Welcome to the Pleasure Laboratory
A Year-Long Online Journey
1 Class and 1 Integration Session per Month
11 World-Class Teachers
Cultivate an intimate understanding of pleasure
When we fine-tune our inner relationship to pleasure, this clear knowing of what feels good in our whole being can guide us home to our most brilliant, ecstatic, and blissful selves.
This is our true nature.
In this course
You will learn from world-class experts in pleasure and the enjoyment of all aspects of life. With a wide variety of practices presented, you can choose to integrate the ones that bring the most pleasure, happiness, and fulfillment into your life.
The Pleasure Laboratory provides a foundation for you to dive deep into discovering the nuances of your own relationship to pleasure, sensuality, and the enjoyment of life. Discover how you can use natural life-force energy to transform your life for the better.
Using Zoom, there will be teaching calls with a different facilitator each month. Anastasia will also host monthly integration calls to talk about what we are learning and how the teachings are landing for each of us.
Features of the Course
- 11 world-class experts guiding you through the journey
- 11 teaching sessions
- 12 integrations calls
- 2 Private check-in calls
- All teaching sessions are recorded
- Access to video recordings for 6 months after the course concludes
- A bi-monthly reminder to inquire how pleasure shows up in your life and how you can integrate, engage, and expand it
Schedule for 2026
Two Sessions per month. Teaching sessions recorded for your convenience.
All Sessions are Saturdays at 9am Pacific Standard Time/ 7pm Eastern Europe
Teaching sessions: (90min recorded) 2nd Saturday of the Month, 9am Pacific Standard Time USA
Integration sessions led by Anastasia: (60min, live only) 4th Saturday of the Month, 9am Pacific Standard Time USA
- January – Karlijn Kouwenhoven - Born to Pleasure (January 10 Teaching/ January 24 Integration)
- February – Claudia Divon - Voice of Love (February 14 Teaching / February 28 Integration)
- March – Rosa Kelly - The Tao of Embodied Safety (March 14 Teaching / March 28 Integration)
- April – Lori Saltzman - Notes from the Unpolished Self - (April 11 Teaching / April 25 Integration)
- May – Lotte Ritzer - Life Force & Pleasure: Returning to the Stream of Life (May 9 Teaching / May 23 Integration)
- June – Kendra Seoane - The Soul Suit Expansion: Quantum Tools to Activate Your Most Blissful Identity (June 13 Teaching / June 27 Integration)
- July – Beatriz Magalhães - The Serpent Muse: Art as Inner Alchemy (July 11 Teaching / July 25 Integration)
- August – Steve Hoskinson - Organic Intelligence: Positive Psychology for Post Trauma Growth (August 8 Teaching / August 22 Integration)
- September – Paul Scheele - Creating Sparks: Ignite fun, attraction, and romance (September 12 Teaching / September 26 Integration)
- October – Prema Julia - From Root to Radiance: Breathing Open the Body’s Wisdom (October 10 Teaching / October 24 Integration)
- November – Kathy Altman - Pleasure of Movement (November 14 Teaching / November 28 Integration)
- December – Anastasia Maya Andreas - Summary of the Year (December 12)
About your hostess
Anastasia Maya Andreas
I created The Pleasure Laboratory out of my dedication to living a pleasurable, embodied life.
Pleasure connects us to our vitality, our evolutionary impulse, to the pulse of life itself. Yet we often learn to deny or postpone pleasure, feeling like we need to earn it, or even confusing it with what we think should make us happy instead of staying with the truth of our own experiences.
My pursuit of pleasure has brought me on travels around the world, studying tantra, and exploring creative passions such as dancing, art, and writing. While I’ve trained to teach in several fields, I feel called to share not only my own perspective but also the wisdom of the teachers who have shaped my journey.
The Pleasure Laboratory 2026
Teacher Bios and Class Descriptions
Karlijn Kouwenhoven (she/her),
Born to Pleasure
In this workshop we will explore connecting with the innate pleasure we come into this world with as babies. Open to the innocent joy so natural to us through guided practices of movement voice and sound.
