Navigate abundant, loving, and liberatory relationships that truly fit your life — while staying deeply connected to yourself every step of the way

Queer Relationship isn’t just a lifestyle,
it’s political.

We are here to liberate love from colonial notions of ownership, hierarchy and property.
Here to experience radical freedom, bold self-expression, exquisite care,
unapologetic satisfaction, and profound belonging in our lifetimes –
and to generate futures in which this type of love is accessible to all.

It is bold cultural work to redefine love amongst humans.
Relationship - after all - is the foundational unit of life.

What we have the capacity to feel and withstand in our bodyspirits and intimate relationships
is a reflection of the social and cultural transformation we are ready to take on.

Do we know what self-trust feels like? Can we survive relaxing? Can we choose belonging? Can we center into accountability? Can we trust our instincts to stay and to go? Do we know how to feel ourselves and others at once?
Can we embrace the sensations of satisfaction? Will we let them define what comes next?

This work begins with you.
It ripples into your relationships & touches your beloveds.
It shapes the liberated worlds to come.

We get to embody something new —
And we get to start now!

In Somatics of Queer Liberatory Love, you will…

Grow your capacity to stay with difficult feelings so you can choose care over reactivity, even in moments of stress or rupture.
Learn to feel, interpret, and trust the sensations in your body to break the gripping hypervigilance, internalized colonialism and thought spirals.
Practice love that releases you from chronic self-erasure or depletion.
Sustain care for your beloveds without reproducing self-sacrifice and burnout.
Reclaim your birthright to imagine and dream with wild abandon.
(Wouldn’t capitalism just love to see this conditioned out of us?!)
Weave futures centered on somatic senses of pleasure, belonging and satisfaction rather than survival, scarcity, or appeasement.
See what changes when dignity and self-love make home where shame once lived.
Break your patterns of control, suppression, or competition by releasing your fear of being left behind.
Create relationships where you can tell the truth without losing connection.
Learn to navigate conflict, repair, and accountability with fierce care, mutual dignity, creative prowess, and inner knowing.

What’s Included

- 30 hours of live Somatic Practice in intimate practice group (weekly)
- 12+ hours of Pre-Recorded Videos covering Core Concepts (2x/month)
- Guidebook including Prompts & Practices for each module
- Signal Group for Ongoing Peer Connection
- Discounted Monthly 1:1 Somatic Sessions
- Free Participation in Embodied Relations

We take a somatic deep dives to into different embodied skills that support us in becoming the lovers we want to be in the world. Each month, you will receive two on-demand videos that frame the skills and concepts we are working with. Each week, you sign on for 90 minutes of live somatic practice in community with like-hearted queers. Between sessions, you can refer to a guidebook for somatic practices & integration prompts, and 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.

How It Works

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Where We’re Going

Module 1: Presence, Embodiment, Generativity & Longing

Module 2: Giving and Receiving Compassion & Being with Contradictions

Module 3: Identifying Capacity & Setting Boundaries

Module 4: Intactness of Self in Relationship & Transforming Shame

Module 5: Centered Accountability & Centered Surrender

When & Where We Meet

There will be three distinct cohorts of Somatics for Queer Liberatory Love running between October 2026-March 2027. You choose the recurring time that works best in your schedule. They all 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.

Mondays
3:00pm - 4:30pm Central Time
On Zoom

Check your local time zone here

Live Practice Group Dates:

October 5, 12, 19, 26
November 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
December 7, 14
BREAK Dec 21 - Jan 3
January 4, 11, 18, 25
February 1, 8, 15, 22
March 1
Books open for discounted 1:1 Somatic Sessions through March 2027
Tuesdays
10:00am - 11:30am Central Time
On Zoom

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Live Practice Group Dates:

October 6, 13, 20, 27
November 3, 10, 17, 24
December 1. 8, 15
BREAK Dec 21 - Jan 3
January 5, 12, 19, 26
February 2, 9, 16, 23
March 2
Books open for discounted 1:1 Somatic Sessions through March 2027
Wednesdays
11:30am - 1:00pm Central Time
On Zoom

Check your local time zone here

Live Practice Group Dates:

October 7, 14, 21, 28
November 4, 11, 18, 25
December 2. 9, 16
BREAK Dec 21 - Jan 3
January 6, 13, 20, 27
February 3, 10, 17, 24
March 3
Books open for discounted 1:1 Somatic Sessions through March 2027

There are four things that set this group apart from others by design –

* We come to group exactly as we are, with no pressure to perform
* We center consent and accessibility as our primary practices & don’t push past the limits of our growing edges
* We practice with people that we are not entangled with through love or polycules
* We feel for the mutually supportive nature of relationship to self, fellow humans and Land

Here’s why:

We want worlds in which everyone is free to self-express.
We want this in our relationships and lifetimes!
So, we make it happen in group.

We all arrive to practice in different bodies, with different histories, capacities, identities, and nervous systems. What feels available one day may not be the next. Our access needs shift. Our emotional landscapes change. Our capacity for vulnerability, connection, and expression isn’t always the same.

