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Community Meditation Connection Series with Lizz
This is a difficult, yet wakeful, sorrowful time ... between politics, intensified systemic racism, covid and the election, many of us are aching and overwhelmed while feeling the unraveling of the planet. And, there is medicine for each of us when we drop in, connect with the above and below, in a circle...
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Equinox BDSM & Energy Gathering in Seattle
The year wheel is turning, light in the sky changing: harvest is here. At Equinox, there is a balance between the day light and night time. Pause during the day that the sun provides a zenith, a downward gaze allowing for equal illumination. This gives us an opportunity to harvest and embrace the fruits from the cycle started...
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Portals of Pleasure Preview
It's time for Portals of Pleasure, Body Trust's annual deep-dive erotic residential retreat in New Mexico. Are you feeling the call this year? Find out more as Alex, Lizz, Zed, and Amy talk about the retreat, what to expect, how they are inspired by the work, and what their favorite Portals might be. Registration for...
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In Search of Lilacs
You know that feeling when you're doing something really hard, when you're challenging yourself, when you're stepping out of your comfort zone? That feeling when you have studied for weeks and weeks and weeks and your test is tomorrow and now there is just nothing to even think about because maybe you've studied everything you...
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Wonder Body and Winter: light, temperature, and pain
Pleasure Lab Podcast, Season 3: The Wonder Body Coloring Book In this episode of Season 3, Alex interviews Amy about her "hunting winter" adventure, and specifically about the sensory pleasures of light, pain, and temperature to be found in these colder climes. Resources mentioned: Rebecca Solnit's - The Faraway Nearby Wonder Body Coloring Book! - http://wonderbody.us Plus here's...
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Being Brave, No Matter What Happens
I hope you've been following Blair Braverman as much as I have. She writes all the time over on her Twitter channel about her adventures as a musher, training, caring for, and racing sled dogs. Just this week, she finished the epic Iditarod! Can't wait for the tweets about her stories to start coming...
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The Little Engine that Could: Vitality, Erotic, the Second Chakra, and the Wonder Body
In this episode of Season 3, Amy and Alex explore the 2nd chakra, how it's an engine that fuels our vitality, and how all our senses can help fill it up. If you've been wondering what all this coloring book stuff has to do with genitals and the erotic, then this is the episode...
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Vestibular pleasure and the Wonder Body: how balance, equilibrium, orientation turn us on!
NOTE: we had some technical issues on the backend but this episode should now be available (refresh your feed). In this episode of Season 3, Amy and Alex explore three senses: balance, equilibrium, and orientation and their interplay. How do these senses keep us upright--or not--as we move through the world? Do they atrophy over...
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Winter bliss
To me, winter is stunningly beautiful. Crystaline. Clear. Brought down to the bare bones. Fresh starts and traces of stories to be told. Trees show their skeletons, stripped bare of the leaves that festoon them all summer long. Now, on a cold day, I can see the variety of shapes, the patterns of twigs, the golden...
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