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  • The Pleasure of Planned Intimacy

    The Pleasure of Planned Intimacy
    2026/07/14

    In this solo episode, Sarah Rose Bright makes the case for one of the most resisted ideas in her practice - planning intimacy. Many couples believe that if sex isn't spontaneous, something is wrong - with them, their partner, or the relationship itself. Sarah unpacks why that belief is not only untrue, but very damaging, and shows how intentional time can make real spontaneity possible.

    Drawing on Emily Nagoski's work on spontaneous versus responsive desire, Sarah explains why so many women feel ‘broken’ for not experiencing desire instantly, and how understanding your own desire style can transform your intimate life. She shares practical tools for creating intentional intimacy into a relationship - from finding the right time of day to creating anticipation, how to transition from "go mode" into "slow mode," and having honest conversations about what each person needs in the moment.

    Sarah also explores how expanding the definition of intimacy beyond penetration can take the pressure off entirely, why practice time cultivates real erotic mastery, and how tracking your personal ‘brakes and accelerators’ can help you understand what supports and hinders your pleasure.

    One of the many reasons Graeme and Sarah love facilitating the Making Love Retreat® is that it offers a full week to explore creating intentional intimacy, and to see and experience the gifts and the magic that happen when you commit and devote time to each other.

    In this episode, you'll hear:

    • How planned intimacy can enhance desire and connection, not kill it
    • How spontaneity can grow from intentional intimacy
    • The difference between responsive and spontaneous styles and how you are not ‘broken’ if you experience desire responsively
    • Communication as the foundation of understanding each other's needs
    • How experimenting with timing is key to intentional intimacy
    • How and why its important to consciously transition into intimacy time with practices and rituals
    • How intimacy can be deeply fulfilling without leading to penetration
    • How practice time helps you become a better lover
    • How curiosity and exploration are core for evolving your intimate life

    The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th - 18th October, 2026

    For a free e-book, How Relaxed Love Making Can Transform Your Sex Life and to explore Sarah's work - including private coaching, group programmes, courses, retreats and her podcast - visit www.sarahrosebright.com

    Your podcast host is Sarah Rose Bright. Sarah Rose Bright is a Love, Sex & Intimacy Coach, an authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreats® and a Gene Keys Guide. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives - and know this is the missing piece. Women return home to their body, awaken their sensuality and discover their true power. Couples transform sex into lovemaking, creating an erotic life filled with depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/

    MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here - https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
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    38 分
  • Getting comfortable with the unknown: breaking free from sex on autopilot

    Getting comfortable with the unknown: breaking free from sex on autopilot
    2026/06/30

    From her years of private practice and teaching, Sarah sees that being in the unknown is one of the most challenging things for people wanting to shift their sex lives, yet rarely talked about.

    It is the piece that, when embraced, opens up a whole new world of possibilities. Most of us learned sex as a script: a linear sequence with predictable stops along the way, repeated until it becomes routine.

    In this episode, Sarah explores what happens when we step off that script and into the unknown, and why that discomfort might be one of the most generative places in our erotic lives. Stepping off the script takes practise, which is why we host the Making Love Retreat in October to support you to safely lean into that curious exploration.

    This is about those micro moments where we don't know what to do, or where we find ourselves repeating the same things on autopilot.

    She unpacks how the pressure to perform, please, and follow a predictable path keeps us from noticing what's actually happening in our bodies, and why the same curiosity we'd bring to changing up our diet or exercise routine can transform our sex lives too.

    In this episode you'll hear:

    • Why the scripts we learn around sex are so limiting, and how to start questioning them
    • The role of curiosity, awareness, and practice in expanding pleasure and connection
    • How performance pressure shows up in the bedroom and what helps release it
    • Why practice time, free from the pressure to "finish" a certain way, changes everything
    • Stories from client work showing how the smallest moments create the biggest shifts
    • The myth that good sex must end in a particular way, and what becomes possible without it
    • Why ‘messy learning’ might be exactly what your erotic life needs

    Through stories, Sarah shows how a pause, a breath, or naming a flicker of stress out loud can shift an entire dynamic. As she puts it, your erotic life is ever evolving, and rather than adding more, letting go of conditioning is what allows you to drop in deeper.

