Embodying Intimacy
T R U S T I N G S P O N T A N E I T Y
Inhabiting new ways of being
The more we tune in with ourselves with kindness and compassion, the more likely we are to be kind to the people and animals around us and less likely to suffer from being commodified and commodifying others without care.
Radical Acceptance helps us come home to ourselves.
I guide you step by step into inhabiting new ways of being, updating habitual adaptive versions of yourself that may be causing you stress. Kindness with our intimate self-expression gains confidence when we are witnessed and acknowledged with radical acceptance.
With over 35 years of professional clinical practice informed by affective, relational neuroscience research, I have learned to trust these tried-and-tested practices.
I am an Art Psychotherapist, a facilitator of the Wheel of Consent™ and Right Use of Power™, and a Playback Theatre Practitioner. I teach UK and worldwide practitioner training in Somatic Intimacy Coaching & Bodywork, Sexological Bodywork and Body Poem™.
We work privately while you grow your new roots and discover your gifts.
It takes a lot of effort to hold what’s true at bay - and stressful! Releasing our grip on this can be easier to practice privately before we can trust that it's safe to come out of hiding. However, coming out of hiding is not as easy as it sounds, especially since hiding ‘once upon a time’ might have preserved our sense of belonging.
As we mature, belonging to what is true becomes more of an inevitability and such a relief when we can finally let go of holding it at bay. It’s never too late until it is. This process involves integrating the rationalised exiled aspects of ourselves and illuminating unthought-knowns through the practice of Body Poem™.
It can take courage to inhabit our ‘personal power,’ and play with our creative self-expression. It takes even more courage to repair and acknowledge where we may have made agreements that don’t represent what’s true for aspects of ourselves that may be hidden in shame. ‘The more you are you, the more of me I can be’ widens the bandwidth of acceptance that secures our belonging.
My aim with this intimacy training is to hold space with the most tender and exuberant aspects of being human. I can hold the unspeakable parts of us with deep compassion and humour. My ultimate goal is to help you find the courage to venture under the masks and layers of who you are not, to liberate and release your vulnerable, true essence. This is an invitation to discover ways of delivering our gifts, like the plant worlds share their nuts and seeds, fruits and flowers, and offerings, without shame.’
My mission is to contribute to healing separation by creating accessible step-by-step structures that support trusting to feel more and fear less.
“It’s a joy to be hidden but a disaster never to be found” — Donald Winnicott
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I’m seeing reality from an easier place and its been good to share all that I’ve been holding on to releasing into more space inside. I realise that I can have desire
Confidential Source
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“When I started working with you I expected it to be painful and traumatic and was pleasantly surprised that it was so gentle and nurturing despite the depth of the emotional wounds that were being healed”
Adam
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“Katie has facilitated my inner person to become my outer person. She has unlocked and liberated my mind and body.”
John
The Relational Harmony Institute
Katie Sarra is the founder of the Relational Harmony Institute, where she choreographs and teaches professional certification programs in Body Poem, Somatic Sex Educator, Somatic Intimacy Coaching & Bodywork, and Sexological Bodywork. She follows the Code of Ethics of the Association of Somatic and Integrative Sexologists (ASIS) and the Association of Certified Sexological Bodyworkers (ACSB).
As your receptivity to feeling more increases, you find words that come close to describing what matters to you, and you learn to stop overriding these communications; your decision-making can have the benefits of hindsight in each moment.
Body Poem
Videos from live sessions.
Body Poem™ offers a way of illuminating unthought-knowns and trusting in self-organising intelligence when we practise radical acceptance.
Your Body Poem might be the beginning of a session with your arrival, or completing a session with where you have been. Here are two live recorded examples that have been made into short films, helping us not to forget the wisdom that speaks when we listen in this way.
Ultimate freedom can be understood as having repaired our relationships with others and with ourselves from when we found ourselves in separation. Remorse is sometimes the most complex ‘come clean’ to navigate, but we carry heavy burdens without braving this. Learning that we can heal the harm and impact we have caused ourselves and others, as well as where others have impacted us, will make us lighter. I am an expert in facilitating this in structured ways that offer freedom with a lighter, warmer heart.