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In this episode, Graeme and I talk about penetration, specifically penis-vagina penetration with all its cultural and personal histories.
When we think of improving penetration, we think of trying new positions. We never consider other ways to explore. We go deep into what becomes possible when we bring real, embodied presence to penetration instead of rushing towards a goal.
In this episode we explore:
- How most of us learned penetration as a mechanical act, not an intimate oneWhy letting go of the script and be uncomfortable and how to navigate those moments
- Checking in before penetration, and why this simple practice can be so healing
- How childhood wounding and old conditioning can show up in intimacy and how we’ve learned to navigate that together
- The Taoist concept of “the way” – learning to listen and move with what’s actually happening, rather than following a script
- How to practice presence in the everyday
- Conscious penetration as a healing pathway through peri / menopause
- Why arousal doesn’t have to come first and how willingness and openness can be a doorway into intimacy
- The Making Love scissors position
- How to play with subtlety
- How penetration can be a practice
- Why women not orgasming through penetration says more about the style of sex we’ve learned than anything being ‘wrong’ with them
- Passion as fire and how it becomes a life-giving force
Checkout two other podcast episodes mentioned in this one:
Episode 61 on sex and menopause
Episode 68 on the pleasure of planned intimacy
If this piques your curiosity, join us for our Making Love Retreat for couples in Devon in October – a full week dedicated to exactly what we talk about in this episode, through embodiment practices, teaching, and practice time. There is space left for two couples.
You can find out more here: https://sarahrosebright.com/making-love-retreats/
Graeme Waterfield is a men’s coach who guides men into deeper presence, embodiment, and self-awareness. His sexual energy mastery training, blends meditation, Taoist principles, and nervous system awareness to transform sexual energy into love, vitality, and consciousness. Moving away from performance and intensity, his work emphasises relaxation, heart connection, and integrating sexuality into everyday life, helping men deepen intimacy, authenticity, and inner ease.
Graeme and Sarah teach The Making Love Retreat®. Together they guide couples into deeper dimensions of intimacy, lovemaking, and conscious connection.
RESOURCES FROM GRAEME
To explore Graeme’s work in meditation, embodiment and sexual energy mastery for men, including courses, coaching, retreats and teachings, visit:https://www.graemewaterfield.com
Graeme’s Sexual Energy Mastery Training for men – a training for men exploring meditation, embodied awareness and the deeper potential of sexual energy as a pathway into embodiment. This course starts April 14th, 2026 (though you can join up to April 21st).
You can also find Graeme on Facebook.
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th – 18th October, 2026
For free gifts for women and couples and to explore Sarah’s work – including private coaching, group programmes, courses, retreats and her podcast – visit www.sarahrosebright.com
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Sarah Rose Bright is an Erotic Embodiment and Intimacy Guide, authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreat®, and host of Making Love, a podcast on the evolution of love, sex, and relationships. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives – and know this is the missing piece. Women come home to their bodies, awaken their desire, and reclaim their power. Couples create an erotic life of depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/
MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here – https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
Carly Mountain, psychotherapist, sex therapist, and author of Descent & Rising, joined Sarah to talk about her new book, Untamed Pleasure: Unleash Your True Erotic Nature.
She shares that we weren’t born tamed – we get trained into cages, that keep us from our own erotic nature. Carly’s book offers twelve keys to find our way back out.
In this conversation, Carly joins Sarah to explore what it really means to untame, they talk about the twelve keys and cages framework at the heart of her new book, what emerged from interviewing over sixty people aged 23 to 71 about their erotic lives, why creative transgression was the hardest chapter to write, and what midlife opens for women reclaiming Eros.
Carly shares the “pleasure paradox,” rewilding orgasm and what it looks like for couples to untame together, including taking penetration off the table as a gateway to deeper intimacy.
What you’ll hear:
- Defining “untamed pleasure” – why not “wild,” and the difference between returning to something innate versus learning something new
- The twelve keys and cages framework: physical, mental, emotional, energetic, relational, soulful
- Communication as a “skeleton key” for every cage
- What over 60 interviews (ages 23–71) revealed
- What untaming brings up: grief, fear of family rejection and more
- Midlife as a threshold for reclaiming Eros
- The chapter she found hardest to write, and why
- Why midlife is such a specific threshold for reclaiming Eros
- The “pleasure paradox” — why the road to pleasure isn’t always pleasurable
- Rewilding orgasm beyond quick and genital-only
- What it looks like for a couple to untame together
If you’ve ever felt like there’s more available to you, more pleasure, more aliveness, more permission – this conversation is for you.
Carly Mountain is a somatic psychotherapist, sex therapist, sacred space holder, breathworker and author of Descent & Rising: Women’s Stories & the Embodiment of the Inanna Myth and Untamed Pleasure: Unleash Your True Erotic Nature. She is passionate about facilitating people to reconnect with their inherent erotic aliveness, power and pleasure. She lives in Sheffield, England with her husband and two daughters.
RESOURCES FROM CARLY
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/carly_mountain
Facebook Carly Mountain
Substack https://substack.com/@carlymountain
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th – 18th October, 2026
Visit www.sarahrosebright.com
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Sarah Rose Bright is an Erotic Embodiment and Intimacy Guide, authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreat®, and host of Making Love, a podcast on the evolution of love, sex, and relationships. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives – and know this is the missing piece. Women come home to their bodies, awaken their desire, and reclaim their power. Couples create an erotic life of depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/
MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here – https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
Dr. Stephania Sciamano spent a decade practicing as a naturopathic doctor before realising that lab results alone couldn’t explain why so many of her female patients weren’t getting better. Underneath the hormone imbalances, she kept finding the same pattern: stuck anger, old grief, and a guarded, combative relationship to men in general — not just romantically, but with fathers, brothers, bosses, and colleagues. In this conversation, Stephania and Sarah unpack what femininity really is (hint: it’s not lipstick), why a woman’s cortisol rhythm can reveal exactly how safe she feels around men, and how softening that guard changes both a woman’s biology and her relationships. They talk candidly about control, letting a partner love you in his own way and his own timing, why women so often have to “go first” energetically, and what’s really happening beneath the surface during perimenopause and menopause. The episode closes with a short guided heart-opening practice.
What We Cover
– Stephania’s path from 10 years in family and women’s medicine, through a five-year shamanic apprenticeship, to focusing on the relational root of hormonal imbalance
– Why treating hormones numerically often doesn’t make a woman feel better — and what she found underneath the numbers instead
– The direct link between a woman’s stance toward men and her cortisol rhythm, including the classic signs of a disrupted rhythm (can’t get up in the morning, second wind at night)
– Defining femininity as an embodied intelligence — intuition, sensing, cyclical rather than linear energy — versus femininity as costume
– The Chinese medicine frame of yin and yang as it relates to feminine and masculine energy
– The difference between “nice” as a performance and real softness with a clear boundary underneath it
– How a woman’s presence — not her words — is what actually sets a boundary
– What changes in men when women soften: standing taller, wanting to protect and provide, feeling inspired to build
– A real client story: a successful business owner whose husband felt unwanted, and the humbling realisation of how much he’d already been trying to give
– Why women often can’t receive help, and what shifts when they can
– Linking emotional openness directly back to cortisol and progesterone
– What men experience when women lead with warmth instead of combat — and why “watching him chop firewood” hits differently than “watching him lift weights”
– Practical starting points: noticing what spikes your adrenaline about men, and noticing the old grudge (dad, an ex, a boss) that’s still running the show
– Why women often have to go first energetically in a relationship — and why that isn’t the same as doing all the work
– The pitfall of expecting a partner’s personal growth to look identical to your own, or to move at your speed
– What’s really happening in perimenopause and menopause beneath the physical symptoms: energy moving from “up and out” to “down and in,” a return to lineage and roots, and why it can look like a midlife crisis when it’s closer to a soul evolution
– A guided heart practice: bringing scattered energy back into the body, expanding the heart in all directions, filling it with love, and sending that love out into the world
– Stephania’s definition of love: the presence of choice
Dr. Stephania Sciamano (Dr S) is a naturopathic doctor and spiritual mentor to ambitious women worldwide who seek the feminine way to health, wealth, and love with men. She brings a rare synthesis of clinical experience and esoteric depth to her work, and her lifestyle is devoted to the union of men and women, with God at the helm.
RESOURCES FROM DR STEPHANIA
Dr Stephania Sciamano’s free masterclass, *The Sexy Hormone Morning Routine*, available when you sign up to her Substack — https://drstephaniasciamano.substack.com/
https://stephaniasciamano.com/
https://www.facebook.com/stephaniasciamano
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th – 18th October, 2026
https://sarahrosebright.com/making-love-retreats/
For a free e-book, How Relaxed Love Making Can Transform Your Sex Life and to explore Sarah’s work – including private coaching, group programmes, courses, retreats and her podcast – visit www.sarahrosebright.com
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Sarah Rose Bright is an Erotic Embodiment and Intimacy Guide, authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreat®, and host of Making Love, a podcast on the evolution of love, sex, and relationships. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives – and know this is the missing piece. Women come home to their bodies, awaken their desire, and reclaim their power. Couples create an erotic life of depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/
MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here – https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
In this solo episode, Sarah Rose Bright makes the case for one of the most resisted ideas in her practice – planning intimacy. Many couples believe that if sex isn’t spontaneous, something is wrong – with them, their partner, or the relationship itself. Sarah unpacks why that belief is not only untrue, but very damaging, and shows how intentional time can make real spontaneity possible.
Drawing on Emily Nagoski’s work on spontaneous versus responsive desire, Sarah explains why so many women feel ‘broken’ for not experiencing desire instantly, and how understanding your own desire style can transform your intimate life. She shares practical tools for creating intentional intimacy into a relationship – from finding the right time of day to creating anticipation, how to transition from “go mode” into “slow mode,” and having honest conversations about what each person needs in the moment.
Sarah also explores how expanding the definition of intimacy beyond penetration can take the pressure off entirely, why practice time cultivates real erotic mastery, and how tracking your personal ‘brakes and accelerators’ can help you understand what supports and hinders your pleasure.
One of the many reasons Graeme and Sarah love facilitating the Making Love Retreat® is that it offers a full week to explore creating intentional intimacy, and to see and experience the gifts and the magic that happen when you commit and devote time to each other.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- How planned intimacy can enhance desire and connection, not kill it
- How spontaneity can grow from intentional intimacy
- The difference between responsive and spontaneous styles and how you are not ‘broken’ if you experience desire responsively
- Communication as the foundation of understanding each other’s needs
- How experimenting with timing is key to intentional intimacy
- How and why its important to consciously transition into intimacy time with practices and rituals
- How intimacy can be deeply fulfilling without leading to penetration
- How practice time helps you become a better lover
- How curiosity and exploration are core for evolving your intimate life
The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th – 18th October, 2026
For a free e-book, How Relaxed Love Making Can Transform Your Sex Life and to explore Sarah’s work – including private coaching, group programmes, courses, retreats and her podcast – visit www.sarahrosebright.com
Your podcast host is Sarah Rose Bright. Sarah Rose Bright is a Love, Sex & Intimacy Coach, an authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreats® and a Gene Keys Guide. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives – and know this is the missing piece. Women return home to their body, awaken their sensuality and discover their true power. Couples transform sex into lovemaking, creating an erotic life filled with depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/
MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here – https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
From her years of private practice and teaching, Sarah sees that being in the unknown is one of the most challenging things for people wanting to shift their sex lives, yet rarely talked about.
It is the piece that, when embraced, opens up a whole new world of possibilities. Most of us learned sex as a script: a linear sequence with predictable stops along the way, repeated until it becomes routine.
In this episode, Sarah explores what happens when we step off that script and into the unknown, and why that discomfort might be one of the most generative places in our erotic lives. Stepping off the script takes practise, which is why we host the Making Love Retreat in October to support you to safely lean into that curious exploration.
This is about those micro moments where we don’t know what to do, or where we find ourselves repeating the same things on autopilot.
She unpacks how the pressure to perform, please, and follow a predictable path keeps us from noticing what’s actually happening in our bodies, and why the same curiosity we’d bring to changing up our diet or exercise routine can transform our sex lives too.
In this episode you’ll hear:
- Why the scripts we learn around sex are so limiting, and how to start questioning them
- The role of curiosity, awareness, and practice in expanding pleasure and connection
- How performance pressure shows up in the bedroom and what helps release it
- Why practice time, free from the pressure to “finish” a certain way, changes everything
- Stories from client work showing how the smallest moments create the biggest shifts
- The myth that good sex must end in a particular way, and what becomes possible without it
- Why ‘messy learning’ might be exactly what your erotic life needs
Through stories, Sarah shows how a pause, a breath, or naming a flicker of stress out loud can shift an entire dynamic. As she puts it, your erotic life is ever evolving, and rather than adding more, letting go of conditioning is what allows you to drop in deeper.
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th – 18th October, 2026
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Your podcast host is Sarah Rose Bright. Sarah Rose Bright is a Love, Sex & Intimacy Coach, an authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreats® and a Gene Keys Guide. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives – and know this is the missing piece. Women return home to their body, awaken their sensuality and discover their true power. Couples transform sex into lovemaking, creating an erotic life filled with depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/
MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here – https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
In this episode of Making Love: A Podcast with Sarah Rose Bright, Sarah sits down with Christiane Pelmas for a rich exploration of power – what it is, how it’s misunderstood, and what makes female power distinct.
Here’s what we covered:
- Defining power as the neutral capacity to mobilise resources and create impact – and why how we use it is never neutral
- The different “flavours” of power – personal, role, status, systemic, universal, and the power of communication and charisma
- Why most relational damage comes from underestimating our power, not overestimating it
- The biological and evolutionary roots of female power – tending, befriending, and weaving community
- How power shifts (or doesn’t) at menopause, and why women’s productivity often peaks in their ‘Queen years’
- Erotic and sexual power as forms of power, and how they have been co-opted by dominator culture
- The legacy of Me Too and the recent “Motherless” site controversy – what it reveals about porn, violence, and the erotic
- Female rage as a generative, ecological force, and why it’s been pathologised
- Real-world examples from indigenous women-led activism to Mothers Against Drunk Driving
- The role of grandmothers as culture-keepers and agents of social change
- Where to start if you want to reconnect with your own power
Christiane Pelmas is a therapist and mentor, Somatic Sex Educator and Writer working in the intersectional terrain between Belonging, Wellbeing and the Ecology of Ethics.
RESOURCES FROM CHRISTIANE
InstituteForEroticIntelligence.com
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
Work With Sarah – Whether you’re a woman ready to come home to your body and your desire, or a couple wanting to deepen your erotic life, she offers bespoke private coaching online. The first step is a conversation. Book a call here.
The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th – 18th October, 2026
For a free e-book, How Relaxed Love Making Can Transform Your Sex Life and to explore Sarah’s work – including private coaching, group programmes, courses, retreats and her podcast – visit www.sarahrosebright.com
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Sarah Rose Bright is an Erotic Embodiment and Intimacy Guide, authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreat®, and host of Making Love, a podcast on the evolution of love, sex, and relationships. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives – and know this is the missing piece. Women come home to their bodies, awaken their desire, and reclaim their power. Couples create an erotic life of depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/
MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here – https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
If you’ve ever shut down in intimacy, felt overwhelmed by too much, too fast, or wondered why you need so much more time, space and emotional connection than it seems like you “should” – this episode is for you.
Sarah delves into the unique needs of sensitives and empaths in intimate relationships. She shares her own journey of coming to understand her sensitivity, and why the phrase “let your sensitivity be your strength” unravelled for her.
In this episode:
- What it actually means to be a highly sensitive person (HSP) and how that differs from being an empath, and where this is different from trauma
- Why up to 20% of the population may be highly sensitive, and why so many carry shame about it
- How mainstream sexuality – hot, fast, goal-oriented, is so different to how a sensitive opens and experiences pleasure
- What sensitives actually need to feel safe and open
- How to track your own thresholds before shutdown happens, and how to name what you need rather than withdraw
- Why slowing down can open up whole new territory for a partner too
- The connection between the energetic Erotic Blueprint and sensitivity
- Human Design gates 19, 37 and 57 as lenses for understanding sensitivity
- How honouring your sensitivity doesn’t limit intimacy – it expands your experience
One listener shared:
“Listening to this podcast brought about a chandelier’s worth of lightbulb moments – the most powerful is that I can be okay with how I am and how I breathe in this world. – I sense more confidence about future relationships, and that’s seismic! Thank you Sarah Rose. xx”
Whether you’re exploring this for yourself or navigating it with a partner, this episode offers a compassionate conversation about a very common, and very rarely talked about experience.
Book recommendation – Sensitive is the New Strong by Anita Moorjani
Sarah Rose Bright is an Erotic Embodiment and Intimacy Guide, authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreat®, and host of Making Love, a podcast on the evolution of love, sex, and relationships. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives – and know this is the missing piece. Women come home to their bodies, awaken their desire, and reclaim their power. Couples create an erotic life of depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
Work With Sarah – Whether you’re a woman ready to come home to your body and your desire, or a couple wanting to deepen your erotic life, she offers bespoke private coaching online. The first step is a conversation. Book a call here.
The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th – 18th October, 2026
For a free e-book, How Relaxed Love Making Can Transform Your Sex Life and to explore Sarah’s work – including private coaching, group programmes, courses, retreats and her podcast – visit www.sarahrosebright.com
MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here – https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
What would it mean to give your relationship a whole week – no distractions, no performance pressure, no rushing?
In this episode, Sarah and Graeme talk openly about the Making Love Retreat® they co-facilitate – who joins, what the week looks and feels like, and what couples carry home with them. This is a retreat built on a simple yet radical premise – that love making is a practice, not a performance, and that what most couples are missing isn’t more effort, but more space – space to re-discover and remember who they are to each other when the noise of daily life falls away.