    RESOURCES FROM SARAH

    The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th - 18th October, 2026

    ABOUT YOUR HOST

    Your podcast host is Sarah Rose Bright. Sarah Rose Bright is a Love, Sex & Intimacy Coach, an authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreats® and a Gene Keys Guide. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives - and know this is the missing piece. Women return home to their body, awaken their sensuality and discover their true power. Couples transform sex into lovemaking, creating an erotic life filled with depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/

    MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here - https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
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    26 分
  • Female Power Is Rising with Christiane Pelmas

    Female Power Is Rising with Christiane Pelmas
    2026/06/23

    In this episode of Making Love: A Podcast with Sarah Rose Bright, Sarah sits down with Christiane Pelmas for a rich exploration of power - what it is, how it's misunderstood, and what makes female power distinct.

    Here's what we covered:

    • Defining power as the neutral capacity to mobilise resources and create impact - and why how we use it is never neutral
    • The different "flavours" of power - personal, role, status, systemic, universal, and the power of communication and charisma
    • Why most relational damage comes from underestimating our power, not overestimating it
    • The biological and evolutionary roots of female power - tending, befriending, and weaving community
    • How power shifts (or doesn't) at menopause, and why women's productivity often peaks in their ‘Queen years’
    • Erotic and sexual power as forms of power, and how they have been co-opted by dominator culture
    • The legacy of Me Too and the recent "Motherless" site controversy - what it reveals about porn, violence, and the erotic
    • Female rage as a generative, ecological force, and why it's been pathologised
    • Real-world examples from indigenous women-led activism to Mothers Against Drunk Driving
    • The role of grandmothers as culture-keepers and agents of social change
    • Where to start if you want to reconnect with your own power

    Christiane Pelmas is a therapist and mentor, Somatic Sex Educator and Writer working in the intersectional terrain between Belonging, Wellbeing and the Ecology of Ethics.

    RESOURCES FROM CHRISTIANE

    ChristianePelmas.com

    InstituteForEroticIntelligence.com

    TheVerdantCollective.com

    RESOURCES FROM SARAH

    Work With Sarah - Whether you're a woman ready to come home to your body and your desire, or a couple wanting to deepen your erotic life, she offers bespoke private coaching online. The first step is a conversation. Book a call here.

    The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th - 18th October, 2026

    For a free e-book, How Relaxed Love Making Can Transform Your Sex Life and to explore Sarah's work - including private coaching, group programmes, courses, retreats and her podcast - visit www.sarahrosebright.com

    ABOUT YOUR HOST

    Sarah Rose Bright is an Erotic Embodiment and Intimacy Guide, authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreat®, and host of Making Love, a podcast on the evolution of love, sex, and relationships. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives - and know this is the missing piece. Women come home to their bodies, awaken their desire, and reclaim their power. Couples create an erotic life of depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/

    MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here - https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
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    56 分
  • Too Much, Too Fast: Sex and Intimacy for Sensitives and Empaths

    Too Much, Too Fast: Sex and Intimacy for Sensitives and Empaths
    2026/06/08

    If you've ever shut down in intimacy, felt overwhelmed by too much, too fast, or wondered why you need so much more time, space and emotional connection than it seems like you “should” - this episode is for you.

    Sarah delves into the unique needs of sensitives and empaths in intimate relationships. She shares her own journey of coming to understand her sensitivity, and why the phrase "let your sensitivity be your strength" unravelled for her.

    In this episode:

    • What it actually means to be a highly sensitive person (HSP) and how that differs from being an empath, and where this is different from trauma
    • Why up to 20% of the population may be highly sensitive, and why so many carry shame about it
    • How mainstream sexuality - hot, fast, goal-oriented, is so different to how a sensitive opens and experiences pleasure
    • What sensitives actually need to feel safe and open
    • How to track your own thresholds before shutdown happens, and how to name what you need rather than withdraw
    • Why slowing down can open up whole new territory for a partner too
    • The connection between the energetic Erotic Blueprint and sensitivity
    • Human Design gates 19, 37 and 57 as lenses for understanding sensitivity
    • How honouring your sensitivity doesn't limit intimacy - it expands your experience

    One listener shared:

    “Listening to this podcast brought about a chandelier's worth of lightbulb moments - the most powerful is that I can be okay with how I am and how I breathe in this world. - I sense more confidence about future relationships, and that's seismic! Thank you Sarah Rose. xx”

    Whether you're exploring this for yourself or navigating it with a partner, this episode offers a compassionate conversation about a very common, and very rarely talked about experience.

    Book recommendation - Sensitive is the New Strong by Anita Moorjani

    Sarah Rose Bright is an Erotic Embodiment and Intimacy Guide, authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreat®, and host of Making Love, a podcast on the evolution of love, sex, and relationships. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives - and know this is the missing piece. Women come home to their bodies, awaken their desire, and reclaim their power. Couples create an erotic life of depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/

    RESOURCES FROM SARAH

    Work With Sarah - Whether you're a woman ready to come home to your body and your desire, or a couple wanting to deepen your erotic life, she offers bespoke private coaching online. The first step is a conversation. Book a call here.

