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PLEASURE
PRACTICE
GROUP




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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

Thu 24 September 2026, 7-9pm BST
session I: pleasure language!

Thu 1 October 2026, 7-9pm BST
session 2: pleasure problems!

Thu 8 October 2026, 7-9pm BST
session 3: consent pleasure!

Thu 15 October 2026, 7-9pm BST
session 4: pleasure Earth!

Thu 22 October 2026, 7-9pm BST
session 5: pleasure porn!

Fri 5 November 2026, 7-9pm GMT
session 6: pleasure integration!

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 Discord for exxxtra pleasure research. 
WHAT WILL WE DO?

Each session will contain: 
1. guided embodied practice
2. mini-lecture to inspire next week’s practical exploration
3. discussion and sharing

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.

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


HOW CAN THIS FEEL EVEN BETTER?

session 1

pleasure language! language of our bodies! decoding ancient scripts of ancestral technologies! not everyone sees things the way that you see things! on the uses of live art! somatics! miracles and oracles! how can this feel even better! 

session 2

pleasure problems! guilt! shame! wishing otherwise! stuckness! numbness! existential kink! other xtreme sports! medicine! 
session 3

consent pleasure! liberating consent! self-consent! embodied consent! why affirmative consent might feel wrong! trust and overwhelm and limits! what’s up with coercion everywhere!

session 4

pleasure Earth! pleasure gardens! ecosexuality! bodies outdoors! cruising creatures! flirt with anything! secure attachment to trees! BREATHING! 
session 5

pleasure porn! on the uses of the pornographic! communication! sticky media! leaky vessels! melodrama!


session 6

our final session of the season! the grand finale! graduation! pleasure show and tell!

PRICE

£120 for the entire 7-week residency. Limited discounts available.
ACCESSIBILITY

The meetings will happen on Zoom and last 2hr, with an additional optional 30 min for Q&A and socialising.

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.

If you have any questions, please get in touch

> How we respond to harm.pdf
YOUR
PLEASURE
IS IMPORTANT
AND YOU DON’T
NEED TO BE
ANYONE ELSE



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.
WE WANT
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, dignity and belongin.

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.


THIS IS FOR YOU, IF YOU’D LIKE TO

- sit with a committed group of people for seven weeks;
- get nerdy about aliveness, sensation, sex, desire, healing, and breaking;
- make art of our lives and bodies!
- find supportive witnessing for your struggles and your victories;
- have a structure for explorations that can feel so structureless; 
- talk about taboo things openly and with love;
- find catharsis! be patient with comedowns and transitions;
- learn that there is a place made of people who value what you do, and from that place to act courageously in the world.
 
PLEASURE GARDEN THEORY

PLEASURE GARDENING (PG) is a transformative process through which people become more alive, more capable, more powerful together. It sees life’s meaning in becoming capable of new things, with others.

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.
JOY in this work is not the same as the image of HAPPINESS offered by Empire. JOYFUL transformation might involve happiness, and it can also entail a whole range of feelings: ecstasy, grief, overwhelm, excitement, pain, eeriness. By Empire we mean stultifying effects of the organised destruction under which we live. That which attempts to render everything profitable and controllable, administers war with other forms of life, and imposes rhythms and rituals that are isolating and absorptive of our lifeforce. PLEASURE GARDENING seeks to re-enchant the world with new rhythms and rituals.



“soil is an amazing, empathetic, and dynamic facilitator, who is an expert at bringing people together”

- T, pleasure garden participant