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SEXOLOGICAL BODYWORK PRACTITIONER TRAINING

T R U S T I N G S P O N T A N E I T Y

Six months Online and In-Person ~ followed by three months of Practicum

April 2025 - January 2025

(August integration Month Holiday)

11-DAY IN-PERSON EMBODIMENT RETREAT ~ May 2025

Three Months Supervised Practicum

Parrots fly in pleasure, like humans in altered states, when they know their way home.

The Sexological Bodywork Curriculum offers explorations where the body becomes a portal for somatic openings. 

“from Sphincter to Great Spirit.” 

This is the fire medicine of Eros, where exiled aspects of humanity have the potential to integrate with radical acceptance. 

Radical Acceptance is central to this training coaching model, which facilitates loving kindness and generosity.

Over the last ten years, over 250 practitioners have trained with the Sea School of Embodiment and have discovered their genuine service in life, transforming their Core Erotic themes into supporting others in coming home to naturalness. Over the last two years, the Relational Harmony Institute has radically and comprehensively updated the curriculum in alignment with the latest Neuroscience research and feedback from Practitioners, Students, and Clients.

These practices facilitate expansions of consciousness, which can pattern interrupt limiting habits of addictive hedonistic compensation for pain and suffering that so many of us are at the effect of while living in adaption and endurance. 

The Wheel of Consent and bodywork practices open the direct routes to pleasure from the spaghetti junctions of indirect and time-wasting ones.

This is intimacy skills training for professionals to deepen and enhance emotional & erotic fluency. Explorations include updating intimate internal and external versions of ourselves.

This training is not for the faint-hearted but with dedication, like learning any new language, the rewards offer erotic and emotional fluency and a return to spontaneous naturalness.

Combining bodywork that touches multi- dimensional somatic memories with Body Poem enriches metaphorical life and opens possibilities for erotic and sensual creative self-expression that so many of us long for.  The training is an antidote to civilisation’s collective shaming of this.  

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.

We welcome you on this journey through the gates

Katie Sarra and Dr Phoebe Garland - Course directors of Training each with over 30 years of experience in erotic facilitation

“The Sexological Bodywork Practitioner training of The Institute for Relational Harmony Studies is the most comprehensive sexuality training I have found.

The syllabus is rich and covers an incredible breadth of subjects - neuroscience, embodied boundaries & consent, emotional command systems, somatic coaching techniques, rupture & repair processes, session structure, hygiene protocol, and of course, all the anatomy & physiology Sexological Bodywork tools.

This training teaches the core competencies of how to meet another Human in their wholeness - with radical acceptance of all of their parts, including their erotic & sexual expression. It encourages you as a practitioner to trust your spontaneity, creativity, and intuition while equipping you with everything you need to build an ethical, trauma-informed practice. Katie’s passion, skill, embodied experience, and wisdom are the essence of this training which make It come alive with joy, love, care & laughter.”

- Luzi Pods (IRHS Approved CSI, CSB & CSSE)

Certificate Sexological Bodywork Practitioner

6 - M O N T H S O N - L I N E & IN-PERSON ~Followed by three months Practicum

If you are progressing onto the 6-month Certificate in Sexological Bodywork Professional Training, the time commitments are

  • 15 - 25 hours per week for research explorations, study, and flexibility with your time management as you engage in full-session practice and achieve Learning credits towards certification.

  • The same Webinar, Research Exploration, and peer supervision Schedule as the Sexological Intimacy Training

  • The 12-day in-person embodiment intensive will be held in Europe in May 2025

  • The Wednesday webinars are twice a month, on the first and third Wednesday of each month, from 5 to 7.30 pm (UK, Ireland, and Lisbon time).

  • Participating in monthly pod meetings

Research explorations are a combination of:-

  1. Solo practice

  2. Practising in person with Volunteer Clients

  3. Practicing with classmates in the Client, Practitioner, and Witness roles

  4. Sharing your reflections from the reading and videos in the curriculum.

Research Explorations are posted on the forum twice a week. You are required to post your reflections from your research in 300 words or a chosen form of self-expression on:-

  1. Mondays ~ responding to classmates by Wednesday

  2. Fridays ~ responding to classmates by Sunday

  • Course fees for the 9-month Certification in Sexological Bodywork training are £5,280. An enrolment fee of £900 secures your place, subtracted from the total when you pay in full (20 places are available).

  • Bursary places have a 30% discount

The first six months are intensive Sexological Bodywork training, followed by three months of supervised client sessions with clients.

We suggest you provide discounted sessions while in training and in the certification practicum process as a CSB.

