Befriend your body. Rewrite the story of your life.
Shameless:
Healing the Good Girl and the Slut Wound that Made Her
A free workshop on reviving feminine erotic power
Recording Available Now
The end of the good girl era
We’re at a crossroads.
Behind us is the story of womanhood defined as either good or bad. Which way you fall largely depends on who you sleep with, how, and why (oh, and the rules will change without your knowledge or consent).
In front of us the road isn’t clearly marked. We see glimpses – empowered feminine sexuality, a voice that doesn’t get stuck in her throat – but the whole view is hazy.
This is a world that will be built one brave step at a time. Moving away from the old narratives that caged our mothers. Away from performing for the male gaze. Toward something that exists for our pleasure – finally.
Join me for a history lesson, somatic journey, and reignition of what your body has always known – your erotic power belongs to you.
What you’ll learn:
- The hidden relationship between the “good girl” and the slut.
- How to celebrate your erotic desires and allow them to become your fuel.
- Tools to integrate wounds to your sexual expression caused by society, friends, family, and self.
- Practices to make friends with your whole sexual expression, from the good girl’s coy denial to the slut’s insatiable hunger.
- How the slut shaming of Mary Magdalene defined women’s sexuality for centuries, and how to take back the erotic power denied to our ancestresses.
This is for you if:
- you’re ready to eradicate shame from your body and your sexuality.
- you want to know what sexual desire feels like as a normal, human experience (without the “shoulds” and “should nots”).
- you want to have sex without the shadow of trauma.
- are ready to unlock your voice and say clearly what you do and don’t want in bed.
- you want to bridge the dichotomies of the good girl and the slut and find your inner erotic compass.
- you resonate with practices that stand at the intersection of sexuality and spirituality.
Our muse, Mary Magdalene
In this workshop, we’ll invoke the story of Mary Magdalene, the most famous woman ever to be slut shamed.
You might know her as the prostitute that Jesus forgave despite her sins, but in truth, books that were removed from what we now call the Bible demonstrated that Mary Magdalene was a priestess and – quite likely – Jesus’ sexual, romantic, and spiritual partner.
The world is finally recognizing Mary Magdalene for who she really was. In this workshop, we’ll bring in a bit of her magic to help us heal the slut wound in our own lives.
Your Guide
Hey there, I’m Sonja Semyonova. I’m a writer and somatic intimacy coach who helps women come home to their erotic power and create the relationships of their dreams.
My work is grounded in 20+ years of study and practice – from my early days as a gender studies student (before it was cool) and initial career as a sexual trauma counselor to my ongoing study of mysticism, mythology, somatic sex education, trauma recovery, and more.
But more than anything I’ve studied, my work is born from my lived experience. I’ve sought out some of the world’s best teachers to heal many layers of sexual wounds and reclaim my voice, befriend my body, and unlock my pleasure after decades of silence. These days, I live without apology. I want to invite you to do the same.
One final note
This workshop is totally free – but I will be inviting you to learn more about my upcoming live course, Mirror, Mirror: Unspelling the Feminine Erotic.
But Shameless is not a 75-minute sales pitch. My aim, whether you sign up for Mirror, Mirror or not, is to give you tools you can use tomorrow to become more embodied, more empowered, more alive in your sexuality.
Come find out what it’s like to walk a new path.
What my Clients Say
“Sonja is a wise, authentic guide teaching deep and mind-blowing truths using a fun, light-hearted approach.”
“Sonja’s practices helped me feel safe in my body again. I didn’t know healing could feel this good.”
“I finally feel like a strong woman”
The answers are inside you – you just need to listen.
The Journal
Labor Pains
I don’t classify the birth of my daughter as traumatic, but some people have done it for me. I remember when she was about seven weeks old and an acquaintance of mine, then childless, pulled me aside. She had heard that I had to transfer my planned home birth to the hospital. She gave me a look of pity. How traumatic that must have been, she said.
Journaling: A Sacred Ritual for Self-Care
I just finished a Facebook Live video on the power of ritual journaling for the Simple Ayurveda Facebook group, led by the beautiful Angela Perger. I was so inspired by what I got to talk about there that I wanted to share it again here. (Join the group and you can see the full video.)
Angela’s topic for the month is the power of ritual. I adore ritual. It marks every part of my day. Ritual is what makes my dinacharya, or daily routine, holy. When my routines are ritualized, I approach them with devotion. I make them a celebration of my aliveness.
Examining Your Gooey Insides
I have found that while all births are unique, they all share this in common: They aren’t what was expected.
And it’s not only in birth, all forms of passage (i.e., the events that fundamentally shape us as humans) have this in common. Because if we knew exactly the course we were going to take, we would never have been able to accept the wisdom that we gained from the journey.