Extended Lovemaking & Deep Intimacy: Slowing Down for Connection
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In This Episode
We explore extended lovemaking and how slowing down deepens intimacy and connection with Ariel Szabo. You’ll learn how presence, pacing, and awareness transform relational experiences.
About Our Guest:
Ariel is a cosmic midwife of the soul. She holds and guides you over thresholds as you birth new ways of being in yourself and the world. She works at the intersections of sensual somatics, womb-work, sacred sexuality and plant medicine to de-armor physical, emotional, and energetic spaces within yourself so you can live a life in love.
Formally tranined as a sexological bodyworker, somatic sex educator, and psychedelic therapist, Ariel weaves together spiritual and western teachings. She draws upon her deep well of experiences in the plant medicine world with indigenous teachers and western knowledge on working with the nervous system and trauma.
Ariel brings a mastery in the art of relational intimacy and loves supporting individuals and couples in cultivating the skills and capacities necessary for experiencing ecstatic connection. She values pleasure and expanded states of consciousness as potent medicine with transformative potential.
Ariel currently offers 1:1 & couples sessions, as well as retreats, workshops, & ceremonies in Santa Monica, California and facilitates plant medicine retreats in Peru.
What You’ll Learn About Extended Lovemaking & Intimacy
How Extended Lovemaking invites a focus on pleasure and tending to everything that arises – including and especially being present to the moment-by-moment sensations, emotions, and desires, rather than being goal or performance-oriented.
How ELM necessitates a container of safety and trust in order to surrender to and ride erotic states that touche into our inner aspects and younger selves, as well as metabolizing past wounds within the support of deep connection, relaxation, and expansion.
How “The 8 Pillars of Intimacy” are at the heart of relating intimately with self, in order to move deeply into a container of relating with each other.
How examining our psychological attachments to orgasm is necessary in order to edge for extended periods of time, and travel the infinite waves of pleasure peaks without needing to go over the edge.
How ELM invites and necessitates a depth of self-awareness regarding the conditioned physiological/psychological train tracks the body’s unconscious response often has from arousal to orgasm, and for some, how orgasm can become a way to avoid prolonged authentic intimacy.
How the more we understand our partner’s nervous system patterns, the more of an ally we can be in our lovemaking by not take triggers personally, and how staying present and bringing pleasure in those triggered moments, can re-write past patterns and stories in the body.
How ELM invites discoveries of how to make love that is not genitally-focussed leading to a re-writing of what sex even is and can be.
How in slowing down, the body can become more sensitive, tuning into the greater subtle energies which is counter to what we’ve been taught about going fast and hard, and can lead to a deepening desire for more sexual communion within a constant state of turn-on.
How following waves of pleasure with stillness and meditation, allows the moments and portals of pleasure to elongate, expanding states of arousal into altered states of consciousness – where boundaries between lovers and existence itself begin to evolve into feelings of oneness, wholeness, and completeness.
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Today's podcast is unique in several ways. First and foremost, the guests are two lovers, partners, and best friends. Myself with my beloved Ariel Zao. She also happens to be an exquisite soul who dives deeply into the mysteries of relational intimacy and alchemy. And together we've created a body of work transmitted from our respective experiences as inquisitive sexual creatures and professional somatic sex educators and sexological body workers, exploring the principles and practices of extended love making.
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today is a very special day. We have a new format, and it's based on a question that we've been getting a lot about. What is extended love making. I'm here with Ariel Zao and we posted this graph on our social media. Two charts comparing goal oriented love making with meditative love making.
And there was so many, there was such a response and questions as to what is this? How do we get there? You know what's this experience like that we wanted to create a podcast just to answer these questions. Yeah. Yeah. Just wanna introduce Ariel Zao. Like myself, she is a certified somatic sex educator, a psychological body worker, a psychedelic integrative therapist and so much more.
She's very immersed in the world of plant medicines, working with indigenous wise maestros and maestros over the years. And, I would say a, an astute observer practitioner and experiencer of what? Intimate relating is all about, yeah. Cute. Yeah. So Ms. Sbo, extended lovemaking.
