Human Nature
Pleasure Measure
Pulsations, Jouissance
The Breathing of Life, Itself
This project is a site for learning, a movement study, a life art practice, an embroidery of many, many areas of inquiry in the orbit of nourishing life, creative source, eros, and amrta - the nectar of life, sexual elixir. It is a liberatory practice that invites radical ways of working with embodiment in culture, spiritual practice, and daily life.
What started in 2018 as a personal research into Taoist sexual practices as they relate to creative source has turned into an unwieldy, fecund, creative, connecting, and regenerative site for learning and place for shared inquiry. It's a research that is based in practice, and based in the kind of knowledge that comes from movement, and from the inheritances of Tuning Scores, Amerta, and qigong.
The felt experience of Pleasure Measure is that true pleasure is inextricably emergent from right relation. And that as we increasingly access our life's energy, so too our creative energy. Life Source / Life Force. And these relations grow from our living relation with life, itself. The Tao as orgasm as the pulsing of life. The research has taken me down paths as divergent as Taoist ancient healing and sexual practices, Amerta Movement, Tuning Scores, qigong practices, Indigenous and Native American Studies, drawing to access, mapping to enact, sacred site research, decolonial and Landback practices, pollination, pendulation, trans and gender non-conforming study, new somatic research, cultural somatics, New Landings, queer and critical race studies, embodied language and song, research into womxn's health and reproduction, hormones, endocrine and perimenopasal study, disability study, the intersections of black radical study and the dismantling of fatphobia, experiments in sexuality, the feldenkrais method, experiential anatomy, desire, and sensuality, the biome, and more. Many sources, much gratitude, sharing references in process.
This material is meant to be shared, and benefits from conversations over time.
