SOMATICS FOR POLYAM QUEERS
BECOME THE LOVER YOU WANT TO BE IN THE WORLD
AN EIGHT WEEK SOMATIC PRACTICE GROUP FILLED WITH LIKE-HEARTED QUEERS ALIGNING THEIR ACTIONS WITH THEIR VALUES
Disrupting mono-normativity is an act of cultural and political transformation made through radical love.
In a world that would like us to believe love is scarce, we proclaim abundance.
In a culture obsessed with sex and romance, we de-center the myth of “the one.” We ensure that every love is felt and flourishing — the love of our chosen family, play partners, anchors and sweeties, and the love of our dear friends, children and elders, the movement, our beyond-human kin, and ourselves.
We are here to compost old conditioning and cultivate relationships rooted in autonomy, unapologetic expression, extraordinary tenderness, deep pleasure, and true belonging. To create ways of loving that don't just change our own lives, but expand what becomes possible for everyone who comes after us.
We do this by connecting to our deepest desires, noticing stuck nervous system patterns, and learning to embody values-aligned actions in our relationships now.
We have to admit: a vision alone is not enough.
We have to embody it — on the level of our tissues and bones — for it work!
In Somatics for Polyam-Queers, we gather to dream big, lovingly acknowledge the gap between the relationships we envision and the skillset we currently have, and begin building the muscle memory to become the lovers we want to be in the world.
The transformation happens in the body first. It moves through the ways we love, choose, communicate, and care. It ripples out to touch our beloveds, communities and what we make possible together.
Imagine a future in which your beloveds feel your politics in the way that you love them.
A future in which you, too, are resourced and free to express your range and nuanced truths.
Can you taste liberation in your lifetime?
We are not simply imagining liberated love. We are learning to live it.
We don’t wait for a different world — we center into our bodyspirits and begin building one.
In Somatics for Polyam Queers, you will…
Develop a deeper relationship with your body's wisdom. Learn to listen and interpret sensation and feeling in your body.
Build your capacity to meet uncomfortable emotions with presence, so that intention can lead where defensiveness might otherwise take over.
Deepen your sense of inherent worth and self-regard.
Discover ways of loving that don't require you to disappear, abandon yourself, or run on empty.
Learn to offer meaningful care to those you love without depleting yourself.
Build relationships spacious enough for honesty, where speaking your truth doesn't have to mean risking the loss of connection.
Reclaim your birthright to imagine and dream. Notice the details and subtleties.
Cultivate futures shaped by genuine fulfillment rather than fear, scarcity, and the constant work of nervous system regulation.
What’s Included
- 12 hours of live Somatic Practice in intimate practice group (weekly)
- Signal Group for Ongoing Peer Connection
- Discounted Monthly 1:1 Somatic Sessions
- Free Participation in Embodied Relations
How It Works
We take a somatic deep dive to into different embodied skills that support us in becoming the lovers we want to be in the world. Each week, you sign on for 90 minutes of live somatic practice in community with like-hearted queers. Between sessions, you can reach your community of peers through a fully-encrypted Signal chat. In the times you would like some extra guidance or tender-loving care, you can use a discount code to book up to one monthly individual somatic session with Eris.
Rates & Plans
$60 - $90 / week
Payment Plans Available
Option to Request Sustainable Rate for You - Link on Payment Page
Be the first to know when enrollment re-opens!
Where We’re Going
Week 1: Opening & Introductions
Week 2: Learning the Language and Longings of Your Body
Week 3: Befriending our Safety Shapes — Embodied Inquiry
Week 4: Revolutionizing Consent — Centered Yes / No / Maybe
Week 5: Taking Up Space — Centered Requests
Week 6: Honest Communication — Giving & Receiving Feedback
Week 7: Space for the Paradox — Centered Contradictions
Week 8: Integration, Co-Dreaming & Closing Circle
When & Where We Meet
There will be two distinct cohorts of Somatics for Polyam Queers running between January 2027 - March 2027. You choose the recurring time that works best in your schedule. Both meet on Zoom - you can sign on from anywhere with WiFi.
Partners, lovers and metamours should sign up for separate cohorts since these practice groups are intended to support your personal transformation from overwhelm to self-trust.