Extended lovemaking, yes. People are looking at these graphs and saying, how do we get, what is this actually, how would you define extended lovemaking for yourself? And then we can talk about our experiences. Yeah. So extended lovemaking is. Really like one extended periods of time. Love making.
With your beloved and really satiating in all the different states of arousal that are available for long periods of time. So like low states of arousal, medium states of arousal, and high states of arousal. Just being really present with what is moment to moment, sensations, emotions, desires.
So what I'm hearing is a container that allows and accepts like all of the ex the fullness of the experience without needing to get anywhere or have a result or a goal or any kind of performance based orientation. So shifting out of the performance based orientation, shifting out of orgasm focused orientation and moving into a focus on connection. Oh. I feel relief in my body just hearing that. Yeah. It's like focus on connection and orientation towards pleasure. And tending to everything else that arises within me or my beloved. And that everything that arises during that deep connection and those deep sta extended states of erotic connection, it's really surprising what can come up. It really is. It's amazing. You never know. You never know. You never know. But there's so much that it touches into whether it's from, our inner children, like past sexual experiences. Like it's almost like a container to metabolize what hasn't been integrated in our cellular memory and our psyches.
Yeah. And also a container that can bring us into these just like. Clouds of bliss where you feel more relaxed, aroused, expanded, connected, than you've ever felt before. Yeah. It's really amazing that the extended periods of arousal, like what it does to our nervous system and kind of our body's psyche and opening it up to different portals.
Yeah. But I wanna, I want to talk about what is actually necessary. For this deep surrender into these deep, these extended arousal states. Yeah. Because there, there needs to be such a container of safety and trust for this to even, be contemplated it seems. Yeah.
In creating that container of safety and trust. There's a lot of skills that both parties have to. Have. Or start to build. Yeah. Start to learn. It's never too late to learn these skills. No. And a lot of the skills we've actually brought in and called them the eight pillars of intimacy.
Love it so much. The eight pillars of intimacy. I love it because, we, so Ariel and I just hosted a couples retreat recently, and we, it's foundational. The eight pillars are so foundational. Yeah. For any depth of relating intimately. And what we found was that, throughout the three day retreat we kept, couples kept referring back to these eight pillars no matter where they were.
And we had couples, starting out in their relationship and together for over a decade, just a wide range. And these eight pillars were the keys in right. So slowing down. Slowing down. Pausing. Pausing. So then you can notice. And then attune. Self attune. Yeah. And then accept what it is your experience is.
Uhhuh. Trust it. Trust your own body's wisdom about what it's communicating to you. Yeah. Value it enough, to then take up space with your own experience and communicate whatever it is that you need to make any requests. Yes. Make any shifts. Adjustments. And one of our retreat participants pointed out that the first seven.
Are actually all like inner experiences. Like attuning, accepting notice, valuing, like they're all inner and the, it's not until you really harness that self intimacy and self attunement and self communication that you can then communicate what it is that you're experiencing. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. So these eight pillars of intimacy, we spent we spent time from the very first circle to really lay these out because throughout the three days, we eventually moved into a lot of one-way touch and genital mapping. So partners could get really familiar about the specific erogenous arousal and pleasure patterns of each other's anatomy.
But we, it kept going back to these eight pillars as that foundational base, and any time any sort of like crunchiness comes in, you can just return to the pillows. Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. And I, like what we emphasize is that it really requires that self attunement, that self intimacy, that self, like being one with oneself in order to meet the other person. Yeah. And that's what really allows for the magic to happen. And then a another place that the pillars come in as like a, actually a necessary piece of really being able to develop the body's capacity to sustain long periods.
Arousal for extended love making is ing. Yes. And in order to edge you need to slow down pause. You need to be able to attune to where your body is on the arousal scale. You need to be able to communicate with your partner where you are so you can work together, slow things down. Totally. This is a great example of how the eight pillars.
