Heartgasms

In today’s episode I talk to Bina Taverna about:

💖 The courage it takes to crack open—how heartbreak can become a portal to deeper intimacy and wisdom.

💖 Choosing vulnerability even when we know it will hurt, and finding beauty within the breaking.

💖 The difference between pain and suffering, and how allowing emotion to move through the body sets us free.

💖 Compassionate self-soothing, emotional release, and giving grief a somatic voice.

💖 Breath, sound, and movement as gateways to life energy and presence.

💖 Shame and conditioning around expression—why sound and rage need safe release.

💖 Shibari as conscious polarity work that deepens trust, containment, and surrender.

💖 The exquisite tension between longing for intimacy and fearing its power.

💖 Cracking open to the mystery of life itself, surrendering to the unknown as the ultimate love affair.

About Bina:

Bina Taverna is a Shibari & Tantra facilitator with experience since over a decade.

She regularly hosts retreats, workshops & 1:1 sessions in Zurich. She has a diverse background in bodywork, sexological bodywork, coaching, kundalini, BDSM, breathwork, polarity integration, dance and movement practices. She creates spaces that invite exquisite presence for transformational work. She dances between the polarities of the light and the dark and the ecstasy of diving into the mysteries.

Her offerings provide space for emotional expression, self-love and personal growth, transforming blockages and finding inner power and purpose. Her trauma-sensitive approach creates the safety for vulnerability unfold to explore the depths of our being in a more raw and intimate way.

Connect with Bina:

https://www.binataverna.com

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In today’s special Heartgasms episode, I’m joined by my fellow leadership coaches and colleagues Afsheen Ismail-Wey and Andreas Zink from The Phoenix Coaching Company. Together we explore what it really means to thrive — in work, in leadership, and in life — and how to re-energise ourselves when the world feels heavy.

In this episode we talk about:

💖 Energy drainers and energisers — how to tell the difference and make powerful daily choices.

💖 The simple rituals and habits that move us from surviving to thriving.

💖 Why self-awareness, gratitude and connection are key to sustaining leadership energy.

💖 What it means to lead with presence, playfulness and purpose.

💖 A sneak peek into our upcoming Thrive 55-Minute Virtual Power-Up Sessions — designed to help you feel grounded, recharged and ready to shine.

About The Phoenix Coaching Company:

We’re a full-service leadership development organisation with a bold mission: to help leaders grow capability, drive engagement and maximise impact. Led by CEO Afsheen Ismail-Wey, we bring global experience, heart and innovation to every partnership — creating inclusive cultures where leaders truly thrive.

In today’s episode I talk to Matthias Schwenteck about:

💖 Somatic consent and intimacy coaching to reclaim autonomy, boundaries and erotic power.

💖 Evolving beyond the Wheel of Consent to centre love, care and self-care in daily life.

💖 Creating safer rooms: clear frames, real choice, and honouring observing or leaving.

💖 Practising requests, clean yes and no, and unlearning the fawn response.

💖 Nervous system wisdom: why slowness and heart connection open many women’s sensuality.

💖 Sensory inflow: shifting from head loops to felt sense, oxytocin, and simple object-play.

💖 Meeting shame with honesty, transforming it—even into a liberating “shamegasm.”

💖 Core values of integrity, gratitude, generosity and surrender, plus Matt’s heartgasm moments.

About Matthias:

Matthias Schwenteck is a somatic consent educator, intimacy coach, and founder of the Somatic Consent Academy. With decades of experience in somatic embodiment, erotic education, and relational empowerment, he guides individuals, couples, and professionals to cultivate boundaries, deepen intimacy, and transform sexuality into conscious practice. His work integrates consent, touch, and erotic awareness into pathways of sovereignty and connection.

Connect with Matthias:

somaticconsent.com

somaticeros.com

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In today’s episode I talk to Sharon Shelly about:

💖 Finding grounded safety in being real and her powerful work on healing the mother wound.

💖 Living as a highly sensitive person, balancing creative flow with deep rest.

💖 Drawing vitality from nature, cooking, reading, and daily intuitive writing.

💖 Transforming childhood pain into attunement, self-authority, and soul connection.

💖 Trusting life’s unfolding and meeting mistakes with gentle acceptance.

💖 Using Hakomi therapy to expand choice beyond trauma’s narrow lens.

💖 Beginning to heal the mother wound by naming the pain and following authentic impulses.

💖 The heartgasm of being truly seen—and the river that carries us all.

About Shelly

Shelly Sharon is a certified Hakomi therapist and trauma healing practitioner, helping women who've been around the block with healing modalities and want to unpack the way the mother wound still holds them back, so they can let go of guilt and efforting and thrive in their lives and careers.

