Sex & Art

In this episode you meet Maria (she/her), a creative, smart and funny human being and librarian who loves baking, conventions and reading. 

I met Maria in Linköping - my new hometown in Sweden. A shared friend introduced us during Linköping pride week while talking about queer flags.

Maria identifies as asexual and aromantic, which translates as having little to no longing for sexual or romantic relationships at all. 

In this episode we talk about how it feels to be asexual and aromantic, misconceptions about both and what romantic / sexual people can learn from humans who question and live beyond the usual stereotypes. (I might even be inspired to do a workshop on this :-))

If you want to learn more about asexuality Maria and I recommend this book:
"Ace. What Asexuality reveals about Desire, Society and the meaning of sex"
by Angela Chen

-------------------------------------------------------------------
2024
Produced by: Siri Berlin, Artist & Sex Therapist

Thanks, dear listeners, for spending time with us. Please like, share and subscribe to help us grow this channel.

If you would like to know more about my practice as sex therapist and artist don't hesitate to contact me.

You can find me here:
Email: [email protected]
Insta: @siriberlin
Homepage: www.sirisundin.com

I am full of joy presenting you my most recent recorded podcast episode with Liliana Velásquez (she/her), an exciting and very much alive human being I met in Berlin’s live drawing, comedy, and burlesque scene. 

There are so many words which describe Liliana and all she does and creates in her life. Some of them are : a Colombian woman, a New York rebel, a Miami brat, a Goddess, a Fetishist, a Switch Witch, a Dominatrix, an Actress, a Dominanny, a Comedian, a Doula...

In recent years she quit compartmentalizing aspects of herself, feeling at the age of 47 the abundance of creative outlets, multiple interests, and a plentitude of experiences. 

All aspects of her work are connected through a sense of activism to better the situation for people assigned female at birth as well as queer and multicultured people. 

One of her babies is the comedy show „Time to shine“ she runs with Terry Saunders, which opens a (comedy) stage to normalize kink and sex work.

If you want to work with Liliana you can contact her through her homepage: www.ladios.me

Instagram:
@godess_ladios
@ladios_v
https://www.timetoshinekink.com/


-------------------------------------------------------------------
2024
Produced by: Siri Berlin, Artist & Sex Therapist

Instagram:
@siriberlin
Art: www.siriberlin.de
Sex Therapy: www.thehappysexologist
All of me: www.sirisundin.com

Thanks, dear listeners, for spending time with us. Please like, share and subscribe to help us grow this channel.

If you would like to know more about my practice as sex therapist and artist don't hesitate to contact me.

You can find me here:
Email: [email protected]
Insta: @siriberlin
Homepage: www.sirisundin.com

(English below)
In diese Podcast spreche ich mit der wunderbaren Beckenboden-Physiotherapeutin und Sexualberaterin Sarah Panzburg. Sarah beschreitet neue Wege, indem sie mit viel Achtsamkeit, Consent (Einwilligung) und Einfühlungsvermögen Räume für Menschen und Themen rund um Vulva, Vagina und Beckenraum schafft.

Ich hab Sarah währen einer Ausbildungswoche zum Thema Sexualtherapie kennengelernt. Sie ist eine tolle Bodenständige, lustige Frau zum Pferde stehlen, die zudem Sensitivität und viel Einfühlungsvormögen mitbringt.

Sarah kommt aus Münster und arbeitet in eigener privater Praxis sowie auch online.
In ihrer ganzheitlichen Betrachtung des Körpers darf Schambehaftetes und Schmerzliches an die Öberfläche kommen und kann so heilen.

Würdest Du gerne jemandem wie Sarah begegnen, wenn Du Themen, Probleme, Schmerzen im Beckenraum hast?
Hier kannst Du mit Sarah in Kontakt treten:
https://www.sarah-panzburg.de/
____________________________ 
In this podcast, I talk to the wonderful pelvic floor physiotherapist and sex counselor Sarah Panzburg. Sarah is breaking new ground by creating spaces for people and topics around the vulva, vagina and pelvic area with a lot of mindfulness, consent and empathy. 

I got to know Sarah during a week of training in sex therapy. She is a great down-to-earth, funny woman who also brings sensitivity and a lot of empathy to the table. 

Sarah comes from Münster and works in her own private practice as well as online.
Her holistic approach to the body allows shame and pain to come to the surface and heal. 

Would you like to meet someone like Sarah if you have issues, problems or pain in the pelvic area? 
You can get in touch with Sarah here:
https://www.sarah-panzburg.de/
(For now Sarah works in German, only.)

Thanks, dear listeners, for spending time with us. Please like, share and subscribe to help us grow this channel.

If you would like to know more about my practice as sex therapist and artist don't hesitate to contact me.

You can find me here:
Email: [email protected]
Insta: @siriberlin
Homepage: www.sirisundin.com

For this episode, I had the pleasure to talk to facilitator, witchcraft and ritual creator, and photographer Charlyne, who founded "The Occult Therapy“. 
I got to know them over a friend who is their client and was talking about her experiences in such a fascinating way that I wanted to meet Charlyne.

