Core Emotion: Desire, longing, guilt, creative suppression
Primary Body Focus: Pelvis, hips, sacrum, lower abdomen
Scientific Foundations
Desire and pleasure activate the mesolimbic dopamine system, particularly the ventral tegmental area (VTA) and nucleus accumbens. However, when desire is repressed or overregulated (often due to guilt or trauma), energy becomes locked in the pelvic region—the body’s center of creativity and sexuality.
The sacral plexus (a major bundle of nerves in the pelvis) regulates genitourinary function and is influenced by both the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems. The pelvic floor and iliopsoas muscles store emotional tension, especially after experiences of shame, sexual trauma, or identity suppression. Restoring movement and sensation here improves vagal regulation, endocrine and hormonal balance, and emotional vitality.
Main Focus
Desire is life energy reaching toward connection, creation, and expression. When repressed or burdened with guilt, it stagnates into shame or apathy. This week, we begin unfreezing the pelvis, restoring emotional movement, and honoring the body’s capacity to feel pleasure, longing, and creative impulse.
Rather than treating desire as taboo or indulgent, we welcome it as a source of vitality that, when grounded, becomes an anchor for joy and intimacy.
When the shame held in the hips is dissolved, we reacquaint ourselves with pleasure, and the openness required in order to allow ourselves to be touched by the beauty and joy of life.