Karlijn Kouwenhoven is the founder of KABI·RA, where she and her team create retreats, events, and coaching that weave modern psychology with ancient wisdom and embodied practice. With a background in Social & Organisational Psychology and nearly 15 years of experience in Tantra, intimacy practices, and personal transformation, she integrates trauma-informed tools, movement, breathwork, and energy awareness to guide people into deeper alignment of body, mind, and soul. Known for her intuitive, joyful, and catalytic presence, Karlijn brings both softness and precision to create safe and transformative spaces worldwide.
Claudia Divon (she/her)
The Voice of Love invites you to remember that by tuning into your own inner resonance, you can feel the supportive, loving vibration that connects and holds the entire universe together; and that your voice carries the power to reunite you with all of it. In this experiential online workshop, you will explore gentle yet powerful somatic vocal practices designed to melt tension and fear, expand your energy, and awaken the deep sense of being supported from within and by the world around you. Get ready to unlock deeper presence, nourishment, and authentic connection.
Voice and Somatic Trainer. Claudia Divon has always been passionate about nature, psychology, and art. During 20 years of traveling as a singer and performer, a fascination with extraordinary stories of resilience, and "superhuman" type capabilities led her to she train in various somatic practices; Feldenkrais, the Grinberg Method, Reiki, Tai Chi, and Qi Gong, among others. With 11 years of experience as a voice coach, and 7 as an embodiment trainer, Claudia continues to study, experiment with, and collect practices that support us to be naturally happier, healthier, and more authentically connected to ourselves and others.
Rosa Kelly (she/her)
The Tao of Embodied Safety
In this workshop, intimacy coach Rosa Kelly blends foundational principles from Somatic Experiencing with gentle Taoist and Qi Gong practices to help you cultivate safety from the inside out. Together, we'll explore how the nervous system finds regulation, how energy can flow more freely when the body is grounded, and how these skills create the conditions for deeper pleasure and connection. This session offers simple, embodied tools you can carry into everyday life.
Rosa Kelly is an experienced intimacy & relationship coach, blending her professional expertise and personal journey to support individuals and couples to navigate the complexities of pleasure, love, connection, and intimacy. From Somatic Experiencing to Tao Tantra arts, Rosa utilizes varied tools and techniques that she has studied and utilized in her own journey from pain to pleasure to support her clients on their journeys.
Lori Saltzman (she/her)
Notes from the Unpolished Self
For writers and non-writers alike, it’s easy to relax into a simple rhythm together: writing, sharing, and listening. What comes through us is real, messy, touching, occasionally heartbreaking, and often hilarious. I know in my bones that writing awakens the mind and connects hearts. Together we’ll practice writing swiftly enough to outrun our habitual censor. I'll offer up a doorway to falling into our own creative stream. Here we start to know each other beyond our polished selves.
Lori Saltzman, a co-founder of Open Floor International, has spent a lifetime guiding people into deeper embodiment and authentic expression through movement and words. After three decades working closely with Gabrielle Roth, she developed her own voice as a teacher of embodied storytelling, conscious dance, and writing, blending humor, honesty, and soul. From teaching corporate executives relational skills, to sex education for highschool students, Lori followed a rich and unconventional path to her current work "teaching people to speak stories with their bodies and dance with their pen." She is known for her irreverent warmth, depth, and her invitation to live—and dance—as if it were the last time.
Lotte Ritzer (she/her)
Life Force & Pleasure: Returning to the Stream of Life
In this 90-minute online experience, we explore the intimate relationship between life force, alignment, and pleasure. Through embodied exploration and energetic tracking, you’ll learn to sense the movement of life within you — the subtle current that animates and connects all things. As you come into alignment with this natural flow, pleasure begins to arise effortlessly — as vitality, as openness, as Eros moving freely through the body. Join me on this journey to rediscover pleasure as your natural state — the living pulse of the stream of life.
Lotte Ritzer is a passionate truth-seeker devoted to radical honesty and the exploration of the authentic Self beyond conditioning and limitation. Drawing from Yoga, Buddhism, Tantra, Ayurveda, non-dual philosophy, dance, somatics, and social psychology, she weaves ancient wisdom with modern understanding to guide others toward embodied self-awareness. With warmth and compassion, she creates spaces where people can shed the armor of the conditioned self and rediscover their natural, genuine essence. Holding an MSc in Cultural Anthropology and Sociology of Non-Western Societies, Lotte honors each person’s unique truth and gifts, fostering integration, depth, and transformation.
