Olga Loresh
Practising aesthetician, fifteen years in the profession. Author and teacher of MAGIA, her own patented technique, licensed as a franchise. More than 500 students trained in Ukraine and across Europe. She holds a range of bodily, energetic and transformational techniques, and is a certified facilitator of Access Bars and Access FaceLift. Author of the Sex&Money transformational game.
A minute, in her own words.
Subtitled, and spoken in Olga's own voice — synthesised for each language, so the same words exist in English, Russian and Ukrainian. Everything she says here is written out below.
Four thousand bodies, and one thing they kept saying.
In fifteen years of practice I have put my hands on something close to four thousand bodies. And I noticed what nobody in my profession talks about.
A woman lies down on the couch and cannot unclench her jaw. Or her hips. Or breathes only into the top of her chest, as though she was never given permission to take up room. And almost always the same woman, asked about her work, says: well, I don't charge much.
It is not a coincidence. I have watched it happen hundreds of times. A body that was forbidden to want does not know how to ask — not for pleasure, and not for money. So I made a game about both at once, because they are the same thing.
Three hours, one board, two currencies, and the questions people never ask themselves out loud. If that sounds like the people who sit across from you, play it once — then decide whether you want to lead it yourself.
You cannot receive what you are ashamed to want.
Where the authority comes from.
Not from a theory of money. From fifteen years of hands-on practice, a technique that holds a patent, and the competition results that let her teach it.
- Fifteen years in practice Aesthetician and bodywork practitioner, still seeing clients.
- MAGIA — a patented technique Her own method, registered in her name and sold to other practitioners as a franchise.
- 500+ students Trained in Ukraine and across Europe, several of whom have gone on to win international competitions with her as their coach.
- Massage SPA Talante Italy First place, International Professional category, among sixty masters.
- Eurasian championship Bronze medal, facial massage.
- European championship Silver medal, tandem massage.
- Access Bars and Access FaceLift Certified facilitator in both.
- Sex&Money Author of the game, its nine decks and its two-currency economy; she certifies every facilitator herself.
In the past year alone Olga has run more than fifty games herself, for over a hundred people — and not one of them has come back with a complaint about the game.
Not a pretty board. An instrument that had to work.
Anyone can print a circle and write questions on cards. This one was built for a specific job: to give a practitioner a three-hour session she can sell — with an arc that holds, an economy that says something about the player, and an ending that does not leave anyone opened up and unattended.
That is why the two-currency economy, the order of the sectors and the rule about the die were argued through before anything went to print, alongside Dariia Bashtannyk, who builds transformational games professionally. The difference between a working instrument and a nicely printed evening is exactly there — in whether the method underneath survives contact with a real table.
"A game without hard methodology is only a stack of printing."
At the transformational games festival in Kyiv Sex&Money came out the bestseller of the event. It will be shown again at the larger festival this October.
Three rules the game is built on.
The body keeps the ledger
Permission in desire and permission to earn come out of one energy. Improve one and the other shifts by itself — which is why the board has two hemispheres and one centre.
Chance decides
Nobody chooses their sector, and the facilitator chooses nothing either. A die asks the hardest question of the evening, and a die cannot be argued with.
Lived, or only understood
The game pays for what was honestly done in the body and charges for what stayed theory. That distinction is the entire method in one rule.