Core Course 2 - Erotic Practice for Somatic Sex Education
 

Core Course 2

Erotic Practice for Somatic Sex Education

Core Course 2 Outline

2025 Course Dates

  • April 5-11, BIPOC only, in-person, Victoria, BC
  • Teaching team: Kai Cheng, Onika, Sherika

 

  • June 8-14, in-person, Victoria, BC
  • Teaching team: Kai Cheng, captain

 

  • October 19-25, in-person, Seattle, WA
  • Teaching team: Katie, Corinne, Onika

 

  • Dates TBD, Online
  • Teaching team: Corinne, Onika, Sherika
  • (Online intensives will be scheduled when we have a minimum of 6 students interested. Please reach out to express your interest and join our waitlist)

In-person option: 7 days $2,295 USD
First day: 11am to 6pm, subsequent days 10 am to 6 pm (with an afternoon of repose mid-week)
Online option: 10 half-days study and practice online $2,095 USD
Monday to Friday 9 am to 2 pm PST (with the weekend off)

This is the first of two intensives in a professional training for somatic sex educators. Whether you are attending online or in-person, you will be working with a cohort of students, two main faculty, plus guest teachers. Prepare for an intensive learning experience.

Our own erotic well-being is foundational for developing a professional practice as a somatic sex educator. During this week together we have a chance to unfold and share the personal and cultural journey to sexual wholeness. The intensive takes us through an arc of exercises and experiences in a way that mirrors the journey of a client working with a somatic sex educator, while resourcing us for professional practice.

We will begin with creating a “safe enough” container. This involves setting community agreements and honing and sharing our intentions. Study and embodied exercises help with understanding barriers to pleasure. We will learn and use actual practices, tools and competencies for empowering our own and others’ choice and voice.

Students will expand their embodied understanding of social locationality and sexual rights and freedoms. They will learn about how we somatize oppression and privilege, and practice technologies for unwinding some of these bonds.

We will work to create intentional, professional, erotic learning space. We practice using procedures that demonstrate professionalism, including intake and assessment. We discuss and offer diverse frameworks for ethical somatic sex education.

We cultivate capacity to feel and communicate body sensations as we increase our somatic literacy, developing a repertoire of embodiment practices we can use and share with clients.

The course includes a deeper dive into the science of somatic sex education and interpersonal neurobiology. The science of sexual happiness helps give language to the learning process, so we understand challenges and opportunities for expanded wellness. Knowing and sharing the science can help take shame away as we work with clients, and support each person in working and playing in their personal learning zone.

The intensive includes teaching in the somatic sex education core tool of Masturbation Coaching. We have an opportunity to explore the possibility of communal Mindful Erotic Practice, always within our personal learning zones.

We will have a chance to further explore genital anatomy and practice Genital Mapping. We will introduce the core tools of Affirmative Ritual Touch and Erotic Massage, while demonstrating how these tools can be integrated into somatic sex education sessions, whether offered in-person or online. All activities are done through the lens of empowering choice and voice.

This 7-day intensive will focus on building core competencies of somatic sex education.

Please review our Student Agreement Form, which outlines what our program offers, how students are evaluated and the process for working toward certification, and Institute policies and procedures, prior to enrolling.  Our program is unique, and we encourage you to review this document so you know what to expect from us and what we ask of you.  Upon registration you will be given access to the online curriculum where you will see this form again.  At that time we ask you to initial to agree to each point and add your signature at the bottom.  An electronic copy of your completed form will be emailed to you and one copy will be kept in our records.

Travel Information To Victoria

Victoria

Victoria is located on the southernmost tip of Vancouver Island, just off the West Coast of British Columbia, Canada. It is the capital city of BC, and is very accessible with flights and ferries from both Vancouver and Seattle. It is easily walkable or short taxi ride from bus stops and ferry terminals.

Please make sure to plan ahead for your ferry times and transfers, so you can arrive well before our start time. If you come without a car, please find accommodations in the James bay or downtown area so we can easily get you to and from Captain’s studio. From downtown you can take a bus, rent a bike, or walk to the studio. We encourage students to coordinate rides from the airport and to and from the intensive. The admin team puts people in touch who want to share accommodations: info@somaticsexeducator.com

Travelling to Victoria

Arriving by Ferry from Vancouver: To take a public transit bus to downtown is approximately 1.5 hours and the cost is $2.50. Get off downtown for downtown hotels, get off at the Legislature for accommodations in James Bay.
A 20-ish minute walk or 5-minute cab ride will get you into the neighbourhood of captain’s studio.

Arriving by Ferry from Seattle: The Victoria Clipper is a passenger-only ferry that travels between downtown Seattle and downtown Victoria and typically only has one ferry crossing each way per day. Please check the schedule and purchase a ticket ahead of time as this boat is sometimes full. In Victoria, captain’s studio is a short 5-min walk from the ferry terminal.

Arriving at Victoria International Airport (YYJ)

Public transit bus – $3 to downtown – 1.5 hour ride
Taxi – approx $60 – 30 min drive

Course Pricing

  • On Completion of Course 1

  • $USDFrom 2,095Incl. 5% GST

Refund Policy: Refunds for embodiment intensives are available as follows:

  • Up to 2 months before the program begins: full refund minus $350 administration fee
  • Up to one month before the program begins: full refund minus $700
  • Closer than one month to when the program begins: No refund available

Canadian Students have the option to make payment via e-transfer. Please email us at info@somaticsexeducator.com to inquire about this option.