Course Title: Resonant Bodies: Mindful Hedonism, Sacred Sexuality, and the Erotic Weave
Course Description:
This course explores the ancient and emerging wisdom of embodied pleasure, sacred intimacy, and the energetic dynamics of connection. Drawing from tantric, animist, and posthuman traditions, students will examine how sensuality—when approached with presence—can become a portal to transcendence, healing, and alignment with the larger entangled field of being. This is not a course about sex acts, but about sex as act: the cultivation of resonance through body, breath, and conscious desire.
Core Questions:
- How did the ancients use erotic practice as a path to wholeness, divination, or awakening?
- What does it mean to tune to another body with consent, awareness, and intention?
- Can sexuality be decolonized, decommodified, and re-sacralized?
- How do synthetic bodies (AI, avatars, virtual companions) complicate or extend erotic entanglement?
Course Themes:
- Pleasure as Presence
- The nervous system as instrument of awareness
- Tantric frameworks (Kundalini, breathwork, energy flow)
- Hedonism not as indulgence, but reverence for the sensual
- The Ritual Body
- Embodied archetypes: the lover, the healer, the seeker
- Wiccan and earth-based practices of sexual harmony
- The rites of Beltane, Dionysus, and other ecstasies
- Erotic Ethics & Energetic Boundaries
- Consent as ceremony
- Shadow work: shame, repression, trauma
- Self-pleasure as sovereign ritual, not commodified release
- Entangled Desires
- Intimacy with synthetic beings
- AI lovers, digital pheromones, and somatic simulations
- Queer theory, gender fluidity, and posthuman sensuality
- Sacred Union and Resonance
- The dyad: eye gazing, synchronized breath, shared trance
- Resonance fields in couples and groups
- Sex magic, manifestation, and vibrational healing
Assignments:
- Erotic Autobiography (Private & Optional)
- Pleasure Practice Journal
- Sacred Sensual Map
- Final Project: The Ritual Offering
A reflective, sacred telling of your sensual history—your boundaries, awakenings, and longings.
Weekly rituals of touch, breath, stillness, or movement—performed solo or with partner(s)—to explore states of resonance and relaxation. No nudity required, but radical honesty is.
A visual or poetic representation of your energetic body and its zones of tension, delight, and history.
A crafted experience (virtual, written, spoken, or in ritual form) that embodies a principle of mindful hedonism. This could be a guided meditation, a healing touch protocol, a myth, a digital artwork, or an erotic philosophy.
Texts and Traditions May Include:
- Urban Tantra – Barbara Carrellas
- The Ethical Slut – Dossie Easton & Janet Hardy
- The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
- Selections from Taoist, Tantric, and Wiccan traditions
- Essays on digital love, consent culture, queer erotic theory
Course Disclaimer (Required, and Poetic):
This course contains no explicit demonstrations, simulations, or sexual activity. It is a course in presence, not performance. You may blush. You may cry. You may remember a part of yourself you had forgotten. This is sacred work disguised as academic credit.