We train Somatic Intimacy Coaches & Bodywork Practitioners to coach a wide range of somatic (body-based) tools and practices to support you in developing your erotic and emotional fluency in relational intimacy.

Our methods have been tried and tested over 35 years of clinical practice & research.

As a Client

All our practitioners undergo a rigorous training, assessment, and certification process. We feel confident in recommending all of our Certified Somatic Intimacy Coaches & Bodyworkers and Body Poets to you. Our practitioners help you inhabit new ways of authentic being.

For Practitioners

Our CSSE Somatic Sex Educators and Professional Supervisors are trained to facilitate your supervision needs, informed by the Right Use of Power™, Body Poem™, and The Wheel of Consent™, to meet the ethical requirements to practice in this field.

Relational Harmony Institute Directors.

Katie Sarra and Dr Phoebe Garland each bring over 40 years of clinical practice and research across a range of specialisms, contributing to the unique weave of perspectives that inform the REEF™ (Relational Erotic and Emotional Fluency) Model.

We are dedicated to upholding the highest standards of ethical practice, supporting practitioners in realising their creative potential.

Katie Sarra - Co -director of the RHI training programs & founder of Body Poem

Dr Phoebe Garland - Co-director of the RHI training & Professional Supervision Programs

Our somatic Intimacy Coaches and Bodywork practitioners are trained to facilitate over 45 somatic practices to enhance your embodied decision-making in intimate relationships with yourself and others.

Our Somatic Intimacy coaches and bodywork practitioners (CSIB) can also include practitioner touch in your session, helping you update your somatic library as you learn different ways of touching and being touched. When we are touched, we are touching memories, and we may experience what are called somatic openings. This is where memories might arise that have no words but are felt. Receiving bodywork from an RHI trauma-informed bodywork practitioner can address healing emotional and physical scars held in the body. Your practitioner has training in scar tissue remediation to offer presence and guided, specific touch that releases what has been limiting your movement and fluidity in your emotions and body. 

Our practitioners are trained in power-informed, enthusiastic consent, and our coaching model is based on active receiving. This means that the embodiment practices are co-created, with clear plans aligned with your learning intentions. You will be guided every step of the way within our session structure.

You will be guided through what we call ‘Somatic Assessments’ for enhancing your confidence in intimate decision-making. These include enhancing your somatic recognition of what you feel a yes to and what you feel a no to, and how to tell the difference, learning how to recognise and represent your limits before it's too late,

These practices include empowering your agency and building confidence through The Wheel of Consent to explore co-created relationship agreements we are all on board with; becoming fluent in navigating intimate space and distances; role-playing repair processes; becoming fluent in your creative self-expression; healing body image concerns; and many more.

We all carry culturally influenced internalised inhibitions that interrupt our receptivity and attunement for trusting our authentic spontaneity.

Meet some of our RHI Graduates

Meet some of our RHI Graduates

Meet some of our RHI Graduates

RHI Members of Faculty

Composite image featuring three women, each labeled with their names and titles, under the heading 'Relational Harmony Institute Faculty - Teacher Team'. The first woman has curly dark hair, wearing a white shirt. The second woman has long blonde hair, wearing a hat and outdoors. The third woman has curly dark hair, smiling near the beach.
Photographs of three women in professional attire, identified as Marin Marie, Karen Egan, and Ayah Ilie, each holding titles indicating they are Teachers and Professional Supervisors, with a header that reads 'Relational Harmony Institute Faculty - Teacher Team'.
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Photographs of three women with descriptions of their titles and achievements, titled 'Relational Harmony Institute - Contributing Teachers.' The first woman, Betty Martin, has short gray hair and wears a blue shirt, smiling outdoors. The second woman, Ellen Heed, has blonde hair and is smiling while leaning against a tree. The third woman, Kat Byles, has shoulder-length blonde hair, is wearing a black sleeveless top, and is sitting at a beach table with a notebook and pen.

Learning to explore, and try out, discovering new, confident, self-expressive ways of being.

Practice in privacy before coming out.

These are journeys into deeper self-acceptance that build your confidence to make changes in your relationships and life choices, moving away from what is not right for you and towards what brings you gratitude.

Your practitioner is trained to support your confidence in co-creating informed, intimate decision-making and to help you heal from the emotional hangovers of times when you might have been in endurance or suffered from decisions that have not worked well for you.

Deepening our attuned relationship with our body supports being informed by it, rather than by our mind’s projections, as we navigate agreements in intimate relationships.

We are most disabled when we are unable to represent ourselves. This may be due to not knowing what we want, losing sensations, or lacking confidence.

Our practitioners are trained to support you with erotic and emotional fluency and regulation so that whatever arises in a session can be welcomed and navigated together - including trauma responses. There may be aspects of your life you feel some shame or shyness about and want to be liberated from, and your practitioner can be alongside you, helping you out of loneliness that is so common when we are experiencing shame.

Many of our practitioners are specialised in working with couples to help you come together and get back on the same page after ruptures in your attunement and understanding of each other. We offer practices for you both to inhabit new ways of being, so you can grow together and deepen your intimacy skills with each other.

You may wish to overcome troublesome turn-ons, intrusive inner dialogue, or repeating patterns in relationships that no longer serve your best interests.

This may include exploring core erotic themes that are unconsciously driving your relationship choices.

For some, hypersensitivity in arousal or numbness and loss of arousal alongside emotions or loss of feelings may be limiting your choice with your confidence in intimate situations.