Kendra Seoane (she/her)
The Soul Suit Expansion: Quantum Tools to Activate Your Most Blissful Identity
Beyond your conditioned identity shaped by childhood, survival patterns, and internalized limitations, there is a soul spark ready to shine bright in this world. The Soul Suit Expansion is an experience to start fully embodying the unique and magnetic identity you were always meant to be. Learn the Quantum Tools and Somatic Rewiring techniques that dissolve procrastination, perfectionism, and striving, allowing your most potent creativity and pleasure in this lifetime to flow through you. This class is designed to collapse time so you can bravely live into the boldest version of your vision, starting today.
Kendra Seoane, M.A., is an Identity Activation Expert, Somatic Guide, and professional artist. With a master's in Somatic Psychology and Dance/Movement Therapy, Kendra specializes in guiding high-achievers who feel blocked by patterns like addiction, procrastination, perfectionism, and endless striving. Using habit-rewiring techniques and gamified processes, Kendra's work helps you dissolve the conditioned self to live into your fullest soul expression and receive your most potent downloads, creativity, and dreams come true.
Beatriz Magalhães (she/her)
“The Serpent Muse: Art as Inner Alchemy”* by Intim.art Project
I invite you to join this unique dynamic session where I will combine art, therapy, and sensuality to support your journey of self-discovery and healing. Together, we’ll use creative practices to unlock your inner wisdom, process emotions, and ignite your sensual energy — all within a safe, welcoming space. This is an opportunity to transform from within through the power of art. No artistic experience is required — just an open heart and mind.
Beatriz Magalhães ✨
Beatriz Magalhães, or simply Bia, is a Portuguese artist whose work bridges love, intimacy, and eroticism through a deeply embodied and expressive lens. Trained in textile art, sculpture, photography, painting, and performance, she now works as a nude and live art model, performer, cook for retreats, and facilitator. Rooted in a lifelong exploration of nudity, love, spirituality, consent, and self-awareness, her work invites others to experience art as a form of therapy, connection, and transformation — reminding us that we need art in love, in intimacy, and in life itself.
Steve Hoskinson (he/him)
Organic Intelligence: Positive Psychology for Post Trauma Growth
Join Steven Hoskinson for an introduction to Organic Intelligence®, a trauma-safe, resilience-focused method that helps the nervous system return to its natural state of wellbeing. This class highlights how healing emerges not from digging into the past but from supporting the body’s inherent capacity to self-organize. We'll learn--and practice--how to amplify our own self-organizing super-power. The secret? It feels GOOD! Don't miss this unique opportunity to learn with a leading teacher in positive psychology and Post-Trauma Growth!
Steven Hoskinson is the Founder, CEO and CCO (Chief Compassion Officer) of Organic Intelligence® (OI) and the nonprofit Organic Intelligence Outreach Institute. OI’s Human Empowerment And Resiliency Training (HEARTraining®) is an international personal and professional development training program using OI’s strengths-based, trauma-safe approach for resiliency. Steve has trained thousands of trauma therapists, health professionals, mindfulness experts, and teachers. He presents at conferences worldwide, is Adjunct Faculty for JFK University’s Somatic Psychology program, a founding member of the Northern California Society for Integrative Mental Health and the International Transformational Resilience Coalition, and he hosts the podcast series, “The End of Trauma.”
Paul Scheele (he/him)
Creating Sparks: Ignite fun, attraction, and romance
When we are under stress we can be distracted, contracted, and our pleasure centers can get turned off. The good news is you can shift your state in less than 2 minutes. Learn how to up-regulate the brain and change the mind/body response to the world within and around you. Dr. Scheele will guide you to create and maintain an open mind, open heart, and open will so you can discover new energetic connections with others.
Paul R. Scheele, PhD, co-founder of Learning Strategies Corporation, is the developer of Paraliminal Technology, a breakthrough approach to using your whole mind for goal accomplishment. Overcome limitations that have held you back in a matter of minutes and discover the power within you to enjoy life to the fullest.
