We begin by building our foundation. Connect with the pleasure that is already present in your life, your body, and the earth.

This first stage of the journey is to remember that we are an extension of earth; that we belong. It is to remember that we are inherently worthy of pleasure, orgasm, connection, and love.

It is to awaken to the possibility that Earth also longs for our being. It is to come home to Earth as the greatest teacher of the Erotic, and our greatest resource for support.

We cannot liberate our orgasmic and sensual potential without first addressing the systems and players that have caged it.

In phase 2, we deconstruct the internalized belief systems that lead to sexual shame & shadow. We alchemize anger, sorrow and grief. We reframe, redefine and reclaim sexuality and the erotic on our own terms, free of hetero-patriarchal constrictions.

We work with the protective parts of our psyches that keep us small, because we are ready to say yes to a bigger version of ourselves and our sexuality.

This week, we practice accessing the many forms of pleasure: sexual, physical or sensual, emotional, and spiritual.

Here, we increase our capacity to receive pleasure. What that means is that so many of us cannot actually tolerate the full capacity of our pleasure; we shut down after a certain period of time, or after a certain threshold of pleasure is reached. It is time to expand what we thought was possible.

This is where the homework gets really...well... pleasurable. We will engage in self-pleasure practices, movement practices and more to use throughout the rest of the course!

Sensuality is our ability to be in active relationship with the senses. on one level, our sensuality is our capacity to really receive the world through our sensory pathways.

However, on a deeper level, our sensuality is to be in a reciprocal relationship with our sensory experience. It is to not only receive sensation, but to respond to it. It is our capacity to hold sensation, and then to express through sound, movement, action, etc as a response.

Sensuality goes beyond receiving information, and asks us to be in an embodied conversation with the world that we are in contact with.

This is how it becomes truly erotic: we say yes to the sensations we want, and respond to it. In doing so, we honor our relationship with life because when we are in our sensuality, we are no longer passive, but active players in our own story.

This week is not about being desirable; it is about strengthening your relationship with your desires and longings. Everything changes when the energy shifts from trying to be desired to identifying your desire.

This isn't about getting everything you want, either. Nor is it about endlessly chasing your desires, only to find yourself on a hamster wheel of never being satisfied.

It is about seeing desire as a roadmap to the biggest version of ourselves.

It is about our relationship with desire itself, allowing the inquiry to guide us beyond surface-level wants and into the river of our deepest longings in this life.

In our final week together, we bring it all together in an integrative exploration of primal eros.

Here, we learn how to stay connected with our authenticity and eroticism moving forward. Here, we experience the liberation of our sexuality, our eroticism, and our dance with life.