Feel Pleasure After Trauma

Intimacy and pleasure may be difficult to experience with a history of trauma. This movement-based meditation will gently guide you to find ways to rediscover pleasure in your body at a pace and intensity that feels safe to your nervous system so that you can move through the fear of intimacy in your relationships, break patterns of disconnecting or dissociating from your body, and access enjoyable states of pleasure within yourself and with your loved ones.

Transcript

Hi,

This is Ori Krug,

Board Certified Dance Movement Therapist and Trauma and Relationship Expert.

Today,

I would love to guide you through a movement-based meditation to feel pleasure after previous traumatic experiences.

When you've experienced trauma through your body,

Whether physical trauma,

Emotional trauma,

Or both,

It can be really hard to relax and open up your body in order to feel pleasure,

Even if the trauma happened a long time ago.

So in this meditation,

I will guide you gently and safely to hopefully find pleasure in your body again so that you can take that experience into your relationships outside of here.

To begin this meditation,

Find yourself in a comfortable position,

Something that feels supportive to your body right now.

Not what you should do or what you think you should do,

But really finding a comfortable position that makes your body go.

That may be lying down,

Sitting up against a wall,

Or maybe standing up.

And once you've settled here,

Let's take three deep breaths together.

Breathing in,

And breathing out,

And breathing in,

And breathing out.

One last time,

Breathing in,

And breathing out.

You may close your eyes or lower your gaze,

Or if neither of those options feel comfortable,

Feel free to leave your eyes open.

I'm going to invite you now to organically start to move your body in ways that feel supportive and pleasurable to you,

Just in the same way that you found that initial position that felt supportive,

Comfortable,

And now maybe even pleasurable.

What would feel good to you right now?

Let's keep this simple.

You may find that surrendering your body weight to the floor,

As you lie down,

Feels really good,

Or maybe stretching certain parts of your body feels really indulgent.

Perhaps giving yourself a hug or caressing your arm or your leg in some way makes you feel pleasure inside and on your body.

Let this be an experiment,

Something that you play with and lead with curiosity.

Your only task right now is to explore what feels good,

Indulgent,

Supportive,

And or pleasurable in your body.

You may repeat the same movements over and over again,

Because if something's working,

And if something feels good,

There's no need to change it and make it complex.

But you may also find that whatever you're doing right now,

You're not doing it right.

Whatever position or movements you're doing,

Naturally shift and evolve into other movements,

Perhaps different movements,

Bigger movements,

Smaller.

There's no right or wrong.

Notice what is helping you feel pleasure in your body at this moment.

Is it self-touch?

Is it a certain kind of self-touch,

Perhaps light and tingly or more firm?

Maybe it's just a little bit of self-touch.

Maybe what feels pleasurable for you right now is expanding your arms out into space,

Taking up space,

Really feeling your body move outwards,

Or alternatively,

Moving more inwards,

Keeping your arms and your limbs close to your body.

Maybe something that resembles self-holding or self-hugging.

Maybe it's all of the above that feels pleasurable to you.

Maybe it is lying down and being still,

Just feeling the ground support all of your weight.

Or maybe what feels good to you right now is standing up and leaping or jumping through air,

Letting this sense of freedom feel great to you right now.

Again,

There is no right or wrong.

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Reviews

This was very helpful to me in realizing how I can feel pleasure. 🙏🥰