Intimacy & Conscious Relationships
Build Trust, Deepen Connection & Expand Pleasure
Intimacy is not something you perform. It is something your nervous system allows.
Many people struggle in relationships not because they lack care—but because their body does not feel safe enough to stay open.
Real intimacy requires slowing down, attuning to what is present, and communicating from that awareness.
When safety & connection replaces urgency:
Intimacy becomes natural
Communication becomes honest
Boundaries become clear
Desire becomes authentic and eroticism flows naturally
This is where relationship becomes a lived, embodied experience—not a concept.
What Is Conscious Intimacy?
Conscious intimacy is the ability to remain present, connected, and responsive within relationship—while staying aware of your body, emotions, and boundaries.
It is built through awareness, communication, nervous system regulation and engaging our erotic capacity.
Why Intimacy Breaks Down
Common challenges include:
- Nervous system overwhelm
- Fear of vulnerability
- Lack of embodied consent
- Disconnection from sensation and the body’s erotic wisdom
This Work Supports:
- Couples seeking deeper connection
- Individuals wanting healthier relationships
- Those healing relational patterns
- Anyone wanting more authentic intimacy
Common Problems This Work Solves
- Lack of nervous system attunement
- Erotic IQ misalignments
- Emotional distance
- Desire and libido mismatch
What You’ll Learn:
- How to create safety in relationship
- The role of consent and boundaries
- How to communicate from embodied awareness
- How to invite, engage and respond to erotic energy
Podcast Episodes
ON INTIMACY & CONSCIOUS RELATING TOPICS
Consent, Boundaries & Communication
Consent, Race & Sacred Sexuality: Power, Boundaries & Awareness
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.
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.
The Wheel of Consent: Boundaries, Touch & Power with Dr. Betty Martin
How can we learn, re-learn or deepen our body’s sense of safety for receiving the kinds and quality of touch and pleasure we truly desire, whilst expanding its ability to know and ask for what it really wants? Dr. Betty Martin and The Wheel of Consent offers a safe and clear container for this embodied inquiry. Betty shares her journey of how the subtle yet powerful touch distinctions of giving, receiving, taking and allowing evolved, the importance of waking up our hands to receiving pleasure, and her process of distilling and transmitting her depth of knowledge into the newly released “The Art of Receiving and Giving: The Wheel of Consent.”
Consent, Birth & Reclaiming Body Authority
How can we listen for the deep and authentic wisdom of our body’s inner knowing, whilst benefitting from the expertise of the Western medical paradigm? Dr. Jennifer Lang, an obstetrician and gynecologist with a specialty in gynecologic oncology, shares how her experience of surrendering to the authority of her own body’s wisdom during her natural birth radically changed her approach to obstetrics. We also discuss the vital role of consent – both in the medical setting and in intimate realms – which her 2nd book, “Consent,” explores from the perspective of teen-agers navigating intimacy, sexuality, and honoring their boundaries.
Deep Intimacy & Connection
Extended Lovemaking & Deep Intimacy: Slowing Down for Connection
Extended Lovemaking and the expanded pleasures, healing, and consciousness they offer are available to any couple willing to explore the relational principles and sexuality practices discussed in this intimate conversation between Ariel Szabo and Rahi Chun. As both certified Somatic Sex Educators and Sexological Bodyworkers, they’re able to speak to how and why extended lovemaking occurs within the emotional, energetic and sexual bodies of lovers, their effects on the nervous system, and the obstacles that can get in the way. More details about how to explore Extended Lovemaking can be found at: www.DivineUnionForLovers.com.
Healing Sexual Trauma & Rebuilding Intimacy – Dr. Laura Jurgens
Dr. Laura Jurgens, certified Sex & Intimacy Coach & Somatica Practitioner, shares her journey of re-inhabiting and reclaiming her body, her sexual pleasure, and re-writing the sexual intimacy in her marriage after years of dissociation as a survivor of childhood physical and sexual abuse.
Intimacy After 60: Sexuality, Aging & Lifelong Passion
I’m overjoyed to share this episode with Frank and Judith, authors of the wonderful books, “The Magical Sex Book” and “So That’s Why They Do That – About Men, Women and Hormones.” They met when Frank was 69 and Judith was 60 and over the last 18 years have enjoyed the deepest intimacy and most ecstatic sex of their lives. They generously and lovingly share how they consciously cultivate their deep connection and satiate their sexual desires in their ever-expanding relationship with themselves and with each other.
Want to go deeper?
Intimacy deepens through practice, not theory.
Learn how to slow down, attune, and create a shared field of safety, connection, and pleasure.
