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CSIB - SOMATIC INTIMACY COACH & BODYWORK PRACTITIONER

You will be guided through intimate touch, intimacy skills training and embodiment explorations using the REEF™ Relational Erotic and Emotional Fluency Coaching model.

Previously known as the Certification in Sexologial Bodywork

The 2nd year CSIB - Certificate in Somatic Intimacy Coaching & Bodywork

PRACTITIONER TRAINING

April 2026 -March 2027

(with August as an integration month)

This training was previously known as the Certified Sexological Bodyworker (CSB) program. Our updated and expanded curriculum now forms the second year of the Relational Harmony Institute's four-year training pathway. It is open to those who have completed the first year and have been certified as CSI practitioners.

The Course fee for the 2026-7 Certificate in Somatic Coaching & Bodywork is £5,900 (inclusive of VAT 20%)

The second-year Somatic Intimacy Coaching and Bodywork training includes an in-person retreat with one-on-one coaching during live bodywork sessions, over 600 hours of community learning, study, and somatic practices, all integrated within the REEF™ (Relational Erotic and Emotional Fluency™) Coaching Model. You will develop your practitioner skills in recorded client sessions with 1:1 coaching during the supervised practicum.

“This training of the Institute for Relational Harmony Studies is the most comprehensive sexuality training I have found.

The syllabus is rich and covers an incredible breadth of subjects - neuroscience, embodied boundaries & consent, emotional command systems, somatic coaching techniques, rupture & repair processes, session structure, hygiene protocol, and of course, all the anatomy & physiology Sexological Bodywork tools.

This training teaches the core competencies of how to meet another Human in their wholeness - with radical acceptance of all of their parts, including their erotic & sexual expression. It encourages you as a practitioner to trust your spontaneity, creativity, and intuition while equipping you with everything you need to build an ethical, trauma-informed practice. Katie’s passion, skill, embodied experience, and wisdom are the essence of this training which make It come alive with joy, love, care & laughter.”

- Luzi Pods (Certified Practitioner and Somatic Sex Educator and Super-Vision Coach)

  • Relational Harmony Institute May 2025 Embodiment retreat. Castanheira de Pera - Portugal.

Parrots fly in pleasure, like humans in altered states, when they know their way home.

The Somatic Intimacy Coaching Bodywork Curriculum offers explorations that allow the body to become a portal for somatic openings. 

“from Sphincter to Great Spirit.” 

This is the medicine of fire, the realm of Eros, where exiled aspects of humanity have the potential to integrate with radical acceptance. 

Radical Acceptance is central to this training coaching model, which facilitates loving kindness and generosity.

Over the last ten years, more than 250 practitioners have trained with the Sea School of Embodiment, discovering their genuine purpose in life and transforming their Core Erotic themes into a service of supporting others in coming home to naturalness. Over the last two years, the Relational Harmony Institute has undergone a comprehensive update of its curriculum, aligning it with the latest Neuroscience research and feedback from Practitioners, Students, and Clients.

These practices facilitate expansions of consciousness, which can pattern interrupt limiting habits of addictive hedonistic compensation for pain and suffering that so many of us are affected by while living in adaptation and endurance. 

The Wheel of Consent and bodywork practices open the direct routes to pleasure from the spaghetti junctions of indirect and time-wasting ones.

This is intimacy skills training for professionals to deepen and enhance emotional & erotic fluency. Explorations include updating intimate internal and external versions of ourselves.

This training is not for the faint-hearted but with dedication, like learning any new language, the rewards offer erotic and emotional fluency and a return to spontaneous naturalness.

Combining bodywork that touches multi- dimensional somatic memories with Body Poem enriches metaphorical life and opens possibilities for erotic and sensual creative self-expression that so many of us long for.  The training is an antidote to civilisation’s collective shaming of this.  

You will be guided step by step through a series of touch and embodiment explorations using the REEF™ Relational Erotic and Emotional Fluency Coaching model.

We welcome you on this journey through the gates

Katie Sarra and Dr Phoebe Garland - Course directors of Training, each with over 30 years of experience in erotic and emotional fluency facilitation

Diversity Policy

Our training are informed by the Right Use of Power teachings training practitioners with the knowledge and skills required to effectively provide somatic sex education to people of all gender identities, sexualities, relationship structures, race and cultural backgrounds, in line with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy BACP Good Practice across the Counselling Professions 001: Gender, Sexual, and Relationship Diversity (GSRD).

We have trained practitioners from many parts of the world who represent diverse cultures, and we are especially grateful to have members of our faculty who represent all voices as part of the conversation.

