SensuAlchemy School Podcast with Kate Leiper

Welcome to Episode 3 of the SensuAlchemy School podcast! When we become really aware of how our body is speaking to us and through us, it’s common that many facets of our emotions and experiences will surprise us. Today Kate unpacks pleasure through the eyes of grief AND grief through the eyes of pleasure; two different angles that might illuminate why you feel how you feel about these often intense human states.

Kate explores:

+ Why our programming around pleasure has messed with our ability to access true feminine pleasure (and the best definitions that Kate has found)

+ Why it’s common for grief to rear its head in embodied, pleasurable experiences - and how to be with it when it does

+ The truth that when women are able to cultivate a deeply honest relationship to both grief and pleasure, develop the skills to transmute them through expression and creativity, we can significantly open up our capacity to love, lead and make sustainable shifts towards positive cultural change

+ Some of the pioneering fields that inform the work of the SensuAlchemy School and the possibilities for women who want to show up differently as creative embodied leaders.

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Resources mentioned in this podcast:

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Find Kate on the following platforms:

Website: http://kateleiper.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kate.leiper

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekateleiper

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In Episode 2 of the SensuAlchemy School podcast, Kate takes you on her own personal journey of complex loss and longing - so personal it’s the stuff of vulnerability hangovers. But at SensuAlchemy School of Embodied Grief & Pleasure, we believe that when women share their stories honestly, shame is released and collective feminine power grows.

Kate shares:

+ Her story growing up internalising the label of “drama queen” and learning to reject her too-muchness in lieu of a more palatable version of herself

+ How, until her early 30’s, she believed that fully expressing herself and revealing her messy humanness, sensual nature, and uncensored creativity meant risking being loved 

+ How these identity losses accumulated in deep embodied grief - only understood on a conscious level since she experienced other major life grief events.

+ Four major losses that continue to lead Kate into intensely complicated periods of grief and ultimately, profound personal transformation

+ Her devotion to pleasure as embodied medicine and a tool against patriarchy

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Resources mentioned in this podcast:

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Find Kate on the following platforms:

Website: http://kateleiper.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kate.leiper

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekateleiper

We hope you enjoyed today’s podcast. Please subscribe so you’ll be updated when new episodes drop! Also, if you have a few moments to leave some feedback, we’d be so grateful. Simply click on “ratings and reviews” then “write a review” on iTunes to get started. Your reviews are so helpful in ensuring this podcast hits the spot in just the right way. We’d also love it if you could share the podcast with anyone you think might enjoy these episodes. SensuAlchemy School podcast can also be found on Spotify.

For many women, the idea of pleasure also awakens a sense of grief. I know it once did for me. There can be an inevitable coupling between a desire to feel free to access and receive pleasure AND a sense of shame, fear, inaccessibility or disempowerment when it comes to the very same desire.

If you can relate to the idea of pleasure being laced with a kind of poison, you are valid in feeling this way. Your system might be interpreting your pleasure history through the lens of grief.

In Episode 1 of the SensuAlchemy School podcast, Kate provides the lay of the land when it comes to understanding grief differently through a feminist and archetypal feminine lens.

She delves into:

+ Embodied Grief work as a fundamental leadership responsibility - if patriarchal leadership won’t acknowledge this, then we MUST

+ How our culture has taught us to fear grief - much like we’re taught to fear anything that can set us free

+ The truth that grief can’t be healed - so what can we do with it?

+ How our sorrow can be experienced as the seed of our personal power OR a factor that unconsciously dominates our lives

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Resources mentioned in this podcast:

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Find Kate on the following platforms:

Website: http://kateleiper.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kate.leiper

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekateleiper

We hope you enjoyed today’s podcast. Please subscribe so you’ll be updated when new episodes drop! Also, if you have a few moments to leave some feedback, we’d be so grateful. Simply click on “ratings and reviews” then “write a review” on iTunes to get started. Your reviews are so helpful in ensuring this podcast hits the spot in just the right way. We’d also love it if you could share the podcast with anyone you think might enjoy these episodes. SensuAlchemy School podcast can also be found on Spotify.

Welcome to SensuAlchemy School Podcast with Kate Leiper, launching August 17th.

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