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BlackBox is here to guide you through this world of concepts and practices that promote power, play, connection, and creativity with our flavor and lens. We found this place and love what we've found here, we want you to experience too.
Named after the so called "Black Box" on airplanes, that are looked to when we seek true answers in difficult times. We too strive to present you with information that can lead us all to our deepest truths.
Eros Fundamentals
Delve deep into the foundational principles of Eros, understanding its historical, cultural, and practical significance. By the end of this module, you’ll have a clear grasp of the core ideas that drive Erotic thinking and its potential to reshape societies.
“I believe that we can change the world if we start listening to one another again.”
—Audrey Lorde
Upcoming Events
What's New
This Month
Upcoming Events in October
BlackBox presents at Free Food: Jay Davis
A gang retaliation prevention specialist
At age 16 Jay Davis joined a gang, the Bloods, eventually becoming the head of his own chapter with 450 under his leadership. After realizing his own impact, he chose to become a role-model for communication, understanding and responsibility by embracing, not denouncing. He’ll be speaking to his experience running the streets as a lifelong Harlem resident.
WOC Women Over Dinner LA
Los Angeles | 10/22
Women Over Dinner offers an insightful, just-edgy-enough guide to topics ripe for exploration: power, sexuality, and how both affect everything we see and experience in the world. And in this dinner in particular, the power, the sensuality of women of color, the conversations perhaps that are harder to have in mixed company.
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Meditation
New York | 10/12
Join the BlackBox team at the Black Tara Center for our monthly mediation series where we practice the various expressions of meditations - from sitting in stillness to stillness in motion to stillness inside of sound, we welcome whatever brings you to that place of flow
Register for the EventJoin the BlackBox team at the Black Tara Center for our monthly mediation series where we practice the various expressions of meditations - from sitting in stillness to stillness in motion to stillness inside of sound, we welcome whatever brings you to that place of flow
A Talk with Jay Davis, Gang Retaliation Prevention Specialist
At age 16 Jay Davis joined a gang, the Bloods, eventually becoming the head of his own chapter with 450 under his leadership. After realizing his own impact, he chose to become a role-model for communication, understanding and responsibility by embracing, not denouncing. He’ll be speaking to his experience running the streets as a lifelong Harlem resident.
Coming Soon
Art of Play Online
Eros Platform| 10/12
In the Art of Play, we learn to make the hidden transparent and to give it expression in words. In the Art of Play, we discover the rules of the Erotic player, where the only goal is to extend the play and to play in such a way that delivers the most sensation.
Meditation
New York | 10/12
Join the BlackBox team at the Black Tara Center for our monthly mediation series where we practice the various expressions of meditations – from sitting in stillness to stillness in motion to stillness inside of sound, we welcome whatever brings you to that place of flow.
Coming Soon.
WOC Women Over Dinner LA
Los Angeles | 10/22
Los Angeles | 10/22
Women Over Dinner offers an insightful, just-edgy-enough guide to topics ripe for exploration: power, sexuality, and how both affect everything we see and experience in the world. And in this dinner in particular, the power, the sensuality of women of color, the conversations perhaps that are harder to have in mixed company.
Eros Sutra Study Online
Eros Platform | 10/12
Join the BlackBox team at the Black Tara Center for our monthly mediation series where we practice the various expressions of meditations – from sitting in stillness to stillness in motion to stillness inside of sound, we welcome whatever brings you to that place of flow.
What Is OM
New York | 10/12
Eros Platform (Online) | 10/19
Eros Platform (Online) | 10/19
What if there was a way to use the most powerful human drive—the sex impulse—for more than pleasure or procreation? What if a method had been created to harness that incredible power and direct it towards growth and unconditional freedom? What if one day could change the way you see woman’s power forever? Find out about what thousands of people have experienced and what leading neuroscientists are saying about this groundbreaking practice in the half-day “What Is OM” workshop, taught both in-person in NY and LA and online.
Women Over Dinner Harlem
Harlem, NY | 10/25 at 6p
Harlem, NY | 10/25 at 6p
Women Over Dinner offers an insightful, just-edgy-enough guide to topics ripe for exploration: power, sexuality, and how both affect everything we see and experience in the world. And in this dinner in particular, the power, the sensuality of women of color, the conversations perhaps that are harder to have in mixed company.
Outside the Box
Black Power
A Look into Our Recent Campaigns
We Are Resilient
A campaign exploring the question "How are we resilient?"
