Welcome to Camp LightHeart!
No lie—it’s heavy out there. And that’s exactly why we need more levity.
Camp Lightheart is a five-week joyful rebellion against burnout and boredom—join for one week or all, pay what you can, and spritz rosewater on our revolution.
Camp is an experiment for grown-ups tired of the heaviness of being we experience in late capitalism.
Each week, we’ll explore a new theme — from sacred clowning to perfume as a portal — designed to reignite your silliness, playfulness, and aliveness.
This isn’t toxic positivity or spiritual bypass.
This is actual lightheartedness: like a phoenix rising from the depths of grief, bathing in glitter, and then spritzing itself with rosewater before reemerging to fight like hell!
We’ll meet twice a week on Zoom with a joyful, friendly crew.
Community and friends are one of the most necessary ingredients for revolution.
Mondays for playful practices, Saturdays for embodied integration.
In between, I'll send simple invitations for solo exploration: scent experiments, clown rituals, creative prompts, and subversively silly field trips into your real life.
No lie—it’s heavy out there. And that’s exactly why we need more levity.
Camp Lightheart is a five-week joyful rebellion against burnout and boredom—join for one week or all, pay what you can, and spritz rosewater on our revolution.
- Think crafts, games, potions, silly songs.
- But also reverence, depth and care.
Camp is an experiment for grown-ups tired of the heaviness of being we experience in late capitalism.
Each week, we’ll explore a new theme — from sacred clowning to perfume as a portal — designed to reignite your silliness, playfulness, and aliveness.
This isn’t toxic positivity or spiritual bypass.
This is actual lightheartedness: like a phoenix rising from the depths of grief, bathing in glitter, and then spritzing itself with rosewater before reemerging to fight like hell!
We’ll meet twice a week on Zoom with a joyful, friendly crew.
Community and friends are one of the most necessary ingredients for revolution.
Mondays for playful practices, Saturdays for embodied integration.
In between, I'll send simple invitations for solo exploration: scent experiments, clown rituals, creative prompts, and subversively silly field trips into your real life.
Let me clarify just how crucial this work is—Since I received feedback that it reads as light, fluffy, maybe even frivolous.
But here’s the truth: pleasure is not fluff.
Joy is not a luxury.
Beauty is not an escape.
This work is serious because it uplifts.
This work matters because it allows us to remember who we are beneath the systems trying to grind us down.
You’ve seen the offerings out there.
So many classes and groups are focused on trauma and grief.
And don’t get me wrong—that is an essential level of the work.
But.
When I first started my somatic sex coaching practice in 2012, I believed that pleasure would save us.
I made up all kinds of offerings about pleasure and how to feel good in our bodies.
But very few people came, so I pivoted to sexual trauma work, and suddenly, my practice was full.
People came to do the hard, painful stuff.
And while that’s important work, most clients stopped once the suffering was lessened.
We rarely touched exuberance.
We never made it to the kind of aliveness that sings in your cells.When I dove deep into ancestor work, people lined up to heal transgenerational trauma.
But when it came time to receive the gifts of well, elevated ancestors, many weren’t ready or didn’t feel worthy.
My friend Barbara Carrellas wrote a book called Ecstasy is Necessary.
She teaches that cultivating the capacity to feel beyond good is neurologically essential—it strengthens our full capacity to live, love, and lead.
The leaders and visionaries I trust say the same thing: joy is the medicine for these times.
If we can’t laugh, we’ll cry—if we’re lucky.
If not, we numb out, dissociate, and lose ourselves.
Earnestness and commitment to grief work can only take us so far.
So I’m circling back.
To pleasure.
To joy.
To the beauty that nourishes revolution.
We’ve been schooled in scarcity, not delight.
We’re fluent in crisis—but illiterate in joy.
Most of us don’t yet know how to receive offerings that aren’t transactional, or that don’t demand heavy lifting to feel valid.
So when something nourishing arrives without a price tag, we hesitate.
Capitalism has taught us to mistrust the generous, to overlook the beautiful, to stay focused on what’s wrong.
So—I’m inviting YOU to register for Camp LightHeart this summer.
There are many sweet, potent offerings all summer long.
Five different experiments. Five different magicks.
But here’s the truth: pleasure is not fluff.
Joy is not a luxury.
Beauty is not an escape.
This work is serious because it uplifts.
This work matters because it allows us to remember who we are beneath the systems trying to grind us down.
You’ve seen the offerings out there.
So many classes and groups are focused on trauma and grief.
And don’t get me wrong—that is an essential level of the work.