What you’ll hear:
– The two kinds of couples who come – those navigating challenges, and those simply curious about what’s possible
– Why getting away matters – the “pattern interrupt” that a different environment creates
– What a typical day looks like
– Why this retreat is nothing like the cathartic, intensity-driven tantra retreats you might have heard of
– How sexual challenges – whether pain, erection difficulties, lost desire or performance pressure can shift across the week
– What it means to make love a meditation, and why that’s a lifelong practice, not a weekend fix
Check out this reel on Instagram for a glimpse of the beautiful venue and a taste of the Making Love Retreat ❤️
The retreat runs 12–18 October in a private manor house in Devon.
Places are limited to seven couples. Only three spaces left.
All the info on this page.
If you’re curious whether it’s right for you, Sarah and Graeme offer a no-pressure call. Reach out via https://sarahrosebright.com/contact/
Graeme Waterfield is a men’s coach who guides men into deeper presence, embodiment, and self-awareness. His sexual energy mastery training, blends meditation, Taoist principles, and nervous system awareness to transform sexual energy into love, vitality, and consciousness. Moving away from performance and intensity, his work emphasises relaxation, heart connection, and integrating sexuality into everyday life, helping men deepen intimacy, authenticity, and inner ease.
Graeme and Sarah teach The Making Love Retreat® Together they guide couples into deeper dimensions of intimacy, lovemaking, and conscious connection.
RESOURCES FROM GRAEME
To explore Graeme’s work in meditation, embodiment and sexual energy mastery for men, including courses, coaching, retreats and teachings, visit: https://www.graemewaterfield.com
Graeme’s Sexual Energy Mastery Training for men – a training for men exploring meditation, embodied awareness and the deeper potential of sexual energy as a pathway into embodiment.
You can also find Graeme on Facebook.
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th – 18th October, 2026
For a free e-book, How Relaxed Love Making Can Transform Your Sex Life and to explore Sarah’s work – including private coaching, group programmes, courses, retreats and her podcast – visit www.sarahrosebright.com
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Sarah Rose Bright is an Erotic Embodiment and Intimacy Guide, authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreat®, and host of Making Love, a podcast on the evolution of love, sex, and relationships. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives – and know this is the missing piece. Women come home to their bodies, awaken their desire, and reclaim their power. Couples create an erotic life of depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/
MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here – https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
About This Episode
What if every relationship you’ve ever had, including the painful ones, contained a gift?
In this rich conversation, Sarah is joined by Tanmayo Lawson of the Gene Keys and founder of Integral Touch. Together they explore the Venus Sequence as a living map for self-discovery, the role of community in genuine transformation, and why emotional stability may be the most profound gift you can offer yourself and those you love.
What We Explore:
– Tanmayo’s nearly 40-year journey of awakening — and what keeps her devoted to this path
– Integral Touch: a deep somatic practice working with the facial mask and its connection to the nervous system
– Why community is no longer optional for personal and relational growth
– The Venus Sequence as a map and compass for understanding your emotional conditioning and relational patterns
– How transgenerational trauma shapes the way we relate – and how awareness begins to shift it
– The difference between intensity and intimacy, and why we can become addicted to one at the expense of the other
– “What you don’t communicate, you dramatise” – and what to do about it
– Why your wholeness is not dependent on never being triggered
– The Venus Sequence Retreat: what it offers and who it’s for
Tanmayo Lawson has been leading, presenting and mentoring embodiment programs for almost 40 years. She shines a light of pure awareness on any subject, with a clear mind, and an open heart guiding with precision; either personal or professional inquiries.
Born in Scotland, she arrives with a healthy sense of infectious humour that can take the edges off the deepest issues. MOVING BEYOND TRAUMA is at the core of most of her work. Love is the Key!
She is the founder of ‘Integral Touch of Facial Harmony’. An extremely sensitive treatment accessing the miracles of communication in the fascia highways to effectively dissolve trauma whilst making space for essential states.
‘Since 2004 through a deep encounter with a rare Venus Transit she was guided to attend a workshop in the UK which was presented by Richard Rudd, the Founder of the Gene Keys.
Since then, she has offered Gene Keys programs around the world with a focus on awakening the dreamer from the dream. Guiding the dreamer to the truth of their own being that they emerge from the belief that they are anything other than the pure light of being.
She is a Gene Keys Ambassador, part of the production team, currently presenting as one of the primary hosts in the Sage Retreat 2026 with Richard Rudd and Elijah Parker.
Co-creator of ‘The Gene Keys Guides Programme’ with Richard, Elijah and Sally Middleton.
Her first encounter with meditation was in the 70’s in Scotland, seated on a zen stool and wondering ‘what is this all about’! Still wondering!
Over time, life turned into meditation—a divine play filled with challenges, sorrows, and moments of grace.
In 1998 she had a vision of Osho and felt called to the Meditation Resort in Pune where she fell deeply in love with a Zen Style Process that she now includes in her work as “Opening to the Beloved”!
RESOURCES FROM TANMAYO
Beyond Compatibility – Tanmayo and Richard Rudd talk about the sacred intelligence running beneath every human connection.
This kind of inner work – understanding your patterns, your triggers, your relational conditioning – is part of what we witness in couples when they come to a Making Love Retreat®. When two people are committed to this work together, the defences soften and intimacy grows.
The next Making Love Retreat® takes place this October in Devon – a week-long immersion, held in a beautiful, private setting. Learn more about the Making Love Retreat®.
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th – 18th October, 2026
For a free e-book, How Relaxed Love Making Can Transform Your Sex Life and to explore Sarah’s work – including private coaching, group programmes, courses, retreats and her podcast – visit www.sarahrosebright.com
Your podcast host is Sarah Rose Bright. Sarah Rose Bright is a Love, Sex & Intimacy Coach, an authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreats® and a Gene Keys Guide. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives – and know this is the missing piece. Women return home to their body, awaken their sensuality and discover their true power. Couples transform sex into lovemaking, creating an erotic life filled with depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/
MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here – https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
What if your most intimate relationship is also your most profound path of growth – and the place where everything you have learned about love is most deeply tested?
In this conversation, Sarah Rose Bright is joined by Tobin Zivon, teacher, guide, and devoted servant to love – for a rich exploration of what it means to live love as a practice. Not as an ideal. But as a daily, embodied, sometimes messy commitment to showing up fully.
Tobin brings rare depth to this conversation. He speaks from genuine lived experience – of the gap between spiritual aspiration and relational reality, of the courage vulnerability asks of us, and of why intimate relationships remain the final frontier of personal growth.
In this conversation we explore:
– Why intimate relationships are the final frontier for personal growth — and why so many of us struggle to bring our practice into them
– The challenge of inspiring a partner to grow alongside you
– The difference between the conditioned channel and the essence channel — and how switching between them transforms the way we relate
– How comparison and idealism — the blessings and burdens of modern teachings — shape our experience of real relationships
– Why vulnerability is the doorway to love and genuine connection
– The profound importance of repair — and how tending to the small moments builds deeper intimacy over time
– How curiosity transforms conflict into an opportunity for learning and growth
– Why messy learning is not a sign of failure but a natural and necessary part of the journey
– Love and relationship as a genuine spiritual path — and what it means to treat them that way
– The evolving nature of love — and how deepening our understanding of ourselves deepens our capacity to love others
Tobin Zivon has been wholeheartedly dedicated to spiritual awakening and to serving others in the flowering of their highest potential for over 30 years.
Author of The Art of Mindful Living and the upcoming book, Allies in Awakening: Living the Truth of Unconditional Love in Intimate Relationships, he has been described as “The Ultimate Guide… A rare, exquisite blend of Therapist, Coach, Spiritual Teacher and Tantra Master all wrapped into one.”
He has worked with thousands of individuals and couples to help them break through stuck patterns and painful dynamics, helping them to find their way into a more fulfilling and connected life of authentic liberation, love and relationship satisfaction.
RESOURCES FROM TOBIN
Websites tobinzivon.com and awakenedbrotherhood.com
Instagram @tobinzivon
Sex mastery secrets, an online course
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
DEVOTION is a 5-month journey for women to return home to their feminine bodies, awaken their sensuality and reclaim their true power. Starts 7th May 2026
The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th – 18th October, 2026
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Your podcast host is Sarah Rose Bright. Sarah Rose Bright is a Love, Sex & Intimacy Coach, an authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreats® and a Gene Keys Guide. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives – and know this is the missing piece. Women return home to their body, awaken their sensuality and discover their true power. Couples transform sex into lovemaking, creating an erotic life filled with depth, passion, and love. Find out more:https://sarahrosebright.com/
MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here – https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
In this honest and intimate conversation, Sarah Rose Bright and Graeme Waterfield explore one of the least talked about dimensions of menopause: what it means for sex, intimacy, and the relationship between partners navigating this transition together.
Sarah shares her own experience — the physical changes, the grief, the pain during sex, and the depth of intimacy that has emerged through it all. Graeme offers a rare male perspective: what it has asked of him, what was challenging, and what he has learned about presence, self-love, and how to truly support a partner through one of the most significant transitions of her life.
This is a conversation for couples who want to meet this chapter with curiosity and love. And for anyone who senses that sex and intimacy – can deepen through menopause.
In this conversation we explore:
– Why menopause is an initiation — and what that reframe opens up
– Sarah’s personal journey through menopause and what has shifted
– The male perspective on menopause — what it asks of male partners and where men can struggle
– Why self-love is essential for men during their partner’s menopause journey
– The difference between presence and sensitivity in lovemaking
– Why women may experience grief and sadness during menopause — and how this surfaces in intimate moments
– The importance of checking in, communicating, and truly listening rather than moving into fix-it mode
– How men can begin to transform their relationship with their own sexual energy
– Mindful practices that transform the experience of intimacy during and beyond menopause
– Why curiosity and love are the most powerful guides in navigating sexual relationships through significant life transitions
– How lubrication, sensitivity, and conscious touch can enhance pleasure and connection
– Why the journey of intimacy matters as much as — if not more than — the destination
Books mentioned in this podcast:
Second Spring by Kate Coddrington
Tantric Sex for Men by Diana and Micheal Richardson
Slow Sex for Men by Diana and Micheal Richardson
Multi Orgasmic Man by Mantack Chia
Graeme Waterfield is a men’s coach who guides men into deeper presence, embodiment, and self-awareness. His sexual energy mastery training, blends meditation, Taoist principles, and nervous system awareness to transform sexual energy into love, vitality, and consciousness. Moving away from performance and intensity, his work emphasises relaxation, heart connection, and integrating sexuality into everyday life, helping men deepen intimacy, authenticity, and inner ease.
Graeme and Sarah teach The Making Love Retreat® Together they guide couples into deeper dimensions of intimacy, lovemaking, and conscious connection.
RESOURCES FROM GRAEME
To explore Graeme’s work in meditation, embodiment and sexual energy mastery for men, including courses, coaching, retreats and teachings, visit: https://www.graemewaterfield.com
Graeme’s Sexual Energy Mastery Training for men – a training for men exploring meditation, embodied awareness and the deeper potential of sexual energy as a pathway into embodiment.
You can also find Graeme on Facebook:
The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th – 18th October, 2026
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
DEVOTION is a 5-month journey for women to return home to their feminine bodies, awaken their sensuality and reclaim their true power. Starts 7th May 2026
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Your podcast host is Sarah Rose Bright. Sarah Rose Bright is a Love, Sex & Intimacy Coach, an authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreats® and a Gene Keys Guide. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives – and know this is the missing piece. Women return home to their body, awaken their sensuality and discover their true power. Couples transform sex into lovemaking, creating an erotic life filled with depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/
MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here – https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
Dr Riane Eisler has had a profound impact on my life and it was such an honour to speak with her. Dr Riane is a cultural historian, social systems scientist, futurist and author. She is best known for The Chalice and the Blade and for Sacred Pleasure – a visionary exploration of sex, myth, and the politics of the body that was published 31 years ago and reads as though it were written for this very time.
At the heart of our conversation is the framework Dr Riane created – Cultural Transformation Theory, which offers that the more fundamental question beneath all of our political and social categories is this – does a society organise itself around domination, or around partnership? Domination systems rely on rigid gender hierarchies, fear and violence beginning in the family. Partnership systems begin from a different premise entirely – that power can be power with rather than power over, and that caring roles are the foundation of society.
We also explore how domination has been woven into our erotic imagination — into myth, religion, fairy tales, and pornography — and what it would mean to find our way back to a sexuality rooted in empathy and connection rather than performance and conquest. As Riane shared – the sexual revolution of the 1960s offered real opening, but a culture without sexual ethics is not liberation.
Her depth of knowledge and her unique viewpoint as a true elder, she offers context for the times we are in. That the current regression we’re experiencing, is pushback to all movements that have been challenging domination.
In this conversation we explore:
- Dr Riane’s incredible personal story and how her childhood experiences planted the seeds of a lifetime’s work
- Cultural Transformation Theory and the partnership and domination lens that cuts through our inherited political categories and connects the dots
- How domination has been woven into our erotic imagination, through myth, religion, fairy tales, and pornography, and what a genuine sexual evolution might look like
- The context for the times we are living in and through the cultural transformation lens
- The four cornerstones of culture
- The radical and still-urgent vision of Sacred Pleasure – and why a book published 31 years ago feels more relevant than ever
This conversation only scratched the surface of what Dr Riane’s work holds – and there is so much more I wanted to explore with her. I really encourage you to read Sacred Pleasure. It is a potent and I feel essential book.
Sacred Pleasure is an exploration of how sexuality, the body, and pleasure have been shaped, and distorted, by the shift from partnership to domination cultures. Drawing on archaeology, mythology, religion and history, she traces how what was once considered sacred – the erotic, the feminine, the body’s capacity for pleasure and connection, was systematically vilified, controlled, and weaponised as domination systems took hold.
She shows how pain, submission, and violence became eroticised through religion, myth, law, and culture, and how this distortion runs through everything from fairy tales to pornography to the way we understand romantic love.
The book is visionary, as Dr Riane writes, that reclaiming the erotic and the body as sacred, is not only personally liberating but politically and culturally transformative and how that would shape a genuinely partnership-oriented world.
Riane Eisler, JD, PhD(h), is the recipient of many honors, such as the Distinguished Peace Leadership Award earlier given to the Dalai Lama, and internationally known for her groundbreaking contributions as a systems scientist, futurist, and cultural historian. She is author of many books, including The Chalice and the Blade, now in its 57th US printing and 27 foreign editions, The Real Wealth of Nations, hailed by Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu as “a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking,” and Nurturing Our Humanity, Oxford University Press, 2019, co-authored with Douglas P. Fry.
Eisler’s innovative whole-systems research offers new perspectives and practical tools for constructing a less violent, more egalitarian, gender-balanced, and sustainable future. Eisler is President of the Center for Partnership Systems (CPS), which provides practical applications of her work, and Editor in Chief of the online Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studiespublished at the University of Minnesota. She keynotes conferences worldwide, has taught at many universities, has written hundreds of articles and contributions to both scholarly and popular books, pioneered the application of human rights standards to women and children, has addressed the UN General Assembly, and consults to businesses and governments on the partnership model introduced by her work.
RESOURCES FROM RIANE
Website — rianeeisler.com
The Chalice and the Blade — Riane Eisler
Sacred Pleasure — Riane Eisler
The Real Wealth of Nations — Riane Eisler
Nurturing Our Humanity — Riane Eisler and Douglas Fry
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
DEVOTION is a 5-month journey for women to return home to their feminine bodies, awaken their sensuality and reclaim their true power. Starts 7th May 2026
The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th – 18th October, 2026
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Your podcast host is Sarah Rose Bright. Sarah Rose Bright is a Love, Sex & Intimacy Coach, an authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreats® and a Gene Keys Guide. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives – and know this is the missing piece. Women return home to their body, awaken their sensuality and discover their true power. Couples transform sex into lovemaking, creating an erotic life filled with depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/
MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here – https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
What if the way we’ve been taught to think about the penis – and about penetration, erection, and performance – has been limiting the depth of connection available to us?
In this conversation, Sarah Rose Bright is joined by her partner Graeme Waterfield to explore the idea of the ‘peaceful penis’. A concept that challenges everything our culture has told us about how male sexuality should look, feel, and function – and opens the door to a far more pleasurable, and deeply intimate experience of lovemaking.
This is a conversation for anyone ready to move beyond performance and into presence, curious about what becomes possible when relaxation, mindfulness, and genuine connection replace pressure, urgency, and goal-oriented sex.
Sarah and Graeme speak honestly from their own journey together.
In this conversation we explore:
– What the peaceful penis actually means – and why it represents a more balanced, connected approach to sexuality
– How cultural conditioning has shaped the way we understand erections, penetration, and male sexual performance
– Why relaxation during lovemaking creates deeper emotional connection than arousal alone
– The difference between a performance-based approach to sex and a presence-based one
– Why erections don’t need to lead anywhere – and what opens up when that pressure is released
– How softness in the body can lead to greater intimacy and pleasure than hardness ever could
– The role of emotionality in sex – and how it can create pressure and disconnection without us realising
– How to begin reconditioning sexual energy – with curiosity rather than agenda
– Practices of gentle touch and conscious presence that cultivate genuine intimacy
– Why the journey of conscious sexuality is ongoing, evolving, and infinite
– Tools – not rules – for erotic exploration together
Graeme Waterfield is a men’s coach who guides men into deeper presence, embodiment, and self-awareness. His sexual energy mastery training, blends meditation, Taoist principles, and nervous system awareness to transform sexual energy into love, vitality, and consciousness. Moving away from performance and intensity, his work emphasises relaxation, heart connection, and integrating sexuality into everyday life, helping men deepen intimacy, authenticity, and inner ease.
Graeme and Sarah teach The Making Love Retreat®. Together they guide couples into deeper dimensions of intimacy, lovemaking, and conscious connection.
RESOURCES FROM GRAEME
To explore Graeme’s work in meditation, embodiment and sexual energy mastery for men, including courses, coaching, retreats and teachings, visit:https://www.graemewaterfield.com
Graeme’s Sexual Energy Mastery Training for men – a training for men exploring meditation, embodied awareness and the deeper potential of sexual energy as a pathway into embodiment. This course starts April 14th, 2026 (though you can join up to April 21st).
You can also find Graeme on Facebook.