After a childhood marked by neglect and abandonment, Shelly turned her story on its head and built a life of purpose and healing. She’s been a professional ballet dancer, a coffeeshop owner, and a sought-after social change strategist. But it was through years of intense meditation practice with leading international teachers that she came to own her mother wound. Shelly is a CPSTD-informed, certified Hakomi therapist, helping women heal the mother wound so they can thrive in their lives and careers.

Connect with Shelly

https://www.shellysharon.com/birthrite

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In today’s episode I talk to Cécile Baumann about:

💖 Transforming burnout and pain into vitality and self-connection through conscious movement.

💖 The Alexander Technique as a gentle pathway to reunite body, mind, and spirit.

💖 The courage it takes to stop “doing” and rediscover the power of simply being.i

💖 Finding wholeness and emotional release by allowing stillness, rest, and presence.

💖 Embracing our natural curves, quirks, and movements instead of striving for perfection.

💖 How playfulness opens the door to authentic transformation and resilience.

💖 The importance of grounding, rooting, and trusting the body’s innate wisdom.

💖 Relearning curiosity — meeting each moment, sensation, and change as an invitation to life itself.

About Cécile:

Cécile is a recognized expert in body and movement therapy with over 19 years of experience and a remarkable 90% success rate in pain management. As a federally licensed complementary therapist, she is passionate about fostering change through self-awareness and conscious movement. Cécile empowers individuals to cultivate good posture and healthy movement patterns, leading to a self-determined life. If you believe in the transformative power of thought and changing lifelong habits, you’ll gain invaluable insights from Cécile on the Alexander Technique.

Connect with Cécile:

Website:

https://movingpain2power.com/

Social media profiles:

https://linkedin.com/in/cécile-baumann-arnold

https://www.facebook.com/MovingPain2Power

https://www.Instagram.com/movingpain2power

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In today’s episode I talk to Jeannette Meier about:

❤️ Moving from head to heart — how co-creation becomes a graceful dance of giving and receiving.

❤️ Heart-presence as true leadership: love, uniqueness, and co-creation over performance and polish.

❤️ The self-love bridge — Jeannette’s journey from systems engineer to heart-led living and work.

❤️ Dissolving fear in the heart — from ski-lift heights to meditation — and tasting those delicious “heartgasms.”

❤️ Vulnerability without apology: opening soft, meeting pushback, and staying rooted in compassion.

❤️ Simple practices to drop in: close the eyes, breathe into the heart, and observe with kindness.

❤️ Everyday embodiment — letting heart energy expand through voice, body, and presence.

❤️ Trusting inner wisdom: living from the inside out and allowing life to unfold through intuition.

About Jeannette

Jeannette's life took her to extremes for her to discover the voice of her heart, and with it came wisdom, freedom, and truth.

She intuitively counsels through one-on-one sessions. She has been guiding people in their personal and professional lives for the past 12 years, and has been leading in IT with her heart for 28 years. She knows that ultimately, personal life impacts the professional. For her, the purpose is to be who you are and create what you love, everywhere.

Jeannette heart-hosts the Leadership Circle podcast, where she and her guests connect authentically without any script or structure. It isn't about perfect words or clever responses, but about showing up completely present and unguarded. 

She plants the seeds of co-creation. Those moments of true connection don't just change the conversation—they change everyone involved. When someone experiences what it feels like to be truly seen and met, they carry that knowing forward into every r

Connect with Jeannette

https://jeannettemeier.com

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https://jeannettemeier.substack.com/

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Permission for Pleasure Special 

In today’s special episode, I’m taking you back to a talk I spontaneously recorded in the forest a few years ago on one of my favourite topics in the world… Pleasure.

Even though it was recorded a few years ago, the energy still pulses with truth — the joy of speaking about pleasure while in pleasure. I hope it ripples out to you as you listen.

💗 Why pleasure is so beautifully personal — and why nobody else gets to define it for you 💗 The many flavours of pleasure — sensual, spiritual, sexual, playful, homely, and beyond 💗 The barriers we unconsciously put in the way of our own pleasure 💗 How guilt, shame, and “busyness” can disconnect us from delight 💗 Why pleasure is not frivolous — but a gift that nourishes us and everyone around us 💗 The serendipitous encounter that sparked my own deep pleasure journey

Ways to journey into more pleasure with me:

1️⃣ Dip your toes in — Attend my free 1-hour Awaken Your Pleasure Circle on 1st September. Sign up here: https://coachingcreatively.myflodesk.com/awakenyourpleasurecircle

2️⃣ Ready to dive deeper? — Join my Permission for Pleasure Online Group Coaching Programme this Autumn, starting 6th October 2025. 📖 Read more about the programme here: 

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3️⃣ Step into your own sensual awakening — Visit me in my cosy and relaxing in-person studio for a deeply nurturing Sexological Bodywork and Tantra & Coaching Journey. These sessions are a safe, non-judgemental space to reconnect with your body, expand your capacity for pleasure, and explore your erotic and sensual self at your own pace. We’ll work intuitively with your boundaries, desires, and curiosities to help you experience more aliveness in every area of your life. 

