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Myfanwy Van Vliet

Certified Practitioner -
Somatic Sex Education and
Sexological Bodywork

I want to support people in accessing more pleasure and aliveness in their bodies. Pleasure can be healing and empowering.

I am certified through the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education and I am establishing my professional practice.

I offer a free 20-minute video discovery call to see if we are a good fit to work/explore/play together. Please click below or email me at IlluminatingPleasure@gmail.com to set this up.

 

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Illuminating Pleasure
Somatic Sex Education

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Why Somatic Sex Education?

We could co-create a safe(enough) space to explore: consent and boundaries, identifying and asking for your desires, your yes/no/maybes, pleasure mapping, self-pleasure, re/learning your body/pleasure after or through major life situations (such as giving birth/parenting, health challenges, surgeries, relationship changes/endings, gender affirmation, disabilities).

Body acceptance, unlearning shame, and finding pleasure that feels right for YOU in your body.

Illuminating Pleasure: A Declaration

With a full heart and a trauma-informed lens, I support:

  • Shining a light on the potentially hidden pleasures of bodies and minds

  • Coming together of mind, body and spirit

  • Expanding pleasures and examining what may challenge pleasures

  • Exploring the wisdom of connecting with nature and animals

  • Working through, and playing in the darkness to help reveal pleasure that is already here

  • Finding the fullest expression of self 

  • Knowing that ALL of you is welcome

My Commitments:

  • Maintain clear professional/ethical boundaries

  • Move at the speed of trust

  • Work collaboratively with other care supporters when needed and wanted

  • Bring my full self and my full presence to the work of illuminating pleasure

  • Resource my own personal embodied experiences of darkness and lightness

  • Continue on my own healing/wholing and pleasure journey

  • Practice awareness and accountability to my privilege as a white settler, cis-gender female, English-speaking, appearingly able-bodied, and otherwise privileged self. 

  • Poly/ENM/kink-friendly

  • Endeavor to make my practice and offerings open and supportive for 2SLGBTQIA+, BIPOC, disabled, low-income, and otherwise potentially disadvantaged folks. 

  • Show loving-kindness, compassion, and acceptance for all human beings

I Believe:

  • All people deserve to feel safe (enough) in order for the possibility of pleasure to be illuminated

  • Play, curiosity, and the exploration of yes, no and maybe are all welcome and encouraged

  • People are not broken, though sometimes we all need a little support to find the light and pleasure within

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Get in Touch

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Ottawa, ONThe traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg people

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