Erotic Sovereignty, Cervical Awakening & Sex Work Truth (with Ariel Szabo)
From trauma and numbness to cervical awakening and erotic sovereignty, Ariel Szabo explores how reclaiming pleasure restores voice, power, and embodied truth.
From trauma and numbness to cervical awakening and erotic sovereignty, Ariel Szabo explores how reclaiming pleasure restores voice, power, and embodied truth.
In this richly embodied conversation, Rahi Chun sits down with Dr. Saida Desilets — pioneering teacher of sacred sexuality and creator of the Embodied Psychosexual Method — to explore sexual sovereignty, erotic innocence, and the body’s capacity to heal through pleasure, breath, and deep attunement.
Amina Peterson created The Atlanta Institute of Tantra to provide safe & joyous havens for the exploration and reclamation of our embodied sexual nature, power, authentic consent, and erotic pleasures. Her experiential wisdom from deep dives into the nature of tantra, somatic presence, sexual healing, and erotic bodywork has yielded trainings for Somatic Sexologists, Bliss retreats for erotic abolitionists, and mentorships for those seeking to hold such sacred sexual liberation spaces. She shares her journey and insights into the art of space holding for sexual wholeness.
How can the wisdom and support of plant medicines aid in the healing of sexual trauma? Today, we hear a first-hand account of how the Mother Plant Ayahuasca, psilocybin and cannibus can aid in the reclamation of one’s body, genital pleasure, and sexual wholeness.
How can we identify, embody, and explore relating from previously disowned, shamed and judged aspects of our Self to a place of integration and wholeness? Tani Tholes and Leslie Rogers of Light/Dark Institute create private individual & couples’ intensives and group retreats to facilitate just that utilizing kink, bondage, Dom/Sub Ceremonies all guided by their client’s intentions, and held within a safe container of clearly defined boundaries, safe words, desires and after-care.
Andre Lazarus is a Somatica Sex & Intimacy Coach, a Sexual Surrogate, and Sacred Intimate. He shares the distinctions in – scope of practice, boundaries, and common sexual issues resolved – that he facilitates in each of these roles. It’s a unique soul that’s drawn to hold space for any one of these sexual healing modalities. And an extraordinary life’s purpose to develop a realm of expertise in all three.