The Power Of Joy.
In my own healing journey I have spent years doing important unwinding and repatterining work, making changes in how I eat, sleep, organize my work life, and move my body. I did this based off of books, articles, and the advice of my medical care team. I was often spending my nights reading articles about the harmful effects of this or that, and trying to see how I could adjust my life in response to this information.
When I discovered Somatic Sex Education and started mobilizing the practices that inform the modality, I realized I had stumbled upon a very powerful ingredient that would completely transform how I understand healing, and how I would steward my experience of life.
That is, that instead of always reacting or responding to what I’m afraid of - the health impacts of X or Y, the relational challenges I was facing, the work stress I was experiencing - I could instead choose to choose pleasure and joy. This was a *complete* game changer.
When we mobilize pleasure, we are mobilizing powerful chemicals in our bodies that offer a multitude of healing effects that often outstrip antidepressants and other pharmaceuticals. We are repatterining our neurology as we practice - literally changing the way we think. We are also doing the work of social change - systems are literally woven into each of us as individuals, and we can create systemic change by creating personal change.
And, studies have shown that when we have a guiding star to orient our actions towards, we will feel greater satisfaction, efficiency, and experience more of the change that we desire. When we simply try to just avoid ‘the bad stuff’, we lack clarity, direction, a deeper purpose, and a balm for collapse or despair.
I am excited to be co-facilitating an upcoming somatic workshop on this topic called Weaving Collective Joy, with The Body Erotic. We will be diving into a rich 2.5hr somatic journey with fellow pleasure seekers and curious souls, exploring they joys woven within the body, and within the wider world. I hope you’ll join us! More information coming soon, or DM me for details!