The Sacred Intimacy Temple

In this episode, we explore the role of pleasure & eros in intimacy. I share my personal journey of reconnecting with my sexuality after trauma through the pleasure of sensuality. This conversation explores how pleasure is our life force energy and can be a resource for healing, the significance of sensuality, and the empowerment that comes from reclaiming one's sexual energy. 

Key Topics 

• Reclaiming pleasure after trauma

• Expanding the definition of pleasure beyond sex

• Using pleasure as a resource for healing and empowerment

• The role of sensuality and embodiment in reconnecting with pleasure & eros

Chapters

01:52 Exploring Pleasure and Eros

06:22 The Journey Back to Sexuality

12:52 Reconnecting with Sensuality and Pleasure

18:06 Pleasure as a Resource for Healing

24:47 The Power of Pleasure and Eros

30:01 Inviting Pleasure into Daily Life

Opening a few more spots for The Next Intimate Step Session! 

A 1:1 session where we initiate your intimate path to invite in more love, pleasure, and aliveness by shifting one intimacy challenge. 

You want: 

• To love yourself (flaws & all)

• A loving partnership where you’re known, met, safe, and desired 

• Deeper connections that invite forth & celebrate your vulnerability 

• To feel at home in your body 

• A life filled with ease, pleasure, & joy

We’ll work with your challenge through desire mapping, somatic tools, and embodiment processes. We’ll clarify your deepest intimate desire, release fear & resistance around your desire, and step into the one capable of creating & receiving your desire. 

This session is normally $150, but I am offering it for $60 as a podcast launch special. 

Take Your Next Intimate Step 

Stay Connected to The Sacred Intimacy Temple 

• Join the email list

• Learn about and apply 1:1 coaching  with Ashley

• Connect on Telegram with Ashley via voice note/text @Ashley_SIT

• Visit the website

• For inquiries, email: [email protected]

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If you want to help this podcast and community grow, you can: 

• Share this episode with someone who needs it

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In this episode, we delve into the concept of inner sacred union, the relationship we have with ourselves. Developing a relationship with ourselves fosters wholeness, empowerment, and healthier relationships. We explore how the inner sacred union journey focuses on healing childhood wounds, shadow integration, balancing masculine and feminine energies, and cultivating self-love and self-trust.

Key Topics

• Inner sacred union is the foundation of all relationships, given the mirror effect in relationships 

• Aspects of building a relationship to yourself, like healing attachment wounds, inner child & shadow integration, maturation of inner feminine & masculine energies, self-love, and self-trust

• What becomes available in relationship when you have a deep relationship to yourself 

Chapters

01:21 The Power of Inner Sacred Union 

02:55 The Effects of Childhood Wounding on Adult Relationships

05:32 Healing Through Inner Sacred Union

08:09 Personal Journey of Healing through Inner Sacred Union

15:55 The Mirroring Effect in Relationships

17:04 Empowerment and Wholeness Through Self-Connection

23:09 Inner Child Work and Shadow Integration

24:54 Balancing & Embracing Feminine and Masculine Energies

40:09 Building a Relationship with Yourself

44:08 The Power of Self-Intimacy and Connection

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Something you should know about me: I love voice messages! If this series is touching something in you and you want to share it, ask a question, or simply connect — send me a voice note or text on Telegram. My username is Ashley_SIT.  I respond to as many messages as I can during dedicated windows each week. And who knows, your share or question might just inspire a whole new episode.

Send me a voice note or text: @Ashley_SIT

Stay Connected to The Sacred Intimacy Temple 

• Join the email list

Support The Podcast 

If you want to help this podcast and community grow, you can: 

• Share this episode with someone who needs it

• Review or rate the podcast

• Subscribe to the podcast, so you never miss an episode 

In this episode, we explore the importance of reconnecting with the body to deepen intimacy, emphasizing small steps like noticing breath and sensations. She shares personal insights on embodiment, somatic work, and how being present in the body enhances connection with ourselves and others.

