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- Double Blepharoplasty Top and Bottom Eye Lift Procedure and Recovery - Elderescence Academy™No pain no gain...follow my recovery on my podcast #health #spirehospital
Elderescence Academy™
Pasha du Valentine in the archive. iServalan in the present. Goddamn Media still on the tape.Brighton Arts Club, 2009–. Confessions, cabaret, interviews, and the radical catalogue — now fused with the work that is actually selling: satirical merch, art, and a later life that did not go quiet.Shop the tees and prints · read the Goddamn Media blog · browse the vault
Hosted by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA (Pasha du Valentine / iServalan)Confession is an art form. So is staying in business.
© Goddamn Media / Tale Teller Club Press. All rights reserved.14 min - Setting up the OBS and the ION Duo for the new iServalan TV Shows with Elderescence Academy™I need a granny nap….one that lasts twelve hours. Join me soon on Lounges TV.
Elderescence Academy™
Pasha du Valentine in the archive. iServalan in the present. Goddamn Media still on the tape.Brighton Arts Club, 2009–. Confessions, cabaret, interviews, and the radical catalogue — now fused with the work that is actually selling: satirical merch, art, and a later life that did not go quiet.Shop the tees and prints · read the Goddamn Media blog · browse the vault
Hosted by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA (Pasha du Valentine / iServalan)Confession is an art form. So is staying in business.
© Goddamn Media / Tale Teller Club Press. All rights reserved.9 min - The Curse of the Gallstone, Whatever it is, it Should Probably Go Back Where it Came From Elderescence Academy™Join Sarnia with the woes of grandmothers and great grandmothers
Elderescence Academy™
Pasha du Valentine in the archive. iServalan in the present. Goddamn Media still on the tape.Brighton Arts Club, 2009–. Confessions, cabaret, interviews, and the radical catalogue — now fused with the work that is actually selling: satirical merch, art, and a later life that did not go quiet.Shop the tees and prints · read the Goddamn Media blog · browse the vault
Hosted by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA (Pasha du Valentine / iServalan)Confession is an art form. So is staying in business.
© Goddamn Media / Tale Teller Club Press. All rights reserved.14 min - My Pole Fitness Journey is Interrupted by an intercostal injury as I was flying around the pole Elderescence Academy™Elderescence Academy™
Pasha du Valentine in the archive. iServalan in the present. Goddamn Media still on the tape.Brighton Arts Club, 2009–. Confessions, cabaret, interviews, and the radical catalogue — now fused with the work that is actually selling: satirical merch, art, and a later life that did not go quiet.Shop the tees and prints · read the Goddamn Media blog · browse the vault
Hosted by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA (Pasha du Valentine / iServalan)Confession is an art form. So is staying in business.
© Goddamn Media / Tale Teller Club Press. All rights reserved.15 min - Going Back to University at 64 to Become a Luthier Elderescence Academy™Catch up with Sarnia as she turns here career around for a slow build at the Glorious West Dean College.
Elderescence Academy™
Pasha du Valentine in the archive. iServalan in the present. Goddamn Media still on the tape.Brighton Arts Club, 2009–. Confessions, cabaret, interviews, and the radical catalogue — now fused with the work that is actually selling: satirical merch, art, and a later life that did not go quiet.Shop the tees and prints · read the Goddamn Media blog · browse the vault
Hosted by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA (Pasha du Valentine / iServalan)Confession is an art form. So is staying in business.
© Goddamn Media / Tale Teller Club Press. All rights reserved.15 min - Big Dreams and Real Worth, Pleasure and Work Perspectives by Elderescence Academy™Elderescence Academy™
Pasha du Valentine in the archive. iServalan in the present. Goddamn Media still on the tape.Brighton Arts Club, 2009–. Confessions, cabaret, interviews, and the radical catalogue — now fused with the work that is actually selling: satirical merch, art, and a later life that did not go quiet.Shop the tees and prints · read the Goddamn Media blog · browse the vault
Hosted by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA (Pasha du Valentine / iServalan)Confession is an art form. So is staying in business.
© Goddamn Media / Tale Teller Club Press. All rights reserved.15 min - Pleasure in Later Years: Chapter 2 The Sensory Body After Midlife Elderescence Academy™ BooksIn this chapter of Elderescence, Sarnia de la Maré explores how sensation changes after midlife — including increased sensitivity to texture, sound, temperature, and pace.
