The Erotic Underworld

Description

If you feel more at home in your imagination than your body and you escape into fantasy or dissociate during intimacy…

If your deepest desires often dwell in the shadows, remaining unspoken and unexplored to avoid being misunderstood or unsettling others…

If a part of you craves a space where creativity, queerness, and sensuality can entwine, then come closer. The Erotic Underworld beckons you into a realm where your unexplored parts can take form, your deepest longings can be shared, and transformative intimacy can unfurl with confidence and curiosity.

The Erotic Underworld is an 8-week live virtual class series that invites you to deeply explore your erotic psyche.

In this realm, we know that our unexpressed erotic desires are about SO much more than sex or taboo- they are the meeting place between power, consent, imagination, and self-expression.

Here, we embrace our fantasies and kinks as creative pathways to deeper self-awareness and embodied expression.

In this creative cohort, we’ll use archetypes, playful self-inquiry, and skill-building to embark on a mythological storytelling journey through the Underworld of our erotic fantasies to:

1. Uncover hidden desires and the “forbidden” parts of ourselves that long to be seen
2. Give these parts agency and the power to express what we truly desire
3. Rewrite our personal narratives in ways make us feel most alive
4. Build the skills necessary to let these parts of ourselves out to play

This series is an invitation to learn through three key pillars of erotic liberation: Conscious Kink Education, Embodied Tantric Intimacy, and Archetypal Erotic Storytelling.

You’ll gain knowledge and skills around:

Pillar #1 - Conscious Kink Education

1. Increased knowledge of consent frameworks and improving negotiation skills to navigate & create the kinky scenes that excite you
2. Gain confidence in power exchange dynamics and fantasy roleplaying techniques (Dominant/submissive, switching), as well as other forms of kinky play (impact, sensation, primal, praise & degradation)
3. Integrate kink into daily life as a mode for authentic self-expression and connection

Pillar #2 - Embodied Tantric Intimacy

1. Increased body-awareness, sensory perception, and embodiment practices to deepen your connection with your body and sensual energy
2. Nervous-system regulation and trauma resolution techniques to rework old emotional patterns, deepen your capacity for presence, and build trust with yourself and intimate partners
3. Tantric energy exchange, sex magic, and non-linear intimacy frameworks that open the way for truly transformational erotic experiences

Pillar #3 - Archetypal Erotic Storytelling

1. Mythic storytelling structures to explore your inner archetypes and create a sensual story arc that opens and empowers your most erotic self
2. Writing exercises like flash fiction, journal prompts, and weekly assignments to help you illuminate your erotic archetypes, identify their hidden desires, and juice-up your sexy storytelling craft through pacing, dialogue, internal conflict, and sensory detail
3. Crafting a written piece of fantastical erotica over the course of 8 weeks that can be showcased or shared to empower and reclaim your erotic fantasies

COURSE DETAILS:

The Erotic Underworld is an 8-week virtual class that meets Live for 90-minutes each week via Zoom. Live Virtual Classes take place on Thursdays from 8:00-9:30pm EST, February 19th through April 9th.

Be prepared to bring a notebook and pen for the in-class practices, exercises, and writing prompts. Classes will be recorded, although live attendance is highly encouraged.

Each module will include a writing prompt and embodiment practice to engage with outside of class time to help integrate all we’ve explored. Participants can anticipate 1-2 hours of integration assignments each week in addition to class times.

OPTIONAL ADD-ON: MINDFULNESS KINK RETREAT

At the end of the course, there will be a special opportunity to meet in-person at a mindful kink retreat setting, where Erotic Underworld course participants can practice newfound kink and embodiment skills through retreat classes and open play. Participants are invited to showcase the erotic stories we’ve crafted for a live audience in a celebratory kinky community during an Erotic Cabaret. Please note: Retreat attendance and showcase sharing is completely optional for all course participants.

The Mindfulness Kink Retreat takes place Thursday, April 23rd thru Monday the 27th in Standardsville, VA. Erotic Underworld Course Participants receive a special discount for retreat attendance (Register to receive your Special Discount Code!). Additional retreat details can be found here: experiencemk.com

YOUR INSTRUCTORS:

Hannah (Seraphina) Borababy (she/her) is an Embodied Intimacy Educator & Ceremonial Facilitator based out of Charlotte, NC, whose passion draws from deep connection with the natural world and unseen realms. She shares her scorpionic delight of enchanted living and personal development by interweaving sacred sexuality, somatic awareness, holistic healing, Appalachian herbal medicine, fantastical storytelling, and body-based wisdom. Through ritual workshops, signature programs, and immersive experiences, Hannah guides sensual-spiritual seekers of all genders through personalized transformational journeys to connect with their essential nature and unleash the magic within.

Learn more about Hannah’s offerings and passion projects at EmbodyEnchantment.com.

Lore Hershey (she/they) is a queer, neurodivergent poet and author; trauma-informed conflict resolution practitioner; BDSM & kink educator; and astrologer who founded The Unconventional Plutonian (also known as UP) with the mission to empower and inspire courageous personal and communal transformation through a radical and queer lens. At its roots, UP is about cultivating belonging, acceptance, and liberatory expression within ourselves, within our communities, and with the places we inhabit. UP explores these themes through four pillars of offerings, tools, and modalities: astrology; storytelling and the mythic imagination; BDSM, kink, and erotica; and conflict resolution & mitigation skills and practices.

You can find Lore on Fetlife @TheUPlutonian, on Instagram @theunconventionalplutonian, and sharing her latest offerings and musings through her website and Substack newsletters.

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The Erotic Underworld is beckoning if you…

1. Love fantasy, mythology, or worldbuilding
2. Want to explore desire through story, sensation, energy and archetype
3. Tend to dissociate or retreat into imagination during intimacy
4. Are erotically curious but feel unsure how to embark on that exploration
5. Want to feel braver, more embodied, and more yourself
6. Crave kinky community and creative kinship
7. Are nerdy, imaginative, queer or feel “other” in any way

THE EROTIC UNDERWORLD VALUES:

This class is open to participants of many identities, and it is grounded in queer values, frameworks, and ways of relating. Queerness here is not only about who you love or how you identify, it’s a practice of disrupting norms, honoring complexity, and choosing more honest, liberated ways of being with ourselves and each other.

The queer values we embrace are:

1. A practice of questioning dominant narratives
2. A commitment to consent, self-determination, and relational accountability
3. A comfort with ambiguity, multiplicity, and non-linearity
4. A refusal of rigid gender, power, or desire scripts
5. An orientation toward imagination, play, and liberation, especially for folks who have intersecting marginalized identities
6. Trauma-informed approaches and space to explore desire, expression, and authentic relating

Hey, you magical creature, your erotic imagination isn’t just your escape.

It’s the map that guides you home to a deeper part of yourself.

Answer the Call.

Begin the Descent.