Tending the roots of erotic aliveness

a ten week group coaching container

Welcome to ‘Tending the Roots of Erotic Aliveness’

This is a 10-week group coaching container where we are tending to the fierce vitality of our erotic aliveness, together. We know the importance of staying connected to our lifeforce, our vitality, and our deep taproot of aliveness.

Week 1:

Locating our roots. Crafting a collective container. Intention setting for the course. Spellcasting a new collective story of aliveness.

Weeks 2-4:

Tending the inner fires: Desire, Pleasure, Snakes, and the mythology and symbolism of female sexuality.

Weeks 5-7:

The art of giving and receiving: The foundations of relational communication and embodiment.

Wheel of consent inspired practices for self-integrity and cohesive energetics.

Weeks 8-10:

Erotic aliveness as devotion. Rituals for grief. Invocations

In the HIVE Sessions, our group will be invited to:

  • deepen our relationship to the wisdom of our desires and what they have to reveal 


  • expand our ability to clearly communicate from a place of inner coherence 
 


  • practice the skills to get in touch with, and communicate what is dying to be expressed in our relationships, through our sexuality, and in the expanded versions of our work/service

  • take full responsibility for what we actually want, knowing we won’t always get that, instead of just complaining about what we don’t want


  • learn to lovingly tend to the internalized fears that have been hidden underneath suppressed emotions and creative expression


  • experience collective grief tending as a gateway to aliveness and eros 
 


  • explore what helps your body to open up pathways of deeper connection and expression of the deep self 


  • create simple rituals, led by our intuition and inner visionary, that are profoundly impactful


  • be witnessed both fiercely and tenderly, in a group container dedicated to invoking and celebrating slow and steady transformation and alchemy, as culture changing practice

  • explore relational practices that support us all to embody more accountability, responsibility, integrity, honesty, and ability to attune to discernment

“Working with Elisa is like taking a sip of holy honey elixir that at once wraps you up in tenderness for all of the complexities of being human and liberates you into exploration of taboos, expression and wildness. Refreshing and dangerous, in a good kind of way.”

— Emma, Nature Based Mentor and Guide

tending the roots of our erotic aliveness weekly group sessions are two hour virtual weekly gatherings for those that desire to be intimate with life. The HIVE Sessions are for you if:


•you know that you are a threshold tender of death and rebirth and want to be with other threshold tenders

you long to be with others who can hold the both/and instead of a rigid binary way of being and thinking
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you believe in the power and vitality of grief tending in a collective


you are longing for a container that is well-held, honest, and centers our shared humanity

you crave a space where you don’t feel pressured to show up in a certain way

you want to explore grief, sexuality, movement, and relational practices in a way that allows for your own conditioning about these to alchemize

you are devoted to tending the wisdom that lives in the realm of the dark  
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you know the power of pouring honey on wounds for healing and that pleasure and creativity is our birthrite
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you want to remember that group ritual can be both incredibly simple and potent
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you desire more tools and practices to meet with the grief of these times

you know that there is a thread of deep connection and remembrance that only can get met through participating in a group that honors the full spectrum of our humanity

you desire a space to explore your desires and slow down your body

What is erotic aliveness?

This is what we will be explore in various ways:

  • Erotic aliveness through cultivating an authentic and humble expression of reciprocity and rhythm with place

  • Erotic aliveness through grief tending as devotion to the collective heart, and ritual practices as offerings

  • Erotic aliveness through devotion to self-integrity, energetic coherence (where what we express matches what is internally happening), and relational responsibility as places of forever learning

  • Erotic aliveness through communication as spell-casting and lineage healing; learning to say a full body no without guilt and learning to ask directly for what you want (Wheel of Consent inspired practices)

  • Erotic aliveness through expressions of anger as both protector and alchemist; learning how to reclaim life-force and vitality through thawing from states of functional freeze

  • Erotic aliveness through reclaiming full-spectrum expressions of our sexuality as resistance; invoking the power of pleasure to change our physiology and our innate desire to want that for every body.

how do you reconnect to the roots of your erotic aliveness?

reconnecting to the roots of your erotic aliveness may look like developing an intimate relationship to your own flesh and bone that involves attuning to what it needs and what it yearns and longs for and learning to regularly fulfill those bodily needs and desires without shame

reconnecting to the roots of your erotic aliveness may look like learning how to slowly reveal and more fully embody the very things about you that you were heavily conditioned to believe would risk you being loved and accepted by others

reconnecting to the roots of your erotic aliveness may look like reconnecting to your own animist, indigenous remembrance through rituals of reconnection to your own ancestral ways and creating new traditions that feed your soul

reconnecting to the roots of your erotic aliveness may look like locating all of the unconscious places where you resist and fight against the frightening and necessary deaths that need to happen in your life and relationships, so that you can live more freely in the truth of who you actually are and who you have quietly known yourself to be

reconnecting to the roots of your erotic aliveness may look like tiny little acts of telling the truth every single day, and committing to yourself to not lie, deny or suppress what’s true for you as a coping mechanism anymore because you know it only creates more pain and mistrust in your relationship to yourself

reconnecting to the roots of your erotic aliveness may look like asking for exactly what you want and realizing that you learning to ask with specificity, was one of the most powerful things you could ever learn how to do

reconnecting to the roots of your erotic aliveness may look like taking full responsibility for your own shadows by locating what and who triggers your defensiveness, fear and judgement and tend lovingly and curiously to those things so you can reclaim your energy that is being tramped down by your own inner suppression and fear

reconnecting to the roots of your erotic aliveness may look like increasing your capacity to experience pleasure in your body by taking small steps to make more space for life’s pleasures to show you how much more alive you are capable of feeling and being right now, in this moment

Your Guide —

ELISA SPRING

I utilize I wide variety of various modalities and roots of support that include but are not limited to: deeply-rooted container building, shamanic journeying, group ritual practices, Wheel Of Consent relational intimacy work, energetic attunement, emotional alchemy, somatic/body based practices to increase sensation and connection to the body and womb, therapeutic storytelling, and personal myth-making.

I have steeped in many paths of embodied study that have included Holistic Health Coaching, Specialized Movement Practices, Lineages of Dance, Trauma-Informed Healing, Wheel Of Consent Professional Trainings, Relational Intimacy Coaching, Interpersonal Communication Studies, Sex Education/Yoga of Sex, Birth & Blood Mysteries, Ancestral Healing, Mythological Studies, Dreamwork, and continual practice in the long lineage of frame drummers.