EDUCATION
ANTE UP! Sexuality Educator Certification (foundress Bianca Laureano) 2024
Certified Holistic Sex Educator, Institute for Sexuality Education & Enlightenment (ISEE), 2023
B.S. in Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, 2012
Dance Minor, University of California Santa Cruz, 2012
TEACHING
Practitioner, Institute for Radical Permission with adrienne maree brown & Sonya Renee Taylor (2025), https://www.theembodimentinstitute.org/irp
Guest Facilitator "The Power of Desire", Liberation Practice Field (2025), https://www.eroticsofliberation.com/practicefield
Workshop Facilitator "Embracing the Pleasures of Imperfection", Summer Soulstice Festival (2025), https://www.soultrysisters.com/ssfestival
Creator + Facilitator, Dance as Gender Expansion: a live online experiential movement class for finding your embodied euphoria, Che Che Luna, June 2025
Facilitator, "What Our Bones Know", Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Oct 2024
Creator + Facilitator, Pleasure Permission Circle (2023), https://che-che-luna.teachable.com/courses/pleasure-permission-circle1
Facilitator, Sensual Dance Workshop with DAME (2022)
Creator + Facilitator, inpleasure: an all levels Sensual Dance Workshop, Willamette University, April 30th 2022
Guest Facilitator, Pleasure as a Liberatory Embodied Experience, Pleasure Herbalism//Hood Herbalism Course, April 9th 2022
Founder + Lead Educator, Sensual Self-Care Academy: 22 days of pleasure practice, October 2021
Founder + Instructor, Inpleasure: a virtual prerecorded dance workshop for deepening self-intimacy + sensual embodiment, April 2021
Founder + 1:1 Coach, Actualize Your Pleasure Potential, January-March 2021
WORK EXPERIENCE
Founder & Lead Educator, Che Che Luna LLC, 2017 – Present, Create and implement one-on-one and group educational sessions with clients focused on enhancing and expanding their access to pleasure. Offer online and in-person courses using accessible features to provide inclusive and experiential learning.
Digital Content Creator, Independent Consultant, 2020 – Present, Communicate with sponsors and brands to receive items to review. Offer honest, justice-rooted, educational and gender inclusive reviews of items. This entails writing, choreographing and recording playful and engaging content for various social media applications.
Movement Choreographer, Independent Contractor, 2018 – Present, Choreograph music videos and live performances for musicians including (but not limited to) Frankie Simone, Moorea Masa, Y La Bamba.
Dance Performer, Independent Contractor, 2012 – Present, Execute storytelling through movement for live concerts, commercials, music videos, short films and various campaigns. Clients include (but are not limited to) Billboard, Portland Trail Blazers, SXSW, Treefort, Adidas, Teva, Revry and The W Hotel.
Sensual Embodiment Facilitator, Che Che Luna LLC, 2010 – Present, Facilitate group and 1:1 containers centering the disciplines of eco-er0ticism, authentic movement and my inherited ancestral knowledge, inviting underserved communities into the process of deepening erotic embodiment through the liberatory power of sensual movement. Hallmark workshops include Hot Bodies, Dance as Gender Expansion, Soft Care – a gentle movement circle for the grieving earth that is your body and Pleasure Permission Circles.
Behavior Technician, Play Connections, 2015-2016, Executed treatment plan of therapists working with Autistic children. Supported clients in home, public school system, and play movement space. Created lesson plans for building body coordination and awareness. Established relationships with client’s families to discuss consent, boundaries and body autonomy.
Gymnastics Coaching, Oregon Gymnastics Academy, June Bugs Gym, Spirals Gymnastics, 2004-2015, Trained and worked with youth ages 6 months to 8 years old in developing all-around artistic gymnastics skills. Created lesson plans on topics such as body autonomy, safety, consent and boundaries. Choreographed routines for youth and collaborated with parents / caregivers in establishing informed consent and group agreements. Offered evaluation to both youth and parents.
PUBLICATIONS
Soft Book: a 204 page erotic art book by Aubrié Costello + co-created with over 40 artists from Philadelphia PA, Los Angeles CA, Mexico City MX, Portland OR, + Puerto Rico: https://www.theeroticproject.com/shop/p/soft-book-pre-order
Refinery29: These 4 Latines Are Destigmatizing Sex Work by Jacqueline Delgadillo (2023). Available at: https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/latines-destigmatizing-sex-work
Gossamer Magazine: Touch (2021). Available at: https://www.gossamer.co/articles/che-che-luna
Elite Daily: 5 Women & Femmes Working To Destigmatize Sex Work On Instagram (2021). Available at: https://www.elitedaily.com/dating/5-women-femmes-working-to-destigmatize-sex-work-on-instagram-71036163
Shape: The Best G-Spot Vibrators, According to Sex Educators (2021). Available at: https://www.shape.com/lifestyle/sex-and-love/best-g-spot-vibrators
Kinkly: 7 Masturbation Tips For People With Very Sensitive Clits (2019). Available at: https://www.kinkly.com/7-masturbation-tips-for-people-with-very-sensitive-clits/2/18341
Well + Good: The 9 Best Inclusive Sex Education Instagram Accounts to Follow Right Now (2019). Available at: https://www.wellandgood.com/sex-educators-instagram/
PODCASTS
P.S. Blossom, Pleasure: A Wellspring of Wisdom (February 2nd, 2023). Available at: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0wajhe0sMa4j5HgNgLKP3O?si=5023f8fbf376490e
Real Talk Radio: Pleasure, Dancing and Masturbation (2021). Available at: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pleasure-dancing-masturbation-with-che-che-luna/id1034376872?i=1000511146454
Sex Magic Podcast: Pleasure, Embodied (2021). Available at: https://open.spotify.com/episode/35g2sh4vB6e2zTywy6S2Da?si=wClN2hWRTMalGdNE1ko3-g
MEDIA
Ecotopia – a short erotic film by Che Che Luna, Lindsay Wynn, Frankie Simone and Mistress Lilith premiering in HUMP Film Fest 2025: https://www.humpfilmfest.com
Teva: Pride Campaign (2020).
DotGay: The Library (Season 1) (2020). Available at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXwaGBvDP8NZJbI5dPtVbiMdS9dDTY7Bn
Netflix Original Series, Trinkets (Season 1, Episode 2 – Paper Tiger) (2019).
Adidas: Pride Campaign (2018). Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfQD0mBA_fY
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Like a Pro Training, School of Consent, April 2025
Advanced SAR: Youth Sexuality, ANTEUP!, April 2024
Advanced SAR: Sex and Drugs, ANTEUP!, March 2024
TikTok for Sexuality Professionals, Mariah November 16th 2022
Disability & Intersectional Identities, Dylan Kapit and Robin Wilson-Beattie, SIECUS, 2021
Boss Witch Academy with Luna Dietrich, 2021
Talking to Adolescents About Pornography, Jessica Alder MPA, Nicole Daley MPH, Emily F. Rothman ScD, MS, May 10th & 17th, 2021
Advanced SAR: Less Than Unusual Behaviors, ISEE, January 23rd, 2021
Galen Hooks group dance training sessions on performance, embodiment, technique and choreography, (2018-2019)
Behavioral Tech training through Play Connections, 2015
Oregon Gymnastics Academy Coaching Trainings: USAG Safety Certification, Consent, Sexual Harassment, CPR, Correct Spotting Techniques, 2015
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