Your Body Remembers Pleasure
Somatic Sexual Healing Podcast by Rahi Chun
About this Somatic Sexual Healing Podcast
We explore the restoration of pleasure, the reclamation of sexual sovereignty, and the realization of our organic sexual wholeness. We engage with leading somatic therapists, sexologists & sexological bodyworkers, and holistic practitioners worldwide who provide practical wisdom from hands-on experiences of working with clients and their embodied sexuality. We invite a deep listening to the organic nature of the body, its sexual essence, and the bounty of wisdom embodied in its life force.
Rahi Chun
Creator: Somatic Sexual Wholeness
Rahi is fascinated by the intersection of sexuality, psychology, spirituality and our authentic embodiment. Based in Los Angeles, he is an avid traveler and loves exploring cultures, practices of embodiment, and healing modalities around the world.
Featured Episodes
With Some of the Wisest Somatic Sexologists in the Field
Dr. Aline LaPierre
Susanne Roursgaard
Psychotherapist, Sexologist, Mid-Wife and Creator of
»The Gaia Method«
Devi Ward Erickson
Founder of
»The Institute of Authentic Tantra Education«
Dr. Liam Snowdon
Kimberly Anne Johnson
Author of
»The Call of the Wild & The Fourth Trimester«
Dr. Ellen Heed
STREAM:
Scar Tissue Remediation and Management
Keli Garza
Founder of
»Steamy Chick« &
The Peristeam Hydrotherapy Institute
Kris Gonzalez L.Ac.
Founder of
»The Way of Yin«
"Coocky" Tassanee Boonsom
Dr. Betty Martin
The Wheel of Consent & Author of
»The Art of Receiving and Giving«
Latest Podcast Episodes
The Body Doesn’t Forget: Soft De-Armoring, the Psoas, and the Hidden Roots of Sexual Healing
Susanne Roursgaard and Stine Krage — pioneers of The Gaia Method and Prostatic Portal — join Rahi to reveal what soft de-armoring actually touches, why the pelvis holds childhood wounds, and how breath, sound, and safe space allow the body to finally let go.
Consent, Pelvic Trauma & Sexuality After Baby – Tema Mercado
From trauma and numbness to cervical awakening and erotic sovereignty, Ariel Szabo explores how reclaiming pleasure restores voice, power, and embodied truth.
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.
Sexual Sovereignty & Rewilding the Body (with Dr. Saida Desilets)
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.
Rewilding Eros: Healing Shame, Grief & Sexual Expression
Somatic sexuality coach Victor Warring reveals how grief and eros are inseparable forces, why your innate erotic intelligence is a birthright that culture has systematically suppressed, and how living fully embodied becomes an act of activism.
Orgasmic Birth, Miscarriage & Pelvic Healing
What happens when an engineer experiences an orgasmic birth so profound it transforms her entire life’s path—and how the intersection of grief and pleasure can unlock our deepest healing.
The Four Phases of Erotic Liberation (with Darshana Avila)
Rahi Chun and erotic wholeness guide Darshana Avila explore how trauma-informed somatics and consent practices unlock the erotic as a force of healing, empowerment, and activism. They discuss the four phases of erotic liberation—regulation, receiving, allowing & expressing, and liberating Eros—and how each phase opens deeper intimacy and authenticity. This conversation unpacks why receiving is radical, how desire smuggling undermines trust, and why reclaiming our erotic power is essential to both personal fulfillment and collective liberation.
The Sex Problem Is Relational Geometry: Intimacy & Connection
Rahi Chun explores the groundbreaking work of Ali Mezey, creator of Personal Geometry. Rooted in decades of somatic practice and inspired by Family Constellations, Personal Geometry maps relational dynamics around trauma, intimacy, and sexuality that had been invisible – now for the client to see, feel and change.
