week 1

Lay of the Land

In our first gathering we will orient and land together as we map the overview of our 6-weeks together, and become familiar with the anatomy of the pelvic bowl and our relationship to it, as the space we will be exploring. We will do a practice called flower gazing 💐 incorporating flowers, the eyes and the body. This will be a gentle opening of our immersion, with space to introduce ourselves, meet one another and hear each other.

Week 2

Your Nervous
System + Pleasure

Next, we will begin to move into the land of the autonomic nervous system, the place where our below conscious perceptions take place, the interface between our bodies and our minds. We will learn about Daniel Siegel’s Window of Tolerance, and you will make a map of your unique nervous system based on the principles of Polyvagal Theory. We will learn self-regulation tools that will be useful as continue our practice together.

We will bring the nervous system component into the body through exploring the breath and the reciprocal relationship between the pelvic diaphragm (floor) and the respiratory diaphragm. We will discuss common nervous system responses such as appease (fawning), freeze and dissociation. We will learn how to work with our sexual excitement and inhibition systems.

week 3

Desire & Head-
Heart-Womb
Coherence

Now that we’ve got a nice base, we will dance into the realm of desire. What does desire feel like in the body? What is our capacity for own sense of desire? What comes up around desire? Do we have permission to desire? Do we feel urgency or stress around desire? How about in getting to say yes when we mean yes, and no when we mean no. What happens there? We will get to experience the nuances of yes and no, in-the-body. We will explore the dynamics of giving and receiving, rooted in embodied consent. We will lean into lines of connection, through the head-heart-belly.

week 4

Boundaries &
Containment

As we cozy up with our felt sense of desire, yes, and no, from the body’s perspective, we are going to need a sense of our own containment (what we feel held by) and our boundaries. We will somatically explore our nervous system’s response to speaking our truth, and we will bring this into the body even further through exploring the mirrored relationship of the jaw and the hips, and find ground in the supportive connection between our feet and the ground.

You will come away from this session with a deeper understanding of the sympathetic branch of your nervous system, and a helpful sense of what supports your capacity to put your own truth at center, ultimately becoming that container which allows your softness and sensuality to flow.

week 5

Embodied
Pleasure &
Self-Intimacy

Safety is the prerequisite for play, and play is the prerequisite for pleasure. Now that we’ve hopefully got a sense of what happens for us when we are triggered, and what works to bring us back to center, we get to safely explore our relationship to the body as a place of pleasure, creativity and life. You will be introduced to sensual self care practices including mirror work, vulva gazing, breast massage and pelvic mapping. You will be encouraged to go at your own pace with all of these practices, you get to choose if you’d like to dip a toe in, take a dive, or something in-between.

week 6

Creativity &
Expression

Ultimately, erotic energy is creative energy. We are artists and our lives are our art. Our sensuous, electric, radiant bodies get to be a part of this experience and it does get to feel good. The quality of our relationship to ourselves is the quality of our relationship to life. In our final session together, we will lean into integration, through reflection, journaling, creativity and movement, to feel into how you want to weave what you’ve learned about yourself and your sensual energy into your life.

Registration

Enrollment for the 2024 Summer Session is now closed. To be the first to hear when the next group immersion begins, be sure to join the waitlist!