BODY LANGUAGE:
a somatic erotic storytelling workshop
“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. For the demands of our released expectations lead us inevitably into actions which will help bring our lives into accordance with our needs, our knowledge, our desires...”
― Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
What stories live in the hollow of your throat? The softness of your thigh? The secret spaces between thought and desire? What happens when we let our bodies guide our stories?
In our next monthly meetup, we will explore words - & bodies. Part storytelling and writing, part somatic workshop, we will gently shape our sensual sentences on the skin of others, and submit an area of our own skin (of our choosing) in return.
WRITING FROM THE BODY
Here, in this intimate space, we dissolve the boundaries between body and text. Between what we dare to feel and what we dare to write. As we use each other’s bodies as a canvas we’ll see how a single letter can hold as much heat as touch. Watch as lines transform into letters, letters into words, trailing across skin like whispered secrets. Feel the power build as words become sentences, as your story begins to pulse with life. When flesh becomes parchment, what stories will you dare to tell?
“And the fear of our deepest cravings keeps them suspect, keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, and leads us to settle for or accept many facets of our oppression.”
― Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
The erotic isn't just about sex – it's the spark of life itself, our creativity, our generative force; the electric current that runs through our deepest connections and most vivid moments of aliveness. When we tap into this power, our writing transcends mere description to touch something primal and true.
Join us for this intimate gathering exactly one month before we explode into the wild festivities of CarniValentines – our larger celebration of love in all its forms.
What in us can awaken with the spring?...
YOUR FACILITATORS
RUTH JARVIS is one of our welfare leads for the Sanctuary Angels at Fox&Badge, curating sensual, caring experiences and spaces for our party-goers.
She has a background as a Bach flower therapist, which involves healing the self through conversation. She is trained as an assistant director in the film industry and runs her business, Mata Publishing, with adult education classes in creative writing. Her filmmaking, scriptwriting, poetry and stories explore the complexity of relationships, trauma narrative, and the exploration of the self through journeys of identity, love and pushing boundaries.
She holds space for women to explore their emotional connection to the somatic self through the written word, breaking down barriers and releasing the capacity to live as spiritually connected, authentic beings. See more of her work at instagram.com/feminine_tribulation
GLADYS SAN JUAN, originally from Miami, Florida had embraced life as an adopted Londoner calling SE London her home for the past 22 years. With a rich and versatile background, she is passionate about the creative visual arts, anthropology, music and narrative fiction. She channels her skills and talents into crafting stories that weave mysticism, spirituality with profound connections to the human psyche.
A Reiki Practitioner, Akashic Records guide and intuitive Tarot Reader. Her personal journey involved a strong presence with a kundalini rising that inspired her to explore sacred psychic sexuality through through Taoist and Egyptian practices seeking alchemy and ways to create next the wisdom of storytelling with the body’s somatic essence and its creative source through sexual energy which she feels is the creator be force that fosters our mental /emotional healing and pure alignment with our higher self. he’s also explored the erotic blueprint as well as the dark feminine and the role of the dominatrix where she feels it’s added another dimension to her work and personal growth as well as empowerment. Gladys facilitates a range of different events and workshops and has been collaborating with Fox&Badge for years in our welfare sanctuary as a team lead. She’s currently preparing to launch SoulFireMedia, a multimedia podcast production platform, exploring a variety of themes.
See more of her work at instagram.com/gsjsoulrealignment and @bansheeproductions