Becoming Wilkinson

Send us a textIn Marc's own words:"The practice of Orgasmic Shamanism emerged as a result of exploring Shamanism, somatic movement therapy and tantra.It is also a Mystery school practice. Mainly attributed to the Ancient Greeks and Egyptians, the mystery school is a grueling and process of radical transformation.It is based on awakening the true self by connecting with the greater realms of the unseen, the cosmos.All my workshops, sessions, retreats, trainings all work within a 5-stage framework:Stage 1- Discovery: The discovery that our body is our tool to access great transformation by connecting us to oneness.Stage 2- Initiation: After this discovery, we then find ourselves able to face our demons, our shadow, every area of our life that is seeking resolution.Stage 3- Awakening: This is the awakening of a higher power within. It also involves the realization of the uniqueness of our essence.Stage 4- Embodying: We then embody and harness this higher within ourselves and feel its medicine.Stage 5- Integration: We then embody and harness this higher within ourself and feel its medicine.Today my work is unapologetic, simultaneously subtle and explicit, supportive and radical.I work with men to explore every aspect of their lives. Together, we explore their darkest shadows and most shameful fantasies and learn to make space for their highest gifts to emerge. At times, we sit in the stillness of the eternal void and let the energy transmissions do their job.Everything I do aims to help people connect to their truth by engaging with the oneness within. Whether someone is a beginner, an experienced practitioner, a facilitator in training, or an advanced therapist, this work is about allowing them to be who they truly are; to engage with the flow of life; and to bring forward their highest gifts in the most effortless way possible".For more info or to contact Marc, please visit his website (Must be 18+ years old):https://orgasmicshaman.comPhoto: Copyright Wilkinson/2023Opening and closing music courtesy the very talented Zakhar Valaha via Pixabay.To contact Wilkinson- email him at BecomingWilkinson@gmail.com

Send us a textInteresting Facts About Kevin Phinney:*He has worked across the strata of media and yet so far remains below your radar. *Over the course of his various lifetimes, he has been a drama critic, a boyfriend, fiancé, a husband , morning show radio host, an ex-husband, the creator of a gay advice column called "Ask Daddy" that briefly broke the internet and an entertainment reporter whose interviews range from stage and screen stars to musicians, politicians, news celebrities, and sports heroes. *He's a native of Brooklyn who was raised in El Paso, Texas and graduated from a small college in Austin. *He's  lived in Los Angeles, New Orleans, Seattle and New York City.*These days, he divides his time between NYC and his beloved second home of Austin.*He's currently a resident of Hell's Kitchen, and partnered to Ryan Branom, perhaps the sweetest man on Earth. *He works part time as a Manhattan tour guide and moonlights as a screenwriter. *He is an adult survivor of domestic violence and no longer bats an eye to be hypospadic. *Also being Irish, his favorite drink is the next one. *He is the only man alive who can honestly claim to have been understudy to Sonny Bono in "The Owl and the Pussycat," and to have bought U2's Bono his first margarita. Everything else is all lies, rumor and innuendo.Contact Kevin via Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kevin.phinney.12Photo: Copyright Wilkinson/2023Opening and closing music courtesy the very talented Zakhar Valaha via Pixabay.To contact Wilkinson- email him at BecomingWilkinson@gmail.com

Send us a textFind Micky on his IG:   https://www.instagram.com/luismigueldmc/Photo: Copyright Wilkinson/2023Opening and closing music courtesy the very talented Zakhar Valaha via Pixabay.To contact Wilkinson- email him at BecomingWilkinson@gmail.com

Send us a textSTEWART WADE From a young age, Stewart Wade knew he wanted to tell stories. He performed skits in the backyard for his captive parents and friends, and attempted his first novel at age ten.  A bit later, Stewart tried his hand at poetry, short stories, and playwriting, ultimately getting a Master’s degree in Theater, Film and Television from UCLA.    After a few years in the Hollywood trenches, Stewart wrote and directed his first feature film, Coffee Date, starring Wilson Cruz, Jonathan Silverman,  Sally Kirkland, Elaine Hendrix, Jason Stuart, and Debbie Gibson. The movie garnered numerous awards and received a limited theatrical release, ultimately playing in rotation for a year on MTV's LOGO channel. His next movie, Tru Loved, starred Najarra Townsend and Jake Abel, and featured Jasmine Guy, Alexandra Paul, Alec Mapa, Cynda Williams, Bruce Vilanch, Nichelle Nichols, Vernon Wells -- and Jane Lynch. It also won several awards before playing in rotation on Here!TV for many years.   Next up, Stewart directed and co-produced Such Good People, a screwball comedy written by David Michael Barrett and starring Michael Urie, Randy Harrison, and James Urbaniak, with supporting roles by Scott Wolf, Ana Ortiz, Lance Bass, Alec Mapa, Tom Lenk, Drew Droege, and Rick Overton.   At about this same time, Stewart created Coffee House Chronicles.  This web series is an ongoing passion, as each episode is self-contained and can be produced when time and money allow.Most recently, Stewart has written and directed his first drama, Say Yes, and now the sequel, Baby Steps. Both star Patrick Zeller and Matt Pascua, and are available on Amazon Prime.Contact: Stewartnla@aol.comWeb:  http://www.stewartwadefilms.wordpress.comPhoto: Copyright Wilkinson/2023Opening and closing music courtesy the very talented Zakhar Valaha via Pixabay.To contact Wilkinson- email him at BecomingWilkinson@gmail.com

