It’s my great joy to bring the gifts of tea and touch to this very homey-feeling festival, run by two sweethearts with massive integrity, clear consciences, amazing life energy and good hearts.
More info: https://www.tantricjoyfestivalamsterdam.com/
How the ability to self regulate with some strategies including but not limited to meditation will be the subject of this mini workshop, with the tea ceremony as its spine. More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/922383435971392/?ti=ls
I will be co-facilitating another incredible weekend gathering of men in southern Estonia, called Meestekas, organised and run by Tiit Trofimov and this time also co-facilitated by Rain Tunger. I’ve been friends with both Rain and Tiit for some 15 years each; that alone is cause for celebration. It will be another weekend of delving into the self, learning to trust self and others and opening the door for welcoming minor and major transformations.
More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1407300493190207
As part of the Siilipidu will weekend of par-tee and great music, I will be DJing in the Chill Out Zone from the last minute of Friday 22nd for a two hour set under the moniker of DJ Tea&Touch! Smooth, chill, lo-fi, trippy, dreamy, silky sounds coming your way. The equivalent of a musical conscious touch session or a few bowls of creamy shou puerh…
More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1035898280804590
Join Steve for a perfect way to greet the new day, Being before stepping into Action. Charen, Uus 11, for about an hour from 8am. Yes, 8am.
We (Teeline) ask for 15eur participation fee, but feel free to offer what you can (even 5-10); we’d rather you benefot from this offer than stay away.
Join me and many other bodyworkers for this festival devoted to touch. I will lead a Conscious Touch workshop for couples on the Friday evening and be around offering sessions after this. Info:
https://www.iksk-berlin.de/bodywork-bazaar-berlin
I will be available in Berlin before and after this event for private bodywork sessions.
Join Steve in an unlikely space for a meditative tea session to set your day on its proper course - an exhibition hall inside the marvellous Fotografiska. Just incredible. Info here: https://www.fotografiska.com/tallinn/events/meditatiivne-teehommik-kohtumised-sofiega-naitusel/
Tickets available on Fienta (in link above). Your ticket gives you access to all the exhibits after the ceremony.
I will have the honour for, for the third time in a row now, co-facilitating Tiit Trofimov’s regular gather of men called Meestekas. Nestled in a forest retreat centre in Viljandimaa, this is where men come together to be real , to face aspects of themselves most had no idea they even had - and to embrace them. I help hold space, hold a meditative tea ceremony and lead a men’s sexual health discussion group. This event will be also co-hosted by Rain Tuger.
Join Steve in an unlikely space for a meditative tea session to set your day on its proper course - an exhibition hall surrounded by Andy Warhol photographs inside the marvellous Fotografiska. Info here: https://www.fotografiska.com/tallinn/en/events/meditatiivne-teehommik-andy-warholi-naitusel/
Tickets available on Fienta (in link above). Your ticket gives you access to all the exhibits after the ceremony.
Join Steve in an unlikely space for a meditative tea session to set your day on its proper course - an exhibition hall surrounded by Andy Warhol photographs inside the marvellous Fotografiska. Info here: https://www.fotografiska.com/tallinn/en/events/meditatiivne-teehommik-andy-warholi-naitusel/
Tickets available on Fienta (in link above). Your ticket gives you access to see all the exhibits afterwards.
Join us in person at Charen (Uus 11, Tallinn’s Old Town) to start your day in peace and presence, supported by powerful tea from clean, untainted wilderness. From 8-9am, then take this beautiful energy out into your day to spread to others.
Requested donation: 5-10eur Note: This is likely the last such tea morning at Charen this year.
For me personally, there can be no better way to celebrate Chado teashop’s 12th year sitting pretty on Uus tn than a deep dive tea meditation. This time, previous shop assistant, dedicated tea lover and transcendant musician and singer Hanno Padar will join with some musical accompaniment. Some matcha cake will be offered following the ceremony.
Charen, Uus 11, from 19 (arrive 10 minues early if you can). Suggested donation 10-15eur, or as you are able.
Our version of a Friday Night Special, a meditative way to bridge a busy week and the weekend.
Charen, Uus 11, from 19 (arrive 10 minues early if you can). Suggested donation 10-12eur, or as you are able.
