What The Progress Path Is:
Your Landscape
As we work together and have conversations, we'll explore the Landscape of your relationship and physical intimacy. Your behavioral patterns will emerge, exposing the challenging Pitfalls and peaceful Clearings of how you relate with people. Your patterns are the key; your Pitfalls prevent connection, and your Clearings promote it. Finding them through exploration will give us a Landscape to work with and foster changes to improve your relationships.
Your Haven
We'll find your Haven, your safe place. Your Haven represents the ideal relationship and sex life you'd like to have; it's your end result goals. Knowing clearly what you want can help us tailor your exploration and Path towards those goals. While reaching your Haven is not guaranteed, you'll be further down the Path to improved connection and the sex of your dreams than before.
Your Path
As we walk your Path, we'll use tools and exercises from the Somatica® Method, a combination of talk-based coaching and experiential, embodied practices. During the practices, you'll get live, in-the-moment feed back from the coach (your practice partner), helping you to realize how your words, presence, and touch can affect another person. Through repetitive practice, your skills and confidence will be able to grow by leaps and bounds.
Why It's Effective:
In comparison to purely talk-based modalities, experience based methods are more effective at identifying and addressing entrenched Pitfall behaviors.
With this method, you will not only be guided on how to engage in honest, boundaried, and authentic relationships but also given the opportunity to practice these skills in Sessions. Rather than simply receiving instructions on what to do in future situations, you will experience firsthand how to build a solid foundation of mutual trust, acceptance, and safety. This approach fosters an environment where you can confidently be your true self during Sessions.
How It's Used:
Using Somatica® skills—such as mutual vulnerability, self-awareness, embodiment, and empathy—we will engage in conversations and practices during our initial Sessions to uncover your unique Landscape, Pitfalls, Clearings, and Haven. Once these aspects are identified, we will begin to work on addressing your Pitfalls, using other Somatica® Method techniques to foster positive change and Growth.
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Mutual vulnerability involves both of us being open and vulnerable as we share our emotions, erotic energy, Pitfalls, Clearings, and Havens.
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Through self-awareness, we will gain insights from our Pitfalls and Clearings, guiding us on your journey.
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Embodiment focuses on understanding and listening to the messages our bodies communicate, and we'll integrate these insights into our progress.
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Empathy allows us to truly connect with one another as we experience the full range of emotions together—the dark, the light, and everything in between.