Send us a textBILLY CLIFTEmmy nominated filmmaker, Billy Clift,  “A Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate Celebrates 50 years”, has created a vast body of work that consists of a wide range of different genres.  Such as the Feature film “Jacked”, on Homeless youth, The short films, “Monty”, Montgomery’s Clift’s last dying day, “No Goodbyes”, a true story about love in a concentration camp, and “Lena’s Dance” ( Dee Wallace). The ridiculous cult comedies, “Baby Jane?” And “Hush Up Sweet Charlotte” (Mink Stole, Varla Jean Merman), realty tv such as “Food Fetish”, “Behind the Bar” and the travel show “Underground”.  Streaming tv shows, (two seasons) “Not So Straight in Silver Lake”, (Daniel Franzaese, Calpernia Adams), “My Sister is So Gay”, (Loni Anderson, Debra Wilson, Ray Dawn Chong) and in post for “The Lair : Hollywood” to be streaming in January 2024. He's created over 40 music video’s of different musical styles…  short form documentaries focusing on people who have made significant contributions to society like Arron Walton, a CEO of a black Public relations firm to Lawyer, Gloria Allred who has been a strong force in underserved rights. He is in post-production for the feature film “Here We Are”, a film on racism during the pandemic, starring Sally Kirkland, Christine Elise, Elizabeth Regan, Wil J. Jackson and Mel England.  He's also in post-production for the documentary “Our Lady in The Kitchen” About a painting that had been stolen by the Nazis, ending up in a household in Silver Lake, California.  Billy is in pre-production with a plethora of different projects, continually striving to push his creativity to find new fresh ways to tell stories. Email Billy:   billyclift@me.comPhoto: Copyright Wilkinson/2023Opening and closing music courtesy the very talented Zakhar Valaha via Pixabay.To contact Wilkinson- email him at BecomingWilkinson@gmail.com

Send us a textJ Craig Fong  is a recovering attorney.  It is not clear whether an attorney ever truly recovers.  A graduate of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, J has been a corporate attorney and a civil rights advocate. J served as the Director of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and also as the Board Chair of Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team in Los Angeles.  In recent decades, J was an immigration attorney with offices in Hollywood, Pasadena, and Palm Springs, focusing primarily on family unification cases and visas.  Currently, he serves as a Commissioner on the Palm Springs International Airport Commission.  He lives in the Cathedral City Cove, with his two cats Benji and Merlin, and with his husband Andrew.Email J at: jcf@fongaquino.comPhoto: Copyright Wilkinson/2023Opening and closing music courtesy the very talented Zakhar Valaha via Pixabay.To contact Wilkinson- email him at BecomingWilkinson@gmail.com

Send us a textCraig Chester is an award winning actor best known for his roles in the movies “Swoon”, ”Grief”, “Frisk”, “Kiss Me, Guido”, “I Shot Andy Warhol” and as the Birkin Bag Guy on “Sex & The City”. He transitioned to a successful career as a television writer when St. Martin’s Press published his memoir, “Why The Long Face? The Adventures of a Truly Independent Actor”, writing and producing three seasons of LOGO’s “Big Gay Sketch Show” and HBO’s smash hit, “True Blood”. He is currently working on a new memoir and “Adam & Steve 55+”, the sequel to 2005’s “Adam & Steve”, which he starred in and also wrote and directed. He lives in Palm Springs, CA. Craig's Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/mrcraigchester/Photo: Copyright Wilkinson/2023Opening and closing music courtesy the very talented Zakhar Valaha via Pixabay.To contact Wilkinson- email him at BecomingWilkinson@gmail.com