Prema Julia (she/her)
From Root to Radiance: Breathing Open the Body’s Wisdom
Allow yourself to be guided into a conscious breathwork journey to gently wake up the infinite power within your body and allow the energy to transform you from the inside out, into the radiant, pleasure filled being you are.
Prema Julia is a devoted practitioner of embodied transformation, blending sacred traditions with modern somatic therapies to guide others home to their truth. With over 15 years of experience and more than 8,000 individuals guided through retreats, trainings, and private sessions, she weaves breathwork, tantra, emotional alchemy, and intuitive presence into powerful spaces of awakening. A certified Breathwork facilitator and trainer, Tantra Yoga Instructor, and Vita Coach, she serves as Portugal’s National Representative for the International Breathwork Foundation. Prema lives in Alentejo with her partner and twin daughters, where she continues to explore the mystery through motherhood, land, and love.
Kathy Altman (she/her)
The Pleasure of Movement
Every time we move, we reveal something about how we live. How we reach, how we hold back, how we listen, how we let go. This class is an invitation to explore what moves you — and what might want to move through you. Together, we’ll practice being at home in our bodies, remembering the pleasure of movement itself.
Kathy Altman is the co-founder of Open Floor International, an organization that promotes conscious dance as a form of well-being, community building, peace-making, and creativity. Kathy has taught dance to thousands of people on many continents for over 40 years. She sees that habits we resort to on the dance floor are similar to what we rely on off the dance floor. Noticing and modifying our thoughts and beliefs, finding authentic expression for our needs and emotions, and building tolerance for our differences with others are key elements to health and wellness. Kathy now trains others to teach embodied movement and moving meditation. Her work is open source, registered on the Creative Commons, and governed by a process called Dynamic Governance.
Choose a pricing plan
A note from Anastasia about the pricing
I wanted to make this program feel genuinely accessible. Working with these facilitators individually or even in group offerings can be costly. This is why I created a space where their wisdom could be experienced as a kind of mosaic—a thoughtful sampling of different voices and approaches, each offering its own doorway into pleasure.
In the interest of accessibility and affordability, I also have created a scholarship fund. Apply here if you would like to join this course with the help of a scholarship.
Schedule a FREE 15 min discovery call
Curious about the program, but unsure if it's a fit for you? Schedule a free discovery call with Anastasia to discuss the program. Let's talk about your pleasure, what you would hope to get out of a course like this, and whether it is a good fit for you.
FAQs
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All teaching calls will be recorded for your convenience. Integration calls will not be recorded, however a brief recap will often be recorded and posted. Video recordings will be posted within 48 hours of the calls.
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6 months after the course ends. It is recommended to download and save any downloadable materials you wish to keep.
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The Pleasure Laboratory has a 30-day money back guarantee, no refunds will be offered after 30 days. Contact Customer Care by submitting a request via the contact form. Be sure to include the email you used to subscribe, your full name, and reason for return. Once processed, you’ll receive confirmation of the refund.
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That depends on what 'explicit content' means to you. There will not be any nudity, but sexuality and libido may be discussed.
We hold the topic of sexuality with care and respect and the content is meant to educate and empower the viewer to understand and work with their own relationship to pleasure and sexuality.
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Yes, this is an inclusive space. While it is not specifically a queer space, all genders and orientations are welcome. Anastasia does her best to keep a queer and gender-queer perspective in mind, even if some facilitators may not do so.
Tantra engages with the concepts of masculine and feminine energy as aspects of our creative life-force energy. It is naturally gender-queer in the recognition of these as integral parts of all humans. Ultimately we let go of the construct of gender as a tool for understanding and connecting with different aspects of ourselves and simply feel our own vitality and connection to all that is.
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No. This is primarily a journey of self-inquiry. You will have the full experience being single, with a partner who is not interested, or with a partner who joins you on the journey.
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Yes. This is about YOU, and your personal journey. Sexuality is an important topic because it is our life-force energy, however, the main topic is pleasure and enjoyment of life, not sexuality.
You are a welcome part of the community and the conversation even if you are a mostly silent participant, have an unpopular opinion, or a wildly different experience than everyone else. We want you to show up with your authentic self, whatever that is.
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Yes. There are a number of partial and full scholarships available. Please apply here if you would like to join with this support.