Begins with any form of intimate relating, but it's so critical in something, a practice like edging, right? Like it's like edging, like the more attuned you are to the eight pillars of intimacy, the more successful your edging experiences are gonna be. And I think about both the physiological aspects of edging of just like right attuning to where you are on your, as a scale, slowing, pausing down when you need to, but then also the psychological aspects.
The attachments that we might have to having an orgasm and the different reasons why. And when you can really slow down enough to excavate why we have certain attachments, all the different things that brings up, we can start to untangle Yes. And then create new patterns together.
Yes. I feel like what you just spoke to is such a critical piece to. Extended love making. Yeah. Because it's important for all of us to really examine and become familiar with the train tracks that are conditioned in our body's response. Once erotic arousal kicks in, it's so common for, the body just to be used to going for that orgasm.
Once the arousal kicks in, or if they feel the arousal in their partner kick in to. To facilitate or to, support their orgasm. And what you are speaking to is the attunement, the noticing the valuing, the trusting. It's all supportive to deconstruct what's been unconscious in our bodies for years or decades.
Yeah. And keeping us from real deep satiation. Yeah. Yeah. I think it'd be cool to talk about the different. Benefits of not orgasm. Oh, for sure. Yeah. Because like when we speak about extended love making, we're not saying don't ever orgasm or orga, orgasming is bad. Orgasms are beautiful, so great and wonderful.
Yeah. However, if we are conditioned to have an orgasm every time that we make love and it might happen rather quickly, yeah. There's so much of a vast terrain that we're missing out on that's missing. Totally missing, not just emotionally, but also sensation and pleasure wise. Yeah. Yeah. Sensation. Pleasure wise.
And then, what we found in our extended love making is the depth of self-awareness. That comes about. In understanding our intimacy, our self intimacy, our intimacy, and our avoidance of intimacy patterns. In these extended states. Yeah. And it's important to note that, I see it a lot in my clients.
Like people can go for orgasm in as a way to avoid. Feeling vulnerable. Yeah. And feeling like deep intimacy. Yep. It's ironic, but so many couples are in the habit of, okay, orgasm, okay, now I can get to the rest of the day's work, or deal with the kids or do the laundry, or whatever.
And like a lot of men will start to feel vulnerable and then ejaculate quickly. Yeah. Because they're too afraid to feel that vulnerability. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then it's I feel like it almost feels like a bandaid to me. There's this really. Deep level of connection that a lot of couples are both wanting.
Yes. And they're just not quite sure how to get there. And then it's if you both have an orgasm, there are chemicals that flood through you and you can like momentarily feel really good. But there's like a depth of. Connection and authenticity. That's not coming through. Yes. So there's never actually a level of satiation occurring.
Yes. Satiation. It's so big. Yeah. It's almost like fast food sex. Yeah. I think, I feel like we've become a culture of fast food sex, and the irony is I am of the belief that as a human species sex is what created the entire human species. It's our primal urge. And I feel like somewhere along the way.
Rather than being about connection and intimacy, sex became about performance. And goal. And affirming one's ident, sexual identity and ego. And I'm sure porn culture has a huge role in this, and now there are entire generations weaned on porn culture thinking that's the norm.
Yeah. But what everyone's really wanting is deep connection and authentic intimacy. Yeah. And so coming back to extended love making. We talked about the eight pillars of intimacy. I feel like just such a huge part of allowing for that extended love making is really understanding the role your nervous system plays within your body, but particularly when it comes to sexuality, vulnerability, and intimacy. And the more that I learn. For example, about your nervous system. Yeah. The more we can be allies of each other's nervous systems and really work together for those extended states of love making.
So big. It's so big and I feel like it's a missing piece out there. Like one really understanding the depth to which the nervous system affects all of our sexual responsiveness. But also, so many couples are getting triggered. And they're taking a per, they think it's about them, right?
And if we just understand each other's nervous system. Histories. We just realize, oh, that's from, that's from childhood when this happened, or, like young adulthood when this happened, right? Rather than thinking, oh God I fucked up. And with that knowledge and then. What that allows for us to really start to not take things personally.
