Your Body Remembers Pleasure

Somatic Sexual Healing Podcast by Rahi Chun

Interviews, wisdom and practices for organic sexual health, pleasure and wholeness.
*formerly »Organic Sexuality«
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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.

Explore the Podcast by Pillar

Explore the core pillars of somatic sexual healing, intimacy, and embodied awakening. Each pathway offers a deeper dive into the conversations, practices, and teachings at the heart of this work.

Somatic Sexual Healing
Restore sensation, safety, and pleasure by working directly with the nervous system and the body’s stored patterns of trauma.
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Genital De-armoring, Pelvic Healing & Pleasure Expansion
Release tension, numbness, pain, and conditioning in the genitals while restoring sensitivity, pelvic vitality, and authentic pleasure.
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Intimacy & Conscious Relationships
Develop communication, trust, and emotional attunement to create deeper intimacy, connection, and relational fulfillment.
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Men’s Sexuality & Sexual Health
Address performance pressure, erectile challenges, and disconnection to reclaim grounded, embodied sexual confidence and vitality.
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Erotic Energy, Embodiment & Sexual Awakening
Awaken the body’s erotic intelligence and explore sexuality as a source of vitality, expression, and expanded consciousness.
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Featured Episodes

With Some of the Wisest Somatic Sexologists in the Field

Dr. Aline LaPierre

Creator of Neuroaffective Touch Therapy and Author of »Healing Developmental Trauma«

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

Co-Founder of »Somatic Sex Educators Association«

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

Founder of »Loi Kroh« Traditional Thai Massage School

Dr. Betty Martin

The Wheel of Consent & Author of »The Art of Receiving and Giving«

Latest Podcast Episodes

Genital Health & Pleasure: Understanding the Body

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 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

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

Pleasure Beyond Pain: Chronic Pain & Sexuality

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

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

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

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

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

Healing Sexual Trauma & Rebuilding Intimacy

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)

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

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)

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.