Daring to Rest

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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

Connect with Mary

The School of Sensual Living

Resources

The New York School of Burlesque

Mama Gena

Mary’s ‘My Fighting Mantra’ Blog

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk, MD

Sylvia Boorstein

Daring to Rest: Reclaim Your Power with Yoga Nidra Rest Meditation by Karen Brody