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 the retreat is now open. This year’s theme is “steadfastness” or what is steady and true in your body. Are you curious to learn more? Then head on over to https://www.bodytrustcircle.com/portals for more details.
Portals of Pleasure is a 5-day erotic retreat for genderqueer folks and women folks, held July 24-28, 2019 at the Bodhi Manda Zen Center in Jemez Springs, New Mexico.
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Intimacy through the Wonder Body
Alex and Amy reflect on what they’ve learned from this experience of creating the Wonder Body coloring book, and specifically from the “4th chapter”. Could it be that all these senses are really what intimacy is all about?
Resources mentioned:
- Peter Levine’s – , In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
- Wonder Body Coloring Book! – http://wonderbody.us
Plus here’s your downloadable pages for this episode, so you can color along with us.
Thanks to the folks on Patreon who are supporting this podcast and all of Body Trust’s other work! Go visit Patreon and become a patreon yourself to support the free podcasts, newsletters, and resources that we create for you.
Music: Grateful to Little Dog Big Ears for their Creative Commons licensed music She Sees Mice (intro and outro). Make sure to subscribe in iTunes or Sticher. And give us a 5-star review in iTunes, it helps us reach more beloved explorers.
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 your three downloadable pages pain, temperature, light for this episode, so you can color along with us.
Thanks to the folks on Patreon who are supporting this podcast and all of Body Trust’s other work! Go visit Patreon and become a patreon yourself to support the free podcasts, newsletters, and resources that we create for you.
Music: Grateful to Little Dog Big Ears for their Creative Commons licensed music She Sees Mice (intro and outro). Make sure to subscribe in iTunes or Sticher. And give us a 5-star review in iTunes, it helps us reach more beloved explorers.
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 for you.
Print out the coloring page for yourself and show us how it turns out.
http://bodytrustcircle.com/wp-content/uploads/Giveaway2ndCharka.pdf
And don’t forget there is a little audio outtake gift after the music at the end. Sometimes it’s worth hanging around for. 🙂
The Pleasure Lab podcast is supported by YOU! through Patreon.com. Please join the community of folks supporting this work at http://www.patreon.com/bodytrust. We’re super excited about this as a tool to create even more intimacy and community.
Music: Grateful to Little Dog Big Ears for their Creative Commons licensed music She Sees Mice (intro and outro). Make sure to subscribe in iTunes or Sticher. And give us a 5-star review in iTunes, it helps us reach more beloved explorers.
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 time? How can we keep them intact? In what contexts can they bring us pleasure? We wander into conversation about adults in playgrounds and internalized homophobia and the community of adults who still like to play on the swings.
Want to experiment with these on your own? Try going to a playground (feel free to take a kid or a dog as an escort). Or roll on a ball, jump in water, balance on one foot, or even do sun salutations.
Print out the coloring page for yourself and show us how it turns out.
And don’t forget theirs a little audio outtake gift after the music at the end. Sometimes worth hanging around. 🙂
Mentioned in this show:
- Beautiful video and sound of iceskating on black ice
- Dutch class that teaches the elderly how to tumble again
- I Love Hue app
The Pleasure Lab podcast is supported by YOU! through Patreon.com. Please join the community of folks supporting this work at http://www.patreon.com/bodytrust. We’re super excited about this as a tool to create even more intimacy and community.
Music: Grateful to Little Dog Big Ears for their Creative Commons licensed music She Sees Mice (intro and outro). Make sure to subscribe in iTunes or Sticher. And give us a 5-star review in iTunes, it helps us reach more beloved explorers.
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The Pleasure Lab: Paris edition
Special edition of the Pleasure Lab podcast, as Amy and Alex wander down Rue Cler in Paris and take in the many sensual pleasures.
  
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The Pleasure Lab podcast is supported by YOU! through Patreon.com. Please join the community of folks supporting this work at http://www.patreon.com/bodytrust. We’re super excited about this as a tool to create even more intimacy and community
Music: Grateful to Little Dog Big Ears for their Creative Commons licensed music She Sees Mice (intro and outro). Make sure to subscribe in iTunes or Sticher. And give us a 5-star review in iTunes, it helps us reach more beloved explorers.
xo,
Amy & Alex
In this episode of Season 3, Amy and Alex explore the root chakra. They drop into the not one but two root mandalas in the coloring book and describe how those images ground them. Then there is always the place of breathing all the way down to your anus (or pelvic floor) and how awareness of the root can increase resiliency and relieve stress (“Better Living Through Anal Breathing”!). They offer some things you can do at home to bring more awareness to the critical central location in the body, both physically and energetically.
