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 sexuality. 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 and sexuality and how you can use this life-force energy to transform your life for the better.
Using zoom, there will be monthly teaching calls with a different teacher each month. We will also offer monthly integration calls followed by break out rooms to get to know other people in the course.
Features of the Course
- 13 world-class experts guiding you through the journey
- 11 teaching sessions
- Integrations calls
- Each of the two sessions per month are recorded for your convenience
- Video recordings available for 6 months after the end of the course
- Supplementary videos to support the journey
- Guidance, resources, and community support for your personal investigation throughout the year
Dates: Two Sessions per month, recorded for your convenience.
Sessions are Saturdays at 9am Pacific Standard Time/ 7pm Eastern Europe
Teaching sessions: (90min) 2nd Saturday of the Month, 9am Pacific Standard Time USA
Integration sessions led by Anastasia: (60min) 4th Saturday of the Month, 9am Pacific Standard Time USA
Schedule for 2025
- January – Rosa Kelly - Opening to the Possibility of Pleasure (January 11 Teaching/ January 25 Integration)
- February – Shaft Uddin - Setting Sacred Space: Mindset, Boundaries and Consent (February 8 Teaching / February 22 Integration)
- March – Wilrieke Sophia - Tantra for Everyone: A Non-Gendered Perspective (March 8 Teaching / March 22 Integration)
- April – Andrea Juhan - Permission and Practice: Expanding Pleasure Through Movement - (April 12 Teaching / April 26 Integration)
- May – Steve Hoskinson - Organic Intelligence®: Discover Post-Trauma Growth! (May 10 Teaching / May 24 Integration)
- June – Deva Presence - Awakening Your Inner Lover (June 14 Teaching / June 28 Integration)
- July – Annette York - Unveiling Your Lived Paradigms: Discovering Blocks to Joy and Pleasure (July 12 Teaching / July 26 Integration)
- August – Michael Stone - Cultivating Relational Intimacy - (August 9 Teaching / August 23 Integration)
- September – Mohini Srishati - Opening and Aligning the Chakras in Connection with Life (September 13 Teaching / September 27 Integration)
- October – Claudia Divon - The Voice of Pleasure –– (October 11 Teaching / October 25 Integration)
- November – Gopal - Opening Your Inner Flute: Building and Channeling Your Sexual Energy – (November 8 Teaching / November 22 Integration)
- December – Anastasia Maya Andreas - Summary of the Year (December 13)
The Pleasure Laboratory 2025 Teacher Bios
Anastasia Maya Andreas (she/her)
Your hostess for the Pleasure Laboratory.
Anastasia, is dedicated to the pursuit of living a pleasurable life. In this pursuit she enjoys traveling the world, studying tantra, and exploring her creative passions including dancing, art, and writing. She has dabbled in teaching tantra and Open Floor movement, and is passionate about bringing you some of her favorite teachers.
Rosa Kelly (she/her)
Rosa 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.
Shaft Uddin (he/him)
Shaft is a certified trauma release therapist, coach, speaker, entertainer, and an expert in the field of human connection.
"My mission is simple - to help you transform your inner monologue from "I hate myself" to "I love myself." If I can accomplish this for just one person, then I feel like I've made a difference in the world."
Wilrieke Sophia (they/them)
Wilrieke is an Intimacy Coach & Educator, Facilitator, International Speaker & Entrepreneur. They guide intimacy workshops ranging from cuddling, to tantra, to kink. They also train facilitators to run trauma-informed, inclusive, and consensual intimacy-based businesses like theirs.
Andrea Juhan (she/her)
Andrea has approached embodiment through every doorway she could find: Bodywork, Yoga, dance of all kinds, hiking, living life, being a mother, a lover, Somatic psychotherapy, meditation, thru professional trainings, academic programs, and constant dedicated practice. With 40+ years experience in the field of somatic psychotherapy, bodywork, dance, yoga, and mindful movement practices, she has trained hundreds of movement teachers, psychotherapists, and health care professionals in the fundamentals of body awareness and embodied movement practice. She is a licensed Marriage and Family Psychotherapist and has a Ph.D. in Dance and Movement Therapy. She is also a co-founder of Open Floor International, a non-profit organization that is committed to sharing conscious movement and dance to ignite creativity, community, social justice, health, and well-being.
