Here's info about upcoming events I'm hosting, attending, or collaborating on with other folks! 

2025

June

6/11-6/29/25: Ashley in California

July

August

8/27-8/31/25: East Coast Tantra Festival, Earthdance Retreat Center, MA Buy tickets here.

September

9/27-10/4/25: Desire Cruise Athens-Rome, Europe Reserve Your Spot

October

November

December

2026

January

1/3-1/10/26: Naughty Gym's Third Annual Be Better at Being Bad Week, Hedonism II in Negril, Jamaica

If you can't make any of these, be sure to check out my online courses at Elevated Intimacy Academy or subscribe to my Substack ...So That Happened.

Looking for a specific event? Notice that I'm coming to your town and want to schedule something while I'm there? Do you have a retreat or run a resort that would benefit from my workshops? I'm scheduling new events all the time! Email me with your requests for facilitation!

Cannabis focused dating is very in right now. There are 21 million Google hits for “cannabis and dating,” cannabis-friendly dating services are offered by coaches like Molly Peckler, and if you’re technologically inclined — there’s an app for that. Several, in fact.

In the age of cell phones, it makes sense that singles would want a streamlined way to find prospective partners with similar interests. If you’re a cannabis consumer and you’ve ever dated someone who wasn’t, you’re familiar with the occasional frustration of navigating that interaction. It makes sense that one might want to find a partner with whom they can share their herbal indulgences.

To see whether they live up to the hype, I tried out three cannabis dating apps: High There, 420 Singles, and 420 Friends. I’ve been sporadically on Tinder for a couple years now, so that was my main basis for comparison.

I love stoners. I love stoners the way I love cat people - they just get me. One common thread I've found among stoners is there seems to be a series of unwritten rules, a code of conduct, stoners just kind of understand. The following are my personal rules I've adopted and observed. What are some of yours?

I moved to California in August 2013 and I got my medical marijuana card in March 2014. I have chronic migraines so I meet the state requirements for a MMJ card. I promptly found a dispensary and started trying strains. Being born and raised on the East Coast, where the only options were "weed" or "no weed," I was excited to get my hands on some renowned California cannabis. 

Ashley Manta, ABS-certified sexologist, is an award-winning intimacy educator and the strategist high-achieving women and couples call when success in the boardroom hasn’t yet translated to passion in the bedroom. For almost two decades she has helped clients rekindle desire, negotiate ethical non-monogamy with confidence, and turn relational tension into shared growth.

Grounded in Internal Family Systems, trauma-informed somatics, and evidence-based sexology, Ashley’s private coaching weaves structured communication playbooks with embodied practices that shows progress between sessions. Her Relational Fluency™ framework pinpoints and calms the parts that sabotage connection, builds consent-driven erotic skills, and installs rituals that keep intimacy effortless under demanding schedules.

She is the author of The CBD Solution: Sex  (Chronicle Books × Merry Jane, 2020) and trained as a Bodysex® facilitator under pleasure visionary Dr. Betty Dodson. Ashley founded Activating Your Cosmic Pussy—a transformational sisterhood for pleasure, power, and embodied awakening—and regularly leads online intensives and retreats. Her speaking résumé includes SXSW, AASECT, and the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Summit, along with guest lectures at universities nationwide. (View her full Media Page here.)

Holding a B.A. in Philosophy, graduate work toward an M.A., and certifications in Bodysex® facilitation and consulting hypnosis, she now works virtually from Austin with clients across North America and beyond. Think of her as an intimacy biohacker: she calibrates nervous systems, sharpens communication loops, and installs rituals that stick.

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Welcome! I'm Ashley Manta, ABS, a certified sexologist and award winning pleasure & intimacy coach. I am the creator of CannaSexual®. 

I'm available via Zoom for individual or couples coaching I am also able to travel to speak or create presentations for resorts, colleges, bachelorette parties, sex shops, or events. My mission is to help people have joyful, empowered sex lives! Check out my Substack to get some insight into my work and please email if you're interested in learning more about what I do!

If you've always wanted to work with me but couldn't make it out to one of my in-person workshops, I'm excited to announce that I've created a series of workshops through my online learning portal, Elevated Intimacy Academy! Click the link below to download my free Dirty Talk Quick Start Guide!