Verónica
pleasure as Praxis Founder +
Mentor + Somatic Practitioner for the female nervous system
+ Doctoral Candidate + Educator + Body Worker
Like many others, my path began with crippling chronic illness.
Along my journey, I have healed from several nervous system and auto-immune related conditions beginning with a rare muscular dystrophy known as dermatomyositis and later, postural orthostatic tachycardia (POTS), childhood post traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) and polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS).
If I had tried to heal each one as a separate condition, I would still have them!
Instead, I worked from my root-my nervous system center: my matríz (womb)-and my health and life transformed.
The power of the matríz and the female nervous system are now what I teach to my clients who yearn for more from life and are done trying to force an outcome.
Along the way, I have continued on to post graduate studies integrating my embodied experiences into my research on the history and philosophy of science of the female nervous system, the female orgasm, our innate relationship to pleasure and the sexual nature of child birth.
Doctoral Research funded By:
tHE pRESIDENTS PRE-pROFESORIATE Doctoral Grant
UCSB Graduate Division Diversity Grant
The CENTER FOR feMINIST fUTURES
tHE cENTER FOR bLACK bROWN AND qUEER sTUDIES sTUDIES
I offer my work through training in:
On-going...
Somatic experiencing for the female nervous system
Applied women's nueropsychophysiology
Ancestral apprenticeship in parterismo, Indigenous home birth and full spectrum matriz (womb) continuum care, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Hands on, hands in vulva and female pelvic work
hey love,
I'm Verónica or V 💕
I created Pleasure as Praxis because I saw a huge gap in the way women understand their relationship to pleasure and by extension their female nervous system.
As a doctoral candidate specializing in the history and philosophy of science of the female nervous system and the female orgasm my practice is informed by my research.
I merge what I call the "new" science of the female nervous system that is largely led by female researchers, birth workers and midwives, doulas and somatic experiencing practitioners who understand the female pelvis as the center of our somatic experience and therefore our nervous system healing.
However, I am not called to this work purely out of curiosity.
My methodology is also informed by my own lived experience battling with chronic illness (muscular dystrophy, POTS, PCOS, and CPTSD)
I understand the fear and distress that overcomes us when we are told that we are facing a lifelong incurable condition. Or when we simply don't believe we can change because there is too much to face.
This is why I believe in soft work, in slow progress, in tender care for ourselves with strategy and science backed female nervous system informed approaches. I love what I get to offer women because it is exactly what I yearned for in my darkest times.