The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th – 18th October, 2026
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
DEVOTION is a 5-month journey for women to return home to their feminine bodies, awaken their sensuality and reclaim their true power. Starts 7th May 2026
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Your podcast host is Sarah Rose Bright. Sarah Rose Bright is a Love, Sex & Intimacy Coach, an authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreats® and a Gene Keys Guide. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives – and know this is the missing piece. Women return home to their body, awaken their sensuality and discover their true power. Couples transform sex into lovemaking, creating an erotic life filled with depth, passion, and love. Find out more:https://sarahrosebright.com/
MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here – https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
The Missing Piece in Your Intimate Life?
The Dynamics of Giving and Receiving with Betty Martin – new podcast episode out now
What if the missing piece in your intimate life isn’t about desire or technique – but about truly knowing what you want, and feeling safe enough to say so?
In this episode, Sarah Rose Bright is joined by Betty Martin, creator of the Wheel of Consent — one of the most transformative practices in the field of conscious touch, intimacy, and relating. Simple in its structure and profound in its impact, the Wheel has quietly revolutionised how thousands of people understand the dynamics of giving, receiving, taking, and allowing.
This is one of Sarah’s favourite practices – both personally and in her work with clients. She has seen again and again how it transforms people’s experience of touch, pleasure, and genuine connection. And this conversation is a beautiful introduction to why.
Betty shares the story behind the Wheel of Consent and unpacks the subtle — and often hidden — dynamics that shape every experience of touch and intimacy. How we give. How we receive. How rarely we are truly asked what we want. And how transformative it can be when we finally are.
Sarah didn’t get to half her questions — so watch this space for round two.
In this conversation we explore:
– The two core questions at the heart of the Wheel of Consent
– Why knowing what you want is a skill — and why so many of us were never taught it
– Why asking for what you want can feel so vulnerable
– How setting clear limits actually creates more generosity and enjoyment
– The discomfort so many people feel around receiving — and where it comes from
– How slowing down helps you feel what is actually true for you
– How exploring what you don’t want can clarify what you do
– Why the ability to say no builds trust, safety, and deeper connection
– How many people have never truly been asked what they want
– How transformative it can be to choose — consciously and freely — how you are touched
Dr. Betty Martin has had her hands on people professionally for over 40 years (some of it legal and some of it questionable). 30 years of Chiropractic and other modalities, then later, 15 years of Somatic Sex Education and Surrogate Partner Therapy. Also Contact Improv and other kinds of play.
She is the developer of the Wheel of Consent, a cutting edge model of receiving and giving, based on touch but amenable to non-touch practices as well. She is the author of The Art of Receiving and Giving: The Wheel of Consent.
She loves sharing her experience. She developed a 5 day training in the Wheel of Consent for practitioners, which took her around the world, and then trained others to teach it so she could retire.
She currently mentors helping professionals, from psychotherapists to sex workers, and all stripes of hands-on practitioners.
RESOURCES FROM BETTY
https://www.wheelofconsent.org
https://www.schoolofconsent.org/calendar/
https://www.instagram.com/thewheelofconsent/
Free gift https://www.wheelofconsent.org/free-chapter-sign-up
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
DEVOTION is a 5-month journey for women to return home to their feminine bodies, awaken their sensuality and reclaim their true power. Starts 7th May 2026
The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th – 18th October, 2026
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Your podcast host is Sarah Rose Bright. Sarah Rose Bright is a Love, Sex & Intimacy Coach, an authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreats® and a Gene Keys Guide. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives – and know this is the missing piece. Women return home to their body, awaken their sensuality and discover their true power. Couples transform sex into lovemaking, creating an erotic life filled with depth, passion, and love. Find out more:https://sarahrosebright.com/
MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here – https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
For this first guest episode, I am joined by someone whose work I hold in the deepest respect – Diana Richardson, pioneering teacher of slow sex. For over 30 years, Diana has guided more than 15,000 couples in week-long residential retreats in Switzerland – The Making Love Retreat, which Graeme and I now teach.
Diana and I explore what happens when we stop approaching sex as something to perform or achieve – and start bringing it into presence, awareness, and genuine connection. So much of what we’ve inherited about sex is shaped by urgency, peak experiences, and the pressure to get it right. Diana speaks about how this quietly creates insecurity and self-doubt, and what becomes possible when we simply… slow down.
This isn’t technique. It’s a way of coming home to yourself and to each other.
We talk about the difference between ‘having sex’ and ‘making love’. About how small, subtle shifts create profound change – and why the most important shift is always the connection to yourself first.
We also talk about modern life – parenthood, packed schedules, the challenge of staying genuinely connected when everything is pulling at you. Diana shares her beautiful “love keys” – simple, powerful tools for coming back into connection, and the role of kindness, compassion, and generosity in how we meet one another.
In this conversation we explore:
– Why slowing down opens awareness and deepens intimacy
– How cultural conditioning shapes our approach to sex – often through performance and pressure
– What becomes possible beyond peak experiences
– Why so many people carry insecurity or self-doubt in their sexual experience
– The difference between having sex and making love
– How small, subtle shifts create profound change
– Creating space – internally and relationally, for connection to unfold
– Why presence matters more than quantity
– Practical guidance for parents navigating intimacy within busy lives
– The “love keys” as simple tools for deeper connection
– How embodiment supports not just intimacy, but daily life
– The power of honest, open communication
Diana has said that so many of the world’s difficulties trace back to a lack of understanding about sex — how it shapes our sense of self, our emotions, our relationships. I believe that too.
How we relate to love and sex ripples out into everything – our families, our communities, the world we are collectively creating. And right now, in this moment in history, this conversation feels more alive and more needed than ever.
RESOURCES FROM DIANA
Diana Richardson is widely regarded as a leading contemporary authority on human sexuality and conscious intimacy. A bestselling author on Tantra, her work centers on the union of sex and meditation, and on practical ways this sacred connection can transform intimate life.
Diana’s approach is grounded in a lifelong exploration of sexuality, love, and meditative awareness. She developed Generative Sex, also known as Cool Sex, an evolutionary and sustainable approach to intimacy. This distilled wisdom is shared through her practical Love Keys, presented in her bestselling book, The Heart of Tantric Sex. For over 30 years, Diana has guided more than 15,000 couples in week-long residential retreats in Switzerland, and she is now launching a Rekindle Intimacy online course based on these highly successful retreats.
Websites:
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
DEVOTION is a 5-month journey for women to return home to their feminine bodies, awaken their sensuality and reclaim their true power. Starts 7th May 2026
The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th – 18th October, 2026
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Your podcast host is Sarah Rose Bright. Sarah Rose Bright is a Love, Sex & Intimacy Coach, an authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreats® and a Gene Keys Guide. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives – and know this is the missing piece. Women return home to their body, awaken their sensuality and discover their true power. Couples transform sex into lovemaking, creating an erotic life filled with depth, passion, and love. Find out more:https://sarahrosebright.com/
MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here – https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
Making Love: A Podcast with Sarah Rose Bright is a podcast exploring the evolution of love, sex, relationships, and life – and the future we are co-creating. Through intimate and soulful conversations, I speak with love revolutionaries and pioneering voices – from grassroots visionaries to global leaders – who are reimagining how we connect, how we love, and how we live.
Music: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here – https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/.
Welcome to Making Love: a podcast with me, Sarah Rose Bright.
In this episode I share what’s been alive for me in this process, why this name and my vision for the podcast, and, what I believe is one of the most important and under explored conversations of our time – how love, sex, and intimacy are evolving.
Love, sex and intimacy are fundamental to life. They are forces that shape how humanity evolves. Over the past few decades, the architecture of intimate life has shifted dramatically and there are new forces shaping modern intimacy from how we date to social media and AI.
This podcast asks – what is changing and what is possible? What is breaking through as the old stories break down? What new stories are trying to emerge?
I begin to explore:
– Why intimacy and relationships are evolving and what is breaking down and breaking through this at moment in history
– The significant shifts in how we meet, connect, and live over the past few decades
– How social media, technology, and AI are reshaping intimacy
– The transition of sex from procreation to recreation – and what lies beyond both
– Co-creation as a new model for sexual and relational experience
– The suppression and distortion of sexuality – and what we are reclaiming
– Sex as a living practice of growth, healing and awakening
– The light and beauty of what the erotic can become
– Why these conversations matter
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
DEVOTION is a 5-month journey for women to return home to their feminine bodies, awaken their sensuality and reclaim their true power. Starts 7th May 2026
The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th – 18th October, 2026
Your podcast host is Sarah Rose Bright. Sarah Rose Bright is a Love, Sex & Intimacy Coach, an authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreats® and a Gene Keys Guide. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives – and know this is the missing piece. Women return home to their body, awaken their sensuality and discover their true power. Couples transform sex into lovemaking, creating an erotic life filled with depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/
MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here – https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
Today I’m delighted to be joined by Naomi Harris who is a sexual pleasure and genital pain specialist.
With Naomi’s blend of psycho-sexual, de-armouring and over 15 years experience as a naturopath, she offers a grounded and holistic approach to women’s sexual issues. She shares her wealth of wisdom on healing painful sex, numbness, dryness and more.
Naomi shares:
- The shocking statistics on the prevalence of women who experience painful sex
- How to get support with painful sex
- Why it can take time for women to reach out for support
- Why it is important to keep a symptoms diary
- Questions to ask yourself if you are experiencing painful sex
- Some of the many reasons you might be experiencing pain with sex
- How you can heal painful sex
- Why you might experience numbness or dryness and how to start to heal
- Why your dryness might be caused by dehydration
- Why Naomi doesn’t like vibrators and the key thing to overcome when you stop using them
- Simple practices for self healing
Naomi Harris is a sexual pleasure and genital pain specialist. She supports women to heal their pelvic and sexual numbness, lack of libido and orgasm, pain and discomfort, so that they can live a turned on life full of pleasure, passion and epic sex.
With over 15 years experience as a naturopath, she incorporates psycho-sexual understandings, as well as de-armouring and other therapies to a whole person approach to healing.
She works online and in person with women around the world, who are managing a wide range of pelvic and sexual health situations and conditions
RESOURCES FROM NAOMI
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
Sign up to Sarah’s newsletter so you can find out about the latest podcast episode and get pleasure mapping, a guided audio practice
Book a complimentary consultation with Sarah
Find Sarah online :
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Your podcast host is Sarah Rose Bright. Sarah is an Intimacy and Sex Coach who helps women & couples to truly enjoy sex and pleasure and create/deepen intimate relationships that are passionate, happy and healthy so that they can feel good about who they are.
Catherine Hale is a pioneer in creating workshop and event spaces with care and safety at the core. She calls this ‘a culture of care’.
The sexuality workshop scene is evolving with ongoing revelations of unethical, unprofessional and often dangerous practice. Shining a light on bad practice is essential, and so is defining and promoting best practice.
We had this conversation to explore how the sexuality workshop scene has changed over the years, the risks of intense, cathartic processes, why safety in the nervous system allows you to go deeper, the importance of integration and how to choose the right facilitator for you and much more.
Catherine shares:
- How the sexuality workshop scene has changed
- The difference between the gentle and the intense, cathartic approaches to sexual healing in sexuality workshops
- The importance of safety within sexuality workshops
- How workshop spaces can re traumatise people
- The difference between hyper and hypo sexuality and how this plays out in workshop settings
- Why the most sparkly shiny looking workshops may not offer the deepest healing and transformation
- How high intensity workshops match our societal conditioning around sexuality
- What a culture of care is and what that looks like in a workshop setting
- The importance of integration
- How creating safety in the nervous system creates a base for deeper erotic exploration and lasting transformation
- How to establish if a facilitator or a training is right for you
- How a regulated nervous system supports you to be with uncertainty
Catherine is a qualified trauma coach, sexological bodyworker, and postmenopausal woman who understands what it takes to heal and grow from the inside out. Her trauma-informed perspective focuses on reducing the harm of internalised capitalism in our bodies and businesses, recognising the need for radical rest in business, and unlocking the power of post-traumatic growth.
RESOURCES FROM CATHERINE
Field Facilitation where Catherine will be teaching Culture of Care trauma informed certified Training
Red Flags in Workshops is an additional resource developed by Wilrieke Sophia. Their website contains free materials to understand power dynamics that may be at play, and how to reach out for support if you experience harm.
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
For a FREE e-book, How Relaxed Love Making Can Transform Your Sex Life, visit Sarah’s website to sign up her newsletter
Book a complimentary consultation with Sarah
I love this conversation with the wonderful Tanmayo Lawson who shares her deep wisdom with sprinkles of humour, from her 40 year journey of self enquiry and study and her 20 years with the Gene Keys.
We explored love and intimacy, how your conditioning affects you, the places people get stuck in relating, how to relate with vulnerability, why love and truth are paths of courage, the journey of getting to know who you truly are and so much more!
Tanmayo shares:
- What the Gene Keys are
- What the Venus Sequence is
- How you develop your belief systems and conditioning
- How your conditioning affects your relating
- Why love is a path of courage
- Why personal growth can be unsettling for those around us
- The difference between pro-peace and anti-war
- How your breath can be your best friend
- Her definition of what truth is
- The difference between analysis and contemplation
- How to shift from being stuck in the story to feeling sensation in the body
- Why it’s important to talk from ‘I’
- How we have no control over the outcome
- The power of the gentle approach to sexual healing
- How sex can permeate the day
- How increasing sensitivity opens you up to the ecstatic and subtle realms
- How getting to know your self is the path to intimacy
Tanmayo Lawson is an international speaker & presenter with over 30 years experience in the field of wellness, self inquiry and transpersonal study.
As the creator/founder of “Facial Harmony” Tanmayo has travelled the planet promoting and sharing this gentle and powerfully transformative treatment.
Tanmayo has also been deeply involved with Gene Keys and Human Design since 2004 and share her wisdom and understanding of this potent body of work
In 1998 Tanmayo attended Satori in Pune India, fell in love with the process and now facilitates Satori & the 3 day Awareness Intensive around the world.
RESOURCES FROM TANMAYO
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO EXPLORE THE GENE KEYS:
Get your free Gene Keys profile
New to the Gene Keys – a free, short introductory course
The Activation sequence (the 1st Gene Keys sequence, discovering your genius)
The Venus sequence (the 2nd Gene Keys sequence, opening your heart)
The Pearl sequence (the 3rd Gene Keys sequence, unlocking prosperity)
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
For a FREE e-book, How Relaxed Love Making Can Transform Your Sex Life, visit Sarah’s website to sign up her newsletter
Book a complimentary consultation with Sarah
I am super excited to share this interview with Diana Richardson who is considered one of today’s leading authorities on human sexuality. Diana is known as the pioneer of Slow Sex and has been running ‘making love’ retreats for couples since 1993. She has also written 8 books on how in practical ways a person can experience a more fulfilling sex and love life.
I have every one of Diana’s books and her work has hugely influenced both my personal and professional life so to chat with her is always a treat.
My partner and I are very honoured and excited that we are now authorised teachers of Diana and Michael Richardson’s retreats – The Making Love Retreat® and we will be bringing this to the UK in Autumn 2025. You can find out more via the link below.
This episode is full of really practical info for couples. Diana shares how past emotions affect sex and relationships, how to recognise when you are being emotional, what to do about it and how to bring more harmony and love into intimate relationships.
Diana shares…
- Relationship patterns and dynamics that she has observed over 30+ years of running retreats for couples
- The difference between feelings and emotions
- How emotions are created
- How to know if you are emotional
- How to transform emotions – the 5 steps
- Golden rules for when you are emotional
- What low grade emotionality is
- How to learn to allow feelings
- How emotions affect sex
- Her definition of love
- How emotions are different than love
- Qualities to cultivate to reduce emotions and nourish love
Diana Richardson is considered one of today’s leading authorities on human sexuality, and she is known as the pioneer of Slow Sex. She has written 8 books on how in practical ways a person can experience a more fulfilling sex and love life. Born in South Africa in 1954, she first qualified as a lawyer (B.A.LLB), and then trained as a massage therapist (ITEC) in the UK. Her interest in the body and healing prompted an intense personal exploration into the union of sex and meditation – the essence of Tantra. Since 1993, together with her partner, Michael, she has been sharing her insights and experiences with couples who travel from many different parts of the world to participate in their informative and life changing ‘making love’ workshops in Switzerland.
RESOURCES FROM DIANA
Website: www.loveforcouples.com
MAKING LOVE RETREATS IN THE UK WITH SARAH ROSE BRIGHT AND GRAEME WATERFIELD
TO GO ON THE WAITING LIST FOR THE UK RETREATS – SIGN UP VIA THIS LINK
BOOKS
Tantric Love: Feeling vs Emotion – Golden Rules to Make Love Easy ‘O’ Books UK. with Michael Richardson (Raja)
The Heart of Tantric Sex – ‘O’ Books UK. (first published as The Love Keys )
Tantric Orgasm for Women – Destiny Books USA
Tantric Sex for Men – Making Love a Meditation. Destiny Books USA. with Michael Richardson (Raja)
Slow Sex – Destiny Books USA.
Tantric Love Letters – ‘O’ Books UK.
Tantric Sex & Menopause (with Janet McGeever) Destiny Books USA.
Cool Sex – for young adults – a next generation guide to loving fulfilling sex. (with Wendy Doeleman) UK O-Books 2020
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
For a FREE e-book, How Relaxed Love Making Can Transform Your Sex Life, visit Sarah’s website to sign up her
Today I’m delighted to be joined by Dr. Sara Nasserzadeh, author of “Love by Design: 6 Ingredients to Build a Lifetime of Love.”
Based on two decades of research and work with couples globally, her book offers a fresh perspective on cultivating lasting love, focusing on six core relational ingredients essential for a thriving partnership. If you are looking to deepen your understanding of healthy relationships, “Love by Design” is a great read.
In this conversation, Dr Sara introduces the emergent love model, the 6 key ingredients of emergent love, what she observes about romantic love today, how to look for compatibility in a partner, cultivating sexual harmony, navigating conflict and more.
