What if pleasure wasn’t the reward?
What if it was the remedy?

In this soul-awakening episode of Sovereignty Rising, Dawn Elgin invites you into one of the most sacred and shame-soaked conversations we rarely have with truth: the reclamation of pleasure. Not performative pleasure. Not aesthetic self-care. But deep, body-based, nervous-system-honoring joy—without guilt, justification, or needing to earn it.

Through a chakra-by-chakra framework, you’ll explore how trauma, conditioning, productivity culture, and people-pleasing disconnect you from joy… and how to return to it with power, softness, and truth.

If you’ve been feeling numb, stuck in survival, or guilty for enjoying life—this episode is for you.

This is spiritual rebellion.
This is nervous system healing.
This is pleasure as sovereignty.

🕰️ Time Stamps + Segment Highlights

[00:00] – Opening Transmission
Why this episode matters right now and why reclaiming pleasure is not optional for sensitive, intuitive, awakening humans.

[04:03] – The Cultural Programming That Disconnects Us From Joy
How the productivity matrix, collective trauma, and gendered shame block us from feeling good in our bodies—and what’s really underneath that.

[08:45] – “The Pleasure Pause” & Nervous System Awareness
Why your body resists pleasure even when your mind craves it, and the difference between comfort and aliveness.

[11:20] – Chakra-by-Chakra Pleasure Mapping
Dawn walks you through the 7 major chakras, asking soul-guiding questions to open each portal back to embodied joy.

[21:32] – The Reclamation Practice: The Pleasure Scan
A guided somatic moment to feel into where you’re holding, blocking, or ready to receive pleasure—without judgment.

[24:18] – The Permission Shift
The sacred moment of choosing joy not as a reward, but as a returning to yourself.

[26:42] – Closing Truth + Next Steps
The real reason pleasure feels dangerous—and how to honor that without bypassing your nervous system.

🎧 Key Takeaways

• You don’t have to earn joy—you were born wired for it
• The nervous system often resists pleasure because it remembers trauma
• Each chakra holds a map to receiving and holding more pleasure in the body
• Reclaiming joy is a revolutionary act of healing, not indulgence

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