    The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th - 18th October, 2026

    For a free e-book, How Relaxed Love Making Can Transform Your Sex Life and to explore Sarah's work - including private coaching, group programmes, courses, retreats and her podcast - visit www.sarahrosebright.com

    MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here - https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
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    26 分
  • A Week to Rediscover Each Other: Inside the Making Love Retreat with Graeme Waterfield

    A Week to Rediscover Each Other: Inside the Making Love Retreat with Graeme Waterfield
    2026/06/02
    What would it mean to give your relationship a whole week - no distractions, no performance pressure, no rushing?In this episode, Sarah and Graeme talk openly about the Making Love Retreat® they co-facilitate - who joins, what the week looks and feels like, and what couples carry home with them. This is a retreat built on a simple yet radical premise - that love making is a practice, not a performance, and that what most couples are missing isn't more effort, but more space - space to re-discover and remember who they are to each other when the noise of daily life falls away.What you'll hear:- The two kinds of couples who come - those navigating challenges, and those simply curious about what's possible- Why getting away matters - the "pattern interrupt" that a different environment creates- What a typical day looks like- Why this retreat is nothing like the cathartic, intensity-driven tantra retreats you might have heard of- How sexual challenges - whether pain, erection difficulties, lost desire or performance pressure can shift across the week- What it means to make love a meditation, and why that's a lifelong practice, not a weekend fixCheck out this reel on Instagram for a glimpse of the beautiful venue and a taste of the Making Love Retreat ❤️The retreat runs 12–18 October in a private manor house in Devon.Places are limited to seven couples. Only three spaces left.All the info on this page.If you're curious whether it's right for you, Sarah and Graeme offer a no-pressure call. Reach out via https://sarahrosebright.com/contact/Graeme Waterfield is a men’s coach who guides men into deeper presence, embodiment, and self-awareness. His sexual energy mastery training, blends meditation, Taoist principles, and nervous system awareness to transform sexual energy into love, vitality, and consciousness. Moving away from performance and intensity, his work emphasises relaxation, heart connection, and integrating sexuality into everyday life, helping men deepen intimacy, authenticity, and inner ease.Graeme and Sarah teach The Making Love Retreat® Together they guide couples into deeper dimensions of intimacy, lovemaking, and conscious connection.RESOURCES FROM GRAEMETo explore Graeme's work in meditation, embodiment and sexual energy mastery for men, including courses, coaching, retreats and teachings, visit: https://www.graemewaterfield.comGraeme’s Sexual Energy Mastery Training for men - a training for men exploring meditation, embodied awareness and the deeper potential of sexual energy as a pathway into embodiment.You can also find Graeme on Facebook.RESOURCES FROM SARAHThe Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th - 18th October, 2026For a free e-book, How Relaxed Love Making Can Transform Your Sex Life and to explore Sarah's work - including private coaching, group programmes, courses, retreats and her podcast - visit www.sarahrosebright.comABOUT YOUR HOSTSarah Rose Bright is an Erotic Embodiment and Intimacy Guide, authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreat®, and host of Making Love, a podcast on the evolution of love, sex, and relationships. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives - and know this is the missing piece. Women come home to their bodies, awaken their desire, and reclaim their power. Couples create an erotic life of depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here - https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
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    39 分
  • Love Beyond Conditioning and the Venus Sequence with Tanmayo Lawson

