Your Body Remembers Pleasure: Somatic Sex Education & Sexual Healing

What if anal pleasure could be safe, relaxed, and even healing?

Explore embodied anal pleasure and prostate play:
https://rahichun.com/podcast/embodied-anal-pleasure-prostate-play/ 

Dr. Charlie Glickman has been in the sex education field for over 35 years—and he’s one of the most grounded, compassionate educators I know. In this episode, we explore embodied anal play: how to approach anal pleasure in a way that’s safe, consent-based, trauma-informed, and genuinely enjoyable—with the goal Charlie names best: everyone ends with a smile.

We talk about why the myth that “anal sex has to hurt” persists, what porn leaves out (warm-up, lubrication, pacing), and how breath and nervous system regulation change everything. Charlie shares simple, practical guidance for relaxation, arousal, and gradual insertion, including why moving slowly can actually get you there faster.

We also explore the deeper layers: how the pelvis holds tension, fear, and shame, how embodied anal pleasure can become a portal for healing, and why so many men are “frozen” between the navel and the knees—both culturally and somatically. And of course, we discuss Charlie’s work co-authoring The Ultimate Guide to Prostate Pleasure, including what keeps people from exploring prostate play (pain, mess, and the loaded masculinity myths), and how education can liberate sensation.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• The #1 key to anal pleasure: relaxation, not pushing or “stretching”
• A simple breath practice to downshift the nervous system and support opening
• How to pace penetration on the exhale (and why it works)
• Why arousal matters: making anal exploration a “side dish,” not a performance goal
• Tips for strap-ons and toys (especially when the giver has no nerve feedback)
• How shame lives somatically—and how healing becomes possible through safe touch
• Prostate pleasure basics + why anal play doesn’t define sexual orientation

charlieglickman.com 
The Ultimate Guide to Prostate Pleasure

For more resources about Somatic Sexual Wholeness:
rahichun.com 

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What if sexual energy wasn’t just about sex… but your core life force?

Explore tantra, Taoism, and sexual vitality:
https://rahichun.com/podcast/sexual-energy-life-force-tantra-taoism/ 

In this episode, I’m joined by Leah Piper and Dr. Willow Brown, the powerhouse duo behind Sex Reimagined, blending Tantra, Taoism, somatic healing, and sexual mastery practices to help individuals and couples reclaim pleasure, vitality, and intimacy.

Together we explore how ancient wisdom traditions use sexual energy to heal trauma, strengthen relationships, build confidence, and awaken deeper states of aliveness.

We talk about:

• Sacred Spot Massage and sexual trauma healing
• Why Tantra and Taoism are surprisingly complementary
• The truth about desire mismatch in couples
• How women’s arousal actually works (and what most partners never learn)
• Solo practices vs partner practices
• Male sexual mastery, ejaculation choice, and lasting longer naturally
• How sexual energy fuels vitality, creativity, and confidence in every area of life

If you’ve ever felt disconnected from your desire, stuck in shame, or simply curious how to experience more pleasure and presence in your body — this conversation opens powerful doors.

Learn more from Leah and Willow: sexreimagined.com 

More resources and writings: rahichun.com 

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What if lovemaking didn’t have to be rushed, goal-oriented, or focused on orgasm?

Explore extended lovemaking and embodied intimacy:
https://rahichun.com/podcast/extended-lovemaking-deep-intimacy/ 

What if sex could feel spacious, meditative, and deeply connecting?

In this intimate conversation, somatic sex educators and partners Rahi Chun and Ariel Szabo explore the practice of extended lovemaking — a slow, presence-based approach to intimacy that prioritizes connection, nervous system safety, and full-body pleasure over performance or climax.

Together, they share:

• the difference between goal-oriented sex and meditative lovemaking
• how slowing down increases sensitivity and pleasure
• why many couples feel unsatisfied even after orgasm
• edging and extended arousal states
• one-way touch and genital mapping practices
• how the nervous system shapes intimacy
• the 8 Pillars of Intimacy for deeper connection
• how lovemaking can become a spiritual and relational practice

If you long for more depth, more connection, and more pleasure with your partner — this episode offers a new way forward.

