Can Pleasure Rewire Your Mind? What I Learned at a ETP- A sexuality workshop.

Empowerment Through Pleasure: A Sacred Sexuality workshop in South Africa

This past weekend I had the privilege of supporting Empowerment Through Pleasure (ETP), a two-day advanced sacred sexuality workshop in Cape Town. It was facilitated by the incredible Dawn Cherie and Ohad Pele, who are both legends in the field of sacred sexuality. To have these masters on our shores was an absolute gift.

The room was filled with brave souls, willing to meet themselves vulnerably and explore this powerful process of healing and empowerment. What unfolded was nothing short of profound.

What …..

At its heart, Empowerment Through Pleasure is about rewiring the subconscious through pleasure. Rather than focusing on pain or struggle, this work opens the door to manifestation, bringing new possibilities into being through joy, safety, and embodied experience.

We also learned that memories are editable. If something painful has shaped us, it can be revisited and transmuted into something empowering. Pleasure becomes the tool for rewriting limiting beliefs and anchoring new stories into the body.

How…

This sacred sexuality practice unfolds in a carefully held container of trust, choice, and consent.

1. Onboarding & Intention

Participants share what they want to transform, manifest, or rewire. This gentle inquiry process is held by two others who listen deeply, ask questions, and reflect with care.

2. Touch & Trance

You then receive touch that you have clearly requested and consented to — choosing the pace, quality, and boundaries. This creates safety and presence, leading to a trance-like state where the subconscious opens.

3. Story Weaving

The listeners craft a personal myth based on your symbols and imagery — giraffes on safari, mystical creatures, enchanted forests. These metaphors are whispered as stories that bypass logic and speak directly to the deeper layers of your being.

4. Pleasure as Power

Some choose to bring this into orgasm or arousal, others simply rest in joy. The point is not performance, but reclamation. Pleasure becomes the channel for manifesting new possibilities.

5. Integration & Holding

Finally, you are cocooned and held, given space to process this dreamlike and magical experience.

Why Pleasure Matters

What struck me most is that pleasure is our birthright. We are often conditioned to believe it is indulgent or too easy. Empowerment Through Pleasure flips this script: pleasure is not frivolous but fundamental. It is a tool for healing, empowerment, and manifestation.

Over the weekend, I watched participants drop deeply into themselves, courageously rewire old stories, and step into new ones. The work was tender, playful, profound, and full of permission.

My Takeaway

For me, Empowerment Through Pleasure was a reminder that transformation does not always come through pain. It can arrive through joy. Through being touched in the way you long for. Through hearing a story that makes you the hero of your own enchanted world.

This is the beauty of Empowerment Through Pleasure. It reminds us that pleasure itself can be the most powerful medicine of all.

How to Experience Empowerment Through Pleasure

If you feel called to this modality, you can reach out to me. Ohad Pele is currently writing a book about the Empowerment Through Pleasure process, and Dawn Cherie continues to host ISTA retreats around the world that touch on these themes in other ways.

To explore sacred sexuality trainings in South Africa or to experience this work in person, get in touch.

Love Simona