Slow Pleasure is a return to the body as our home.
This will be a short, potent rewiring into the depths pleasure available within you. You will be guided through simple yet powerful practices into embodied pleasure, nervous system regulation with eros, and the capacity to feel really nourished by your own well of aliveness.
In a time of instant gratification and endless dopamine chasing, there is a huge gift in learning to be overflowed and satiated with our own touch and presence. We all know what it's like to move through the world with subtle or overt speed, bracing, grasping and distraction, where we seek endless pleasure through intensity, novelty and external gratification.
The more reliant we become on these fast forms of pleasure, the less we can feel satisfied with subtler forms of sensation and intimacy.
Slow Pleasure offers a space to slow down and rediscover pleasure that increases through breath, touch and awareness.
These 4 weeks will include 4 live calls and the option to watch the replays as many times as you like, as well as 2 shorter practices that you can put on morning, afternoon or evening when you feel yourself chasing something ‘out there’ and feeling cut off from our own bodies.
We will focusing on restoring a receptive relationship with the body, one that continues to feed itself so that we can nurture a fulfilling relationship to ourselves. The more full we can feel within ourselves, the less we need to chase things externally, which, as we know, ultimately leave us feeling dissatisfied and depleted.
This is the foundation of my work of embodiment as the balm for addiction.
These practices are designed to:
support nervous system regulation and embodied presence
cultivate pleasure without urgency or adrenaline
develop sensitivity to subtle sensation and inner messages
reduce reliance on fast, cheap dopamine and loosen the hold of addictive tendencies
strengthen agency over attention, desire and impulse
Why do this together?
Practicing in a group field enhances regulation, focus and depth. We literally hold one another in presence and that's why most of us experience much deeper, meditative states in groups. This will be a contained, supportive environment that helps distractions to be less loud with an increased capacity to stay with yourself. You will most likely enter into deeper states that will then be more easy to enter when you practice alone after the course.
This work is available to anyone who wants to learn new practices and tools or who wants to reconnect with their practice and receive the gifts of being held in a devoted group container for a month.
Details
4 live sessions online via Zoom
Monday evenings 8-8:45pm UK / 12 noon Pacific / 7am Sydney
Replays available
Access to shorter pre-recorded meditations
£55