Your guide to

Pleasure-filled Living

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our RELATIONSHIPS with:

Our bodies

Our pleasure

Our power

Tara Rainstrom is an Artist, Tantrika, and Movement Facilitator that helps people connect to their personal power and their pleasure.

Current offerings

5 Elements Tantric healing session

The energetic reset that you need. Intuitive Tantric Touch sessions for healing & deep relaxation using a 5 elements technique.

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Sensual Getaways for Couples

Curated experiences for partners that includes an overnight stay in Tara’s Whimsical Carriage House

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Sensual Submission

3 hour immersion sessions move us deeper into exploring power dynamics and the peace that can be found in surrender.

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upcoming Offerings

Community Scream

A somatic experiencing of rage, frustration, grief, and anger

7/22/25 7-8:30pm
Refuge Event Space Troy, NY

Pleasure Playground

An intimate group experience over the course of 3 months led by Tara Rainstrom designed to explore sensual arts, pleasure, and desire for pleasure curious women, gender fluid, & non-binary cuties who want a trusted space to connect to their bodies.

Sundays 11a-5p 10/12, 11/9, 12/14
Refuge Event Space Troy, NY

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Kink Lab

Join us for a wildly fun evening of exploration with your partner(s)

Details TBA
Refuge Event Space Troy, NY

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Sharing some reflections of how my erotic awakening movement practice shifted my mood this morning. This practice is a magical journey. It’s so awe-inspiring to me that I can use breath and movement to get into a Tantric trance that leaves me f

Sensory play all day, yay!

Musings on why I love sensory play.

I love facilitating exercises in my programs and my work that involve sensory play. All of my work is based on safety and consent. My pleasure labs weave together the wheel of consent,

Pleasure has saved my life more than once. In my darkest times, it was pleasure that brought me to wholeness. It was connecting more deeply and with my body that built me up again after feeling so torn down in these times of darkness. Tapping into fe

WTH is Tantra?

This is another question that I get asked a lot. If you’ve been following along, I recently attended Urban Tantra training for facilitators with @urbantantrika and much of my studies & daily practices this year have been ins

I get asked this question often - what is it exactly that you do in Pleasure Playground?

During our time together we will have group exercises and individual exploration. The group is leveraged as a way to build kinship & provide safety in mirr

Who is Pleasure Playground for?

It’s for Women & GNC that want more pleasure.

It’s for people might who feel stuck or blocked from receiving pleasure

It’s for people who want better smex or orgasms.

It’s for people wh

The short answer: No

I love it when my friends ask me burning questions about my work and Pleasure Playground. I was having dinner with a friend a couple of months ago and she turns to me and whispers “So is Pleasure playground a puss out kind

Awakening the erotic through dance & breath

Reflections on day 77/90 days of Pleasure

What is the erotic? Audre Lorde discusses the erotic in detail in her essay The Uses of the Erotic The Erotic as Power

“The very word erotic comes from

One of everything please

Reflections on day 75/90 days of Pleasure

I’ve been reflecting on how directional & transactional traditional intercourse can be. Quite often there’s one thing on the menu and that’s genital orgasm.

Surrender as an act of liberation

Reflections on day 70/90 days of Pleasure

Yesterday in the Urban Tantra classroom we played with power dynamics. The D/s dynamic in the lens of Tantra is a beautiful act of trust and surrender. It becomes less abou

Back in the classroom

Reflections on day 67/90 days of Pleasure

In case you missed it, I’ve been preparing all summer for the Urban Tantra training with Barbara Carrellas. I’m here for a week with 23 other tantrikas training in the moun

S3x for one

Reflections on day 65/90 days of Pleasure

I have been living an intentionally auto-erotic life for nearly two years. That means that with the exception of the erotic massage I received from a practitioner a couple of months ago, I have

Do less. Be more.

Reflections on day 63/90 days of Pleasure

Pleasure isn’t just about orgasms. Pleasure is about feeling good in your body, slowing down and listening to what your body likes and doesn’t like. Taking the time to pour int

Pleasure-filled living

Reflections on day 57/90 days of Pleasure

The beautiful thing about this journey that I’ve been on for the last 57 days is that pleasure has become cemented into my daily life. I am so tapped into what my body desires.