Reawaken: Nurturing Desire

A 5 Week Somatic Journey for Mothers

Sex and intimacy often take a backseat in Motherhood, but it’s not just an issue of time and space. Deeper physical, emotional, and even spiritual issues often get in the way of our ability to transition into the Mother-phase of our sexuality.

Have you found yourself wondering where your libido went? Do the demands of caring for your children leave you feeling disconnected from or undeserving of your own desires? Or maybe you’ve accessed a deep well of desire but feel out of sync with your partner, with no idea how to get your newfound needs met?

These changes in our sexual needs and desires are real, but they are NOT problems. In fact, they offer us just the fuel we need to embody not only the energy of Mother, but also Lover - fully, authentically, and powerfully. By learning to re-embody and take responsibility for our sexual desire in Motherhood, we mature and evolve toward fulfillment.

In Reawaken, you will learn to navigate the newfound challenges in body, mind, and spirit and unleash a more authentic voice and satisfying experience in sex.
Are you ready to dive in?

Is this you?

A woman raising kids who is finding what used to work for you sexually isn’t cutting it anymore.

A mother in a committed partnership struggling to communicate and enact your deep needs and desires in sex.

A mom no longer willing to settle for ‘meh’ in the bedroom.

A woman reckoning with how different your relationship to sex and pleasure are now that you have kids.

A mom who is willing to challenge your approach to pleasure and be changed by the process.

What do you get?

Six two-hour workshops with group work, on-the-spot individual coaching, and real-time nervous system repatterning with a group of willing and wild women.

Access to recordings, a resource list, and bonus breathwork and yoga practices.

Practical tools for enhancing libido, desire, and sexual response while being in the mix of the daily to-do’s.

Tools to gently unravel experiences of violation and betrayal while strengthening boundary-setting and communication skills.

A safe container to explore questions, doubts, fantasies, and frustrations.

Practice getting in your body and shifting the pattern of being in your head.

About me

I work with you at the level of your nervous system, supporting your recognition of how intellect often overrides animal instinct and politeness keeps you from deep satisfaction.

We practice embodiment tools and process our experiences together, in real time. Yoga and breathwork are brought in to provide experiences of moving your own energy in the context of sexual desire rather than waiting for someone else to generate and satisfy your turn-on.  

Why am I the one to be offering this?

In a professional sense, I’m a Somatic Sex Educator, a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner-in-training, and I have a Masters in Psychology. I’ve coached women and Mothers for the last seven years in reconnecting to their felt sense of power, pleasure, and agency. But most significant to this course, I’m a mom who started out believing I would “NEVER” be one to feel averse to sex, and after my first baby, I wasn’t. I “bounced back” pretty quickly. And then my second child was born, and not only did it take over six months to feel safe having sex, let alone any sexual desire, but I couldn’t have penetration without searing pain for another six months. I felt lost, afraid of my body, and angry that what once felt so easy now felt so hard.

I began seeing a pelvic PT, which supported some degree of pain, but certain things that I used to love still didn’t feel quite right, and it wasn’t just physical. I had to face all the shadow elements of my sexual expression - all the ways I’d learned to defer my needs to someone else and ‘get off’ on adrenaline. I then began taking my own medicine, receiving Somatic Experiencing sessions weekly and practicing what’s called Yoni Mapping - a process of mindfully and in a non-goal-oriented way touching my own internal pelvic tissue. The results were not fast, but I’m having GREAT sex again, and most of that is due to the deepened intimacy in my marriage and my ability to identify, communicate, and be met in my desires.

I believe sex is an expression of our relationship to self-trust and play, and when we heal sex, we deepen those pathways and enhance every area of life. I can’t wait to share these practices and see you lit up with inspiration, desire, and mischief ;-)

Details

  • When: Fridays, May 3-31
    10am-12pm Pacific

  • Where: Zoom (all sessions recorded)

  • How much: $675 / $575 Early Bird by April 11- use code REAWAKEN

  • Why: Because Motherhood isn’t the end of your wildness, it’s only the beginning.

“If sexuality is one dimension of our ability to live passionately…then in cutting off our sexual feelings we diminish our overall power to feel, know and value deeply.”

— Judith Plaskow