Your Body Remembers Pleasure – Details, episodes & analysis

What if arousal and pleasure weren’t “inappropriate”… but powerful markers of health?

Explore sexual sovereignty and embodied pleasure:
https://rahichun.com/podcast/sexual-sovereignty-pleasure

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”

Learn more about Saida’s work: embodiedloveuniversity.com

More resources about Somatic Sexual Wholeness:  rahichun.com

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What if your sexuality was never broken — only buried?

Explore rewilding eros and reclaiming aliveness:
https://rahichun.com/podcast/rewilding-eros-shame-healing

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.

Learn more about Victor’s work at RewildEros.com

More resources and writings: rahichun.com
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What if genital health wasn’t separate from pleasure… but directly connected to it?

Explore genital health, mapping, and somatic sexual healing:
https://rahichun.com/podcast/genital-health-pleasure-explained

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
• 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®

Learn about the Art of Genital De-armoring: rahichun.com/the3keys

What if prostate pleasure wasn’t something to fear… but something your body has always had the capacity to experience?

Explore prostate massage and embodied anal pleasure:
https://rahichun.com/podcast/prostate-massage-for-beginners

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
• 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.

Learn more: theprostaticportal.com
More resources: rahichun.com

What makes a sexuality space truly safe?

Explore consent, race, and embodied sexuality:
https://rahichun.com/podcast/consent-race-sacred-sexuality

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
• 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

Learn the somatic practices for Reclaiming Pleasure  - rahichun.com/reclaimingyourpleasure

What if pleasure was still available to you… even in a body experiencing pain?

Explore sexuality, chronic pain, and embodied healing:
https://rahichun.com/podcast/pleasure-beyond-pain-chronic-pain-sexuality

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
• 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.

Because every body is a pleasure body.

More about Emily Royce: healwithpleasure.com

Learn to Touch and Be Touched → rahichun.com/turnedonbytouch

What if the shifts in libido, mood, and energy you experience… aren’t problems—but transitions your body is guiding you through?

Explore hormones, menopause, and sexual vitality:
https://rahichun.com/podcast/menopause-andropause-libido-hormones

Every human body goes through puberty.

And every human body will also move through menopause or andropause.

Yet somehow… we’re taught almost nothing about what happens next.

Brain fog.
Low libido.
Poor sleep.
Weight gain.
Vaginal dryness.
Erectile changes.
Mood shifts.

Most people assume:

“This is just aging.”

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)
• Signs of low testosterone: brain fog, low energy, weak erections, low drive
• Why many doctors miss hormonal imbalances
• Natural approaches vs. bioidentical hormone replacement
• Herbs and lifestyle tools for hormone support
• The risks of jumping straight to testosterone injections
• Gut health + hormones as the foundation of feeling good
• Simple anti-aging practices for lifelong vitality

Dr. Guy shares something I deeply believe:

You don’t have to feel old just because you’re aging.
Your body can feel vibrant, sexual, and alive for decades longer than we’ve been taught.

Hormones aren’t just about reproduction.

They shape:
your mood
your metabolism
your sleep
your desire

your sense of being at home in your body

When they’re balanced, life feels radically different.

Guest:

Dr. Guy Citrin.   citrinwellness.com
Naturopathic Doctor | Hormone & Gut Health Specialist

More resources about Somatic Sexual Wholeness→ rahichun.com

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What if your erotic nature wasn’t something to control… but something to rewild?

Explore erotic embodiment and reclaiming aliveness:
https://rahichun.com/podcast/rewilding-eros-belonging-community

What if you already belong — exactly as you are?

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.

To soften.
To question.
To remember your place in the living web of life.

Learn more about Christiane’s work:
 christianepelmas.com

Learn the skills and practices for reclaiming pleasure:
rahichun.com/reclaimingyourpleasure

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What if sexual arousal wasn’t something to rush through… but a doorway into clarity, creativity, and deep embodiment?

Explore sexological bodywork and embodied erotic practice:
https://rahichun.com/podcast/joseph-kramer-sexological-bodywork

What if touch could change your consciousness?

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.

If you’ve ever felt called to explore the deeper intelligence of the body, this episode is essential listening.

More resources :

orgasmicyoga.com/
rahichun.com

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What if your body wasn’t just physical… but electric?

Explore erotic embodiment and sexual energy:
https://rahichun.com/podcast/body-electric-erotic-embodiment

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.

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

Resources & Links

Craig Cullinane – craigcullinane.com
The Body Electric School – bodyelectric.org
More teachings & resources – rahichun.com