Share one of your colored “root” pages with us (download PDF). What do you see? We’d love to see through your eyes. 🙂
The Pleasure Lab podcast is supported by YOU! through Patreon.com. Please join the community of folks supporting this work at http://www.patreon.com/bodytrust. We’re super excited about this as a tool to create even more intimacy and community.
You can get your own copy of the Wonder Body Coloring Book! – http://wonderbody.us
Music: Grateful to Little Dog Big Ears for their Creative Commons licensed music She Sees Mice (intro and outro). Make sure to subscribe in iTunes or Sticher. And give us a 5-star review in iTunes, it helps us reach more beloved explorers.
xo,
Amy & Alex
In this episode of Season 3, Amy and Alex explore the sense of sight, one of the big 5. In a departure, they try and color the “sight” page while conversing about the sense (see if they can actually multi-task!). So you may find their conversation a bit more languid than normal as they try and choose colors and talk at the same time. Print out the page for yourself and join us at the coloring table.
Sight, how it works, and how it creates pleasure. How is sight used to take in information about connection to others and our environment? Is the sense of sight a bully that dominates the other senses? When does our sight become habitual and at what cost?
Share your colored “sight” pages with us (download here). What do you see? We’d love to see through your eyes. 🙂
The Pleasure Lab podcast is supported by YOU! through Patreon.com. Please join the community of folks supporting this work at www.patreon.com/bodytrust. Zed and Amy just came back from a Patreon conference and we’re super excited about this as a tool to create even more intimacy and community. Stay tuned for more on that.
You can get your own copy of the Wonder Body Coloring Book! – http://wonderbody.us
Music: Grateful to Little Dog Big Ears for their Creative Commons licensed music She Sees Mice (intro and outro). Make sure to subscribe in iTunes or Sticher. And give us a 5-star review in iTunes, it helps us reach more beloved explorers.
xo,
Amy & Alex
The pivot point of equinox has passed, the nights are getting longer and temperatures are cooler. I anticipate a season of curiosity and reflection. And time for illuminating awareness and playing in realms of consciousness.
This summer in my community, Tahlequal, a member of the southern resident orca pod of the Salish Sea, carried her deceased infant for 17 days and nights.
She swam through the waters of Northwest Puget Sound and Canada, her grief palpable and visible. Humans, sea mammals, mountains, and waters witnessed her expression. I could feel her grief song, which vibrated in the water of my cells connecting me to this watery planet.
It was a state of non-ordinary … some would even describe this as a unitary consciousness.
How do I describe the non-ordinary? I think of ordinary awareness is the area of the mind. Linda Bark, in her book What would you like to Change? based on the work of Jean Gebser, describes that the mental dimension “is a place of being and knowing which is based on logical, sequential, critical and mechanistic thinking. Non-ordinary awareness is the realms of magical, mythical, the divine source.”
Another source book that has assisted my understanding is Consciousness Explained Better by Allan Combs.
What do you think the orca whales have to say about realms of consciousness? I listen to whale songs, and settle into the mystery.
Season 3 of the Pleasure Lab podcast: The Sense of Taste
In this third full episode of Season 3, Amy and Alex talk about the sense of Taste. One of the big 5 sense, we often take this one for granted. But what is taste and what are the 5 types we can sense. Are you a super taster? Some experiments for you to try at home about taste and the pleasures of going slow and subtle.
Resources mentioned:
- Wonder Body Coloring Book! – http://wonderbody.us
Plus here’s your downloadable page for this episode, so you can color along with us.
Thanks to the folks on Patreon who are supporting this podcast and all of Body Trust’s other work! Go visit Patreon and become a patreon yourself to support the free podcasts, newsletters, and resources that we create for you.
Music: Grateful to Little Dog Big Ears for their Creative Commons licensed music She Sees Mice (intro and outro). Make sure to subscribe in iTunes or Sticher. And give us a 5-star review in iTunes, it helps us reach more beloved explorers.
xo,
Amy & Alex