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In today’s episode I talk to Emmanuelle Erard about:

❤️ Wild woman awakening through motherhood

❤️ Reigniting sensual energy after giving birth

❤️ Painting as a portal to inner fire and truth

❤️ Letting go of control through music and dance

❤️ Creating without fear, rules, or apologies

❤️ Trusting life deeply, rooted since childhood

❤️ Showing vulvas, naked men, and raw emotion

❤️ Claiming time to create just for herself

❤️ Birth as a golden, heart-exploding Heartgasm

❤️ Nature, spontaneity, and sisterhood as fuel

About Emmanuelle

Emmanuelle Erard is a Wild Woman Artist Painter. She grew up in Neuchâtel and now lives beside the lake of Zurich. She has a deep love for wild nature, sensuality, and authenticity.

From a young age, Emmanuelle loved to draw — anytime, anywhere. After pursuing a successful career in Economics, she lost touch with her artistic roots. Motherhood marked a turning point, and she began painting more and more. Her inner fire reignited, just like in her early childhood. Emmanuelle eventually found the courage to transform her passion into her profession. 

Through her art, she seeks to awaken the inner fire of others, encouraging authenticity, sensual energy, and self-love — free from fear or judgment.

Connect with Emmanuelle:

Website:www.emmanuelleerard.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/emmanuelleerard

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuelle-erard

Facebook: www.facebook.com/emmanuelleerardart

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In today’s episode I talk to Elaine Yonge about:

❤️ How grief, when met fully, can become a gateway to spaciousness and presence

❤️ The truth that our capacity for joy is often carved by the depth of our sorrow

❤️ The heartbreak and liberation that comes from surrendering control

❤️ The emotional and physical expansion of the heart — even through pain

❤️ Why so many of us fear pleasure as much as we fear pain

❤️ The power of allowing rather than suppressing emotion

❤️ What it means to truly see ourselves — with both compassion and accountability

❤️ And how tiny, brave risks can open the door to wild, embodied aliveness

About Elaine

Elaine is a Group Facilitator, Educator, Coach, Guide, Energy & Bodyworker in the fields of Consciousness, Shamanic Breathwork, Sacred Sexuality, Soul Initiation and Somatic Sexology. 

Elaine has supported thousands of beings in deep transformational spaces for over 13 years to explore the multifaceted nature of being a human. 

She has facilitated over 250 residential retreats and workshops in over 20 countries. Her certifications include specialities such as Certified Sexological Bodyworker, Tantra Educator and Certified Shamanic Breathwork Facilitator. 

Her journey has involved a lifelong fascination and inquiry into awareness, purpose, the human condition, love, sexuality, spiritual connection, soul wisdom, expansion, learning, unlearning, meditation, physiology, health, disease, exploring aliveness, sexuality, death and grief. 

In her earlier life, Elaine was a Medical Scientist for 20 years working in research, surgery, clinical practice and direct patient care, she enjoys bridging the ‘apparent illusional gap’ between science, mysticism & spirituality with love and respect for all.

Connect with Elaine

www.elainejonge.com

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https://www.youtube.com/@ElaineYonge

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✨ GUIDED VISUALISATION: Gladdening the Mind ✨
A joy meditation from the heart of the forest

Inspired by Tara Brach, this short guided visualisation is an offering of presence — a chance to gladden the mind, open the heart, and reconnect with quiet joy.

💖 Settle into stillness and arrive as you are
💖 Call in the energy of a being you love
💖 Let joy ripple gently through your body
💖 Soften your inner world with warmth and tenderness

Let this be your pause — a moment to remember that joy isn’t somewhere else. It’s here. Waiting to be chosen.

💌 Ready to nurture your inner child?
I’ve created a beautiful free offering just for you — a three-part Reparenting Your Inner Child Guided Visualisation Journey to help you meet, soothe, and cherish the tender parts within.

👉 Access the journey here: https://coachingcreatively.myflodesk.com/innerchildjourney

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