54. Pleasure Is the Point
Sensual Self with Ev'Yan Whitney
Ev'Yan Whitney, Sexuality Doula®
4.7 • 758 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
You are responsible for your pleasure, so what are you doing with it? In this one, Ev'Yan speaks with the brilliant adrienne maree brown about pleasure—the practice of it and why we must engage in the radical act of pursuing it. They talk about adrienne’s book Pleasure Activism, the importance of feeling yourself and your body, and how to create more pleasure in your life. adrienne also offers some potent words about emotional intelligence, working with somatics, and how to balance excess and boundaries within pleasure. Ev'Yan also shares a sensual practice to help you discover your pleasure.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to sensual self. |
| 0:15.1 | I'm Evian Whitney, and this is a space for you to slow down, tune in, heal and feel the sensations and |
| 0:26.2 | pleasures of your sensual body. Thank you for being here. I am really excited to be here with you all today. And before we get into it, I want to take a second |
| 0:43.7 | to say thank you. I want to say thank you for all of your love and excitement about the |
| 0:51.9 | announcement of my new book, Sent You'll Selle. |
| 0:56.2 | To all of you who have pre-ordered, to all of you who have sent me ecstatic, all |
| 1:02.6 | caps messages about how excited you are about this book, to everyone who has shared on the |
| 1:08.3 | internet and also bought copies for their friends. Thank you. |
| 1:13.1 | Thank you so much for your support. Thank you for your kindness. And thank you for spreading the |
| 1:19.2 | word. I mean, ah, my first book. I am just so excited and I am so thrilled that so many of you will be able to hold this book in your hands really soon. |
| 1:33.3 | If you have no idea what I'm talking about, if you're new here, please check out episode 53 where I go in depth about my new book and also this newish podcast. If it's easier, |
| 1:49.9 | you can also just click the link in the show notes. Okay, so here we are officially beginning this new journey of sensuality, this new journey of embodiment and |
| 2:06.4 | pleasure, and who better to get us grounded in this mission of slowing down and feeling good |
| 2:14.7 | in our bodies than Adrian Marie Brown. She is the author of many, many books, |
| 2:22.5 | but today we're diving deep into pleasure activism. I've been curiously and seriously exploring |
| 2:32.6 | what pleasure is for the last few years, both in my work |
| 2:37.2 | and also in my own personal experience of it. |
| 2:41.8 | I've been wanting to know what pleasure is, not just the generic definition of it that |
| 2:46.7 | you might find in the dictionary, but what it is to me, like how pleasure feels in my body |
| 2:53.5 | and what my body needs to release or open up to in order to fully feel into feeling good. |
| 3:01.9 | And not just from a sexual place, but from this platonic place, as I like to say, this day-to-day experience and |
| 3:11.1 | practice of pleasure and feeling good. Reading pleasure activism last year got me on a track |
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