Breath work: Our breath holds or enhances our emotional states. As somatic practitioners we can teach different breath work to regulate our nervous system and our emotions. It can be up or down regulating breathing exercises in order to give you more options for what you want to experience, and to cultivate more ease in your everyday life.

Movement & touch: A sexological bodyworker can use movement, body awareness, sensate focus and sensation exploration, erotic body massage and other body-based teachings on intimacy and erotics to expand your erotic capacity, or as I like to frame it; “tolerating more bliss”.

Lack of arousal or unwanted arousal patterns: If you find it hard to get aroused and engorged maybe you need to switch up your routine, do something different that actually works for you. Or maybe you need to look at the context where these difficulties appear, whether it be in a relationship or other life circumstances that affects you.

Boundaries and communication: I help with boundary-setting and communication so that you can be more confident when you communicate what you want/don’t want/or need more time to decide whether or not you want when you interact with others. Remember its your body and your boundaries.

Body Mapping: Mapping your genital anatomy or other body parts can be a great way to know yourself better. When you know more about your body parts you can also discover where you’re sensitive, where you have pleasure or pain, or where you dont feel much sensations at all. All genital configurations are welcome.

Scar tissue: Our scars hold a story and emotional content. It could be from childbirth, gender-affirming surgery, injuries or other circumstances that effect our capacity for sensations in those areas. I can help you detect and befriend those areas and explore options for touch, so you don’t have to feel limited in your pleasure potential.

Duration: We create new neural pathways when we explore and experience something different. A lot of learning can happen during one session but to go from zero to hundred, whatever your learning objective is, would often result in overwhelm. For most people go slow is key. In order to stay within your resilient edge where you dare to go where you feel challenged but not overwhelmed, it might take several sessions. A sexological bodyworker therefore usually work with clients for more than one session.

Ethical framework: A bodywork session might include sensual and erotic touch, but within an ethical framework with one-way touch; client never touch practitioner, and practitioner is always clothed and gloved.

The benefits of strictly one-way touch is that we can offer a state of arousal that is free from the pressures that often accompanies partnered exploration where there is two-way touch, whether that be in your relationship or other sexual or romantic encounters. Touch is only given at the request of the client, and is only done for their learning objective. It is their pace and trust, but only when deemed appropriate by the practitioner, so both have to feel into their own boundaries. Interventions are done to support the exploration of arousal and embodied states of pleasure free from cultural scripts, stigma and habitual sexual behaviors.

“We help clients become 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”.

For more info you can also visit Association of certified sexological bodyworkers (ASCB) or Institute of somatic sexology (ISS)