Sensual Being

An eight-week somatic course to explore + reconnect to your body and pleasure.

You are a sensual being. Your body is a soft vessel meant to experience pleasure, connection, and deep satisfaction. This is your innate nature.

But this fast-paced world has made you forget; a world that prioritizes mind over body, logic over feeling. A world that continues to overstimulate and trigger you. A world that profits off of your dissociation.

Maybe you’ve seen your body as an inconvenience and have treated it as such. Maybe you’ve gotten used to shutting down your needs and desires, to the extent that you can’t hear when your body is asking for something. Maybe the day-to-day stress of these times has made feeling good feel impossible.

If this sounds anything like you, you’re not alone. This is a very common experience.
But it’s not normal.

Your body is meant to be a site of enjoyment and inspiration, not just pain and stress. You’re meant to feel deeply connected to the beauty, pleasure, and spirit all around you. You’re meant to be deeply connected to yourself.

This isn’t something you need to learn. You just need to remember.

Are you ready to come back into remembrance of how soft and satisfied you can be? To be in a loving, receptive relationship with your body?

To feel more present, open, and alive?

Sensual Being will get you there.

Sensual Being is an intimate eight-week study, exploration, and embodiment of your sensual self.

Across eight live sessions, you’ll explore your body’s aliveness and the pleasure potential it holds using gentle somatic practices, writing prompts, playful weekly assignments, and additional resources to keep you curious and becoming.

Within eight weeks, you’ll remember how to feel and hear yourself—your sensations, emotions, needs, desires, and what makes you feel good.

You’ll become more body literate. You’ll tap into your softness as a source of power. You’ll find and liberate the voice of your pleasure.

And you’ll do this alongside a cohort of other sensual beings, feeling, seeking, and reconnecting alongside you.

Sensual Being will give you a supportive and inspiring space to help you remember and embody your sensual self in real time.

What you’ll receive during this intimate course:

  • Eight two-hour weekly sessions live on Zoom

  • Guided somatic practices + breathwork techniques to help you access your senses—both in and out of session

  • Pleasure-based exercises to awaken your body

  • Playful weekly assignments to bring you deeper into your sensual self

  • Connection, witnessing, and encouragement within an intimate cohort

  • Additional resources and support between sessions

Key course dates + times

Sessions will be every Thursday on Zoom starting July 3 through August 21.

  • Session 5 — July 31, 5:30pm - 7:30pm PT

  • Session 6 — August 7, 5:30pm - 7:30pm PT

  • Session 7 — August 14, 5:30pm - 7:30pm PT

  • Session 8 — August 21, 5:30pm - 7:30pm PT

  • Session 1 — July 3, 5:30pm - 8:00pm PT*

  • Session 2 — July 10, 5:30pm - 7:30pm PT

  • Session 3 — July 17, 5:30pm - 7:30pm PT

  • Session 4 — July 24, 5:30pm - 7:30pm PT

*Session 1 is 30 minutes longer to accommodate time for our course orientation, cohort introductions, and community guidelines.

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  • Sensuality 101—what it is, what it’s not, and how to engage with it as a daily practice

  • The felt-sense difference between being in your head and being in your body

  • How to slow down and pay attention with your senses

  • Letting sensation be a north star toward body awareness

  • How to reconnect to your body after dissociation

  • Pleasure as a resilience practice

  • And more!

During this course, we’ll explore sensuality and embodiment at the intersections of somatic awareness, emotional intelligence, nervous system regulation, movement, and pleasure as praxis.

We’ll spend the first few sessions exploring each of our senses—hearing, seeing, tasting, smelling, touching, interoception, and proprioception. Then, we’ll go deeper by feeling into our emotional and pleasure bodies, working with practices to open and nourish us.

This work will be done in a trauma-informed container rooted in curiosity, care, self-honesty, and vulnerability, as well as play.

What you’ll explore in Sensual Being:

This course will awaken sleeping parts of you and have you experiencing new ways of being in your body.

  • You’re tired of living solely in your head and want to be more in the soft animal of your body

  • You're craving for your life to be infused with more sweetness and pleasure

  • You know that being in and healing your body won’t always be easy, but you’re willing to do the work

  • You’re ready (maybe even excited) to shed old narratives and habits that keep you chronically disconnected

  • You loved my book or podcast, Sensual Self

Sensual Being is for you if…

  • You’re looking for more practices, techniques, and resources to hoard and never use

  • You feel satisfied with living life primarily in your thinking and rationalizing brain

  • You want to feel sensual immediately without doing the work to get there

  • You’re not ready to challenge the personal habits keeping you disconnected and numbed

  • You’re not interested in building community or engaging in mutual vulnerability

It’s NOT for you if…

Your sensual guide

    • Somatic Coaching training | Strozzi Institute

    • Breathwork Certification | Saideh Foxie

    • Somatics, Trauma, and Resilience | Staci K Haines

    • Embodiment Basics | The Embodiment Institute

    Some of my teachers and mentors have been: Prentis Hemphill, Staci K Haines, adrienne maree brown, and Richard Strozzi.

I’m Ev’Yan Whitney, and I’ve been studying, teaching, practicing, and decolonizing sensuality as an embodiment modality since 2011. My work has focused on feeling, healing, and enjoying the mind-body-pleasure connection.

My book and podcast, Sensual Self, explored some of these concepts, inviting people to tap into their body-based wisdom in accessible and playful ways. But sensuality isn’t meant to be just read about or listened to.

To really experience the pleasure and potency of your sensuality, you must practice it through your body—through your breath, skin, emotions, sensations, and desires. This is why I’m so excited to teach this course.

