I call to our honored and beloved, well and wise ancestors of sacred sexuality, pleasure, and sensuality.
You who taught others to navigate shame, to honor it as a doorway, and to come into blissful dance with the truest desires of their hearts.
You who danced with Life as her lover, turn around now, reach out your hands to us and bring us with you. Pull us into dance so we may know once again, so we may remember the rhythm of ecstasy.
About This Arc
- Brings you into relationship with your pleasure ancestors
- Offers healing to your ancestors that will most benefit
- Liberates and emboldens you and your lineage against shame
- Increases your capacity for pleasure
- Offers your descendants a future with an increased capacity for pleasure
This work emerged as my special project for my final course with the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education. I spent 7-months refining this process into what it is. This is a growing process of Inheriting and Remembering.
The Offering
The structure of the ritual is focused around creating an energetic sacrament to be offered to your ancestors as a healing balm. A sacrament is something that is sacred because it has been blessed–like blessed water or blessed candles–that can then be included as an offering in a ritual. This energetic sacrament is created from the movement, heat, breath, sounds, and other somatic sensations of your body. Through your well and wise teaching ancestors, we will make an offering to those of your ancestors who found their desires to be a burden and their pleasures weighed down by shame.
The ritual is opened and closed with these prayers.
In-Person Ritual
Throughout the ritual I will invite you to share any somatic sensations that you are noticing. These may include images, sounds, smells, textures, temperatures. I will invite you to speak aloud to your ancestors to share with them what it’s like to receive exactly what you asked for.
Online Ritual
You may choose to conduct a practice during an online call with me, or on your own time with a call to follow after. Either way this ritual takes place in your space, and the experience and sensations that become the offering of the ritual are created by your practice with yourself.
Online arcs include the option of scheduling an in-person 1.5 hour final ritual session, subject to scheduling availability. This entire arc can be completed in an online setting.
Following this ritual we will remain in contact via email for integration. All clients are encouraged to book free 15-minute follow-ups for further integration. You are not set adrift alone from this process.
What Folks Are Saying About This Ritual
“I met spirits I did not know and confronted blocks around the experience of pleasure I hadn’t considered. I left with an understanding that my life as I live it is not random or out of line but a culmination of the deepest unattainable desires of many who came before me, and they watch me with pride, joy, and amazement. I breathe more luscious breaths, feeling for pleasure for its own sake and a sign of rightness rather than utility.”
“Relationships were really difficult, because I didn’t understand the possibility of love in abundance. I think maybe I was only theoretically aware of the information stored in the body, passed between bodies. I hadn’t had experience of it. Marissa’s work awakened me to wisdom that is being held in my body by the ancestors and, like turning the spigot on a well that has existed since deep time, helped me remember how to access it.”
How We Get There
Each session will begin and end with prayers to your ancestors of pleasure. The prayers serve to strengthen and embolden these well and wise ancestors for the container they hold in the final ritual, and to offer them gratitude for walking this path with you.
The first few sessions begin the way all of my work with clients begins. We will review the responses to your intake form and begin assessment and education around somatic language and Betty Martin’s Wheel of Consent. This education is intended to strengthen your voice and choice to begin to spin the thread of your “yes”, “no’, “maybe” and “I changed my mind” that weave the path to the final ritual.
For each following session leading up to the ritual, you will set your own intention for our time together. You decide how you would like to arrive to the ritual session, and what we do when we get there. There is no “right way” to make this offering to the ancestors. Your journey is the offering.
In my practice thus far with clients, this ritual has included erotic massage with and without genital touch. While there is a progression to receiving an erotic massage that could happen through these sessions, each path is unique to each individual client. Throughout these sessions we will workshop what feels like a completion and culmination of this process for you. We do not know what that path is until we begin to walk it.
Read more about how I developed this protocol here
Investment
Each in-person session will be 1.5 hours priced at $300 to allow for the spaciousness this process requires. Online sessions will be 1 hour priced at $200.
Honored and beloved well ancestors who have held the ocean of this space, we thank you.
To you we offer what wants to be offered, the experiences of this space.We offer this to you that we all may know what it is to swim freely in the ocean of our desires and to be nourished by the pleasure of life.
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