Then we can, like you said, be allies with each other and actually repair in the moment. Yes, in the moment. If I get triggered and I have some memory from my childhood come up and then you don't take it personally and then you just stay there and presence with me and perhaps even bring some pleasure to that part of me.
Yes. Yes. We can do a complete. Rewrite in my body. Yes. Yes. I find that to be the most powerful repair reconditioning, as it's happening in the moment, now you have an ally that understands your nervous system, doesn't take it personally as present with you. And bringing love and pleasure to a past rupture that. That was unpleasant. Yeah. And you know some, I'm such a big fan of somatic reconditioning, like when the body. When the body can experience something similar, a similar dynamic or a similar experience in the past, but with a new ending where it has its choice and voice and it feels supported and empowered.
It creates a new story in the body about that experience. Yeah. That's really powerful. Yeah. Yeah. So speaking of reconditioning, somatic patterns, something that we're both, something that's foundational in our training as somatic sex educators is the practices of one way touch, to recondition and re imprint.
And really repair a lot of ruptures that happened in the past, both somatically and relationally. Because the one way touch container. Gives the person receiving the touch, the opportunity to put all their focus on their own sensations, their own needs, desires. It becomes like this mirror to bring everything to the surface.
Yes. That some of which may have been subconscious and then. W again, with that focus all on you, you have the space to allow your body to guide you in what is needed for the repair because your body knows Yes. You just have to learn to listen and to attune to it. Yes. And provide that spaciousness.
Yeah. And one way touch containers really inherently offer that. Yeah. I find that like clients always learn something new about their bodies. Yeah. In one way touch containers, whether it was like a part of their body that they didn't know felt good or, it's so powerful when a client can, voice their No.
Or voice their, adjustment. And have it be like addressed right away. Yeah. It's like a new kind of norm in the body that gets upgraded. Yeah. And I feel like for couples who like really do wanna make some changes to the tracks that they've been on together. One way. Touch containers are like a necessity.
I agree. Because there's so much going on when you're in a two-way exchange. Yes. It, for me, it feels almost impossible if you're really trying to make a big shift in a pattern. Totally. Because there's too much going on. There's so much going on. So you make the container smaller. Yes. By shifting the focus onto one person at a time.
Yes. Then you can each build up a new muscle and then when you feel ready. You can practice bringing it all together in a larger container where there is more going on. Exactly. So this really comes to, again, we go back to the pillars. It's about slowing down. Yeah. It's about pausing, it's about noticing and attuning, like what does my body authentically want?
And so often when. It's like from the time we date, we, we sneak the boyfriend home or sneak the girlfriend home and we're going at it. Yeah. And who knows what's going on. Like thing, hair's being pulled and things are being touched and squeezed and there's just so much happening.
Yeah. But to slow the whole process down, we just, I've had so many couples just learn. So much about their partner's body that they had no idea about. Yeah. And then they also learn like what they've been doing that their partner hasn't been that crazy about. For years or decades.
Because that is such a common thing. Oh my God. For couples for this thing. Yes. That your partner does. Yes. That you've been enduring. But it's been happening. Not like you have been enduring. Yeah. But it's been going on for so long. It almost becomes scarier and scarier to say something.
Totally. I have a client like married 30 years and her husband does not realize that she does not like his touch. How do you share that after 30 years? Yeah. But if they engaged in one way, touch, container, which he's not, he's not willing to do. But if they did, oh my God, he would just learn.
So much more about what she actually likes and then that would make him feel so much better about their love making. And just bring so much intimacy to their relationship. And it would make it so much easier for her to voice what she's wanting because there's a container set with the intention for her to do that.
Exactly right. So it like creates these containers that we set up, they are what anchor us and create the safety and trust. Yes. It's almost like permission giving. Two really only experience what the body's wanting. Yeah. Nothing else, right? Yeah. And you know what I loved about, the couples retreats that we do we have a we day dedicated to a process called genital mapping.