Dr Sara shares:
- Dr. Sara’s journey to creating emergent love
- The emergent love model
- What she observes about romantic love today
- How to look for compatibility in a partner
- The 6 key ingredients of emergent love
- What ‘over relating’ is
- The importance of the golden and the platinum rule
- What sexual harmony is
- The difference between love attraction and sexual chemistry
- How to restart your sex life
- How to navigate conflict
- Why it is important to understand your conflict style
- Reframing conflict from me versus you to us versus the problem
Dr. Sara Nasserzadeh is an Author, Speaker and Thinking Partner with a PhD in Social Psychology and specialization in the fields of human sexuality and relationships. She has over two decades of experience working with thousands of couples across the globe. Widely respected by her peers for her research, powerful keynote speeches, educational platforms and award-winning publications, her groundbreaking work has garnered global attention, with media outlets such as NPR, BBC, ABC, CNN and USA Today.
RESOURCES FROM DR SARA
Dr Sara is in London on 7th June 2024 with Emily Nagoski. I am sure this will be a brilliant conversation!
Love by Design website. You can order the book and if you check a box, you will get a signed copy from Dr Sara.
Free resources and exercises mentioned by Dr Sara.
Join Dr Sara’s newsletter and community.
The Relationship Panoramic Inventory for couples. This is an evidence-informed inventory that will highlight your strengths as a couple and areas that need further attention. Use the coupon code pleasure for a 10% discount (coupon is valid until June15, 2024).
Dr Sara is generously sharing the Love by Design journal prompters and conversation starters which support the book.
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
For a FREE e-book, How Relaxed Love Making Can Transform Your Sex Life, visit Sarah’s website to sign up her newsletter
Today I’m so so happy to be sharing my 50th podcast episode!!!!!! Join me for this conversation with my partner and co-teacher Graeme Waterfield as we explore what it means to put the intimacy back into sex.
At the end of the episode we share about our couples course INTIMACY which starts March 5th 2024 and there is a special offer available for listeners of the Love, Sex & Intimacy Podcast.
We explore:
- Why the title ‘Putting the intimacy back into sex’
- Our definitions of intimacy
- What is full spectrum intimacy and what does it look like in relationship?
- How sex changes when you let go of goals and drop into intimacy with yourself and each other
- The problem with dogmas about sex
- All about INTIMACY, our course for couples, starting March 5th 2024 with a special offer for podcast listeners (available until 14th February 2024).
Graeme Waterfield helps men become all they are capable of being, through understanding and mastering their own sexual energy. He does this primarily through Taoist and yogic meditation and guided energy practices.
With his partner, Intimacy and Sex Coach, Sarah Rose Bright, he also assists couples in exploring practices for deeper intimacy, connection, and pleasure through group programmes and retreats.
With 20 years of experience as a teacher and coach and having been on his own 30 year journey, Graeme offers grounded practical guidance, and has come to see what helps men evolve and heal physically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually.
Being a qualified Yoga, Tai Chi, Qi Gung & Meditation teacher with a background in counselling, Graeme offers unique packages of somatic, psychological and energetic tools to help men transform themselves and their lives to become everything they want to be.
OPPORTUNITIES TO WORK WITH GRAEME AND SARAH
INTIMACY – a 16 week group online programme for couples, starts 5th March 2024. You can read all about it via the link below and contact sarahrosebright@icloud.com with the code HAPPY50th for £200 off the full price of INTIMACY
https://www.sarahrosebright.co.uk/intimacy/
Valentines Love Temple – an evening retreat for couples, 17th February 2024
https://www.sarahrosebright.co.uk/valentines-love-temple/
RESOURCES FROM GRAEME
https://www.graemewaterfield.com
https://www.graemewaterfield.com/energy-work-for-men
https://www.facebook.com/graeme.waterfield
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
Sign up to Sarah’s newsletter so you can find out about the latest podcast episode and get pleasure mapping, a guided audio practice
https://www.sarahrosebright.co.uk/guided-pleasure-mapping/
Book a complimentary consultation with Sarah https://calendly.com/sarahrosebright
Find Sarah online
Website sarahrosebright.co.uk
Davina MacKail is one of my favourite astrologers so I invited her to share her take on what’s coming in 2024. Davina talks us through the key themes for 2024, a wood dragon year in Chinese Astrology. She shares about the qualities of a wood dragon year, why now is a good time to pause, her wisdom on how you can ride the waves of 2024 and why it’s time to dream big.
Check out Davina’s previous appearance on this podcast, where she talked about Feng Shui for the bedroom (episode 32).
Hay House author of Feng Shui Made Easy and The Dream Whisperer, feng shui maestra, shamanic seer and mentor, Davina has inspired miracles of positive transformation in people’s lives for more than 25 years. A popular workshop leader and speaker, she offers her Wisdom that Works consultations to thousands of clients all over the world.
Her love of adventure has seen her leading retreats among the Q’ero communities of the high mountains of Peru for the last 20 years. She recently returned to the UK after two years caretaking 47 hectares of rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon.
A sought-after mentor and guide, Davina is known for her compassionate straight talking and masterful good spirits. A gifted seer, she embodies the wisdom of the mountains in her shamanic practice and teaching.
RESOURCES FROM TODAY’S EPISODE
Davina’s website: https://www.naturalwisdom.co/
Details about Davina’s course which starts in Feb 2024: https://www.naturalwisdom.co/mesa-of-alchemy
Triple Flame App to set pauses throughout your day: https://genekeys.com/resource/the-triple-flame/
Dream Quest with Sarah Rose Bright and Steph Magenta – all information including how to book tickets – https://www.sarahrosebright.co.uk/dream-quest-2024/
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
Sign up to Sarah’s newsletter so you can find out about the latest podcast episode and get pleasure mapping, a guided audio practice:
https://www.sarahrosebright.co.uk/guided-pleasure-mapping/
Book a complimentary consultation with Sarah https://calendly.com/sarahrosebright
Find Sarah online
Spotify for playlists https://open.spotify.com/user/dog9xui4wwpjatvbnpb2t7l3y?si=jnc_V6wxSCqaqr3UhNgD6Q
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Your podcast host is Sarah Rose Bright. Sarah is an Intimacy and Sex Coach who helps women & couples to truly enjoy sex and pleasure and create/deepen intimate relationships that are passionate, happy and healthy so that they can feel good about who they are.
Welcome to this wonderful conversation with Joseph Kramer, PhD, about erotic massage. Joseph is a true pioneer in the field of sexology, founder of the Body Electric School of Massage, creator of the practice of erotic massage and the professional field of Sexological Bodywork.
Joseph shares the incredible story of how he created erotic massage, what erotic massage is, how you can get started with erotic massage even if you don’t feel confident in giving massage, the most profound practice Joseph has discovered in his 40 years of exploring massage, what he sees as biggest challenge to sex today, the importance of touch between partners and more. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.
Joseph shares:
- How Joseph discovered erotic massage
- The importance of touch between partners
- What erotic massage is
- The different levels of arousal you can explore
- How to get started practicing erotic massage even if you don’t feel confident in giving massage
- What erotic massage dancing is
- The most profound practice Joseph has discovered in his 40 years of exploring massage
- What the biggest challenge is to sex today
- What altered states are and why erotic massage can help you access those
Joseph Kramer, PhD, is an American sexologist, filmmaker and teacher of somatic sex education. He is the founder of the Body Electric School of Massage and the professional field of Sexological Bodywork. He has created more than 100 films that artfully teach erotic touch.
RESOURCES FROM JOSEPH
Various links from Joseph including his websites:
https://www.sexologicalbodywork.com/links/
All about the 5 minute practice and erotic massage dancing:
www.sexologicalbodywork.com/erotic-massage-dancing-improving-sexual-arousal-management/
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
Sign up to Sarah’s newsletter so you can find out about the latest podcast episode and get pleasure mapping, a guided audio practice
https://www.sarahrosebright.co.uk/guided-pleasure-mapping/
Book a complimentary consultation with Sarah https://calendly.com/sarahrosebright
Find Sarah online
Spotify for playlists https://open.spotify.com/user/dog9xui4wwpjatvbnpb2t7l3y?si=jnc_V6wxSCqaqr3UhNgD6Q
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Your podcast host is Sarah Rose Bright. Sarah is an Intimacy and Sex Coach who helps women & couples to truly enjoy sex and pleasure and create/deepen intimate relationships that are passionate, happy and healthy so that they can feel good about who they are.
What a powerful conversation with Anabel Vizcarra, Embodiment Mentor and Womb Shaman. She teaches women how to awaken and embody their own wise and prosperous wisdom through self awareness & mastery.
We explored what ‘full spectrum’ feminine embodiment is, why the journey to your power is a descent into the body, what womb intelligence is, how to cultivate a relationship with your womb, ancestral healing, sexuality as ‘presence not presentation’, your soul’s journey, allowing the question to take you on a quest, the transmission of The Gene Keys and more!
Anabel shares:
- What ‘full spectrum’ feminine embodiment is
- Why the journey to your power is a descent into the body
- What womb intelligence is
- How to cultivate a relationship with your womb
- The power of connecting to your stories and ancestral healing
- The difference between sexuality and sensuality
- Sexuality as ‘presence not presentation’
- Your soul’s journey
- Allowing the question to take you on a quest
- Nature as a teacher
- What The Gene Keys are
Anabel Vizcarra is an Embodiment Mentor and Womb Shaman. She teaches how to awaken and embody your own wise and prosperous wisdom through self awareness & mastery. Through her cultivated gnosis, she guides women into trusting their own healing process & reconnecting to their inner core source of wisdom.
She believes that when we are working with our own body wisdom, we are able to transform our lives; birth fulfilling projects to serve others and express our Full Spectrum genius. Anabel’s work is a synthesis of Womb Shamanism, Gene Keys Transmission, Ayurvedic medicine, Quantum Physics & Epigenetics.
RESOURCES FROM ANABEL
IG @anabel.vizcarra
In person grief events
Revival – Feminine Ministry of Power
Mentioned in the podcast
The Language of the Goddess: Unearthing the Hidden Symbols of Western Civilization by Marija Gimbutas
Philip Shepherd, who has a range of books about presence, wholeness and embodiment.
The Gene Keyshttps://genekeys.com/ref/1912/
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
Sign up to Sarah’s newsletter so you can find out about the latest podcast episode and get pleasure mapping, a guided audio practice
https://www.sarahrosebright.co.uk/guided-pleasure-mapping/
Book a complimentary consultation with Sarah https://calendly.com/sarahrosebright
Find Sarah online
Spotify for playlists https://open.spotify.com/user/dog9xui4wwpjatvbnpb2t7l3y?si=jnc_V6wxSCqaqr3UhNgD6Q
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Your podcast host is Sarah Rose Bright. Sarah is an Intimacy and Sex Coach who helps women & couples to truly enjoy sex and pleasure and create/deepen intimate relationships that are passionate,…
Today is a big day!! Graeme and I are heading off to the UK Independent Podcast Awards where the Love, Sex and Intimacy Podcast has been nominated for awards in 2 categories so send some good vibes our way!!
I am very excited to be off to London and to meet fellow podcasters. The UK Independent Podcast Awards created a new category for podcasts focused on sex and relationships. Podcasting feels particularly important at this time when there is so much censorship on social media, especially in the arena of sex.
Myself and so many of my colleagues are committed to providing quality information, to helping people and contributing to making the world a better place. Yet, every week I see shadow banning of posts and accounts disappearing overnight and in many cases these have taken years of dedication to grow. As we are at the mercy of big tech in this way, podcasting is an essential space to freely have conversations that are censored elsewhere.
This is also why it really helps to spread the word about the podcast so that I get more gorgeous messages like this!
“I’ve been loving your podcast, Sarah Rose Bright! It’s really helped me in my relationship. Thank you SO much for putting such quality content out there”
I would so appreciate it if you can follow the podcast, leave a 5 star rating on Spotify or Apple and if you have the time, to write a short review on Apple. It also really helps spread the word about the podcast so people can find it organically.
It felt good to put out an extra podcast episode out in celebration of today. You, beautiful listeners, asked for more conversations and perspectives from men and here we are!
In this episode with Graeme Waterfield, we talk about the power of sexual energy for men. Graeme has been working with Taoist sexual energy practices for two decades and he now supports men through his course ‘Sexual Energy Mastery for Men’. Graeme talks about what sexual energy is and why it is important, the healing power of bringing sexuality from the unconscious to the conscious, how to start working with this, his views on ejaculating/not ejaculating and more. I hope you enjoy this conversation!
Graeme shares:
- What sexual energy is and why it is important
- The healing power of bringing sexuality from the unconscious to the conscious
- The difference between ‘down and in’ practices to ‘up and out’ practices
- His views on ejaculating/non ejaculating
- How to start consciously working with your sexual energy
- How sexual energy can amplify emotions
- The themes that he sees in his work with men
- How he defines masculinity
- What the still face experiment is
Graeme Waterfield helps men become all they are capable of being, through understanding and mastering their own sexual energy. He does this primarily through Taoist and yogic meditation and guided energy practices.
With his partner, Intimacy and Sex Coach, Sarah Rose Bright, he also assists couples in exploring practices for deeper intimacy, connection, and pleasure through group programmes and retreats.
With 20 years of experience as a teacher and coach and having been on his own 30 year journey, Graeme offers grounded practical guidance, and has come to see what helps men evolve and heal physically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually.
Being a qualified Yoga, Tai Chi, Qi Gung & Meditation teacher with a background in counselling, Graeme offers unique packages of somatic, psychological and energetic tools to help men transform themselves and their lives to become everything they want to be.
We all have a unique set of skills, our own unique soul expression or purpose. Once we can awaken and identify this, we can turn our life into a masterpiece. People often don’t maximise their potential…
I’m delighted to share this episode with relationship coach, Amara Charles, on how to heal conflict and reignite passion. Amara shares how couples can heal conflict and restore confidence in the relationship and how to reignite passion and keep that passion alive.
Amara shares:
- 3 pitfalls of conflict and how couples can heal conflict
- The one biggest thing that restores confidence in relationships
- What the Trinity of Power is
- The importance of curiosity and asking powerful questions
- The 4 Eros Types
- Reigniting passion in long term relationships
- 2 tips for keeping passion alive in long term relationships
- Her definition of spiritual sexuality
- The power of love and forgiveness
Amara Charles is a trusted, highly acclaimed relationship coach to thousands and the best-selling author of The Sexual Practices of Quodoushka. With experience presenting spiritual intimacy retreats for over 30 years, Amara is a powerful, compassionate guide for those seeking to re-ignite their relationship with passion, sexual intimacy and Deeply Bonded Love.
RESOURCES FROM AMARA
Website: amaracharles.com
Book a 45 minute complimentary Intimacy Breakthrough session with Amara at: amaracharleslove.com/apply
Free Masterclass Training: 5 Shifts to Ignite Passion https://amaracharleslove.com
The Sexual Practices of Quodoushka on Amazon by Amara Charles
Facebook:
Amara Charles Nourishing Arts, https://www.facebook.com/AmaraCharlesNourishingArts
FB group Creating Empowering Relationships https://www.facebook.com/groups/370147867235489
Facebook group: A Woman’s Way to Lead https://www.facebook.com/groups/awomenswaytolead
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
Sign up to Sarah’s newsletter so you can find out about the latest podcast episode and get pleasure mapping, a guided audio practice
https://www.sarahrosebright.co.uk/guided-pleasure-mapping/
Book a complimentary consultation with Sarah https://calendly.com/sarahrosebright
Find Sarah online
Spotify for playlists https://open.spotify.com/user/dog9xui4wwpjatvbnpb2t7l3y?si=jnc_V6wxSCqaqr3UhNgD6Q
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Your podcast host is Sarah Rose Bright. Sarah is an Intimacy and Sex Coach who helps women & couples to truly enjoy sex and pleasure and create/deepen intimate relationships that are passionate, happy and healthy so that they can feel good about who they…
This was a great conversation with Natalie Lue, a boundaries and relationship coach who‘s the creator of one of the longest running self-help blogs in the world, Baggage Reclaim, and The Baggage Reclaim Sessions podcast. Her 5th book, The Joy of Saying No: A Simple Plan to Stop People Pleasing, Reclaim Boundaries, and Say Yes to the Life You Want came out this year.
Many people I work with would define themselves as ‘people pleasers’ or ‘recovering people pleasers’ and it deeply affects how you show up in dating and intimate relationships so it was important to have this conversation with Natalie.
Natalie shares the 5 types of people pleasers, why you might people please and how it can show up in your life, practical ways to begin to step out of people pleasing, people pleasing in dating and relationships and how to stop accepting ‘crumbs’. Natalie also shared the landmarks of healthy relationships and the 4 qualities of a loving partner.
Natalie shares:
- Nat’s definition of people pleasing
- Why you might people please and how it can show up in your life
- The 5 types of people pleasers
- The feelings and thoughts that can be associated with people pleasing
- Practical ways to begin to step out of people pleasing
- People pleasing in dating and relationships
- How to stop accepting ‘crumbs’ when you are dating
- The landmarks of healthy relationships
- The 4 qualities of a loving partner
- What is changing in her life from peri-menopause
Natalie Lue is a boundaries and relationship coach who‘s the creator of one of the longest running self-help blogs in the world, Baggage Reclaim, and The Baggage Reclaim Sessions podcast. The England-born, Ireland-raised author helps people understand how their emotional baggage is interfering with their ability to live their lives happily and authentically. Natalie’s authored five books, including Mr Unavailable and the Fallback Girl and The Joy of Saying No (Jan 2023, HarperCollins). Her advice has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, NPR, USA Today, and the BBC, among many others.
RESOURCES FROM NATALIE
Natalie’s latest book – The Joy of Saying No: A Simple Plan to Stop People Pleasing, Reclaim Boundaries, and Say Yes to the Life You Want by Natalie Lee
You can find Natalie’s blogs here
https://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/list-of-posts/
And you can also find Natalie on
Mentioned by Natalie
DownGirl: The Logic of Misogyny by KateManne
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
Sign up to Sarah’s newsletter so you can find out about the latest podcast episode and get pleasure mapping, a guided audio practice
https://www.sarahrosebright.co.uk/guided-pleasure-mapping/
Book a complimentary consultation with Sarah https://calendly.com/sarahrosebright
Find Sarah online
So happy to share this episode with Tobin Zivon. Tobin is the first guest to return to the podcast for a rich conversation exploring tantric sex and living a tantric life. Tobin shares his definition of tantra, what tantric sex is and some ways to explore tantra, tantra as a way of living and how to be with the difficult stuff in life, his views on polarity, how to invite a partner on a tantric journey with you and more.
