Eros Alchemy Sessions

Sexological bodywork, intimacy coaching, de-armoring & plant medicine for somatic healing and embodied transformation in Santa Monica, CA

This is a space where intimacy, sexuality, and relational patterns are not just talked about, but experienced, felt, and reshaped in real time.

We work with what your body has been holding. The emotions, conditioning, and patterns that keep repeating in your life.

This work goes to the root.

Through somatic practice, sexological bodywork, relational work, and plant medicine where appropriate, we begin to rewire how you relate to yourself, to pleasure, and to others.

From here, real change becomes possible:

A body that feels safer to live inside of.
The ability to feel pleasure without shutting down or performing.
More honesty, clarity, and choice in your relationships.
A nervous system that can stay present instead of bracing, overriding, or escaping.

This space is for those ready to meet themselves honestly and step into a different way of being in their bodies, their relationships, and their desire.

Wondering if this work is right for you?

Read more about what somatic sexual healing is and the philosophy behind this work.

What Is Somatic Sexual Healing?

How to Build Emotional and Sexual Intimacy: The Eight Pillars of Intimacy™

What is Somatic Consent?

The 8 Pillars of Intimacy ™

Underneath everything we do together is a set of skills most people were never taught.

I teach these as lived practice, something you come to feel, not just understand.

Slowing Down. Pausing. Noticing. Accepting. Trusting. Valuing. Attuning. Communicating.

Simple on the surface. Confronting in practice.

Because these are the exact places most people leave themselves. Speeding past what they feel, dismissing their own signals, disconnecting when things get real, performing instead of relating.

In this work, we return to those moments.

We slow them down. We stay inside them. We build the capacity to be with what is actually happening, so something new becomes possible.

Over time, this becomes a blueprint you carry into every part of your life.

It shifts the way you show up in sex, intimacy, conflict, friendship, and work. And how much pleasure you’re able to receive in all of it.

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This work is offered in private, high-touch containers for those ready to engage deeply in their healing, embodiment, and relational life.

Private containers begin at $3,600

You’ll be supported before, during, and after our in-person work. Your container includes preparation calls, ongoing virtual support, and integration sessions so you have space to prepare for the experience, receive guidance as things arise, and integrate what unfolds into your life and relationships.

For men and those shaped by male socialization, this work is held within a dedicated container.
→ Explore Eros Alchemy for Men

This is an invitation into something deeper.

I will meet you fully in this work.

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Each session is intuitively guided and rooted in a clear somatic, relational, and erotic framework, drawing from a range of practices to support your process.

Attuned touch to support nervous system regulation and repair

Erotic bodywork to expand sensation and reconnect you with your aliveness

De-armoring to release holding patterns and restore sensitivity

Relational work around boundaries, communication, and consent

Education and integration around anatomy, arousal, trauma, and the nervous system

Plant medicine, offered with intention and care, where appropriate

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This is what it feels like to be met without performance or pressure.

Meet Ariel

The Container

This is a space outside of the scripts you’ve been given about intimacy and sexuality.

A space where performance is not required, and nothing needs to be pushed through.

Where there is no goal of climax,
so you can discover the vast terrain of what else is possible.

We work with the imprints of abandonment, violation, betrayal, and neglect
and begin to create new relational experiences in the body.

Experiences of safety.
Of being met.
Of giving and receiving without endurance, collapse, or performance.

This is where something new becomes possible.

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  • "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

  • “With Ariel’s space holding and healing touch - I was able to let go of the need to control and instead open up to receiving. She supported me in embracing the pleasure, playfulness, and wisdom within my body - helping me heal old wounds and expand my heart consciousness.”

    Lauren

Frequently Asked Questions

  • I offer a range of intentional, body-based touch containers designed to meet you exactly where you are—whether you’re longing for nervous system repair, erotic reclamation, or soul-deep connection.

    This may include touch to the entire body, including the pelvis, always guided by your consent, comfort, and intention. These immersives are not clinical —they are sacred, attuned, and relational.

    Keep reading below for more detailed explanations on:
    • Restorative Attuned Touch
    • Pleasure Mapping
    • Ecstatic Erotic Massage
    • De-Armoring

    Each offers a unique doorway into embodied healing, deepened sensation, and expanded capacity to feel, receive, and connect.

    Restorative Attuned Touch

    A gateway back to safety, trust, and connection with the body.

    This is not about fixing or forcing. It's a practice of deep listening—of meeting the body exactly where it is, with presence, reverence, and patience. Together, we listen for how your body wants to be met. Through this kind of engagement—on the body's own terms—we gently invite the release of chronic holding patterns and the softening of proctective tension woven through the tissues.

    Touch becomes a language of regulation and repair. It can support the nervous system in shifting from guarded hypervigilance or collapse into a more resourced, responsive state—where pleasure, breath, and aliveness begin to return.

    Attuned touch reminds the body that it is safe to feel, to receive, and to belong.

    Pleasure Mapping

    A practice of returning home to your body as a source of wisdom, joy, and aliveness.

    We explore the landscape of your body —inviting you to discover what feels good, what feels safe, and where is there numbness or resistance? 

    This isn’t about performance or goals. It’s about slowing down enough to listen to the body’s subtle cues—its yes, its no, its maybe. We explore sensation, arousal, and boundaries through a lens of curiosity and reverence, creating space for new pathways of connection and empowerment to emerge.

    For many, this practice also brings awareness to areas that have been numb, disconnected, or touched without consent in the past. By meeting these places with compassion and choice, the body begins to reclaim its voice—repatterning its relationship to touch, pleasure, and power.

