PLEASURE
PRACTICE
GROUP
PLEASURE PRACTICE GROUP
at Gather, Brighton
Pleasure!!! I say we need more of it, especially in these trying times. Especially to discern between pleasure as a life-giving technology inside our miraculous bodies that makes us more capable and alive vs. the “never-enough” scarcity-driven pleasure-seeking manufactured by capitalism.
Pleasure Practice Group is a facilitated space and a collective field to recommit to pleasure, embodiment, play, the Erotic, and to expand our uses and practices of sexuality. And to feel some pleasure, yes!
Facilitated by soil.
at Gather, Brighton
Pleasure!!! I say we need more of it, especially in these trying times. Especially to discern between pleasure as a life-giving technology inside our miraculous bodies that makes us more capable and alive vs. the “never-enough” scarcity-driven pleasure-seeking manufactured by capitalism.
Pleasure Practice Group is a facilitated space and a collective field to recommit to pleasure, embodiment, play, the Erotic, and to expand our uses and practices of sexuality. And to feel some pleasure, yes!
Facilitated by soil.
DATES
Sat 11 April 2026, 7-9pm
(cancelled)
Sat 25 April 2026, 7-9pm
session 1: pleasure opening!
Sat 2 May 2026, 7-9pm
session 2: liberating consent!
Sat 9 May 2026, 7-9pm
session 3: playing as objects!
TBD (different timing)
session 4: ecosexuality + playing in the forest!
Sat 23 May 2026, 7-9pm
session 5: touch~friends + multi-touch!
Sat 11 April 2026, 7-9pm
(cancelled)
Sat 25 April 2026, 7-9pm
session 1: pleasure opening!
Sat 2 May 2026, 7-9pm
session 2: liberating consent!
Sat 9 May 2026, 7-9pm
session 3: playing as objects!
TBD (different timing)
session 4: ecosexuality + playing in the forest!
Sat 23 May 2026, 7-9pm
session 5: touch~friends + multi-touch!
Each week will highlight and explore a new topic. As the group evolves, the topics will be guided by the desires of the participants. We will stay connected via a Telegram group for exxxtra pleasure research.
WHAT WILL WE DO?
Each session will contain:
1. guided embodied exercise
2. practical exploration time
3. discussion
Your study in this group can be hands-on or hands-off. Everybody is free to make whatever choices they want, and refusal is always welcome.
I would say it is a sex-positive, touch-positive and body-positive space, however, those are not the best terms because they might presuppose inherent goodness. So I use the term sex-possible (expressions of sexuality are welcome), touch-possible (touch might happen here if you want), and body-possible (we are swimming in body possibilities).
WHAT IS OUR PLEASURE THEORY?
Our pleasure theory valorises queerness, disability justice, PIC abolition, accessibility, poetry, neuroqueering, ecosomatics, kink, BDSM, liberated consent, limit consent, transformative justice, liberatory harm reduction, trust, conflict, expanded/expansive sexuality, the Erotic, Land Back movements, transness, intuition, spirit, relationships evolving possibilities.
Each session will contain:
1. guided embodied exercise
2. practical exploration time
3. discussion
Your study in this group can be hands-on or hands-off. Everybody is free to make whatever choices they want, and refusal is always welcome.
I would say it is a sex-positive, touch-positive and body-positive space, however, those are not the best terms because they might presuppose inherent goodness. So I use the term sex-possible (expressions of sexuality are welcome), touch-possible (touch might happen here if you want), and body-possible (we are swimming in body possibilities).
WHAT IS OUR PLEASURE THEORY?
Our pleasure theory valorises queerness, disability justice, PIC abolition, accessibility, poetry, neuroqueering, ecosomatics, kink, BDSM, liberated consent, limit consent, transformative justice, liberatory harm reduction, trust, conflict, expanded/expansive sexuality, the Erotic, Land Back movements, transness, intuition, spirit, relationships evolving possibilities.
“A timely, necessary, healing salve for the psychic wounds of separation”
- M, pleasure garden participant
25 April, session 1
pleasure opening ceremony! pleasure gardening and pleasure practice group explained! special practice - honouring pleasure ancestors! somatics! resting!
pleasure opening ceremony! pleasure gardening and pleasure practice group explained! special practice - honouring pleasure ancestors! somatics! resting!
2 May, session 2
liberating consent! self-consent! generative somatics! embodied consent! why affirmative consent might feel wrong! paired practices! trust and overwhelm and limits!
liberating consent! self-consent! generative somatics! embodied consent! why affirmative consent might feel wrong! paired practices! trust and overwhelm and limits!
