Psychedelic guides like the Intimacy Educator training. Sex is so often the core of people’s woundedness, and also, the wellspring of our wonderfulness. The online training in Intimacy Education is a place where people can do their own sexual healing, as they learn a welcoming culture of Eros and intimacy for all genders. Guides tell me they feel empowered by it – personally and also professionally – to accompany diverse clients in critical aspects of their trauma and healing.
Guides like the lessons on trauma-informed intake and assessment, the personal neural learning zone, and how trauma resides in our bodies – inhibiting our capacity to track danger and ask for what we want. As they learn how to empower their clients’ choice and voice, they can ethically integrate supportive touch into psychedelic sessions. Somatic exercises help with journey preparation, navigation and integration. Guides enjoy “Ethics For Outlaws,” and having a map of generative conflict. By understanding the full-spectrum neuroendocrine system, they can see how the different medicines work – and why.
Like sacred intimates, psychedelic guides hold precious human souls through transformational experiences. Though these guides aren’t offering clients whole-body massage or scar tissue remediation – at least, not in a literal sense – there are many transferable skills here that can resource any relationship of courage and deep intimacy. I feel glad that the Intimacy Educator Program helps many different people feel empowered in their sacred work.