What Does This First Year Include?
An 8-month experiential journey blending in-person learning, somatic practices, and personalised accompaniment. Designed for you to explore your sexuality in a safe, collaborative environment.
Format and Structure
- 3 Residential Retreats (5 days each): The heart of the training, where you’ll connect with the group and deepen your transformation.
- Regular Somatic Practices (1-2 sessions per week): Essential for integrating learning into your life. Supervised and tailored to your pace.
- 10 Online Workshops: To stay connected with the group and enrich your process from diverse perspectives.
- Small Support Groups (4-5 people): Monthly meetings with a team member to nurture your personal journey.
What You’ll Experience
- Embodied Awareness: Somatic methods to cultivate presence, spontaneity, and creativity in your intimacy.
- Mutual Growth: Each participant becomes a mirror and inspiration for the group.
- Practical Tools: To expand your capacity for pleasure and connection, applicable to supporting others.
- Progressive Process: We honour your pace and support you every step of the way.
Certification
Upon completion, you will receive a certificate of attendance. After completing the first year, you may proceed to the second year to become a Certified SOMA Intimacy Practitioner (recognised by ASIS).
UPCOMING TRAINING PROGRAMME 2027
9th edition / BARCELONA
26 January – 30 September 2027
Languages: Spanish and English. Participants should be able to communicate in one of these languages. Retreats will be bilingual, while online sessions will be separated by language.
Location: Rural retreat center in nature (Catalonia).
SOMA INTIMACY® METHODOLOGY
- Experiential learning as a path to transformation.
- Pleasure as a catalyst for change.
- Sexual and gender diversity as a core pillar.
- Trauma-informed somatic approach.
- Social vision of personal growth.
- Transparency and relational commitment.
- Integration of pleasure and eroticism into human experience.
FIRST-YEAR OBJECTIVES
- Embody your pleasure and presence with deeper awareness.
- Align your values, desires, and actions in your life and relationships.
- Explore your sexuality with greater freedom and creativity.
- Develop clearer communication around needs, boundaries, and desires.
- Cultivate confidence and presence in intimacy.
- Acquire tools to support others (if you choose).
CORE CONTENT
- Foundations of somatic sexuality.
- Conscious self-love and embodiment.
- Conscious touch, presence and consent.
- Somatic healing and exploration practices.
- Introduction to somatic accompaniment.
TRAINING TEAM
Collaborators
Other Embodied Sexuality professionals collaborate in the training.
WHO IS IT FOR?
To participate it is important to feel a personal call to explore, heal and/or grow in one’s own sexuality and to be open to participate in a collaborative learning process with the training group.
Our training is aimed at
- professionals in health, education, personal development and therapy,
- people undergoing training in these fields and
- people from other fields with a personal interest in deepening their exploration of sexuality.
We explicitly welcome different bodies, genders, ages, sexual orientations and preferences, and different social positions, cultural contexts, as well as other differences. Diversity enriches us all.
HOW TO JOIN
Attend an “Embodied Sexuality – Connect and Explore” immersion workshop. If you’ve already completed a workshop with a team member or cannot attend the scheduled dates, please contact us.
Check upcoming workshop dates below.
A brief conversation with a team member to address your questions.
Choose your payment plan and complete your registration.