    Love Beyond Conditioning and the Venus Sequence with Tanmayo Lawson
    2026/05/25
    About This EpisodeWhat if every relationship you've ever had, including the painful ones, contained a gift?In this rich conversation, Sarah is joined by Tanmayo Lawson of the Gene Keys and founder of Integral Touch. Together they explore the Venus Sequence as a living map for self-discovery, the role of community in genuine transformation, and why emotional stability may be the most profound gift you can offer yourself and those you love.What We Explore:- Tanmayo's nearly 40-year journey of awakening — and what keeps her devoted to this path- Integral Touch: a deep somatic practice working with the facial mask and its connection to the nervous system- Why community is no longer optional for personal and relational growth- The Venus Sequence as a map and compass for understanding your emotional conditioning and relational patterns- How transgenerational trauma shapes the way we relate - and how awareness begins to shift it- The difference between intensity and intimacy, and why we can become addicted to one at the expense of the other- "What you don't communicate, you dramatise" - and what to do about it- Why your wholeness is not dependent on never being triggered- The Venus Sequence Retreat: what it offers and who it's forTanmayo Lawson has been leading, presenting and mentoring embodiment programs for almost 40 years. She shines a light of pure awareness on any subject, with a clear mind, and an open heart guiding with precision; either personal or professional inquiries.Born in Scotland, she arrives with a healthy sense of infectious humour that can take the edges off the deepest issues. MOVING BEYOND TRAUMA is at the core of most of her work. Love is the Key!She is the founder of 'Integral Touch of Facial Harmony’. An extremely sensitive treatment accessing the miracles of communication in the fascia highways to effectively dissolve trauma whilst making space for essential states.'Since 2004 through a deep encounter with a rare Venus Transit she was guided to attend a workshop in the UK which was presented by Richard Rudd, the Founder of the Gene Keys.Since then, she has offered Gene Keys programs around the world with a focus on awakening the dreamer from the dream. Guiding the dreamer to the truth of their own being that they emerge from the belief that they are anything other than the pure light of being.She is a Gene Keys Ambassador, part of the production team, currently presenting as one of the primary hosts in the Sage Retreat 2026 with Richard Rudd and Elijah Parker.Co-creator of 'The Gene Keys Guides Programme’ with Richard, Elijah and Sally Middleton.Her first encounter with meditation was in the 70’s in Scotland, seated on a zen stool and wondering ‘what is this all about’! Still wondering!Over time, life turned into meditation—a divine play filled with challenges, sorrows, and moments of grace.In 1998 she had a vision of Osho and felt called to the Meditation Resort in Pune where she fell deeply in love with a Zen Style Process that she now includes in her work as “Opening to the Beloved”!RESOURCES FROM TANMAYOhttps://tanmayo.com/Beyond Compatibility - Tanmayo and Richard Rudd talk about the sacred intelligence running beneath every human connection.This kind of inner work - understanding your patterns, your triggers, your relational conditioning - is part of what we witness in couples when they come to a Making Love Retreat®. When two people are committed to this work together, the defences soften and intimacy grows.The next Making Love Retreat® takes place this October in Devon - a week-long immersion, held in a beautiful, private setting. Learn more about the Making Love Retreat®.RESOURCES FROM SARAH The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th - 18th October, 2026For a free e-book, How Relaxed Love Making Can Transform Your Sex Life and to explore Sarah's work - including private coaching, group programmes, courses, retreats and her podcast - visit www.sarahrosebright.comYour podcast host is Sarah Rose Bright. Sarah Rose Bright is a Love, Sex & Intimacy Coach, an authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreats® and a Gene Keys Guide. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives - and know this is the missing piece. Women return home to their body, awaken their sensuality and discover their true power. Couples transform sex into lovemaking, creating an erotic life filled with depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here - https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
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  • Love as the Final Frontier with Tobin Zivon

    Love as the Final Frontier with Tobin Zivon
    2026/05/11

    What if your most intimate relationship is also your most profound path of growth - and the place where everything you have learned about love is most deeply tested?

    In this conversation, Sarah Rose Bright is joined by Tobin Zivon, teacher, guide, and devoted servant to love - for a rich exploration of what it means to live love as a practice. Not as an ideal. But as a daily, embodied, sometimes messy commitment to showing up fully.

    Tobin brings rare depth to this conversation. He speaks from genuine lived experience - of the gap between spiritual aspiration and relational reality, of the courage vulnerability asks of us, and of why intimate relationships remain the final frontier of personal growth.

    In this conversation we explore:

    - Why intimate relationships are the final frontier for personal growth — and why so many of us struggle to bring our practice into them

    - The challenge of inspiring a partner to grow alongside you

    - The difference between the conditioned channel and the essence channel — and how switching between them transforms the way we relate

    - How comparison and idealism — the blessings and burdens of modern teachings — shape our experience of real relationships

    - Why vulnerability is the doorway to love and genuine connection

    - The profound importance of repair — and how tending to the small moments builds deeper intimacy over time

    - How curiosity transforms conflict into an opportunity for learning and growth

    - Why messy learning is not a sign of failure but a natural and necessary part of the journey

    - Love and relationship as a genuine spiritual path — and what it means to treat them that way

    - The evolving nature of love — and how deepening our understanding of ourselves deepens our capacity to love others

    Tobin Zivon has been wholeheartedly dedicated to spiritual awakening and to serving others in the flowering of their highest potential for over 30 years.