But.
When I first started my somatic sex coaching practice in 2012, I believed that pleasure would save us.
I made up all kinds of offerings about pleasure and how to feel good in our bodies.
But very few people came, so I pivoted to sexual trauma work, and suddenly, my practice was full.
People came to do the hard, painful stuff.
And while that’s important work, most clients stopped once the suffering was lessened.
We rarely touched exuberance.
We never made it to the kind of aliveness that sings in your cells.When I dove deep into ancestor work, people lined up to heal transgenerational trauma.
But when it came time to receive the gifts of well, elevated ancestors, many weren’t ready or didn’t feel worthy.
My friend Barbara Carrellas wrote a book called Ecstasy is Necessary.
She teaches that cultivating the capacity to feel beyond good is neurologically essential—it strengthens our full capacity to live, love, and lead.
The leaders and visionaries I trust say the same thing: joy is the medicine for these times.
If we can’t laugh, we’ll cry—if we’re lucky.
If not, we numb out, dissociate, and lose ourselves.
Earnestness and commitment to grief work can only take us so far.
So I’m circling back.
To pleasure.
To joy.
To the beauty that nourishes revolution.
We’ve been schooled in scarcity, not delight.
We’re fluent in crisis—but illiterate in joy.
Most of us don’t yet know how to receive offerings that aren’t transactional, or that don’t demand heavy lifting to feel valid.
So when something nourishing arrives without a price tag, we hesitate.
Capitalism has taught us to mistrust the generous, to overlook the beautiful, to stay focused on what’s wrong.
So—I’m inviting YOU to register for Camp LightHeart this summer.
There are many sweet, potent offerings all summer long.
Five different experiments. Five different magicks.
Weekly Camp Themes
Week 1: How to Be Like Water
Week of May 19
How can water help you release and be freer, in body and heart?
Weekly Camp Themes
Week 1: How to Be Like Water
Week of May 19
How can water help you release and be freer, in body and heart?
The theme of this week is Dissolving, Flowing, & Sparkling.
Can water teach us how to soften, dissolve, and move again?
This week, we hydrate like mystics.
We make potions. We put our bodies in water. We play like dolphins and manatees.
A soft return to feeling good.
Especially for those who feel too heavy to float right now.
Vibe for this week: Let me be like water by Lo Wolf
Can water teach us how to soften, dissolve, and move again?
This week, we hydrate like mystics.
We make potions. We put our bodies in water. We play like dolphins and manatees.
A soft return to feeling good.
Especially for those who feel too heavy to float right now.
Vibe for this week: Let me be like water by Lo Wolf
Camp LightHeart isn’t therapy, and it isn’t entertainment.
It’s a remembering space—a devotional, playful, sacred place to reconnect with your body, your joy,
If you have a relationship with water—or want to deepen one…
If you’re longing for softness, spaciousness, and sweetness…
If you want to root into beauty to stay strong in your resistance…
If you are a water mystic…
Then come.
It’s a remembering space—a devotional, playful, sacred place to reconnect with your body, your joy,
If you have a relationship with water—or want to deepen one…
If you’re longing for softness, spaciousness, and sweetness…
If you want to root into beauty to stay strong in your resistance…
If you are a water mystic…
Then come.
Week 2: Smell This Poem
Week of June 2
How can a living a poetic life nourish you, for now and forever?
Week of June 2
How can a living a poetic life nourish you, for now and forever?
The theme of this week is perfume as prayer, and poems as scent!
We perfume prayers and breathe poems.
We write scent-memoirs. We remember ourselves through smell and syllable.
This week, scent and language become altars.
Perfect for writers and non-writers alike—anyone seeking to live more poetically.
Vibe for this week: Slip Away by Perfume Genius
We perfume prayers and breathe poems.
We write scent-memoirs. We remember ourselves through smell and syllable.
This week, scent and language become altars.
Perfect for writers and non-writers alike—anyone seeking to live more poetically.
Vibe for this week: Slip Away by Perfume Genius
Week 3: School of the Holy Fool
Week of June 16
How can play reset your nervous system, loosen rigidity, and give you deeper access to creativity and fun?
Week of June 16
How can play reset your nervous system, loosen rigidity, and give you deeper access to creativity and fun?
For adults who have forgotten how to play.
The theme of this week is remembering how to be ridiculous.
Clowns have always been holy disruptors.
This week is pure silliness.
We loosen nervous systems and give our inner jokesters airtime.
No red nose required—just a willingness to laugh yourself alive.
