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Welcome back to Blossom & Blade!

This conversation is dedicated to the witches, the black sheep, the outcasts, the healers, the artists, the spiritual, sensitive and strange ones – the ones who never quite felt like they belonged.

I share my own experience of belonging, sisterhood and the fear of being seen, including what happened when I first began speaking publicly about my sexuality and the parts of myself I had kept hidden in the spiritual closet.

From there, I speak about the deep fear many women carry of being judged or cast out by other women, how shame and fear grow in secrecy, and what can happen when something we thought was unspeakable is met with loving eyes and the resonance of a circle of sisters who say “I feel this, too”.

I also explore why the deeper we go into spiritual practice, the more important it becomes to root ourselves in the body, in community and in the land – and how pleasure, sensuality and the expression of my erotic power became part of my own journey of finally feeling at home on this beautiful and strange planet.

In this episode, I explore:

- The legacy of the witch hunts - women’s fear of being seen, judged and outcast

- Why shame and fear not just survive but thrive in secrecy

- The magic that unfolds when women witness each other in their most vulnerable and taboo parts

- Why spiritual work needs deep roots in the body and the earth

- How pleasure and sensuality become a path back into true belonging

- The wound of not belonging - and what it means to come home to yourself, to land, to ritual, and to community

Applications for Blossom & Blade, my 13-week eco-somatic sex coaching programme, are open. The next round begins on 13 October 2026.

If you’re curious to know more, click here to apply: www.blossomandblade.com

Much love,

Luzi

Welcome back to Blossom & Blade!

In this episode, I speak about what it means to come back into an erotic, loving and devotional relationship with the land, and to remember that we are part of a living ecosystem.

I share how learning the language of the elements completely changed the way I understand my body, my sexuality and many of the things I had previously pathologised about myself. From my own complicated relationship with fire, to the moment I realised how it saved my life, to the vision quest where I received the body of work that would later become my teaching modality, Blossom & Blade.

In this episode, I explore:

• How fire, water, earth and air express themselves in the body
• What happens when an element moves into excess or falls out of balance
• Why my fire – my rage, intensity and aggression – became something I learned to deeply trust
• How the natural world communicates and teaches what our body needs at all times
• The difference between extracting from the body and coming into a relationship of reciprocity with her
• Why reconnecting with land and the elements is such a foundational part of Blossom & Blade

Applications for Blossom & Blade, my 13-week eco-somatic sex coaching programme, are open. The next round begins on 13 October 2026. If you’re curious to know more, click here to apply: www.blossomandblade.com

Much love,

Luzi

Welcome back to Blossom & Blade!

In this episode, I begin with a question that has stayed with me for years: If you won’t let yourself cry, how will you let yourself orgasm?

This is a conversation about pleasure as a doorway into the whole emotional field of the body and what becomes possible when things that have been stuck, swallowed or gone numb begin to move again.

I share moments from my own Self Pleasure practice, including the experience of slowly meeting my cervix and learning to stay with the numbness, grief and loneliness that I found there.

From there, I speak into emotional alchemy, catharsis and titration, and the balance of fire and water inside this work: the intensity that transforms us, and the slowness that allows the body to unfurl without being blown open.

In this episode, I explore:

• Why orgasms can make us cry - and why that’s a good thing
• How pleasure can help stuck energy begin to move
• What it means to become emotionally current
• Why catharsis is not bad, but also not something to chase
• How to meet the edge of your capacity without barging through

Applications for Blossom & Blade, my 13-week eco-somatic sex coaching programme, are now open.

The next round begins on 13 October 2026.

If you’re curious to know more, click here to apply: https://www.blossomandblade.com/

Much love,

Luzi

In this episode, I explore how Self Pleasure ripples into intimacy, sex and relationship with another.

This practice is not about staying in a solo bubble forever. It is about learning the embodied skills intimacy asks of us: presence, honesty, communication, boundaries, attunement, receptivity - and the ability to slow down enough to stay connected to ourselves while opening to another.

I share how my own Self Pleasure practice changed the way I relate, receive touch, express desire and meet intimacy – and what unfolded when I brought this practice into a 21-day experiment with my partner.