Embodied Anal Pleasure & Prostate Play (with Dr. Charlie Glickman)
Dr. Charlie Glickman shares a rich tapestry of wisdom gathered from decades in sex education and somatic healing, beginning with a personal back injury that catalyzed his understanding of the power of pelvic bodywork. He explains how shame is stored in the body and how hands-on practices can liberate people from its grip, especially around the often-avoided area of anal pleasure. He reframes anal sex as a deeply embodied, healing experience that must center breath, consent, and emotional safety—dispelling cultural myths of pain and performance. Through stories of healing, shadow play, and prostate empowerment, Charlie advocates for sexual liberation grounded in curiosity, compassion, and somatic awareness.
Sexual Energy as Life Force: Tantra, Taoism & Vitality
The deep wisdom from the tantric and taoist lineages synergize harmoniously through the space-holding partnership of Dr. Willow Brown and Leah Piper in SexReimagined.com. We explore the unique ways sexual life force finds its freedom and authentic pulse through each discipline and how Willow and Leah hold space for this energy to transmit and transmute through the bodies of their clients.
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.
Erotic Empowerment: Somatic Intimacy & Embodied Power
Court Vox explores erotic empowerment, somatic intimacy, and the deep healing potential of sexual exploration. He emphasizes brave spaces over safe spaces in helping unlock erotic blueprints and life force energy and highlights how small acts of intimacy can be transformative, while alchemizing shame and embracing sensuality lead to profound personal growth.
Genital Dearmoring: Somatic Sexual Healing & Trauma Release
Rahi Chun, creator of Somatic Sexual Wholeness, is interviewed by Caffyn Jesse, creator of the Intimacy Educator training. They discuss the modalities that have informed Rahi’s unique approach to genital dearmouring, namely repairing ruptures sequentially from childhood to adolescence to adulthood – including neuroaffective touch, developmental psychology, and sexological bodywork, as well as the experiences of living in a Buddhist monastery and plant medicine journeys that have informed his space-holding for restoring sexual wholeness.
Genital Health & Pleasure: Understanding the Body
Today’s episode explores 3 simple questions from the perspectives of a Certified Sexological Bodyworker, Rahi Chun, and from Dr. Jennifer Lang, Board-Certified Gynecologic Oncologist and Obstetrician: What is genital health? What is genital pleasure? and What is genital wholeness? We discuss practical techniques for dearmouring the clitoris, the G-spot/urethral sponge, the cervix, the frenulum, the coronal ridge, and the base of the penile shaft. Our conversation provides insights into how sexuality is viewed and treated from different professional scopes and lenses.
Prostate Massage for Beginners: Male Pleasure & Sexual Health
Prostate massage and dearmouring is perhaps the least understood process of the body with the greatest potential for healing, empowerment, pleasure and health. Stine & Asim are perhaps the world’s foremost experts in facilitating, teaching and guiding this sacred experience and initiation of releasing past wounds, expanding erotic bliss, and merging the inner feminine and inner masculine into sexual wholeness.
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.
Pleasure Beyond Pain: Chronic Pain & Sexuality – Emily Royce
Is the process and methodology for holding space for sexological bodywork for those with chronic pain or differently-abled bodies any different than for non-differently-abled bodies? The answer may surprise you as Emily Royce, who specializes in working with communities who are on the outskirts of mainstream sexuality, shares her insights and experiences of her own journey of re-inhabiting pleasure, and how she holds space for this journey with her clients.
Menopause, Andropause & Libido: Hormones and Sexual Vitality
Dr. Guy Citrin, whose specialty includes hormonal health and anti-aging, shares his insights and experiences on how to best prepare for menopause and andropause and the best ways to thrive through these natural and universal thresholds of life.
Rewilding Eros: Belonging, Community & Erotic Expression
Christiane Pelmas is a force of nature and her evolving inquiry and meditation on re-wilding and returning to our undomesticated embodiment has informed her path as a mentor, guide, teacher, elder and space-holder. Author of “Trauma: A Practical Guide to Working with Body and Soul” and “Women’s Wisdom Guidebook & Card Deck,” Christiane is founder of The Institute for Erotic Intelligence and The One Woman Movement and Project, and co-founder of The Verdant Collective. She facilitates the Erotically Embodied Ethics online experience.
