Candia Raquel - Choosing Pleasure: Maturity, Boundaries, and Sensuality

01/15/24 • 60 min

Sensuality is our birthright, says my guest Candia Raquel. Sensuality is pleasure derived from our sensation, free from inhibition and full of self-expression.

To be with the sensuous is to be connected to the present.

Our modern culture numbs us from our bodies. Pleasure is sold as a product (go get something nice at Starbucks). We're encouraged to hustle, work hard, and sacrifice. and defer the pleasures of life till retiring on the beach.

Being numb is a big problem, because it disconnects us from what makes us really us. Instead of choosing what's good for us, we comply with society or fall back into autopilot.

If we have been numb, pursuing pleasure becomes dramatic. We need over-the-top experiences like big vacations, transformative ceremonies, or go bungee jumping to feel pleasure.

Through connecting with our felt-sense, and what's pleasurable helps us become more authentic, to mature, make better decisions and to better assert our boundaries.

Expect to hear about:

the relationship between pain and pleasure.
how our culture numbs us and commodifies pleasure.
people pleasing and internal authority.
know thyself is more than having a story about ourselves.
how compulsion is not sexy.
how our vital animal state is alive and ready to act while also at rest.

Candia Raquel is a Mexican sensualist, scientist, artist and woman that hosts The Sensual Sessions podcast and Founded Centro De Poder®, who enjoys contemplating trees and drinking tea. Dedicated to helping workaholics overcome numbness and embody sensuality through somatic movement. https://www.instagram.com/candiaraquel/ https://www.centrodepoder.com/

Hi, I’m Jeffrey. As a Feldenkrais and somatic movement practitioner I help you get in touch with your body so you can unravel old sticky patterns and make way for greater creativity, power and joyful play.

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Sensuality is our birthright, says my guest Candia Raquel. Sensuality is pleasure derived from our sensation, free from inhibition and full of self-expression.

To be with the sensuous is to be connected to the present.

Being numb is a big problem, because it disconnects us from what makes us really us. Instead of choosing what's good for us, we comply with society or fall back into autopilot.

If we have been numb, pursuing pleasure becomes dramatic. We need over-the-top experiences like big vacations, transformative ceremonies, or go bungee jumping to feel pleasure.

Through connecting with our felt-sense, and what's pleasurable helps us become more authentic, to mature, make better decisions and to better assert our boundaries.

Expect to hear about:

the relationship between pain and pleasure.
how our culture numbs us and commodifies pleasure.
people pleasing and internal authority.
know thyself is more than having a story about ourselves.
how compulsion is not sexy.
how our vital animal state is alive and ready to act while also at rest.

Want to put the ideas in this podcast to work?

You can book a free 20 minute consult call to find out if we’re a good fit for 1:1 coaching. Learn more here.

Join the newsletter to be the first to hear about future opportunities to work with me.

Download my free lesson: Effortless Freedom in Moving

Download my free guide: 9 Surprising Benefits of the Feldenkrais Method

Get Your Questions Answered!

Submit your questions! I will answer them on a future episode of the podcast.

I'm directing a documentary film about Feldenkrais. Check out the Teaser Trailer.

Follow me on Instagram: @expandyourability

Had an Aha? Let me know: [email protected]

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(Re)Introducing Jeffrey and the Podcast

Welcome to the Expand Your Ability podcast! This show is about how we can empower ourselves through movement, curiosity, play and awareness.

I've done a lot of continued study in the past year and so I thought I would (re)introduce myself.

If you're new here, welcome! We will get you caught up to speed on what this show is about. If you've been a long time listener, this episode will tie some threads together and introduce some new ones.

On this episode, you can expect to hear: - a brief version of my story. - the 3 somatic movements modalities that I am based in (Feldenkrais, Kinesa, Emotional Body). - the topic of attachment theory. - the upcoming Feldenkrais Documentary. - ways to work with me.

Want to put the ideas in this podcast to work?

You can book a free 30 minute consult call to find out if we’re a good fit for 1:1 coaching. Learn more here.

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Download my free lesson: Effortless Freedom in Moving

Download my free guide: 9 Surprising Benefits of the Feldenkrais Method

Get Your Questions Answered!

Submit your questions! I will answer them on a future episode of the podcast.

I'm directing a documentary film about Feldenkrais. Check out the Teaser Trailer.

Follow me on Instagram: @expandyourability

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Next Episode

Why Movement? Your Breath is Movement

We breathe every every minute. Breath is essential to life. How you breathe, whether through your nose or through your mouth, the volume of air that you take in, the shape of your breath in your body, where you breathe in your body the air goes, the temp and rhythm, reflects you. Your breath reflects how you think, how you feel, what's going on beneath the hood.

And how you choose to breathe can feed back into your system, changing your mood and your thoughts.

Your breath is you.

We'll explore some of Feldenkrais' thoughts on breathing today. We go back to his 1972 book, Awareness Through Movement. In this book, he gives some reasons as for why movement as a way to understand yourself, to learn about yourself, and to improve your abilities. This is reason number eight out of nine.

(It's okay to start with this episode. You can listen out of order. :) )

You can find the previous episodes in this series Why Movement: 5, 9, 13, 18, 24, 30, 36. They all have Why Movement? in the title.

Want to put the ideas in this podcast to work?

You can book a free 20 minute consult call to find out if we’re a good fit for 1:1 coaching. Learn more here.

Join the newsletter to be the first to hear about future opportunities to work with me.

Download my free lesson: Effortless Freedom in Moving

Download my free guide: 9 Surprising Benefits of the Feldenkrais Method

Get Your Questions Answered!

Submit your questions! I will answer them on a future episode of the podcast.

I'm directing a documentary film about Feldenkrais. Check out the Teaser Trailer.

Follow me on Instagram: @expandyourability

Had an Aha? Let me know: [email protected]