On Charlyne’s own journey of learning and practicing body piercing, rope suspension, and also performing with these elements on stage, they reconnected to spirituality and found profound access to their own healing. Fascinated by these findings, Charlyne started to share these gifts as a full-time job.

By allowing the dark into our lives we can rewrite our own stories and become the empowered humans we are supposed to be. "Find your light through the darkness. Bleed, surrender, embrace the pain, release." writes Charlyne.

Charlyne lives and works mainly in Berlin and identifies as non-binary. They use different pronouns (they/them/he/she) according to the situation.

You can find out more about Charlyne's services here:
https://theocculttherapy.com

Recorded by Siri Berlin
Siri on Insta
Siri's art on Insta

Thanks, dear listeners, for spending time with us. Please like, share and subscribe to help us grow this channel.

If you would like to know more about my practice as sex therapist and artist don't hesitate to contact me.

You can find me here:
Email: [email protected]
Insta: @siriberlin
Homepage: www.sirisundin.com

For this episode, I met with the incredible life drawing hosts from the Berlin-based sessions called "Sketcherei" - Liana Gilman and Alexandra Rudneva. Their (now online) events are always fun and diverse and leave a lot of space for the self-expression of the model - and of the sketching artists.

The goal of Sketcherei is to connect artists - sketchers and performers - around the globe. The focus of every session is catching the motion and dynamic of the human body, but Sketcherei always has performance at the heart of everything. Coming from a Russian art background hostile to non-academic artists, Alexandra and Liana were keen to create a community for artists of all kinds to enjoy the drawing process.

If you like to get a glimpse of how much thinking and creation can be behind an online life drawing session - or if you just would like to know what two passionate Russian women are doing in Berlin - this episode is for you.

Cheers!

Sketcherei:
https://www.instagram.com/sketcherei/
https://www.facebook.com/sketcherei/

Alexandra
https://www.barsketcher.com/
https://www.instagram.com/barsketcher/

Liana
https://www.instagram.com/liana.gilman/

People we talked about you can support directly if you like:
Berlin Strippers Collective
Yulia Tsvetkova


Recorded by Siri Berlin
Siri on Insta

Thanks, dear listeners, for spending time with us. Please like, share and subscribe to help us grow this channel.

If you would like to know more about my practice as sex therapist and artist don't hesitate to contact me.

You can find me here:
Email: [email protected]
Insta: @siriberlin
Homepage: www.sirisundin.com

Have you always been interested in what it is like to be naked in front of people who look at you constantly? For 2 hours? Are you interested in what is going on in the head of an art model before during and after a session? Then this episode is for you.

Last week I met Danna, a former artistic gymnast, and skilled costume designer from Glasgow in Scotland for an interview to talk about her main job as an art model.  Coming from a long line of artists there are many perspectives that influence Danna's work.  Making the world a better place from wherever you stand in life seems to be an important aspect. And one way she is doing that is by showing up as her vulnerable self in her life drawing sessions.

 Without the world of life drawing going online, I probably wouldn't have met Danna.  Today, she is one of the most inspiring models I ever had the chance to draw and I am looking forward to times when I can meet and draw her in person. Thanks, Danna for your time, and for being.

(PS: The cover image of this podcast is in fact a painting I made inspired by so many session with her I participated in.)

If you want to check Danna out or book her for a session you find her here:
https://www.instagram.com/conkuntion/

We mentioned a few fellow artists during the chat.
You can find them here:

Life Drawing with Sketcherei
https://www.instagram.com/sketcherei/

Costume Design
https://www.instagram.com/softskinlatex/



Recorded by: Siri Berlin
www.siriberlin.de

Thanks, dear listeners, for spending time with us. Please like, share and subscribe to help us grow this channel.

If you would like to know more about my practice as sex therapist and artist don't hesitate to contact me.

You can find me here:
Email: [email protected]
Insta: @siriberlin
Homepage: www.sirisundin.com

For this episode, I met with William Holley, a passionate trumpet player and artist in his spare time, an architect/engineer when it comes to his occupation. William, originally from England, just moved to Hamburg for a new project.

We met some time ago in Berlin at one of the amazing life drawing sessions he is (was and will be) hosting at Keithbar in Berlin Neukölln. 

William’s goal for his event series is to create a space where people meet and feel seen as the person they are and create a space where people are comfortable enough to try out new things. You should see his welcoming smile and friendly hugs he hands out freely to everyone joining his piece-of-art-life-drawing-event. 

If you are curious to find out some secrets of a well-hosted and enthusiastic life drawing session or if you just enjoy someone bringing joy into the world, listen to this episode.

- By the way: The cover of this episode is a drawing I made when William was modelling at Keith Bar in 2020 -

Here you can contact William and  also have a look at his art:
https://www.instagram.com/william.t.holley/

In this FB group you find all events:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1650260861935020

The place where it all happens:
https://www.keithbarberlin.de/

The people we mentioned in the episode:
Expansion Starpower
Cameryn Moore
Hugo Rex Tibirica

Recorded by: Siri Berlin

Thanks, dear listeners, for spending time with us. Please like, share and subscribe to help us grow this channel.