‘Having known being an outsider from a young age uprooted from cultural belonging, these matters matter to me personally’ - Katie Sarra

At the Relational Harmony Institute, we are deeply committed to inclusivity and recognise systemic power structures that impact the ability to participate in Up Power roles.

We have developed our curriculum and ethics and positively received practitioners from marginalised minorities to join the training with bursary plaes. We are currently training a bank of professional supervisors and are keen to welcome underrepresented aspects of being human into these up-power influencer roles. We have exceeded the requirements of the Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy V2, which states:

‘Those with a responsibility for training will work to ensure that training prepares therapists to have sufficient levels of cultural competence such that they can work effectively with gender and sexually diverse clients.’

We value feedback

  • What is the difference between Somatic Sexology and Tantra?

    Somatic Sex Educators work with the coaching model in client-led sessions adhering to the ACSB code of ethics and conduct, with roles and relationship agreements being clearly defined that primarily support embodied choice and agency. The practitioner always remains clothed and uses gloves for any intimate bodywork and erotic touch is one way. Practitioners and students of our school do not cultivate or act upon their arousal and do not engage in relationships with other students during the training or with clients or volunteers.

  • Titration

    The practitioner clearly holds the duty of care recognising the responsibility of holding space for altered states. Relational embodiment sessions are based on the foundations of the Wheel of Consent™ that facilitate somatic openings and the integration of exiled aspects of the self in co-created relationship agreements where the client directs what happens in titrated stages.

  • Sacred intimacy

    Tantra training and individual sessions may involve immersive role-play or sensuality-focused experiences where boundaries and roles between practitioner and client may vary. Practitioners engage with clients in ways that can sometimes be understood as sex work, sacred intimacy resembling surrogate work.

  • Ancient Eastern philosophy

    There are many schools and interpretations of this ancient Eastern philosophy. Tantra practitioners guide recipients into trusting bathing in unknown waters and entering experiences that potentially access altered states of consciousness.

  • Unchartered territory

    Informed consent is an agreement to trust in these unknown waters where frames of reference may be suspended while the recipient explores uncharted territory which can facilitate unintegrated aspects of self to emerge from the depths of unconscious realms. During arousal states, recipients may find themselves navigating deep waters and discovering depths of themselves and birthing somatic openings and epiphanies. When facilitated with a practitioner who has emotional and erotic fluency, the Practitioner is simultaneously on the beach and in the water and not out of their depth. This response flexibility is essential for facilitating these kinds of experiences and is of special focus in the Sexological Bodywork training.

  • Immersive experiences

    These immersive experiences may sometimes result in emotional hangovers of exiled aspects of the self having being discovered and exposed without the recipient necessarily having the capacity to integrate these. This is possibly part of the reason why there has been such a wave of reactions against Tantra where the wheel of consent and integration support has not been effectively been practised.

  • Self-gain motivations

    This reactionary wave has been magnified by emotional hangovers from Tantric practitioners following their erotic self-gain motivations with recipients in vulnerable or disinhibited altered states of consciousness.

  • Role play

    “Role play or Tantric rituals, like in any group setting where there are participation expectations, can sometimes disable participants from feeling they can direct their experience at the pace and depth they have the capacity to digest. The impact of this is magnified when playing with sexual expression which is the root of our deepest wounds. This is possibly why the Quodoushka shamanic sacred sexuality path calls this type of altered states work "Fire Medicine" - it has the potential for expansion of consciousness which can paradoxically burn as well as heal.” Katie Sarra

“When we are touched, or we touch another, we are touching memory channels from this lifetime and lifetimes that have gone before us - generations of unintegrated aspects of humanity emerge out of the soup of the collective conscious to be witnessed and accepted.”

“A sensual soma-nautical adventure into exploring the depths of the waters within, bringing the pearls of wisdom from the depths back to the shore of awareness.”

- Makia Certified Practitioner - 2024 Cohort

“Coming from a work background that is totally unrelated to Sexological Bodywork the formal presentation of the course is accessible and enjoyable. The research explorations and practical presentations are providing me with the skills to become a competent Sexological Bodyworker and coach.”

- Deirdre Certified Practitioner - 2024 Cohort training

CERTIFICATION & INSURANCE
Graduates from this professional training can become members of

  • The Association of Certified Sexological Bodyworkers (ACSB), the Somatic Sex Educators’ Association of Australasia (SSEAA) and apply for membership and be admitted to the World Association of Sex Coaches (WASC) with no further requirements.

  • This course is recognised by The Association of Somatic and Integrative Sexologists as offering training of sufficient depth for practitioners to be eligible for insurance for their work.