Discover Mindfulness Embodied
Christina started developing her unique embodied approach (since 1998) after trainings and collaborations, especially with Margot Anand (SkyDancing Tantra) and Radha Camilla Luglio (Tantralife).
Christina is offering embodied modalities to support your therapy process. These methods combine somatic sexology science with the timeless wisdom of ancient awareness methods and meditation (traditional and Osho vision).
Embodiment method practice consultations for individuals and couples
All offered method practices are trauma-informed and based on both the PLISSIT model for sexuality counseling on sexual functioning and the MEBES model of holistic coaching.
How to feel safe, stay in tune with yourself, and be present with the other—if you choose to—as a form of embodied active meditation.
Embodied practices support your attunement to your senses through sensory awareness and self-regulation of the nervous system.
Embodied mindfulness involves observing the traffic of your thoughts through sensing and taking you out of your head and back to your body.
Embodiment involves bringing awareness to your breath and bodily sensations. This can be done while in relaxed stillness or during mindful movement.
Embodiment-based learning reduces situational stress and anxiety, increases self-awareness, and supports nervous system and emotional regulation. The embodied approach can be used for self-discovery, healing, boundary setting, personal development, and trauma recovery, to name a few.
I am happy to teach you how to apply the key elements of the body-mind modalities through the lens of timeless Eastern teachings to your couple and interactions with others.
Sensate Focus
Sensate Focus method practice combines mindfulness, exposure therapy, and systematic desensitization.
Sensate Focus is one of the most effective modalities in sex therapy.
It is also applied in the biopsychosocial model of the management of performance anxiety and sexual arousal concerns: erection problems and fast or delayed ejaculation. Additionally to anorgasmia, painful sex conditions, sexual avoidance, rebuilding trust after betrayal or trauma, resetting desensitization, and low sexual desire or arousal, to name a few.
Research has found that as a therapy method, the Sensate Focus is an effective treatment for sexual difficulties and dysfunctions and improves the sexual experience for up to 83 % of clients. (Trigwell et al., 2016).
Giving Consent
What is consent to touch all about? How do you consent to physical touch? How do you know if you are consenting to physical touch?
How do you stay curious in interactions without avoiding situations due to fears of past experiences?
When it comes to physical or sexual intimacy, how do you prepare yourself for honest conversations about what you actually want and don’t want?
How do you gain self-confidence in any situation, whether you are in a packed bar or near a beautiful stranger?
How do you stay true to your gut feeling so that you no longer compromise but have the self-agency to make decisions even in the heat of the moment and act on them?
Find out what giving consent is all about
How can you effectively give consent to physical touch nonverbally and verbally? Discover ways to express yourself confidently and allow yourself to relax in any situation. A foolproof practice supports your freedom of self-expression in smooth, friendly, and respectful dealings with others.
Uses and benefits of the embodied mindfulness
Mindfulness is about paying attention to the present moment and observing your feelings and bodily sensations without judgment or analysis.
Embodied mindfulness means detaching from habitual behavior and automatic thinking, often leading to auto-pilot mode.
Embodied mindfulness includes attention, awareness, and acceptance. These dimensions are skills that can be cultivated through training and practice.
How does the body-mind method practice work?
The embodied mindfulness sessions are about attuning to the creative unknown: instinctive and organic sensing.
The body-mind approach involves mindful observation of feelings and bodily sensations. It uses breath, sensory awareness, movement, and sound. If required and consented to, it may also use a one-directional touch. Note that there is no nudity or sexual behavior in the method consultations.
The consultations are for the same-gender groups (all female or all male) and couples.
Would you like to learn more about sexual health research and studies? Kinsey Institute’s library and scholarly archives house research on sexuality and its history. Resources include the works of Alfred Kinsey and Masters & Johnson.
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