Sexuality and Somatics: A WHOLE-Self Approach to healing

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Sexuality & Somatics

Somatics is the intuitive relationship between one’s mind, body, energy, and spirit. Being somatic is being connected to wholeness or one’s WHOLE-Self.​ Additionally, somatics is a wellness approach that incorporates mind, body, energy, and spirit into daily self-care practices. Sexology is the scientific study of human sexuality, including human sexual interests, behaviors, and functions informed by one's WHOLE-Self.  Somatic intelligence refers to the ability to intuitively connect and integrate the mind, body, and energy in a way that fosters self-awareness, emotional regulation, and well-being. It involves recognizing and responding to the body’s signals, sensations, and energy flows to make decisions that support physical and emotional health. In the context of sexuality, somatic intelligence helps individuals enhance their awareness of pleasure, boundaries, and sexual identity by tuning into how their body communicates through sensation and movement. 

Journey Wellness (JW) offers a WHOLE-Self somatic healing to understanding and experiencing pleasure-affirming sexuality by integrating decolonial trauma-informed somatic practices with sexology. With JW, clients will explore the WHOLE-Self interconnectedness of mind, body, energy, & spirit in the context of sexual pleasure, sexual healing, and sexual wellness. Moving from trauma-narrative to healing narrative, clients will learn practical somatic tools to enhance their understanding and experience of their sexuality from a place of embodied safety and self-trust. Additionally, Journey Wellness provides professional learning intensives and continuing education in the areas of sexuality and somatics.

Healing & Learning Intensives include:

1. Understanding the Mind-Body Connection in Sexuality: Explore how somatic awareness can deepen your understanding of your own and others' sexual knowledge and experiences.
2. Applying Somatic Practices for Sexual Wellbeing: Learn decolonial somatic techniques and practices to increase pleasure, reduce stress, and enhance intimacy.
3. Integrating Somatic Sexology into Sex Education: Discuss how somatic principles can be integrated into their understanding of comprehensive sex education to promote sex-positive beliefs, attitudes, behaviors, and self-image towards sexuality.
4. Developing a Sexual Healing Practice: Informed by the Polyvagal Theory of self-regulation, trust, and co-regulation, clients will develop an empowered presence practice through the use of their erotic energy. 
5. Building Empathy and Connection: Discover how somatic practices can enhance empathy and connection in both personal and professional relationships.

Integrative Somatic Sex Therapy & Approach (I-SST)

Integrative Somatic Sex Therapy & Approach (I-SST) is a 4-module contemporary sexological practice which combines principles of comprehensive sexuality education, healing justice, somatic psychology, integrative psychotherapy, decolonial sexoloigcal research, somatic sex education, sexological bodywork, neuroplasticity and emotional, erotic, and somatic intelligences, in addition to, indigenous healing arts, and Audre Lorde’s Uses of the Erotic. As a healing-centered, pleasure-affirming, sexuality-inclusive, sexual liberation framework, I-SST provides a wholistic framework and system of care that supports one’s sexual healing, enhances sexual well-being, and empowers one's sexual and non-sexual relationship to pleasure, power, and pain (i.e. The Erotic Self). Unlike traditional and most contemporary sex therapy of PLISSIT & EX-PLISSIT, I-SST centers the erotic lived experience and erotic embodiment of marginalized lived experiences & emphasizes integrative and somatic care practices informed by indigenous and ancestral healing arts.

Erotic Intelligence, Sexual Pleasure, and WHOLE-Self Health:

• Improve your relationship to consent, desires, pleasure, intuition, through non-touch sexual and non-sexual somatic practices and healing strategies. This relationship is your erotic intelligence and the journey to sexual pleasure and WHOLE-Self healing.
• Enhance control and relaxation of your mind and body with breathwork, body awareness exercises, and energy healing.

Sexual Self-Confidence, Intimacy, and Sexual Self-Image Relationship:

• Develop a positive and intuitive relationship with your WHOLE-self by fostering an erotic  mind-body-spirit-energy connection.
• Explore and embrace your erotic self through care practices like erotic mindfulness, erotic movement, and integrative healing narratives that increases you both KNOWING and BELIEVING in yourself.

Mental Health, Sacred Sexuality, Embodied Well-Being:

• Address anxiety, depression, PTSD, and self-limiting beliefs related to sexual distress and sexual insecurity with trauma-informed techniques.
• Learn to regulate emotions, reduce stress, and build resilience through emotional intelligence and energy healing practices.
• Honor and improve the sexual and non-sexual relationship to mind, body, energy, and spirit.

Holistic and Inclusive Approach:

• Benefit from an inclusive approach that respects and affirms all genders, all sexual identities and orientations, and all bodies.
• Experience a decolonized framework that integrates the unique experiences and needs of marginalized communities into the therapeutic process and decenters oppressive Western society and sexual expectations and assumptions "The Defaults".

Benefits of I-SST:

• Heal Your Erotic Self, Sexual Pleasure & Improve Your Sexual Self-Assertiveness: I-SST honors the erotic lived experience and erotic embodiment of those marginalized lived experience & emphasizes integrative and somatic care practices informed by indigenous and ancestral healing arts. You will learn to how to develop healing system that will disrupt "The Defaults", the pressure of sexual performance, and expand your ability to pleasurably immersive yourself into your sexual experiences. 
• Improved Mental Health & WHOLE-Self Healing: Reduce anxiety, depression, and PTSD symptoms caused by sexual distress and sexual insecurities leading to an empowered relationship with self and others.
• Deeper Intimacy with Your Sacred Sexuality: Build stronger connections and intimacy with yourself and your relationship by honoring your relationship between your sexuality and your mind, body, spirit, and energy.
• Holistic Healing: Promote overall well-being by addressing the mind, body, spirit, and energy.

How to Get Started:

If you or your clients are facing challenges related to their erotic self, intimacy, sexual  health, or  intimacy,  relationship, and mental well-being, Integrative Somatic Sex Therapy (I-SST) can help. We offer individual and group sessions, as well as specialized workshops, learning intensives, and retreats to meet your unique needs.

Contact Us:

• Phone:302-468-7238
• Email: Info@JourneyWellnessDelaware.com

Schedule a Consultation:

To learn more about how Sexuality and Somatics Learning Intensives and/or Integrative Somatic Sex Therapy can support you, or to schedule a consultation, please contact us today. We look forward to helping you achieve a deeper connection with yourself and promoting your overall well-being.

With care,

-Queen