Frequently Asked Questions

Answering your most tender curiosities about sacred sexuality, somatic healing, and intimate transformation

  • I offer sessions for both individuals and couples, ranging from single ceremonial immersions and multi-day retreats to an extended series of hands-on somatic intimacy work. My practice weaves together sexological bodywork, sacred sexuality, de-armoring, relational healing, plant medicine, and nervous system repair to support deep, embodied transformation.

    If you're curious about what sessions may look like for you, explore the Eros Alchemy Sessions and Couples Eros Alchemy Sessions pages.

    Alongside my beloved collaborator Rahi Chun, I co-facilitate Divine Union for Lovers—an online course for couples that stands alone as a transformational journey or can be integrated into our in-person, hands-on intimacy work.

    We also offer retreats in Los Angeles and internationally, designed to awaken deeper intimacy, erotic embodiment, and soulful connection.

  • A sexological bodywork session is a guided, hands-on 1-way touch experience that supports you in reconnecting with your body, exploring your erotic landscape, and reclaiming your pleasure on your own terms. These sessions are consent-based, body-led, and deeply attuned to your intentions—whether you're working through blocks, awakening desire, or learning to feel more.

    You’ll remain in clear communication throughout as we explore touch, breath, sound, and movement to support nervous system regulation, release stored tension, and activate your sensual and sexual vitality. Sessions may include genital touch through pelvic mapping, de-armoring, and ecstatic erotic massage —always guided by your boundaries and readiness. You can read more about these various touch containers here.

    This is not talk therapy—it's experiential learning through the body. We don’t just talk about sexuality and intimacy—we practice it together in a space of presence, reverence, and trust.

  • Touch in sessions may include contact with the full body—including the pelvis—guided by your intention, clear consent, and ongoing, embodied communication. We work with a spectrum of practices such as restorative attuned touch, pleasure mapping, ecstatic erotic massage, and de-armoring to awaken sensation, release tension, and deepen your connection to your body’s innate wisdom.

    I also hold space for two-way touch practices, using the framework of the Wheel of Consent, which supports you in discerning what you want, what you’re willing to give, and how to receive with clarity and sovereignty. These practices are powerful tools for re-patterning dynamics around giving, receiving, and boundaries—creating space for deeper relational integrity and embodied choice.

    All touch is guided by your body’s pace and readiness. Nothing is ever rushed or forced. Your nervous system sets the tempo, and every step of the way is attuned to what feels safe, true, and alive for you.

  • Yes. I weave pleasure-oriented bodywork and plant medicine together as complementary healing modalities. Both are powerful on their own—and when consciously combined, they can catalyze deep somatic healing, nervous system regulation, and radical personal expansion.

    Each person’s journey is unique. I take great care to build trust and safety, attune to your experience with somatic bodywork and plant allies, and assess your nervous system capacity, intentions, and boundaries. Sessions may include non-psychoactive plants—such as cacao, rose, or mugwort—used to support embodiment, emotional opening, and pleasure.

    Some sessions may incorporate gentle doses of psycho-active plant allies alongside sexological bodywork, de-armoring, or intimacy coaching, while others unfold in dedicated ceremonial containers. For those called to higher doses, I facilitate experiences with plant medicines in ceremonial settings.

    Every offering is trauma-informed, heart-led, and guided by deep reverence for your body and the living intelligence of the plants.

  • Not at all. Whether you’re just beginning to listen to your body or are already exploring your erotic path, whether you’ve been journey with plants for years or are just beginning to follow a curiousity - I meet you where you are. That said, this work requires you to take self-responsibility and the ability to sense into your body’s emotions and sensations.

  • While my work is deeply therapeutic and healing, I am not a licensed therapist. I am a somatic psychedelic practitioner, intimacy guide, and sexological bodyworker working outside the traditional therapy model.

    This is hands-on, experiential work. We don’t just talk about intimacy and sexuality—we practice it through embodied exploration. You’ll be guided through direct experiences of conscious touch, sensation, and connection that rewire patterns and awaken your aliveness.

  • Many people come to this work with past experiences of sexual or relational pain. My practice is trauma-informed and somatically grounded, with a deep reverence for your pacing and sovereignty. We work with your body’s own intelligence—never pushing, never overriding. Many clients experience profound trauma healing and relational mending through this work.

    If you're in the early stages of trauma recovery, this work can be powerful, but it's most supportive when you’re ready to feel, receive, and engage. I don’t work with people in accute crisis and if your currently living in dissasocative states, I recommend starting with a modality like Neuro-effective Touch or Somatic Experiencing before working with me.

  • I work with all bodies, genders, and orientations. In my work with couples and partners - sacred union comes in infinite forms. I welcome queer couples, polyamorous dynamics, and non-traditional partnerships. The work is tailored to your unique love constellation.

    I identify as a cis-queer-woman, have lived experience with polyamorous dyamics, and resonate with relationship anarchy.

