Best Essence Stewart Podcasts (2024)

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How Goddess Amina Peterson Supports the Restoration and Reclamation of Erotic Pleasure & Power for Black Women and Men 1:01:44

10h ago1:01:44

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Amina Peterson created The Atlanta Institute of Tantra to provide safe & joyous havens for Black women and men to explore the essence of embodied sexual nature, power, authentic consent, and erotic pleasures. Her experiential wisdom from deep dives into the nature of tantra, somatic presence, sexual healing, and erotic bodywork has yielded training…

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Re-inhabiting Presence, Pleasure and Power for Differently-Abled Bodies with Emily Royce, President of the ACSB 50:39

22d ago50:39

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Is the process and methodology for holding space for sexological bodywork for those with chronic pain or differently-abled bodies any different than for non-differently-abled bodies? The answer may surprise you as Emily Royce, who specializes in working with communities who are on the outskirts of mainstream sexuality, shares her insights and exper…

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Hormonal Balance For Optimal Sexual Wholeness Through Menopause and Andropause with Dr. Guy Citrin 51:11

3M ago51:11

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Dr. Guy Citrin, naturopathic doctor, whose specialty includes hormonal health and anti-aging, shares his insights and experiences on how to best prepare for menopause and andropause and the best ways to thrive through these natural and universal thresholds of life.By Rahi

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How Re-Wilding Our Embodiment Aligns Eros With Our True Nature and Each Other with Christiane Pelmas 56:10

3M ago56:10

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Christiane Pelmas is a force of nature and her evolving inquiry and meditation on re-wilding and returning to our undomesticated embodiment has informed her path as a mentor, guide, teacher, elder and space-holder. Author of “Trauma: A Practical Guide to Working with Body and Soul” and “Women’s Wisdom Guidebook & Card Deck,” Christiane is founder o…

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How Joseph Kramer’s Lucid Erotic States Created The Body Electric and Sexological Bodywork 1:00:03

6M ago1:00:03

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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 …

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How To Create Sacredness in Sexuality and The Body Electric with Craig Cullinane 54:21

9M ago54:21

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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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Re-Inhabiting Boundaries, Pleasure and New Sexual Intimacy After Childhood Abuse with Somatica Practitioner Dr. Laura Jurgens 1:02:53

11M ago1:02:53

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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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Caffyn Jesse Returns to Share About "Intimacy Educator," "Ecstatic Belonging," and Cautious Considerations Combining Sexological Bodywork and Psychedelics 48:23

1y ago48:23

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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 Psychedelics Can Guide, Inform & Support Sexual Healing with Psychedelic Integration Specialist Salimeh Tabrizi 1:01:22

1y ago1:01:22

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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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Expanding Sexual Health & Pleasure For Men/Cock-Owners with Ron & Pono Stewart 1:01:25

1+ y ago1:01:25

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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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How To Love Your Cervix From Numbness to Pleasure With Olivia Naomi Bryant & Self-Cervix 1:01:49

1+ y ago1:01:49

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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 to Own & Embody the Shadow Aspects of Our Sexual Selves w/The Light/Dark Institute 1:02:13

1+ y ago1:02:13

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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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How Couples Can Satiate Evolving Sexual Desires Within A Committed Partnership with Dolly Josette 40:59

1+ y ago40:59

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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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Accessing Pleasure Points In The Pelvis For Practical Healing with Beaudoin Bodywork 52:18

1+ y ago52:18

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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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Exploring the Parameters of a Sacred Intimate, Sexual Surrogate, and Somatica Coach with Andre Lazarus who is all Three 52:57

1+ y ago52:57

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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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How To Enjoy The Best Sex of Your Lives Into Your 70s and 80s with Judith and Frank. 56:56

1+ y ago56:56

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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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Phil Jones: What Makes Us Human? 24:32

3y ago24:32

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The Editor of Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2 answers the question for the final time. Producer: Ryan Wilson.By BBC Radio 2

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How to Honor Male Survivors and Resolving the Compounding Effects of Sexual & Racial Trauma with SE Therapist Becky Carter 56:34

3y ago56:34

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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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Martin Lewis: What Makes Us Human? 27:42

3y ago27:42

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The financial journalist and broadcaster answers the question. Producer: Patrick ThomasBy BBC Radio 2

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Lady Hale: What Makes Us Human? 25:45

3y ago25:45

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The first female president of the Supreme Court answers the question. Producer: Patrick ThomasBy BBC Radio 2

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How Prostate Massage Can Release Past Traumas & Expand Orgasmic States Into Spiritual Realms of Embodiment with Stine Krage and Asim SacredFire of The Prostatic Portal 46:26

3y ago46:26

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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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Dr Richard Shepherd: What Makes Us Human? 19:11

3y ago19:11

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The forensic pathologist answers the question. Producer: Patrick ThomasBy BBC Radio 2