Key Topics

• Why coming back into the body is needed for deeper intimacy

• The impact of disconnection from our bodies in relationships 

• Somatics and embodiment help you find your way back to the body 

• Your body is a wisdom holder and messenger 

Chapters

03:38 Coming Back to The Body

09:08 The Impact of Disconnection from the Body in Relationships

19:09 Tools in Coming Back to the Body: Somatics and Embodiment

28:32 The Alchemy of Somatics and Embodiment

30:06 Reconnecting with Your True Self through the Body

37:17 Your Body as a Wisdom Holder and Messenger

For the one who wants deeper intimacy, you’re invited into: 

The Next Intimate Step Session 

A 1:1 session where we initiate your intimate path to invite in more love, pleasure, and aliveness by shifting one intimacy challenge. 

You want: 

• To love yourself (flaws & all)

• A loving partnership where you’re known, met, safe, and desired 

• Deeper connections that invite forth & celebrate your vulnerability 

• To feel at home in your body 

• A life filled with ease, pleasure, & joy

We’ll work with your challenge through desire mapping, somatic tools, and embodiment processes. We’ll clarify your deepest intimate desire, release fear & resistance around your desire, and step into the one capable of creating & receiving your desire. 

This session is normally $150, but I am offering it for $60 as a podcast launch special. And I am only offering 16 sessions- once they're gone, they're gone!

This launch special will end TONIGHT at 11:59pm.

Take Your Next Intimate Step 

Stay Connected to The Sacred Intimacy Temple 

• Join my email list

• Visit my website

• For inquiries, email: [email protected]

Support The Podcast 

If you want to help this podcast and community grow, you can: 

• Share this episode with someone who needs it

• Review or rate the podcast

• Subscribe to the podcast, so you never miss an episode 

In this episode, we explore what the path of sacred intimacy actually is. We explore the different initiatory thresholds, stages in each initiation, and the bodies of work interwoven on this path.

Key Topics

• Each one of us has our own unique path of sacred intimacy

• Initiatory thresholds of sacred intimacy

• Stages involved in each initiatory threshold of sacred intimacy 

• Bodies of work and skills interwoven into the path

Chapters

02:38 Coming Into Your Unique Path of Sacred Intimacy

19:30 Initiatory Thresholds of Sacred Intimacy

23:57 Stages of Sacred Intimacy

36:13 Bodies of Work + Skills Interwoven Into the Path

48:35 Intimacy as a Path for Growth and Healing

For the one who wants deeper intimacy, you’re invited into: 

The Next Intimate Step Session 

A 1:1 session where we initiate your intimate path to invite in more love, pleasure, and aliveness by shifting one intimacy challenge. 

You want: 

• To love yourself (flaws & all)

• A loving partnership where you’re known, met, safe, and desired 

• Deeper connections that invite forth & celebrate your vulnerability 

• To feel at home in your body 

• A life filled with ease, pleasure, & joy

We’ll work with your challenge through desire mapping, somatic tools, and embodiment processes. We’ll clarify your deepest intimate desire, release fear & resistance around your desire, and step into the one capable of creating & receiving your desire. 

This session is normally $150, but I am offering it for $60 as a podcast launch special. And I am only offering 16 sessions- once they're gone, they're gone!

This launch special will end on Sunday 4/19 at 11:59pm.

Take Your Next Intimate Step 

Stay Connected to The Sacred Intimacy Temple 

• Join my email list

• Visit my website

• For inquiries, email: [email protected]

Support The Podcast 

If you want to help this podcast and community grow, you can: 

• Share this episode with someone who needs it

• Review or rate the podcast

• Subscribe to the podcast, so you never miss an episode 

We disconnect to survive — not to thrive. And that disconnection is keep you from the intimacy you desire now.

In this episode, we explore the vital connection between the body, trauma, and intimacy, emphasizing how disconnection from the body impacts relationships and how healing begins with embodiment. This episode offers insights into overcoming trauma, cultivating self-awareness, and deepening intimacy through body connection.

Key Topics 

• The body’s role in intimacy

• Disconnection from the body as a root of relational challenges

• Trauma's impact on relationships and intimacy

• Healing through body awareness and embodiment practices

Timestamps

00:49 The Role of the Body in Intimacy

06:26 Understanding Trauma and Disconnection

12:50 The Impact of Unhealed Trauma on Relationships

29:12 Reclaiming Intimacy Through the Body

For the one who wants deeper intimacy, you’re invited into: 

The Next Intimate Step Session 

A 1:1 session where we initiate your intimate path to invite in more love, pleasure, and aliveness by shifting one intimacy challenge. 

