From Survival to Pleasure

In this 120-minute somatic journey, we’ll explore how the nervous system shifts from survival mode into states of pleasure, expansion, and aliveness. Through guided movement, gentle tremoring, and somatic practices, you’ll tune into what feels nourishing and learn to recognize consent as a felt sense in your body. The session includes time for reflection and journaling to help you integrate your experience and invite more choice and vitality into daily life.

What You Will Learn

How to recognize and follow your body’s “yes” through somatic sensation
Techniques for shifting from survival states into pleasure and openness
Ways to identify what feels nourishing and expansive in your nervous system
How to integrate consent as an embodied experience
Practices for bringing more pleasure, choice, and aliveness into everyday life

Program Flow/Process

We’ll begin with gentle guided movement and somatic practices to help you settle into your body. Through intentional tremoring and awareness exercises, you’ll explore the sensations that arise as your nervous system moves from protection into expansion. The session includes guided reflection and journaling time to support integration, helping you translate your somatic experience into insights you can carry forward. This is a compassionate, body-centered exploration that honors your own pace and internal wisdom.

Things to Bring

Journal and pen for reflection
Comfortable clothing for movement
A quiet, safe space where you can move freely

Why You Need to Join:

If you’ve been working with tremoring and want to deepen your relationship with pleasure and embodied consent, this workshop offers a beautiful gateway. Many of us spend so much time in survival mode that we forget what it feels like to truly say “yes” from our bodies. Sylvia creates a warm, safe container where you can explore the subtle shifts that happen when your nervous system relaxes into safety—and discover the sensations of aliveness waiting on the other side. This is your invitation to remember what pleasure feels like in your own body.

Meet Your Guide

Sylvia Benoist is a certified sophrologist, TRE® practitioner, and trainer based in France, specializing in nervous system regulation and somatic healing. After living abroad for over 23 years and navigating her own journey with autoimmune illness, Sylvia developed an embodied, trauma-informed approach focused on restoring safety in the body. She supports individuals in moving out of survival mode, reconnecting with their sensations, and rediscovering their internal resources through compassionate, body-based work.

Connect with Sylvia:

Website: www.sylvia-resilience.com

Instagram: @sylvia.resilience

LinkedIn: Sylvia Resilience