9 May, session 3
pretending to be objects can be sexy! consensual objectification! leaving behind tedious adulthood! pleasure in service! pleasure in none-ness! pleasure in one-ness!
pretending to be objects can be sexy! consensual objectification! leaving behind tedious adulthood! pleasure in service! pleasure in none-ness! pleasure in one-ness!
TBD, session 4
(Sunday outdoors session)
fun in the forest! ecosexuality! bodies outdoors! cruising creatures! hug a tree! kiss the earth! BREATHING!
(Sunday outdoors session)
fun in the forest! ecosexuality! bodies outdoors! cruising creatures! hug a tree! kiss the earth! BREATHING!
23 May, session 5
our final session of the season! the grand finale! abundance of touch! multiple hands on your body! or whatever you want! making touch~friends! outside of prescribed norms! how can this feel even better!
our final session of the season! the grand finale! abundance of touch! multiple hands on your body! or whatever you want! making touch~friends! outside of prescribed norms! how can this feel even better!
PRICE
£125 for all 5 sessions, including check-ins on Telegram inbetween (or £25 per one session).
This money covers the cost of the accessible venue hire, fees for the facilitator and their disability access support worker.
Group is limited to 12 participants.
£125 for all 5 sessions, including check-ins on Telegram inbetween (or £25 per one session).
This money covers the cost of the accessible venue hire, fees for the facilitator and their disability access support worker.
Group is limited to 12 participants.
ACCESSIBILITY
Gather is a central wheelchair-accessible venue near Brighton Train Station. Read their access statement.
Everything is an invitation, and you are encouraged to reinvent, repurpose, and refuse the prompts and do what feels best to you. We keep asking “how can this feel even better?” even if the answer is to go do something else.
Gather is a central wheelchair-accessible venue near Brighton Train Station. Read their access statement.
Everything is an invitation, and you are encouraged to reinvent, repurpose, and refuse the prompts and do what feels best to you. We keep asking “how can this feel even better?” even if the answer is to go do something else.
PPG explores pleasure, including bodily and sexual pleasure. The space is not sex-negative (where sex is seen as inherently bad) or sex-positive (where sex is seen as inherently good), but it is sex-possible (sexuality is welcome here). Everyone is invited to explore what sex is and isn’t for them, while helping shape new collective definitions. All sessions are different, so if you have questions, please get in touch.
> How we respond to harm.pdf
> How we respond to harm.pdf
It is a study group that is not afraid of practice — or to say 'no' to practice. If you have trouble with that, please make sure to attend self-consent sessions. We are all here on our own journeys, and contribute to the collective pool of knowledge with our individual pleasure research, interests and kinks. It might not always be possible to know WHAT exactly we will do in each session, but it's more important HOW we do it.
HOW: We move at the speed of trust even if it means sloooooow growing of real pleasures, we value showing up as ourselves. Being real with feelings that come up is more important than having some kind of mentally pre-determined eXpEriENce.
HOW: We move at the speed of trust even if it means sloooooow growing of real pleasures, we value showing up as ourselves. Being real with feelings that come up is more important than having some kind of mentally pre-determined eXpEriENce.
AGENCY,
ANGELS,
MIRACLES,
ORACLES &
POETRY
IN THE
EVERYDAY!
NOTHING LESS
WILL DO!
WHY PLEASURE? WHY NOW?
Living in this moment in the UK is to witness how disarmed we stand before state violence. Our real needs for clean water, food, shelter, safety, dignity and belonging are subject to organised abandonment through the cost of living crisis, the housing crisis, ongoing pollution and privatisation, as well as state policies and investments designed to alienate, oppress and strip people of safety, belonging and dignity.
Here, pleasure is a crucial self-defense strategy within the bigger project of visionary world-building. We need access to pleasure and joy in our bodies so we don’t turn away from the collapse. Pleasure Gardening grew out of personal experiences of finding states of purpose, alignment, aliveness, and flow through devotion to loving bodily connection.
Living in this moment in the UK is to witness how disarmed we stand before state violence. Our real needs for clean water, food, shelter, safety, dignity and belonging are subject to organised abandonment through the cost of living crisis, the housing crisis, ongoing pollution and privatisation, as well as state policies and investments designed to alienate, oppress and strip people of safety, belonging and dignity.
Here, pleasure is a crucial self-defense strategy within the bigger project of visionary world-building. We need access to pleasure and joy in our bodies so we don’t turn away from the collapse. Pleasure Gardening grew out of personal experiences of finding states of purpose, alignment, aliveness, and flow through devotion to loving bodily connection.
We see PLEASURE & JOY as not emotions but an increase in one’s power to affect and be affected.
PLEASURE GARDENING is the capacity to do and feel more. As such it is connected to creativity and the embrace of uncertainty. TRUE PLEASURE does not always feel comfortable or easy, as this force transforms and reorients us and our relationships.