Ask Men Who Stroke

Join us for a one-hour discussion about being a stroker in Orgasmic Meditation. Two seasoned strokers will tell the truth about their experiences learning the stroker role, what changed for them when they became a stroker, and what’s happened for them along the way.

Featuring Hesham Hauter

Hesham Hauter is the director of the Guard to Guardians program, a part of the non-profit Prisons to Monasteries Program that seeks to transform prisons into places of deep healing for all involved, including the Officers. Through OM, Hesham has learned the fine art of attention and sets the bar for noticing the details that make everybody around him feel like he’s tuned in and there for them.

Hosted by Eli Block

Eli Block has been a practice holder and lead teacher of Orgasmic Meditation and related philosophy since 2014. He is an international speaker, trainer, and writer in the world of Orgasmic Meditation. He was first introduced to the practice in 2009.

About the Instructors

Hesham Hauter

Hesham Hauter is the director of the Guard to Guardians program, a part of the non-profit Prisons to Monasteries Program that seeks to transform prisons into places of deep healing for all involved, including the Officers. Through OM, Hesham has learned the fine art of attention and sets the bar for noticing the details that make everybody around him feel like he’s tuned in and there for them.

Eli Block

Eli Block has been practicing Orgasmic Meditation for 17 years and teaching it for most of that time. He grew up with parents deeply involved in the San Francisco Zen Center and has been meditating since early childhood. As lead instructor of the men’s program at The Eros Platform, he’s spent years figuring out how to make Eros and OM land for the widest possible range of people, operating on the belief that what’s possible for one is possible for all. He’s also appeared on numerous podcasts, served as a director at OneTaste in Boulder, San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles, and outside of OM he’s a writer, music lover, former Apple Genius, and a guy who was genuinely not bad at lacrosse.

Matt Pelletier

Matt Pelletier is a software engineer who started OMing in 2015. He has honed his analytical and intellectual skills by developing a deeply felt experience of himself and other people through OM. He has mastered the balancing act between the rational and non-rational intelligences of masculine and feminine.