Cassie Porter, MS
Cassie is a somatic healing practitioner and juicy spirit in Portland, Oregon. She holds a masters degree in counseling and is a certified somatic sex educator, sexological bodyworker and intimacy educator. Preferring to work beyond the medical model of health, she integrates her experience as a therapist with holistic, Eastern and touch-based approaches to healing and transformation.
She is the co-creator of Healing Sex PDX and editor of Healers on the Edge, the first book about the profession of somatic sex education. Some elements woven into her practice include sacred intimacy, erotic energy work, mindfulness, spirituality and humor. She is passionate about helping people feel more pleasure and possibility in their bodies and lives. She follows the ethical code of the Somatic Sex Educators Association which can be accessed here.
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About Somatic Sex EducationSomatic sex education is a holistic, body-based approach that supports healing, pleasure and erotic empowerment. It is a client-centered, trauma-informed modality that teaches people to connect with their own bodies, tune in to desires and create personal pathways to authentic pleasure. In contrast to a cookie-cutter list of instructions for better sex from a "sexpert," it empowers people to recognize and listen to their own inner wisdom. Because everyBODY is different.
Despite the title, somatic sex education is not just about sex! It supports people in listening deeply to themselves, and releasing the trauma, shame and internalized oppression that stifle our full human potential. The experiences available in somatic sex education can create meaningful, empowering change in all aspects of your life. |
Combining interpersonal neurobiology, anatomical knowledge and practices that empower choice and voice, somatic sex education practitioners guide clients in the reclaiming of their bodies and their pleasure, and support liberation from the ongoing effects of sexual oppression, trauma, neglect, limiting beliefs and dysfunctions. Somatic sex education offers a new way of understanding our bodies, our sexuality, and our erotic capacities; weaving the scientific understanding of human sexuality together with spiritual practices of erotic energy cultivation." |
Somatic sex education is the wider professional umbrella that can include the practice of sexological bodywork.
About Sexological Bodywork
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Sexological Bodywork is somatic education that assists individuals, couples, and groups to deepen their experience and awareness of their body, eroticism, and sexuality.
“Soma” or “Somatic” is ‘of the body.’ It is turning the focus inwards, to the sensations we experience in our bodies, including our tissues, structures, trapped emotions or stories that we hold in our nervous systems which contribute to our habits and how we experience life. People work with Sexological Bodyworkers to address specific challenges they are aware of for which they are seeking understanding, acceptance and relief; as well as those who are more broadly looking to explore and expand their own erotic potential. Sexological Bodyworkers are somatic sex educators who use a client-centered approach to empower, educate, and bring attention to the felt experience through movement, breath, touch, sound, and placement of awareness. This approach facilitates the ability to change limiting habits, unwind and release what is no longer supportive, re-sensitize the body, and create a more expansive erotic state that integrates both body and mind. Our teaching involves a variety of instructive modalities, including breathwork, foundations of touch, somatic learning, body and genital mapping, consent and boundaries, active receiving, erotic massage, pelvic release bodywork, scar tissue remediation, and masturbation coaching. One of the somatic realms that Sexological Bodyworkers introduce to clients is a state of arousal that is free of fantasy, unfinished emotional business, religious dogma, cultural caveats and habitual sexual behaviors. In this meditative state, an individual becomes aware of the body as a source of wisdom and freedom. One of the ways to access this fecund state is by actively receiving attentive and mindful erotic touch. Helping others access and make use of a variety of erotic states is foundational to the education we offer. -from the Association of Certified Sexological Bodyworkers website |
