Re-Enchant Yourself with Your Body

The disenchantment from our bodies starts early. 

We hear it in the offhand comments our parents make about their own bodies or when we hear them speak about others.

It creeps in when we hear advertisements for “feminine odor” and jokes about women’s genitals smelling like fish. 

We see which bodies are preferenced over others and assess whether or not ours live up to them.

We are given euphemisms for our most intimate, innervated anatomy that leave us in the dark as to what actually is “down there.” And then we’re told to keep our hands off.

We are told to stay away from, mistrust, and second guess our pleasure, our desire, our hunger, and to keep distance between ourselves and our bodies.

This disenchantment is not an accident. The people enforcing it are likely operating from a centuries-old misguided sense of care and protection and also an unexamined script about pleasure that comes from morality. But at its core, this comes from thousands of years of domination over all things female and feminine, and it serves a purpose: it keeps us in our place and out of the way.

One way to overturn this, from the inside out, and re-enchant ourselves with our bodies is to get acquainted and intimate with our them. To explore without agenda or expectation. And to allow the native desires and responses of our bodies to take up space.

Our upcoming program, Decolonize Your Orgasm, is one such opportunity to begin or continue this process. Our weekend together begins May 14th. Learn more and sign up here.