Within an 8-week container, I’ll create a space for you to discover your sensuality in real time, giving you everything I’ve learned during my tenure as a somatic practitioner, sensualist, and pleasure activist for nearly 14 years.

I cannot wait to share it with you.

I believe your sensuality is a portal into knowing, healing, and feeling yourself deeply.

Let’s walk through it together.

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Love from previous students and clients

“I am in absolute awe of the transformation and blossoming that has taken place for me while working with Ev'Yan. It's been literal magic. I have discovered parts of myself that I was longing to connect with. And I am more confident, body-conscious and tapped into my sensual power than ever before. [Ev’Yan] created the safest, most empowering space for me to explore my deepest desires, and has helped me completely redefine my relationship with my body.”

—Che Che Luna

“Working with Ev'Yan was both a pleasure and a gift. [They were] everything I could have imagined, considering I have been a long time fan and follower of [their] work. By having these open and honest discussions I began tearing down the walls of shame and discomfort and ultimately discovered a voice that I never knew existed with such strength. I am truly blessed to have spent the time I did working with [them].”

— Carla M.

“My work with Ev'Yan has been a completely transformational experience. I never expected to have such an incredible outcome after working with someone in such a small space of time, but Ev'Yan's approach is so beautiful, so understanding and encouraging, I felt able to open up in ways I would never have felt comfortable opening up to a stranger before. I have come away from my work with Ev'Yan with insight, healing and life lessons.”

—Hannah W.

“Working with Ev'Yan was the absolute best investment I could have ever done for myself. I would recommend this work to anyone. I understand my deepest desires, not just on a sexual level but on an emotional level, a body level, a soul level. I feel more confident in myself than I ever have before and that confidence has integrated itself into every aspect of my life. From my relationship with myself, with others and my career, it has truly been life-changing.”

— Marina M.

FAQs

  • Somatics is a therapeutic modality that works to heal the mind-body connection. Through specific body-based practices, somatics helps us hear, heal, and be in deeper relationship to what is happening below our necks—our sensations, moods, emotions, narratives, impulses, and actions. From that awareness and relationship, we can orient toward what we really care about and use our bodies to embody who we need to be in order to actualize those desires.

    Dominant culture prioritizes the thinking mind as the pinnacle of intelligence and healing. Somatics sees the body as just as wise, just as whole. You don’t have to have prior experience with somatics to join this course, but it’s helpful if you are at least curious about it!

  • The concept of sensuality has been overly and wrongfully sexualized, to the extent that sensuality and sexuality are often used interchangeably. My work over the last 14 years has focused on demystifying, decolonizing, and reclaiming sensuality, making it an accessible way for us to connect to and enjoy being in our bodies.

    The way I teach it, to be sensual is not about performing desire for someone else’s gaze or enjoyment, but a personal practice we can cultivate to tune back into ourselves in a world that is constantly trying to take us out.

    We will absolutely be diving more into this during the course, particularly what your practice of sensuality looks like.

  • Each session will be a mix of verbal and internal processing (writing, talking, and community sharing) and body-based practices (breathwork, stretching, senses-based exercises, and movement). We’ll begin and end our sessions with a communal check-in and grounding practice, and I’ll send you off with an assignment and prompts for you to work through between sessions. Body-work is an emergent process, so we’ll always make space for anything else that might come up as we explore.

  • Yes! We’ll be exploring similar concepts from the book—body mindfulness, self-awareness, pleasure and enjoyment through the senses—but with more depth. There will be new and engaging practices I wasn’t able to translate into the book that we’ll explore together in real time.

    Even if things feel familiar, they’ll be experienced in a different way because I’ll be guiding you to receive your body’s sensory information as it emerges. This’ll make for a richer, more embodied experience of being with your body and senses.

    Another difference: This work will be done and shared with community, not in insolation. We heal in community. When we feel good in community, it’s even more potent.

  • My aim is to keep this class relatively small to create an intimate group and for a more close-knit facilitation experience. So, anywhere between 20-30 people—could be slightly more or slightly less, depending on the group.

  • All sessions will be recorded, and everyone will get access to the recording and the weekly assignments via email.

    That said, full participation is important for the cohesion of the group and potency of our time together. I ask that you try your best to attend most of the sessions.

  • Sex and sexuality won’t be the primary focus of this course, but because we’ll be exploring pleasure and the body, it is bound to come up. If and when it does, we’ll make space to explore it together.

  • Discounted spots are $450 and are available to Black folks, Indigenous folks, and other folks of color, as well as queer and trans people, survivors, and people with disabilities.

    There are also 2 scholarship spots left. Apply here.

  • I do! Email me and I will get you set up: evyan@evyanwhitney.com

  • I got you! Email me at evyan@evyanwhitney.com and I can set you up.

  • Yes, but only for the members of the cohort to access.

  • It’s possible! It’s also possible that you’ll be introduced to concepts, practices, and new ways of being in your body through this course, especially if you’re interested in approaching your sensuality from a deeper and somatic perspective. As with everything I teach, I will meet you where you are. Come with beginner’s mind.

  • There are no refunds. I aim to create the best experience for you as possible and stand by my expertise as a practitioner. If something needs to shift for you during the course, please reach out to me and we’ll work something out.

  • Absolutely. Sensual Being is designed for everyone and every body, and it will meet you where you’re at. You are already a sensual being, even if you think you’re not. Sensual Being will reintroduce you to this part of yourself with each session.

Got more questions? Don’t hesitate to reach out: evyan@evyanwhitney.com

“To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.”

—James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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