Welcome back. – Nowadays you can make anything into a profession, like professional pet therapist or a professional pet couples therapist or professional pet couples therapist therapist. But there’s something I never thought could be turned into a profession and that is professional cuddling. – Yes, professional cuddling is a service where you can pay someone to cuddle with you for therapeutic benefits. And today, we are going to be taught the ways of the cuddle by a professional cuddler. Yes, let’s get her done! I can’t stop, to the cuddle zone! – We are joined in the cuddle zone by cuddling expert and founder of the cuddle sanctuary, Jean Franzblau. – Hello. – Jean, what happens at the cuddle sanctuary? – So we’re a group of cuddle event leaders and professional cuddlers, and we help people to have fun, connect, but also boost their health. – And you have invented specific cuddle poses, right? – Yes, in our industry we have to talk about poses otherwise we don’t know what we’re talking about. Poses. – Okay, we want you to teach us some of these poses. – Poses opposed to positions. – Well, different words. – Oh okay, let’s keep using the word pose. – Let’s go with poses. – Since we’re gonna be doing these together. So we’re gonna game-ify this a little bit. You’re gonna tell us the name of one of your poses, but you’re not gonna tell us how to do it. And it’s based on the name alone. We’re going to configure ourselves into that cuddle pose. – We’re gonna cuddle some. – And then once we feel like we’ve got it we will tell you we’ve got it, and then you let us know if we’re right by showing us the actual cuddle pose. – Okay, good luck. Are you ready? – Yes, what is it called? – The first pose is called the Baby Bear. – The Baby Bear. – [Jean] The Baby Bear. – We gotta make a decision, who’s gonna be the baby bear? – Who’s gonna be the mama bear? – Well it could be the daddy bear, you don’t know. – Mama bear, baby bear. – I think it would be more convincing if you’re the baby bear. – Okay. Well, I know that baby bears nurse mama bears. (laughing) – Where do you wanna nurse me though? – Don’t, just close your legs. – Oh, why are you getting on that side? You should be nursing me this way? – [Link] I don’t know if, well, I don’t know man. – Nurse me however you want, man. I’m just a mama bear, I’m just minding my own mama business. But I feel like I have to give you something. – I think I’m just like– – Whoa, whoa, hey, hey! I don’t think the head would get this close to this region, just from a professional standpoint. Definitely not the first one. – Well, what do you think? – I got nipples man, just nurse me. – Oh, but that’s not wear bear nipples are. Bear nipples are– – Bear nipples are down here, so just place your head right here– – Is this your final pose? – This is it. – Like that, that is an excellent pose that is not baby bear. – [Link] Oh, there’s a baby bear in front of us, being straddled by– – So one of them is me, and I was the baby bear. And Fay, my colleague was the mama bear. This is it, and maybe a caress or maybe a hug or squeeze. With consent, all right, so that is baby bear. – Okay, what’s the next one? – So the next one is more advanced. – Ooh. – Uh-oh. – It’s called the pretzel. – Oh there’s gotta be a lot of intertwining. – The pretzel. – I think it might be legs to legs. How can we get as tangled up as possible? That’s really, just– – I don’t want to face you. – Why not? Just be more comfortable with is, man, it’s like, let’s just get. – Okay. – And then arms– – Again, these are like wrestling moves. – Right. – Create like two holes. And I’ll just come through ’em. And then we’re gonna lay like– – So a lot of people come to Cuddle Sanctuary because it’s enjoyable and relaxing, so are you feeling enjoyment and relaxation. – Yes. – I feel good, I’m stretching a little bit. – All right, then this the pose, it sounds like this is your final– – This is our pretzel. – It’s absolutely not the pretzel. – [Link] Okay. Oh, what, hold on, whoa, whoa, whoa. I can’t tell who’s head goes who’s body. – So I’m gonna guide you through it. So, one of you is sitting up. – You be the sit up guy for this time. I wanna be the baby bear– – Okay, and have your back sort of, yeah, there you go. – All right, so– – The other party is facing so, if I were about to go into it, I would be facing, so your legs are facing this way, get, stand up, stand up. – Stand up? – Your legs are straight, straight, straight, straight. And together, there you go. Okay, now, you’re gonna have a seat with one leg behind, and one leg in front, ’cause you’re gonna hug your buddy with all of your limbs. – Oh you want, I want to be in the back. – It’s gonna be great for you. – Oh– (audience laughing) – One leg behind. Have a seat, no, put your butt over there. Butt over there– – Get your butt over– – You’re sideways, you’re sideways. This leg’s in front, you’re sideways, give each other a hug, turn your body this way. Hug, hugging, the pretzel, ladies and gentleman. (mumbles) is it comfortable? – It takes some gettin’ used to. – I’m sure we’ll get better at it. – All right, what’s next? – The final pose is actually a beginner pose. – Good. – It is called, the zipper. – Well we got zippers on these onesies. I’m not lettin’ you in. – I’ve got a whole zipper back here that flaps this whole part down. – Not the zipper, yeah. – The zipper. – To me it would be something where you were like– – I’m thinking if you have one person who’s like this being zipped. – I think you’re two halves of a zipper. – Oh yes. – So I think you would be like facing each other and all your limbs would be like the pieces of the zipper. – [Link] Open your legs. – Interestingly, I call this position pasta, but it is not the zipper. – Oh you didn’t say pasta? – I did not. So the zipper is you’re lying on your backs like that picture. – [Link] I was closer at first. – I recommend for your comfort you each have a pillow. And then arms are linked with consent. Check in with each other, is it okay if we link arm. – May we link arms? – Excellent, and then one person’s leg is over the other with consent, but looks like you’re good to go. And if you can envision like 10 people doing this, it would be like, oh they’re arms are like a zipper. – Oh, like just a whole row. – Correct. – That happens at the Cuddle Sanctuary? – Yeah, we’re friends. – Well, Jean thanks for teaching us these cuddle poses. I can’t say we’re going to apply them together, we will talk to our wives about that. – Okay. – No actually, we are going to apply them right now. Make sure to click through for the next part of this episode, we are going to put what we’ve learned to the ultimate test, cuddling in a bed of cockroaches. Our new GMM poster is now available at mythical.store and it’s a hot one.