You want: 

• To love yourself (flaws & all)

• A loving partnership where you’re known, met, safe, and desired 

• Deeper connections that invite forth & celebrate your vulnerability 

• To feel at home in your body 

• A life filled with ease, pleasure, & joy

We’ll work with your challenge through desire mapping, somatic tools, and embodiment processes. We’ll clarify your deepest intimate desire, release fear & resistance around your desire, and step into the one capable of creating & receiving your desire. 

This session is normally $150, but I am offering it for $60 as a podcast launch special. And I am only offering 16 sessions- once they're gone, they're gone!

This launch special will end on Sunday 4/19 at 11:59pm.

Take Your Next Intimate Step 

Stay Connected to The Sacred Intimacy Temple 

• Join my email list

• Visit my website

• For inquiries, email: [email protected]

Support The Podcast 

If you want to help this podcast and community grow, you can: 

• Share this episode with someone who needs it

• Review or rate the podcast

• Subscribe to the podcast, so you never miss an episode 

Society often teaches you to value achievement, power, and individualism over intimacy. These values subtly makes you forget that you are love to then act in a way where you earn love.

This episode explores how societal conditioning, limiting beliefs, and ultimately disconnection from the body hinders our innate capacity for intimacy. It emphasizes the importance of returning to the body, cultivating self-awareness, and redefining our understanding of love and connection.

Key Topics

• How achievement and power influence perceptions of love

• Intimacy requires maintenance, effort, and skill

• The myth of finding the 'perfect' partner'

• The power of connection, relationships, and community 

• Living in the body vs. the mind 

Timestamps

02:38 Culture’s Influence on Intimacy

10:18 Intimacy Requires Maintenance 

17:24 The Myth of the Perfect Partner

25:10 The Power of Relationships & Community

33:03 Reconnecting with the Body

For the one who wants deeper intimacy, you’re invited into: 

The Next Intimate Step Session 

A 1:1 session where we initiate your intimate path to invite in more love, pleasure, and aliveness by shifting one intimacy challenge. 

You want: 

• To love yourself (flaws & all)

• A loving partnership where you’re known, met, safe, and desired 

• Deeper connections that invite forth & celebrate your vulnerability 

• To feel at home in your body 

• A life filled with ease, pleasure, & joy

We’ll work with your challenge through desire mapping, somatic tools, and embodiment processes. We’ll clarify your deepest intimate desire, release fear & resistance around your desire, and step into the one capable of creating & receiving your desire. 

This session is normally $150, but I am offering it for $60 as a podcast launch special. And I am only offering 16 sessions- once they're gone, they're gone!

This launch special will end on Sunday 4/19 at 11:59pm.

Take Your Next Intimate Step 

Stay Connected to The Sacred Intimacy Temple 

• Join my email list

• Visit my website

• For inquiries, email: [email protected]

Support The Podcast 

If you want to help this podcast and community grow, you can: 

• Share this episode with someone who needs it

• Review or rate the podcast

• Subscribe to the podcast, so you never miss an episode 

You are the beholder of your own intimacy.

In this first episode, I share about my personal connection to the path of sacred intimacy and the vision that birthed The Sacred Intimacy Temple. I emphasize the importance of self-connection as the foundation for sacred relationships and community. I also highlight the thresholds of intimacy and the collective evolution needed for deeper connection.

Key Topics 

• The importance of self-connection as the foundation of intimacy

• The vision that birth The Sacred Intimacy Temple 

• Different relational initiation thresholds 

• The collective evolution towards sacred relationships

• The role of embodiment and presence in creating deep relationships

Timestamps

02:10 Exploring Sacred Intimacy

05:07 How Ashley came to the Path of Sacred Intimacy

09:12 The Vision of The Sacred Intimacy Temple

17:45 Initiatory Thresholds of Sacred Intimacy

22:01 The Call to Remember and Reconnect

28:51 Why Intimacy Work is Needed Right Now 

34:10 Coming Home to Intimacy Series Overview

For the one who wants deeper intimacy, you’re invited into: 

The Next Intimate Step Session 

A 1:1 session where we initiate your intimate path to invite in more love, pleasure, and aliveness by shifting one intimacy challenge. 

