The Experience

Pleasure isn’t something you have to earn.

It is something you can learn to notice.

When was the last time you experienced pleasure without feeling as though everything else needed to be finished first?

For many women, pleasure becomes something reserved for vacations, special occasions, or the rare moment when every responsibility has been handled.

Work comes first.

Family comes first.

Everyone else’s needs come first.

Somewhere along the way, many women stop asking one simple question:

What brings me alive?

The Pleasure Practice™ is an experiential workshop that invites you to explore pleasure not as indulgence, reward, or escape—but as a meaningful part of everyday life.

Rather than focusing only on sexuality, this experience explores pleasure in its many forms:

The warmth of the sun on your skin.

A conversation that makes you feel seen.

Food you slow down enough to taste.

Music that moves you.

Creative expression.

Rest.

Laughter.

Beauty.

Movement.

Intimacy.

Wonder.

And yes, sexuality—when that feels relevant to you.

Through evidence-informed education, somatic awareness, sensory exploration, reflection, movement, and community conversation, you’ll begin noticing the people, places, sensations, environments, and experiences that bring more enjoyment and aliveness into your life.

Because pleasure doesn’t only exist in extraordinary moments.

It is often waiting inside ordinary ones.

You’ll Experience

🌿 Redefining Pleasure

Explore the meanings and messages you have inherited about pleasure.

You may reflect on:

• What you were taught pleasure meant

• Whether pleasure was associated with guilt, selfishness, danger, or excess

• Who you learned was allowed to experience pleasure

• Whether pleasure became something you had to deserve

• How your relationship with pleasure has changed over time

• What pleasure means to you now

This experience does not prescribe one definition of pleasure.

You are invited to discover your own.

🧭 Your PleasureFWRD Blueprint™

Begin identifying the experiences and qualities that help you feel most connected to yourself and your life.

Your Blueprint may explore emotional, relational, sensory, creative, physical, intellectual, spiritual, and erotic pleasure.

You choose which areas feel relevant and what you want to keep private.

🌸 Sensory Exploration

Move through gentle, self-directed invitations involving sight, sound, scent, taste, texture, movement, and imagination.

The goal is not to force enjoyment.

It is to notice your authentic responses:

More.

Less.

Yes.

No.

Maybe.

Not today.

I’m curious.

I’ve had enough.

Pleasure includes the freedom to recognize what does not feel pleasurable to you.

✨ Recognizing Pleasure Barriers

Explore the habits, beliefs, and circumstances that may make pleasure difficult to notice or prioritize.

These may include:

• Guilt

• Busyness

• Perfectionism

• Caregiving

• Disconnection from the body

• Fear of being judged

• Waiting until everything is finished

• Believing pleasure must be productive

• Focusing on what you should enjoy instead of what you actually enjoy

You will not be asked to force positivity or override difficult emotions.

🗂️ Create Your Pleasure Portfolio™

Build a personal collection of the moments, environments, relationships, sensations, activities, and rituals that bring you alive.

Your Pleasure Portfolio™ may include:

• Five-minute everyday pleasures

• Sensory pleasures

• Restful pleasures

• Creative pleasures

• Relational pleasures

• Experiences of beauty and wonder

• Movement and play

• Intimacy and eroticism, if personally relevant

• Pleasures that cost nothing

• Pleasures you want to rediscover

🌱 Design Your Daily Pleasure Practice

Choose one small, realistic way to notice or invite pleasure into everyday life.

Your practice is not another task to perform perfectly.

It is an experiment in paying attention.

🌙 Reflection & Integration

Close with journaling and optional community conversation.

You are always in control of what you share.

You’ll Carry Forward

• A broader, more personal understanding of pleasure

• Greater awareness of ordinary moments that bring you alive

• Insight into beliefs or habits that may limit pleasure

• Your PleasureFWRD Blueprint™

• Your personalized Pleasure Portfolio™

• A simple daily pleasure practice

• Greater permission to experience enjoyment without having to earn it

Perfect For

Women who feel disconnected from joy, overwhelmed by responsibilities, curious about living more intentionally, or ready to reconnect with pleasure beyond vacations and special occasions.

No previous experience is necessary.

Good to Know

Designed For

Women and femme-aligned adults, ages 18+

Experience Level

Open to all. No previous somatic or sexuality workshop experience is required.

What to Bring

• Journal

• Water bottle

• Curiosity

• A willingness to notice without forcing a particular response

Sexual Content

Pleasure and sexuality may be discussed as one possible dimension of human experience, but sexuality is not the sole focus of this workshop.

There is no nudity, sexual activity, genital contact, breast contact, or erotic facilitator touch.

Touch

Sensory activities are clothed, optional, and self-directed. Mayra does not provide massage, tissue manipulation, or intimate or erotic touch.

This experience does not require participant-to-participant physical touch.

A Note About Emotional Safety

Mayra facilitates through a trauma-informed lens and can hold grounded, compassionate space for emotions that may arise.

Pleasure practices are never used to dismiss grief, stress, anger, pain, or other difficult experiences. You will not be pressured to feel good, share personal information, discuss sexuality, or continue an activity that does not feel supportive.

The Pleasure Practice provides education, somatic awareness, sensory exploration, reflection, and personal ritual design. It is not psychotherapy, trauma treatment, medical care, sexual therapy, or crisis support.

Pleasure is not a destination.

It is a relationship with what makes you feel alive.