Power of Travel & Breathwork

Experience the transformative power of travel and breathwork embraced within a queer communal curated space, Terra Rosa and our exclusive beach villa, Ashram Sunshine.

About three years ago I experienced my mid-life crisis / opportunity. I was doing all the things and checking all the boxes; working, loving, living, performing and showing up. But something was clearly off. Within months of getting my 25 year sober tattoo I found myself imploding as I sunk deeper and deeper into my new found chemsex addiction. Certainly my love for sex, intimacy and men created the perfect conditions, in combination with the dating apps. Without seeking it or understanding it, what started as another hook-up led to my experimentation with crystal meth and GHB.

At the time I was working as the director of an mobile outpatient substance use disorder treatment program in upstate New York. I was married to my long-time partner, co-chair of my local-annual pride festival and I was involved and engage in local politics and activism. Yet the powerful experience of drugs and sex began to occupy my weekends. I found myself in dangerous and compromising situations and in a downward spiral that left me questioning everything.

New Year's Eve 2023 I "geed-out" and when I came too six hours later, alone in a hotel room, I scrapped bottom. As I drove home I said out loud, "I don't know what to do." Yet a part of me know this wasn't true. I did know, I was just to scared to do it and so I was attempting to blow up my life as an alternative. I know that making some small changes wasn't going to do it. I needed to be bold, brave and courageous. So I decided to put a pause my marriage, resign my job, cash in some savings and make a move to San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Today, I am back in recovery, in the process of separating from my husband, getting my own condo in St. Petersburg, Florida, back to work in the addiction field, but also pursuing my passion as a full body therapist and breathwork facilitator. I'm doing all kinds of things that scare me, in a good way, like organizing international retreats for the queer community.

I have learned I don't have to create a crisis to step into a new opportunity. I can make the difficult and scarry choices that align with the grand opportunity of my life. I can choose to live more fully, challenge myself, expand my experience and get the f*ck out of my comfort zone.

I am sharing all of that to say, here is a beautiful, magnificent opportunity for you to expand, challenge yourself, take a risk and invest in yourself and your beautiful life!

Queer Escape and Reboot / Terra Rosa & Sitges, Spain / August 17-24, 2026

I would like to invite you go join me in Barcelona Spain on Tuesday, August 17 and we'll make the one-hour road trip to Terra Rosa, a space dedicated to the personal, communal, and spiritual growth of its guests, residents, and the international LGBTQ+ community, There we will spend 4 nights and 5 days amerced in nature, community and breathwork.

Room to Breathe is a sanctuary for your authentic self. An opportunity to reclaim your peace, time to heal and overcoming trauma. Be inspired and empowered to cultivate resilience and ignite your spirit. Check out the full schedule of daily activities at Terra Rosa below.

Then after an incredible powerful, individual and collective experience we'll make the trip to Sitges and Ashram Villa Sunshine, a tranquil setting away from the bustle of the town center. We will have four days and three nights to enjoy the private pool, large terrace overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, and options for fresh, homemade meals, including veggie or vegan choices, along with easy access to the famous queer beaches, nightlife, and cultural scene.

Room to Breathe (schedule of activities at Terra Rosa):

• Day 1: Welcome & Creating a Safe Container for your Authentic Self • Orientation, Opening Circle & Intention Setting • Stepping Outside Ones Comfort Zone to Experience the Magic

• Day 2: Reclaiming your Peace and Wellness • Nervous System Reset with Breathwork, Body Mapping & Sound Healing • Navigating Intense Emotions and Finding Peace

• Day 3: Deep Dive to Overcome Trauma with Breathwork • Trauma in the Body; Guided Meditation, Release & Healing • Extended Breathwork, Holding Space and Transformation

• Day 4: Cultivating Intuition and Trusting your Inner Guidance • Experiential Exercises with Breathwork to Connect and Trust your Intuition • My Body, my Compass; Manifesting your Authentic Future

• Day 5: Integration and Embarking on your Next Beautiful Chapter • Ecstatic Movement and Closing Circle ROOM TO BREATHE

Terra Rosa available accommodations:

En-suite Rooms (2 persons, private shower & toilet): 2 rooms available

Twin Rooms (2 persons, shared shower & toilet): 4 rooms available

Quad Rooms (up to 5 persons, shared shower & toilet): 4 rooms available

Ashram Villa Sunshine available accommodations:

