What is Somatic Sex Education?
Somatic Sex Education is teaching through the body experiences designed to nurture, deepen, or awaken the sensual self. It can include breath coaching, movement, body awareness, boundary-setting, communication, anatomy, sensate focus, massage, erotic trance, and other body-based teachings about sex.
We can use “somatic inquiry” to explore stories, ‘problems’, or questions one might have at the level of the body. Within the tissues, bones, organs, and cells of the body there is deep insight. We can also access this insight on an energetic, or spiritual level.
The Institute for the Study of Somatic Sexology is in the lineage of Joseph Kramer and the Body Electric School in San Francisco, which was founded in response to the AIDS crisis in the 80s when people were looking for safer ways to experience eroticism. My teachers have evolved the work to include in-depth teachings of the nervous system, somatic awareness, empowered voice and choice, consent, sexual rights and freedom, analysis of power and oppression, conscious communication, and ecstatic embodiment - to name the big ones.
One-on-one sessions are completely client-directed and client-specific. These sessions can provide tools and resources to heal our bodies, minds, and spirits in a variety of ways, including the ability to access and identify more pleasure and feel empowered to enact our desires.