Rahi Chun and Ariel Szabo are somatic sex educators, sexological bodyworkers, and co-creators of Divine Union For Lovers, bringing 30+ years of combined expertise in genital de-armoring, somatic trauma repair, and erotic attunement to help couples access the depth of connection their bodies are actually capable of.

We talk about what happens when sexuality gets divorced from the sacred. About the difference between objectification and genuine attraction — and how each one feels in the body. About how our attachment wounds and nervous system patterns show up in our most intimate moments long before we ever get to lovemaking.

• How sexual trauma and attachment wounds shape our erotic patterns as adults
• The eight pillars of intimacy and why slowing down is the foundation of everything
• One-way touch practices and what they reveal about our capacity to receive
• The difference between objectification and attraction — felt in the body
• How the male gaze becomes a survival response and what it takes to unwind it
• Plant medicine, ceremony, and how it supports somatic sexual healing
• Non-penetrative lovemaking and expanding the body's capacity for erotic states
• Shadow work, role play, and how sacred containers can create reparative experiences for sexual trauma
• What actually sustains desire and intimacy in long term relationship
• The distortion of sexuality in our colonial capitalist culture — and what sacred sexuality looks like instead

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In this conversation I sit down with my best friend Kate Phillips — transformational performance coach, filmmaker, and guest teacher inside Awakening the Wild Woman — for one of the most honest conversations I've ever had on this podcast.

We talk about how sexual trauma creates the seductress as a survival response. About the difference between seduction as a tool of survival and seduction as sovereign, vital expression. About carrying the predator inside us long after the original harm is done — and how it shows up in the committed relationships we've been working so hard to call in.

We also get into our righteous rage. The Epstein files. The crimes that happened to us personally. And why we're done making our pain palatable.

In this episode:

• The seductress archetype — reclaiming her from harm and shame
• How sexual trauma creates the seductress as a survival response
• The Epstein files and systemic male violence — and our justified rage
• Carrying the predator inside us and how it shows up in committed relationships
• The difference between seduction as survival vs seduction as sovereign expression
• Shadow work, intentional hedonism, and healing through performance and play
• The wounded masculine and what we actually need from men
• Speaking directly — not making our pain palatable

This episode contains explicit personal disclosures including sexual assault. Please listen with care.

Kate will be leading us through shadow embodiment and reclamation of the seductress archetype inside Awakening the Wild Woman this May.

Enrollment is open through May 12th. We begin May 21st.

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Ayla Nereo “Seeds”

What does your voice have to do with the male gaze? More than you think.

In this conversation, I sit down with Julie Anne Shapiro — vocal sound healer, theatre artist, ritualist, community builder and guest teacher inside Awakening the Wild Woman — to explore the profound intersection of voice, performance, and somatic healing.

We talk about what it means to stop performing for the gaze and start expressing from the body. About the difference between singing to be chosen and singing to be close to yourself. About containment, wildness, and why the most magnetic thing you can do is stop giving yourself away.

In this episode:

1. Why your voice freezes when you're performing for approval — and what unlocks it
2. The paradox of containment: how holding your energy in actually makes you more magnetic
3. What musical theater taught us both about unfreezing from perfectionism
4. The "pick-me girl" pattern in performance — and in dating
5. How ritual theater and sacred sound healing reconnect us to our bodies
6. The balance of masculine and feminine in art, voice, and life
7. Why the most compelling performers aren't the most technically perfect — they're the most present
8. Working in nature as a somatic and vocal practice
9. The feminine without the masculine as a wildfire without containment

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Ayla Nereo “Seeds"