The Gospel

Loss of touch is the great, silent ache of the digital age.

More and more we live on screens,

feeding our eyes….

….while our bodies starve and our senses whither.

Our souls whisper their displeasure back to us in the form of sadness, anxiety, and even anger. 

We evolved for tens of thousands of years in concert with each other through eye contact, close proximity, and physical touch.

This is hard wired into our evolutionary selves.

These days, we ignore the lovely friction of being around other humans and save our eye contact for the one-way gaze of screens.

We caress our phones day and night, but less and less each other. 

Outside of relationships, touch is now relegated to empty hookup apps, and industrial massage therapy, where there is no soul, artistry, or true connection. 

When was the last time touch moved you, like a great piece of music or a painting?

Or gave you some glimpse of who you really are beyond the layers of deflection and repression you carry around? 

We are dancing with the edge of our sanity by experiencing our world and each other through a screen, rather than through physical touch and via the textured multiplicity of our senses developed over centuries in concert with nature.

What a waste of all that we are, and what we can be. 

Ten years ago, we could see all of this, and so set out on a different path.

We began incubating a hidden world of long form touch, intimate conversations, and storytelling on the body. We did so with slowness, quiet, eye contact, and conscious intent.

We started to initiate people into contemplation, gentle pleasure, and soft beauty…

…so they could feel both deeply alive and sacredly connected to all things. 

This required a precise mix of methods and magic in each case, but once done, lead to new vistas and ways of feeling beyond the mind’s tight grip. 

In fact, deep touch leads people out of straight lines and isolation and into concentric circles of connection and relationship in all directions. 

It is the direct antidote to the separate and fragmentary reality of social media and phone addiction that we now live in.

Eventually we took all of our instincts and experimentations and created The Knead System, a process of self-discovery through touch designed to bring you skills and sensitivities that allow for a deeper story.

We welcome you to join our world in whatever form you arrive.