What if your body already knows the way back to pleasure, intimacy, and wholeness? Your Body Remembers Pleasure is a podcast devoted to sexual embodiment, relational intimacy, and the body’s innate intelligence to heal, feel, and remember pleasure. Through intimate conversations with leading somatic therapists, sexologists, sexological bodyworkers, and holistic practitioners from around the world, we explore what actually supports embodied sexual awakening — not in theory, but through lived, hands-on experience. This is an invitation to listen beneath performance and technique…. to the organic wisdom of your body, the truth carried in sensation, and the quiet intelligence of your erotic life force.
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In this richly embodied conversation, Rahi Chun sits down with Dr. Saida Desilets — pioneering teacher of sacred sexuality and creator of the Embodied Psychosexual Method — to explore sexual sovereignty, erotic innocence, and the body’s capacity to heal through pleasure, breath, and deep attunement.
Saida shares the astonishing origins of her life’s work: from a childhood rooted in natural sensual connection, to surviving violence, to being told at age twenty she had only two weeks to live — and the radical path of choosing life, reclaiming vitality, and rebuilding her relationship to desire from the inside out.
Together, we explore how shame disrupts the body’s natural aliveness, why relaxed arousal is the foundation of true intimacy, and how rewilding in nature can restore the pre-verbal sensual intelligence that makes us more connected lovers and humans.
This episode bridges: embodiment • sexuality • nervous system wisdom • pleasure-based healing • and the wild intelligence of the body
Inside this conversation:
• Saida’s origin story and how her life force became her teacher • What “sexual sovereignty” actually means — beyond the buzzword • Why arousal and pleasure can be normalized as wellness indicators • The difference between performance sex and relaxed arousal • Erotic innocence: reclaiming turn-on without shame or meaning-making • How wilderness rewilding restores sensual attunement and presence • Why leaning into discomfort in intimacy can transform into deeper pleasure • Breath as the simplest daily practice for reclaiming aliveness • “Yum vs. yuck”: training attention as a pathway to more vitality • What it really means to “marinate in your own essence”
In this expansive conversation, somatic sexuality coach Victor Warring explores the process of “rewilding eros” — reconnecting with the innate erotic intelligence we’re all born with before shame, culture, and conditioning taught us to disconnect.
Drawing from his work in somatic psychology, grief work during the AIDS epidemic, and sexological bodywork, Victor shares why grief and pleasure are inseparable, how shame limits our erotic capacity, and why reclaiming your aliveness is a radical act of healing — and even activism.
We explore:
the connection between grief and eros
sexual shame and “upper limits” to pleasure
erotic sovereignty and owning your desire
how culture domesticates our bodies and sexuality
creating an erotically alive home and community
why healing is subtractive (removing conditioning, not fixing yourself)
erotic embodiment as activism
practical ways to expand your pleasure ceiling safely
This episode is an invitation to remember: your erotic nature isn’t something to learn — it’s something to uncover.
This episode is a special replay of a live masterclass with Dr. Jennifer Lang — board-certified gynecologic oncologist, obstetrician, and integrative gynecologist — where we bridge two worlds that rarely speak to each other:
Western medicine and Somatic Sexual Healing.
Together, we explore three deceptively simple questions that can radically transform your relationship with your body:
What is genital health?
What is genital pleasure?
What is genital wholeness?
From my perspective as a somatic sex educator and sexological bodyworker, and Jen’s training in clinical gynecology and integrative medicine, we examine how nervous system safety, early conditioning, trauma, anatomy, and touch all shape the way we experience our genitals — not just medically, but emotionally and energetically.
Because true genital health isn’t only the absence of disease. It’s the ability to feel, attune, respond, and experience pleasure.
This conversation moves beyond theory into practical, body-based tools you can actually use.
In this masterclass, we cover:
How the nervous system directly affects sexual responsiveness and genital sensation
The connection between shame, trauma, and “genital armoring”
Why many people feel numb, disconnected, or in pain
The somatic practice of genital mapping
What Western medicine gets right — and what it often misses
Prostate Massage for Beginners: Mindful Healing & Pleasure Practices
Season 3 · Episode 7
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 • Duration 36:25
What if prostate pleasure wasn’t something to fear… but something your body has always had the capacity to experience?
Three years ago, my first conversation with Stine and Asim about prostate massage became the most downloaded episode of the entire podcast.
