MEET EUPHEMIA
ABOUT EUPHEMIA (they/them)
Euphemia is a full spectrum pleasure 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 museletters
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
Browse their sexual technique video library
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.
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