Pleasure is one of the most ancient languages of the human body — a source of healing, aliveness, and connection.
And yet for many of us, pleasure can feel unfamiliar, overwhelming, or even unsafe. Its intensity softens our usual mental defenses, dissolving the sense of control that feels protective. Because of this, pleasure is often misunderstood, mistrusted, or held at arm’s length.
Pathways to Embodied Pleasure is a gently immersive, five-part experience designed to help you reconnect with your body’s natural capacity for safety, trust, expression, and sensual vitality. Across the evening, you’ll move through a spacious arc that honors your boundaries, welcomes your pace, and invites a fuller relationship with your own embodied wisdom.
Here’s our journey:
Somatic Descent
Drop into a guided inner journey that supports nervous-system grounding and strengthens your sense of inner safety, trust, and personal power. This is foundational in contact improv…feeling the ground as your first partner.
Survival Mechanisms
From this resourced state, we will dance individually and then with a partner through expressing 5 survival patterns that detract from our capacity to be present to intimacy & pleasure. Bringing these to cellular consciousness will resource you to move into the rest of the evening with softer shields and awareness of how to choose pleasure.
Primal Energy Exploration
Gently explore the realm of erotic aliveness — the raw, instinctual energy that moves through every body — through movement and dance while staying rooted and present.
Nourish + Integrate
Enjoy a light snack and relaxed social space to digest, integrate, and connect.
Fluid Play Zones
Move freely between two areas:
– Open Play, for organic, self-guided exploration
– Facilitated Play, for structured invitations supported by skilled guidance
This container is built with care, clarity, and spaciousness, so you can meet pleasure at your own pace — with curiosity, empowerment, and trust.
NOTE: we will be exploring both movement on the ground and standing and anywhere in between. Some of this will be vigorous. I invite you to reflect on your comfort and/or willingness to let your body explore with curiosity in these ways with at least a foundational level of comfort.
♥ Accepting a love exchange on a sliding scale of $60-$120 per person via venmo @Jodi-Thomas-51
Please confirm your participation by January 30th.
There is a maximum of 25 people for this event to keep our container intimate. If you have any questions please email me at
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This is also an event on Partiful if you'd like to connect with your community on there ;)
See surrenderinmotion.com/tantra for further details :)