Click the + on the right hand side of the lines below to see the details of each respective cohort.
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Tuesdays
5:30 - 7pm Central Time
On Zoom
Check your local time zone here
Live Practice Group Dates:
January 12, 19, 26
February 2, 9, 16, 23
March 2Books open for discounted 1:1 Somatic Sessions through March 2027
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Thursdays
5 - 6:30pm Central Time
On Zoom
Check your local time zone here
Live Practice Group Dates:
January 14, 21, 28
February 4, 11, 18, 25
March 4Books open for discounted 1:1 Somatic Sessions through March 2027
A Different Kind of Practice Space
We want the whole you here. There are four core community practices that make it possible —
Come as you are. No pressure to perform or show up as an ideal version of yourself. Bring your tears, your rage, your fears.
Consent and accessibility come first. We honor our changing capacities, needs, and growing edges. Your no is sacred.
Practice beyond your entanglements. We learn alongside people outside our existing romantic relationships and polycules.
Cultivate mutual support & deep belonging. We explore our relationships with ourselves, one another, and the Land.
We want worlds where everyone is free to self-express. We don't just dream about those worlds; we practice building them together.
Our bodies, histories, identities, nervous systems, and capacities are always changing. Rather than demand consistency, we make room for the full range of human experience: joy, grief, uncertainty, overwhelm, curiosity, and everything in between.
Practicing outside our existing relationship dynamics gives us room to feel our deepest truths, experiment in confidential space, discover new possibilities, ask for what we need, and experience support with lower stakes.
Together, we cultivate curiosity, compassion, flexibility, and a deeper capacity to meet difference without needing sameness.
This isn't about learning to perform a particular way of relating. It's about practicing becoming more fully ourselves, alongside others, so that what we discover can ripple into the relationships and worlds we create.
Eris Johnson (they/them),
Group Facilitator
Friends,
We need each other.
In all my years of being in community with non-monogamous and polyamorous queers, I have yet to meet someone who feels sufficiently supported in the fullness of who they are and the relationships they are building.
Not once.
That is a travesty.
You—with your vivid imagination, audacious spirit, uncontainable love, openness to complexity, and finely tuned internal compass—are not meant to be feeling hopeless, isolated, despairing, or lost. You carry so much possibility. So much creativity. So much capacity to imagine and enact ways of loving that stretch beyond what we've been taught is possible.
You are part of what the world needs more of.
And yet, so often, we are left to figure it all out on our own.
I know this because I've lived it.
I've spent around fifteen years practicing non-monogamy, most of that time without the elders, mentors, skilled support, or practice communities I desperately needed. For years, I could feel the currents of my own power swirling inside me. I knew there was something more available to me, something I was reaching toward, but I didn't yet have the support or embodied skills to meet it.
Finding the right people, practices, and mentorship changed that. It gave me places to tend the tender places, work through old patterns, expand my capacity, and experience transformation not just as an idea, but as something I could feel and practice in my body.
I began to understand that becoming the lover I wanted to be wasn't simply a matter of having the right politics, intentions, or relationship agreements. It required practice. It required healing. It required learning how to stay present, navigate complexity, honor my boundaries, meet difference, and remain connected to myself and others through the beautiful, messy realities of being human.
I want more of that for us.
I want us to have the support I spent so many years searching for. I want us to have spaces where we don't have to translate ourselves, defend our relationship structures, or pretend we've got it all figured out. Spaces where our desires, uncertainties, growing edges, and extraordinary possibilities are all welcome.
This is why I created Somatics for Polyam-Queers.
We need elders. We need peers. We need practice spaces. We need places to be messy, to be witnessed, to try something new, and to discover that we don't have to figure everything out alone.
We need each other—and that is available to us now.
I can't wait to meet you.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Everyone in Somatics for Polyam-Queers is learning how to become the best lover they can be in the world. This group attracts queer and trans wayfinders who value abundant, creative, and generative love — people who want to build a culture where expansive self-expression can coexist with secure, nourishing relationships. Participants polyamorous or poly-curious, and queer or queer-curious.
The five primary interests of participants include:Develop Self-Trust and Security
Communicate with Radical Honesty (even under stress!)
