Pleasure Alchemy: Deepening Emotional Intelligence Through Rituals and Sensual Somatics

What if pleasure is not a luxury, but a doorway to freedom? What if it could serve as prayer, medicine, and personal power? And when was the last time you felt completely alive in your body, without apology?

Pleasure Alchemy

This somatic journey is designed to awaken, support, and empower participants through the sacred practice of sensual embodiment. By engaging all five senses through touch, movement, and sound rituals, the experience invites you to explore how shame can be transformed and how pleasure can be reclaimed as a healing path. In community, we will co-create alchemy through collective care and shared presence.

Participants are invited to experience themselves more fully and authentically through:

• Activating the body temple with guided somatic practices, breathwork, and movement rituals that reconnect you to the sensual body as a source of truth, beauty, and divine intelligence.
• Rewiring shame into sovereignty through compassionate inquiry and release practices that explore the roots of erotic shame.
• Exploring the alchemy of touch with guided consensual touch rituals, both solo and partnered, to help reawaken pleasure pathways and open doors to healing and intimacy.
• Awakening the inner lover through mirror work, sensual self-devotion practices, and energetic cultivation to deepen connection with the erotic self.
• Reclaiming pleasure as medicine through sound healing, journaling, and group integration circles, with tools to anchor the wisdom of pleasure into daily life as an act of self-love and spiritual power.

Join this opportunity to reclaim pleasure as a source of liberation, personal power, and deeper connection in community. Pleasure is not simply indulgence — it is medicine.

Please Note: This experience is best received somatically, through the body and through community ritual. Learning through touch and presence is invited, and participation is always your choice. Sensuality will be welcomed into the space, but no overt sexual behavior will be part of the workshop.

Recommended reading: All About Love, by bell hooks; Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown; Falling Back in Love with Being Human by Kai Cheng Thom

"Pleasure is the measure of your aliveness. It is not frivolous — it is your birthright, your compass, and your healing."

—Anonymous

Faculty

Leah Diamond is devoted to helping others communicate mindfully and with confidence. A meditation teacher with more than 40 years of performance experience and a background in corporate communications management, she creates brave spaces for transformation and fosters deep connection through compassion-based practices.

Tony Holmes (aka The Love Warrior) is a transformational guide and the creator of Pleasure Alchemy, blending sacred sexuality, somatic healing, and emotional alchemy to awaken embodied liberation, radical self-love, and the power of pleasure as a path to wholeness.

shiloh burton is a somatic practitioner, educator, and meditation teacher who weaves justice, art, and embodiment into spaces for healing, pleasure, and liberation — inviting truth-telling, repair, and the sacred practice of being fully human in community.

Program Details

This program is full.

Duration: Two Weeks (December 21–25, 2026)

Accommodations: Housing for LEEP students is dorm-style and gender-inclusive, with four students sharing a room.

Tuition & Fees: Tuition of $1600 for two-week programs includes accommodations, meals, and the workshop. A non-refundable $20 fee is collected when you apply and will be applied to your deposit if you are accepted. Upon acceptance, a non-refundable deposit of $800 holds your space for two-week programs.

COVID Update: All students must provide proof of negative test results at check-in.