Tobin shares:
- His definition of tantra
- Tantra as a way of living
- What tantric sex is and some ways to explore tantra
- The importance of presence
- Tantra as a way of living
- How to be with the difficult stuff in life
- His views on polarity
- How to invite a partner on a tantric journey with you
Tobin Zivon has been wholeheartedly dedicated to spiritual awakening and to serving others in the flowering of their highest potential for over 30 years. Author of books “The Art of Mindful Living” and the forthcoming “Allies in Awakening: Living the Truth of Unconditional Love in Intimate Relationships,” he has been described as “The Ultimate Guide… A rare, exquisite blend of Therapist, Coach, Spiritual Teacher and Tantra Master all wrapped into one.”
He has worked with thousands of individuals and couples to help them break through stuck patterns and painful dynamics, helping them to find their way into a more fulfilling and connected life of authentic liberation, love and relationship satisfaction.
RESOURCES FROM TOBIN
On Tobin’s website you can download a free e-book, Emotional Alchemy and find details about his private work and online courses:
Find Tobin on Facebook and message him to join his group, The Art of Awakened Relationship
https://www.facebook.com/tobin.giblin
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
Sign up to Sarah’s newsletter so you can find out about the latest podcast episode and get pleasure mapping, a guided audio practice
https://www.sarahrosebright.co.uk/guided-pleasure-mapping/
Book a complimentary consultation with Sarah https://calendly.com/sarahrosebright
Find Sarah online
Spotify for playlists https://open.spotify.com/user/dog9xui4wwpjatvbnpb2t7l3y?si=jnc_V6wxSCqaqr3UhNgD6Q
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Your podcast host is Sarah Rose Bright. Sarah is an Intimacy and Sex Coach who helps women & couples to truly enjoy sex and pleasure and create/deepen intimate relationships that are passionate, happy and healthy so that they can feel good about who they are.
Excited to share this episode with my partner and co-teacher, Graeme Waterfield. We love chatting about intimacy, sex and pleasure and have conversations like this all the time. We share some of the common themes that we experience in our work and also explore what is possible when you shift your attention from goal based sex to presence and pleasure.
We explore:
- What is possible beyond the goal based pleasure that most people learn.
- How most people learn to ‘do’ sex and the limitations of that
- Why mainstream sex advice is misguided
- What is possible when we drop inside and meet each other from that place
- The role of the nervous system in connection and arousal
- We are now bringing our decades of experience and our 5 years exploring and growing together to our couples programme, INTIMACY which starts September 2023. At the end of the conversation we share about INTIMACY with a special offer for those listening to this episode!
You can read all about INTIMACY here. https://www.sarahrosebright.co.uk/intimacy/
After reading the info, if you have any additional questions or you would like to book a 30 minute call with Graeme and I to see if INTIMACY is right for you both, please message me.
About Graeme
With 20 years of experience as a teacher and coach and having been on his own 30 year journey, Graeme Waterfield has come to see what helps people evolve and heal physically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually.
Being a qualified Yoga, Tai Chi, Qi Gung & Meditation teacher with a background in counselling, Graeme offers completely unique packages of somatic, psychological and energetic tools to help you transform yourself and your life to become everything you want to be.
He has come to see that we all have a unique set of skills, our own unique soul expression or purpose. Once we can awaken and identify this, we can turn our life into a masterpiece. Graeme noticed that people often don’t maximise their potential as human beings because they haven’t yet learnt to harness their mental, emotional and spiritual power.
This is how he can help support you in your own growth. Showing you how to access your highest, most profound levels of thought and being. To help you break free of self-imposed limitation and create your own unique experience of heaven on earth in your relationships, work and life.
‘Actualise yourself,’ was Steve Jobs’ final instruction to all who attended his Stamford memorial service. ‘Self-actualisation’ is the name western psychology gives to personal enlightenment. It states that if we don’t become everything we are capable of being, we will feel like a failure and live an unfulfilled life.
As your trainer, Graeme will guide you into this self-actualisation and show you how to meet your greatest potential as a human being. Using ancient technologies and modern psychological approaches to awaken your inner potential, supporting you in finding the power to overcome adversity and maximise all areas of your life.
RESOURCES FROM GRAEME
https://www.facebook.com/graeme.waterfield
https://www.graemewaterfield.com
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
Sign up to Sarah’s newsletter so you can find out about the latest podcast episode and get pleasure mapping, a guided audio practice
I’m delighted to share this episode with relationship coach, Amara Charles, on how to heal conflict and reignite passion. Amara shares how couples can heal conflict and restore confidence in the relationship and how to reignite passion and keep that passion alive.
Amara shares:
- 3 pitfalls of conflict and how couples can heal conflict
- The one biggest thing that restores confidence in relationships
- What the Trinity of Power is
- The importance of curiosity and asking powerful questions
- The 4 Eros Types
- Reigniting passion in long term relationships
- 2 tips for keeping passion alive in long term relationships
- Her definition of spiritual sexuality
- The power of love and forgiveness
Amara Charles is a trusted, highly acclaimed relationship coach to thousands and the best-selling author of The Sexual Practices of Quodoushka. With experience presenting spiritual intimacy retreats for over 30 years, Amara is a powerful, compassionate guide for those seeking to re-ignite their relationship with passion, sexual intimacy and Deeply Bonded Love.
RESOURCES FROM AMARA
Website: amaracharles.com
Book a 45 minute complimentary Intimacy Breakthrough session with Amara at: amaracharleslove.com/apply
Free Masterclass Training: 5 Shifts to Ignite Passion https://amaracharleslove.com
The Sexual Practices of Quodoushka on Amazon by Amara Charles
Facebook:
Amara Charles Nourishing Arts, https://www.facebook.com/AmaraCharlesNourishingArts
FB group Creating Empowering Relationships https://www.facebook.com/groups/370147867235489
Facebook group: A Woman’s Way to Lead https://www.facebook.com/groups/awomenswaytolead
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
Sign up to Sarah’s newsletter so you can find out about the latest podcast episode and get pleasure mapping, a guided audio practice
https://www.sarahrosebright.co.uk/guided-pleasure-mapping/
Book a complimentary consultation with Sarah https://calendly.com/sarahrosebright
Find Sarah online
Spotify for playlists https://open.spotify.com/user/dog9xui4wwpjatvbnpb2t7l3y?si=jnc_V6wxSCqaqr3UhNgD6Q
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Your podcast host is Sarah Rose Bright. Sarah is an Intimacy and Sex Coach who helps women & couples to truly enjoy sex and pleasure and create/deepen intimate relationships that are passionate, happy and healthy so that they can feel good about who they…
Kimberly Ann Johnson is a Sexological Bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, yoga teacher, postpartum advocate, and single mom. She is also the author of the Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, and Use It for Good, as well as the early mothering classic The Fourth Trimester, and is the host of the Sex Birth Trauma podcast.
I invited Kimberly to talk about sex that changes the world as she did an interview with this title which I loved so much as I really do believe sex has the power to change the world for good.
In this compelling and thought provoking conversation, Kimberly shares her thoughts and wisdom on how to reimagine sex with its potential to change the world, the feminine, motherhood, power, sex and relationships in current times and more. Kimberly shares not just her experience as a practitioner, she brings in her personal perspective as a woman and a mum of a teenager daughter. I’d love to hear what stirs inside you from this conversation.
Kimberly shares:
- Why it is important to start where you are
- The ingredients of sex that changes the world
- The importance of connection to your pleasure hormones
- How less sex and less commitment can be survival features
- The impact of the last few years on sex and relationships and how she sees the state of sex and relationships in current times
- How crying during sex can be therapeutic
- The different between the sex you see on the movies and sex which activates the oxytocin circuitry
- The difference between the male and female arousal trajectories
- Why the clitoris is not just for pleasure
- Understanding the feminine and masculine through the lens of Chinese medicine
- What it means to ‘centre’ the feminine
- Her definition of sexual energy
- Motherhood as a threshold for changing how you want to experience sex and how she connected with her sexuality after becoming a mum
- How the language of consent is taking us further away from sex that changes the world
- How sexual desires are not always politically correct
- The landscape of sex and relationships for young people today and how to support the young people in your life
- The impact of the current overculture on men
- Her definition of power
- Thoughts on dating
Kimberly Ann Johnson is a Sexological Bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, yoga teacher, postpartum advocate, and single mom. Working hands-on in integrative women’s health and trauma recovery for more than a decade, she helps women heal from birth injuries, gynecological surgeries, and sexual boundary violations. Kimberly is the author of the Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, and Use It for Good, as well as the early mothering classic The Fourth Trimester, and is the host of the Sex Birth Trauma podcast.
RESOURCES FROM KIMBERLY
Website: https://kimberlyannjohnson.com
https://kimberlyannjohnson.com/mothercircle-facilitator-training/
https://kimberlyannjohnson.com/events/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kimberly.ann.johnson/
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
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Today I’m delighted to share this conversation with Tamu Thomas. Tamu helps ‘over-functioning, overworking, high achievers to prioritise their own well-being and life satisfaction alongside success and achievement’. She is on a mission to help women ‘enhance how they live, love and work by recovering from their addiction to toxic productivity’.
You might be wondering what this has to do with love, sex and intimacy. A lot!! Your work can have a huge impact on how you experience sex and intimacy. I see this all the time with the women I work with who are often overworking, stressed and exhausted.
As Tamu helps women to have a different relationship with work she also supports them to have a better quality of life through areas like self care, pleasure, rest which we dive into.
In this rich conversation, Tamu shares about what she calls ‘grounded self care’ and how that is good for society, the problems with ‘spiritual capitalism’ and ‘spiritual bypassing’, how pleasure can be challenging for women, how dominant powers in society can affect your ability to experience pleasure, her vision for revolutionising how we work, the impact of work on sex and intimacy, her quest to be a well rested woman and much more.
Tamu shares:
- Her journey from burnout, panic attacks and depression to today
- Her definition of grounded self care
- How self care leads to social and environmental care
- How discipline can be a protective pattern
- The problems with ‘spiritual capitalism’ and ‘spiritual bypassing’
- The difference between the ‘wounded inner child’ to the ‘healthy adult self’
- Why people can find joy, bliss and pleasure unfamiliar emotions
- How women can constrict their pleasure
- The pleasure / power axis and how dominant powers in society can affect your ability to experience pleasure
- Her quest to be a well rested woman
- A practice to connect with how it feels like to be you
- The importance of feeling safe in your body
- How being in a survival state affects pleasure
- Her vision for revolutionising how we work
- How the systems we grow up in shape our identity around work and who you are
- Why many people do not feel safe in their workplace
- The value of getting clear on the type of life you want and crafting your work around that so you live to work rather than work to live
- The impact of work on sex and intimacy
Tamu Thomas helps over-functioning, overworking, high achievers fall in love with themselves so they can make powerful choices about how they live, love and work.
Tamu’s integrated approach is practical and relatable. She’s person-centred, evidence-based and trauma-informed. Tamu’s holistic approach to supporting the bodies, minds and experience of her clients makes her work nurturing, deep and unique – just like her.
Tamu’s work is informed by her background of sixteen years in social work, somatic coach training, her love of behavioural neuroscience and polyvagal theory, positive psychology, spirituality and joy. Tamu combines these modalities to create a multifaceted body of work.
Tamu supports her clients and workshop attendees understand themselves as valuable and worthy of caring for themselves. This enables them to prioritise their own well-being and life satisfaction alongside success and achievement.
Her mission is to help women enhance how they live, love and work by recovering from their addiction to toxic productivity.
RESOURCES FROM TAMU
I’m delighted to share this fascinating conversation with Damien Bohler, founder of Evolutionary Relating. Damien is an explorer who dives deep into the possibilities for intimate relationships finding the ways to support people to truly thrive in life and love.
We explored relationships from the difficult stuff to the juice and the joy including the potential of intimate relationships, common relationship challenges and dynamics, polarity, attachment styles, what the Gene Keys are and how to work with the shadows and gifts in dating and relationships, the difference between parasympathetic arousal and arousal through intensity and more.
We spoke about the Gene Keys and the Venus Sequence in our conversation and there are links to both in the show notes. Enjoy!!
Damien shares:
- His framework called ‘Evolutionary Relating’
- Common relationship challenges and dynamics
- The potential of intimate relationships
- His definition of polarity and what ‘polarity sets’ are and how they play out in relationships
- The need for similarity and difference in intimate relationships
- Attachment styles and how they impact dating and relationships
- The difference between parasympathetic arousal and arousal through intensity
- What the Gene Keys are and how you can work with them in relationships and when you are dating
- Working with shadow patterns in relationships using the Gene Keys
- Why having standards are essential when you are dating
Damien is a pragmatic visionary, synthesist and deep diver. He is focused on the future trajectory of humanity through relationship, and the practical, actionable tools, concepts and practices to get there. His gift is the interweaving of complex subjects into forms that can be easily integrated and embodied. His range of interest and expertise ranges throughout the realms of human relationship: authentic relating, attachment theory, polarity, sexuality, nervous system regulation, boundaries, Human Design, Gene Keys, transpersonal shadow work, and much more. His joy and delight is to find the ways in which it all fits together in a functioning dynamic tapestry to support us in truly thriving in life and love. He is the founder, director and head facilitator at Evolutionary Relating.
RESOURCES FROM DAMIEN
https://evolutionaryrelating.org/contact/
FB : https://www.facebook.com/Damien.Bohler1/
IG: @evorelating
GENE KEYS
Gene Keys – get your profile here
https://genekeys.com/free-profile/
Purchasing Gene Keys courses
There are 2 of the main Gene Key sequences which you can buy at a great price of $150 each. They are brilliantly done and highly recommended.
The Venus Sequence for love and relationships. This has the attractor sphere in that Damien mentioned in the show)
https://genekeys.com/venus-sequence/ref/1912/?campaign=VenusSequence
The Activation (or Genius) sequence
https://genekeys.com/activation-sequence/ref/1912/?campaign=ActivationSequence
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
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I love Taoist practice and Qigong so it’s wonderful to share this episode with one of my Qigong teachers, Minke De Vos. Minke is a Senior Universal Healing Tao Instructor and Medical Qigong Master Therapist who runs Qigong teacher trainings and she is author of ‘Tao Tantric Arts for Women’.
Minke shares her wisdom and years of experience of sexual practice and alchemy. We explored what sexual energy is and the value of becoming sensitive to sexual energy, practices for individuals and practices for partners, the benefits of breast massage, the healing power of love making, what sexual reflexology is and understanding female sexual anatomy and orgasm from the Taoist perspective.
At the end, Minke guides you through a beautiful inner smile practice to connect you to your heart and sexual organs so please do not listen to this section when you are driving! Enjoy!
Minke shares:
- How to consciously breathe with your whole body
- Kidney breathing
- The importance of replenishing your yin energy at menopause
- What sexual energy is
- How Minke discovered sexual energy in her life
- The value of becoming sensitive to sexual energy
- Tips on how to connect to your subtle energy flow
- What solo cultivation is
- Foundational solo practices for men and women including testicle breathing and ovarian breathing
- How sexual energy cultivation opens your spiritual path
- Why breast massage is good for you
- What sexual reflexology is
- The three gates of the yoni and the three orgasm types
- What dual cultivation is
- A dual cultivation breathing practice for lovers / partners
- The healing power of love making
- How the Healing Sounds practice can help you clear emotions
- She guides us through a beautiful inner smile practice to connect you to your heart and sexual organs
Minke de Vos, Senior Universal Healing Tao Instructor and Medical Qigong Master Therapist has devoted over 35 years to practicing and teaching meditative, healing and movement arts. She and her partner offer retreats and Qigong Teacher Trainings in beautiful natural locations. She is co-founder of Sacred Femininity teacher trainings and author of ‘Tao Tantric Arts for Women’. She is internationally known as one of the top teachers of Qigong and Sacred Sexuality. Her soulful, creative-based work inspires people to live with passion and love.
RESOURCES FROM MINKE
Website: http://www.silentground.com/
https://www.instagram.com/minketaoalchemyarts/
https://www.facebook.com/minke.devos.5
https://www.facebook.com/taotantricarts/
https://www.facebook.com/femininetreasures/
https://www.facebook.com/Tao-Alchemy-Arts-110952053814950/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/minke-devos-37bb9925/
Bells of Love Meditation
This meditation guides you to relax inside and smile inwardly to your heart and body. Tune into the energy of unconditional love and make friends with yourself. Beautiful nature footage and music
I am delighted to share the second episode of the Love, Sex and Intimacy podcast, a conversation with Sarah Tilley, founder and CEO of Beautiful Space Wellness, a legal and safe psilocybin-assisted therapy program for couples and individuals with a focus on modern relationships and sexual wellness.
Sarah is a long term student of Esther Perel and has been working with plant consciousness and altered states for 20 years with individuals and groups.
Sarah talks about why there is a huge growth of working with psychedelics for healing and well being, how she works with psychedelics and the depth of preparation and integration that her programme offers and why people might work with her.
She also shares the phenomenal successes that her clients experience, the difference between conventional couples therapy and psychedelic couples therapy, core skills for erotic and relational wellness and so much more.
This conversation was recorded back in November 2022 so when Sarah is referring to the ‘next years’ Mind Body and Spirit festival she is referencing the one in May 2023.