Depending on the frequency of sessions you offer paying clients, you can earn certification at any point during the three months allocated for supervised practice. There is one coaching call after every five client sessions; a minimum of 30 sessions is required for certification. We encourage you to cover these fees from your client fees. Coaching fees during this practicum phase are set at a reduced cost of £60 per coaching call with one of our listed IRHS Approved Coaches, which you can see here on our website.

After Certification, you can:-

  1. Join the ACSB as full members and be included on the Practitioner listing

  2. Join ASIS as a full member with permission for Insurance and be included on the Practitioner listing

  3. Be included on the IRHS website practitioner listing

  4. Be included on the Sea School of Embodiment Practitioner listing

  5. Continue being part of our IRHS Postgraduate program

  6. Eligible to continue on to the Certification in Somatic Sex Education Leadership Practitioner training.

Participants in this training must practice in alignment with the ACSB code of ethics and sign up for the course container agreements to support communal learning and ethical practice. This involves:-

  • Learning and practising the Wheel of Consent

  • Using Clean Language and practising radical acceptance of each other’s versions of self and perspectives

  • Practising receiving feedback for tuning into our intentions and being attuned to our impact

  • Engaging in the Right Use of Power repair process for intention/impact mismatches

  • Engaging in all of the above with kindness and care

IRHS Faculty for the Sexological Bodywork, Sexological Intimacy Coaching & Somatic Sex Education professional training.

The Organizational core team choreographs and administrates the training, designing structures that support and facilitate everybody’s ability to participate and learn with ease and inspiration from enrolment through certification and beyond into the postgraduate program.

  • Arantxa is dancer, singer, performing artist & mother of 3, and communicates fluently in English, Spanish & Portuguese.

    She is a CSB & CSSE awaiting completion.

    She has dedicated 20 years to teaching Laban Creative Dance & West African Dance in the Community, & to performing with various companies around Europe.

    Arantxa cultivates a deep passion for guiding others into connecting deeper with their bodies, their natural joy and erotic expression  & encourages them to develop the parts of themselves that are fully alive, where their deepest truth and wisdom reside, ripening their relationship to Eros, Life force Intelligence & the innocence of their pleasure & bodies.

    She has created a modality called ESSENSUAL Movement & Expression, that weaves together principles from CSB training with Creative & Authentic Dance practices, inspiring others to express pleasure through movement & their bodies, unapologetically.

     Empathy, compassion, curiosity and ethical integrity are qualities she embodies as a facilitator/practitioner & she offers these & other gifts in service to the emergence of future practitioners, that n turn are too in service to the love of life & the love for humanity. 

Certified Sexological Intimacy Coach, Sexological Bodyworker, & Somatic Sex Educator

  • Katie Sarra is the founder of the Institute of Relational Harmony Studies where she choreographs and teaches professional certification in Body Poem, Sexological Intimacy, Somatic Sex Educator and Sexological Bodywork, training in the UK, Ireland and Portugal with an international team of leading-edge educators. She follows the Code of Ethics of the Association of Certified Sexological Bodyworkers (ACSB).

    Katie has developed her practice over 35 years of professional clinical practice. She specialises in facilitating radical acceptance and integration of exiled aspects of ourselves.  She is an Art Psychotherapist, Founder of Body Poem, Artist, Certified Wheel of Consent facilitator, Certified Somatic Sex Educator, Certified Sexological Bodyworker, and Playback Theatre Practitioner.

    I believe every human being has gifts to share and that these are often grown from where we have suffered the most. Our self-acceptance, kindness and ease with ourselves, when we have felt witnessed, can ripple out to support ease with others. 

Certified Sexological Intimacy Coach, Sexological Bodyworker, & Somatic Sex Educator

  • Dr Phoebe Garland is a certified CSB and CSSE. She brings over 30 years of experience as a GP and mindfulness teacher as well as her own life-long journey of seeking and personal growth practices, including working with Dr Claudio Naranjo in the SAT program.

    Her passion is to bring her expertise to the profession of somatic sex education, developing the curriculum, supervision and continued professional development structures and resources to support excellence in the profession.

    At the Institute of Relational Harmony Studies Phoebe is developing and leading the 2nd year CSSE training, bringing teachings from The Right Use of Power to the CSB and CSSE curriculum, developing Core Competency assessment and providing supervision for practitioners.

Certified Sexological Intimacy Coach, Sexological Bodyworker, & Somatic Sex Educator

Your Application and Enrolment Process

  • STAGE 1 ~ DISCOVERY CALL / INTERVIEW

    Meet with Katie Sarra, director of the training and a member of the teacher team in a discovery call to get a feel for the ethos and the visionary purpose of the curriculum to illuminate ways this training might serve your professional development.

