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Sex, trauma, and shame shape how many women experience intimacy, especially after motherhood with Darshana Avila
In this episode of EmotionAL Support, host Alessandra Torresani talks with Darshana Avila, sexological bodyworker, somatic healing practitioner, and intimacy coach featured on Netflix’s Sex, Love & Goop, about why so many women feel disconnected from pleasure, desire, and their own bodies.
I believe that each of us tending to our personal erotic liberation is an essential contribution to our collective liberation.
My journey began as a precocious child who loved to dance, move, touch and speak her mind boldly. I once thought I’d become a lawyer and spent more than a decade building a successful corporate career early in my adult life only to find my heart calling for something radically different. That call led me to blaze a path across the terrain of sexuality, somatics, social justice and soul.
Inspiration and guidance have come to me from many sources, including the potent voices of the Black intersectional feminist movement, the pancultural wisdom of many earth-based traditions and powerful modalities such as Somatic Experiencing and Sexological Bodywork.
I’m deeply honored to serve and inspire in the ways I do.
This guide is here to introduce you to the practice of Mindful Masturbation Meditation as a means of deepening intimacy with yourself and coming more alive in all aspects of your life. So yes, I mean your sex life, but also so much more!
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