Tantra
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Pathways to Embodied Pleasure
Saturday January 31st
5-9 pm
Cranston, RI @ Studio Exhale
Saturday February 7th, Shelburne, VT @Athletic Club
Saturday February 14th, Portland, ME @Maine Center for Taijiquan
Saturday February 28th, Watertown, MA @Watertown Center for Healing Arts
Saturday March 14th, Brooklyn, NY @Youtopia
Details
Pleasure is one of the most ancient languages of the human body — a source of healing, aliveness, and connection.
And yet for many of us, pleasure can feel unfamiliar, overwhelming, or even unsafe. Its intensity softens our usual mental defenses, dissolving the sense of control that feels protective. Because of this, pleasure is often misunderstood, mistrusted, or held at arm’s length.
Pathways to Embodied Pleasure is a gently immersive, five-part experience designed to help you reconnect with your body’s natural capacity for safety, trust, expression, and sensual vitality. Across the evening, you’ll move through a spacious arc that honors your boundaries, welcomes your pace, and invites a fuller relationship with your own embodied wisdom.
Here’s our journey:
Somatic Descent
Drop into a guided inner journey that supports nervous-system grounding and strengthens your sense of inner safety, trust, and personal power. This is foundational in contact improv…feeling the ground as your first partner.
Survival Mechanisms
From this resourced state, we will dance individually and then with a partner through expressing 5 survival patterns that detract from our capacity to be present to intimacy & pleasure. Bringing these to cellular consciousness will resource you to move into the rest of the evening with softer shields and awareness of how to choose pleasure.
Primal Energy Exploration
Gently explore the realm of erotic aliveness — the raw, instinctual energy that moves through every body — through movement and dance while staying rooted and present.
Nourish + Integrate
Enjoy a light snack and relaxed social space to digest, integrate, and connect.
Fluid Play Zones
Move freely between two areas:
– Open Play, for organic, self-guided exploration
– Facilitated Play, for structured invitations supported by skilled guidance
This container is built with care, clarity, and spaciousness, so you can meet pleasure at your own pace — with curiosity, empowerment, and trust.
NOTE: we will be exploring movement on the ground and standing and anywhere in between. I invite you to reflect on your comfort and/or willingness to let your body explore with curiosity in these ways with at least a foundational level of comfort.
♥ Accepting a love exchange on a sliding scale of $60-$120 per person via venmo @Jodi-Thomas-51
Please confirm your participation by January 30th.
There is a maximum of 25 people for this event to keep our container intimate. If you have any questions please email me at [email protected]
And yet for many of us, pleasure can feel unfamiliar, overwhelming, or even unsafe. Its intensity softens our usual mental defenses, dissolving the sense of control that feels protective. Because of this, pleasure is often misunderstood, mistrusted, or held at arm’s length.
Pathways to Embodied Pleasure is a gently immersive, five-part experience designed to help you reconnect with your body’s natural capacity for safety, trust, expression, and sensual vitality. Across the evening, you’ll move through a spacious arc that honors your boundaries, welcomes your pace, and invites a fuller relationship with your own embodied wisdom.
Here’s our journey:
Somatic Descent
Drop into a guided inner journey that supports nervous-system grounding and strengthens your sense of inner safety, trust, and personal power. This is foundational in contact improv…feeling the ground as your first partner.
Survival Mechanisms
From this resourced state, we will dance individually and then with a partner through expressing 5 survival patterns that detract from our capacity to be present to intimacy & pleasure. Bringing these to cellular consciousness will resource you to move into the rest of the evening with softer shields and awareness of how to choose pleasure.
Primal Energy Exploration
Gently explore the realm of erotic aliveness — the raw, instinctual energy that moves through every body — through movement and dance while staying rooted and present.
Nourish + Integrate
Enjoy a light snack and relaxed social space to digest, integrate, and connect.
Fluid Play Zones
Move freely between two areas:
– Open Play, for organic, self-guided exploration
– Facilitated Play, for structured invitations supported by skilled guidance
This container is built with care, clarity, and spaciousness, so you can meet pleasure at your own pace — with curiosity, empowerment, and trust.
NOTE: we will be exploring movement on the ground and standing and anywhere in between. I invite you to reflect on your comfort and/or willingness to let your body explore with curiosity in these ways with at least a foundational level of comfort.
♥ Accepting a love exchange on a sliding scale of $60-$120 per person via venmo @Jodi-Thomas-51
Please confirm your participation by January 30th.
There is a maximum of 25 people for this event to keep our container intimate. If you have any questions please email me at [email protected]
The Dance of Intimacy Tantric Sacred Circle
Saturday September 20th 4-6 pm followed by fun community activities ;)
Surrender
Details
This month we’ll focus on Surrender...presence to what is happening...releasing the armored resistance that has built up and inhibited your ability to flow. When your definitions of who you are and who you aren't harden, life becomes very limited. The only way to experience true freedom is through engaging innocently and authentically with each unfolding experience.
Please bring your own mug for tea, a favorite tea, a blanket to put on the ground (I will bring a couple but it’s best if everyone has their own to be cozy on the ground), natural bug spray (please do not bring or use deet... many people are very sensitive to this and so prefer natural – I will also bring some with me and have it available)
A few days before the puja I’ll send out an email with more details, including the address.