Sarah Tilley shares:
- What ‘psychedelics mindfulness’ is
- The power of creative visualisation
- Why there is a huge growth of working with psychedelics for healing and well being
- The current legal landscape in the UK
- How she works with psychedelics and the depth of preparation and integration that her programme offers
- Why people might work with Sarah and the incredible successes that Sarah’s clients experience
- The vast difference between conventional couples therapy and psychedelic therapy
- The importance of bringing the sacredness into sex and intimacy
- The power of female empowerment and male vulnerability
- Establishing safety and ritual in consensual non monogamy
- Core skills for erotic and relational wellness
- The value of the Wheel of Consent and Sexological Bodywork
- How sex and intimacy changes overtime in relationship and what relationship 2.0 is
- All about her programme for females
- The value of micro dosing for women in reclaiming themselves
- Practices she shares with women
- Rumination as a sign of depression
- How healthcare will change over next decade
- The benefits of couples taking psychedelics therapeutically
- The benefits of psychedelics couples therapy versus cost of divorce
- How she teaches couples to be psychonauts together
- What ‘freedom within relationship’ is
Sarah is a psychedelic guide, integration specialist and couple therapist specialising in psychedelic therapy, modern relationships and sexual wellness.
Sarah is a long term student of Esther Perel and has been working with plant consciousness and altered states for 20 years with individuals and groups. An expert in facilitating shifts in awareness to the root cause of a problem using a complex methods of regression, hypnosis techniques, breath-work, guided visualisation and psychedelics for full spectrum holistic wellness. Sarah has guided hundreds of altered-state journeys with music, working with powerful intention and ongoing integration.
Currently wellness director and lead facilitator for Beautiful Space. As an activist she has spoken at the NHS and the UN on topics of sustainable healthcare, complementary medicine and women’s equality, involved with the Women’s Equality Party and as a popular figure in the UK press for sex equality, consensual non monogamy and female empowerment.
Sarah has worked in education for over 30 years and currently writes and facilitates her own programs of relationship wellness for individuals, women, couples and mixed groups on and offline. She has transferred her many years as a professional classical violinist to…
I loved this interview with Elena Rossi which I recorded late last year. Elena is a female libido specialist, author of two books, pelvic trauma-release therapist and a sex toy designer. Her personal coaching brand is The Yoni Empire.
We covered a lot of fertile topics in this conversation as Elena shared how much misunderstanding and confusion there is about sex, why its important to consider the meaning and purpose of your sex life, the difference between libido and desire, how to create a sex life that is worthy of wanting, how sex can be peaceful, what emotional safety is and how it is foundational to intimacy and a healthy libido, how sex has been diminished to physical sensations and entertainment and what’s possible when you bring in the heart.
We discussed how casual sex can be disempowering, the pressures on women dating and how some women are afraid to say they want a relationship and / or children. We also talked about how sex will evolve over the next decade and how to find the farmers market in your bedroom! It was a rich and powerful conversation and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Elena shares
- How women are secretly suffering in their sex lives
- Her experiencing of sexuality growing up in Russian
- Her experience healing of chronic yeast infections and pain
- How much misunderstanding and confusion there is about sex
- Why its important to consider the meaning and purpose of your sex life
- What a female libido specialist is
- Her definition of libido and how libido differs from desire and eroticism
- How to create a sex life that is worthy of wanting
- What emotional safety is and how it is foundational to intimacy and a healthy libido
- The erotic trio of your mind heart and body
- What peaceful sex is
- How sex is diminished to physical sensations and how the presence of the heart is lacking
- Why awareness is the first step in changing your sexual experiences and what you can get curious about
- What ‘invitation to penetration’ is
- The influences of Diana Richardson and Barry Long
- How sex is viewed as entertainment
- How casual sex can be disempowering
- The pressures on women dating
- How women are afraid to say they want a relationship and / or children
- Her definition of sexual empowerment
- Her view on how sex will evolve over the next decade
- How to find the farmers market in your bedroom!
Elena Rossi is a female libido specialist, author of two books, pelvic trauma-release therapist and a sex toy designer. She holds degrees in Business, Psychology, Entrepreneurship and Leadership and has created a number of successful wellness concepts, including slow-pleasure brand Onna Lifestyle, holistic clinic and cafe AlchemyBali and her personal coaching brand The Yoni Empire.
Elena’s content reflects her no-bullshit approach to sexual wellbeing and is followed by thousands of women all over the world. A sensual connoisseur at heart, Elena Rossi inspires and supports women to explore the nourishing power of sexuality infused with purpose and meaning.
You can find Elena writing her book series at her studio in Amsterdam, riding her bicycle around town, trail running in the woods and spending time with her loved ones.
RESOURCES FROM ELENA
Website : www.theyoniempire.com
Instagram : @the_yoni_empire
You can buy Elena’s ebook ‘500 Revealing Questions for Lovers’ with a special E5 discount by using the code SARAH ROSE
Today I’m delighted to share this conversation with Amisha Ghadiali. Amisha is a facilitator and host of the globally acclaimed podcast all that we are (fka The Future Is Beautiful). She creates brave, tender and inclusive spaces for our hearts unfolding, healing and embrace of our wildness. She hosts the ‘all that we are’ community membership, for Creative, Connected and Courageous Living and also works one to one with her Leadership Mentoring programme and she has written a book about intuition, which we focus on today.
Amisha shares why most of us are not raised to listen to and trust our intuition and how and why intuition has been viewed as dangerous and how this history affects us today. She also shares her definition of intuition, the benefits if listening to your intuition, the possibilities for the world if we all truly listened to our intuition practices to support you to listen and to trust your intuition and intuition and it’s relationship to great sex and healthy relationships. We also had a fascinating conversation about common beliefs in the ‘new age’ community that can be dangerous and damaging. Enjoy!
Amisha shares:
- Why she wrote a book on intuition
- Why most of us are not raised to listen to and trust our intuition
- How and why intuition has been viewed as dangerous and how this history affects us today
- What intuition is
- Intuition as ‘intuitive intelligence’
- Practices to support you to listen and to trust your intuition
- The benefits if listening to your intuition
- The value of balance between the mind and intuition
- The possibilities for the world if we all truly listened to our intuition
- What ‘Beautiful Leadership’ is
- Common beliefs in the ‘new age’ community that can be dangerous and damaging
- Why intuition loves action
- Intuition and it’s relationship to great sex and healthy relationships
Amisha Ghadiali is a facilitator and host of the globally acclaimed podcast ‘all that we are’ (aka The Future Is Beautiful). She is interested in where our inner and outer worlds dance. The podcast weaves together activism, the sacred, creativity and regeneration – to inspire us each to rise up, move beyond silos and Co-Create a Beautiful Future. The show offers deep, insightful, unedited conversations with inspiring guests, calling forth a challenging and open ended narrative for our expanding worlds.
Amisha is an experienced facilitator and has a gift of bringing people into connection with themselves, each other and the earth. She has hosted many retreats. workshops and rituals around the world, and designed programmes including The Heart of Transformation, Wild Grace, and a five month residential fellowship in community facilitation leadership. She creates brave, tender and inclusive spaces for our hearts unfolding, healing and embrace of our wildness.
Amisha hosts the ‘all that we are’ community membership, for Creative, Connected and Courageous Living. It’s a space of care and practice – offering guidance and wisdom for embodied sacred activism, diving deeper into the themes explored in the podcast. It’s focus is on what it means to be a human at this time, a “university” fit for the 2020s which covers many of the core skills we need that are not taught in our education and cultural systems.
She also works one to one with her Leadership Mentoring programme which supports the transforming of unconscious patterning, opening up new qualities within and anchoring daily practice and rituals which support a lifestyle that recognises the sacred, the importance of intuition and creates deeper connection and embodiment of what this time calls forth in us. This is accompanied by The Beautiful Leadership Immersion which covers themes including decolonisation, vision and…
Making Love: A Podcast with Sarah Rose Bright is a podcast exploring the evolution of love, sex, relationships, and life – and the future we are co-creating. Through intimate and soulful conversations, I speak with love revolutionaries and pioneering voices – from grassroots visionaries to global leaders – who are reimagining how we connect, how we love, and how we live.
Music: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here – https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/.
In today’s episode on Feng Shui with Hay House author, Davina MacKail, we focus in on Feng Shui if you are single and want a relationship, and for couples, Feng Shui to support happy relationships and great sex.
This episode is packed full of practical tips to get you started on or deepen your Feng Shui journey. Davina has helped to Feng Shui my homes for years and each time she brings fresh perspectives and energy into my life. You might hear me laugh a little more than usual. If you saw Davina’s facial expressions, you’d understand why!!
Davina shares what Feng Shui is and why it is important, why decluttering is important and how to get started with decluttering, two great websites that make it super easy for you to sell unwanted possessions (they are much easier than listing items on eBay!), how to let go of possessions including those from ex partners, how clutter relates to a sense of safety, where the relationship area is in your house and how to find it, how Feng Shui can support you if you are single and want a relationship, for couples, how Feng Shui can help you improve your relationship and sex life, why it’s important to think ‘boudoir’ not ‘bedroom’, how children can affect sexual intimacy, tips on how to create a bedroom that supports your sleep and much more!
Davina shares:
- What Feng Shui is and why it is important
- What body dowsing is and how to do it
- Why decluttering is important and how to get started with decluttering
- Two great websites that make it super easy for you to sell unwanted possessions (they are much easier than listing items on eBay!)
- How to let go of possessions including those from ex partners
- How clutter relates to a sense of safety
- How to put intention into clearing your home
- Where the relationship area is in your house and how to find it
- Why the area opposite relationships is crucial
- How Feng Shui can support you if you are single and want a relationship
- Ways to let go of ex partners
- If you want a relationship, the problem with creating a ‘wish list’
- For couples, how Feng Shui can help you improve your relationship and sex life
- Why it’s important to think ‘boudoir’ not ‘bedroom’ and colours to enhance this
- How children can affect sexual intimacy
- Tips on how to create a bedroom that supports your sleep
Davina MacKail, Medicine Woman, Changemaker, Hay House author of Feng Shui Made Easy and The Dream Whisperer, Shamanic Seer, Mentor, Guide and Teacher, Feng Shui Maestra with over 25 years’ experience. Davina has inspired miracles of positive transformation in people’s lives from the application of feng shui and shamanic principles. A popular workshop leader and podcast guest she offers her infamous Wisdom that Works shamanic consultations to thousands of clients all over the world. Recently returned to the UK after more than two years living deep in the Peruvian Amazon caretaking 47 hectares of rainforest. Follow her adventures at IG @davinamackail. More info at www.davinamackail.com
RESOURCES FROM DAVINA
Website www.davinamackail.com
Instagram @davinamackail
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/wisdomthatworks/
Davina’s Feng Shui Made Easy book:
I’m delighted to share this conversation with one of my fave people on the planet, Steph Magenta. Steph is Breathwork Facilitator and Teacher and co-founder of Integrative Breath school of Breathwork Training, a leading breathwork school.
Steph shares all about breathwork, what it is, how she defines it, why breathwork is growing in popularity, the importance of safe practice in breathwork and what safe practice looks like, how the quality of our breathing affects our lives, the difference between mouth and nose breathing, the benefits of mouth taping and how breath and presence are the foundations of intimacy.
We also had a great chat about health and wellbeing as Steph shared her key lesson from her experience of burnout, why it’s important to taking your well being into our own hands, Steph’s journey with cold water exposure and fitness, the difference between pushing and allowing in her fitness journey, and life and more.
Steph shares:
- What breathwork is
- What conscious connected breathwork is
- Steph’s definition of breath work
- Why breath work is growing in popularity
- Why you might have a breathwork session
- The importance of safe practice in breath work and what safe practice looks like
- How the quality of our breathing affects our lives
- How breath and presence are the foundations of intimacy
- The difference between mouth and nose breathing and where they are appropriate
- The benefits of mouth taping
- Steph’s key lesson from her experience of burnout
- Why it’s important to taking your well being into our own hands
- Post menopausal wellbeing including Steph’s journey with cold water exposure and fitness
- The difference between pushing and allowing in her fitness journey, and life!
Steph Magenta is Breathwork Facilitator and Teacher, licensed bodywork therapist and shamanic practitioner. She has a background in research and development in relation to addiction and substance misuse with over two decades of work in sexual freedom activism. She is an award winning writer and blogger for sexual freedom campaigning and a presenter & curator for two ground breaking conferences in this field. She is the co-founder of Integrative Breath school of Breathwork Training which she established with her dear friend Dr Rae Reidel, a U.S based Doctor of Chiropractic and Functional Medicine.
Steph’s work has a strong focus on healing trauma using a wide range of somatic modalities, which she uses to guide each person or group she works with to rediscover a strong sense of wellbeing, purpose and vitality in life.
A mother of three grown up children, Steph is committed to raising healthy human beings who value conscious communication and integral ways of living. She has worked extensively with plant medicines, shamanism and the breath to create lifelong healing for herself and her clients.
Steph is an international retreats and events leader, one to one and group work facilitator. She is currently based in Glastonbury, UK.
RESOURCES FROM STEPH
Website http://stephmagenta.com, https://integrative-breath.com
Facebook www.facebook.com/integrativebreath
Instagram www.instagram.com/integrativebreath
Saturday morning free community breath work, online
Wow! The podcast has reached nearly 10,000 downloads and this is the 30th episode!! I am continually blown away by the feedback and every week I get comments and messages from people saying how much they are enjoying the podcast.
I wanted to do something special to celebrate so I am delighted and very excited to be sharing the 30th episode which is a conversation with my partner, Graeme Waterfield.
We have started teaching together this year, so we thought it would be fun to have a chat about intimate relationships and our experience, the beautiful parts and the not so easy stuff!
We explore how to grow a relationship from the strongest foundations, what makes for a healthy intimate relationship, relationships as a spiritual practice, the healing power of unconditional love, how to deal with ‘the crunchy bits’ – the difficult stuff, how to see your partner with fresh eyes, the importance of loving yourself within relationship, some practices that we use regularly in our relationship and much more!
We explore and share:
- Relationships as a spiritual practice
- What makes for a healthy intimate relationship
- How to grow a relationship from the strongest foundations
- What relationship yoga is
- The healing power of unconditional love
- How to clear whatever is not love
- How to deal with ‘the crunchy bits’ – the difficult stuff
- The power of the question ‘what would love do now?’
- How to see your partner with fresh eyes
- The importance of loving yourself within relationship
- Some practices that we use regularly in our relationship
- All about DEVOTION, our couples retreat in Glastonbury 17-19 February 2023
ALL ABOUT OUR COUPLES RETREAT
Our couples retreat, ‘DEVOTION: A journey into the heart of relationship’ is 17-19th February 2023 in Glastonbury. You can read all about it and book here:
https://www.taichiwithgraeme.com/devotion-retreat
Graeme Waterfield is a Yoga, Tai Chi, Qi Gung and meditation teacher, who also offers personal development mentoring & Transpersonal coaching.
Having had 30 years of experience in the fields of Qi Gung, Counselling, NLP, Past Life Regression, Tai Chi and Transpersonal Psychology, and having spent time in the Far East and received training by leading thinkers and empowerment coaches in the West, he has a deep understanding of how to integrate Eastern Philosophy and Western Psychology to assist you to maximise your own life.
He helps individuals discover and connect with the innate wisdom of their own hearts, by healing their past, empowering their present and taking back control of their future.
RESOURCES FROM GRAEME
Website www.taichiwithgraeme.com
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/graeme.waterfield
DEVOTION: A journey into the heart of relationship, our couples retreat https://www.taichiwithgraeme.com/devotion-retreat
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
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I’m super delighted to be joined by Laura McPhee. Laura is a speaker, healer, and coach who runs an international 6 figure business that supports coaches, healers, and heart-centered entrepreneurs to increase their impact and income. One of the ways she does this is through the Erotic Blueprints, which you may have seen showcased on Sex, Love and Goop. If not, check the series out on Netflix.
Laura shares all about the Erotic Blueprints including what the Erotic Blueprints are, the 5 Erotic Blueprint types and their shadows and super powers, how many people are ‘starved’ of their Erotic Blueprint, how to explore the Erotic Blueprints if you and your partner have different Erotic Blueprints, how to explore the Erotic Blueprints solo, tips on what you can do if you feel uncomfortable about your partners Erotic Blueprints, what you can do if you are nervous about sharing your Erotic Blueprint/s, how to touch yourself in each Erotic Blueprint with a live guided practice, how communication is different in each Erotic Blueprint, how it is possible to have hot sex for a lifetime, what ‘Pleasure First’ is and more!!! What are you waiting for? Enjoy!!
Laura shares:
- What are the Erotic Blueprints
- How many people are ‘starved’ of their Erotic Blueprints
- The 5 Erotic Blueprint types and their shadows and super powers
- How to explore the Erotic Blueprints if you and your partner have different Erotic Blueprints
- How to explore the Erotic Blueprints solo
- Tips on what you can do if you feel uncomfortable about your partners Erotic Blueprints
- What you can do if you are nervous about sharing your Erotic Blueprint/s
- How to touch yourself in each Erotic Blueprints
- A live guided practice to explore touching yourself in each Erotic Blueprints
- How communication is different in each Erotic Blueprints
- Yes it is possible to have hot sex for a lifetime
- What ‘Pleasure First’ is
- What it means to give from an overflowing cup
Laura McPhee is a Speaker, Healer, and Coach who runs an international 6 figure business that supports coaches, healers, and heart-centered entrepreneurs to increase their impact and income! She also empowers female leaders to serve from an overflowing cup with pleasure, joy, ease & lots of Orgasms! Laura is a ThetaHealer, Master Reiki Practitioner, Erotic Blueprints Coach who’s mentored under Jaiya for 2.5 years, is Trained in Accelerated Evolution, a Tony Robbins Mastery University Grad, Claircognizant, Empath & Reflector. In her previous career she was an Accountant with a Bachelor of Business Administration & always at the top of her class so she loves bridging the gap between the hyper masculine energy culture most women grow up in with doing the deeper divine feminine work so that women can truly BE all they feel called to be, and absolutely love their lives, work in the world & have hot sex too!
RESOURCES FROM LAURA
Take the Erotic Blueprint Quiz:https://theblueprintbreakthrough.com
Book Your Pleasured & Prosperous Soul Aligned Strategy Session:
https://CoachLauraMcPhee.as.me/PleasureProsperity
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pleasureandprosperity
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/laura.m.mcphee
Pleasure & Prosperity Podcast:
Welcome to this conversation with Janet McGeever, co-author of Tantric Sex and Menopause, a teacher of The Making Love, creator of Womantime and Psychotherapist.
