INTIMACY.
EMBODIMENT.
CREATIVITY
Come sit with me for a moment.
Take a breath.
Listen.
There is life here.
Can you sense the quiet animating force just the other side of your awareness.
Feel the vibrant knowing just below the surface of your skin.
Taste the shimmer of gold on the horizon.
There is life here.
Life in your senses sharpening before your mind alerts. Life in the sudden brightness of your wanting. Life in the shiver, the hunger, the impulse to dance, to sing, to reach, to hurt. In all the things that disturb you into becoming. Pleasure. Imagination. Pain. The electricity that passes between one being and another.
Desire, curiosity, grief, sensuality, creativity, anger, tenderness, fear, wonder.
Sometimes these currents arrive with great force, blazing into our awareness. At other times they are barely perceptible. An itch, a quiet sense of ease, an image that visits your dreams.
This is the animating presence at the heart of life, the spark by which the unknown comes into existence. The ancient and foundational mystery of eros.
My name is Philomena. My work is an exploration into what happens when we become more available to this living current. When we cultivate our capacity to feel it, stay in relationship with it and allow ourselves to be moved by it.
I work with the body, movement, sexuality, consciousness, relationship and creative life. With sensation and imagination. With the stories that have made us and the desires that might remake us. The subtle places where pleasure touches fear, where longing encounters history. Where another person alters the possibilities of who we might become.
Because nothing happens in isolation. We become through contact.
Through lovers and mothers and strangers. Through language and culture. Through the bodies we have been gifted and the worlds those bodies inhabit. Through rupture. Through everything we have touched and everything that has touched us.
There is no pristine self beneath all of this.
There is a living one.
Moving. Listening. Imagining.
Forever capable of surprise.
CULTIVATING EROTIC PRESENCE
Erotic presence is the capacity to remain in contact with the moving flow of energy within you.
Your animating force.
Sensual. Creative. Sexual. Playful. Devotional. Fierce.
It lives in the movement towards a lover, and in the movement towards a blank page. In the desire to touch and be touched. In fascination and awe. The sudden and irresistible impulse to dance. Your hands as you reach towards a plate of fresh food. The vivid sense of an idea taking shape.
Cultivating erotic presence means developing our capacity for this contact.
Noticing what moves.
Staying close enough to discover where it wants to take us.
PRIVATE SESSIONS
Space to follow what is alive in your life with care, curiosity and attention. Explore questions of purpose, power, intimacy, relationship and meaning.
INTO THE BODY
Six-week journey into desire, movement, pleasure, imagination and the subtle languages through which a life makes itself felt.
12 October – 22 November 2026
WRITING
I write about sex and love. Women and power. Bodies and consciousness. Desire, creativity, grief, relationships, freedom, beauty, shame, pleasure, spirit.
About what it is to be human, animal, creative, historical, desiring, conscious. Forever becoming in a world in motion.
Essays, poetry, fragments and dialogue live here.
There are parts of ourselves we meet only when something calls them forward.
The dance of bright eyes across a room.
Desire tugging at the pit of your belly.
A question.
Music floating through an open window.
A safe warm hand in yours.
An idea that rearranges a room.
The earth underneath your fingertips.
A glimpse of a life you had not known you were allowed to imagine.
The question is how you hold it all.
How you move.
How much of it you allow yourself to feel.
Come closer :)