Yeah. Which is also a foundation of somatic sex education. And again, one way touch with that container. With the eight pillars of slowing down, pausing and tuning, all of that. Yeah. And I find that when cl, when clients can advocate for the specific erogenous areas of their genitalia, they feel more empowered.
Those erogenous areas get more lit up and turned on because it's being spoken for and the partner learns so much more about how to pleasure their beloved. Yeah. I mean it's, like this long-term couple, over a decade, they just learned so much about each other. Not only about the genitalia the erogenous body erogenous the entire erogenous body.
And what they each need Yes. For their erogenous body to fully come on to its capacity. Yes. Yeah. So I feel like this leads into. How important it is for love making when we talk about extended love making. Yeah. To be non genital focused. Not to exclude the genitalia, obviously, but I feel like sex in our culture has, we've been conditioned to think sex is, genital.
Genital, and there's just an infinite way, an infinite range of ways to make love. That isn't penetrative or genital, the genital Right. Engagement. Yeah. And I feel like that's what this particular couple really, learned. It's oh, instead of starting at the genitals, I can start, by connecting heart to heart and then engage the body. And it was like a real breakthrough for them. So it's it's a rewriting of what sex even is. Exactly. Yeah. Of what sex even is. Yeah. I had I had a couple, I think they were like 78 and 82 in my three keys course, and they realized at the end of the course that what they really wanted was authentic connection and intimacy.
And they thought the way to get there was through sex. So rewriting what sex actually is. Yeah. Is I think necessary for all of us. Oh my God, so necessary. Yeah. Yeah. And so expansive. Yes. Yeah, so expansive. And there's a couple other things coming in for me around slowing down.
Yeah. So one thing that I've experienced and I also witness my clients experiencing is in the slowing down my. Body actually becomes more and more sensitive. So I find that. Like I am able to start tuning into more subtle and subtle energies, and then the pleasure actually starts to expand more and more.
And the more I slow down, I reach new heights of pleasure, which is so counterintuitive Totally. To like the way we've really been conditioned. Yes. And the way most of us think about it oh, I need more friction, I need more intensity. I need it to be harder, but. Actually when things, now I can see that usually makes my body go more numb.
And that the softer and slower things are, my body opens more and there's just more and more sensation. It's so beautiful. That's so beautiful. Yeah, it reminds me of, I, I often share that it's a cosmic joke that like, I'm a penis owner, so I can say as a teenager, I used to masturbate to, to magazines and the family bathroom.
Yeah. Just afraid that someone's gonna knock on the door. And so we're, we actually train our bodies to come quickly fast, to go fast as possible. Yeah. And then, and for some people it's a stress release and other people rely on vibrators for a quick release. And just to your point, like slowing it down, it can just like open these portals of sensation and I wanna say consciousness like terrains, that when there's an alchemy of erotic energy being exchanged, it's just it's so expansive and I feel like it's almost like being on plant medicine. Yeah, it totally is. You can go into some serious altered states of consciousness and have visions come in. If you tend to have an open right vision field, all sorts of things. It's wild. It's super fun.
It's amazing. I feel like our course. Came through these kind of portals of consciousness. Totally. Downloads. Downloads. It's a transmission course. Absolutely A transmission. Yeah. Yeah. And because these portals were open through our alchemical Divine Union practice.
Yeah. It, it just made sense that, oh, this is what wants to be shared with the world. Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead. There's another thing that came in from me around this idea of slowing down. And I can imagine there might be some like couples be like, I like barely have enough desire going to even wanna have.
Like quick sex, like how could I ever have a desire to wanna do this? But what I have found in the slowing down, and then also refraining from having an orgasm every single time that I have sex right, is that makes me wanna have more and more sex. 'Cause there's like a, there's like a energy that's been building that.
Then it's okay, I don't. I don't release it all. I leave and then go throughout my day in this kind of like low to medium state of arousal and I'm just like walking around. Life turned on. Totally. Which feels so delicious. So good. And then I just, my body is oh, I can't wait to get back in there again.
