Pleasure, Shame and the Sacred Art of Holding Space

Pleasure, Shame and the Sacred Art of Holding Space

From Love, Sex & Freedom Podcast by Embodied Awakening Academy

September 28, 2025 · 17 min

About this episode

Chantelle Raven explores the expansion of our capacity for pleasure and the importance of holding space for joy and love in our lives.

Can you let yourself feel good? Like, really good... in your body, in your life, in your truth? In this live recording from the Body Transformation Retreat in Bali, Chantelle Raven invites us into a deeper reckoning with what it truly means to expand our capacity for pleasure. So often on the healing path we focus on pain, shadows, trauma, but what happens when life offers you joy, love, beauty, and Eros? Can your nervous system hold that too? This isn’t just about bliss. It’s about reparenti...

People in this episode

Host: Chantelle Raven

Topics covered

  • pleasure
  • shame
  • healing
  • nervous system
  • joy
  • love
  • beauty
  • Eros

Keywords

  • Body Transformation Retreat
  • Bali
  • reparenting

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Places: Bali

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