Sacred Touch School was founded by Ed Ehrgott and Nellie Wilson. We met through our mutual experience in Sexological Bodywork and a common passion around making erotic education available to everyone.

Ed

Ed is a massage therapist, an erotic coach and a life coach in San Francisco. He has been working with men for over 4 years though his massage and coaching practice, Sacred Touch for Men.

He holds an Advanced Massage Practitioner License in San Francisco and an Arizona Massage Therapist License. He completed training to be a CMT and received additional specialty training in pelvic release massage at the Body Electric School in Oakland, CA. He completed his Arizona LMT training at the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts in Tempe, AZ.

As he studied massage, he saw many people who view massage as a purely clinical encounter - not unlike the doctor's office. These practitioners can deny any sensual aspect of a massage. Massage is to be enjoyed. If you feel sensual as you receive a massage that's wonderful! Ed believes that touch - regardless of where it is on the body - is a sensual experience. Arousal is common and should be celebrated. A sensual massage focuses on your entire body. It's about relaxing your body and mind while channeling sensual energy throughout the entire body. This results in a wonderful combination of relaxation with a heightened level of energy!

As he gave this sensual massage, he realized that many men were having amazing experiences through this work. Ed wanted to further explore body based erotic healing. He completed additional training to be a Certified Sexological Bodyworker, certified by the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexology in San Francisco and approved by the State of California. Sexological Bodyworkers are somatic (body based) educators who help others with concerns in their erotic lives.

Ed is also a Sacred Intimate (trained through the Body Electric School). Sacred Intimates are specialists in embodiment, not analysis or processing. Sacred Intimacy is about how to change, not why you are wounded. Sacred Intimacy sessions can help you find wounds in your life and offer body based experiences to help heal those wounds. He brings this somatic experience to his work at Sacred Touch School.

Dreams continue to evolve. he completed the Co-Active Coaching Program at The Coaches Training Institute. This program is powerful training in how to be a professional life coach. He's been weaving training as a coach with his bodywork background to develop the art of an Erotic Coach.

Sacred Touch School arose from the many comments he had from men looking for erotic coaching, but not in the San Francisco area. Through Sacred Touch School he intends to bring his experience in erotic coaching to many!

Nellie

Nellie is a massage therapist and somatic sex educator working in San Francisco and Oakland. She currently works at the Center for Sex & Culture and has a private massage and coaching practice.

Nellie graduated from College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine with a degree in Human Ecology. With an eye for looking at the world as a network of interrelationships, finding a deeper connection to the body to better realize our connection with the world around us brought her to the study of somatics and sexuality.

She studied Swedish massage, Shiatsu, Thai massage, Acupressure, and Craniosacral Therapy at the McKinnon School of Massage in Oakland and went on to complete level one training in Craniosacral Therapy with the Milne Institute. In August 2008 she completed the Sexological Bodywork Certification at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco.

In 2003 Nellie first came to San Francisco to intern at the newly founded Center for Sex & Culture (CSC) where she was first exposed to the profession of sex educators – using both traditional teaching modalities as well as hands-on work. After graduation she moved to the Bay Area to further learn and explore the work of sex educator.

She has assisted in numerous classes on topics ranging from female ejaculation to masturbation. She co-taught a workshop on self-loving with Roy Turpin, MA, CMT, CSB and co-hosts an ongoing series of masturbation events benefiting CSC. Nellie offers a presence and facilitation skills to create a safe space for people to explore their eroticism in one-on-one or group settings.