Yes. Totally. Totally. This is what happens when the yearning and the tumescence continues to build. It's like the vibrational frequency of that erotic state can be sensed. Certainly by by the animal world. I know by the human world as well. Yeah. And you, I think this is what magnetism is.
People get mag, really magnetic in that way. Yeah. And it's we were interviewed by Claire recently, and she said she was like. At a stoplight and some guy at a gas station across the street. Yeah. Just and it was like dark out. It was dark out.
He just his head whipped over, looked right at her, even though she was in a dark car and smiled or waved or something, it's like that magnetic energy. And oh, I just I really just wanna explore that state of. Buzz. Yeah. It's, it is so magnetic and it can, it really evolves.
I found that, with us it's after making love for an extended period without, going over into orgasm later that day or the next day when we return to it, it almost picks up. Where we left off. Where we left off. Yeah. And then it continues to expand.
And then we, if we can pause and then the next morning or later that day, we can just pick up and it just, it continues to like expand and evolve and it's just fascinating fun and feel so good. Yeah. So I wanna point out, obviously listeners who are listening don't have the visuals of the graph.
That we created. But just so that they have a visual, it's like the goal oriented love making was you describe it 'cause you were really the one who put it together. Yeah. So the goal oriented love making, it's right, like your arousal starts to peak. There's a plateau and then it rises into orgasm.
And then there's like just a drop. Yeah. And a recovery period. Sure. There's like a sharp drop after the sharp ascension into orgasm. Yeah. And on average this may happen between a three to 15 minute period. Yeah. Yeah. So just since we're talking about time, there's a study done in the US where the average woman.
The study showed that the average woman requires somewhere between 20 to 45 minutes of foreplay for their full erogenous capacity to be available. And the average lovemaking time in America is three to seven minutes. And part of why we're such big fans and advocates of extended lovemaking is to make sure the full capacity of both lovers right, get met right.
And can like really explore the alchemical consciousness expansion that's available. 'Cause there's just a big disparity between male and female bodies. Yes. On the. Arousal patterns. Yes. And then even between female bodies. Male bodies. Absolutely. There can also still be huge disparities because of course everyone's body is different.
Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. So then this other graph that shows this like meditative love making this extended love making arousal starts to peak and then you come into meditation. Yeah. Stillness and presence right from there. The arousal might actually heighten Yes. Just from bringing more presence to it.
And then you might come into some more, still missing presence with it, and then it might drop a little. And then you restimulate and you just, you're following these waves of pleasure. Yes. And continually coming back into this presence, stillness, after you've built up a certain amount of erotic charge Yes.
To integrate it. Into the body. And also just to be really like with the moment. Yes. And elongate the experience. Yes. And see this is again, where the eight pillars of intimacy come in, right? Yeah. The slowing down. Yeah. The, we're talking about pausing when we're talking about, bringing the erotic.
Embodiment into a place of stillness. Yeah. So the body cells can actually absorb that energy Yeah. And expand through the body so it doesn't need to discharge into ejaculation or orgasm. And you could do this for an hour, you could do this for five hours. It's just, it's endless.
It is endless, it is endless. And that's, obviously the body. The body's really malleable. It's very adaptive and like in our experiences it's amazing how, like it's just evolved, like from the early part of our relationship where, we would enjoy extended love making during an afternoon, but now it it goes over a period of days or a period of weeks.
And it can continue, it just continues to teach us and almost show us the way. Yeah. Yeah. And then once you are really able to start dropping into these extended. Periods of arousal. The reason we describe it as like an altered state of consciousness because what begins to happen is boundaries morph.
Kind of similar if you are someone who's worked with plant medicines and those types of altered states of consciousness. The boundaries between you and your partner can start to dissolve. Yes. The boundaries between you and the universe can start to dissolve and Right. That's that like feeling of oneness.
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I find that when we're deep in a neurotic state, there's almost like no identity. And then I can, when there is an, when there is a, an awareness of that, I can like. Support that by letting, it's almost like I can choose to let go of the identity, and then drop into that, alchemical, erotic energy, right? Egoless state. Yeah. And really becoming just like energy forms. Yeah. Energy forms that are that, that are moving in concert, in partnership, in harmony, showing us like where it wants to go. Yeah.
