Touching Bodies and Souls
Caffyn Jesse is a world-renowned teacher of sacred intimacy and somatic sex education. She has a unique approach to sexual healing and well-being through safe, wanted and exciting touch. Caffyn teaches how sensual and erotic massage rituals can encourage neuroplastic change to support expanded pleasure. Sacred Intimacy is about unwinding sexual trauma, challenging the gender binary, exploring the intersections of science, sex and spirit, and creating erotic community. Caffyn is now retired, and is making all their teachings and resources available in this online program.
Discussion Videos, Demo Videos, E-Books, Artwork and Graphics
This course comes with a cornucopia of resources you can enjoy, download, use, share, and return to again and again.
Caffyn explains simple practices with sequences that can generate so much magic. She explains the neural learning zone, and how we can address the traumatic shaping we experience around the erotic. The lens of neurobiology helps us do this work in ways that are trauma-aware, ethical and deeply grounded. There is also a domain-specific knowledge we need. Caffyn explains sensual massage, genital anatomy, genital massage strokes, genital dearmouring, and ritual structures for the integration of science, sex and spirit. They include original artwork, anatomy drawings, graphics that explain complicated neurobiology in accessible ways, and handouts for you to use and share with friends and clients.
Healing and Pleasure
Original writings explain the science and art of sacred intimacy
Neurobiology
We can learn to rewire and transform
How to Touch
Building a vocabulary of touch and integrating the erotic at the pace of trust
Example Curriculum
- Course Outline Intimacy Education (e-book)
- Welcome to the Program (Video introduction)
- What is Intimacy Education? (Video)
- Goals for this Module
- Outlaws' Journey (e-book)
- Woundedness and Wonderfulness
- Intake Form and Process
- Intake (discussion video)
- Special consideration for Friends/Practice Partners
- For Clients: Finding a Practitioner
- Enriching Intentions e-book
- Introduce yourself to Caffyn
- Welcome to this Module
- Goals for this Module
- Temple Agreements
- Empowering Choice and Voice (Discussion Video)
- Empowering Choice and Voice (e-book)
- Somatic Exercises for Empowering Choice and Voice (demo videos of Somatic Alliance, Thank the No, Yes-No-Maybe and Feel and Defend Your Boundaries)
- The Neural Learning Zone (e-book)
- The Neural Learning Zone (discussion video)
- The Neural Learning Zone posters
- Quadrants of Touch (e-book)
- Quadrants of Touch (demo videos)
- Quadrants of Touch (discussion video)
- The Relational Matrix (includes demo videos of Sacred Space, Welcome Home and Bossy Session)
- Becoming Satisfyable
- A Song and a Poem
- Home play: Vulnerability Warrior
- Welcome to this Module
- Goals of this Modules
- Learning to Choose Pleasure (e-book)
- Vagal Fitness: Cultivate Erotic Energy with Breath (demo videos)
- Sensual Massage (e-book)
- Build a Vocabulary of Touch (demo video)
- Sensual Massage (demo video and handout)
- Sensual Massage (discussion video)
- Sensual Massage: Practical Magic (discussion video)
- How to Touch (demo video)
- A Song and a Poem
- Home play: Genital Drawing and/or Writing
- Connect with Caffyn and Fellow Students
Caffyn says, "I am interested in touching souls, and being touched in ways that welcome other souls. I know that souls can be lost, and also loved into what is deeply true. I celebrate the erotic, and - from the inside – I know about trauma, shame, violences and silences we are trained to endure in the erotic realm. When we touch someone, we touch their whole history, their deepest wounds, their secret identity, their healing powers, and their most profound capacities for joy. I want to touch and be touched in ways that honour this."
