Winner of the 2023 AASECT Book Award for General Audience!

Weaving together somatic psychotherapy, dance/movement therapy, and sex therapy approaches, this uniquely interdisciplinary and practical book offers guidance on how to strengthen your connection with pleasure, receptivity, and ecstasy in an embodied way.

Melissa Walker contextualizes the erotic body as being embedded in a sex-negative culture. Taking an experiential somatic approach, this book helps readers map the erotic self to establish a whole-body sexuality, becoming an important sexuality ally in a larger social movement toward erotic inclusiveness. This groundbreaking text illuminates how to shed the harmful messages that an individual has internalized about their sexuality, to learn the language of their somatic self, and begin to build a whole-body appreciation for their creative potential.

Filled with questions, guided experientials, and map-building practices that help readers learn more about themselves, this book is essential reading for sex therapists to navigate the vast map of sexuality to create true health and sexual evolution.

Autorentext

Melissa Walker, MA, LPC, R-DMT, is a somatic sex and relationship therapist and educator with a private practice in Colorado, USA, where she lives with her partner and daughter.

Klappentext

Weaving together somatic psychotherapy, dance/movement therapy, and sex therapy approaches, this uniquely interdisciplinary and practical book offers guidance on how to strengthen your connection with pleasure, receptivity, and ecstasy in an embodied way.

Melissa Walker contextualizes the erotic body as being embedded in a sex-negative culture. Taking an experiential somatic approach, this book helps readers map the erotic self to establish a whole-body sexuality, becoming an important sexuality ally in a larger social movement toward erotic inclusiveness. This groundbreaking text illuminates how to shed the harmful messages that an individual has internalized about their sexuality, to learn the language of their somatic self, and begin to build a whole-body appreciation for their creative potential.

Filled with questions, guided experientials, and map-building practices that help readers learn more about themselves, this book is essential reading for sex therapists to navigate the vast map of sexuality to create true health and sexual evolution.

Inhalt

Introduction

1. Reclaiming the Home of your Sexuality

2. The Dance of Shadow and Light

3. A Bridge to the Lost Language of Sexuality

4. Erotic Bodyfulness

5. The Whole Sexual Self

6. The Embedded Sexual Self

7. Erotic on the Outside: Expressing a Whole-Body Sexuality

8. Your Erotic Map: Mapping the Sexual Self

9. The Relationship Constellation: Interweaving Erotic Maps

10. Refining the Erotic Body in the World

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