Pleasure Medicine Guidelines

This set of guidelines is to help you to be in the Pleasure Medicine session and in any external dynamics with peoplyou may find yourself in.

  • Your mental, physical and emotional wellbeing ourside of Pleasure Medicine is your responsibility. Me or Pleasure Medicine is not responsible for that. Please make sure you are getting the help, support, coaching or therapy you need. My role as facilitator is to create a safe, boundaried environment for the Pleasure Medicine session itself — anything outside of Pleasure Medicine, unless it directly invovles a problem you have with me or my facilitation, is not my responsibility. I am always here for you te reach out if you have any issues with myself, the way Pleasure Medicine is conducted, or anything that happens within a Pleasure Medicine session: dance@pleasuremedicine.co.uk

  • External dynamics/relationships/connections/collaborations: once you enter an outside dynamic with someone through or from Pleasure Medicine, that is your business. But here are some useful guidelines if this is new for you: (1) Communicate clearly about why you’re meeting, what you want the outcome to be with good clear limits and boundaries (2) Limits and boundaires can naturally change in an adult dynamic between two people — if this happens connect to your full body ‘yes’ and ‘no’ and communicate clearly. If you have have issues with knowing your ‘yes’ and ‘no’, again, make sure you are getting the help and support you need. We touch on it very lightly in the touch practice in the warm up for Pleasure Medicine. (3) If a dynamic that felt good on the dancefloor doesn’t translate to the outside world communicate clearly, directly and kindly about your differences so that Pleasure Medicine remains a safe space for you and the other to return to. Connection and clear communication are key. Again these are skills we learn in the Pleasure Medicine space.

  • Kindness, Care, Connection, Community: not everyone needs to be best friends, but in the Pleasure Medicine session everyone is to treat each other with kindness, respect and care. This means looking after your own needs, and those of others. We respect each others space and boundaries, what we want to do and what we don’t want to do. Tuning into your own boundaries is a constant work in progress, please make sure you are doing that work.

  • No substances. Pleasure Medicine is a sober space. It’s that simple.