I feel like. The way we created this course was to really listen for how it wanted to create through us. Yeah. And I feel like the, I'm just realizing now the, I think the more we experience those extended lovemaking states where we can surrender and allow the energy to guide us in the love making.
I think that develops this practice to do that in life. Oh. Absolutely right. Yeah. Because it is this somatic re imprinting. Yeah. And that is how our course came about. Yeah. We were just listening to the downloads and it just it's funny, like the, sometimes we would just need to do more research, which was love making.
Extended love making. Yeah. For the next, exercise or the next, like lesson to come through. Yeah. Yeah. It's really divine. So yeah, for me, extended love making, it was all of what we shared. Yeah. I really feel like it's a portal for spiritual consciousness.
Yeah. It's I wonder if that state of surrendered. Energetic bliss is really some part of our psyche. Remembering what it was like, like in the womb of the mo mother. Or like when we were one with everything, it's almost like a way to return to that state, but, with the maturity and consciousness that we have now.
Yeah. Yeah. And I have found it to be such a beautiful practice in receiving. And then. When I do learn to do it here, I see it happening everywhere in the way that I'm able to just receive life. Yes. Yeah. Isn't that fascinating? It's I feel like the container of extended love making can really expand.
It does expand all areas of life, but it become, it can become such a teacher as to how to do that. Yeah. And somatically like our bodies are already. Getting the downloads, of those lessons, and incorporating it somatically so that in a regular life it's just there.
Yeah. And start to make love to life. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. And yeah, I also feel like it's such a synergy and alchemy that it, it supports like collaboration, supports creativity, supports intuition. Just so many, wonderful. Like opportunities in life. Yeah. To share. Yeah. Yeah. And it again encourages us to take our time to slow down to pause.
Yeah. It's if you're wanting to experience communion, but your body's not quite there. You can just pause and enjoy so many other penetrative, love making prac, engagements. Yeah. And, we really made a point to Epha. There's a whole module of that in our course because I think people are so fixated on, oh, love making is just, genitals to genitals or penis and vagina and it's oh, I gotta take advantage of my erect penis because it's gonna go away.
But there's so many other things. Yeah. Love making is love making and we really want to deemphasize. What's glorified out there, because there's just endless possibilities. Particularly in hetero relationships. Yes. Yes. 'cause there is so much focus on just penis inside vagina as like the end all be all.
Yeah. Yeah. The beginning and the end. And there's so much, that could be, a meditative wonderful part, but just one of a gazillion parts. Yeah. Yeah, there's just so much else available. Totally. Ms. Abo, I thank you for spending this time with me today. Oh thank you for having me.
Anytime. It's been such a joy and pleasure and I think we have a lot more research to do the next endless hours of research. Yes. Not enough time in the day. No. And with that, we're gonna encourage all the listeners to really slow down. Pause when your body needs to pause.
Yeah. Take time to notice like, what is your body wanting, desiring, needing moment to moment. Yeah. Yeah. And then attuning. Attuning. Yes. Attuning to what? What is present and what is real for you. Yeah. And then accepting it. Just accept. Accepting it all. Accepting it all. And sometimes it may be challenging to accept what's.
Actually happening, but the body deserves your faith and your trust in accepting what is, yeah. And then trusting what your body is telling you. Yes. That's a big thing. It's like really trusting your body, knowing that it knows. Yeah. And then valuing it. Valuing it. And this really speaks to honoring your body and its inherent wisdom.
Yeah. And then. You. You actually have the inner kind of investigation and attunement and acceptance and love to share and communicate what your truth is. Yeah. With your beloved or your partner or whoever you're with. And that alone is gonna deepen and cultivate intimacy. All of this is actually the key to.
Connection, connection to intimacy. If you want true intimacy and cultivating, really the satiation of your body's authentic desires. The eight pillars are pretty spectacular. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, sign off here. Thanks for listening.
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