Everyday Ecstasy
Join Sam for conversations about everyday ecstasy - how to orient to pleasure and purpose and live a life worth savouring. This podcast explores the existential, the esoteric and the erotic, getting phenomenological about the phenomenal, offering practices and pro tips for swimming in this cosmic soup.
Season one is a series about altered states in somatic sex education - what are they, how do they come about and how can we work with them ethically and usefully?
Everyday Ecstasy
Altered States with Betty Martin
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In this episode, Sam chats with Betty Martin, creator of the Wheel of Consent.
Betty and Sam discussed Betty's work in somatic sex education, focusing on altered states. Betty shares her journey from peer counselling to sacred intimacy and how her own experience of altered states in Celebrating the Body Electric informed her path. Sam and Betty chat about focused sensory awareness as a non-ordinary state, with particular attention to the quality of surrender and absorption in the taking and allowing quadrants. They also chat about plant medicine and somatic sex education, the potential in potentiating new pathways to pleasure and the potential pitfalls.
Find out more about Betty at https://www.wheelofconsent.org/
Find out more about Sam and their work at www.integratingintimacy.com
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