Meet the team

Get to know a bit about the NAKEDMAN facilitators, their training and areas of expertise.

Curt Mason

Curt Mason

Founder & Lead Facilitator

With over 30 years experience Curt’s passion is exploring how we bring ourselves into intimate relationships and the interplay within our bodies, our sexuality, spiritually and environments.

Curt loves working as a Somatic Sex Coach and Bodyworker. He is always humbled by the people he works with, seeing their growth, courage and acceptance in moving through challenges and developing new skills and ways of being.

Ross Macpherson

Ross Macpherson

Facilitator

Ross is a warm and supportive human, who brings a playful and challenging approach to his facilitation that will transform the way you think, move and feel.

With over 10 years experience in yoga and mindfulness he is now studying to become a Gestalt Psychotherapist. Ross has been assisting and running workshops at NAKEDMAN for over two years.

Mathew Bergan

Mathew Bergan

Facilitator

Mathew is studying Gestalt Therapy, he is also an embodiment councillor and workshop facilitator. He specialises in queer sound healing events and workshops and men’s relaxation utilising, sound, meditation, breath work, bodywork, visualisation, yoga and narration therapy.
 
Mathew has been teaching yoga since 2000 through his own teacher training academy, Dancing Warrior Yoga.
 
Mathew chooses to nurture the heartfelt needs of men, guiding them to a deeper understanding of their soulful self in order to have more agency in the world at large.

David Æon Helman

David Æon Helman

Facilitator

David is a Sydney based yoga teacher, tarot & crystal healer and circus performer. David has over 20 years of yoga and mindfulness experience and has been involved in the Sydney kink community for a number of years.

He is the co-creator of Kink Yoga (exclusive to Studio Kink), melding bondage and yoga as a meditative practice to prepare the body & mind for BDSM & Shibari play.

Phil Lynch

Phil Lynch

Facilitator

Phil is in training as Sexological Bodyworker.  His passion is creating open, non-judgemental spaces where queer men can learn new ways of connecting with their bodies and each other.  He aims to bring authenticity, inclusivity and curiosity to his practice, with a healthy dash of irreverent fun.

Phil has assisted with NAKEDMAN retreats, workshops and community events for over five years.

Dabaco Sunset

Dabaco Sunset

Facilitator

Dabaco is an embodiment counsellor and sexuality coach. His goal is to help men connect with their bodies and learn how to heal through felt awareness.

He is a trained counsellor and Yin Yoga teacher. In his spare time he loves to spend time in nature, move in ecstatic dance and plunge into water. Dabaco has been running workshops and co-facilitating retreats for NAKEDMAN for over a year.

Marcus Irvin

Marcus Irvin

Facilitator

Marcus is a former World Aerobic Champion and fitness expert now devotes his focus and energy into all things Sensual Massage. He has studied many massage styles including Swedish, Deep Tissue, Lomi Lomi, Reflexology and Remedial massage and is currently studying to teach Cert 1V in Massage Therapy. Travelling throughout Australia he is a highly sought after Sensual Massage therapist with a unique and evolving massage experience that he is currently turning into an online training tool for both the novice and professional massage therapists.

Frank Bonnici

Frank Bonnici

Facilitator

Frank has been practising yoga for 20 years, and teaching since 2012.
 
Frank teaches a range of yoga styles,  from a strong vinyasa and hatha class,  to the gentleness of slow flow, hatha and yin. He teaches yoga across Melbourne and online.
Damien Wilson

Damien Wilson

Facilitator

With over 15 years experience in mental health support Damien has trained in Polynesian-style bodywork, Zen Thai Shiatsu, Western Tantric style massage and more currently Transpersonal Ceremonial Bodywork and Gestalt Therapy.

Damien is most at home creating safe sacred spaces via counselling, group process or bodywork that allow for greater self awareness, illumination and transformation to unfold.

Jason Laurence

Coordinator

Ryan Peryman

Ryan Peryman

Coordinator

Ryan has attended many mens intimacy workshops around the globe and has a history of facilitating groups. Ryan works full time  in marketing and also offers his skills and experience in sensual massage.

Try one of our workshops

Have a look at our upcoming events to see if there’s something that catches your eye. We look forward to welcoming you!