57. Intergenerational Pleasure
Sensual Self with Ev'Yan Whitney
Ev'Yan Whitney, Sexuality Doula®
4.7 • 758 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Prioritizing our pleasure to heal and liberate our ancestors. In this one, Ev’Yan speaks with Juju Bae—a medium and Hoodoo practitioner—about intergenerational pleasure and what it looks like to honor the pleasure practices of our ancestors. Juju talks about the audacity of Black joy, ancestral reverence, sex magic, and cultivating your intuition as a sixth sense. Ev’Yan also shares a practice to help you tune into the ancestral wisdom in your body.
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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 |
| 0:25.6 | and pleasures of your sensual body. Thank you for being here. |
| 0:44.9 | Hello, Sensual One, and welcome to another episode of Sensual Self. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm really jazzed about this episode I'm sharing with you today. |
| 0:55.0 | Because even though it's been a few months since this conversation was first recorded, |
| 0:58.0 | I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. |
| 1:00.4 | And not just the conversation. |
| 1:05.7 | I haven't been able to stop thinking about this concept of intergenerational pleasure and how important it is to make space for that in our lives, particularly as marginalized folks. |
| 1:13.5 | So many of us are familiar with intergenerational trauma. We're familiar with the toil and |
| 1:20.2 | struggle of our ancestors. And I know for me, I've been guilty of focusing only on that, on focusing on the ways that I need to |
| 1:31.1 | heal myself and break these intergenerational curses so that I can be a freer person than the |
| 1:37.8 | people who came before me. And sometimes that focus can lead to me being closed off to other things I can also feel into instead, |
| 1:49.5 | like joy and satisfaction and pleasure. |
| 1:56.6 | Intergenerational pleasure for me means thinking about the ways that my ancestors, the ones I know and do not know from way, way back in the day and also from the recent past, how they were able to access feelings of pleasure in their bodies, what rituals and traditions they had to connect themselves to joy, |
| 2:19.1 | and what communities they created to nurture that pleasure and that joy. |
| 2:25.6 | It also makes me think about, in a real way, how there were a lot of my ancestors that did not have time for pleasure, who did not have |
| 2:36.7 | access to feeling free and joyful in their bodies because their humanity was stripped from |
| 2:43.2 | them. And when I think about that, I get really sad. And I also feel a sense of responsibility that I must, with every intention that I can |
| 2:57.1 | muster, live my life to the fullest expression of pleasure and joy and freedom in my body. |
| 3:06.6 | To not just do it for myself, but to do it for them, to do it for my |
| 3:11.7 | ancestors who weren't able to do that in their lifetime. In this way, I see my sensual self |
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