Top Floor (Sun Suite with 4 beds and balcony)

Second Floor (4 Bedrooms / Passion, Harmony, Peace & Joy with 2 baths)

Ground Floor (Horizon Suite with 3 beds, 1 bath, kitchenette and terrace

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Price: $1,670.00 / Includes:

• Accommodations over 4 Nights, 5 days & 11 Vegetarian Meals at Terra Rosa (Queer Communal Community)

• Transformational Breathwork Programing over 4 full days and 2 half-days

• Accommodations 3 Nights, 4 days in our exclusive Ashram Villa Sunshine in Sitges (Top Queer Beach in Europe on the Mediterranean

• Shuttle Service from Barcelona to Terra Rosa on August 17, from Terra Rosa to Sitges on August 21, and from Sitges back to Barcelona on August 24

  
  

*$500 deposit in order to register. Save $200 if you pay in full by May 1, 2026. Final payment due by July 15 and NO refunds after June 15, 2026.

*Not Included: Flights, additional meals, travelers insurance and optional excursions.

Hosted by Chad Putman, MSW

You've heard some of my story, but the other part is that I truly enjoy connecting with others, exploring the world and having new and amazing experiences. As often as I can, I chose to ditch convention and old pathways. I've learned the hard way through my own personal struggles. At anytime I can embrace my own journey and desires, welcome change and to say "YES" to opportunities the scare the sh*t out of me. It's with that spirit I invite you to join me, not for a vacation, but for a queer escape and reboot. Starting today and this summer, embrace the change you want to be and see in the world.

Got questions? What are you waiting for?

Text Chad at 518-225-0957 or email chadputman1@gmail.com 

for more information.

Me in Peru on the Salkantay Trek between Cusco & Machu Picchu, September 2025. A 30 plus mile trail reaching 15,000 feet above sea level. I had to climb the mountain and walk down through the cloud forest before I could experience the magic of the lost city.

Kundalini Kink & Cuddles / Tulum, MX / Feb 13-16th

December BOGO Deal when you book a private room for TWO - Pay $470 to reserve your teepee room and get TWO All Access passes to Kundalini Kink & Cuddles. That's 3 night accommodations, TWO All Access passes to the activities and events and you get to cuddle up with your bestie in a teepee.

It's time to Love yourself and your mate this Valentine's Weekend with an unforgettable adventure to Tulum Mexico. Join Daddy Lance and I for Kundalini Kink & Cuddles at the beautiful Mimosa Boutique Hotel & Hostel. We have an active and chill schedule of activities and opportunities planned for our beloved guests starting on Friday, February 13, through Monday, February 16th, 2026.

Schedule Includes; Get your Kink On - Friday Night, Saturday Night Fever, Morning breathwork, tantra and and pleasure practices. Then topping off Sunday night with a group massage and cuddle party. Mimosa, our exclusive hotel features a pool, cash bar, cafe/restaurant, other services and is just a few blocks from the main street in Central Tulum with tons of fantastic restaurants, shops and local vendors.

There are a limited number of private rooms and bunkbeds available at our exclusive hotel. This December BOGO deal when you book a private room for two before they are gone - Pay $470 to reserve your teepee room and get two All Access passes to Kundalini Kink & Cuddles. That's 3 night accommodations, two all access passes to all the activities and events and you get to cuddle up in a teepee with your plus one!

Kink & Cuddles is an opportunity to: Awaken and engage your sexual energy; Explore your kinks without shame or judgement in a safe environment; Connect on a deeper level with yourself and others; Sample new kinks and fantasies; Expand your experience of pleasure in your body

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What to expect? Sensual and erotic opportunities to expand your pleasure practice:

• Morning breathwork and pleasure practices

• Shame free space to explore your kinks and fantasies

• Live DJ for Saturday Night Fever featuring special guest Daddy Lance

• Shared massage and cuddle party on Sunday evening

  
  

All activities are lead by an experienced facilitator in a judgment-free, sex-positive space.

Who is Kundalini Kink & Cuddles for? This retreat welcomes:

• Gay, bi, queer, MSM, and trans men (21+)

• Individuals and couples of all experience levels

• Curious beginners or experienced kinksters

• Anyone seeking authentic connection, erotic expression, and self-discovery

  
  

We foster an environment that is consent-based, inclusive, body-positive, and celebrates diversity in race, age, size, and desire.

