Organic Sexuality

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.  

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.  

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.  

"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. We need to understand about attachment wounds, navigate power dynamics, and eschew relationship paradigms that inhibit loving connection. The lens of neurobiology helps us do this work in ways that are trauma aware, ethical and deeply grounded.  There is also a domain - specific knowledge we need, of sensual massage, genital anatomy, genital massage strokes, genital dearmouring, and the integration of science, sex and spirit."  From Caffyn Jesse's new site and new online course - a curation and culmination of their life's work and play.  

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 cannabis can aid in the reclamation of one's body, genital pleasure, and sexual wholeness with special guest, Salimeh Tabrizi, Psychedelics Integration Specialist/Educator/Advocate and Clinical Counselor. 

Ron & Pono Stewart are both certified Sexological Bodyworkers and Somatic Sex Educators who have focussed insights and experiences in tailor-designing individual and couples 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 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.

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.   

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.  

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.  

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, anatomical structures within the body, and hold a safe space for trauma resolution, Martin Beaudoin shares how he's cultivated unique and effective practices for his clients and trainings including the little known, yet very potent erogenous area called the K-spot, and a most effective pelvic bowl tension release practice - Thiele stripping.  

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.  

I'm overjoyed to share this episode with Frank Wiegers and Judith Claire, authors of the wonderful books, “The Magical Sex Book” and “So That's Why They Do That - About Men, Women and Hormones.”  They met when Frank was 69 and Judith was 60 and over the last 18 years have enjoyed the deepest intimacy and most ecstatic sex of their lives.  They generously and lovingly share how they consciously cultivate their deep connection and satiate their sexual desires in their ever-expanding relationship with themselves and with each other.  

Thanks to Becky Carter's many areas of expertise, we cover a lot of ground in this episode including how to identify pre-verbal traumas in the body, resolving issues specific to male sexual trauma survivors, how compounding injuries of racial and sexual abuse and/or aggressions experienced by marginalized communities affect the nervous system and holding space for their resolution, and working with adoptees and their families - all from a somatic approach and awareness.  

Stine Krage and Asim SacredFire, co-creators of The Prostatic Portal, illuminate how when a safe and sacred space is held for prostate (sacred spot) massage, it can serve as an effective practice for facing and releasing emotional and energetic shadows of the male psyche, an efficient means for increasing blood/Qi/energy flow throughout the pelvis & awakening pleasure innervation, as well as leading to deep wisdoms that come from expanded orgasmic, receptive states of surrendering to our sexual/spiritual nature. 

A celebration of the radiant, embodied Spirit and Eros that is Caffyn Jesse - pioneering Somatic Sex Educator, Trainer, Practitioner, and Author of "The Science of Sexual Happiness" and "Erotic Massage for Healing and Pleasure" who retires this month as faculty from the wonderful Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education that she co-created - but not before leaving behind a legacy of encouraging neuroplastic change to support sexual healing and expanded pleasure, unwinding sexual trauma, exploring the intersection of sex and spirit, and creating erotic community.

Early sexual arousal and pleasure imprints from childhood can create powerful adult intimacy patterns and behaviors, regardless of how healthy or unhealthy they are.  How can we release unhealthy coupling with sexual pleasure from the body's tissues and cellular memory, and restore healthy and empowering pleasure patterns?  Today, we hear from two special guests, Kimberly and Nina, who share their experiences of how sexual pleasure was coupled with desired attention and with shame during childhood, and how they each released and replaced these with new empowering associations and the resulting changes in their lives.  

How do you go about your life, sexual relationships, and relating to your genitalia after medical violations lead to numbness, and medical professionals are advising you - there is nothing more you can do?  Special guests, Diane and Sophia, share candidly about their respective journeys of how they restored and reclaimed their sexual pleasure and wholeness after medical and family neglect lead to genital pain and numbness.  

What is it like to grow up in a culture where the sexuality and sexual identity you embody is absent or marginalized from society's normative boxes and culture?  Dr. Liam “Captain” Snowdon shares their journey of exploring sexuality through various non-normative tribes during a time when trans and gender-queer consciousness was not as evolved as it is today,.  Captain also shares their unique perspective about Somatic Sex Education, having served as faculty on many of the leading Somatic Sex Education trainings over the years, and having co-created The Institute for Somatic Sex Education.  

How can couples who love each other but are no longer feeling sexually aligned address their misalignments?  Celine and Kevin, whose specialty includes working with couples, share common issues they witness and resolve, as well as insights into the “Wisdom of the Vagina” and the “Wisdom of the Penis.”  

Chronic pelvic pain involves an intersection of biochemical, biomechanical, emotional and scar-related influences that can be properly addressed via the 4 Domains of Health which Australia-based Somatic Sex Educator, Lorraine Pentalow, details in-depth sharing the methods and processes she used for resolving her own chronic pelvic pain as a case study.  We also discuss Lorraine's other specialties - how to address and resolve erection and ejaculatory challenges.  

How can we identify, voice and honor our body's boundaries and desires in ways that expand intimacy and connection?   Matthias Schwenteck, Creator of Somatic Consent, shares the principles and practices of “the 4 pillars of engagement” and their application to intimate relationships that invite a non-dual “liquid love” in communion and sensorial pleasure.  

How can The Tibetan Five Element Meditation and practices, passed down through a 1200-year lineage, metabolize emotional and physical obstacles for embodied sexual transcendence?  Devi Ward Erickson and her Institute for Authentic Tantra Education trains and teaches practitioners and students to discover this for themselves for deep embodied transformation.  