Clearly, there’s a deep curiosity — and a quiet hunger — around prostate health, healing, and pleasure.
So this is Part Two.
In this episode, the founders of The Prostate Portal return to guide us through what many people have been asking for:
What actually happens in a first prostate massage? How do you prepare the body? And how do you approach it safely, gently, and without fear?
Together, we walk step-by-step through the physical, emotional, and nervous-system preparation for prostate massage — for both the receiver and the giver.
Because this isn’t about performance or chasing orgasm. It’s about safety, surrender, and deep listening to the body.
Stine and Asim blend somatic psychology, tantra, breathwork, trauma-awareness, and hands-on bodywork to create an approach that is practical, grounded, and profoundly respectful of the vulnerability of this part of the body.
And what they consistently see is surprising:
When fear and shame dissolve, what remains is often relaxation, healing, emotional release, and full-body pleasure.
In this episode, we explore:
Why the prostate is often called a “sacred portal” in the body
Common fears and taboos around anal touch — and how to normalize them
How to down-regulate the nervous system before touch
Consent, Race & Sacred Sexuality: Creating Truly Safe Spaces for Pleasure with Amina Peterson
Not just “clothing optional.” Not just “tantric.” Not just “trauma-informed.”
But actually safe — in the nervous system.
In this deeply honest and necessary conversation, I’m joined by Amina Peterson, somatic healer, sexologist, founder of the Atlanta Institute of Tantra, and a powerful voice for Black women’s pleasure, embodiment, and liberation.
Together, we explore a question that many sacred sexuality communities avoid:
How can we talk about consent and healing if we don’t acknowledge race, culture, and lived experience in the body?
Because safety isn’t theoretical. Safety is embodied.
And if someone’s history includes racialized trauma, exclusion, or sexualization of their body, that reality directly impacts their ability to relax, open, feel pleasure, and give authentic consent.
This conversation bridges somatics, tantra, trauma healing, and cultural awareness in a way that feels both grounded and revolutionary.
In this episode, we explore:
What “somatic consent” really means (beyond yes/no)
Learning to listen to the body before intimacy
Reggie Ray’s somatic descent practice and embodied presence
Why many tantra and sacred sexuality spaces don’t feel safe for people of color
The nervous system impact of belonging vs. hypervigilance
Microaggressions and unseen barriers in healing spaces
Why representation matters in erotic and therapeutic work
Creating containers that center Black women’s pleasure
Pleasure Beyond Pain: Somatic Sexual Healing for Chronic Pain & Differently Abled Bodies with Emily Royce
Season 3 · Episode 5
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 • Duration 44:57
What if pleasure was still available to you… even in a body experiencing pain?
In this deeply compassionate conversation, I’m joined by Emily Royce — certified somatic sex educator, sexological bodyworker, chronic pain specialist, and former president of the Association of Certified Sexological Bodyworkers — to explore sexuality, intimacy, and embodiment for people living with chronic pain, disability, illness, and differently abled bodies.
Because so many of us have been taught:
“I’m broken.” “My body doesn’t work.” “Sex isn’t for me anymore.”
And yet…
The body still longs to feel. Still longs to connect. Still remembers pleasure.
Emily shares her personal journey growing up with chronic pain and an MS diagnosis — and how grief, dance, meditation, and somatic practice unexpectedly opened the door to greater joy, erotic aliveness, and nervous system healing.
Together, we explore how pleasure doesn’t have to look like what movies or magazines tell us.
Sometimes pleasure begins with something far simpler:
A neutral breath. A soft touch. An elbow. A knee. A moment of safety.
Because when the nervous system feels safe, new neural pathways open — and the body discovers new ways to feel good.
In this episode, we explore:
Sexuality and intimacy with chronic pain or disability
Menopause, Andropause & Libido: How Hormones Shape Sexual Vitality with Dr. Guy Citrin
Season 3 · Episode 4
Friday, August 9, 2024 • Duration 45:39
What if the shifts in libido, mood, and energy you experience… aren’t problems—but transitions your body is guiding you through?
But what if it’s simply hormones out of balance — and completely treatable?
In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Guy Riekeman, naturopathic physician and specialist in hormonal health, gut health, and regenerative medicine, to break down what’s actually happening inside the body during perimenopause, menopause, and andropause — and how to restore energy, vitality, and sexual aliveness naturally.
