by Sonja Semyonova | Oct 26, 2022 | Journal, Relationships, Self-love, Sensuality, The Spiritual Side of Sex
(listen to the audio version) Some big things happened when I found myself in a circle of strangers all engaged in group masturbation. Not the least of which was the shocking realization that I should center any sexuality I offer to another person from my own...
by Sonja Semyonova | Oct 20, 2022 | AWAKE, Journal, Relationships, The Nest
Welcome to Awake, a workshop on embodied intuition. This month's question, in a month about relationships is this: How have you loved? It's an important question. Given humans' biological need for one another -- and the pain this reality causes us -- it is perhaps the...
by Sonja Semyonova | Oct 13, 2022 | Journal, Love Letters, Relationships, Self-love, Sensuality, The Spiritual Side of Sex
I want your broken heart. I want the scar tissue and sutures. I want the bleeding and infested wounds, covered in scabs and bandages. Show me how they hurt you. Then show me how you rose up anyway. Tell me about the first day you realized you were going to make it....
by Sonja Semyonova | Oct 6, 2022 | Journal, Relationships, Self-love
(listen to the audio version) A simple truth about humans – our bodies need other bodies. We need each other to be seen/to see. To be held/to hold. To be received/to receive. Relationships are the blood and heartbeat of life. But they are also the rope, the concrete...
by Sonja Semyonova | Sep 27, 2022 | Journal, Risk, Self-love, Surrender, The Spiritual Side of Sex
(listen to the audio version) Of all the spiritual practices that I do, the ones I value the most are those that bring me fully into my body. Of all of the practices that connect me this way, I value sex among the highest. Of all my spiritual sexual practices,...
