"Alive and Whole: Unearthing, Honouring & Expressing your Sexual Desires" - 8 Week Online Journey

What would your life look like if you fully understood and embraced your own sexual needs and desires?

How would things be different for you? Would you be more confident? Unashamed? Alive?

What type of relationships would you find yourself in?

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Growing up, many of us were never given the tools to understand and embrace our own sexuality. We were never taught how to accept ourselves as sexual beings, how to explore our likes and dislikes and we definitely weren’t taught to express how we want to touch or be touched.

In order to get by in this world, we thought we had to bury our sexuality away in the places that no one would find them, afraid they might be shunned or rejected.

We think it’s about time that we unearthed our innate sexuality, to get to know our desires and to learn how to communicate these wonders to our partners, lovers and significant others. During this 8-week course, Dave Bevan & Ria Hope invite you to join them on a journey through the unearthing of your own innate sexual needs and desires.

We will be exploring how we can honour and bring to light the beautiful and sometimes challenging ways that our sexuality can present itself in our lives, to spend time getting to know our erotic selves better and to root ourselves back into our own, powerful sexual energy.

We will be exploring: 

• Common blocks and challenges: shame, confusion, numbness, lack of role models
• Understanding and embracing your desires
• Deconditioning and reclaiming your sexuality
• Embracing & honouring yourself as a sensual/sexual being
• What is self-love, how do we cultivate it and what’s it got to do with intimacy?
• Increasing self-confidence and self-worth
• Consent & boundaries
• Direct communication tools for healthy relationships

Each session incorporates:

• A commitment to offering unconditional welcome and care, no matter where you are at with your journey or how you are feeling
• Exercises to build trust and safety
• Embodiment exercises
• Wide-ranging and grounded information on sexuality
• A space to share and learn with others on the course
• Choice at each stage as to whether and how you participate

Some of you may be asking, is this course for me?

Well this course is for you if…

• You are longing to get more in touch with your sexuality, and to find a safe, supportive space to celebrate it
• You feel like you have hidden wants and needs that are asking for conscious, kind attention
• You are looking for help in communicating your sexual desires to your partner, partners, lovers… or anyone else!
• You long for a welcoming, sex-positive group environment that will accept you exactly as you are and support you in your journey

This course may not be for you if...

• You feel unable to commit whole-heartedly to the intention of listening without judgement when others share about sex and sexuality
• You do not feel safe doing this sort of work online
• You do not have the resources you need to support yourself in the context of an online course
• You sense that working on sexuality in this way might bring up trauma or other difficulty *in a way that you will not be able to manage or seek appropriate support for*

The Practicalities

'ALIVE AND WHOLE' spans across 8 weeks from the 31st January - 28th March. Each class falls on a Sunday, from 11am to 1.30pm GMT. 

The course includes 7 classes and 1 integration week, where we won’t hold a class, but will open Lahlita’s Lounge to meet informally to share and reflect on what we’ve learnt so far. 

Classes are delivered via Zoom, but we will be offering plenty of off-screen exercises for you to explore.

The Investment

Here in Lahlita's Room we believe in fair access to education on sexuality and relationships, and believe in this community as a way to provide that.

When pricing our workshops, masterclasses and courses we take into account the amount of hours it takes to create, market and deliver this content and from there, fairly work out a price to offer, without jeopardising the efforts of the facilitators.

50% of all profits go to The Lahlita Project organisation and the running of Lahlita's Room.

There are two free spaces for POC or trans people who otherwise cannot afford a ticket.

Otherwise your investment will be...

£210 - Full Price** // For those with a job and earning enough to support this work and the other subsidised spaces.

£160 - Concession** // For those in a trickier financial position.

£100 - Supported Place // For those heavily impacted by the current financial times, these spaces are extremely limited so please only choose this option if you absolutely need to.

**There are payment plans available for these options, to enquire please contact thelahlitaproject@gmail.com

Inclusion

Lahlita’s Room aims to be a space where all human beings can come together to learn about sexuality in a contained and welcoming community. We realise that this takes an acute level of consideration for the fact that everyone’s experiences of sexuality are not the same, and this often comes down to how marginalised you are in our society.

As a team, we educate ourselves regularly on the experiences of POC, queer, transand nonbinary people, disabled people and neurodivergent people and hope to use this listening to create workshops that are directly inclusive of all experiences.

If you have any words on how we can make this space, and specifically this course, more inclusive of yourself, please contact Ria at thelahlitaproject@gmail.com.

If you have any other questions at all about this course, payment, inclusion or anything else - however big or small - please contact Ria at thelahlitaproject@gmail.com.