Hosted by Chad Putman

Location: Mimosa Boutique Hotel & Hostel, gay - owned establishment in enchanting Tulum. This is NOT a clothing optional setting.

Cost & Booking:

• Retreat Room/Fee Starting at: $420 per person

• Some Meals Included: Friday Welcome Mexican Buffett Dinner and Sunday Farwell Breakfast

• Limited airport transfers available with arrival and departure times outside the schedule of events taking place Friday, Feb 13 - Monday, Feb 16th.

Register / Book Retreat

*Not Included: Flights, additional meals, travelers insurance, optional excursions, massage services, fetish gear (however, you encouraged to bring your own gear—leather, lace, jocks, socks, pup hoods, floggers, whatever makes you feel alive and empowered). GRRRR!

Got questions? Don't wait, the number or rooms are limited...

Text Chad at 518-225-0957 or email chadputman1@gmail.com for more information.

Bondage, Breathwork & Sensual Touch

I was scrolling recently on Instagram and saw a post from Burning Man highlighting an offering for bondage and breathwork. I had not considered the literal combination, but according to the post the available slots filled up quickly, and the feedback was positive.

Although my Tantra Touch and sacred intimacy sessions with clients has incorporated both elements, I had not considered them as a packaged offering.

So, I decided to do a little research with an additional question, what if you added sensual touch with a focus on gay men?

The outcome: below you will find three general benefits for the combined experience of bondage, breathwork, and sensual touch for gay men.

However, I wanted to add some of my own practice experience for additional context and steamy content for your pleasure and personal practice.

1. Enhanced Intimacy and Trust: Engaging in these practices can foster deep emotional connections, trust, and vulnerability between partners, strengthening their bond.

I have personally witnessed complete strangers surrender in front of me as they engaged in breathwork and sensual touch. Allowing themselves to become more vulnerable as I held them and disrobed them with consent and sensuality. Each breath and each layer drawing them in from the outside, deeper into their body and sensual self.

After some time, I would slowly shift them to the massage table introducing shifting degrees of sensual and erotic touch and energy. I could see them drop into their nude bodies trusting in the experience unfolding around and within them. Following my command for breath, awareness and surrender while the sensual sounds of music filled the room. Each touch, caress, and motion I work to gain their trust, inspired by their physical reaction and arousal.

More times than not, I ask and encourage my clients to wear a blindfold to allow them to minimize the distraction of sight. Often this is the first time they have been blindfolded so I am consistently retaining a hand on them to assist with a sense of safety, aiding in their ability to ground into their bodies.

With tantra massage there is a focus on the four elements and related style of touch or massage. Earth touch being firm grip and force on the body, shifting from chest to arms, legs to feet. Water is a more liquid touch, often involving massage oil and rhythmic movements. Fire touch helps to create those peak moments and sexual stimulation. A perfect time to incorporate some lite or heavy bandage to focus sensation and pleasure. Lastly and often after a release some lite air touch or fingertips on the skin, exploring the entire body from lips to fingertips to toes.

2. Stress Relief and Relaxation: Breathwork and sensual touch can promote relaxation, reduce stress, and help improve mental well-being by engaging with the parasympathetic nervous system (heart, lungs, digestive system, and sexual organs).

Too often we are told to practice meditation and mindfulness with little to no experience. Too often, ending brief attempts with frustration and miniscule benefits.

My personal breathwork practice and work with clients has provided me with an active method to experience and witness others in a meditative state.

Various forms of breathwork over a brief period, from 5 to 15 minutes, can be enough to increase oxygen (prana-life force), reduce carbon dioxide in the body, and help release stored tension and energy.

The combination of breath, music, smells, lighting, movement, guided meditation, touch, and stimulation creates an opportunity to surrender, ground, let go, experience the moment, and drop into the immense amount of pleasure the body can receive and experience.

It is during these extended moments that I engage the imagination to adventure beyond the limits of the body and the room. Invoking sacred journeys and connections with Pachamama (earth) and father universe, one’s higher self and spirit guides. These connections often tie back to the original intention set by the participant. Seeking out their higher-self or inner child for direction, insight, and impactful downloads.

Feeling empowered, grounded and connected, the outside world and endless list of demands and to-dos slip away, and pleasure begins to take center stage. Breathe, release, engage your throat chakra and give voice to every cell of your body.

