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Showing Yourself Out – an Erotic Energy Exercise
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Showing Yourself Out – an Erotic Energy Exercise

Each year, we offer a 6-months training to help people deepen the erotic and emotional connections in their lives. In this training, many exercises use verbal communications and others are more tactile and touch-based. But there is also a very unique technique around erotic energy we call “Showing Yourself Out”. Why Show Yourself Out Showing…

How Betty Dodson Inspired Me to Change My Career

How Betty Dodson Inspired Me to Change My Career

Betty Dodson – known to many as the godmother of women’s masturbation – was the motivation I needed to change my career. But it’s probably best if I start my story a bit further back. My First Forays into Sex Education My family wasn’t particularly liberal or conservative when it came to sex or sex…

Somatica Sessions #4 – How To Ask For What You Want
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Somatica Sessions #4 – How To Ask For What You Want

How to ask for what you want – both in bed and in life – is intensely difficult for many people. In this real-life example of a Somatica Session, Sabrina works with Somatica Institute co-founder Celeste Hirschman on the themes of self-care, self-love, and self-worth. She wants to overcome her fears of displeasing her partner…

How to Build Trust with a Client
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How to Build Trust with a Client

In the Somatica training, we teach our budding coaching students how to build trust with a client that helps them transform in the realm of sex and intimacy. We call these “practice relationships” or “The Relationship Lab”. They are two-way, authentic relationships that offer freedom and safety to the client – so they can practice…

Somatica Sessions #3 – How to Build Emotional Connection
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Somatica Sessions #3 – How to Build Emotional Connection

Have you ever wondered how to build emotional connection with someone in a social setting? In this third real-life episode of the Somatica Sessions video series, coach Danielle Harel teaches her client Krister how to ask for consent, build interpersonal relationship skills, and attune himself in order to stage a successful seduction. Attunement to Open…

Somatica Sessions #2 – Overcoming Toxic Shame
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Somatica Sessions #2 – Overcoming Toxic Shame

Have you ever encountered toxic shame in your practice as a coach – and wondered how you can help your client overcome it? In this second episode of our Somatica Sessions video series, watch Somatica Institute co-founder Danielle Harel walk Dori through shame coaching and explain the psychological effects of shame. Exploring The Roots of…

Somatica Sessions #1 – How to Create Desire with Self Connection
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Somatica Sessions #1 – How to Create Desire with Self Connection

What if you could learn how to create desire in others by simply fostering a deeper self connection? In this first episode of our brand new Somatica Sessions video series, Celeste guides her client Spiritchild on a journey of self connection. By finding a connection to his own erotic essence and bringing it to every…

9 Steps to Successful Relationship Repair

9 Steps to Successful Relationship Repair

Learning how to do relationship repair will improve your life more than just about any other skill you will ever learn. Tension and conflict are normal parts of every relationship. Relationship repair, however, can be tricky. Because most people don’t know how to tackle common relationship issues, minor problems can quickly snowball into resentment, detachment,…

Somatica Institute is now a CAMFT Approved CE Provider!

Somatica Institute is now a CAMFT Approved CE Provider!

We are excited to announce that the Somatica Institute can now count itself among the elite group of CAMFT Approved CE Providers. If you are a mental health professional in search of a CE for MFT course, perhaps you’d like to add sex and intimacy tools to your practice. For both couples work and individual…