We are built for pleasure. 

Pleasure is our biological guide to what is good for us. Whether it be food, clean water, touch, play, rest, we are built with specific physiological and chemical processes uniquely for experiencing pleasure. 

 

Pleasure is the direct result of being present with the gifts of feeling, hearing, seeing, tasting, smelling and experiencing life.

Pleasure is often perceived as being solely sexual, when in reality it is so much more than sexual. When we experience pleasure we are engaging with our birth right to be embodied, to be in our bodies.

 

Pleasure is imperative for our health and is the very thing that guides us back to our body, back to being in the precious moment of NOW. When we are able to experience pleasure this is a direct indicator of being regulated and alive in the present moment.

 

Due to inequality, trauma, religion, societal programming, cultural differences and other environmental impacts not everyone has the same experience or understanding of pleasure and some even deem pleasure as taboo or sinful. 

 

We all have varying differing experiences of shame, fear, worry and stress and with these experiences we have potential to become disembodied thus rendering us unable to feel sensation and be aware of our bodies. 

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In order to experience pleasure we need to be embodied and grounded in safety and relaxation. We do this through somatic work and techniques to rewire and regulate our nervous system.   

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Pleasure is how we reconnect and deepen our relationship to our bodies, thus gifting us the opportunity to transform our sense of who we are in the web of life. Through pleasure we can heal our wounds around self worth, value, and safety. 

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From Betty Martin "Change your physiology, and you change what you are able to perceive. Change what you are able to perceive and you can change what you are able to imagine. Change what you can imagine and you can change what you are able to choose in your life."