Thank you for your interest in learning more about sessions for individuals. Somatic sex education provides increased access to healthy sexual pleasure and sexual healing.
Sessions for individuals to increase somatic awareness and access to pleasure is the most common root service provided by somatic sex educators. It is my primary service offering.
It was through attending individual sessions with a somatic sex education practitioner that I experienced a transformation with my sex life. In those sessions, I learned how to tap into my own body wisdom and access more sexual pleasure and healing.
Intake Process
I invite new clients to complete a detailed intake process and intake form to ensure they fully understand the service and to ensure my service is suited to their individualized needs and expectations. It also provides valuable information for me about the client’s goals and sexual and medical history.
My guidelines for ethical practice are outlined in my intake form, and new adult clients are asked to acknowledge and initial these agreements and provide written consent if they wish to include bodywork in their sessions.
The intake process also serves as an initial period of engagement for myself and my client to become more familiar and at ease with each other. This lays the foundation for our work together. The intake form is posted on my website. It must be completed and sent to me prior to booking the first session so I have time to review the information.
Session Openings
Sessions begin with an initial engagement period between myself and my client to help us connect with ease and establish an energy connection for our work together in the session. We discuss client intentions or goals for the session. We also review respective client and practitioner agreements governing the session.
Clients choose at the beginning of every session whether they want a talk-based session only or a combined talk-based and body-based session that includes bodywork. If the client chooses bodywork, they also choose upfront between touch that is erotic or touch that is not erotic.
This is followed with mindfulness and relaxation exercises to create an open heart-space and sense of presence to support learning and pleasure experiences.
With heart-space open, I invite an open discussion with clients about identifying power dynamics or naming any differences and potential fears, hesitations, or objections to our working together in this way. Just by naming the issues or dynamics, and giving them transparency and open space for discussion, seems to clear the way. This exercise results in a more relaxed and free-flowing session uncluttered with unspoken and unresolved issues that could interfere with the full learning and pleasure experience in the session.
In sessions, clients can choose to be fully clothed or fully undressed, or somewhere in between. I coach clients to embrace and mobilize their own inherent creative life-force erotic energy for their own pleasure and/or healing through a range of gentle somatic practices and exercises.
This is offered through talk-based coaching or touch-based bodywork depending on client’s choice of approach. When bodywork is chosen, the touch given can be provided by me or I can be witness to self-touch for and by the client. If bodywork is chosen for on-line sessions, I guide and support a client’s self-touch either on or off camera, based on the client’s choice.
In-Person Bodywork Sessions
With in-person sessions where touch is requested, I guide clients with mindfulness, presence, and relaxation exercises to begin the bodywork segment of the session. Then I ask clients to scan their whole body, take a sacred pause, discern where they would like to be touched and practice asking for the precise touch that brings them pleasure.
I guide clients to follow and expand their pleasure with further requests for touch. All touch practices and exercises in sessions must be clearly requested and fully consented by adult clients at the onset of the session.
In-person sessions can involve specific kinds of non-erotic or erotic touch that is comfort-focused or pleasure-focused. Or in-person sessions can involve talk-based coaching only based on the client’s choice for that day. Some of the common pleasure-focused touch exercises used in sessions are waking up the hands, waking up the neighbourhood, pleasure mapping or pleasure massage. Some of the common comfort-focused touch exercises for healing are scar tissue remediation, gentle holding or other guided somatic exercises to sooth and unwind sexual trauma.
I guide clients in somatic exercises designed to support them with self-identified sex and intimacy concerns such as: loneliness, shyness, social isolation, inexperience, touch deprivation, touch phobia, sexual shame and repression, sexless relationships, low libido, painful sex, pelvic pain, arousal or orgasm difficulties, excessive porn use, sex addiction, sexual trauma or other sex and intimacy concerns. There are several different kinds of somatic exercises in our somatic sex education toolbox that are useful for each of these concerns. Some involve touch, others do not, but all of them are exercises designed to increase sensate focus and somatic awareness. All somatic exercises are intended to build capacity and confidence in the client’s inner awareness and knowing about their body wisdom. Body wisdom informs their needs and desires in order to access more pleasure. Body wisdom informs their needs and desires in order to access to more healing.
I support clients to experiment with elements like breath, movement, sounds, sensations, smells and several other inquiries to discover new ways to access more somatic awareness, sexual pleasure, and sexual healing in their life.
Access to expanded erotic pleasure, orgasms with increased intensity and connection to sacred sexuality via ecstatic trance states is possible as clients learn to know their own desires better. And sexual pleasure and healing is expanded as clients tap more into the wisdom of their body in a safe shame-free environment.
On-line Sessions
On-line sessions can include bodywork too if chosen at the beginning of the session. Clients are guided and witnessed in self-touch. Self touch and witnessing are also useful somatic approaches that offer erotic pleasure and healing for clients.
Session Closings
Space is left at close of the session for quiet savouring time and discussion time for reflection about the session. The session ends with closing the energy connections between us and discussing thoughts about potential next steps.
The number of sessions attended is a matter of choice. Clients may attend one session only, a series of sessions or intermittent sessions dependent on their somatic sex education learning needs and desires.
I offer home practice suggestions and referrals to other resources and allied professionals to support client’s self-identified goals for increased somatic awareness, sexual pleasure, and sexual healing.
Follow-up Aftercare
A few days following individual sessions, I send out a follow-up email to clients to inquire about post-session reflections and reactions. Attending somatic sex education sessions can be an intense and emotional learning experience. It can often take time after sessions to discover and integrate new learnings at the somatic level. I wish to know how my clients have responded to the session, what they have learned and how they are doing post session. I also send out monthly email updates about my practice and sex and intimacy tips. Or I may contact a client via email if I come across information or a new resource that I think may be of interest to particular clients.
Session Modalities
Sessions can be attended either on-line with zoom, an Internet-based video platform, or in-person at my studio or a combination of both.
For in-person sessions, my studio is located in northeast Manitoba, Canada. Detailed directions are provided upon booking.
For on-line sessions, I serve English-speaking clients from anywhere in the world.
For Persons with Disabilities
For clients with disabilities that have specific accommodation needs, please discuss your accessibility needs with me via email contact. I will try my best to accommodate the accessibility needs of persons with disabilities.
Session Rates and Durations
My rate for individual sessions is $100 per hour payable by cash, cheque, e-transfer, or bank transfer.
I am open to discussing trade offers by other bodyworkers or bartering offers by persons experiencing affordability barriers for booking somatic sex education sessions.
In-person individual sessions are booked for a minimum of 2-hours. I have been finding that sessions can actually take up to 3 hours. I don’t want clients to feel rushed.
On-line individual sessions are booked for a 1.5-hour length of time.
To Book an Individual Session
To book an individual session with me, I first need to receive and review a completed intake form.
Booking and other correspondence with me is made using email. My email address is [email protected]. Audio or video online chat communication is a possibility if requested.
Experience a Vitality Boost
It is my hope that clients will experience an awakening or boost to their erotic life-force energy with individual sessions. And a pathway to greater vitality, pleasure, and happiness in their life generally. This was my experience as a client of somatic sex education practice after attending four individual sessions two weeks apart with a practitioner. I chose bodywork to be included in all four of my sessions and each session built upon the work of the previous session. The following year, I returned for three more individual sessions. Learning how to be pleasure focused has brought me more vitality in all areas of my life, including and far beyond the sexual realm.
Please complete and email me the Intake Form . I will review it and message back in response with ideas about my offerings.