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.

Pelvic Pain & Scar Tissue: Healing the Body & Restoring Function

Pelvic Pain & Scar Tissue: Healing the Body & Restoring Function

Chronic pelvic pain involves an intersection of biochemical, biomechanical, emotional and scar-related influences that can be properly addressed via the 4 Domains of Health which Australia-based Somatic Sex Educator, Lorraine Pentalow, details in-depth sharing the methods and processes she used for resolving her own chronic pelvic pain as a case study. We also discuss Lorraine’s other specialties – how to address and resolve erection and ejaculatory challenges.

Somatic Consent: Boundaries, Touch & Embodied Awareness

Somatic Consent: Boundaries, Touch & Embodied Awareness

How can we identify, voice and honor our body’s boundaries and desires in ways that expand intimacy and connection? Matthias Schwenteck, Creator of Somatic Consent, shares the principles and practices of “the 4 pillars of engagement” and their application to intimate relationships that invite a non-dual “liquid love” in communion and sensorial pleasure.

Tantra, Trauma & Pleasure: Healing Through the Body

Tantra, Trauma & Pleasure: Healing Through the Body

How can the Tibetan Five Elements meditation and practices, passed down through a 1200 year lineage, metabolize emotional and physical obstacles for embodied sexual transcendence? Devi Ward Erickson shares how these ancient practices transformed her own life, the principles of how the meditation transmutes and transforms our body and consciousness, and how her Institute for Authentic Tantra Education trains and teaches practitioners and students making these sacred teachings available to Western audiences.

The Pace of Trust: How the Body Heals Trauma Safely — Pamelah Landers

The Pace of Trust: How the Body Heals Trauma Safely — Pamelah Landers

Every body’s journey of sensual & sexual reclamation from past sexual abuse is unique to their body. Pamelah shares with tremendous insight how her unique path involved her memories of child abuse returning via breath work, how she learned to give voice to her embodied feelings, and the roles Tantra, Yoni Massage, and Sexological Bodywork played in the reclamation and realization of her body’s full erotic pleasures and wholeness.