Intimacy Coaching
Intimacy coaching allows you to explore, understand and deepen your connection to yourself and others in a nonjudgmental and openminded space. It is an opportunity to slow down and attune more deeply with your body, relational patterns and needs to pave a path forward that is more aligned with your desires and values.
Using a holistic approach, these sessions are tailored to meet you where you are and how you need. People come for varying reasons, such as:
- Explore emerging desires or unmet needs within intimacy
- To learn about tantric principles and how they can be embodied and applied to your life
- Address sexual challenges within yourself or a relationship
- Creating the conditions that allow for vulnerability and the expression of your feelings
- Living a life true to yourself, rather than the life others expect of you
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Sessions begin with clarifying your intentions and settling into the space and our rapport. We then look to unpack and explore your relevant history and intimacy experiences, often combined with guided somatic work. This process aims to enhance your relational knowledge and skills, gain insights and clarity, and strengthen your connection to your body.
The somatic component is clothed, you may choose to be seated, on a yoga mat or the massage table, and it can include optional touch. If touch is chosen, it is designed to be a supportive aid to anchor your awareness into your body or it may be to receive restorative touch to integrate the session. The purpose of the somatic work is to soften out of the mental mode of thinking, analysing and problem solving and relax into feeling, engaging the senses and drawing awareness inwards. From this relaxed and receptive state, we begin to cultivate deeper presence and sensitivity, opening up a mind-body connection.
The value of strengthening a mind-body connection is two fold. Firstly, it reconnects you to your 'body wisdom' (i.e., information that is beyond our conscious awareness or problem-solving capacity), and when attended to, holding the potential to transform .
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Secondly, it is from this place of relaxed receptivity that we can experience deeper, multidimensional connection with ourselves and others; physically, emotionally, mentally, energetically and/or spiritually, both in our sexual lives and more broadly. Consider moments in your life where you have experienced unbridled pleasure or heartfelt connection; in these moments, we are in a flow state of deep attunement to our bodies and the present moment, allowing our walls to come down to see and be seen. Though our busy lives and sociocultural experiences can create barriers to intimacy, the capacity to cultivate connection and pleasure is inherent in our nature. Learning and embodying new relational and intimacy skills can be a fulfilling life-long journey that fuels every aspect of your life.
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While this is a sombre angle, the underlying message is one of contemplating and claiming your agency and aliveness in this life. We start to meet this through presence and connection with ourselves and others in order to show up authentically and be nourished by our desires, needs and contribution.
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Do you need support with any of the following?
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Feeling self conscious with a lover
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Body or Sexuality shame, guilt, anxiety, awkwardness or fear
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Needing alcohol or other substances to be able to let go
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Identifying your turn ons/offs, desires and needs and how to express this to a lover
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Enhancing communication and effective sex-life checks ins with a lover
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Safeguarding parts of you that feel unsafe during sexual interactions
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Exploring new ways to play with a lover
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Strengthening the heart and sex centre connection during intimacy​
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Exploring the value of self pleasure and connection to your sensual self
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Feeling desensitized and only achieving orgasm through hard and fast stimulation
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Fixation on quick ‘peak and deplete’ type orgasms or habitual pathways to pleasure
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Arousal primarily gained externally or mentally with limited internal body and energy awareness
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It is important to understand that intimacy coaching is not therapy, and I am not a therapist. I do not operate from a lens of labels or diagnoses, though you are welcome to share what is relevant and/or supportive for you. Many of the clients I have seen have/are receiving therapy and find it effective. Simultaneously,
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This information may take the form of sensations, emotions, suppressed or fragmented parts of self emerging, sudden insights, images/visions. Attending to this body wisdom may look like: offering inner presence and acknowledgement; curiously turning towards the sensation of shame; exploring the sound and expression of your voice; guidance to identify and begin to reprogram outdated beliefs; permission to receive pleasurable sensations; feeling and building a relationship with the parts of us that feel unseen or unacceptable .. and much more.
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In Sanskrit, tantra means to "weave"; it is a path of expanding awareness and perceiving the sacredness in all aspects of life. In this way, we weave our consciousness . Tantra is dogma-free and rooted in lived experience rather than belief.
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Sacredness isn’t about what you believe. It’s about how you encounter reality.
Sacredness is the experience of perceiving value so deep that it evokes reverence rather than utility. It’s a shift from using the world to honouring it. From “What can this do for me?” to “This matters.”​
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Sacredness is the felt sense that something deserves reverence, care, or deep attention because it holds extraordinary value. The recognition that something is:
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deeply meaningful,
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precious,
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rare,
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or worthy of protection.
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This could be:
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a human life,
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a moment of truth,
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a forest, the earth
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silence,
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love,
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vulnerability, the moment before speaking a difficult truth (These moments feel elevated—not because of belief, but because your perception shifts.)
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beauty,
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a dying person’s dignity,
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justice,
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a child’s innocence
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integrity,
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your own boundaries
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your body
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Pricing
Pre or Post Consult/Debrief
30mins ~ $50
For potential clients who would like to meet me or discuss their circumstances/needs in person or existing clients who need additional support integrating the session (phone and email options also available).
Intimacy Coaching & Bodywork
90mins ~ $250
2hrs ~ $280
"Tantra does not seek any type of experience, nor does it avoid it. Tantra is intuitive self-discovery"
Frederick Lenz
Bookings
Your journey starts here..
If you would like to book a session with me, please submit a booking request via email with preferred days/times, session type and session length.
I offer a limited number of sessions each week and accommodate weekday, evening and some weekend capacity between the hours of 11am-8pm.
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If you're unsure which session is right for you, I welcome you to schedule a free discovery call and I can recommend the best path based on your intentions.​
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I look forward to honouring and meeting you on this inward, sensual journey.
Warmly,
Rachel
Hardcopy Intake & Waiver Form
Please complete a Word version of the intake & waiver form and either email or print a hardcopy prior to the appointment.
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Please note, I will not offer a session until this form is submitted. I appreciate your understanding.
If you have privacy needs or concerns, pleasure contact me to discuss further.