Coming Home to Pleasure

This class will be held LIVE online via Zoom — Zoom links are sent out 3 days prior and then again 1 hour prior to start time. The class will be recorded and available for a limited time shortly following the class. Registration deadline: 1 hour prior to class Pacific. No day-of cancellations.

Queer bodies were made to experience and share pleasure. Depending on what our familial or cultural story about pleasure is, we cut ourselves off from the fullness of our experience in a variety of ways. Regardless of our story, pleasure is a central part of our human experience. Pleasure builds pathways into our emotional body and allows us to access our full range of feelings, sensations, and humanity.

Especially now, in the midst of everything we are collectively experiencing, turning toward our pleasure is even more vital. Pleasure can sustain us, provide joy and solace, help us process our grief, and is the creative force that helps us dream into the world we deserve to live in. Pleasure is a resource. Pleasure is a revolution.

During this workshop you will be invited to try some guided somatic practices that include breathwork, sensuality with food*, and connecting to your erotic energy.

*Please bring a piece of fruit with you.

Jess DeVries is a queer somatic sex coach, sexological bodyworker and grief worker. She primarily serves the queer/trans community supporting folks in reclaiming body autonomy and to inspire curiosity about pleasure and sexual expression including expanding possibilities of what sex can be and guiding folks to define and pursue pleasure on their own terms. She is a grief advocate who regularly facilitates spaces for people to grieve, inviting the wisdom of the body to guide the grief process. She understands that there is a deep kinship between pleasure and grief and believes that they both deserve to be tended as full experiences of our humanity. Jess provides 1:1 sessions online or by phone. She also facilitates workshops and grief circles online for queer folks, ex-Christians, and Covid conscious communities.

We're offering a limited number of free class spots to folks with financial need; please fill out this form if you are interested. Recipients will be chosen based on need and contacted at least 3 days prior to class to confirm.