Having experienced a challenging journey around sex and menopause in her 40’s, her discovery of Diana Richardson’s approach to sexuality flipped her despair to inspiration and hope. She began writing about sex and menopause in 2009 after experiencing The Making Love Retreat with Diana Richardson, which culminated in co-authoring with Diana in 2015. This began a journey of introspection and research to unearth these two taboo topics and it has become her mission to dispel the myths about menopausal women.
Janet shares what she learnt her body needed at menopause and how that differed from earlier years, why goal focused sex doesn’t work for many women especially at peri menopause and menopause, how to make love in relaxation (whether with a partner or own your own), how the breasts can activate sexual energy and how to awaken subtle awareness in the breasts, why it’s good to not focus on lack of desire (and what to focus on instead!), why is it so important for men to understand the affect menopause can have on the women in their lives, what men need to know about menopause and sex, how the conscious sex approach can help women with a range of issues and changes in their bodies such as pain during sex and reduced lubrication and why Kegel exercises are not the solution to prolapse and more!
Janet shares:
- How Janet came to write a book about tantric sex and menopause with Diana Richardson
- What Janet learnt that her body needed at menopause and how that differed from earlier years
- The role of hormones in your health and wellbeing
- The importance of oxytocin
- Why goal focused sex doesn’t work for many women especially at peri menopause and menopause
- How to make love in relaxation (whether with a partner or own your own) and how that differs from how we learn to ‘do’ sex
- The importance of transitions from our busy lives to presence and making love
- How the breasts can activate sexual energy and how to awaken subtle awareness in the breasts
- Why it’s good to not focus on lack of desire, and what to focus on instead
- Why is it so important for men to understand the affect menopause can have on the women in their lives
- What men need to know about menopause and sex
- Why changes in sex at menopause is an opportunity for both partners to step beyond sexual conditioning and experiment with different and deeper ways to create pleasure – its not just about the female partner who wants changes
- How the conscious sex approach can help women with a range of issues and changes in their bodies from lack of desire, pain during sex, reduced lubrication and the thinning of their vaginal walls
- Healing from prolapse and why Kegel exercises are not the solution
Janet is co-author of Tantric Sex and Menopause, has taught The Making Love Retreat in Australia since 2012, and is creator of Womantime, Ancient Wisdom for the Modern Day Woman. As a Psychotherapist, she has supported couples for over 20 years in private practice to connect more deeply in their intimate relationships. Having experienced a challenging journey around sex and menopause in her 40’s, her discovery of Diana Richardson’s approach to sexuality flipped her despair to inspiration and hope. She began writing about sex and menopause in 2009 after experiencing The Making Love Retreat with Diana Richardson, which culminated in co-authoring with Diana in 2015. This began a journey of introspection and research to unearth these two taboo topics. Her mission became to dispel the myth of the menopausal woman – that she is not broken, that this is not the end. In fact it is potentially the beginning of the most sensual time of a woman’s…
I’m very happy to share this conversation with Jade Lotus of the Art of the Bedchamber. I love the Taoist sexual arts. I have studied and explored these deeply and continue to do so, so it was a real pleasure to chat with Jade about this. I feel we have only just got started! Jade shares why there is a big lack of understanding about sex and sexual energy and how this affects people, the Taoist approach to sexuality, the power of sexual energy for healing, what the arts of the bed chamber are, how sexual energy is an amplifier, how your emotions affect sex, what sexual reflexology is, how to practice Taoist arts safely, the difference between healthy and unhealthy polarity teachings, the benefits of both shallow and deep penetration and more! Did you know the vagina has a suck reflex that you can activate? Listen to find out more.
Jade shares:
- Why there is a big lack of understanding about sex and sexual energy and how this affects people
- The Taoist approach to sexuality
- Her definition of sexual energy and how it can be platonic
- How Taoists harvest their hormones
- The power of sexual energy for healing and getting to know more of who you are
- What the arts of the bed chamber are
- How sexual energy is an amplifier
- How you learn to repress your feelings and emotions
- How your emotions effect sex
- What sexual reflexology is
- The suck reflex of the vagina
- The Taoist inner smile practice – an opportunity to join Jade in the practice
- How to practice Taoist arts safely
- The difference between healthy and unhealthy polarity teachings
- The benefits of both shallow and deep penetration
- Why sexual arousal takes time
Jade Lotus is a Tantra Educator And Teacher Of The Taoist Sexual Arts. Her job and passion is to help people to come into their sexual power. She has worked with thousands of men, women and couples to help them to overcome their blockages to sexual fulfulment. She is a certified Tantric Therapist and an Instructor of the Universal Healing Tao. She also has a degree in Chinese Medicine as well as having studied many modalities of bodywork and massage.
RESOURCES FROM JADE
Website https://theartofthebedchamber.com
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/lotusfloweralchemy
Twitter https://twitter.com/TBedchamber
Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvswAOH1u39DdflAYk2NfqQ
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/theartofthebedchamber/
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
Breast massage for self love, a guided audio practice
https://www.sarahrosebright.co.uk/breast-massage-gift/
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Ignite Your Sexuality, a 10 module self
Welcome to this episode with the wonderful Kalindi Jordan, an inspirational group facilitator and therapist, who works in the field of intimacy coaching, sexual healing, conscious relationships and transforming sexuality into spirituality.
Kalindi shares why your sexual ancestry may be relevant to your sexuality and relationships today, what dearmouring is and why is it important to awaken your sexual energy, how you can explore dearmouring as an individual and in partnership,
why self pleasure is a practice of self worth, how you can either start a self pleasuring practice or expand an existing one, the difference between sex and heart energy, why you might distrust your sexual energy and how you can start to heal that and why and how to listen to the wisdom of your body and more. Enjoy!!
Kalindi shares:
- What sexual healing is and the many layers of your being and life that impact your sexuality
- Why your sexual ancestry may be relevant to your sexuality and relationships today
- What dearmouring is and why is it important to awaken your sexual energy
- How you can explore dearmouring as an individual and in partnership and the importance of internal dearmouring
- Why self pleasure is a practice of self worth
- How you can either start a self pleasuring practice or expand an existing one
- How to break out of habits and explore your whole body
- Her reflection on who your sexual energy is for
- The difference between sex and heart energy
- Why you might distrust your sexual energy and how you can start to heal that
- Connecting your pelvis to your heart
- Why and how to listen to the wisdom of your body
Kalindi Jordan is an inspirational group facilitator and therapist, who works in the field of intimacy coaching, sexual healing, conscious relationships and transforming sexuality into spirituality.
She is an Alchemist of touch: unlocking the body and mind, creating flow and facilitating change. Bringing the understanding of how to use sexual energy to stay vibrant and healthy.
RESOURCES FROM KALINDI
Website www.kalindijordan.com
A Vital Core Meditation practice free video that energises the core energy centres of the body.
https://kalindijordan.podia.com/vital-core-meditation
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
Sign up to Sarah’s newsletter so you can find out about the latest podcast episode and get pleasure mapping, a guided audio practice
https://www.sarahrosebright.co.uk/guided-pleasure-mapping/
Book a free consultation with Sarah https://calendly.com/sarahrosebright
Ignite Your Sexuality, a 10 module self study course for women
https://www.sarahrosebright.co.uk/an-online-course-for-women/
Find Sarah online
Website www.sarahrosebright.com
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sarahrosebright/
I am very excited to share this interview with Tamra Mercieca, Self-Love Therapist, Yoga Teacher and Writer and founder of the online school Getting Naked which includes Yoga for the Vagina: A restorative yoga practice that uses the Jade Egg to heal the sexual organs, release sexual trauma and awaken the body to pleasure.
Tamra lives and breathes what she teaches and she shares her wisdom from healing from depression, her beautiful definition of self love, how you can use your triggers as places for healing, how to consciously track and work with your beliefs, the key in her journey from unhealthy relationships to finding her husband, why self love is foundational for thriving intimate relationship, the importance of pelvic health, how the jade egg is a tool for pelvic healing, how to start a jade egg practice safely, the risks of vaginal weight lifting, what pelvic steaming is, the benefits and how do do it safely and how tampons and moon cups can trigger the body to produce more blood resulting in heavier periods and more!
Tamra shares:
- Her story of healing from depression and her wisdom to anyone experiencing depression
- How you take on beliefs about yourself between the ages of 0 – 7
- Her beautiful definition of self love
- How you can use your triggers as places for healing
- The key in her journey from unhealthy relationships to finding her husband
- Why couples struggle
- Why self love is foundational for thriving intimate relationship
- Why it’s important to take time to listen to yourself
- How to consciously track and work with your beliefs
- The difference between ‘pelvic harmony’ and ‘pelvic disharmony’
- How to create a relationship with your pelvis
- How the jade egg is a tool for pelvic healing
- How to start a jade egg practice safely
- The risks of vaginal weight lifting
- The way to breathe to prevent tension in your pelvic floor / diaphragm
- What pelvic steaming is, the benefits and how do do it safely
- How your menstrual cycle is a barometer of your overall health
- How tampons and moon cups can trigger the body to produce more blood resulting in heavier periods
Tamra Mercieca is in love with love stories. Real life love stories. She finds no greater joy than in helping people strip off their layers of childhood conditioning so they can fall in love with themselves. This is what inspired Tamra to launch her online school Getting Naked back in 2011, where you’ll find stacks of free resources, hundreds of blogs, her two books – yes, she LOVES to write – as well as a boutique of guided programs to help you live happily right now.
If you need a title, Tamra is a Self-Love Therapist, Yoga Teacher and Writer, trained in well over a dozen healing modalities, with a special interest in Mental Health and Women’s Health. It was after healing herself of pre-cancerous cells in her cervix, that Tamra was inspired to create Yoga for the Vagina: A restorative yoga practice that uses the Jade Egg to heal the sexual organs, release sexual trauma and awaken the body to pleasure.
Tamra has been interviewed on HayHouse Radio, a raft of TV shows, has featured in over a dozen mainstream magazines and newspapers worldwide, and can often be seen delivering heart-felt talks at festivals around Australia. She recently moved to Adelaide Australia, after spending three years abroad in France and the UK. When she’s not ‘getting naked’, she’s exploring life with her four-year-old, swing dancing with her husband or sipping tea in some beautiful forest.
RESOURCES FROM TAMRA
Websites :
Welcome to this conversation with Janet McGeever, co-author of Tantric Sex and Menopause, a teacher of The Making Love, creator of Womantime and Psychotherapist.
Having experienced a challenging journey around sex and menopause in her 40’s, her discovery of Diana Richardson’s approach to sexuality flipped her despair to inspiration and hope. She began writing about sex and menopause in 2009 after experiencing The Making Love Retreat with Diana Richardson, which culminated in co-authoring with Diana in 2015. This began a journey of introspection and research to unearth these two taboo topics and it has become her mission to dispel the myths about menopausal women.
Janet shares what she learnt her body needed at menopause and how that differed from earlier years, why goal focused sex doesn’t work for many women especially at peri menopause and menopause, how to make love in relaxation (whether with a partner or own your own), how the breasts can activate sexual energy and how to awaken subtle awareness in the breasts, why it’s good to not focus on lack of desire (and what to focus on instead!), why is it so important for men to understand the affect menopause can have on the women in their lives, what men need to know about menopause and sex, how the conscious sex approach can help women with a range of issues and changes in their bodies such as pain during sex and reduced lubrication and why Kegel exercises are not the solution to prolapse and more!
Janet shares:
- How Janet came to write a book about tantric sex and menopause with Diana Richardson
- What Janet learnt that her body needed at menopause and how that differed from earlier years
- The role of hormones in your health and wellbeing
- The importance of oxytocin
- Why goal focused sex doesn’t work for many women especially at peri menopause and menopause
- How to make love in relaxation (whether with a partner or own your own) and how that differs from how we learn to ‘do’ sex
- The importance of transitions from our busy lives to presence and making love
- How the breasts can activate sexual energy and how to awaken subtle awareness in the breasts
- Why it’s good to not focus on lack of desire, and what to focus on instead
- Why is it so important for men to understand the affect menopause can have on the women in their lives
- What men need to know about menopause and sex
- Why changes in sex at menopause is an opportunity for both partners to step beyond sexual conditioning and experiment with different and deeper ways to create pleasure – its not just about the female partner who wants changes
- How the conscious sex approach can help women with a range of issues and changes in their bodies from lack of desire, pain during sex, reduced lubrication and the thinning of their vaginal walls
- Healing from prolapse and why Kegel exercises are not the solution
Janet is co-author of Tantric Sex and Menopause, has taught The Making Love Retreat in Australia since 2012, and is creator of Womantime, Ancient Wisdom for the Modern Day Woman. As a Psychotherapist, she has supported couples for over 20 years in private practice to connect more deeply in their intimate relationships. Having experienced a challenging journey around sex and menopause in her 40’s, her discovery of Diana Richardson’s approach to sexuality flipped her despair to inspiration and hope. She began writing about sex and menopause in 2009 after experiencing The Making Love Retreat with Diana Richardson, which culminated in co-authoring with Diana in 2015. This began a journey of introspection and research to unearth these two taboo topics. Her mission became to dispel the myth of the menopausal woman – that she is not broken, that this is not the end. In fact it is potentially the beginning of the most sensual time of a woman’s…
Today I’m delighted to share this powerful conversation with Christiane Pelmas. I see Christiane as a wise woman and elder and she works as a mentor and guide with women and women’s communities. I deeply value Christiane’s grounded wisdom and the medicine she brings. We covered so much rich territory and I could have gone on for hours! Christiane shares her story of ‘eldering’ and how life in her 50s keeps getting better, reframing orgasm as a ‘threshold’ rather than a full stop, self pleasure as a place to alchemise feelings and emotions, the difference between ‘sexual’ and ‘erotic’, the story of Eros, what women’s community needs to thrive (this one surprised me!), what ‘feminine leadership’ is, how to thrive in the ‘tension’ of current times, listening to how you can meaningfully participate in life at this time and the complexity of the nervous system in consent and why statements like “even a ‘maybe’ is a ‘no’!” don’t work. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.
Christiane shares:
- Her story of ‘eldering’ and how her life is changing in her 50s
- Reframing orgasm as a ‘threshold’ rather than a full stop
- A glimpse of the space beyond the ‘threshold’ and ways to explore this space
- Decolonising orgasm – reclaiming your pleasure
- Self pleasure as a place to alchemise feelings and emotions and experience wellness
- The difference between ‘sexual’ and ‘erotic’ and why its important not to conflate them
- The story of Eros
- What Eros is
- The difference between life force and Eros
- What women’s community needs to thrive – this one surprised me!
- How ‘conflict’ can be generative
- Redefining leadership
- What ‘feminine leadership’ is
- How to thrive in the ‘tension’ of current times
- Listening to how you can meaningfully participate in life at this time
- The complexity of the nervous system in consent and why statements like “even a ‘maybe’ is a ‘no’!” don’t work
- How women become more invisible at menopause and the liberation Christiane found from this
- Being in the mystery of menopause
Christiane is a former therapist now a mentor/guide/supervisor and ancestral healing practitioner, specifically working with women, tending to women’s community, working at the intersection of erotic intelligence, female embodiment, trauma, and leadership in a time of ecological and societal collapse. She is mother to two wonderful young men, a partner, an avid gardener, and writer.
RESOURCES FROM CHRISTIANE
Website – www.christianepelmas.com
Christiane is offering two courses this Fall:
“Weaving In The Dark, an online course for women leaders”
Weaving In The Dark: https://www.onewoman.org/weaving-in-the-dark
“Reweaving Women’s Community” also an online course teaching women how to start and sustain vibrant women’s groups and community.
Reweaving Women’s Community: https://www.onewoman.org/reweaving-online-womens-groups
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
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Welcome to this episode with the wonderful Kalindi Jordan, an inspirational group facilitator and therapist, who works in the field of intimacy coaching, sexual healing, conscious relationships and transforming sexuality into spirituality.
Kalindi shares why your sexual ancestry may be relevant to your sexuality and relationships today, what dearmouring is and why is it important to awaken your sexual energy, how you can explore dearmouring as an individual and in partnership,
why self pleasure is a practice of self worth, how you can either start a self pleasuring practice or expand an existing one, the difference between sex and heart energy, why you might distrust your sexual energy and how you can start to heal that and why and how to listen to the wisdom of your body and more. Enjoy!!
Kalindi shares:
- What sexual healing is and the many layers of your being and life that impact your sexuality
- Why your sexual ancestry may be relevant to your sexuality and relationships today
- What dearmouring is and why is it important to awaken your sexual energy
- How you can explore dearmouring as an individual and in partnership and the importance of internal dearmouring
- Why self pleasure is a practice of self worth
- How you can either start a self pleasuring practice or expand an existing one
- How to break out of habits and explore your whole body
- Her reflection on who your sexual energy is for
- The difference between sex and heart energy
- Why you might distrust your sexual energy and how you can start to heal that
- Connecting your pelvis to your heart
- Why and how to listen to the wisdom of your body
Kalindi Jordan is an inspirational group facilitator and therapist, who works in the field of intimacy coaching, sexual healing, conscious relationships and transforming sexuality into spirituality.
She is an Alchemist of touch: unlocking the body and mind, creating flow and facilitating change. Bringing the understanding of how to use sexual energy to stay vibrant and healthy.
RESOURCES FROM KALINDI
Website www.kalindijordan.com
A Vital Core Meditation practice free video that energises the core energy centres of the body.
https://kalindijordan.podia.com/vital-core-meditation
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
Sign up to Sarah’s newsletter so you can find out about the latest podcast episode and get pleasure mapping, a guided audio practice
https://www.sarahrosebright.co.uk/guided-pleasure-mapping/
Book a free consultation with Sarah https://calendly.com/sarahrosebright
Ignite Your Sexuality, a 10 module self study course for women
https://www.sarahrosebright.co.uk/an-online-course-for-women/
Find Sarah online
Website www.sarahrosebright.com
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sarahrosebright/
In this episode Susanne McKenna, founder of Happy Breast Balm, shares about breast health. Happy Breast Balm is a beautiful product, born out of Sue’s experience of healing breast cancer and she shares her story, the benefits of breast massage, why dry skin brushing helps the lymphatic system and breast health, how your thoughts affect your health, her recipe for health and she is the first person to sing on my podcast sharing a verse of one of her ‘greatest tits’!
