RELATIONAL is what we all are. All matter is conscious which is recognised by the understanding that every thing is in relationship. Our internal biological and psychological systems are relational with each other and with the ecosystems of life and matter. Throughout life, from the moment we are born, we are all learning to moderate, regulate, reduce or intensify our visceral affect in our relationships with ourselves and each other to support our equilibrium.

 

TRUSTING SPONTANEITY involves viscerally knowing our power through opening our receptivity, becoming curious and learning ways to feel more of ourselves, repairing what has been hurt and impacted our equilibrium. This is imperative for our survival as a species. Our eros is biologically and hormonally enhanced through play in a reciprocal relationship. Trusting spontaneity is informed by, and affected by, our playful self-expression. The ways we are responded to, and the ways we impact others, teach us about our power and duty of care. Eros can be understood to be in service to the integration of all aspects of life.

EMBODIMENT can be understood to be our symbolic integrative relationship with our viscerally felt bodies’ alchemy. This is our ability to use language and symbols and conceptual structures to embody our viscera as it is streaming into our conscious awareness. These are learnt skills and tools which this training facilitates. Discovering, and gaining access to, symbols and language can help us self-reflect, communicate and integrate the visceral responses from our bodies and embody these. Symbols and language become embodied when they are versions of the body they were created from, rather than conceptualised ones from holograms. Without embodied, categorised, conscious awareness, that is compassionately representing the deep sea of the collective, viscerally informed, undifferentiated consciousness states of our bodies, we are facing an evolutionary western dilemma of living in disembodied conceptualised projected versions of our bodies that are not informed from emergence of our felt senses.

KINDNESS is how we share our worlds with each other, co-creating win-win supportive relationships together. We can learn to be the guardians of our bodies and of each other, with kindness and care, from attuned acknowledgement of our relationship with the physical, spiritual, emotional and erotic landscapes of our bodies and how we affect and are affected by each other in relationships.

THIS TRAINING IS POLITICAL, informing the ways we govern with care for our relationships with ourselves and each other. The first thing that we lose is democracy when management administration systems of power, informed by left brain survival functions to categorise, evaluate, strategise, commodify, compete and grasp, dominate our relationships with our bodies and each other. Our attuned sensory-informed collaborative relationships with our bodies and with each other suffer in these totalitarian states. This seems to be part of our western civilisation’s dilemma. Civilisation is not sustainable in separation from the logic of the biome – our biology. This training is a series of structures that support us in integrating exiled aspects of our being that have lost their belonging. Each of the explorations and assignments are designed in service to supporting our integrity, personal power and biological belonging.
PURPOSE can be understood to be the erotic charge that magnetises us to be part of the repair that is needed from the times where playing hurt or harmed. The modules throughout this training support practising playing with inhabiting new ways of being that authentically contribute to us indigenously coming home to belonging to our erotic, emotional and sensual naturalness.

WE TRAIN PRACTITIONERS wanting to embody their purpose in service to co-creating win-win harmony. This is how we can contribute to the politics of the civilisations we inhabit. There are a myriad of ways and practices that this training teaches and new ways you will discover in your uniqueness, with how you want to be in service, aligned with your purpose.

INTIMATE TOUCH, for many people and discussion, has been within a relationship or partner engagement. This is understandable – and there are other contexts, one of which is education and curiosity. In Somatic Sex Education sessions, practitioners intend to work outside of attraction or dis-attraction i.e partner engagement is set to one side in the service of learning. One of the somatic realms that Somatic Sex Educators introduce to our students is a state of arousal that is free of fantasy, unfinished emotional business, religious dogma, cultural caveats and habitual sexual behaviours. In this meditative state, an individual becomes aware of the body as a source of wisdom and freedom. One of the ways to access this fecund state is by actively receiving erotic bodywork. Helping others access and make use of a variety of erotic states is foundational to the education we offer.

COMING TOGETHER IN OUR COLLECTIVE POWER contributes to a somatic renaissance of practitioners pioneering this field.