Center through Conflict and Boundary-Sharing
Create Relationships & Care-Webs that Actually Fit my Life
Feel my Truth without Overwhelm, Shame, Hypervigilance and Activation
Most participants have noticed that embodied trauma and nervous system responses can make it difficult to show up in relationships the way we dream of. Together, we learn how to align our actions with our values through low-stakes relational practices with like-hearted queers.
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December 30, 2027
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Groups meet once a week on Zoom for 90 minutes.
Each session begins with gentle group check-ins to help us arrive together, connect, and attune to access needs. From there, participants are invited into pair or small-group shares with a few warm-up questions connected to the week’s theme.
We then gather as a full group to explore the theme more deeply and learn a related somatic practice. The remainder of the session is dedicated to practicing together, noticing what emerges, and reflecting on our experiences.
Practices are designed with multiple access points and levels of participation so that folks can engage in ways that feel supportive and sustainable for their bodies and nervous systems. Folks always have the option of being on or off camera.
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All levels of experience are welcome. Practices and frameworks are explained clearly enough for beginners to engage fully. Experienced somatic practitioners also benefit, as the group offers a unique container for exploring queer liberatory love with specificity and depth.
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It can be helpful to orient to the identities and lived experiences of the facilitator. Here’s what feels most relevant to share for this group:
Queer
Non-Monogamous
Non-Binary, Genderfluid, Trans-Masculine
Asexual, Demisexual
Kink-Positive
Survivor of Sexual Violence
Live in a body that’s never fit very neatly into a biological male or female binary
Feel free to read my general bio here and reach out if you’d like to learn more about me. I reserve the right to share boundaries and limitations when sharing about myself.
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Participants that are partnered or in the the same polycule are intentionally placed in different groups to give their nervous systems space to relax and engage in low-stress somatic practice. This separation creates a safe, confidential container where each person can be honest with themselves and their process. Practicing independently of existing relationship dynamics helps participants cultivate clarity and presence, so they can bring their authentic truth back into the relationships that texture their daily lives.
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All group participants have the option to schedule discounted individual 60-minute somatic sessions up to once a month. In these sessions, participants typically:
Explore the details of their personal experiences with supportive witness
Deepen into guided somatic bodywork to unveil new subtleties and move energetic blocks
Learn practices tailored to their specific needs and goals of the moment
Please note: The offer is limited to one session per month while enrolled in the series. Discounted sessions cannot be accrued and rolled over into another month, and the discount code expires on April 1, 2027.
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It’s perfectly okay if you miss a session.
To honor confidentiality and create a safe space for everyone, sessions are not recorded.
If you miss a session. You will still have access to the pre-recorded videos that share concepts we are exploring in the module & the personal guidebaok that outlines relevant somatic practices. Sometimes folks will reach out to people in their cohort to arrange practice time together between group practice sessions. -
Accessibility poses the question of how we move together without leaving anyone behind. I aim to honor you in your wholeness, attune to the complexity of group access needs, and be in a collective process of meeting as many needs as possible.
As a starting point, you can expect:
Attention to the access points that you mention in your enrollment forms
Regular opportunity to update access needs with me and/or the rest of the group
An emphasis on invitation & consent to practice. Nobody is obligated to do anything!
Various access points to every practice
Captions enabled on Zoom
Agendas, instructions and other essential information stated out loud and written in the chat
Encouragement to join in your wholeness and tend to yourself & loved ones as needed
Emails with recording clips to support cohesion & your integration
Opportunity of anonymous feedback mid-way through the series
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Yes! There is a sliding scale and payment plan options are available.
There are three payment tiers, and corresponding payment plans available. Folks can select which rate and plan is sustainable for them.
$720
(1 installment, two installments of $360, or 8 weekly installments of $90)
$600
(1 installment, 2 installments of $300, or 8 weekly installments of $75)
$480
(1 installment, 2 installments of $240, or 8 weekly installments of $60)
The intention of this system is to increase accessibility to you all while generating the income needed to keep the program running. Of course, this relies on each person’s integrity when selecting their rate. Please refer to this page if you would like some guidance in discerning the tier that is right for you.The payment plans are there to support those of you who can afford a higher rate, but are not able to pay in one lump sum.