Known for her straight talk infused with humor, Felice Shays provides personal sexual and BDSM education counseling in both English and ASL (not at the same time), and has been featured nationally and internationally in print and on T.V. Felice has presented at a plethora of events, groups, and private functions including Black Rose, Pacific Friction, Dark Odyssey, Babeland, LSM, TES, Grand Opening!, TESFest, Wicked Womyn, KinkFest, Safer SM, Tribal Fire, MOB, Come As You Are (Toronto), The Exiles, and Desire.

Known to change flat tires while wearing stilettos, Felice lives in Brooklyn, NY where she also produces sex and BDSM parties for women and trans people. She has served as the chairperson of the Lesbian Sex Mafia (LSM), put in a stint as a former long time employee of Babeland, and worked as a word-whore American Sign Language interpreter. An accomplished performance artist, Felice has written and performed several successful and well-received shows including Felice Brutality and PsychoSemitic which have been produced in NYC, Boston, Toronto, and San Francisco. Her shows have had her hanging – singing - from the ceiling, lighting the Jewish Sabbath candles with a blow torch, and fisting watermelons… huh …something akin to her life off-stage. It is with great pleasure and enthusiasm and we welcome Felice Shays as a first-time presenter at Thunder in the Mountains. Let’s hope she comes back many more times in the future!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brutal Affection: Punching, Kicking, Slapping, & Sex
Bottom: TBD

“It ain't about the brawn.” If you are one of those players who revels in hard, fast, body contact with your partner, then you won’t want to miss Felice Shays as she teaches you the various methods of maximizing your fun and your ardor through the use of “brual affection.” Regardless of your size, gender, or physical ability in this highly interactive workshop, Felice uses scads of demonstrations to teach you fierce and passionate methods of slam, slap and thud. She will teach you to use your brain and a multitude of other body parts to bring you and your partners to new-found levels of physical, sensual, sexual intensity and intimacy. With humor, affection, straight talk, and smarts, Felice will discuss and demonstrate technique, safety, partnered positions, head space, anatomy, and other helpful items make this experience work for you. Also, as time allows, Felice will work with individuals, dyads and other combinations of partners to resolve their dilemmas of inequity of size, status, attitude or plain ole’ muscle. This class will not only provide a great deal of information, but it will be a hell of a lot of fun! If you like body punching, then this is the class for you.

Open to all genders, all physical abilities, and all levels of experience.

 
Vaginal Fisting
Bottom: TBD

Vaginal fisting is an incredible experience--beautiful, sexy, powerful, piggish, spiritual, and intimate. In this exciting seminar Felice will teach you how to fist and/or receive a fist with care, awareness, skill and respect. First she will lead you on a guided tour of the female anatomy and then walk you even further into this silky terrain by involving you in a a sensual experience which you will never forget. You will watch with awe as Felice makes it happen – the live disappearance of a hand into a lucky someone’s cunt. Felice will also explore the subjects of lube, double fisting, special positions, and fisting while bound and/or suspended. As time allows, Felice will coach partners (of any number or kind) in their own explorations of this exciting and beautiful scene. If you have always fantasized about this type of scene, then you will never have a better opportunity to learn the most exciting and safest way to approach it. Don’t miss this class!

Open to all genders and sexual desires.