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The Sexology Institute in San Antonio, Texas is a destination for connoisseurs of the sensual. Its comprehensive services include sex coaching, licensed relationship counseling, adult sex education, an intimacy boutique, and a variety of public and private events. Our podcast contains stories by our staff, interviews with those in the sexological community, and just about everything we can think of that's within our sexual purview.https://SexologyInstitute.com
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We explore the restoration of pleasure, the reclamation of sexual sovereignty, and the realization of our embodied sexual nature. We engage with leading somatic therapists, sexologists & sexological bodyworkers, and holistic practitioners worldwide who provide practical wisdom from hands-on experiences of working with clients and their embodied sexuality. We invite a deep listening to the organic nature of your body, its sexual essence, and the bounty of wisdom embodied in its life force. Fo ...
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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 e…
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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.By Rahi
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"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 crea…
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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/Advoc…
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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 imprin…
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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-vagi…
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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 gu…
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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-…
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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 …
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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 l…
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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 genero…
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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 h…
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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 …
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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 …
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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 sp…
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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 wh…
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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 …
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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.”…
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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 st…
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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 plea…
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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 transfo…
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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…
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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 we…
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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 s…
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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, a…
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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 b…
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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 ere…
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Kennie continues the conversation about women's sexual health by addressing medical professionals assuming that women overreact when having medical issues. She also speaks about her goals to provide resources/education about ectopic pregnancies as well as resources for husbands/male partners when their partners experience a loss/termination of preg…
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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 va…
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Kennie and Erin provide an overview of both male and female sexual dysfunction, the causes, and treatments. William addresses the transgender population and the similarities and differences. Erin also provides the backdrop for Kennie to introduce issues associated with women's sexual health, how men handle pregnancy loss, and clarify how medical pr…
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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, f…
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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 …
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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 an…
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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 …
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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.…
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Resilience means the capacity to bounce back during difficult times, and adapt to stress and adversity. Erin, Kennie, and William share their personal resiliency tools, and they discuss the concept of sexual resiliency. Just as you benefit from having personal resilience in order to bounce back from life’s challenges, it’s important to have sexual …
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First of all, Kennie wants to share her COVID experience to hopefully encourage people to take the pandemic seriously, and realize that even very healthy people and families are impacted. Next Will, Kennie, and Erin want to review the topics that seem to generate the most discussion, interest, and questions by viewers/listeners. We will be addressi…
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2020 has been a challenging year, especially because of the global health crisis. The pandemic has touched all of us in ways we could not have imagined, but we are all using the tools in our resiliency buckets to survive! There are a number of ways to still enjoy the holidays, even though not in the "traditional" fashion, which generally includes t…
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Kennie, William, and Erin talk about how we are trending away from the "traditional" relationship paradigms, that include patriarchal and heterosexual views on marritiage/relationships. Some of the typical sexual expectations that heterosexual, or cis-gendered people have had under this archaic construct (like transactional sex; sex as a reward; th…
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Kennie Polit, LPC, Erin Alexander, LPC-S, ACS, and William Lynch, ACS, candidly discuss some of the current events and how these have been having an impact on various populations from a mental health, sexual health, and social perspective. We have a platform to be advocates for others and we should do that as professionals.…
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Kennie and Erin explore some of the reasons women have affairs, and talk about Esther Perel's book, State of Affairs. Kennie and Erin also have dialogue about libido and the division of labor, women and empowerment, and the many hats they wear. Interestingly, many affairs are emotional affairs, especially during the pandemic. And speaking of the pa…
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Part III Natasha Strange is a professional dominatrix and sex educator. She joins Kennie and Erin in a dialogue about the COVID-19 and the sex industry. What impact is the pandemic having on sex workers and people who are dating? What are some creative ideas to be sexual during quarantines and city shutdowns? How can we be social/sexual and still h…
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