3. Self-Exploration and Sensory Awareness: These practices encourage greater self-awareness, body positivity, and exploration of desires, leading to improved self-acceptance and sexual confidence.

We do not often communicate our boundaries, desires, and health practices at the time of engaging with a sexual partner. This can limit our sexual experience, lead to undesired outcomes, and increase anxiety about exposure to sexually transmitted infections.

Each of my Tantra Touch and intimacy practice sessions starts with a structured discussion that allows for an opportunity to share on these topics helping to create greater self-confidence and shared awareness.

The combination of all these elements, practices and shared openness leads to an environment in support of exploration, increased sensitivity, and appreciation of what our bodies are capable of experiencing.

These sessions are a perfect opportunity to welcome new experiences, challenge limitations with consent and introduce new sensations. The intentional combination of bondage, breathwork and sensual touch is an invitation to surrender, ground and release.

Every session takes on a life of its own. I never know when we begin, where we will end. I am profoundly grateful for the trust of my clients and their willingness to embrace the experience.

After a 60-, 90- or 120-minute session the peace and tranquility in the room is palatable. Butterflies circling and landing on the beautiful naked soul, grounded and at peace on the table under a lite sheet to assist with grounding and integration.

Whether your pleasure practice is solo, partnered, group or part of your regular self-care. Consider including breathwork, bondage and sensual touch for an enhanced intimate and erotic experience. Allow me to guide you or connect with someone you trust. Your body is waiting, are you ready?

For your own pleasure practice, I have noted some steps you can take to create your own tantra, personal pleasure practice or to engage with another for some steamy, sensual, full body pleasure.

Your practice: start with setting the stage. Set aside some time, pick a space, create a vibe, and think about what you want your personal or shared experience to entail.

Do you need a moment of surrender and passion? Are you feeling dominant and particularly kinky?

Incorporate mood lighting and music, essential oils, and toys (ropes, ice cubes, blindfold, silk, nipple claps, massage oil candles, get creative).

Having set the stage, start with some grounding breathwork and music to help you drop out of your head and into your body. An effective practice includes belly breaths, taking deep breaths through your nose, filling up your belly, and releasing out of your mouth through pursed lips. You can count to four on the inhale and six on the exhale to help with focus. Do this for 3-5 minutes, then hold for 30-60 seconds at the top or after the exhale. Then repeat for 2-3 cycles.

You can also increase the speed and focus of your breath. Inhale through your nose expanding your chest, exhaling fully through your mouth. Or take short, quick (fire) breaths in and out of your nose for 60 to 90 seconds. Making sure to take breaks, sitting, or lying down or doing so in unison with your partner. Added benefit with eye gazing, interlocking lower body and legs and being nude.

You can also use this time to concentrate your breath and energy in different parts of your body from your belly, heart, throat to the soles of your feet, sit bones, top of your head and most importantly your root chakra at the base of your spine. Activating your sexual, Kundalini energy and getting the juices flowing.

Tantra Touch is about conducting sensation with intuition and allowing your body to be the instrument. Giving a well needed break to your conscious mind and ego. Allow your sensual, erotic, and animalistic self to lead the way. If it helps, wear blindfolds, including oils and ice for sensual touch and sensation play. Do not be shy, include touch and massage of your nipples, lips, cock, balls, and hole. Either laying down, tied up or cuddling with your partner.

Build the energy and then take a step back to breath, move the energy around the body with lite touch and breath. Then stir the pot allowing the vibe of the room and music to stimulate and accentuate the feeling.

When it is time we welcome the release with your entire body. Breath into your orgasm and allow your throat to expand with moans and groans of pleasure. Let the universe know your orgasm is profound, magical, and primal. Burst with the spark of life that transcends time, galaxies, and gravity.

But do not stop there. Allow yourself to remain in the moment. Resist the old training that forced us to clean up and shy away from our body’s potential. Allow your drip, your cum to breathe, to taste the air you breath. Lay still, relax and release.

The angles and butterflies are on their way. Resist the temptation to check back in with your ego and conscious mind. Drift away into a timeless experience of meditation brought on by the full body experience of pleasure.

These moments, these experiences are equally as important as the countless other moments that take up so much of our time. I am of the opinion that our new opportunity in this age of Aquarius is to spend more time experiencing the pleasures of our body solo and with others. Just maybe, with more practice, more awareness, and more intention the peace and joy we all seek will be less illusive and more palatable in the world around us.

Chad Putman, XoXo