Sexological Bodywork: Foundations of Somatic Sexual Healing with Joseph Kramer
Joseph Kramer founded two seminal institutions that have produced 1000s of somatic sex educators, sexological bodyworkers and sacred intimates all over the world, namely, The Body Electric School of Massage and Rebirthing, approved to train professionals in California in 1984, and the profession of Sexological Bodywork, approved as a profession by the State of California in 2003. The curriculum for both institutes came to him during extended lucid heightened erotic states during which creativity and consciousness bypass the rational mind.
Erotic Embodiment & Awakening the Body Electric
Craig’s journey of erotic and sexual embodiment and liberation is a beautiful trajectory of love, service and dedication. His transformational spiritual/erotic experience as a participant in a Body Electric workshop, lead to assisting, then teaching and eventually directing The Body Electric organization, guiding it to new realms of inclusion and expansion. He shares candidly essential elements of his various experiences as a participant that became the ingredients to sacred space-holding as a coach, teacher and director.
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.
Ecstatic Belonging & Embodied Community (Caffyn Jesse)
“When we touch someone, we touch their whole history, their deepest wounds, their secret identity, their healing powers, and their most profound capacities for joy. Sacred Intimacy is not rocket science, though it is neuroscience. We need to understand the neural learning zone, address the traumatic shaping we experience around the erotic, and create space for and welcome empowered choice and voice…” from Caffyn Jesse’s curated life’s work of embodied sexual wellness, healing and autonomy. After their “retirement,” we explore how their sense of freedom and inner truism has them being as prolific and attuned as ever.
Plant Medicines & Sexual Trauma Healing
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.
Erectile Dysfunction: A Somatic Approach to Healing (Men’s Sexuality)
Ron & Pono Stewart are both certified Sexological Bodyworkers and Somatic Sex Educators who work with all genders, yet they have focussed insights and experiences in tailor-designing individual and couple retreats for men/cock-owners. We explore how some of the most common issues involving enjoying healthy erections and ejaculation choice are rooted from our developmental imprints where our own connection and intimacy with our genitalia are formed, and how they each and together hold sacred space for men to embody, empower, and expand the capacity for sacred eros.
Cervical Orgasm & Deep Sexual Healing
Olivia Naomi Bryant is the creator of Self-Cervix – a body of somatic education, research and call to revolution for reclaiming and developing a love affair with this often overlooked and medially mistreated part of the sexual and reproductive anatomy. Studies show that 60% of orgasms by vulva-owners are experienced via the clitoris, 30% intra-vaginally, whilst only 10 % are experienced via the Cervix – despite the cervix being innervated by 3 sets of paired nerves (Vagus, Hypogastric, Pelvic) – the most of any part of the reproductive anatomy. We explore reasons for why this is and how to sensitize and reclaim the pleasures and orgasmic capacity of the Cervix.
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.
How Couples Can Satiate Evolving Sexual Desires Within A Committed Relationship With Dolly Josette
Dolly Josette, also known as “The Vulva Whisperer” and named “a leading practitioner of hands-on sexual therapy” by Hustler magazine, shares her journey of reclamation from a lack of sexual aliveness to an aligned, prioritized, pleasure-filled marriage. She also explains how her training as a Somatica Practitioner blends beautifully with her space-holding as a Sexological Bodyworker, and the magical benefits of genital mapping, one-way touch, and intentional touch for emotional healing in deepening pleasure, intimacy and connection for couples.
Pleasure as Medicine: Pelvic Healing & Sexual Recovery
How can we better attune to and listen for the guidance of the body’s pleasure for its own healing? Listening for the answers to this question with his heart, intuition, and hands – combined with his deep understanding of how to restore healthy fascial lines,
re-align anatomical structures within the body, and hold a safe space for trauma resolution, today’s guest Martin Beaudoin shares how he’s cultivated unique and effective practices for his wide range of clients and for his students.
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.
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