The essay reframes ageing not as sensory decline, but as refinement, arguing that subtle pleasures become more meaningful as the body becomes a finer, more attentive instrument. Topics include ageing and the nervous system, sensory sensitivity, pleasure after midlife, embodied intelligence, and rethinking the ageing body in contemporary health culture. A full transcript of the essay is available for listeners who prefer to read alongside the audio.
Chapter 2 The Sensory Body After Midlife There is a persistent myth about ageing that insists the senses dull with time. That touch becomes blunted, sound fades, pleasure weakens, and the body gradually withdraws from the world of sensation. Yet for many people, the opposite is true. What changes after midlife is not the ability to feel, but the nature of feeling itself. Sensation does not disappear; it refines.
The body becomes less tolerant of excess and more attuned to nuance. What is often described as decline is, in practice, a form of discernment. In youth, the body absorbs sensation with relative ease. Noise, speed, texture, and intensity are tolerated, even sought after. The nervous system is resilient to overload, and stimulation is often equated with vitality. Loud music, crowded spaces, abrasive fabrics, hurried movement — these are endured, sometimes enjoyed, often unquestioned. As the years pass, the body begins to edit.
Many people notice an increased sensitivity to texture, sound, temperature, and pace. Certain fabrics feel intrusive rather than neutral. Layered noise becomes exhausting. Extremes of heat or cold are more sharply registered. Rushed movement and conversation feel abrasive rather than energising. These changes are frequently framed as loss. As signs of fragility. As evidence that the body is becoming less capable of engaging with life. But sensitivity is not the same as weakness.
Sensitivity is information. A body that registers more detail is not malfunctioning. It is paying closer attention. The nervous system, shaped by years of lived experience, becomes less interested in extremes and more responsive to fine distinctions — small shifts in pressure, subtle changes in temperature, the difference between tension and ease. This refinement alters the landscape of pleasure. After midlife, pleasure often becomes quieter but deeper. It no longer relies on spectacle or intensity. Subtle experiences — the feel of well-made fabric, the exact warmth of water, the cadence of breath during movement, the tone of a voice rather than its volume — take on greater significance.
These are not indulgences. They are calibrations. The body is no longer chasing sensation. It is receiving it. This is why subtle pleasures often become more meaningful with age. A single stretch may feel more nourishing than an intense workout. One piece of music may resonate more fully than an entire playlist. Stillness may offer more satisfaction than constant stimulation.
This is not boredom, nor withdrawal from life. It is resolution. The ageing body is often described as worn — an instrument losing its reliability, its responsiveness, its strength. But many bodies after midlife behave less like damaged instruments and more like finely adjusted ones. They respond best to precision rather than force, to care rather than intensity. A violin is not weaker than a drum. It simply requires a different touch. So does the sensory body after midlife. Elderescence does not deny that the body changes. It asks instead what kind of change is actually occurring. A body that requests slower pace, better materials, clearer sound, and more thoughtful movement is not asking for less life. It is asking for better signal. The sensory body after midlife is not fading.
It is tuning itself — so that pleasure, when it arrives, arrives clearly.
Elderescence Academy™
Pasha du Valentine in the archive. iServalan in the present. Goddamn Media still on the tape.Brighton Arts Club, 2009–. Confessions, cabaret, interviews, and the radical catalogue — now fused with the work that is actually selling: satirical merch, art, and a later life that did not go quiet.Shop the tees and prints · read the Goddamn Media blog · browse the vault
Hosted by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA (Pasha du Valentine / iServalan)Confession is an art form. So is staying in business.
© Goddamn Media / Tale Teller Club Press. All rights reserved.6 min - Why Older Bodies Need Pleasure, Not Punishment From the Elderescence Academy Book SeriesWhy Older Bodies Need Pleasure, Not Punishment by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA
Elderescence Academy™
Pasha du Valentine in the archive. iServalan in the present. Goddamn Media still on the tape.Brighton Arts Club, 2009–. Confessions, cabaret, interviews, and the radical catalogue — now fused with the work that is actually selling: satirical merch, art, and a later life that did not go quiet.Shop the tees and prints · read the Goddamn Media blog · browse the vault
Hosted by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA (Pasha du Valentine / iServalan)Confession is an art form. So is staying in business.