This conversation is both science-based and empowering.
Because suffering through hormonal shifts isn’t inevitable. And you don’t have to “just live with it.”
In this episode, we explore:
What perimenopause and menopause actually are (and why symptoms happen)
The truth about progesterone, estrogen, and mood regulation
Why PMS, heavy cycles, and painful periods are not “normal”
Vaginal dryness, libido loss, and sexual pain — and what to do about it
Andropause explained: low testosterone in men (even in their 20s and 30s)
Rewilding Eros: Belonging, Community & the Untamed Nature of Our Sexuality with Christiane Pelmas
Season 3 · Episode 3
Friday, July 26, 2024 • Duration 49:06
What if your erotic nature wasn’t something to control… but something to rewild?
In this expansive and deeply human conversation, Rahi Chun sits with author, mentor, and founder of the Institute for Erotic Intelligence, Christiane Pelmas, to explore rewilding, belonging, and the untamed nature of our erotic embodiment.
Together they question one of the most invisible forces shaping our lives: the pressure to fit in.
From childhood conditioning to sexual norms to professional identities, we’re taught to domesticate ourselves — to trim our edges, suppress desire, and conform.
But what happens when we stop trying to fit… and remember that we already belong?
Through stories of community potlucks, fire circles, mentorship, erotic friendship, psychedelics, trauma healing, and dismantling rigid ethical boxes, this episode invites us into a more ecological way of being — where sexuality, intimacy, and connection are wild, relational, and alive.
Inside this conversation:
• Belonging vs. fitting in (and why they’re opposites) • Rewilding the body, desire, and community • Trauma as a rupture in belonging • Why healing doesn’t have to be “hard work” • Erotic friendship and breaking relational compartments • Community gatherings as medicine • Psychedelics, embodiment, and expanded intimacy • Ethics as an internal, lived experience (not external rules) • Returning to our indigenous language of connection
This episode is less a teaching… and more an invitation.
The Founder of Sexological Bodywork: Joseph Kramer on Touch, Arousal & the Body Electric
Season 3 · Episode 2
Wednesday, May 22, 2024 • Duration 52:54
What if sexual arousal wasn’t something to rush through… but a doorway into clarity, creativity, and deep embodiment?
In this landmark conversation, Rahi Chun sits down with Joseph Kramer — founder of the Body Electric School and architect of the profession of Sexological Bodywork — whose teachings have trained thousands of somatic sex educators and erotic healers around the world.
Often called the grandfather of modern somatic sexuality, Joseph has spent over four decades exploring one radical idea:
That sustained, conscious touch can awaken the “Body Electric” — a state of aliveness, presence, and expanded awareness.
From his early years as a Jesuit seminarian forbidden to touch… to founding the Body Electric during the AIDS crisis… to developing erotic massage, breathwork, and non-ejaculatory arousal practices…
Joseph shares how sexual energy became not just pleasure — but a path to embodiment, healing, and insight.
Inside this episode:
• The origin story of the Body Electric School • How Sexological Bodywork became a recognized profession • Touch as communication and consciousness • Why chasing orgasm limits erotic potential • The power of sustained (non-ejaculatory) arousal • Breathwork and sexual energy circulation • Erotic massage as meditation • “Erotic massage dancing” and active embodiment • Porn, presence, and reclaiming attention • Sexual rituals for staying embodied in a digital world
This is both a masterclass and a transmission — a rare chance to hear directly from one of the pioneers who shaped the field of somatic sex education.
The Body Electric, Erotic Embodiment & Healing Sexual Shame with Craig Cullinane
Season 3 · Episode 1
Thursday, February 8, 2024 • Duration 46:56
What if your body wasn’t just physical… but electric?
Many of us were never taught that our sexuality could be sacred.
Instead, we inherited shame. Secrecy. Silence.
And for many — especially queer bodies — that shame lives deep in the nervous system, shaping how safe we feel in our own skin.
So what happens when we enter a space where our bodies are honored… our pleasure is welcomed… and our erotic energy is treated as holy?
In this heartfelt conversation, I’m joined by Craig Cullinane — longtime faculty member and former director of The Body Electric School — to explore the path of erotic embodiment, healing sexual shame, and the power of sacred, consent-based erotic community.
Craig shares his journey from body dysmorphia and chronic shame to profound spiritual awakening through a Body Electric workshop — an experience that ultimately led him to assist, teach, and guide the organization for over a decade.
