Tending the roots of erotic aliveness
a ten week group coaching container for those identifying as Women
Welcome to ‘Tending the Roots of Erotic Aliveness’.
This exploratory class is a 10-week group coaching container where we are tending to the fierce vitality of our erotic aliveness, together.
Why erotic? Because the erotic is connected to everything that we have been conditioned to de-prioritize in our lives. Erotic aliveness is the pulse that we have to actively keep tending to, if we desire to live a life that is inspired, ignited, and connected to a greater web of visceral remembrance.
We know the importance of staying connected to our life-force, our vitality, and our deep taproot of aliveness. But it can be difficult to center these threads when we live in the constraints of Capitalism, Supremacy culture, and Patriarchy.
I have found that there is no authentic or sustainable way to nurture these roots of aliveness without learning how to be in an intimate relationship to the grief and the anger that lives in our bones. We will honor these emotions and we will create outlets for their expression. If we don’t tend to them, then we have less access to the rivers of our life-force.
This 10-week container will be a place of accountability, inspiration, and continual invitations to our aliveness. Everything will be an invitation, not a requirement. You are encouraged to be exactly where you are in all moments. As a consent teacher, I will consistently remind the group of their self-responsibility for tracking their capacity, stepping back when needed, and being honest with themselves about their needs during the class.
We will explore the ways in which our erotic pulse is being constricted within our lives and relationships, and how to compassionately tend to those places that are creating resistance to what wants to come through us.
We will be working intimately with our relationship to our body, to place, to desire, and to our self-expression. The vital lifeforce that runs through us will be centered as we devote ourselves to tending the roots of our erotic aliveness, in a group full of inspired, honest, and erotically alive women.
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 Tending to the roots of erotic aliveness 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. This group coaching container is 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 the places where you resist and fight against the 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 know 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 messily 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
Sometimes we have to be the ones who create what we deeply long to experience in the culture.
Sometimes this desire is the very thing that pulls us towards and into what it is that is longing for us to embody.
Desire has gotten a bad rap because of being so misunderstood.
Desire invites us to feel the things that help us to ignite our creative imagination,
that then become daily practices of anchoring in new levels of creativity and connection to what matters to us.
If we all wait for other people to craft into being what we desire and long for, we will likely become increasingly frustrated and abundantly resentful.
Your longings are wise.
Do they all get to be fulfilled?
Is that really the point?
I don’t know.
Are you curious (and brave enough) to explore the underbelly of them to see what it is that brings them alive?
Rivers of the erotic, that which is the elixir of creative vitality in its many forms, lie dormant inside of most humans.
They are dormant because we have been made to fear them.
And when we mistrust our desires and we ignore their whispers,
we miss the much deeper truth that is contained within them,
that can often reveal to us what matters to us and what it is we long for our culture to embody.
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.
