MEET EUPHEMIA

ABOUT EUPHEMIA (they/them)

​​Euphemia is a somatic coach and bestselling author of Slow Pleasure. 

Euphemia is trained in somatic coaching, International Coaching Federation, sex-positive education, sexual violence counselling, trauma-informed facilitation, and has a background in Community Cultural Development.

Their work aims to support people to feel more aliveness, pleasure, and nourishing connection to self, others, and the land. Even despite our collective crisis of injustice, pace and disconnection.

Euphemia understands pleasure and somatics as a practice of creating moments to pause, listen and remember, rather than ‘fix’ or pathologise.

‘Slow Pleasure’ is both the name of their book and their theory of change.  By learning to access the full spectrum of pleasure, drip by drip and microdose by microdose.

They’ve been featured in Elle, Cosmopolitan, Vice, Harper’s Bazaar, and multiple national radios and newspapers.

WAYS TO REMEMBER YOUR PLEASURE (AND WORK) WITH EUPHEMIA:

• Get a taster by buying their bestselling book, ‘Slow Pleasure: explore your pleasure spectrum’

• Sign up for their full moon and new moon museletters with practices, favourites, and reflections

• Sign up for a free solo 1:1 taster session to explore 3 or 6 month coaching

• Feel more pleasure more easefully with the Microdosing Pleasure audio library

• Explore UNFURLING: a 6-month group coaching for expanding our pleasure and aliveness

• Experience a deep dive Potency Session, a 1:1 coaching session

INFLUENCES:

Their current offerings are largely shaped by their somatic coaching training and daily practices; grounded in the practice of hope and joy; their desire for collective liberation in the personal and structural; animism; Indigenous-led ecology; and their background in Community Cultural Development. They are always imperfectly in-process with their own pleasure, embodiment, and collective liberation practices.

Their current teachers, spaces and practices are a combination of: Marika Heinrichs in politicised ancestral reconnection, self-organised Transmuting White Supremacy group with generative somatics, a daily movement practice, personal animist rituals.

Euphemia is of Scottish descent, born a settler on unceded Kulin Nation lands (colonially known as Melbourne, Australia), and a migrant to Tovaangar (colonially known as Los Angeles, California). They hold the identities and experiences of being white, queer non-binary, able-bodied, born middle-class, and a trauma survivor. 

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May we collectively move towards feeling more pleasure, while be more embodied, and feeling more choice.

Training related to pleasure, embodiment, and somatics:

• Studying Professional Certified Coaching with the International Coaching Federation

• Studying Somatic Coaching, and Somatic bodywork with Strozzi Institute

• Trained and endorsed Sexuality and Pleasure Educator, SFSI California

• California State Certified Sexual Violence Counselor, BAWAR

• Professional Member of American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT)

• Member of the Society of Australian Sexologists

• Trauma-Informed Facilitation, Cultivating Confidence

• Sex Education Training, Australian Medical Students’ Association Academy

• Facilitator, Cloud Catcher

• Community Cultural Development Masters, Melbourne University

• Cultural Competency, Synergistiq

TESTIMONIALS FROM PEERS:

"Euphemia has been a treasured guest facilitator on my Rest courses for the past four years, adored by participants for their easeful presence and capacity to create comfort around sometimes uncomfortable topics, including chronic pain, stress, trauma and desire. Euphemia is dedicated to embodying the values and commitments that shape their work and life, and it is an absolute joy and pleasure to be in relationship and collaboration with them." — jo buick, somatic practitioner and founding director of Collective Being