Together we talk about:
how shame disconnects us from pleasure and intimacy
why safety and consent are the foundation of erotic healing
the role of breath, touch, and ritual in awakening the whole body
reclaiming masturbation and self-pleasure as sacred practice
pornography, distraction, and emotional numbing
how erotic energy fuels creativity, intuition, and life force
and how The Body Electric has expanded to serve all genders and communities
At its heart, this episode is about remembering something simple and radical:
Your body is not a problem to fix. Your pleasure is not something to hide.Your erotic energy is life force.
How pleasure supports healing, vitality, and overall wellbeing
Trauma-informed approaches to restoring sensation
Practical techniques for vulva owners:
Clitoral dearmoring
G-spot / urethral sponge mapping
Cervical sensitivity and trust-building touch
Pelvic floor and vaginal tissue attunement
Practical techniques for penis owners:
Frenulum sensitivity
Coronal ridge and glans mapping
Shaft and base dearmoring
Prostate and perineal awareness
We also speak candidly about how culture, religion, early childhood conditioning, and medical systems shape our relationship with our genitals — often disconnecting us from our innate capacity for pleasure.
At its core, this episode is about reclaiming agency:
Listening to your body. Learning its language. And remembering that pleasure is not indulgent — it’s biological intelligence.
This is a rare and refreshing dialogue between medicine and somatics, offering a more complete vision of sexual health than either field alone.
With:
Dr. Jennifer Lang – Integrative Gynecologist Rahi Chun – Somatic Sex Educator & creator of Somatic Sexual Wholeness®
Breathwork practices to relax the pelvic floor and anal sphincter
Why slowing down matters more than technique
Step-by-step guidance for a first prostate massage
How to separate orgasm from ejaculation
Prostate pleasure, multi-orgasmic potential, and internal energy flow
Trauma-informed approaches to working with stored tension or emotion
What to expect physically and emotionally after a session (integration)
How partners can hold safe, loving space for each other
We also talk about their new online course, The Prostate Portal, designed for prostate owners and their partners to explore this work privately, safely, and at their own pace.
At its heart, this conversation isn’t just about the prostate.
It’s about reclaiming parts of the body that culture has taught us to fear or ignore — and discovering how much life force, sensitivity, and healing live there.
The need for more trained Black male surrogates and practitioners
Slowing down as a radical act of healing
How true pleasure only emerges when the body feels safe
Amina shares how her own journey — from massage therapy and sexual surrogacy to founding a nationally recognized tantra institute — grew from one simple truth:
If the body doesn’t feel safe, it cannot open. And if it cannot open, pleasure is limited.
This episode is an invitation to look deeper — at our bodies, our spaces, and the unconscious systems we carry into intimacy.
Because sacred sexuality without safety isn’t sacred.
More about Amina Peterson & Atlanta Institute of Tantra: atl tantra.com
How medicalization disconnects us from body wisdom
Why “neutral” can be the gateway to pleasure
Somatic tools for rebuilding trust with your body
Client-led, body-led consent practices
Slowing down as a radical healing practice
How pleasure supports neuroplasticity and pain relief
Expanding beyond genital-focused sexuality
Unexpected pleasure pathways (yes… even elbows and knees)
Working with grief, trauma, and stored emotion through movement
Why every body deserves access to pleasure
Emily reminds us:
Pleasure isn’t performance. Pleasure is resource. Pleasure is regulation. Pleasure is healing.
This episode is an invitation to soften the cultural myths about what sex “should” look like — and instead listen deeply to what your body actually wants.
If this conversation supported you, leaving a 5-star review helps this work reach more people reclaiming pleasure and embodiment.
And when we treat it as sacred, everything changes.
If you’re curious about somatic sexuality, erotic healing workshops, or exploring your body with more reverence and freedom, this conversation will feel like coming home.
In this episode, we explore:
• Craig’s first life-changing Body Electric workshop • Healing body shame and sexual shame • Creating safe containers for deep erotic transformation • Why pleasure is medicine for the nervous system • Simple practices to awaken your whole body as an erotic organ • Conscious self-touch and breathwork rituals • The impact of porn habits and intentional “porn cleanses” • Erotic energy as creativity, spirituality, and life force • The evolution of The Body Electric School into a global, inclusive movement
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