In this episode, I explore:

• Why Self Pleasure is not a substitute for intimacy with others, but a foundation for it
• How your Self Pleasure practices teaches you the skills to initiate your partner into deeper intimacy
• What becomes possible when you stop outsourcing your pleasure
• How solo practice creates deeper honesty, creativity, connection and magic in partnership

Applications for Blossom & Blade, my 13-week eco-somatic sex coaching programme, are now open. The early bird offer closes on 25 August 2026.

If you’re curious to know more, click here to apply: https://www.blossomandblade.com/

Much love,

Luzi

In this conversation, I explore the desire so many women have: “I want to be more feminine” - while their body is quietly bracing, performing, protecting or shutting down.

I speak about the deeper longing that sits underneath this desire: I want to stop micro-managing and controlling. I want to overcome the terror in my bones. I want to feel safe. I want to trust Life.

I also share the story of my self-marriage ceremony: the day I made a vow to stop abandoning myself for love, and gave my body a new imprint of trust, devotion and inner union.

In this episode, I talk about:

• How trying to be “more feminine” can become another way of abandoning yourself
• Why your body’s protection is highly intelligent, and how to create a felt sense of safety when your trust in life was broken
• What performed pleasure and performed surrender can cost us
• How Self Pleasure becomes a practice of creating and embodying a totally new imprint for love, power and relationships
• Why softness needs a container (the blade): clarity, discernment, structure and self-devotion

And if this conversation touches something in you and you’d like to enter the practice more deeply, I’d love to invite you to my free two-part event, Full-Bodied Aliveness.

Together, we'll journey into the darkness of the body - to explore the subtle layers of sensation through devotional touch and come into intimate conversation with the Sacred through your flesh, blood & bones. It all starts with your hands on your skin - to pour love into the parts that you'd rather not feel. Your body has been designed to nourish you and tingle with erotic aliveness - it's time to return to Lovemaking as a regular prayer.

Sign up for free here: https://www.blossomandblade.com/full-bodied-aliveness-opt-in

For the full journey, applications for Blossom & Blade, my 13-week eco-somatic sex coaching programme, are now open. The next round begins on 13 October 2026, and the Early Bird price is available until 23 August.

Apply here: www.blossomandblade.com

Much love,

Luzi

In this episode, I explore the frustrating gap between understanding your patterns & limitations and actually feeling free from them in your body.

Many of us have done years of therapy, coaching, retreats, ceremonies, medicine and self-inquiry. We understand our attachment patterns, childhood wounds, nervous system responses and relationship dynamics. And yet, when it comes to intimacy, pleasure, surrender, boundaries or speaking our truth, the body can still contract, freeze, numb out or repeat the same old stories.

This is a conversation about why insight alone is not enough, how The Script lives in the body, and why Self Pleasure is a practice of bringing your knowing into your flesh.

In this episode, I explore:

- Why understanding your patterns is not the same as embodying this truth

- How we outsource transformation to teachers, partners, retreats, medicine and ceremonies

- Why numbness, freeze, overwhelm and resistance are not failures, but doorways

- What it means to meet the body through practice, presence and devotion

- Why no one can do this part for you – and why that is actually good news

Applications for Blossom & Blade, my 13-week eco-somatic sex coaching programme, are now open.

The early bird offer for the next round closes on 23 August 2026.

If you’re curious to know more, click here to apply: www.blossomandblade.com

Much love,

Luzi

Welcome to the very first episode of Blossom & Blade!

In this episode, I share the origin story of the work formerly known as JUICE – the heartbreak, descent and unravelling - and the Self Pleasure practice that made me fall in love with myself and changed the course of my life.

This is a conversation about the ways we shut our aliveness down, the body as a connection to the sacred, and what becomes possible when we welcome all parts of ourselves home with the touch of our hands.

In this episode, I explore:

• Why the path to pleasure is a journey into the darkness
• How an earth-shattering breakup became the awakening of my body
• The Self Pleasure ritual that changed everything
• What it means to stop choosing between softness and power, eroticism and innocence, love and freedom

Applications for Blossom & Blade, my 13-week eco-somatic sex coaching programme, are now open. The next round begins on 13 October 2026.

If you’re curious to know more, click here to apply:

⁠https://www.blossomandblade.com/⁠

Much love,

Luzi

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