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S T U D I E S & R E S E A R C H

P R O F E S S I O N A L T R A I N I N G & R E S E A R C H

Welcome to our Institute for Relational Harmony Studies & Research!

The IRHS Presents leading-edge, international professional training in Somatic Sexology and Body Poem inspiring professionals with practices for enhancing new ways of being in the emergence of living.

The Institute for Relational Harmony hosts and facilitates the following professional training -

  • Certificate in Sexological Intimacy Coaching - 6 Months

  • Certificate in Sexological Bodywork - 6 Months

  • Year 2 - Certificate in Somatic Sex Education & Mentorship - 12 Months

  • Certificate in Body Poem - 6 Months

Following certification to practice we provide a postgraduate program to support professional development, clinical supervision, education  & research.

IRHS Training Schedule ~2025 - 6

Certificate in Sexological Intimacy Coaching (CSI) - September 1st, 2025 - February 28th, 2026 (6 months online training)

Certificate in Sexological Bodywork (CSB) ~ April 1st, 2026 - September 30th, 2026 (6 months online and in-person training)

Certificate in Somatic Sex Education Leadership Training (CSSE) ~ September 1st, 2025 - September 30th, 2026 - 12 months online and in-person second-year training. (open to graduates who have completed CSI and CSB)

Certificate in Body Poem runs the same time as the two 6-month trainings.

  • Why are these trainings political?

    The first thing that we lose is democracy when management administration systems of power, informed by left-brain survival functions to categorise, evaluate, strategise, commodify, compete, grasp and dominate our relationships with our bodies and each other.

    By informing the ways we govern our relationships with ourselves and each other through our senses, we can grow our ethical potential enhancing our personal power, agency, kindness and care for making change.

  • Purpose as part of the ecosystem

    We are dedicated to facilitating practitioners wanting to embody their purpose. Contributing and participating in co-creating win-win harmony is how we can contribute to the politics of the civilisations we inhabit. Purpose can be understood to be the erotic charge of our libido that magnetises us to be part of the repair that is needed with inhabiting new ways of being that authentically contribute to us indigenously coming home to belonging to our erotic, emotional and sensual naturalness.

  • "We are all the same under the skin, but as humans, we have a special responsibility"

    - Jaak Panksepp

I believe every human being has gifts to share and that these are often grown from where we have suffered the most. Our self-acceptance, kindness and ease with ourselves, when we have felt witnessed, can ripple out to support ease with others. 

Katie has developed her practice over 35 years of professional clinical practice and research. She specialises in facilitating radical acceptance and the integration of exiled aspects of the self to enhance trusting spontaneity, inhabiting personal power and play.

Katie Sarra - Founder

Katie Sarra founded the Institute of Relational Harmony Studies, where she choreographs and teaches professional certification in Sexological Bodywork, Sexological Intimacy, Somatic Sex Education, and body Poetry with an international team of leading-edge educators. She follows the Code of Ethics of the Association of Somatic and Integrative Sexologists (ASIS) and the Association of Certified Sexological Bodyworkers (ACSB).

She is a Certified Somatic Sex Educator and Sexological Bodyworker; Certified Wheel of Consent® Workshop Facilitator and Cuddle Party™ Facilitator; Ethics board member of the Association of Certified Sexological Bodyworkers (ACSB); co-founder of the Association of Somatic and Integrative Sexologists (ASIS); 2008 Winner at the Sexual Freedom Awards; Founder of Body Poem™, Certified Art Psychotherapist (Post Grad Dip AT), Certified NLP Practitioner, Certified Right Use of Power™ Teacher, Gabon Bwiti Initiate, Professional Artist, Professional Playback Theater Practitioner over 17 years, Tantra Teacher, Quodoushka I-III Shamanic Sexuality, Recapitulated Shamaic Dearmouring & Aura Perception Analysis I over 15 years, Visceral Mind Professional training in Functional NeuroAnatomy and Member of The International Neuropsychoanalysis Society.

“This training is without a doubt the most comprehensive, holistic, and ethically sound training I could have hoped to come across. I looked at many different training and coaching programs in the field of sexuality, tantra, + embodiment, and when I read through what was offered in this training, I was an immediate FULL BODY YES!

I’m so grateful and honoured; this has been such a rich, profound, and transformational journey. I’m growing in ways that bring me immense joy, knowing that I’m receiving so much more of my authentic liberated self, which is coming back online from participating in this training.

Through this first-hand experience of updating so many new versions of myself, I am blooming with excitement to be able to share this with my clients. The course is delivered in a very considerate and digestible manner. This is the kind of healing work that will help change the world. Thank you, Katie & Phoebe.”

TESTIMONIAL - A CSB Student practitioner part of the 2023-4 Cohort

  • What is Radical acceptance?

    To love is to accept, receive and digest. Humans are alchemical ecosystems in the process of digesting our life experiences in symbiotic union with the colonies of bacteria and viruses that live in us and around us.

  • Self Acceptance

    Radical acceptance begins with our own ecosystem. 

    Before we can integrate, we need to see the forms within us differentiated out of the blind soup of our beings.

  • Justice is being with the Just is

    Radical acceptance includes our rejections and the harm we have caused and the harm we have been impacted with. The pain of this acceptance is an understandable withdrawal from love and unity.

  • Self Expression

    Finding words that come close to describing these emotional, sensual, and physical multidimensional aspects of ourselves literally activates receptors of self-acceptance when we are witnessed with radical acceptance.

  • Kindness with our inner critics

    Radical includes acceptance with our internal self-referencing inner dialogue. For example to self-evaluating aspects of ourselves that are maintaining our adaptive belonging.

  • Easing the pain

    Reframes, advice and affirmations may feel comforting like a bandage for our wounds to feel protected and cared for but when the time is right to be freed from these, it is radical acceptance that will ease the pain

  • Courage to be seen

    Under the bandage, wounds from our dark nights of the soul remain unseen and these exiled aspects of ourselves are sent back into the unseen bowels of humanity to endure continued separation until we are supported with courage to be seen with radical acceptance

  • Repair

    Cycles of undigested exiled aspects of humanity are ultimately seeking to be seen from underneath the shame bandages that have been nursing them.

    Being seen requires acknowledgement and understanding so we can repair and allow our remorse to teach us to learn not to harm again. 

  • What is Relational Embodiment?

    Our ability to come into a relationship with ourselves requires finding ways of connecting to, feeling and expressing what is happening inside our body. Embodiment can be understood to be this symbolic relationship with our feeling states, senses and how we create meaning from these experiences.

  • Symbol Formation

    Discovering, and gaining access to symbols and language can help us self-reflect, communicate and integrate the visceral responses from our bodies and embody these. This work guides us into an exploration of embodied states, enhancing our capacity to be intimate with ourselves and with each other. This supports co creating relationship agreements with conscious awareness and integrity.