Importance of Touch and Kissing

Last Saturday we had our first Moosch and Smooch. The evening's intention was to come together and explore the possibilities of touch, holding, and cuddling, as well as ways we can kiss someone without actually sharing any communicable passages. Why does moosching feeling so good? We are defined by touch. When we are alone and separated from another, do we really exist? When we come into contact with another, we share in the sensation and feeling of each other. The hug, the squeeze, the caress, holding and confirming our presence in the world. Our first experiences in life that soothed us and let us relax into peace was when we were held close by our mothers. It is the most basic form of healing. When we connect and in a sense penetrate each other in the moosching of skin on skin, we come into union, we share in a sensational experience with each other, celebrating the enlivenment of ourselves. In kissing we are in a sense sharing breath, the Aloha, lips are the key to our eating,our speaking, our expression, our tasting, our breath passage. In smooching another we share a depth of intimacy, tasting each other, consummating our union of flesh and spirit through breath and fluid exchange (think saliva). The sensations of a hungry mouth consuming and devouring another can be a way of enlivenment in a shared experience of connection. So many ways to kiss: how many can you come up with? So many ways to moosch each other as well: how many ways and places can you think to contact, reach out and touch another in reverence, in playfulness, in full awareness of the sweetness and healing that can be possible. Our next Moosch and Smooch will be May 9th. Come join us, we create a safe, honored, conscious space to explore and play in.