountability. Going forward, Reid’s projects and appearances will include pointing people towards resources and experts on restorative and transformative justice-based accountability processes.

Reid’s workshops and college lectures have been attended by over 60,000 people from all over the globe. He has appeared in media such as Oprah's Our America with Lisa Ling on OWN, NETFLIX, Montel, Dr. Phil's The Doctors on CBS, Bravo's Miss Advised, Fox News, in Newsweek, Seventeen, GQ, The Washington Post, and in thirteen countries and at least seven languages.

Reid is also founder of Sxx Geek Summer Camp, Sxx Geek Conservatory, and Sxx Geek School for Gifted Sxx Geeks, which help sxx educators learn valuable business skills that allow them to reach more people with greater ease, transform more lives, and make a better living as sxxperts.

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Peter Petersen - Awaken As Love Lead Facilitator

Peter has been teaching qigong for 18 years and has been a certified massage therapist for the last 16 years. Peter has been teaching in health clubs, hospitals, retirement villas, and several different wellness/spa resorts in Mexico and the United States, such as Rancho La Puerta, Mayacamas Ranch, and Present Moment Retreat.

Peter is also a personal wellness coach. This Qigong practice helps people ground themselves into their “now” to increase their present moment awareness of their behaviors and find simple solutions to problematic habits such as eating, moving, negative thinking, and sleeping. The result of this toolbox of healthy information is that clients become their own health advocate and regain a sense of stability, peace, and well-being into their everyday lives.