We will be in Alfred Maine in a friends beautiful backyard. Our facilitated Tantric Circle will be from 4-6 pm and then we have a luxurious amount of time for a potluck, a cuddle and anyone who would like to camp overnight is welcome.
♥ Accepting a love exchange of $60 per person via venmo @Jodi-Thomas-51
This puja has a maximum capacity of 20 people.
Please sign up with me as soon as you can…the very last day to sign up is on September 19th.
If you have any questions or are uncertain about your comfort level in this kind of container, please reach out and I’d be happy to have a short phone conversation. {[email protected]}
Sexuality, Spirituality & Shame
A lot of erotic energy, which is spiritual and sexual, is captured in social paradigms that simply don’t encompass the wholeness of who we are as humans. These belief systems create shame and jealousy and more that are based on shadows that we are not even conscious are behaving us.
Join me for a 2 hour virtual event that includes a discourse, somatic embodiment that invites a reorientation of your cellular consciousness and question time.
♥ Alchemize shadows of sexual shame preventing you from experiencing authentic pleasure
♥ Invite a renewed flow of erotic energy into all areas of your life
♥ Engage with others who are curious about how sexuality and spirituality hold the same resonance
This is a virtual event that will take place on Zoom from 7-9 pm Eastern Time on June 19th
♥ Accepting love exchanges of $48
If you are interested, please venmo me by June 18th and I will send you the zoom link to join us on June 19th :)
Join me for a 2 hour virtual event that includes a discourse, somatic embodiment that invites a reorientation of your cellular consciousness and question time.
♥ Alchemize shadows of sexual shame preventing you from experiencing authentic pleasure
♥ Invite a renewed flow of erotic energy into all areas of your life
♥ Engage with others who are curious about how sexuality and spirituality hold the same resonance
This is a virtual event that will take place on Zoom from 7-9 pm Eastern Time on June 19th
♥ Accepting love exchanges of $48
If you are interested, please venmo me by June 18th and I will send you the zoom link to join us on June 19th :)
Tantric Body Painting
As adults we often forget to play...this is an invitation to allow creativity, play, colors, movement, connection and sensuality to emerge.
Join us from 6-8 pm on February 16th to let your body give and receive conscious touch that is sparked by a desire to create beauty. We will begin with a somatic warm up to bring us all into a resonant presence, ground into a safe, consent based container and then play. No worries if you come alone...some people may be in groups of 2 and some may be more...no one will be left out :)
♥ Accepting love offerings of $48, please sign up by venmoing me @Jodi-Thomas-51 by Saturday February 15th. If you do not have venmo, please contact me directly to discuss other options.
Please arrive by 5:50 to settle in to the space. Bring a water bottle, comfy oldish clothes and any items that will make you comfortable to paint or be painted - fun clothes, a pillow with an old pillow case (all paints are water based but still have the possibility to stain).
Solstice Yoga - 51 Ceres Street in Societe Apothecary, Portsmouth, NH 03801
Join us from 6-8 pm on February 16th to let your body give and receive conscious touch that is sparked by a desire to create beauty. We will begin with a somatic warm up to bring us all into a resonant presence, ground into a safe, consent based container and then play. No worries if you come alone...some people may be in groups of 2 and some may be more...no one will be left out :)
♥ Accepting love offerings of $48, please sign up by venmoing me @Jodi-Thomas-51 by Saturday February 15th. If you do not have venmo, please contact me directly to discuss other options.
Please arrive by 5:50 to settle in to the space. Bring a water bottle, comfy oldish clothes and any items that will make you comfortable to paint or be painted - fun clothes, a pillow with an old pillow case (all paints are water based but still have the possibility to stain).
Solstice Yoga - 51 Ceres Street in Societe Apothecary, Portsmouth, NH 03801
Tantric Meditation Group
Tantra is an embodied spirituality practice. Dropping into a contemplation that connects body and spirit as a group can be a very powerful way to attune to your authentic self. The guided meditations will awaken cellular consciousness and offer a focal point that diminishes mental chatter.
If you have any questions, please feel free to write me [email protected] and I’d be happy to have a short call.
For now these gatherings will be bi-weekly – Every 1st & 3rd Friday of the month from 7:30-8:15 am at 410 High Street, Portsmouth. {please note I will be away for March 21st and so we will skip that week}
♥ Accepting love offerings of $11 per person.
The space holds a maximum of 8 people - please sign up by venmoing me @Jodi-Thomas-51 by the Thursday before your planned attendance. If money is an obstacle or you do not have venmo, please reach out to me and we can discuss other options.
If you have any questions, please feel free to write me [email protected] and I’d be happy to have a short call.
For now these gatherings will be bi-weekly – Every 1st & 3rd Friday of the month from 7:30-8:15 am at 410 High Street, Portsmouth. {please note I will be away for March 21st and so we will skip that week}
♥ Accepting love offerings of $11 per person.
The space holds a maximum of 8 people - please sign up by venmoing me @Jodi-Thomas-51 by the Thursday before your planned attendance. If money is an obstacle or you do not have venmo, please reach out to me and we can discuss other options.
