How We Practice with Sherika Tenaya
Recently I had the opportunity to have a conversation with adjunct faculty Sherika Tenaya. Sherika brings a wide range of life experience and education to her role as adjunct faculty here at the Institute and it was such a pleasure to learn more about her approach to the profession. Tracy: Sherika, what do you want […]
Jules Catoe Manifesto
For the wild ones, the shy ones, the chameleons, the scapegoats, the rebels, the weirdos, the visible and invisible ones. You are invited to join with me in brave spaces. I will do my best to support the vulnerability and uncertainty that may arise. As we journey together I will be there to remind you, […]
An Erotic Ecologist SSE Manifesto By Isa Frank
@open_eros (instagram) @isa.mirror (instagram) Honor the erotic. More than a tantalizing arousal, this deep life force, this radiant power, moves you, calling forward your essential direction. It calls you to open up into connection. Call it in and come alive! Recognize this life force in all. Our somas are interconnected, not isolated systems. Our bodies are a […]
Compost Manifesto By Marissa Gamberutti
marissagamberutti.com We live in the space between this world and a more beautiful one; we are compost. We dream a brilliant, flourishing world for our descendants, one in which every body has full access to their pleasure, their bliss, their ecstasy. A world in which every body has full knowledge in how to access and […]
Somatic Sex Education Manifesto By Brigid Devoe
birchandlavender.com Pleasure returning to the body Is forgotten mothertongue Finding its way back into the heart Of a descendant far from home It is the ancestral language of sensation awakening In the sacred grove of your being Pleasure returning to the body Is the spell of amnesia Breaking Golden thread weaving It is the song […]
Somatic Sex Education Manifesto By Jess DeVries
belovedcoaching.net I do this work to help us (re)claim that our bodies are holy, our erotic nature is our connection to the divine, and our choice in how to celebrate that miracle is one of the truest gifts of being born in a human body. Seeking pleasure and celebrating desire in the ways that feel […]
Somatic Sex Education Informed Psychotherapy: A Manifesto for Sex Therapists
By Martin Vera www.veratherapy.com 1. Sex is our birthright. Sex, pleasure, and eros are our birthright. However, it is also our birthright to have as much or as little of these energies in our lives and relationships as we would like. As SSE-informed psychotherapists, we help our clients to cultivate the type of relationship to […]
Somatic Sex Education Manifesto: Casimir Kotarski
Welcome to the play space Come one, come all! Claim what you didn’t receive! Turn your body online And find your perfect pace Animal self expresses animal needs My office allows pouncing As we unfurl your archetypes From what someone told you to do Moans and groans and hissy fits Tinkering requests until you find […]
Somatic Sex Education Manifesto: Reia Lance
@reialance (Instagram) I am writing to you today from Mohkinstsis, the Blackfoot word for “elbow” in reference to the Elbow River in what is colonially known as Calgary, Alberta in Treaty 7 territory. This land has been cared for by the Blackfoot, Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai First Nations, the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney […]
Somatic Sex Education Manifesto: Greta Jane
www.thepleasureguide.com Pleasure heals, it’s true. Pleasure is a fountain, a replenishing elemental force, residing in each and everyone of us. Pleasure is a voice, whispering from within, that only you can hear and honor. Pleasure is personal and universal. Pleasure is a choice, what one finds pleasurable changes. As we strengthen our connection to what […]