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How would you describe your relationship with your body? Many of us struggle with feelings of disconnection or shame, and we only allow ourselves pleasure in the form of reward for or recovery from hard work. What if we could not just make peace with our bodies, but learn to love them and trust their wisdom? What if we made pleasure a regular practice and used it to fuel our creative work? What if we could harness the power of sensual living as a pathway to fulfillment?
Mary Lofgren is the creator of The School of Sensual Living, a platform designed to help us become best friends with our bodies by savoring life through the senses. She is a self-described sensual savant, passionate writer, former burlesque sensation, licensed esthetician, experienced Qoya and yoga teacher, and advocate of sensual, embodied living. Mary believes that our bodies can be our greatest allies and most cherished works of art, and she combines her background in movement, mindfulness, beauty and feminine spirituality to help us experience the beauty that comes from being in a body.
Today, Mary joins me to explain how a transformation around her body led her to burlesque and share her view of the experience as a sacrament to the divine feminine. She discusses her take on sensuality as a feminine approach to mindfulness, describing why an aversion to feeling keeps us from being fully present and how we have the tools for fulfillment within the wisdom of our own bodies. Listen in for Mary’s insight on reframing pleasure as source, the fuel that inspires our creative work, and learn how The School of Sensual Living provides a deep level of body-based healing.
Key Takeaways
How Mary’s transformation around her body led her to burlesque
Mary’s view of burlesque as a sacrament to the divine feminine
How Mary sees sensuality as a feminine approach to mindfulness
Why an aversion to feeling holds us back from being fully present
How we have the tools for fulfillment within our own bodies
Using the pleasure of the present moment to be with the unknown
The clarity around Mary’s decision to return to her birth name
Mary’s insight that our bodies have the answers we seek
Mary’s reframe of pleasure as the source that fuels our work
How Mary seeks to provide a deep level of body-based healing
Mary’s understanding of true rest as the act of letting go
