About Che Che...

Che Che Luna (they/them) is a certified sexuality educator, somatic movement facilitator and ecoerotic artist dedicated to collaborative liberatory praxis. Their lens as a queer, trans, mixed, Autistic, kinky, polyamorous being informs their multidisciplinary work, which includes ecosomatics, inherited ancestral knowledges, social justice frameworks and multi-cultural dance studies. It is their honor and life’s work to support queer and gender expansive humans in reclaiming the body as a source of pleasure, elemental wisdom, expansion, transformation, erotic aliveness, autonomy, interconnectedness, and love. Luna evokes permission for others to live into their truth, heal from systemic oppression, embody their desires, and find their own access points into the sensual body and the collective interdependent body of the more-than-human world.

Che Che was born and raised on the sacred lands of the Chumash people (Santa Barbara, California). Their papa’s ancestors are indigenous to the desert of Sonora, México and South Central Arizona. Their mama’s ancestors are settlers from England and The Balkans. Che moves through the world with a deep and humbling awe for the ways that their chosen family, friends, beloveds, teachers, mentors, collaborators, plant + animal allies, landscapes and histories, in all of their constellations of existence, come together to shape who they are today and inspire them to be the ancestor our future needs. To build a sense of belonging, reconnection and repair to their origins, Che Che has a long standing practice of dancing with the earth and listening to the beingness of relationship that is our connection to each other, the land, and the multiplicity of beings within and around us. This practice has become foundational in their space holding over the last decade of co-creating body based experiential workshops, 1:1 sessions, gatherings, ceremonies, celebrations and performances. A forever student, they are devoted to a lifetime of (un)learning, decolonizing, and providing deep community care.

Some of the activists, creatives, educators and disruptors that have shaped Che Che are Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, Bell Hooks, adrienne maree brown, Mia Mingus, Bianca Laureano, Gloria Anzaldúa, Alok Vaid-Menon, Kai Cheng Thom, Ev’Yan Whitney and Caffyn Jesse. I am a proud descendant of sacred erotic courtesans from Ancient Mexico, and the work I am doing would not be possible without the queer femme sex workers, birth and death doulas, grief workers, and two-spirit activists that have come before me.

Some of Che's groundlaying trainings and certifications include:

Nationally Qualified Level 10 Gymnast, B.S. in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Dance Minor from the University of California, Santa Cruz, Certified Holistic Sex Educator from the Institute for Sexuality Education & Enlightenment (ISEE), ANTE UP! Sexuality Educator Certification, and they are currently studying through the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education program.

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"Working with Che Che feels like the most intimate revolution."

- Autumn Wheeler

”My relationship to my sensuality, pleasure and sexuality has undergone a massive transformation with Che Che's care. One that's been powerful in its softness, playfulness and radiance. This work is an infinite well of goodness, and Che Che takes you to the source - YOUR OWN BODY."

- Julia Bray

To honor the wisdom, value, brilliance and skills of Sex Workers is to acknowledge that I wouldn't be here without them. Sex Workers have had to become experts in reading bodies, navigating power, modeling boundaries and consent, and adapting to shifting needs within violent and oppressive systems that dehumanize and criminalize them. They carry skills that are embodied, relational, and often learned at great risk.

When we extract practices without naming their origins, we risk erasing the very humans who made them possible. To me, honoring lineage is about refusing erasure, resisting co-optation, and staying accountable to the roots of this sacred work.

Centering anti-oppression values within Somatic Sex Education is essential because bodies do not experience harm or safety in equal ways. Somatic work that ignores power can become another site of coercion, subtly reinforcing who is allowed to feel, to speak, to desire, to take up space.

Anti-oppression somatics invite us to build capacity rather than compliance. It asks us to slow down, listen, repair, and redistribute power in real time. The counter-normative ethics that I aspire to embody in everything I do are not a destination. They are an approach - a set of ongoing practices that require humility, adaptability, and relationship. They live in questions rather than answers. They ask us to stay in the conversation when things get messy. They invite us to practice discernment instead of righteousness, curiosity instead of certainty.

When I practice co-creating spaces that make room for emergence, something opens towards liberating forms of intimacy, kinship, care, and desire to take shape beyond what we have been taught is possible. We make room for relationships that do not fit dominant scripts. We let the body teach us what safety, connection, and freedom can look and feel like - again and again, moment to moment.

For me, to be of service to queer community as a Somatic Sex Educator is to choose erotic aliveness over binaries of right/wrong or good/bad. And to remember that the most powerful teachings I carry were born in places the (cishet colonial patriarchal) world tried to erase.

My Work is Rooted in Solidarity with All Sex Workers...

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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