Most spaces – and relationships – ask us to show up as though we're the same iteration of self all the time.

Learning to embody liberatory love requires something different.
Something more feral and emergent. Something more organic, less sterile.

It requires a practice space where you don't have to perform consistency or arrive as an ideal version of yourself. A space where you remember your animal body and your whole self is welcomed—where your joy, grief, uncertainty, excitement, overwhelm, and curiosity all belong. Where access needs aren't treated as obstacles but as valuable sources of embodied wisdom and essential parts of the collective experience.

This is what makes group practice so powerful.

Our nervous systems learn through titration—not by overwhelming ourselves, but through repeated experiences of safety across difference. We get to try this on by relating to our own truths beyond the gaze of those we navigate love with, and by witnessing and embodying many ways of being to expand our understanding of what's possible. We begin to recognize that another person's needs, rhythms, or expressions don't threaten our own; they deepen our capacity for empathy, relationship and creativity.

We notice how our bodies respond to experiences we don't often encounter. We discover both the surprising common ground of our longings and the beautiful differences in how those longings are expressed. We practice supporting one another without requiring flattened affects or sameness.

Over time, these experiences become embodied knowledge.
The curiosity, flexibility, and compassion cultivated in the practice space
begin to shape the relationships that texture our everyday lives.

We simply begin without the pressure of attachments and entanglements.

Practicing with people you're not tightly entangled with through poly-webs, romance, love or longstanding attachment creates a uniquely supportive learning environment. The stakes are lower, which makes experimentation feel safer. You can try new ways of relating, expressing yourself honestly, setting boundaries, asking for what you need, or receiving support without the weight of existing relationship dynamics.

As a group, we co-create a culture of reverent curiosity, dignity, and belonging. Instead of assuming there's one "right" way to feel, move, communicate, or connect, we become students of the range of shapes our vitality can take.

This isn't simply a place to learn about embodiment, and it certainly isn’t a place to get better at performing a scripted way of being.

It's a place to practice becoming more fully yourself alongside other people who are doing the same so that we can let our truths shape the relational webs that texture our lives.

Eris Johnson (they/them)

Friends,

After twelve years working alongside trans, queer, disabled, ill, and non-monogamous people across the fields of recovery, gender-based violence, and somatic coaching, I've come to believe something that runs against the grain of so much popularized relationship advice:

Liberatory love isn't built by achieving a perfectly regulated nervous system. It isn't earned by becoming the most self-analyzed person in the room or memorizing the latest radical discourse about how relationships should look.

Rather, it is born from noticing and naming our raw truths. In meeting ourselves and one another with reverent curiosity instead of surveillance. In restoring dignity where shame once made a home. In expanding our capacity to feel what is actually here—not just what seems easy or acceptable. In becoming playful enough to experiment, vulnerable enough to be seen, and humble enough to change. In reclaiming our birthright to dream – wildly and expansively.

Humans are not meant to shrink the range of what we can feel and perceive — no organism on Earth is meant to do such a thing!

And freedom has never come from everyone becoming the same. Every eco-system teaches that diversity is our strength.

We aren’t meant to trade our truth for safety, but rather to cultivate dignity and belonging together so that the embodied fears of abandonment, disposability, mistreatment and scarcity can give way to radical honesty and acceptance.

Here's what I wish more of us would say out loud:

Cisheteropatriarchy and the capitalist framework of mononormativity don't just shape our institutions—they train our bodies to confuse hypervigilance for love, self-abandonment for generosity, and chronic striving for intimacy. We cannot think our way out of embodied survival strategies that were forged in systems designed to keep us disconnected from ourselves and one another. We must re-connect to each other and feel our way to something genuinely satisfying.

When you know satisfaction in your body, you stop settling for relationships built on scarcity mentalities.

When you know belonging in your body, you stop organizing your life around proving your worth.

When you know freedom in your body, you become much harder to govern through fear.

We get a taste of the worlds we are building through the microcosms of our intimacies.

That's why I created Somatics for Polyam-Queers: a practice space for non-monogamous queers cultivating love that satisfies. Love that liberates our emotional expression, our nuanced & ever-changing bodies, our divergent voices, our wildest longings and our unruly imaginations from the grips of oppressive systems.

We’re doing more than coping and surviving. More than performing radical politics while privately feeling ashamed, anxious, or afraid.

We are learning how to embody the kind of love that lets you trust yourself, deepen intimacy, expand your capacity for pleasure, and build relationships spacious enough to hold your whole humanity.

Because another way of loving is possible, and it unleashes the world to come.

Let’s dive in!

“A tender, welcoming, and exquisitely held space to deepen our understanding of how we have been shaped by our conditions, and the ways in which those shapes may no longer be aligned with our longing. Through this course, we glimpse how to meet ourselves with compassion, while also re-orienting and practising towards our visions for liberatory love. ”

Participant
"Eris is a gentle master of their craft, guiding complex embodied processes with apparent effortlessness, balancing depth of understanding with a lightness of touch that adds to the sense of safety and possibility for curiosity and playfulness in the space."

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