If you would like to know more about my practice as sex therapist and artist don't hesitate to contact me.

You can find me here:
Email: [email protected]
Insta: @siriberlin
Homepage: www.sirisundin.com

For this podcast, I met Andy Buru, an inspiring, well-known, and fun to talk to rope bondage teacher and therapist from Stockholm in Sweden. I met Andy a few years ago at a tantra festival in Ängsbacka, where he also teaches sometimes.  As rope bondage and kink, in general, seem to become more and more popular around me,  I thought it might be interesting getting to know Andy a little better. So I asked him for an interview.

In this episode, we talk about a  project that is very dear to Andy: The amazing conscious kink event series "Salongen" ("The Parlour") where BDSM and art meet. These play parties will be taking place in a theatre setting and are a co-production of Andy Buru and colleagues from theatre and opera.  Listen to the interview to discover some of the secret ingredients of this playful artistic project.

If you want to know more about Andy Buru, his passion, lessons, and sessions you can find a lot of inspiration and information here:
www.andyburu.se

The event series "Salongen" has no official homepage, yet. But if you read Swedish you can catch a glimpse here: https://salongen892898617.wordpress.com/

Because we recorded the session on International Women's day, I asked Andy which women were most influential in his life. Here is some nutrition for your brain, body, and soul:

Ruby May https://www.know-your-flow.com/
Barara Carellas https://barbaracarrellas.com/
Judith Lewis Herman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Lewis_Herman
Esther Perel https://www.estherperel.com/

Thanks, Andy, for being such a delightful person to talk to.


Recorded by Siri Berlin

Thanks, dear listeners, for spending time with us. Please like, share and subscribe to help us grow this channel.

If you would like to know more about my practice as sex therapist and artist don't hesitate to contact me.

You can find me here:
Email: [email protected]
Insta: @siriberlin
Homepage: www.sirisundin.com

Hello wonderful humans, in this episode you follow me and my dear friend Boaz onto two meetings because we decided after the first talk that we needed to add a few more things. And we could have talked even longer. So here you find the essence of our talks. During the first recording, Boaz was still in Berlin. In the second one, he was visiting his birth country Israel.  Living in (between) two cultures while creating a new one is the main topic of this episode. We talked about Boaz art projects, his time in the military, masculinity,  and relations. I am impressed by how deep our talk went and I am still very touched by Boaz poem "My forefathers" which you can listen to at the end of the podcast.

Here you can find Boaz creations and contact him:
https://digitalboaz.com
https://www.instagram.com/digitalboaz/
http://digitalboaz.myportfolio.com/

And don't forget to check out the Sketch-O-Mat
https://www.instagram.com/sketch_o_mat/


Recorded by: Siri Berlin

If you like this podcast, please share it with your friends, subscribe or leave a comment on our social media. Thanks a million. Siri

Thanks, dear listeners, for spending time with us. Please like, share and subscribe to help us grow this channel.

If you would like to know more about my practice as sex therapist and artist don't hesitate to contact me.

You can find me here:
Email: [email protected]
Insta: @siriberlin
Homepage: www.sirisundin.com

In this episode, you meet Sergio, an open hearted engineer from Spain, right now working and studying in Maastricht in The Netherlands. I met Sergio on an intense tantric workshop in Croatia in 2019. I got to know him as a kind human being, who is always committed to personal growth. And he has one of the most inviting smiles I have ever seen.

Recently he created his own men's group - due to his own longing to have a deeper connection with other men. In this episode, we talk about his way of creating a circle, the benefits, and challenges.

Sergio:
"In October 2020, I started a circle of men. It's been now 5 months and I can surely say that it's one of the most transformative experiences I have ever had. Not always easy to put yourself and your insecurities in front of other men, but definitely worth every time I did it. Here is an interview I did with a dear friend where we go a little bit deeper on the topic and my experience. Last but not least, I really really want to thank the men that had the courage to start this journey, stay and show-up in every meeting we have. I have loved seeing how much we are progressing all together and I keep loving every meeting we have  Love you guys."

If you are interested in creating your own men's group and you don't know where to start, you can contact Sergio and he will be happy to help: [email protected]

A few good ideas on how to create a men's group Sergio found on this page:

https://www.jordangrayconsulting.com/mens-group

Jordan Gray describes a men's group as:

"A men’s group is when a group of men meet regularly in order to better themselves as individuals. It is not a spiritual group, though spiritual things certainly can take place. It is not a therapy group, even though therapeutic benefits do occur for all who attend. It is not a self-help group, even though selves do get helped.

It is simply a regularly held group container wherein men are able to heal parts of their psyche, and become sharper, wiser, and more well rounded as people."

Recorded by Siri Berlin, Sweden

Thanks, dear listeners, for spending time with us. Please like, share and subscribe to help us grow this channel.

If you would like to know more about my practice as sex therapist and artist don't hesitate to contact me.

You can find me here:
Email: [email protected]
Insta: @siriberlin
Homepage: www.sirisundin.com