Healing Sexual Trauma

Sexual Energy is the energy that creates life.  It is miraculous and sacred.

And yet it’s an unfortunate truth that many of us have been deeply wounded by unhealthy expressions of this energy. 

Trauma is “the response to a deeply distressing or disturbing event that overwhelms an individual’s ability to cope, causes feelings of helplessness, diminishes their sense of self and their ability to feel the full range of emotions and experiences.”

What’s especially important to understand here is the effect on trauma of ‘diminishing the sense of Self’ - which is *integral* to the path of healing, as well as to the individuation process and Self-actualisation.   

Sexual Trauma is very common - much more common than we may even realise.  Not only are victims continuing to speak out, helping us to understand that sexual abuse of children is much more frequent than previously thought, but we are currently expanding and refining the definition of sexual trauma.  In this event we invite you to expand that beyond what you may have previously considered.

So clearly people who have experienced sexual abuse, rape, and molestation are carrying sexual trauma.  However it’s also possible, and a common experience, that even if we haven’t received that behaviour personally, we can still carry the vicarious trauma of those around us.  Also we can experience energetic abuse. For example; we may have never been physically touched in an inappropriate way as a child, however the thoughts and gazes we received could have left that imprint in us. Our culture is so wounded in its expression of sexuality, that all of us are carrying at least some measure of that wound within us.

It gets even more subtle than that too.  All the times that we choose to engage in love-making, when not *every part of us* wants to, some measure of violation is happening.  Every time we choose to ignore our inner truth, perhaps we choose being loved over our bodily autonomy, some deep aspect of our being is crying out.  Added up, those instances of ignoring our deepest needs amount to large sums of trauma. 

In this workshop we will begin the process of getting in touch with that trauma, and bringing release and healing to that experience.  This workshop is not a substitute for personal therapy, however will be a beautiful place to begin the healing process. The space will be held in a non-invasive, inclusive way, with unconditional positive regard, presence and empathy as the cornerstones of the container.  You are invited to share your experience with others, if voicing that traumatic experience is therapeutic (which it often, though not always, is), or to just be in the space and practice Self-holding, Self-remembering and Self-love - critical skills for the healing of trauma.

This workshop is for you if you are carrying sexual trauma in your being, or if you are involved with someone who is, and would like to understand better how to hold them.  Join us to open the possibility of a pure, expanded relationship in love-making. Join us to walk on the path of returning home to yourSelf, your Essence, which requires healing the trauma in one’s being.  

In this 3 hour workshop we will:

Ticket Price: $75 per individual or $125 per couple