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Curriculum

  • The Wheel of Consent - Co-creating relationship agreements with all our inner voices included

  • The Right Use of Power - Repair process when somebody got left out

  • Body Poem - a structure supporting radical acceptance

  • Clean Language - enriching metaphorical life

  • Somatic Assessment Practices - Supporting attuned relationship agreements

  • Body identity & intimate self-expression - enhancing emotional & erotic fluency

Over the course of this six-day retreat, you will be guided step by step in a series of touch and embodiment explorations using the Wheel of Consent™ for co-creating clear relationship agreements that support us resourcing ourselves and being in service with others.

This is intimacy skills training for professionals to deepen and enhance emotional & erotic fluency. Explorations include updating intimate internal and external versions of ourselves. Body identity and image, as well as genital and anal identity and story, are integral aspects of our personal power.

These embodiment practices are designed for contributing to our attuned radical acceptance and belonging, enriching the granularity of touch with metaphorical self-reflection.

These foundations of self-acceptance practices are choreographed in support of your curiosity, self-care and growth towards becoming more of yourself in service as a practitioner representing the voices of humanity and learning to be listened to and heard.

Relational Embodiment Foundations - Online

We are delighted to be offering this profound training, for the fourth time in 2024, now in an online format.

Your facilitators

Katie Sarra - Certified Wheel of Consent Facilitator, CSB, CSSE & Director of IRHS Sexological Bodywork & Intimacy Coaching Professional Training.

Dr Phoebe Garland - CSB, CSSE & Faculty Head of the IRHS Somatic Sex Education

Relational Embodiment Foundations - Testimonials

  • Every subject was new to me and massively interesting. Loving the pace of the delivery and how Katie and Phoebe have been able to create and hold such a safe space for us to learn in an authentic way, feeling able to be truly ourselves

    Patricia Marnitz

  • I feel this workshop really is "foundations in relational embodiment" and has provided me with foundational tools to use when relating especially in the practitioner/client setting and intimately. Very skilled teachers with mastery of the material. A safe container with useful exercises to demonstrate concepts and ideas. Pacing was perfect.

    Paige Eden Diako

  • Body Poem! and emphasis on trusting whole body intelligence to self organise takes pressure off me feeling I need to have all of the answers. The differences in each of the quadrants in the Wheel of Consent and the love and acceptance of what is alive in the moment.

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  • I feel relaxed, resourced and grateful to take part receiving "Real Deal" teachings, from "Real Deal" teachers, professionals, human beings embodying them. Updating myself.

    Arantxa Joseph

Embodiment Intensive

CSB & CSSE Class of 2022 at Monte Mariposa - Algarve.

SEXOLOGICAL BODYWORK

12-DAY INTENSIVE

Sexological Bodywork Curriculum enhanced with Sexological Intimacy coaching skills including

  • The Wheel of Consent - Co-creating relationship agreements with all our inner voices included

  • The Right Use of Power - Repair process when somebody got left out

  • Body Poem - a structure supporting radical acceptance

  • Clean Language - enriching metaphorical life

  • Somatic Assessment Practices - Supporting attuned relationship agreements

  • Body identity & intimate self-expression - enhancing emotional & erotic fluency

Over the course of this Eleven-day retreat, you will be guided step by step in a series of touch and embodiment explorations using the Wheel of Consent™ and Clean Language coaching skills for co-creating clear relationship agreements enhancing emotional & erotic fluency.

Body identity and image, as well as genital and anal identity and story, UPDATING INTIMATE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL VERSIONS OF OURSELVES contributes to our enhanced and deepened personal power.

This training is being opened for all international CSBs who qualified before or without the Wheel of Consent, Right Use of Power or Body Poem and Clean Language coaching that is currently taught in the IRHS curriculum

This 11-day intensive also offers the opportunity to dive in again and reignite your bodywork skills with the latest curriculum - especially useful to those of you who trained during the lockdown years.

SEXOLOGICAL BODYWORK 12-DAY INTENSIVE

We are delighted to be offering this profound Eleven-day intensive for all CSBs wishing to update their professional practice with the latest training curriculum

15th - 25th October 2024

11-day in-person Sexological Bodywork intensive in Castenheira de Pera in Portugal

  • Investment £2,500 (Excluding VAT) - open to CSB practitioners interested in continuing professional development with hands-on practice

  • If you qualified with the Sea School of Embodiment, in previous years, we are offering a discount of £500

Your facilitators

Katie Sarra - Certified Wheel of Consent Facilitator, CSB, CSSE & Director of IRHS Sexological Bodywork & Intimacy Coaching Professional Training.