  • I work out of a private residence in Santa Monica, California. For clients traveling from out of town, we’ll co-create a custom immersive experience—often a multi-day journey that weaves together bodywork, intimacy coaching, and sacred ritual.

    I occasionally travel for custom immersives and retreats both domestically and internationally for clients beyond Los Angeles. If you're called to work together but not based in L.A., reach out and we can explore the possibilities.

  • Sessions typically last 2 to 5 hours, and are body-led—not clock-driven. We listen for when your system feels complete. You’ll never be rushed, and always supported to integrate what arises.

  • Most individual clients invest between $1,800 and $20,000, depending on the length, depth, and scope of your journey. This may include:

    • A single multi-hour hands-on ceremonial session with prep and integration

    • A series of hands-on intimacy sessions

    • A multi-day immersive retreat

    • A plant ceremony with prep and integration

    • Or a combination of all four

    For couples working with both Rahi and I, investments can range from $2,000 to $40,000.

    The range in possibiliites reflects the deeply personal, high-touch nature of the work.

    You can read more about individual sessioners here and couples sesssions here.

  • "Ariel’s work is truly so skillful, attuned, transformative, and ecstatic. She has traveled all the realms she invites you into and really offers equistite mastery. Many lucky particpants in her offerings and in her hands."

    Michael

  • "Ariel has an incredibly intuitive, caring touch, and she knows how to use that touch to soothe your inner child while also drawing out your sexiest, most empowered self. With compassion and gentleness, she created a safe-enough container for me to re-process some deep, old trauma wounds, and to heal parts of myself I didn’t think I would ever heal."

    Katherine

  • "My time with Ariel shifted my relationship with myself, the Divine Feminine, and my body. It is a sweet reminder of my capacity to heal and my worthiness that undergrids my work in the world and deeply nourishes me."

    Brittany

  • "Since working with Ariel I feel more alive, like my body is now an open vessel to experience joy and pleasure in a way I haven’t before. My heart feels expansive, radiating love, and my mind is no longer consumed by doubt or control. Spiritually, I’ve reawakened my divine feminine essence—the part of me that embodies flow, creativity, and nurturing. I feel more balanced and in harmony with myself, as if my inner wisdom has been unlocked and is guiding me with grace."

    Lauren

  • "Ariel - words can truly not capture the gratitude I feel. The depth and intimacy of the healing you midwifed in me is so profound. And reached places no other therapy could reach. We de-shamed desire. De-shamed pleasure. De-shamed the body. Healed a pre-verbal hungry ghost state of sexualized deprivation. I came to you fragmented and on the brink of a break up. You have officially saved my marriage and helped make me whole."

    Matt

  • "With Ariel's support I've undergone immense healing around my relationship to my body, my wants and needs, sexuality, touch, and women. Our work together was able to touch deep and vulnerable layers of my being that no other form of therapeutic support has been able to. I left feeling more confident and liberated in my body, my relationships and my sexuality."

    Esteban

  • "I have grown into myself more in the past year than I could have possibly imagined. I didn’t know how much my heart could expand…while also establishing much needed boundaries. I feel more at home and at peace within my body and soul that I ever have. I’m no longer afraid of my grief or pleasure and being seen in those depths. Thank you Ariel - for holding the limitless space to allow me to feel, heal, and be seen through it all."

    Jenn

  • "Ariel is a midwife of the soul, creating deeply needed space for you to not only sit with your feelings and sensations but gently explore and move through the root cause. I cannot sing her praises enough! She has a brilliant, nurturing energy that soothes your mind, calms your heart and calls your spirit home."

    Annetta

  • "The work Ariel does is powerful and grand. After just six sessions, she has undeniably forever changed my life. Her empathy, kindness, compassion, authenticity, and ability to provide sacred space and witness have deeply impacted my soul. I discovered a whole story that has been carved like tree rings into my being. I am starting to learn what my body needs and how to listen to her without judgment. I am excited to explore her and keep listening to her."

    Leila

  • "Ariel holds a warm, accepting, welcoming sacred space that allowed me to get in touch with my own abilities and preferences for processing and integrating experiences from across my whole lifetime. The gentle, curious, and client-honoring sessions allowed me to access and work with parts of my own system I was completely unconscious of before. Exploring the topics of culture, conditioning, consent, and desire in a holistic and embodied way has allowed me to feel more clarity, capacity, and calm than I ever thought possible."

    Kathleen

  • "Ariel skillfully incorporates a juicy variety of perspectives into her work, making her a versatile practitioner. She held my trauma and tender wounds with such compassion and understanding. I learned so many new things about myself along this journey: tangible knowledge about consent, boundaries and my desire; greater awareness of how my history comes into play in my current relationships; and embodied practice in the skills and presence I want to bring to my life, my relationships with others, and myself."

    Leia

  • "Ariel is non-judgmental, warm, peaceful, and safe. She is a great listener and really able to understand where I’m coming from. Her counseling skills are extremely keen and her feedback is honest, clear, and supportive. The work we do feels really healing, empowering, and magical."

    Rosa