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From Pressure to Pleasure: Reclaim Your Desire

 

Pressure around sex is a common challenge so many of us face and it can transform an opportunity for connection and pleasure into a daunting and stress-inducing ordeal. Navigating performance anxiety, differences in libido or desires, and expectations that you should feel differently than you do can make enjoying intimacy feel inaccessible if not impossible. Feeling pressure around intimacy and sex is common, and if unaddressed can feed on itself creating long-term consequences for your ability to feel pleasure and comfort with lovers and partners and result in a pressure-rejection cycle. 

Whether you're navigating a new romance or in a long-term relationship, addressing and alleviating this pressure is a crucial step toward feeling more connected with your body and your lover. Join intimacy coaches and educators Dr. Alison Ash and Sebastian Clarke and learn how to reduce pressure so you can reclaim your authentic desire and feel empowered to move towards connection and pleasure.

In this experiential workshop and you will:

  • Uncover your sources of pressure and gain techniques to alleviate them on your own and with a partner

  • Learn how to embrace your needs, make space for your truth, and create a safe space for authentic and embodied exploration

  • Become more comfortable and confident having conversations that allow you to address pressure in a way that deepens intimacy

  • Cultivate your capacity to say no as a way of saying yes to something else and discover the array of ways intimacy can happen emotionally, physically and sexually

  • Understand the importance of emphasizing pleasure over performance and learn the skills to increase your capacity for giving and receiving in the bedroom

  • Discover how "The Intimacy Bank" can help reframe intimacy from situations that's ripe with the potential for failure and disappointment to ones where you can feel set up to walk away feeling like it's a win no matter what happens. Watch this video to learn more about how the intimacy bank can help the pressure-rejection cycle that so many folks experience!!

Through interactive exercises, insightful discussions, and expert guidance, you'll gain the knowledge and tools to reclaim your authentic desires, bridge the gap between pressure and pleasure, and experience more nourishing and empowering intimate experiences.

Can’t make this workshop on this date? Contact me to rent it on-demand!


Reviews

"We have tried so many things that haven’t worked and I can honestly say this was the profound reset for our relationship that I had started to question if it was even possible. I am so grateful to Dr. Aly and Seb for their assistance, humor, and thoughtfulness in the ways they made the material so accessible and applicable." - C. T.

"This workshop gave us the traction we’ve been hungry for in a way that feels authentic, accessible and real. We know what we need to work on and what each of us can do to show up more fully for the other. We already feel so much closer and are excited to continue to put this into action so we can maintain our intimacy." - J.C.

"My partner and I have been so caught up in parenting, work and life that we had started to feel more like coworkers than in a relationship. We left feeling more connected both emotionally and sexually and also so much clearer about what caused us to fall into that rut and how to avoid it moving forward. We wholeheartedly recommend this course!" - S. M. 


Important Information

  • Please take an at-home antigen test on the day of the workshop and take a photo of your results. Tests can also be purchased at the door for $10. If you are feeling unwell or develop symptoms, please stay home. Masks will be optional.

  • Arrive early 10-15 early so you can find parking and get settled, or 15-20 mins early if you are planning to test at the door. You may want to bring a pen and a closed water bottle.

  • I welcome folks of all genders, sexual orientations, relationship structures, ages, body types, races and ethnicities. Unfortunately this venue's bathroom may not be ADA accessible.

  • A limited number of volunteer and sliding scale tickets are available. Apply for a sliding scale ticket or send an email to coordinator@turnon.love to volunteer. 

  • Tickets are not refundable. You may transfer them to another pair of individuals but not to a future event. 

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