All Levels - No experience needed, beginners & first timers welcome!
🔥 THIS IS A LIT WORKSHOP: Fire eating requires working with live flame. LET'S GET LIT! 🔥
90min $60 West LA Location off site (address will be given with sign up to workshop)
Always wanted to play with fire? Are you ready to EAT? Get started with this workshop which will cover basic fire safety education and fire eating techniques. Fire eating involves placing a flame into the mouth and extinguishing it safely. Success relies on control, breath management, heat tolerance, and practiced technique which we will cover alongside psychological training to overcome fear reflexes and stay calm in close proximity to flame.
✨ Skills Covered:
- General safety practices including handling fuel, space requirements, extinguishing with a fire safe blanket, and how to communicate while safetying fellow fire peers
- Getting comfortable with flame and safe positions to hold your fire torches
- Basic extinguishing with mouth (The fire "eating" part!): Classic method of putting a lit torch into the mouth and closing the lips around it to snuff the flame.
- Fleshing (Wick-to-Skin)
- Tongue Transfer (Wick-to-Tongue): A lit torch is touched briefly to the moist tongue, then “transferred” to another wick or extinguished.
- Double Wick Transfers: Passing flame between two torches using the mouth—such as “lighting” a second torch from the first inside the mouth.
🔥 Everything you need will be provided! A couple of sets of hollow torches will be available to share, the appropriate fuel, and duvetyne fire safe blanket.
🙏🏼 Please bring torches if you have them, fuel, safety blanket, and a water bottle to rinse your mouth! Other fire props with similar sized wicks are acceptable to practice with such as palm torches or fire fans.
👖 Attire: Natural fabrics such as cotton, jeans, etc are great to practice in. Close toed shoes. Hair should be securely tied back.
💫 Please note, we may not cover every subject listed as safety and proper technique is our first priority as well as respecting each individual's comfort level and pace per skill