AEM Podcast #72 Trauma, Sex, Relationships, Shame, & Healing | Yuval Mann
An Evolving Man Podcast #72
Trauma, Sex, Relationships, Shame, & Healing |
Yuval Mann
Sexual Teacher Talks About
How We Recover From Sexual Shame
On today's podcast I am speaking with Yuval Mann about many fascinating areas around sex and relationships.
How do we deal with feelings of sexual shame that we may have carried from childhood?
Yuval talks about the importance of coming back into the body and slowing down.
A really fascinating episode.
Yuval Mann is the founder of the Sensual Alchemy School Of Integrated Sexuality and he's spent well over 10,000 hours learning, experimenting, exploring, and teaching people about sex and love. He also hosts the Sensual Alchemy Podcast.
Areas that we explore:
- I would love for you to share how you got into the work that you now do?
- Could you please talk about some of your journey through trauma and sex? What did you learn? How did you start to heal your trauma around sexuality?
- Could you please talk about feelings? How important are they as a compass of raw, evolutionary aliveness?
- Some areas to talk about:
- Sex, Kabbalah and mysticism – sacred sexuality
- Porn addiction
- Masturbation and self-pleasuring
- The belief that sex is a sin
- Feeling and emotions
- Vulnerability
- The importance of coming back to our bodies
- The importance of touch – skin hunger
- Shame and sex
- Dissociation
- Self-pleasuring
To find Yuval on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@yuvalmann
To visit his website: https://yuvalman.com/
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