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Trainings & Affiliations

Surrogate Partner Collective:

Fundamentals of Embodied Intimacy - In-Person Intensive (August 2023)

Collaborating w/ Clinicians in the Triadic Model (August 2023)

How to Help Generalize Surrogate Partner Therapy (September 2023)

 

Surrogate Partner Therapy Specialized Professional Training (September 2023 - January 2024)

Including, but not limited to, training on:​

  • Fatphobia and Fat Liberation

  • Working with Clients who are Neurodiverse and/or on the Spectrum

  • A Gendered Touch: Working with Gender Diverse/Trans, Non-Binary, and Intersex Clients

  • Embodied Asexuality & Aromaticism

  • Safe(r) Sex: STIs & Protection

  • Love Has A Color: Working with Clients Who Experience Racism

  • Purity Culture & Religious Trauma

  • Working with Clients with Disabilities

  • Cultivating Emotional Safety

  • The Nervous System and Polyvagal Theory

  • Healing Attachment Trauma

  • Collaborating w/ Clinicians

  • Ethics & Legality

Supervised Apprenticeship (December 2023 - February 2026)

Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education:

Core Course 1 - Foundations of Somatic Sex Education (February - October 2023)

Including, but not limited to, training on:​

  • Basic Principles and Practices

  • Empowering Choice and Voice

  • Mindful Erotic Practice 

  • Genital Anatomy and Mapping

  • Loving Justice

 

Core Course 2 - Erotic Practice for Somatic Sex Education - In-Person Intensive (November 2023)

Core Course 3 - Establishing a Somatic Sex Education Practice (February - October 2024)

Including, but not limited to, training on:​

  • Working with Trauma

  • Erotic Touch and Massage

  • Active Receiving

  • Anal Mapping and Massage

  • Pelvic Scar Tissue Remediation

  • Genital Dearmouring

Core Course 4 - Refining Your Practice as a Somatic Sex Educator - In-Person Intensive (November 2024)

Core Course 5 - Supervised Practicum (November - June 2025)

Elemental School of Sex, Death and Magic

Together We Fly: Group Facilitation for Somatic Sex Educators (October - December 2023)

  • Community Offering: Embracing the Erotic Joy & Pain of our Ancestors - A Guided Somatic Exploration

Wicked Grounds

Pentacles of Power: Sex Magick for Kinky People (February - March 2025)

Other:

Bachelors of Arts in Environmental Justice & Human Centered Design

Intimacy Professionals Working GroupAmerican Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT)

Mental Health First Aid - National Council for Mental Well-Being

Self Study:

Dozens of classes, workshops, ceremonies, retreats, festivals, & conferences exploring erotic healing modalities, trauma healing, massage technique, bodywork approaches, authentic relating games, improvisational dance, kink, somatic embodiment, sensuality, communal mindful erotic practice, relational rupture & repair, attachment theory, wheel of consent, grief & eros, eco-sexuality, sacred sexuality, & more!​

SAGE SHALOMOVA

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