Pleasure Lab

In this second full episode of Season 3, Amy and Alex talk about the sense of Proprioception. How do you know where your body is in space, in relation to the ground, to your nose. They discuss the sense, some of the hidden gems behind the drawing, as well as some 'try this at home' exercises to help you feel into the erotic potential of the sense of proprioception.

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.

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Season 3 of the Pleasure Lab podcast: The origin story In this first full episode of Season 3, Amy and Alex talk about the Wonder Body coloring book. They explore how it came into being (hint: it's connected to mind-blowing sex, or not), what they learned, what were the surprise additions, and what got left on the cutting room floor. Resources mentioned:

• Wonder Body Coloring Book! - http://wonderbody.us
• Robert Lawrence and the Center for Sex & Culture in San Francisco
• The sensor map known as the Homunculus

Plus here's your downloadable page for this episode, so you can color along with us.

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While Season 1 was Zed and Amy in wacky conversation, and Season 2was interviews with leaders and innovators in the field of embodiment, Season 3will focus on Wonder Body: A Sophisticated Coloring Book for Curious Adults. Each episode will be a dive deep into one of the concept in the book: a sense, an energy, or a pleasure. We will link downloadable pages with each episode so you can color along as you listen. Not only will Amy and Alex describe what's in the book, but they'll also reveal the untold stories and surprises behind each spread of poetic words and whimsical images.

Won't you join us?

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dr. liam "captain" snowdon - captain lives uninvited on the territory of the Lekwungen and WSÁNEĆ peoples on Vancouver Island. Their background is in social justice, harm reduction, street outreach, sexological bodywork, performance art and poetry. Captain runs the Sex Positive Art and Recreation Centre in Victoria and co-teaches the Somatic Sex Educator Professional Training. They delight in teaching with the Institute for Sexual Education and Enlightenment, doing outreach for the Anti-Violence Project at the University of Victoria. Currently, captain uses the pronoun they/them, identifies as a genderqueer-queer radical faery-faggot witch, is in love with the ocean and facilitation for liberation, still loving it 30 years and counting.

• Somatic Sex Educator Professional Training - https://somaticsexeducator.com/
• Institute for Sexual Education and Enlightenment - http://www.instituteforsexuality.com/
• Anti-Violence Project at the University of Victoria - https://www.antiviolenceproject.org/

Captain recommends:

• Wonder Body Coloring Book! - http://wonderbody.us
• Body Electric School - http://www.thebodyelectricschool.com/
• River Drosera's Erotic Arts Project - https://www.theeroticartsproject.com/

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Thanks to Joseph Kramer for spending time talking about his work!

Here are a lot of places you can find more:

• Free Orgasmic Yoga Standing class
• New School of Erotic Touch
• Orgasmic Yoga Institute Joseph on Twitter

Joseph recommends:

• The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being by Daniel Siegel
• King Kong Theory by by Virginie Despentes, translated by Stéphanie Benson

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Jaiya is a somatic sexology expert, working with people in various forms for over twenty years. She has created a unique system for one's "erotic blueprint," which can help explain different needs, wants, and communications personally and interpersonally. She joins Zed for a conversation about her work and inspirations, and shares her most recommended resources.

Thanks to Jaiya for being our guest! Find out even more about her and her work at ~jaiya.love~

Here are some of the resources that Jaiya mentioned: Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute; Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine; Body Mapping on Embody Pleasure; Rapid Transformational Therapy; The Relationship Skills Workbook by Julia B. Colwell

Take the quiz to learn more about your personal Erotic Blueprint, Jaiya's unique breakdown of systems of arousal at eroticblueprint.com

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Check out more of Sheri Winston's work at Intimate Arts Center, and pick up one of her books at your local independent bookstore (or, if you must, on Amazon: Women's Anatomy of Arousal: Secret Maps to Buried Pleasure & Succulent Sex Craft: Your Hands-On Guide to Erotic Play and Practice). Keep track of Sheri on Twitter and Facebook, too.

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Thank you, Roz Dischiavo! Check out her work at the Institute of Sexuality and Enlightenment.

Roz also mentioned TASHRA, The Alternative Sexualities Health Research Alliance, and her research on fantasies is available directly from her, via [email protected]

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Zed and Amy take note of December's Winter Solstice and describe why Body Trust is taking the month off. Our shortest podcast ever (00:02:12)!

See you in January. :)

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Amy talks with writer, performer, and educator Jen Cross about her new book and how writing is an embodied practice available to all of us, not just to heal trauma but also to celebrate our passions.

• Find out more about Jen here: http://writingourselveswhole.org
• Jen's recently published book is Writing Ourselves Whole: Using the Power of Your Own Creativity to Recover and Heal from Sexual Trauma
• If you are in San Francisco, come to the book's launch party on December 5, 2017 in San Francisco (more info here)

Other resources mentioned:

• Peter Levine, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
• Pat Califia,
• Macho Sluts and other booksDorothy Alison,
• Bastard Out of Carolina and other booksPat Schneider,
• Amherst Writers & Artists methodClarissa Pinkola Estés,
• Women Who Run with the WolvesLaura van Dernoot Lipsky, The Trauma Stewardship Institute

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