Bodyjoy Women’s Workshop & Suggested Viewing
Last month, eleven brave souls sat together for one weekend in deep winter to explore their relationship to their pleasure, sexuality, and bodies. I am always deeply humbled, honoured, and amazed to be a part of these small, yet powerful healing communities.
I have come to know deep in my bones that sharing, holding, and witnessing sacred space that honours choice, voice, deep listening, safety, diversity, and care of the circle can create change at the deepest level.
If you feel called to explore your own relationship with eros, your body, and your pleasure, I am announcing another Women’s Bodyjoy workshop in Toronto’s west end April 27-28, 2019 – details are below.
I end this article with a suggestion to watch Peggy Orenstein’s TED talk, “What Young Women Believe About Their Sexual Pleasure”. Her talk discusses the term “intimate justice” and its relation to women’s pleasure empowerment.
New Workshop Announcement:
I’m announcing details about my next Bodyjoy Women’s Sexuality and Pleasure workshop taking place Saturday/Sunday April 27-28, 2019 from 9:00 am – 6:00 pm in Toronto’s west end neighbourhood of Roncesvalles.
This workshop is an invitation to gather in community with other women and ask, what would it be like to embrace and celebrate your body and sexuality?
We will explore all of these questions through a series of conversations, exercises, art projects, movement activities, and journaling in a safe, non-judgmental space. The power of group can be a catalyst for change, healing, and growth, helping you feel less alone in your struggles.
Many people have found this workshop to be life-changing. Reclaiming the gift of pleasure, sensuality, and erotic wellness is a process that can influence every aspect of your life. You will come away with a greater connection to yourself and your relationship to pleasure – how it informs how you feel about yourself, others, the earth, and the world.
In the words of one past participant,
“I felt safe, heard and seen by all the women, it all came natural, everything we discussed was relevant, I am taking so much away. I feel like for the first time in a long time I felt myself, real, open to sharing and taking space and being myself.”
More details about the workshop, including feedback from past participants, can be found on my website. If you have any specific questions about the workshop, please feel free to contact me.
Suggested Viewing:
I had so many reactions to Peggy Orenstein’s 2016 TED talk, “What Young Women Believe About Their Sexual Pleasure (and her remarkable book Girls & Sex). But what hit me hard was her reference to Professor Sara McClelland’s coined term, “intimate justice”:
“That’s the idea that sex has political, as well as personal implications…and it raises similar issues about inequality, about economic disparity, violence, and physical and mental health. Intimate justice asks us to consider who is entitled to engage in an experience. Who is entitled to enjoy it? Who is the primary beneficiary? And how does each partner define “good enough”?
I am passionate about holding women’s circles as a way to address “intimate justice”. I want a better world that empowers instead of diminishes all women’s choice and voice – a better world that nourishes instead of starves women of their right to pleasure and sexual vitality.
Please consider passing this article along to anyone you know might be interested.
Deepest gratitude,
Lori