pleasure~gardens: Pleasure Practice Group

five unique practice~study sessions on pleasure, community, bodies, consent, transgression and more! catch them all

PLEASURE PRACTICE GROUP
at Gather, Brighton

Pleasure!!! I say we need more of it, especially in these trying times – not to escape, but to fortify ourselves. Especially to discern between pleasure as a life-giving technology inside our miraculous bodies that makes us more capable and alive vs. the “never-enough” scarcity-driven pleasure-seeking manufactured by capitalism.

Pleasure Practice Group is a facilitated space and a collective field to recommit to pleasure, embodiment, play, the Erotic, and to expand our uses and practices of sexuality.

read more here: pleasuregarden.me

IMPORTANT! It is a study group that is not afraid of practice — or to say 'no' to practice. If you have trouble with that please make sure to attend self-consent sessions. We are all here on our own journeys, and contribute to the collective pool of knowledge with our individual pleasure research, interests and kinks. It might not always be possible to know WHAT exactly we will do in each session, but it's more important HOW we do it. HOW: We move at the speed of trust even if it means sloooooow growing of real pleasures, we value showing up as ourselves + being real with feelings that come up is more important than having some kind of mentally pre-determined eXpEriENce.

DATES

Sat 11 April 2026, 7-9pm

(cancelled due to illness)

Sat 25 April 2026, 7-9pm
session 1: pleasure opening ceremony! pleasure gardening and pleasure practice group explained! special practice - honouring pleasure ancestors! somatics! resting!

Sat 2 May 2026, 7-9pm
session 2: liberating consent! self-consent! generative somatics! embodied consent! why affirmative consent might feel wrong! paired practices! trust and overwhelm and limits!

Sat 9 May, 7-9.30pm at Gather
session 3: playing as/with objects! just like dream machines i did in nyc only better!!!! be of service!! be of beauty!!! be of (n)oneness!! a holiday from an overactive mind!!!! new fantasy unlock!

Sat 16 May, 6-8.30pm outside in the woods
session 4: ecosexual forest! being free and flirty in the woods!! naked torso against the earth!! a flower in my mouth!!!! i’m a tree and some hot people are tied up to me! BREATHE!!

Sat 23 May, 7-9.30pm at Gather
final session!!! touch~friends!! multi-touch!! all that we learnt and more!! friendship makes the dreams come true! a celebration of pleasure!! on your own terms!

Each week will highlight and explore a new topic. As the group evolves, the topics will be guided by the desires of the participants. We will stay connected via a Telegram group for exxxtra pleasure research.

WHAT WILL WE DO?

Each session will contain:
1. guided embodied exercise
2. practical exploration time
3. discussion

Your study in this group can be hands-on or hands-off. Everybody is free to make whatever choices they want, and refusal is always welcome.

I would say it is a sex-positive, touch-positive and body-positive space, however, those are not the best terms because they might presuppose inherent goodness. So I use the term sex-possible (expressions of sexuality are welcome), touch-possible (touch might happen here if you want), and body-possible (we are swimming in body possibilities).

ACCESSIBILITY

Gather is a central wheelchair-accessible venue near Brighton Train Station. Read their access statement.

Everything is an invitation, and you are encouraged to reinvent, repurpose, and refuse the prompts and do what feels best to you. We keep asking “how can this feel even better?” even if the answer is to go do something else.
PPG explores pleasure, including bodily and sexual pleasure. The space is not sex-negative (where sex is seen as inherently bad) or sex-positive (where sex is seen as inherently good), but it is sex-possible (sexuality is welcome here). Everyone is invited to explore what sex is and isn’t for them, while helping shape new collective definitions. All sessions are different, so if you have questions, please get in touch.

about the facilitator

soil is a pleasure and liberatory educator and an artist based in brighton, uk. their previous work included pleasure gardens like "How To Find Oneself in a Queer Cuddle Puddle? Theory & Practice?" (camp trans, wales; ledward centre, brighton; south east dance, brighton), "touch~friends!! wow!!! wow!" (south east dance, brighton), "the queer art of spin the bottle" (WHOLE festival, germany), "Forest Lovers" (queer cruising unite, skinship, berlin).