    Alongside Katie, you will also meet with Dr Phoebe Garland to comrehensively learn about the course structures and time commitmenets required and the ethics of enroling on this training. Phoebe heads up the second year Certificate in Somatic Sex Education for practitioners training in becoming leaders and supervisors.

    This is a meeting for you to ask questions and for us to meet you (30 minutes)

  • STAGE 2

    ~ After your interview and we have decided this is a harmonious fit, we will write to you with an offer of place as part of the upcoming cohort with the next steps towards enrolment.

    In the event of us not being in a position to offer you a place at this time, for example, if we have reached 24 capacity, we will offer you the opportunity of the first option next intake.

“When we are touched, or we touch another, we are touching memory channels from this lifetime and lifetimes that have gone before us - generations of unintegrated aspects of humanity emerge out of the soup of the collective conscious to be witnessed and accepted.”

  • What is the difference between Somatic Sexology and Tantra?

    Somatic Sex Educators work with the coaching model in client-led sessions adhering to the ACSB code of ethics and conduct, with roles and relationship agreements being clearly defined that primarily support embodied choice and agency. The practitioner always remains clothed and uses gloves for any intimate bodywork and erotic touch is one way. Practitioners and students of our school do not cultivate or act upon their arousal and do not engage in relationships with other students during the training or with clients or volunteers.

  • Titration

    The practitioner clearly holds the duty of care recognising the responsibility of holding space for altered states. Relational embodiment sessions are based on the foundations of the Wheel of Consent™ that facilitate somatic openings and the integration of exiled aspects of the self in co-created relationship agreements where the client directs what happens in titrated stages.

  • Sacred intimacy

    Tantra training and individual sessions may involve immersive role-play or sensuality-focused experiences where boundaries and roles between practitioner and client may vary. Practitioners engage with clients in ways that can sometimes be understood as sex work, sacred intimacy resembling surrogate work.

  • Ancient Eastern philosophy

    There are many schools and interpretations of this ancient Eastern philosophy. Tantra practitioners guide recipients into trusting bathing in unknown waters and entering experiences that potentially access altered states of consciousness.

  • Unchartered territory

    Informed consent is an agreement to trust in these unknown waters where frames of reference may be suspended while the recipient explores uncharted territory which can facilitate unintegrated aspects of self to emerge from the depths of unconscious realms. During arousal states, recipients may find themselves navigating deep waters and discovering depths of themselves and birthing somatic openings and epiphanies. When facilitated with a practitioner who has emotional and erotic fluency, the Practitioner is simultaneously on the beach and in the water and not out of their depth. This response flexibility is essential for facilitating these kinds of experiences and is of special focus in the Sexological Bodywork training.

  • Immersive experiences

    These immersive experiences may sometimes result in emotional hangovers of exiled aspects of the self having being discovered and exposed without the recipient necessarily having the capacity to integrate these. This is possibly part of the reason why there has been such a wave of reactions against Tantra where the wheel of consent and integration support has not been effectively been practised.

  • Self-gain motivations

    This reactionary wave has been magnified by emotional hangovers from Tantric practitioners following their erotic self-gain motivations with recipients in vulnerable or disinhibited altered states of consciousness.

  • Role play

    “Role play or Tantric rituals, like in any group setting where there are participation expectations, can sometimes disable participants from feeling they can direct their experience at the pace and depth they have the capacity to digest. The impact of this is magnified when playing with sexual expression which is the root of our deepest wounds. This is possibly why the Quodoushka shamanic sacred sexuality path calls this type of altered states work "Fire Medicine" - it has the potential for expansion of consciousness which can paradoxically burn as well as heal.” Katie Sarra

“A sensual soma-nautical adventure into exploring the depths of the waters within, bringing the pearls of wisdom from the depths back to the shore of awareness.”

- Makia CSI, CSB training in the IRHS 2024 Cohort

“Coming from a work background that is totally unrelated to Sexological Bodywork the formal presentation of the course is accessible and enjoyable. The research explorations and practical presentations are providing me with the skills to become a competent Sexological Bodyworker and coach.”

- Deirdre IRHS CSI & CSB in the 2024 Cohort training

CERTIFICATION & INSURANCE
Graduates from this professional training can become members of

  • The Association of Certified Sexological Bodyworkers (ACSB), the Somatic Sex Educators’ Association of Australasia (SSEAA) and apply for membership of the Association of Somatic and Integrative Sexologists (ASIS) and be admitted to the World Association of Sex Coaches (WASC) with no further requirements.

  • This course is recognised by The Association of Somatic and Integrative Sexologists as offering training of sufficient depth for practitioners to be eligible for insurance for their work. See the-asis.org for more details.