Dr Phoebe Garland - CSB, CSSE & Faculty Head of the IRHS Somatic Sex Education

Embodiment Intensive

CSB & CSSE Class of 2019 at The Assembly Rooms - Glastonbury

Example daily schedule

  • Morning Practice

    Breakfast & Morning Practice 8 - 9.50 am

    The group space is available for participants for solo self-directed or group-organised morning practice. Breakfast arrangements and costs are unique to each venue.

  • Morning Session 9.50 am - 1.00 pm

    Each morning we begin with an engaging exercise designed to prepare our receptivity with the theme of the morning. Sometimes, we might begin with an integration structure to support the digestion of the day before.

    Approximately half way through, there is a morning 30-minute break.

  • Lunch & Integration Practice 1.00 - 3.00 pm

    This is everyone’s self-directed time for nourishment and rest.

    Lunch arrangements and costs are unique to each venue.

    A sign-up sheet for requests and offers for self-directed practice is created with the group space in most venues available for practising with each other at lunchtime.

  • Afternoon Session 3.00 - 7. 00 pm

    Each afternoon we begin with an engaging exercise designed to prepare our receptivity with the theme of the afternoon. Sometimes, we might begin with an integration structure to support the digestion of the morning experiences..

    Approximately halfway through, there is a 30-minute break.

  • Breaks & Refreshments

    Breaks are an important part of the choreography and are woven into the curriculum with at least one in the morning and one in the afternoon. (Approximately 11.30 am - 12.00 noon & 5.00 - 5.30 pm )

    Hot & cold beverages and snacks are provided - please bring your own if you have special dietary requirements.

  • Evenings

    Evenings

    This is everyone’s self-directed time for nourishment, rest and sleep.

    Dinner & accommodation arrangements and costs are unique to each venue.

    The group space in some venues is available for practising with each other in the evenings.

co-creating our relationship agreements together

  • Co-creating Community Relationship Agreements

    Being part of a community involves representing our needs and acknowledging the needs of others.

    This training is an exploration into the ethics of self-care and duty of care with another and our ability to co-create relationship agreements that can honour and care for aspects of ourselves as we learn our limits and with others as they are learning theirs.

  • Honouring our limits

    Embodiment involves enhancing the granularity of language and touch informed by our felt senses that support co-creating ethical professional boundary relationship agreements. This is how we care for the aspects of ourselves and others that need acknowledging. These are different for each of us and when tested show us our limits. This is often how we discover our limits in relation to our self-acceptance with unacknowledged needs. 

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Esconhais - Castanheira de Pera

Travelling from Lisbon:

Getting here: Lisbon Airport to Castanheira de Pêra (train/taxi/hire car)

The Aerobus Line 1 operates the route from Lisbon Airport (terminal 1) to Lisbon Central (Cais do Sodre) train station, it takes about 45 minutes and costs €4.

Then take the train from Lisbon train station to Coimbra, a bus from there to Figuerió dos Vinhos and a taxi to pick you up from the Figuerió dos Vinhos bus station which is about twenty minutes away from Castanheira de Pera.

Arrange to share rides if others are arriving at the same time. We organise a group WhatsApp chat for logistics for our retreats. For bigger numbers, we can arrange a coach for door-to-door service at a reduced cost directly from the airport at a scheduled pick-up point and time. You can also self-organise and share a taxi door-to-door from Lisbon or Porto airport. 4 people sharing it will cost £42 each one way.

Rebecca Thompson - CSB, Body Poet & Musician

Becky has been bringing song and soul to Sexological Bodywork sessions for many years and contributes her poetic insights transforming the mundane into sacred

  • Response Flexibility

    Response flexibility, a term coined by Daniel Seigel, is our ability to make choices while experiencing the intensity of affect. 

    Affect refers to the visceral emotional, nervous system or hormonal responses in the body that drive calls to action.

  • Response Flexibility

    One of the foundational core competencies as a practitioner is our ability to hold space for another during intensities of "affect" without our responses taking us to limits where we might lose response flexibility.

Ruth Lorna King - Musician

Live acoustic music and song are an integral part of our in-person training. Here Ruth joined us for our Body Poem 6 day retreat.

“Choice is the word upon which adventure, exhilaration, and authenticity depend. It's the word that the cocoon whispers to the caterpillar."

- Tom Robbins

Post your unanswered Question here

We welcome you to post any questions that haven't been answered here and we will send you an email with answers and/or invite you with a booking link to arrange a 15 - minute call with Katie Sarra - Director of Studies or Phoebe Garland - Head of the CSSE Training.