Ty is currently studying Sexological Bodywork with the Institute of Somatic Sexology.

If you are interested in finding out more, including supporting his study as a volunteer practice client, please contact us.

What is Sexological Bodywork?

Sexological Bodywork is a body-based educational modality that supports individuals, couples, and groups to learn to direct their erotic development and to deepen their erotic wellbeing and embodiment.

Sexological Bodywork includes principles of Conscious Sensuality, supporting us to turn our focus inwards, to the sensations we experience in our bodies, including information sourcing from our tissues, structures, trapped emotions and even the stories we hold in our nervous system which contribute to our habits and help shape how we experience ourselves and what is possible.

Certified Sexological Bodyworkers can help clients address specific challenges, including:

• Lack of access to pleasure.

• Diminished experience of desire and joy.

• Any issue of and relating to our capacity to experience the full range of our human erotic embodiment, including a desire to experience greater pleasure.

Sexological Bodyworkers use a client-centered approach to empower, educate, and bring attention to the felt experience through movement, breath, touch, sound, and placement of awareness. This approach facilitates the ability to change limiting habits, unwind and release what is no longer supportive, re-sensitise the body, and create a more expansive erotic state that integrates both body and mind.

Sexological Bodyworkers support clients to explore arousal and embodied states of pleasure that are free of cultural caveats and habitual sexual behaviors. In this meditative state, an individual becomes aware of the body as a source of wisdom, freedom and belonging; a safe and inspiring ‘home’ within which it is possible to continually evolve and grow.

Sexological Bodyworkers are required to follow a Code of Ethics, which ensures that sessions are client-directed, that erotic touch is one-way (practitioner to client), that gloves are used for genital touch, and that practitioners remain clothed and maintain professional boundaries with clients.

Certified Sexological Bodyworkers believe that sexual health, erotic education, and pleasure are not only basic human rights, but basic human requirements for wellbeing.

For more information please visit the Association of Certified Sexological Bodyworkers