Learn more about their couples programs at DivineUnionForLovers.com 

What if healing your sexuality wasn’t about “fixing” yourself — but about entering brave, embodied spaces where your life-force energy finally has permission to move?

Explore erotic empowerment and somatic intimacy:
https://rahichun.com/podcast/erotic-empowerment-somatic-intimacy 

In this powerful conversation, I’m joined by Court Vox — certified sex and intimacy coach, sacred intimate, and founder of The Body Vox — known for his deeply immersive, somatic retreats and one-on-one erotic empowerment experiences around the world.

Court challenges the idea of “safe spaces” and instead invites us into brave spaces — containers where nervous systems regulate, shame softens, and people feel free to explore intimacy, desire, and authentic self-expression without performance or pretense.

Together, we explore how small acts of intimacy — even something as simple as holding hands — can be profoundly life-changing, and how working with erotic energy often unlocks creativity, purpose, and aliveness far beyond the bedroom.

This episode is about reclaiming your body, your voice, and your right to pleasure.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why “brave space” may be more transformative than “safe space”
• Somatic intimacy practices using breath, touch, sound, and movement
• How multi-day erotic immersions accelerate healing and embodiment
• The connection between sexual energy and creativity, confidence, and life purpose
• Alchemizing shame into pleasure and agency
• Group erotic practice as a tool for community healing and belonging
• Men’s retreats, sacred sexuality, and embodied leadership
• How to explore fantasy and shadow safely through consent and choice
• Why small moments of connection can be more transformative than dramatic sexual experiences

Court’s work reminds us that eroticism isn’t just sex — it’s life force, expression, artistry, and presence.

If you’ve ever felt a quiet longing for deeper intimacy, more freedom in your body, or a space where all of you is welcome… this conversation is for you.

About Court:  thebodyvox.com 
More resources and writings: rahichun.com 

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What if genital de-armouring wasn’t just a technique… but a pathway back to your full aliveness?

Explore genital de-armouring and somatic sexual healing:
https://rahichun.com/podcast/genital-dearmoring-somatic-sexual-healing
 

I’m joined by my dear friend and colleague Caffyn Jesse, who interviews me about the roots, philosophy, and lived experiences that shaped my approach to genital de-armoring, somatic sexual healing, and trauma-informed intimacy work.

Together, we explore how early attachment wounds, developmental trauma, cultural conditioning, and nervous system dysregulation create “armor” in the body — especially in the pelvis and genitals — limiting pleasure, connection, and life-force energy.

And more importantly: how that armor can gently, safely, and intentionally soften.

This conversation weaves together neuroaffective touch, developmental psychology, sexological bodywork, meditation, plant medicine, and somatic presence — revealing how deep healing happens not through force, but through safety, attunement, and consent.

At its heart, genital dearmoring is not just about sexuality.
 It’s about rebuilding trust with your body. Reclaiming voice and choice. And remembering that pleasure is your birthright.

In this episode, we explore:

• What genital “armor” is and how it forms
• How childhood attachment and early touch shape adult sexuality
• Nervous system safety as the foundation for pleasure
• Neuroaffective touch and repairing infant attachment wounds
• Why receiving support can transform intimacy, relationships, and even career success
• The role of consent, boundaries, and voice in sexual healing
• Somatic mapping of the body’s erogenous zones
• Cervical and prostate de-armoring
• Working with pelvic trauma gently and respectfully
• Meditation, ego dissolution, and life-force awareness in space-holding
• How healing sexuality unlocks creativity, vitality, and purpose
• Couples practices for intimacy and shared exploration

We also share real client stories — including experiences of chronic genital pain relief, renewed sensation, and profound emotional and spiritual liberation.

This is a deep dive into the philosophy behind Somatic Sexual Wholeness® and the heart of the work I teach today.

If you’re curious about genital dearmoring, trauma-informed touch, or how to feel more alive and connected in your body — this conversation will meet you there.

Guest Host:

Caffyn Jesse: https://ecstaticbelonging.com/ 

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

Courses, sessions, and trainings → rahichun.com 

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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