Vibe for this week: Freedom by Jon Batiste
The theme of this week is remembering how to be ridiculous.
Clowns have always been holy disruptors.
This week is pure silliness.
We loosen nervous systems and give our inner jokesters airtime.
No red nose required—just a willingness to laugh yourself alive.
Vibe for this week: Freedom by Jon Batiste
Week 4: Practicing Joy as Activism
Week of July 14
How can delight be a consistent element of your world-shaping work?
Week of July 14
How can delight be a consistent element of your world-shaping work?
Coup Clutz Clowns host a hilarious counter-protest
Joy can be a discipline. Delight can be a weapon.
This week, we make joy a daily ritual—for ourselves, and the world we long to build. We’ll build practices and routines that center our purpose, and create embodied pleasure rituals we use to anchor our activism.
For people who crave a daily practice (spiritual or otherwise) but struggle to make it stick.
Vibe for this week: Where is the love? by Black Eyed Peas
This week, we make joy a daily ritual—for ourselves, and the world we long to build. We’ll build practices and routines that center our purpose, and create embodied pleasure rituals we use to anchor our activism.
For people who crave a daily practice (spiritual or otherwise) but struggle to make it stick.
Vibe for this week: Where is the love? by Black Eyed Peas
Week 5: Rosy Delight
Week of July 28
How can relating to roses soothe, uplift, and inspire you?
Week of July 28
How can relating to roses soothe, uplift, and inspire you?
Roses I visited in France
The theme this week is Roses.
The rose is sultry, silly, ancient, ablaze.
We meet her through rituals of beauty, scent, and bloom.
She becomes our guide to sensuality, softness, and sacred pleasure.
For scent geeks, beauty lovers, and anyone craving more magick.
Vibe for this week: Glorious by Ma Muse
The rose is sultry, silly, ancient, ablaze.
We meet her through rituals of beauty, scent, and bloom.
She becomes our guide to sensuality, softness, and sacred pleasure.
For scent geeks, beauty lovers, and anyone craving more magick.
Vibe for this week: Glorious by Ma Muse
About the Financial Exchange for Camp LightHeart
I'm continually exploring anti-capitalist practices—how can we help each other meet all our collective needs?
I practice trusting that when I share my gifts generously in service of our shared joy and healing, my own needs will be met.
Not only that, but if you come and play with me, your needs will also be met.
I'm continually exploring anti-capitalist practices—how can we help each other meet all our collective needs?
I practice trusting that when I share my gifts generously in service of our shared joy and healing, my own needs will be met.
Not only that, but if you come and play with me, your needs will also be met.
All camps are by donation.
There are no barriers to access.
The financial model is GAYBAGS: Give as you are able, but always give something.
If you cannot spare any cash, let me know what you’ve got to trade!
Logistics
There are no barriers to access.
The financial model is GAYBAGS: Give as you are able, but always give something.
If you cannot spare any cash, let me know what you’ve got to trade!
Logistics
- Live gatherings on Zoom: Mondays 7 PM ET & Saturdays 12 PM ET.
- Meetings will be recorded.
Is Camp Lightheart for you?
You’re welcome if you’re feeling too heavy, tired, or serious even to imagine joy.
You’re welcome if you long to feel good, on purpose, without apology.
You’re welcome if you want to wear a ridiculous hat, sip rose tea from a chipped cup, and remember what it feels like to be a real, live person again.
Camp LightHeart is made for the tender-hearted and the wild ones—queer folks, artists, healers, weirdos.
You know who you are: the too-much ones, too sparkly, too strange.
All genders, all bodies, all backgrounds: come as you are.
Biodegradable glitter encouraged. Capitalist despair not required.
Ready to come to camp?
Because maybe it does.
In glitter, in grief, in giggles,
Pavini
You’re welcome if you’re feeling too heavy, tired, or serious even to imagine joy.
You’re welcome if you long to feel good, on purpose, without apology.
You’re welcome if you want to wear a ridiculous hat, sip rose tea from a chipped cup, and remember what it feels like to be a real, live person again.
Camp LightHeart is made for the tender-hearted and the wild ones—queer folks, artists, healers, weirdos.
You know who you are: the too-much ones, too sparkly, too strange.
All genders, all bodies, all backgrounds: come as you are.
Biodegradable glitter encouraged. Capitalist despair not required.
Ready to come to camp?
- Fill out the registration form.
- Make payment via Venmo: @pavini-moray
- You'll receive a welcome packet, supply list, and instructions.
Because maybe it does.
In glitter, in grief, in giggles,
Pavini