Jay Davis
Interview with Jay, gang retaliation prevention specialist
The BlackBox Project
A short documentary exploring the BlackBox project
Dr. Topeka J. Sam
Interview with Ladies of Hope Ministries Founder Topeka K. Sam
Three-session Package ($545 $270)
Get everything you need to start an OM practice. Our signature OM training package includes access to a large archive of content and three, hour-long sessions with your coach.
- Session 1. The Philosophy of Orgasmic Meditation
Your coach gets to know you and breaks down the OM practice, going into the basic philosophy of OM and how it’s done - Session 2. The Steps to OM
Your coach goes through the steps of OM with you in detail, answering questions along the way and sharing personal stories from their own practice to illustrate what to expect from OM. - Session 3. Momentum and Consistency in Your Practice
Digest and discuss your first OM with your coach, or you can explore how to find an OM partner.
Eros Fundamentals
Delve deep into the foundational principles of Eros, understanding its historical, cultural, and practical significance. By the end of this module, you’ll have a clear grasp of the core ideas that drive Erotic thinking and its potential to reshape societies.
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Watch the Throne
Reclaiming Black Power, Beauty and Nobility
Watch the Throne speaks to all black Americans to offer up this provocative suggestion: Black people and Black culture already hold the power we keep seeking to get from the government, from dominant culture, from the accumulation of material goods.
Author Courtney Walker
Three-session Package ($545 $270)
Get everything you need to start an OM practice. Our signature OM training package includes access to a large archive of content and three, hour-long sessions with your coach.
- Session 1. The Philosophy of Orgasmic Meditation
Your coach gets to know you and breaks down the OM practice, going into the basic philosophy of OM and how it’s done - Session 2. The Steps to OM
Your coach goes through the steps of OM with you in detail, answering questions along the way and sharing personal stories from their own practice to illustrate what to expect from OM. - Session 3. Momentum and Consistency in Your Practice
Digest and discuss your first OM with your coach, or you can explore how to find an OM partner.
Eros Fundamentals
Delve deep into the foundational principles of Eros, understanding its historical, cultural, and practical significance. By the end of this module, you’ll have a clear grasp of the core ideas that drive Erotic thinking and its potential to reshape societies.
Behind the Box
Meet the Crew
Meet the face of BlackBox
Courtney Walker, Co-Founder
Courtney Walker searched for a sense of freedom and truth from a young age. The search took her to many different cultures, food, spirituality, travel and what the body and mind can do through different practices. And they all led to Eros. She aims to bring the erotic to all in whatever realm she touches, from Women Over Dinner, to talks and teaching on the Eros Platform or through BlackBox. Throughout each location, the provocation suggestion she offers is the same: we already hold the, inestimable (in women in particular) power we continuously seek to get from outside of ourselves.
She is currently completing her first book, Watch the Throne: Reclaiming Black Power, Beauty and Nobility. The book speaks to all black Americans to offer up this provocative suggestion: Black people and Black culture already hold the power we keep seeking to get from the government, from dominant culture, from the accumulation of material goods.
Matt Sherman, Co-Founder
Matt Sherman has a dynamic background including careers in Higher Education with City University of New York, fine arts, media, and entrepreneurial ventures. He enjoys bringing these passions together to teach, write, and curate experiences that focus on connecting people to their purpose and inherent value. Currently Matt is focused on facilitating material developed by the Unconditional Freedom Program, from BlackBox to the Art of Soulmaking, adding his flavor of experiential learning and focusing on building a community that experiences flourishing. Whether managing a Non-Profit Food program, or with the at-risk and returning citizens, he’s committed to creating conditions that give access to their genius.
Three-session Package ($545 $270)
Get everything you need to start an OM practice. Our signature OM training package includes access to a large archive of content and three, hour-long sessions with your coach.
- Session 1. The Philosophy of Orgasmic Meditation
Your coach gets to know you and breaks down the OM practice, going into the basic philosophy of OM and how it’s done - Session 2. The Steps to OM
Your coach goes through the steps of OM with you in detail, answering questions along the way and sharing personal stories from their own practice to illustrate what to expect from OM. - Session 3. Momentum and Consistency in Your Practice
Digest and discuss your first OM with your coach, or you can explore how to find an OM partner.
Eros Fundamentals
Delve deep into the foundational principles of Eros, understanding its historical, cultural, and practical significance. By the end of this module, you’ll have a clear grasp of the core ideas that drive Erotic thinking and its potential to reshape societies.
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