What is Somatic Sexuality Education?

Somatic Sexuality Education (SSE) is a hands on approach to learning which encompasses the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of our sexuality, gender, intimacy and pleasure. The word Somatic comes from the Greek word soma and literally means we use the body as a tool for learning and growth. I support people to find a felt sense of the change, supporting them to learn they have a choice in their reactions and feelings when expressing their authentic desires, needs and/or boundaries, giving them a physical, tangible experience, as opposed to just talking about it. SSE is definitely about learning to have even better sex than you are already having!

But it’s also a whole lot more…

It can be about learning new skills either to pleasure yourself or a partner. Learning to re connect in an intimate way after an illness, accident or even child birth. It can also be about overcoming anxiety or stress around intimacy or specific challenges such as an inability to orgasm or ejaculation dysfunction. And just sometimes its because we are simply, and most beautifully, just curious about creating more pleasure in our lives.SSE invites clients to bring all of themselves into the learning space, to tune into the way your body speaks to you via sending and receiving information and explore the unique and diverse way the body learns. SSE is sometimes talking, sometimes learning how to become more aware of our physical sensations and feelings, sometimes body work ( including genital touch if that is deemed valuable ) and always homework. The real work doesn’t happen in my room…it happens in the short, regular homework practices we create to support your learning,