You want: 

• To love yourself (flaws & all)

• A loving partnership where you’re known, met, safe, and desired 

• Deeper connections that invite forth & celebrate your vulnerability 

• To feel at home in your body 

• A life filled with ease, pleasure, & joy

We’ll work with your challenge through desire mapping, somatic tools, and embodiment processes. We’ll clarify your deepest intimate desire, release fear & resistance around your desire, and step into the one capable of creating & receiving your desire. 

This session is normally $150, but I am offering it for $60 as a podcast launch special. And I am only offering 16 sessions- once they're gone, they're gone!

Sessions are available now and this launch special will end on Sunday 4/19 at 11:59pm.

Take Your Next Intimate Step

Stay Connected to The Sacred Intimacy Temple

• Join my email list

• Visit my website

• For inquiries, email: [email protected]

Support The Podcast 

If you want to help this podcast and community grow, you can: 

• Share this episode with someone who needs it

• Review or rate the podcast

• Subscribe to the podcast, so you never miss an episode 

Welcome to The Sacred Intimacy Temple Podcast!

To inaugurate the launch, I’m releasing an 8-episode series, starting on Sunday April 12th:

Coming Home to Intimacy: Remembering the Love You’ve Always Known

This series is an invitation to know & trust that your intimate desires are possible while inviting you to remember & walk your unique path to deeper intimacy. 

Over eight episodes, we’ll walk the full initiatory arc together: 

• Exploring where intimacy is now and what brought us here 

• The path of sacred intimacy

• Different initiations, such as returning to the body, reclaiming pleasure and eros, building the foundation of self, and understanding union as evolutionary work. 

By the end, you won't just understand this path. You'll have begun walking it.

Episode Release Schedule:

• Sun, April 12 — Ep 1: Welcome to The Sacred Intimacy Temple

• Sun, April 12 — Ep 2: We Were Never Taught How to Love

• Wed, April 15 — Ep 3: The Epidemic of Disconnection

• Fri, April 17 — Ep 4: Sacred Intimacy as Initiatory Path

• Sun, April 19 — Ep 5: The Body is the Temple

• Sun, April 26 — Ep 6: Sacred Inner Union: Sovereignty Before Union

• Sun, May 3 — Ep 7: Reclaiming Erotic Aliveness

• Sun, May 10 — Ep 8: Sacred Union as the Evolutionary Edge

Subscribe now so you don't miss a single episode!

Want to start your sacred intimacy journey ?

The Next Intimate Step session is a 75-minute 1:1 session designed to help you experience one shift that transforms your intimate life while initiating your unique path to deeper intimacy.  Together, we'll transform with one intimacy challenge through personalized body-based inquiry and an embodiment process. 

As a launch special, I’m offering these sessions for $60 (regularly $150). And I am making only 16 sessions available. Once they’re gone, they’re gone! 

Sessions open on Sunday April 12th.

Know someone who needs to hear this?

If this is landing for you, chances are someone in your life is ready for it too. Share this with a friend who's been yearning for something deeper in love, in their body, or in how they relate — this series might be exactly what they've been waiting for.

Join The Sacred Intimacy Temple email list: https://thesacredintimacytemple.com/email-list

Learn more about The Sacred Intimacy Temple and Ashley: https://www.thesacredintimacytemple.com/

Welcome to The Sacred Intimacy Temple podcast!

This podcast officially launches on Sunday April 12th with an 8-episode series:

Come Home to Intimacy: Remembering the Love You’ve Always Known

This series is an invitation to know & trust that your intimate desires are possible while inviting you to remember & walk your unique path to deeper intimacy. 

Over eight episodes, we’ll walk the full initiatory arc together: 

• Exploring where intimacy is now and what brought us here 

• The path of sacred intimacy

• Different initiations, such as returning to the body,reclaiming pleasure and eros, building the foundation of self, and understanding union as evolutionary work. 

By the end, you won't just understand this path. You'll have begun walking it.
Subscribe now so you don't miss a single episode!

Join The Sacred Intimacy Temple email list: https://thesacredintimacytemple.com/email-list

Learn more about The Sacred Intimacy Temple and Ashley: https://thesacredintimacytemple.com/