Join Steve in an unlikely space for a meditative tea session to set your day on its proper course - an exhibition hall surrounded by Andy Warhol photographs inside the marvellous Fotografiska. Info here: https://www.fotografiska.com/tallinn/en/events/meditatiivne-teehommik-andy-warholi-naitusel/
Tickets available on Fienta. NOTE: This event is already SOLD OUT, visit again on Dec 1 or 15
Join us in person at Charen (Uus 11, Tallinn’s Old Town) to start your day in peace and presence, supported by powerful tea from clean, untainted wilderness. From 8-9am, then take this beautiful energy out into your day to spread to others.
Requested donation: 3-7eur
Tea has been approached and respected as one of the world’s teacher plants for millenia. Not the same tea one finds in gorcery shops in bags - that is technically also tea but that retains only an echo of its true power. When the tea is wild-grown in its place of origin on the planet one million years ago, when it has been aged properly, and when prepared and drunk with conscious attention, then we can hear its messages, then we can have a meditative experience with our deeper selves.
Steve has been inolved with tea as a healthy beverage since his teens, as a business since 2004 and as a Dao (a path to self-improvement) since 2010, studing at a Zen and Tea centre in Taiwan and offering ceremonies since about 2012, still learning every step of the way.
We welcome you to a small gathering to meet in a meditative space, drink a rare and aged tea (tea - from the tea tree, this is not a psychdelic substance) from my collection and see what happens!
Address; 28 Krukmakargatan (near Mariatorget metro)
Time 19-21h
Any last-minute questions or arrival questions, call/SMS +37255669157. Please let me know if you are coming, either via the contact form, at steve.kokker@gmail.com or at that tel # on WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal… Thanks!
Donation: whatever one feels or can, from 0-150SEK
I will be in Stockholm (Södermalm) for a week offering deeply meditative bodywork sessions, self exploration through the safe hands of someone very comfortable with the male body. Please contact me for options, availability, pricing and location.
Conscious Touch Sessions For Men by Steve
For booking, use the contact page or send me a WhatsApp +37255669157
I am a bodyworker, though I like the terms ‘conscious touch’ (about which I give workshops) or ‘shamanic touch’. There is an intention to induce through touch a slightly altered state in which a person can connect and listen to themselves in a deeper way. Acknowledging the bodily aspect of the self in safe intimacy is a primary way to confront in a direct but non-threatening way issues and emotions we may have half-buried for a long time.
Or this can be a way of experiencing the self in a unique way with life energies more freely flowing through the body. I seek to assist in opening the body to its own natural rhythms and assist natural energy flow through the removal of blockages and a rediscovery of one’s own body as a sensually pleasurable living being.
This physical form, no matter how it looks like, contains all the mysteries and answers we will ever need to know.
I am based in Tallinn, Estonia and will be in Stockholm offering private sessions in Södermalm between May 24-29. For my massage philosophy and bio, see: https://www.teaandtouch.com/about
I work mainly (though not exclusively) with men/male bodies, and understand an approach which works best with them. I am very comfortable with the body and not shy to offer intimate attention (but always according to discussed limits and current needs of the receiver) that only men can best offer other men. In some cases, a student discount is possible; please ask if needed. Some options include:
Body Trip. Steve’s classic. A slow-rhythm and deep meditative approach to the body, offering a deep, slow dive into the self. A symphonic journey played out on and through your body, incorporating deep tissue and other modalities.
Butt Therapy. Men’s favourite part of the body to be treated, this can be outer or deeper, inner work, working to open stiff hip and pelvic regions and release withheld tension in an area where the body holds a lot of hidden tension, emotion and control over one’s ability to surrender to life. This one goes at your pace and respecting your limits. You will definitely dance better after this one!
Lingam Healing. This incorporates elements of the above but adds more focus on conscious touch and incorporation of the lingam area for a more integrative experience. For those who need encouragement with issues of body shame, trust of other men, sexual stress/trauma, or who wish to safely explore intimate but non-sexual safe touch from another man.
Dantian Release - Deep stomach massage. This an emotionally liberating session incorporating elements of the above but focusing on the stomach area as a repository of deeply-held and only partially recognised tensions and past emotions. Neck and shoulders and some face work is also included.
I am thrilled, honoured and even a bit excited to be assistant facilitator at this year’s Point of Surrender retreat, a tantric event, in Sweden. More info: https://www.theartoflove.nu/events/the-point-of-surrender-1-1
Co-hosted with Dana, a night f love for couples…
https://www.facebook.com/events/974393859879448/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22your_upcoming_events_unit%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22bookmark%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D
Join us in person at Charen (Uus 11, Tallinn’s Old Town) to start your day in peace and presence, supported by powerful tea from clean, untainted wilderness. From 8-9am, then take this beautiful energy out into your day to spread to others.
