Shadow Work & Sexuality: Integrating Desire, Shame & Power

Shadow Work & Sexuality: Integrating Desire, Shame & Power

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.

Sexual Surrogacy & Sacred Intimacy: Healing Through Connection

Sexual Surrogacy & Sacred Intimacy: Healing Through Connection

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.

Erotic Embodiment & Sexual Awakening (Caffyn Jesse)

Erotic Embodiment & Sexual Awakening (Caffyn Jesse)

A celebration of the radiant, embodied Spirit and Eros that is Caffyn Jesse – pioneering Somatic Sex Educator, Trainer, Practitioner, and Author of “The Science of Sexual Happiness” and “Erotic Massage for Healing and Pleasure” who retires this month as faculty from the wonderful Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education that she co-created – but not before leaving behind a legacy of encouraging neuroplastic change to support sexual healing and expanded pleasure, unwinding sexual trauma, exploring the intersection of sex and spirit, and creating erotic community.

Becoming a Somatic Sex Educator (Dr. Liam Snowden)

Becoming a Somatic Sex Educator (Dr. Liam Snowden)

What’s it like to grow up in a culture where your sexuality and sexual identify is absent or marginalized from society’s normative boxes and culture? Dr. Liam “Captain” Snowdon shares their journey of exploring sexuality through various non-normative tribes during a time when trans and gender-queer consciousness was not as evolved as it is today,. Captain also shares their unique perspective about Somatic Sex Education, having served as faculty on many of the leading Somatic Sex Education trainings over the years, and having co-created The Institute for Somatic Sex Education.