    Author of The Art of Mindful Living and the upcoming book, Allies in Awakening: Living the Truth of Unconditional Love in Intimate Relationships, he has been described as “The Ultimate Guide… A rare, exquisite blend of Therapist, Coach, Spiritual Teacher and Tantra Master all wrapped into one.”

    He has worked with thousands of individuals and couples to help them break through stuck patterns and painful dynamics, helping them to find their way into a more fulfilling and connected life of authentic liberation, love and relationship satisfaction.

    RESOURCES FROM TOBIN

    Websites tobinzivon.com and awakenedbrotherhood.com

    Instagram @tobinzivon

    Sex mastery secrets, an online course

    RESOURCES FROM SARAH

    DEVOTION is a 5-month journey for women to return home to their feminine bodies, awaken their sensuality and reclaim their true power. Starts 7th May 2026

    The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th - 18th October, 2026

    ABOUT YOUR HOST

    Your podcast host is Sarah Rose Bright. Sarah Rose Bright is a Love, Sex & Intimacy Coach, an authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreats® and a Gene Keys Guide. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives - and know this is the missing piece. Women return home to their body, awaken their sensuality and discover their true power. Couples transform sex into lovemaking, creating an erotic life filled with depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/

    MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here - https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
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  • Sex, Men and Menopause with Graeme Waterfield

    Sex, Men and Menopause with Graeme Waterfield
    2026/05/04
    In this honest and intimate conversation, Sarah Rose Bright and Graeme Waterfield explore one of the least talked about dimensions of menopause: what it means for sex, intimacy, and the relationship between partners navigating this transition together.Sarah shares her own experience — the physical changes, the grief, the pain during sex, and the depth of intimacy that has emerged through it all. Graeme offers a rare male perspective: what it has asked of him, what was challenging, and what he has learned about presence, self-love, and how to truly support a partner through one of the most significant transitions of her life.This is a conversation for couples who want to meet this chapter with curiosity and love. And for anyone who senses that sex and intimacy - can deepen through menopause.In this conversation we explore:- Why menopause is an initiation — and what that reframe opens up- Sarah's personal journey through menopause and what has shifted- The male perspective on menopause — what it asks of male partners and where men can struggle- Why self-love is essential for men during their partner's menopause journey- The difference between presence and sensitivity in lovemaking- Why women may experience grief and sadness during menopause — and how this surfaces in intimate moments- The importance of checking in, communicating, and truly listening rather than moving into fix-it mode- How men can begin to transform their relationship with their own sexual energy- Mindful practices that transform the experience of intimacy during and beyond menopause- Why curiosity and love are the most powerful guides in navigating sexual relationships through significant life transitions- How lubrication, sensitivity, and conscious touch can enhance pleasure and connection- Why the journey of intimacy matters as much as — if not more than — the destinationBooks mentioned in this podcast:Second Spring by Kate CoddringtonTantric Sex for Men by Diana and Micheal RichardsonSlow Sex for Men by Diana and Micheal RichardsonMulti Orgasmic Man by Mantack ChiaGraeme Waterfield is a men’s coach who guides men into deeper presence, embodiment, and self-awareness. His sexual energy mastery training, blends meditation, Taoist principles, and nervous system awareness to transform sexual energy into love, vitality, and consciousness. Moving away from performance and intensity, his work emphasises relaxation, heart connection, and integrating sexuality into everyday life, helping men deepen intimacy, authenticity, and inner ease.Graeme and Sarah teach The Making Love Retreat® Together they guide couples into deeper dimensions of intimacy, lovemaking, and conscious connection.RESOURCES FROM GRAEMETo explore Graeme's work in meditation, embodiment and sexual energy mastery for men, including courses, coaching, retreats and teachings, visit: https://www.graemewaterfield.comGraeme’s Sexual Energy Mastery Training for men - a training for men exploring meditation, embodied awareness and the deeper potential of sexual energy as a pathway into embodiment.You can also find Graeme on Facebook:The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th - 18th October, 2026RESOURCES FROM SARAHDEVOTION is a 5-month journey for women to return home to their feminine bodies, awaken their sensuality and reclaim their true power. Starts 7th May 2026ABOUT YOUR HOSTYour podcast host is Sarah Rose Bright. Sarah Rose Bright is a Love, Sex & Intimacy Coach, an authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreats® and a Gene Keys Guide. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives - and know this is the missing piece. Women return home to their body, awaken their sensuality and discover their true power. Couples transform sex into lovemaking, creating an erotic life filled with depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here - https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
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    55 分