Send us a textBENNETT YELLIN Born and raised in Los Angeles, Bennett received his B.A. in fiction from U.C.L.A.  Still not ready to enter the real world, he enrolled at UMass in Amherst for an M.F.A. in fiction. It was there — on the first day of school — that he met and befriended Peter Farrelly. On a lark, they tried writing a comedy together and this spec script ultimately got into the hands of Eddie Murphy and the Zucker Brothers, creators of Airplane and The Naked Gun. Both Murphy and the Zuckers asked the duo to write movies for them, and their career was off and running. Yellin wrote exclusively with Peter for years until they asked his brother Bobby to join them. The three went on to write a number of unproduced features together until they created Dumb and Dumber in 1994 and reunited in 2014 to co-write the official sequel chronicling the further idiotic adventures of Harry and Lloyd, Dumb and Dumber To. In 2007, the Farrelly Brothers branched out on their own and Yellin partnered with James Robert Johnson to create a professional writing duo that has endured for sixteen years. Among the plethora of projects they’ve tackled during their career — some produced, others not — the two have co-written Let’s Scare Jessica to Death for Paramount Pictures, the Fox situation comedy Unhitched, the direct-to-DVD thriller Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead, Paramount Pictures’ Hotel For Dogs 2, the Anchor Bay action-thriller In the Blood with Gina Carano, the 20th Century Fox family film, Santa’s Little Helper, and the Warner Brothers re-boot of the Police Academy series, Police Academy: Takin’ it to the Streets. More recently, Yellin and Johnston have co-written a live action family stage show adaptation of the hugely popular Angry Birds IP, and the two are currently at work creating an original pilot for a new animated show.Bennett's Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/bennett.yellinPhoto: Copyright Wilkinson/2023Opening and closing music courtesy the very talented Zakhar Valaha via Pixabay.To contact Wilkinson- email him at BecomingWilkinson@gmail.com

Send us a textGAMÉLArtist's Statement:"In 2020, I left the tech industry and moved to Palm Springs to pursue my passion for art full-time. During this time of adjustment, I worked on a painting titled  "The Other Side",  which proved to be prophetic. In January 2022 I experienced a personal tragedy when my mother passed away from COVID-19. In spite of this sorrow, I found solace and purpose in my artwork which helped me to cope. My works are unique in their use of color, space and materials, drawing on influences from the Renaissance period as well as 60's Pop Art and 21st Century design. The themes explored in these pieces reflect my struggles with life experience and strive for self-alteration. My works often combine hyperreal painting with a variety of materials such as acrylic, oil, steel, wood, transparent resin and Plexiglass to create an immersive viewing experience for the viewer.By August of 2022 I opened my own gallery in Palm Springs where I exhibit these pieces. In my continual pursuit of self-expression, knowledge and experiences, I am constantly challenging myself to create pieces that are distinctively my own. My aim is to produce artwork that tells a story of resilience and what it means to be human, ultimately striving to evoke an atmosphere of eternal search or hunger for meaning. Through this work I have found healing in the midst of tragedy and hope in spite of life’s struggles. I believe that art is a powerful form of communication and I strive to create pieces that are both informed and individualized, reflecting the depths of my soul for all to witness. My journey continues with each canvas and every brushstroke as I work towards a brighter future. Thank you for joining me in this exploration".                                                                                                 Gamél/Palm Springs, CA/September 2023Web:  https://www.jongamelart.comInstagram:  https://www.instagram.com/jongamelart/email: jon@jongamel.comPhoto: Copyright Wilkinson/2023Opening and closing music courtesy the very talented Zakhar Valaha via Pixabay.To contact Wilkinson- email him at BecomingWilkinson@gmail.com

Send us a textCherlyn Lanning, costume designer:With over 30 years experience dressing the stars as a Costume Designer in Hollywood, Cherlyn Lanning has stories!She has worked in the film industry for 32 years. She began her career at Western Costume (the world’s largest costume house). Her mentor was costume designer Theadora Van Runkle, (the most notable costume designer of the 21 century) who taught her illustration, costume design and construction.  Over the years, she has worked with well-known actresses such as Faye runaway, Shirley McClain and Debra Winger.  Cherlyn worked on many films such as “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “Little Women” and “Ed Wood”.  Now living in the Coachella Valley, she is the Costume Designer for The Bent Theatre in Palm Springs.Photo: Copyright Wilkinson/2023Opening and closing music courtesy the very talented Zakhar Valaha via Pixabay.To contact Wilkinson- email him at BecomingWilkinson@gmail.com