© Goddamn Media / Tale Teller Club Press. All rights reserved.7 min - Combatting Loneliness for Our Elderly Community with a Saturday Job Elderescence Academy™Elderescence Academy™
Pasha du Valentine in the archive. iServalan in the present. Goddamn Media still on the tape.Brighton Arts Club, 2009–. Confessions, cabaret, interviews, and the radical catalogue — now fused with the work that is actually selling: satirical merch, art, and a later life that did not go quiet.Shop the tees and prints · read the Goddamn Media blog · browse the vault
Hosted by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA (Pasha du Valentine / iServalan)Confession is an art form. So is staying in business.
© Goddamn Media / Tale Teller Club Press. All rights reserved.15 min - Warm ups for older people who wish to exercise, tips from Sarnia at the Elderescence AcademyTake it slow and take it firm
Elderescence Academy™
Pasha du Valentine in the archive. iServalan in the present. Goddamn Media still on the tape.Brighton Arts Club, 2009–. Confessions, cabaret, interviews, and the radical catalogue — now fused with the work that is actually selling: satirical merch, art, and a later life that did not go quiet.Shop the tees and prints · read the Goddamn Media blog · browse the vault
Hosted by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA (Pasha du Valentine / iServalan)Confession is an art form. So is staying in business.
© Goddamn Media / Tale Teller Club Press. All rights reserved.11 min
About Elderescence Academy™
From the publisher's feed
Elderescence Academy is the later life of a radical press. Host Sarnia de la Maré FRSA opens the Goddamn Media vault as Pasha du Valentine — Brighton Arts Club, confession, cabaret, the years that…
would not sit still — and speaks as iServalan now: artist, maker, and satirical merch merchant who is not done yet. Ageing here is not a soft landing. It is the same nerve, with better aim. Archive nights. Present work. Political tees that sell because the joke is still true. A podcast for people who kept the attitude and refuse to disappear.
Elderescence Academy™ is a podcast about what happens when a life in underground art refuses to retire politely.Hosted by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA, it joins two working names that were never separate. Pasha du Valentine is the archive: founder of Brighton Arts Club in 2009, voice and camera of Goddamn Media, diaries, open mics, interviews, performance, the radical catalogue that treated confession as a form. iServalan is the present tense: music, image, publishing, and the shop floor — including the satirical Donald Trump merch that is currently carrying the press because it is the work people actually buy.The show moves between those rooms on purpose. One episode may be a remastered tape from the club. The next may be an older woman building a brand, talking fitness, craft, merch, politics, and the strange freedom of not needing to impress anyone. Elderescence means later life as expansion, not apology: the body still in use, the mouth still sharp, the archive still armed.Goddamn Media is the house. The blog, the vault, and the tees belong in the same sentence. This is not a wellness hour with a scented candle. It is a living press — past, present, and the next design drop — for listeners who aged without going quiet.Expect:
If you found the tees first, this is who made them, and who she used to be.
Confession is an art form. So is staying in business.
Elderescence Academy™ is a podcast about what happens when a life in underground art refuses to retire politely.Hosted by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA, it joins two working names that were never separate. Pasha du Valentine is the archive: founder of Brighton Arts Club in 2009, voice and camera of Goddamn Media, diaries, open mics, interviews, performance, the radical catalogue that treated confession as a form. iServalan is the present tense: music, image, publishing, and the shop floor — including the satirical Donald Trump merch that is currently carrying the press because it is the work people actually buy.The show moves between those rooms on purpose. One episode may be a remastered tape from the club. The next may be an older woman building a brand, talking fitness, craft, merch, politics, and the strange freedom of not needing to impress anyone. Elderescence means later life as expansion, not apology: the body still in use, the mouth still sharp, the archive still armed.Goddamn Media is the house. The blog, the vault, and the tees belong in the same sentence. This is not a wellness hour with a scented candle. It is a living press — past, present, and the next design drop — for listeners who aged without going quiet.Expect:
- Goddamn Media / Brighton Arts Club archive
- Pasha’s diaries, interviews, and performance residue
- iServalan on making, selling, sounding, and staying visible
- The satirical merch line as current work, not a side hustle whispered off-mic
- Ageing, neurodivergence, style, strength, and creative longevity without the soft-focus lie
If you found the tees first, this is who made them, and who she used to be.
Confession is an art form. So is staying in business.