Sue shares:
- How she healed herself of breast cancer
- The benefits of breast massage
- Her massage mantra
- Why dry skin brushing helps the lymphatic system and breast health
- About the Happy Breast Balm
- How the balm can be used by men
- How your thoughts affect your health
- Her recipe for health
- The importance of using natural deodorants
- A verse of one of her ‘greatest tits’
Susanne was born and raised in England and after travelling the world she settled in Australia in her mid 20’s. She lost her mother to breast cancer when she was 13 and has always been into healthy living as a result. After dealing with breast cancer herself in her 40’s using natural therapies, she realised there is a huge gaping hole where breast care should be . We have products and protocols for every other part of the body right! She began her journey with the help of professionals to formulate and create a balm and a routine to inspire women to take the health of their breasts into their own hands.
RESOURCES FROM SUE
Website: https://breastbalm.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/happybreastbalm/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/happybreastbalm/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/happybreastbalm1/
Use the code sexxylife for 20% of the breast balm kit. The 20% discount available on breast balm and the breast balm kit only, available until end of September 2022
https://breastbalm.com/product/happy-breast-balm-starter-gift-pack/
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
Breast massage for self love, a guided audio practice. Sign up to Sarah’s newsletter for the gift:
https://www.sarahrosebright.co.uk/breast-massage-gift/
Laura Dodsworth’s book, sharing the pictures and stories of 100 women’s breasts
https://www.lauradodsworth.com/bare-reality-photography/
Book a free consultation with Sarah https://calendly.com/sarahrosebright
Ignite Your Sexuality, a 10 module self study course for women
https://www.sarahrosebright.co.uk/an-online-course-for-women/
Find Sarah online
Website www.sarahrosebright.com
Susan Coates is a Sex & Relationship Coach in Denver who has dedicated her last 20 years to coaching and empowering individuals and people in relationships to move through their challenges and create the most sustainable intimate relationships and empowered sex lives possible.
Grounded, passionate and playful, Susan shares wisdom on how to access the intelligence of the body, how to discover your boundaries her unique take on consent – ‘hot consent’, the impact of the #Metoo movement and consent on men, her message for men on how to engage in consent, the mixed messages women receive about being sexual, how to find a relationship structure that works with your reality and how you are, how to court your ‘inner partner’ and cultivate self love, self worth as resilience, her exploration with burlesque as part of her menopause journey, the value of staying in curiosity and discovery during peri menopause and menopause and more!
Susan shares:
- Her ‘sex education’ style upbringing as the daughter of a sex therapist
- How the body never lies
- How to access body wisdom
- What she learnt about intimacy through Capoeira
- How to discover your boundaries
- Her unique take on consent – ‘hot consent’
- The impact of the #Metoo movement and consent on men
- Her message for men on how to engage in consent
- The importance of repair conversations
- The mixed messages women receive about being sexual
- How to find a relationship structure that works with your reality and how you are
- How to create an unconventional life that fits your desires
- Her view on what self love is
- How to court your ‘inner partner’ and cultivate self love
- The important of self worth
- Self worth as resilience
- Wisdom from her menopause journey
- The value of staying in curiosity and discovery during peri menopause and menopause
- Her exploration with burlesque as part of her menopause journey
Susan Coates is a Sex & Relationship Coach in Denver who has dedicated her last 20 years to coaching and empowering individuals and people in relationships to move through their challenges and create the most sustainable intimate relationships and empowered sex lives possible. Susan has an M.A. and is a certified Somatica® Sex and Relationship Coach and Faculty Member at the Somatica Institute® (Berkeley, CA), and sees clients online and in her Denver home office.
RESOURCES FROM SUSAN
Website: www.susancoatescoaching.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SusanCoatesCoaching
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/susancoatescoaching/
TikTok: @susanthesexcoach
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
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https://www.sarahrosebright.co.uk/guided-pleasure-mapping/
Book a free consultation with Sarah https://calendly.com/sarahrosebright
Ignite Your Sexuality, a 10 module self study course for women
I’m delighted to share this conversation with trauma coach and educator, Catherine Hale.
Trauma is such an important topic as it affects so many people. We cover so much including Catherine’s definition of trauma, what the nervous system is, what a resilient nervous system looks like, the first steps you can take for healing trauma, why the gentle way is the sustainable route to healing trauma, how to learn to get your needs met, how to establish healthy boundaries, how to find the type of rest that is right for you, how to unlock shame, essential foundations for a thriving sex life, Catherine’s post-menopausal wisdom for women who are still menstruating and much more.
Catherine shares:
- Her definition of trauma
- What the nervous system is and how it can respond to life
- What a resilient nervous system looks like and how to increase resilience
- What the ‘window of tolerance’ is and why it is important
- First steps you can take for healing trauma
- Why the gentle way is the sustainable route to healing trauma
- How to learn to get your needs met
- How to establish healthy boundaries
- Things to look out for when finding groups to explore your sexuality
- Why rest can feel threatening to your nervous system
- What ‘active’ rest is
- Wisdom from a post-menopausal woman for who are still menstruating
- Essential foundations for a thriving sex life
- How to unlock shame
- The difference between hyper and hypo sexuality
- One of Catherine’s favourite practices for regulating your nervous system
Catherine Hale is an embodied trauma coach, educator and guide specialising in sex, love, and business who believes in the power of post-traumatic growth. A heartfelt entrepreneur, Catherine is the creator of the Thrive in Life Coaching Program, which has supported 100’s of courageous people to shift from surviving to Thriving in their lives. Her Thrive in Business Coaching Program is for heart centred coaches and entrepreneurs wanting to Thrive in Business and to dedicate their lives to create positive and sustainable change in the world.
Her successful Trauma Awareness Training has been taken by participants in over 15 countries worldwide and continues to bridge the gap in the therapeutic community – offering trauma informed practices and perspectives where previously absent.
She is passionate about shifting the experience of menopause into one that’s culturally held knowing that we need to address this shift from both a personal and systemic perspective.
As a qualified trauma coach, sexological bodyworker, Trauma Release Exercises practitioner, and post-menopausal woman she writes a about a range of topics through the trauma informed lens: sex, love, relationships, menopause, women’s pelvic health, and post traumatic growth.
With a life long passion for the natural world she lives in Devon, UK by the river Dart with her cat Simba and can be found deepening her connection to nature while exploring ancient pathways in Dartmoor National Park.
RESOURCES FROM CATHERINE
Find Catherine online
Instagram – catherinehaleuk
Website – https://catherinehale.co.uk/
Email – catherine@catherinehale.co.uk
Catherine’s 1:1 sessions to support people with trauma Thrive in their life, including their sexuality
Thrive in Life: https://catherinehale.co.uk/coaching-program/
Thrive in Business:
I love this conversation with Tobin Zivon, who has been nick-named the “couple’s whisperer.” I did some 1-1 sessions with Tobin when I was hunting to find out why my intimate relationships never worked. Working with Tobin was a crucial piece in my healing jigsaw and I’m excited to share with you his wisdom, sensitivity, humour and passion.
In this rich conversation we explore the territory of intimate relationships, including why relating can be so challenging, the patterns that kill relationships, ways to deal with charged emotions and triggers, what to do when you are stuck in the dynamic where one partner wants deeper intimacy and the other doesn’t want to or doesn’t know how to, what makes for a thriving relationship and how to grow more of the good stuff, powerful questions to invite vulnerability and connection, what Tantra is, how to explore a deeper quality of sexual intimacy and listen to the end and you get an opportunity to practice tantra as you listen to the podcast, as Tobin guides you in a beautiful practice.
If you are wondering why you are stuck in certain patterns around relationships or curious about what it takes for a relationship to thrive, this conversation has gems that are for you whether you are single, dating or in a relationship.
- Why relating can be so challenging for people
- How our wounds meet with another
- What the ‘bandwidth of familiarity’ is, how you can get stuck there and how to move out of it
- The patterns that kill relationships
- Ways to deal with charged emotions and triggers
- What to do when you are stuck in the dynamic where one partner wants deeper intimacy and the other doesn’t want to or doesn’t know how to
- The limits of non violent communication
- Why its important to take responsibility for what’s not working in your relationship
- Why its important to have a guide to support you in your relationship
- What makes for a thriving relationship and how to grow more of the good stuff
- Powerful questions to invite vulnerability and connection
- What Tantra is
- How we are designed to be tantric beings
- How to explore a deeper quality of sexual intimacy
- Listen to the end where you get an opportunity to practice tantra as you listen to the podcast, as Tobin guides you in a beautiful practice.
Tobin Zivon has been wholeheartedly dedicated to spiritual awakening and to serving others in the flowering of their highest potential for over 30 years. Author of books “The Art of Mindful Living” and the forthcoming “Allies in Awakening: Living the Truth of Unconditional Love in Intimate Relationships,” he has been described as “The Ultimate Guide… A rare, exquisite blend of Therapist, Coach, Spiritual Teacher and Tantra Master all wrapped into one.”
He has worked with thousands of individuals and couples to help them break through stuck patterns and painful dynamics, helping them to find their way into a more fulfilling and connected life of authentic liberation, love and relationship satisfaction.
RESOURCES FROM TOBIN
On Tobin’s website you can download a free e-book, Emotional Alchemy and find details about his private work and online courses:
Find Tobin on Facebook and message him to join his group, The Art of Awakened Relationship
https://www.facebook.com/tobin.giblin
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
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I am excited to share this conversation with orgasm expert and pleasure nerd, Mangala Holland. Mangala shares her definition of orgasms and how it differs from mainstream understanding, the difference between orgasms and orgasmic states, the different types of orgasms, why it’s important to listen to what is true for you and what your body tells you and why the steady, slow and gentle approach is the way to building your pleasure capacity. Mangala is vocal about abuse and manipulation in spiritual and sex positive communities and she shares her wisdom on how to find workshops that are trauma informed and the red flags to look out for. And as two women in the midst of peri-menopause we had a great conversation about sex and pleasure at this time of life. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.
Mangala shares:
- What Orgasmic Confidence is
- Mangala’s definition of orgasms
- The difference between orgasms and orgasmic states
- The different types of orgasms
- The paradox of not focusing on the goal of orgasm is the way to experiencing one
- Why it’s important to listen to what is true for you and what your body tells you
- Why the steady, slow and gentle approach is the way to building your pleasure capacity
- Mangala’s view on vibrators
- Why pleasure is important
- How to choose Tantra and sex positive workshops and what to look out for
- The difference between Neo-tantra and classical tantra
- What fierce self love is
- The impact of the last two years on pleasure, intimacy and life
- How to start to put yourself first
- Relearning and reclaiming pleasure at peri menopause/menopause
Mangala is a Women’s Empowerment and Sexuality coach, and facilitator of global group programs. She’s on a mission to help women and pussy-owners become empowered through loving themselves fiercely, celebrating their sexuality, and overcoming the fear, guilt and shame that keeps them playing small.
Having over a decade’s experience in the industry, her super power is helping women and vulva owners become deeply connected to their body, pleasure and orgasmic confidence, which is the natural birthright of everyone.
She’s currently training the next generation of Embodied Female Pleasure facilitators and places a strong emphasis on self-love, embodiment and empowerment in her work, teaching in a no-bullshit, fluff-free, grounded, dogma-free style.
RESOURCES FROM MANGALA
For a free 3 part video series ‘From Shut Down to Sensual Satisfaction’, visit Mangala’s website where you can also find out details of her 1-1 coaching, group coaching programme and her facilitator training
And you can find Mangala on :
Facebook business page:
https://www.facebook.com/mangalatantrika
Facebook personal page:
https://www.facebook.com/steph.holland.5/
https://www.instagram.com/mangalaholland/
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
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I’m excited to share my conversation with master coach and Human Design expert Emma Dunwoody. Emma shares the magic of Human Design, an illuminating and profound system which I love. It provides a map to your unique blueprint and supports you to live in alignment with your natural energy and gifts. In this episode, Emma introduces the three fundamental concepts of Human Design.
Emma shares:
- The three core fundamentals of Human Design – type, strategy and authority
- How Human Design can set you free from your conditioning and provides a map to celebrate your gifts and see the magnificent truth of who you are
- How Emma lives a sexy life
Emma has been studying human behaviour for 17 years. She is a trained Master Coach & accredited Meta Dynamics, eDISC and Human Design Transformational Coach. Emma has coached 1,000’s of client’s own their power, expand their confidence and discover their true authenticity.
RESOURCES FROM EMMA
Website: https://www.emmadunwoody.com
Instagram @the_human_design_coach
Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/285696835929546/
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-human-design-podcast/id1467241622
HD 101 new program
https://www.emmadunwoody.com/offers/FRzDUata/checkout
https://drive.google.com/open?id=17_xbMk79x5qgOA_0Ilkyv9tVPsxY_1vS
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
Sign up to Sarah’s newsletter for pleasure mapping, a free guided practice
https://www.sarahrosebright.co.uk/guided-pleasure-mapping/
Book a free consultation with Sarah https://calendly.com/sarahrosebright
Ignite Your Sexuality, a 10 module self study course for women
https://www.sarahrosebright.co.uk/an-online-course-for-women/
Find Sarah online
Website www.sarahrosebright.com
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sarahrosebright/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/sarahrosebrightsexcoach
Youtube http://youtube.com/c/sarahrosebright
Spotify for some playlists https://open.spotify.com/user/dog9xui4wwpjatvbnpb2t7l3y?si=jnc_V6wxSCqaqr3UhNgD6Q
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Your podcast host, Sarah Rose Bright is a Sex & Intimacy coach and the creator of Intimate Sexuality. Sarah is on a mission to help women and couples to love and celebrate their sexuality, create healthy and happy intimate…
I wanted to include burnout as it’s such an important topic that affects so many.
Clients contact me wondering why they don’t desire sex and when I hear how stressed and exhausted they are, no wonder they don’t feel like sex!
I loved this conversation with Jolinda who specialises in burnout and perimenopause though this conversation is relevant to all ages. Jolinda shares her definition of burnout and how it differs from the mainstream definition, how to spot the early warning signs of burnout, the 4 stages of burnout and some practical advice on burnout recovery. We also talk about how burnout affects sex, burnout at peri menopause and Jolinda’s take on menopause. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.
Jolinda shares:
- The shadow of the wellness industry
- Why it’s important to advocate for your own health and wellness
- The 4 stages of burnout
- What dysregulated cortisol is
- Jolinda’s definition of burnout and how it differs to the World Health Organisation definition
- How burnout affects sex and desire
- The societal messages and structures that contribute to burnout
- How you can burnout doing the things you love
- How to start burnout recovery
- Exercise and burnout recovery
- The early warning signs of burnout
- The importance of boundaries and self compassion
- The gifts of midlife
Jolinda Johnson (M.S.Ed., CHHC) is an award-winning Certified Life Coach and Holistic Health Coach who specializes in burnout and perimenopause. She’s obsessed with helping changemakers and revolutionaries get back their spark so they can go set the world on fire. She wants to change the narrative around perimenopause and give attention to the voices that are typically left out of the conversation, including BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and people under 45.
She is a sought after guest on podcasts, has been featured on the cover of Inspired Coach magazine, and was the recipient of the Beautiful You Coaching Academy CEO Shine Award in 2021. She’s also taken to the stage as a motivational speaker for other life coaches and can be found on the popular website Healthline.
RESOURCES FROM JOLINDA
Website www.jolindajohnson.com
Instagram www.instagram.com/coachjolinda
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
Sign up to Sarah’s newsletter for pleasure mapping, a free guided practice
https://www.sarahrosebright.co.uk/guided-pleasure-mapping/
Book a free consultation with Sarah https://calendly.com/sarahrosebright
Ignite Your Sexuality, a 10 module self study course for women
https://www.sarahrosebright.co.uk/an-online-course-for-women/
Find Sarah online
Website www.sarahrosebright.com
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sarahrosebright/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/sarahrosebrightsexcoach
Youtube
Today I’m excited to share my conversation with friend and colleague, Kate Lambert. Kate shares the story of how her relationship transformed from rock bottom to deep intimacy and a number of keys that have helped her and her partner along the way. Whether you are looking to revitalise your connection, you’re curious to learn new ways to deepen your connection or you wonder what healthy relating looks like, there are treasures here for you. Enjoy!
Kate shares:
- Her personal story of how her long term relationship transformed
- What anxious and avoidant attachment styles are
- What minimisers and maximisers are in relationship
- What Imago Therapy is
- The importance of safety in relationship
- What makes a healthy relationship
- The value of appreciating your partner
- Simple practices to connect with your partner
- Creating a vision for your relationship
- Rituals for relationship
Kate is a love, sex and relationship coach trained with The Tantric Institute of Integrated Sexuality. She is also an imago couples facilitator helping relationships to regain love, intimacy and connection.
She is female empowerer and women’s sexual liberation expert working to sexually empower women everywhere helping them to reconnect to their sexuality and pleasure and reclaim their inner power source aka their own sexual energy energy!!
RESOURCES FROM KATE
Find Kate online
insta: @sistercircletemple
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sistercircleinnertemple
Free 30 min discovery call with Kate.
https://kate-lambert-love-sex-relationships.mykajabi.com/union
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
Sign up to Sarah’s newsletter for pleasure mapping, a free guided practice
https://www.sarahrosebright.co.uk/guided-pleasure-mapping/
Book a free consultation with Sarah https://calendly.com/sarahrosebright
Ignite Your Sexuality, a 10 module self study course for women
https://www.sarahrosebright.co.uk/an-online-course-for-women/
Find Sarah online
Website www.sarahrosebright.com
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sarahrosebright/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/sarahrosebrightsexcoach
Youtube http://youtube.com/c/sarahrosebright
Spotify for some playlists https://open.spotify.com/user/dog9xui4wwpjatvbnpb2t7l3y?si=jnc_V6wxSCqaqr3UhNgD6Q
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Your podcast host, Sarah Rose Bright is a Sex & Intimacy coach and the creator of Intimate Sexuality. Sarah is on a mission to help women and couples to love and celebrate their sexuality, create healthy and happy…