    Together, we map not just physical pleasure—but the emotional and energetic terrain of your erotic aliveness.

    This is the work of remembering that pleasure is your birthright. And that your body holds the map.

    Ecstatic Erotic Massage

    A full-bodied, somatic journey into your erotic energy—held in a sacred, intentional container. It is not about performance or climax. It is about presence, sensation, and aliveness.

    This work invites you to explore erotic touch as a healing force—one that can awaken pleasure, release shame, rewire old patterns, and help you inhabit your body more fully. It supports you in discovering what turns you on, what opens you, what brings you into deeper connection with yourself—and where there may be contraction, numbness, or guardedness that’s ready to soften.

    Through attuned, consent-based touch, I guide you into a state of deep embodiment, where erotic energy can expand beyond the genitals, becoming a current that moves through your entire system. This may include light, energetic contact or deeper, intentional touch—always in dialogue with your nervous system and inner truth.

    You are met exactly where you are, with reverence and care. There is no goal other than allowing your body to lead. In this space, pleasure becomes a pathway to healing, empowerment, and returning to your innate wholeness.

    De-armoring

    Armor is the protective patterning—both conscious and unconscious—that forms in our physical, emotional, and energetic bodies. It develops in response to unprocessed experiences, unmet needs, or moments when it wasn’t safe to feel. These holding patterns once served to protect us—but over time, they can become walls that block us from receiving love, sensation, and connection.

    Armor shows up as tension, numbness, emotional shutting down, chronic bracing, or difficulty fully inhabiting the body. It’s the body’s way of saying, “It wasn’t safe then… so it’s not safe now.”

    De-armoring is a gentle and powerful process of unwinding these patterns—bringing breath, sound, presence, and intentional touch to the areas where your body has been guarding. As the armor softens, what often emerges is sensation, emotion, and life force—your natural vitality returning.

    This work supports:

    • Restoring sensation and flow in the body

    • Reclaiming access to deep pleasure

    • Releasing emotional blocks and integrating any traumatic experiences

    • Expanding your capacity to feel, receive, and connect

    De-armoring isn’t about pushing or forcing anything open—it’s about listening to what the body is ready to release, and meeting it with presence, patience, and care. It’s a return to aliveness. To intimacy. To the truth that your body is safe to feel again.

  • Immersives take place in a private residence in Santa Monica, California - intentionally curated for comfort, safety, and sacred connection.

    Our prep and integration calls will occur virtually.

  • My day long immersions typically last up to 5 hours, with space for the body’s natural rhythms to guide the experience. Rather than adhering to a fixed timeframe, we listen for the moment your body feels complete for the day—honoring its wisdom and timing.

    While some clients come for one day-long immersive, most benefit from a series to support deep transformation, trauma healing, and re-patterning.

    Prep and integration calls are generally 1 hour.

  • Not at all. These sessions are designed for both beginners and seasoned seekers. Whether you're new to body-based healing or deep in your erotic journey, I meet you exactly where you are. What is important is a willingness to take self-responsibility and a basic capacity to sense into your own body—your emotions, sensations, and boundaries. This work invites deep presence, and your ability to stay attuned to your internal experience is key to the safety and potency of the container.

  • Sexological bodywork is a certified, one-way touch trauma-informed modality that uses breath, sound, movement, and conscious touch of the entire body, external and internal, to support erotic wholeness, body awareness, and nervous system regulation. All touch is guided by consent, intention, and ongoing dialogue.

  • No. We’ll explore together whether working plant allies is aligned for your healing. Plant medicine may be woven into bodywork sessions or held in separate ceremonial containers, always with reverence and preparation.

  • While this work offers deeply therapeutic benefits and is often more impactful than traditional talk therapy, I am not a licensed therapist and do not provide clinical psychotherapy. My work is rooted in sexological bodywork, somatic sex education, and psychedelic integration, operating outside the conventional therapy model within an experiential, body-based healing paradigm.

    Unlike traditional sex therapy—which tends to focus on verbal processing—this approach is hands-on, somatic, and experiential. We don’t just talk about intimacy or sexuality; we practice it through conscious touch, sensation, and nervous system attunement. You'll engage in real-time embodied experiences that support you in rewiring old patterns, reclaiming pleasure, and cultivating authentic connection—with yourself, your body, and your relationships.

    This is sex therapy through the body, not just the mind.

  • Wear something comfortable and easy to move in. You’re welcome to bring a journal, water bottle, and any sacred items you'd like to include on the altar. We'll go over everything during your intake.

  • You can contact me directly here to request a discovery call. If we decide to move forward and work together, we’ll schedule an intake over zoom before meeting in person for a hands-on session.

  • The investment to work privately with Ariel varies depending on the length, depth, and scope of your journey. Most clients invest between $3,600 and $20,000.

    Your personalized container may include:

    • A day-long hands-on immersive

    • A series of hands-on intimacy sessions

    • A multi-day immersive retreat

    • A plant medicine ceremony

    • A combination of these experiences

    Every container extends beyond the time we spend together in person. You’ll receive preparation calls, virtual support throughout our time together, and integration sessions so you have space to prepare, receive guidance as things arise, and integrate what unfolds into your life and relationships.

    This range reflects the deeply personalized, high-touch nature of the work and the level of care woven throughout your journey.

    Benefactor-supported options are available for survivors of sex trafficking as part of Ariel’s commitment to sexual healing and resource redistribution.

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