Requested donation: 3-7eur
Join us in person at Charen (Uus 11, Tallinn’s Old Town) to start your day in peace and presence, supported by powerful tea from clean, untainted wilderness. From 8-9am, then take this beautiful energy out into your day to spread to others.
Requested donation: 7eur
Denis Vinogradov and I are back together in this unusually beautiful soundscape and teascape journey.
It was one of those odd moments when the air around you seems to buckle into a wave, when something from another dimension seems to force itself through. When Denis asked if I’d like to serve tea as we take a deep listen to one single album, I was intrigued immediately. But when he said that of all the albums in the world, he would choose Riceboy Sleeps, that’s when the air seemed to buckle.
Had I told him that it is our tea community’s #1 tea-listening album? Or is he just even more of a magician than I already thought?
I’ve been studying a meditative tea practise at the world’s only Zen & Tea centre, in Taiwan, since 2010. When I first started visiting the Global Tea Hut, I was amazed that they kept playing what was already one of my all-time favourite recordings. Through the years, Riceboy Sleeps in its entirety or via individual tracks has accompanied so many tea sessions around the world, it would be impossible to count. Global Tea Hut’s love for it spread recognition of it to tea lovers around the globe. This year, in a review of the 50 Greatest Tea Albums Of All Time, it came out as #1.
Why it marries so well to well to tea is in large part a mystery - as it should be. We can analyze all we want but it’s its mystery that really weaves its magic. The music has a way of seeping into the pores of your being, imperceptibly infiltrating the deepest reaches of your emotions. Light and easy on the surface, this music can get into the cracks of emotional defences and soften them to allow a complete flow. Tea does something very similar: on the surface, just a nice-tasting beverage, but it proves its power as a medicine for the heart.
Both this music and tea can affect us so much more when we offer the power of our attention and focus, which is what makes this event so unique. We so often do not give ourselves the time to listen deeply - to others, to the wind, to silence, to music… - and here for a few hours we come together to offer some of the world’s most beautiful music the gift of our attention, steeped in ancient jungle leaves which seem to have grown just for the occasion.
Join us in person at Charen (Uus 11, Tallinn’s Old Town) to start your day in peace and presence, supported by powerful tea from clean, untainted wilderness. From 8-9am, then take this beautiful energy out into your day to spread to others.
Requested donation: 7eur
Join me Friday eve in the Old Town Charen (Uus 11) for a quiet journey in the embrace of tea…
Join us in person at Charen (Uus 11, Tallinn’s Old Town) to start your day in peace and presence, supported by powerful tea from clean, untainted wilderness. From 8-9am, then take this beautiful energy out into your day to spread to others.
Requested donation: 7eur
Join us in person at Charen (Uus 11, Tallinn’s Old Town) to start your day in peace and presence, supported by powerful tea from clean, untainted wilderness. From 8-9am, then take this beautiful energy out into your day to spread to others.
Requested donation: 7eur
Let’s meet at 5am at Paks Margareta and have a silent walk through Old Town before tea… Join us in person at Charen (Uus 11, Tallinn’s Old Town) to start your day in peace and presence, supported by powerful tea from clean, untainted wilderness. From 8-9am, then take this beautiful energy out into your day to spread to others.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/666344510687522/
Requested donation: 7-10eur
Join us in person at Charen (Uus 11, Tallinn’s Old Town) to start your day in peace and presence, supported by powerful tea from clean, untainted wilderness. From 8-9am, then take this beautiful energy out into your day to spread to others.
Requested donation: 7eur
Join us in person at Charen (Uus 11, Tallinn’s Old Town) to start your day in peace and presence, supported by powerful tea from clean, untainted wilderness. From 8-9am, then take this beautiful energy out into your day to spread to others.
Requested donation: 7eur
Join us in person at Charen (Uus 11, Tallinn’s Old Town) to start your day in peace and presence, supported by powerful tea from clean, untainted wilderness. From 8-9am, then take this beautiful energy out into your day to spread to others.
Requested donation: 7eur
A 2.5 day workshop devoted to mind-body-spirit male massage.
Friday: tea and intro.
Saturday: https://www.facebook.com/events/773676626429984/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22search_results%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22search%22%7D]%7D
Sunday: https://www.facebook.com/events/2395709977412013/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22search_results%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22search%22%7D]%7D