Steve Hoskinson (he/him)
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.”
Deva Presence (he/him)
Conscious Sensuality Facilitator and Lyricist. Lover of Life, Author, and Permaculturist. Since 2004, Deva has been facilitating groups, trainings, workshops and retreats. He has a degree in Philosophy. He committed over a decade in training others in health and fitness. Studying extensively worldwide in Permaculture and Yoga he has a very unique approach. He has written several books and has performed music at some of the best festivals the world has to offer. He merges many disciplines to curate holistic and transformative experiences.
Annette York (she/her)
Annette York has over 30 years of experience in developing leaders, creating cultures, and helping individuals reach their potential. Annette is sought after because of her vast experience with leaders at all levels and her facilitative style. She is known as one of FranklinCovey’s foremost virtual learning experts.
Michael Stone (he/him)
Michael Stone is a spiritual author, mentor, shamanic practitioner, radio host, producer, trauma integration facilitator, and minister who has been teaching and leading groups and transformational programs for over 50 years.
Mohini Srishati (she/her)
Founder and host of Wonder Women Festival and Evolve Beings, tantra and life coach, entrepreneur Mohini Srishati is a highly tantric and spiritual being. She is a versatile woman surfing in real life through different roles of being a mother, tantrica, business woman, evolution expert and traveller. She has been on the path of Tantra and meditation since the age of 18. She is an avid learner and has spent time with many tantra teachers and is inspired by Osho, Goenka and Mooji. She is trained in tantra by Ma Anand Sarita among others.
Claudia Divon (she/her)
Voice and Somatic Trainer. Claudia 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.
Claudia is half of the music duo DesOrdinary with Mario Lipparini.
Gopal (he/him)
Gopal is a certified SkyDancing Tantra teacher with a rich background in Indian philosophy, spirituality, and meditation. He has two decades of experience as a facilitator, bodyworker, and educator, specializing in the integration of mind-body connection and Tantra. The proximity with Margot Anand during his seven-year training to become a SkyDancing teacher as well as the opportunity to work with her in several workshops around the world has given him a more complete and integral understanding of SkyDancing Tantra and its practices, but also a closer insight into psychology, bioenergetics, physiology, opening his work to a full spectrum of creative possibilities.
Working and living in Berlin, Gopal facilitates training and workshops worldwide.
Supplementary Content Provided By:
Lydia Müller (she/her)
Providing videos of Inspiration Moments that you can use as a support throughout the year.
Lydia’s specialty in teaching is to guide groups into a journey of creativity, playfulness, depth and joy. Whether she is teaching neo-tango, contact improv, or soma intimacy, she is passionate about getting in contact with ourselves through connecting with each other.
Stephen Jones (he/him)
Providing us with an understanding of the scientific method and mindset as we embark on our journey of discovery.
Scientist, Dr. Jones is a Vilnius University Research Professor. He was born and trained in the United States, where he earned his doctorate in Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology and Biochemistry at Brown University. He produced his postdoctoral research in CRISPR biochemistry and cellular aging at the University of Texas. At Vilnius University's Life Sciences Center, he leads his research group in their search to discover and characterize CRISPR and other programmable nucleases with next-generation biochemistry.
Stephen lives in Vilnius, Lithuania with his wife Eva and their greyhound, Audrey Sparkles. Beyond science, Stephen is also a musician, mechanic, adventurer and lover of life.
FAQs
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All the calls will be recorded for your convenience. Video recordings will be posted within 24 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 will 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. All genders and orientations are welcome. 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.
While you are encouraged to discuss what you are learning on the integration calls, you are always welcome to decline to answer any questions you don't want to discuss. You are a welcome part of the community and the conversation if you are a mostly silent participant, as well as if you 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.