This is my love letter to you. As your somatic practitioner, pleasure coach, and bodyworker, I am always profoundly inspired and honored to witness your bravery, vulnerability, strength, and compassion for yourself and others.

People are often curious about my work and like to ask me what I do as somatic sex educator and trauma practitioner. Instead of discussing my field - which is multifaceted and ever-changing- I prefer to talk to folx about why my clients come to see me.

The ongoing horrors of the massive bombardment, displacement, and destruction within the Gaza Strip is real and shocking. In this post, River reflects on their practices and what place pleasure, the body, and gratitude and enjoyment of the human experience may have within our activism. Let us not burn down to the wick and forget the people of Gaza and beyond.

With the changing of the seasons, what intentions are you setting for yourself and your pleasure? In this post, River talks about their own challenges to the shortening of day length, their intentions to ward of depression and deepen their relationship to their body and creativity.

In honor of Masturbation May (and any other day) I wrote these tips and practices to support folx in creating and fostering of a self-pleasure practice. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but one that hopefully inspires you to tune into your erotic sensations and the delights of being in your body

After the overturn of Roe v Wade, what does it mean to care for each other and tend the shocks in our bodies? Tending to your shocks means noticing what is going on in your body and giving time and space to feel your feelings. It means acknowledging the places on our body where we are bracing and holding and offering these places touch and attention. Weave in care routines that are both supportive of yourself and supportive of caring for others.

In the spirit of getting to know each other a bit better, here’s a little about me! My name is River Drosera, I am a queer somatic sex educator. I use they/them pronouns and I live and work on Onöndowa’ga:’ land (Rochester, NY).