You Might Be Wondering

  • “Sexological Bodywork® is a body-based educational modality that supports individuals, couples, and groups to learn to direct their erotic development and to deepen their erotic wellbeing and embodiment.

    “Soma” or “Somatic”  is ‘of the body’ but not merely the physical body. Our Soma includes our spirit, our mind, our body and physiology, our emotions and our feelings.  In somatic work we are supported to turn our focus inwards, to the sensations we experience in our bodies, including information sourcing from our tissues, structures, trapped emotions and even the stories we hold in our nervous system which contribute to our habits and help shape how we experience ourselves and what is possible.

    A person might seek the support of a Certfied Sexological Bodyworker (CSB) to help address specific challenges including a lack of access to pleasure, a diminished experience of desire and joy, or a longing to have greater access to the nourishing aspects of a partner’s touch. Any issue of and relating to our capacity to experience the full range of our human erotic embodiment is within the purview of a Certified Sexological Bodyworker including, simply, a desire to experience more.

    Certfied Sexological Bodyworkers use a client-centered approach to empower, educate, and bring attention to the felt experience through movement, breath, touch, sound, and placement of awareness. This approach facilitates the ability to change limiting habits, unwind and release what is no longer supportive, re-sensitize the body, and create a more expansive erotic state that integrates both body and mind.

    Our teaching involves a variety of instructive modalities, including breath-work, foundations of touch, somatic learning, body and genital mapping, consent and boundaries, active receiving, erotic massage, pelvic release bodywork, scar tissue remediation, and masturbation coaching. 

    Because Sexological Bodywork® is strictly offered within a 'one-way touch container’, we are able to offer clients a state of arousal that is free of the pressures of two-way touch that accompany engagement within partnered exploration. Certified Sexological Bodyworkers support students and clients to explore arousal and embodied states of pleasure that are free of cultural caveats and habitual sexual behaviors. In this meditative state, an individual becomes aware of the body as a source of wisdom, freedom and belonging; a safe and inspiring ‘home’ within which it is possible to continually evolve and grow.

    All our member-practitioners are required to adhere to our Code of Ethics, which ensures that sessions are client-directed, that erotic touch is one-way (practitioner to client), that gloves are used for genital touch, and that practitioners remain clothed (except in specific circumstances described within our Code of Conduct & Ethics) and maintain professional boundaries with clients.

    Certified Sexological Bodyworkers believe that sexual health, erotic education, and pleasure are not only basic human rights, but basic human requirements for wellbeing.”

    -Association of Certified Sexological Bodyworkers

  • Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) is a gentle, body-based approach for working with stress, overwhelm, and trauma.

    When something feels like too much for our system to process, the nervous system can become stuck in patterns of fight, flight, or freeze. Even after the experience has passed, the body may continue to carry that sense of threat.

    SE helps you gently notice and work with these patterns through the body, allowing the nervous system to gradually settle, reconnect, and restore its natural capacity for regulation and resilience.

    The process is gentle, slow, and does not require you to relive or retell your trauma in detail. Instead, we let the body lead the way, creating space for the nervous system to complete responses that may have been interrupted or left unfinished.

  • Authentic Relating is a social practice that teaches us how to connect honestly, be present in the moment, and build deeper, more meaningful relationships.

    Through simple relational practices, we learn to notice what is happening within us and communicate it with greater honesty and clarity. We practice listening deeply, expressing ourselves, setting boundaries, being curious about others, and staying connected to ourselves while being in relationship.

    Authentic Relating invites us to move beyond habitual ways of relating and become more present to what is actually happening—within ourselves and between one another.

    At its heart, it is a practice of being more fully ourselves while creating the space for others to do the same.

  • Once we’ve developed trust and there is enough resourcing and stability in the nervous system, touch can certainly be part of our work together.

    Touch is always slow, intentional, and consensual, with the purpose of learning—bringing awareness to the body, exploring what feels supportive, and allowing the nervous system to experience something new.

    Touch is never assumed or required. We’ll always communicate about it together, and you are celebrated to change your mind at any point.