Embodying intimacy
inhabiting new ways of being
Katie Sarra
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all I know on earth, and all ye need to know," - John Keats.
Katie Sarra is an artist, teacher, art psychotherapist, and Somatic intimacy coach with over 40 years of experience guiding others to trust their creative self-expression in intimacy and to be witnessed with radical acceptance. This is where acknowledgement and kindness give birth to gratitude and joy, rather than more stress getting better in make-believe.
Please feel free to schedule a free discovery call to explore Somatic Intimacy training with the Relational Harmony Institute REEF™ (Relational erotic and emotional fluency) Coaching model. These can be either online sessions or in-person retreats.
"What is true is already so … People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it." Eugene Gendlin
Online or In-person Retreats
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.
You will be guided every step of the way into experimenting with new ways of being and revisiting old ways of being that you want liberation from.
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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
My mission is to contribute to healing separation by creating accessible step-by-step structures that support trusting to feel more and fear less.
Embodying Intimacy online sessions and in-person retreats for individuals or couples
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 40 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.’
“It’s a joy to be hidden but a disaster never to be found” — Donald Winnicott
Professional Training Programs for Practitioners with
The Relational Harmony Institute
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).
Katie Sarra Art