Four days of learning, embodied pleasure, community and connection.

The Pleasure and Resilience summit has concluded, but you can still purchase access to all four days of content for only $29 until October of 2021. During the summit, we raised over $1500 for the Somatic Sex Educators Association BIPOC Scholarship fund and Haymarket Pole Collective.  Ongoing sales will go toward our organization and help us create future community offerings and events.

After we receive your order, we will e-mail you within 24 hours with the password that will allow you to gain access to the pages. If you have any trouble, please contact us. Thank you!
In current times, we are being called to cultivate deeper levels of strength to navigate a challenging world.  Experiencing pleasure might feel like an unnecessary indulgence amidst all the chaos and suffering.  But in fact, pleasure is a powerful tool for regulating and soothing distressed nervous systems.  By turning toward pleasure, we can access a viable source of individual and collective resiliency and well-being. 

Enjoy our virtual summit, where we explore the connection between pleasure of all kinds and our capacity to not only cope, but to thrive.

Summit Features

By purchasing summit access, you'll have an opportunity to:
  • Enjoy seven presentations from professionals in the fields of somatic sex education, sexological bodywork, surrogate partner therapy, intimacy coaching and tantra
  • Learn practical exercises for healing, embodiment and pleasure
  • Download e-books, handouts and materials relating to the content
  • Join our private Facebook community group for connection, discussion, and sharing of your experience

Summit Presenters

Caffyn Jesse
they/them/she/her

Pleasure and Resilience

We will kick off the summit with an exploration and discussion of our theme- the interconnections of pleasure and resilience, with treasured somatic sex educator Caffyn Jesse.

Caffyn is a leading somatic sex educator who teaches on encouraging neuroplastic change to support sexual healing and expanded pleasure, unwinding sexual trauma, exploring the intersection of sex and spirit, and creating erotic community. She is a faculty member at the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education. Caffyn is a prolific author who has researched and written on the science of sexual happiness, neurobiology and sexual healing, trauma, erotic touch, orgasm coaching and many other topics.

www.erospirit.ca

Cassie Porter
she/her

Embodied Giving and Receiving

How can we learn to truly receive, and allow ourselves to experience touch and pleasure without guilt?  How can we show up exquisitely and skillfully for the touch needs of our lovers and friends?  Learn somatic practices and possibilities for exploring the pleasures of giving and receiving touch, both erotic and platonic, within your own learning zone.

Cassie is a somatic healing practitioner, somatic sex educator and sexological bodyworker.  She supports diverse individuals and couples in releasing shame, healing trauma and creating more pleasure and possibility in their bodies and lives.

www.somafirewellness.com

Jess DeVries
she/her

Kinship of Pleasure and Grief

This talk focuses on the relationship between the ways pleasure and grief live in the body. In experiences of personal and collective loss, how can we welcome pleasure as a support, companion, or ally in our embodied grief?

 Jess DeVries is a somatic sex and intimacy coach who primarily serves the queer community with a specific focus on post-Christian folks. She is passionate about expanding possibilities of what sex can be and guiding folks to define and pursue pleasure on their own terms.

https://www.belovedcoaching.net/

Carlene Ostedgaard
she/her

Tools for Vulnerability

Boundless rewards can be found both erotically and emotionally when we build tools for sharing our vulnerability with others. This lecture focuses on practical vulnerability exercises sequenced through the lens of systematic desensitization to help you achieve your intimacy goals most successfully.

Carlene is a trained surrogate partner who specializes in slow, embodied practices and open and compassionate communication.

Anna Marti
she/her
Virtual Intimacy - Not as Creepy as it Sounds

Online Sex has been with us as long as the internet has been with us (some say that it was responsible for the proliferation of the web!). In this time of COVID, it is actually possible to connect with sex-positive communities and share hot, consensual erotic experiences, sometimes with even more abandon than we could do IRT.

Anna Marti has been working, speaking, and mentoring others in sex positivity for over twenty-five years. As a somatic practitioner, she works with all genders, orientations, and relationship styles, providing a bridge between more esoteric “tantric” teachings and western psychotherapeutic and somatic interventions. 
www.annamarti.com

Erica Leroye
she/her
Embracing the Erotic in the Everyday as a Habit for Survival

In turbulent times, it is easy to feel “off course” and “uncentered”. When thoughts and feelings are pulled in many directions or into directions we didn’t anticipate, how can we use not just the body but specifically the erotic body to regain balance and reorient ourselves towards the path of levity and delight? How do we engage erotic imagination and curiosity  to form new habits of thinking that make our life journey more pleasurable and fun? Combining storytelling, movement, facts, and philosophy, you will gain some new ideas for harnessing the erotic to transform the f-ckery of life into a life that is f-cking fantastic.

Erica Leroye M.Ed is a Certified Sexological Bodyworker, Human Development Specialist,  Healing Arts Professional, and Erotic Artist/Educator.  She has spent the past 30+ years journeying a path of education and lived experiences to master what she calls “Creative Body Release” a method, and an invitation, for navigating a life filled with losses and traumas by cultivating a daily commitment to unearthing the juicy, creative potentials of the mind, body and spirit. 

Amy Weissfeld
she/her
Introduction to Orgasmic Yoga, a personal pleasure practice

Amy’s playshop will gently guide you in a personal erotic wellness practice in which we will weave mindfulness with in-the-moment desires, self-love and self-pleasuring if you feel so moved. Designed to awaken & expand the full spectrum of pleasure available to you. Because we each need the focus of pleasure warriors to fight the tide of grief & shame that comes from living in a patriarchal, sex-negative, sex-shaming culture that narrowly defines and devalues so many of us. Pleasure is both our birthright & our access to the divine. 

Explorers who are 18+ are welcome. Nothing but presence is required - only the presenter will be seen on Zoom. That said, you may want to prepare a comfortable and private spot from which to participate in this event. You might want some space in which to move around and also to make a comfortable nest. This might mean a blanket, yoga mat, cushions, couch or bed. You might also want a water bottle, journal and any other items that would make your experience more comfortable.

Amy is a certified Orgasm Coach, Sex Educator, Mother, Wife, and Fierce Friend. She provides a compassionate, body-based approach to sexual health & wellness and is deeply passionate about healing the world through pleasure, about truth in relating, about choice and voice, and about joyful living.

https://www.joyfulselflove.com/

Summit Outline

Day 1

Caffyn Jesse
Pleasure and Resilience
&
Cassie Porter
Embodied Giving and Receiving

Day 2

Jess DeVries
Kinship of Pleasure and Grief
&
Carlene Ostedgaard
Tools for Vulnerability

Day 3

Anna Marti
Virtual Intimacy
&
Erica Leroye
Embracing the Erotic in the Everyday

Day 4

Amy Weissfeld
Introduction to Orgasmic Yoga
Questions?  Feel free to contact us at healingsexpdx@gmail.com