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How Following Her Body’s Pleasures Created A Legacy of Somatic Sex Education with Caffyn Jesse 59:04

3y ago59:04

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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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Peggy Seeger: What Makes Us Human? 24:49

3+ y ago24:49

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Peggy Seeger, one of folk music’s greatest musicians, answers the question. Producer: Ryan Wilson.By BBC Radio 2

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Arlene Phillips: What Makes Us Human? 20:18

3+ y ago20:18

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The choreographer and former Strictly judge joins us to answer the question.By BBC Radio 2

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How to Restore Empowering Associations with Sexual Pleasure and Release Unhealthy Ones with Kimberly and Nina 58:06

3+ y ago58:06

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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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Lord Sumption: What Makes Us Human? 21:32

3+ y ago21:32

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The historian and former Supreme Court Judge answers the question. Producer: Ryan WilsonBy BBC Radio 2

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How to Restore Genital Sensations & Pleasure from Numbness & Pain Due to Medical Violations with Diane and Sophia 49:21

3+ y ago49:21

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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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Rory Stewart: What Makes Us Human? 27:34

3+ y ago27:34

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The politician and adventurer joins Victoria Derbyshire to answer the question. Producer: Ryan Wilson.By BBC Radio 2

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How Not Fitting Into Normative Sexuality Boxes Can Lead to Discovering Your Authentic Sexuality with Dr. Liam "Captain" Snowdon 40:13

3+ y ago40:13

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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 Couples Can Resolve Intimacy Challenges and Re-ignite Sexual Chemistry with Kevin Anthony & Celine Remy 50:13

3+ y ago50:13

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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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How to Resolve Pelvic Pain, Erection Challenges and Ejaculatory Issues Holistically with CSB Lorraine Pentello 49:55

3+ y ago49:55

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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 Somatic Consent Deepens and Expands Infinite Realms for Intimacy and Connection with Matthias Schwenteck 43:35

3+ y ago43:35

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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 The Tibetan Five Element Tantric Practices Metabolize Energy for Sexual Pleasure with Devi Ward 51:47

3+ y ago51:47

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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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How Tantra, Yoni Massage, and Sexological Bodywork Can Restore Sexual Pleasure and Wholeness with Pamelah Landers 1:05:36

3+ y ago1:05:36

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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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How to Reclaim and Restore Embodied Sexual Pleasure, Intimacy and Wholeness After Sexual Abuse with Violet Lange 51:26

3+ y ago51:26

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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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Christopher Biggins: What Makes Us Human? 23:14

3+ y ago23:14

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The actor and performer tells Vanessa Feltz that laughter makes us human. Producer: Ryan WilsonBy BBC Radio 2

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How The Wheel of Consent Invites an Ever-Deepening Embodiment for Intimacy, Pleasure, and Relationships with Dr. Betty Martin 44:15

3+ y ago44:15

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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 to Awaken Our Inner Animal by Restoring our Nervous System with Kimberly Ann Johnson 1:03:59

3+ y ago1:03:59

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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 to Honor the Body’s Authority Within the Western Medical Paradigm with Dr. Jennifer Lang, OB/Gyn 57:04

3+ y ago57:04

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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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How Karsai Restores Blood, Qi and Energy Flow to the Genitalia Naturally with "Coocky" Tassanee Boonsom 40:08

3+ y ago40:08

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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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Janet Ellis: What Makes Us Human? 22:08

3+ y ago22:08

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The legendary Blue Peter presenter joins us to answer the question. Producer: Ryan WilsonBy BBC Radio 2

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How to Live a Jing-Centered Life: Honoring Our Sexual Qi Essence with D.O.M. Kris Gonzalez 45:03

3+ y ago45:03

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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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How Vaginal Steaming Restores the Organic Flow of Reproductive Cycles, Periods, and Organs with Keli Garza 1:02:48

3+ y ago1:02:48

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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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Christie Watson: What Makes Us Human 21:59

3+ y ago21:59

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The nurse joins Vanessa Feltz to answer the question. Producer: Ryan WilsonBy BBC Radio 2

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How Scar Tissue Remediation Can Resolve Painful Sex & Restore Pelvic Health with Dr. Ellen Heed 1:05:31

3+ y ago1:05:31

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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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Arthur Edwards: What Makes Us Human? 24:32

3+ y ago24:32

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The royal photographer answers the question. Producer: Ryan WilsonBy BBC Radio 2

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How Genital Armour Develops, Affects Our Sexuality, and Resolves from the Body with Susanne Roursgaard 1:13:23

4y ago1:13:23

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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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How Our Developmental "Arcline of Touch" Influences Adult Sexuality & Intimacy Patterns with Dr. Aline LaPierre 1:11:51

4y ago1:11:51

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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.…