Every body's journey of sensual & sexual reclamation from past sexual abuse is unique to their body.  Pamelah shares with tremendous insight how her unique path involved her memories of child abuse returning via breath work, how she learned to give voice to her embodied feelings, and the roles Tantra, Yoni Massage, and Sexological Bodywork played in the reclamation and realization of her body's full erotic pleasures and wholeness.  

What does the journey of reclaiming and restoring our organic sexual embodiment and nature involve when healing from childhood sexual abuse?  There are as many paths as there are sacred journeys to healing.  Today, we have the privilege of listening to one such journey, as Violet Lange shares her experiences, both as a survivor of sexual abuse, as well as a guide and coach for women to live a life of pleasure, attuned and in alignment with their embodied feminine nature.  

How can we learn, re-learn or deepen our body's sense of safety for receiving the kinds and quality of touch and pleasure we truly desire, whilst expanding its ability to know and ask for what it really wants?  Dr. Betty Martin and The Wheel of Consent offers a safe and clear container for this embodied inquiry.  Betty shares her journey of how the subtle yet powerful touch distinctions of giving, receiving, taking and allowing evolved, the importance of waking up our hands to receiving pleasure, and her process of distilling and transmitting her depth of knowledge into the newly released “The Art of Receiving and Giving: The Wheel of Consent.”  

How can we restore and awaken our nervous system at its own pace, layer by subtle layer, to ensure its felt sense and inner awareness is reclaimed from the ground up, and how does this profoundly affect our sexual embodiment and pleasure?   Kimberly Ann Johnson's new experiential book, The Call of the Wild:  How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, and Use it for Good invites an embodied exploration of nervous system understanding, intimacy, and self-regulation via the senses through a carefully sequenced series of somatic experiences partnered with insightful cognitive understanding.  

How can we listen for the deep and authentic wisdom of our body's inner knowing, whilst benefitting from the expertise of the Western medical paradigm?  Dr. Jennifer Lang, an obstetrician and gynecologist with a specialty in gynecologic oncology, shares how her experience of surrendering to the authority of her own body's wisdom during her natural birth radically changed her approach to obstetrics.  We also discuss the vital role of consent - both in the medical setting and in intimate realms - which her 2nd book, "Consent," explores from the perspective of teen-agers navigating intimacy, sexuality, and honoring their boundaries.  

The ancient Thai/Taoist Art of Nuad Karsai, also known as Karsai Nei Tsang, increases the Blood/Qi flow into the genitalia and pelvis naturally, restoring its organic energy flow and in so doing, resolving issues ranging from a lack of lubrication, proper engorgement of the clitoris and labia, low libido and fertility issues in vulva-owners, to erection challenges, ejaculation issues, and low libido in penis-owners.  “Coocky” Tassanee Boonsom, founder and teacher at the Loi Kroh Traditional Thai Massage School based in Chiang Mai and one of the most experienced practitioners in these Thai arts, shares her journey of what lead her to becoming trained in these practices, the ability to touch into the energetic consciousness and memories of the client, and the importance of establishing clean energetic boundaries when working with such intimate physical and energetic spaces of a client.  

How can we live in harmony with the natural rhythms of our body for activity and restoration, within each day and across the 7-year natural cycles of our lifetime?  Kris Gonzalez, Founder of The Way of Yin, shares the TCM perspective of how to cultivate and nourish our precious Jing Qi Essence and when to channel it into vital activity, how one's vaginal ecology is a reflection of their overall health, and the Three Golden Opportunities for menstruators - all of which influence the vitality and enjoyment of our sexual health and energy.  

How has the time-tested practice of Vaginal Steaming, known to efficiently and cost-effectively resolve issues - ranging from menstrual cramps and irregular periods, to cysts and fibroids, to fertility challenges, to a whole host of postpartum issues in dozens of countries around the world, been dismissed by the Western medical model?  Keli Garza, founder of Steamy Chick and the Peristeam Hydrotherapy Institute, shares her journey of leading what has become the premiere resource in data collection and research in the efficacy of Perineal Steaming, including results from the Fourth Trimester Postpartum Study and the Pelvic Steam Testimonial Database.  

Dr. Ellen Heed's pioneering research and work in scar tissue remediation and management has revealed a largely unaddressed epidemic of painful sex postpartum due to undiagnosed scar tissue obstructing proper lubrication, engorgement, and organ mobility in the pelvis.  She explains the importance of accurate assessment via The Four Domains of Health - biochemistry, biomechanics, emotions, and scar tissue - and the role Somatic Recall can play in resolving emotions still held in the scar itself.  

Unconscious genital guarding, which can show up as numbness, pain, or a lack of sensation, often occurs within the genitalia and pelvis from a breech of boundaries and nonconsensual sex, but can also develop from non-sexual experiences during childhood, as well as during love-making with loved ones.  Susanne Roursgaard, Psychotherapist/Sexologist and Creator of the Gaia Method, speaks about her experiences as a mid-wife resolving genital armour with her clients, and how these experiences informed her decades of work culminating in The Gaia Method.  

In this episode, we explore how our adult sexual behaviors and patterns are often rooted in the relational imprints formed during our developmental years.  Mike Lousada, creator of Psychosexual Somatics Therapy and Co-author, with his wife, Dr. Louise Mazanti, of "Real Sex,"  discusses how can we effectively hold a safe space to resolve any ruptures from these young experiences, in order to explore our sexual essence and authenticity with an open heart and empowered vulnerable presence.  

In this inaugural episode, Dr. Aline LaPierre, Creator of Neuroaffective Touch Therapy, discusses the "Arcline of Touch" -  the developmental journey of our touch receptors and intimacy imprints beginning from within the Mother's womb, and their influences on our adult sexuality and intimacy patterns and experiences.