Liberate Your Body
Re-wire patterns that keep you disconnected. Re-write worn out stories.
Re-claim your body, desires, voice, and power.
Experience a non-judgmental space for you and your body to be exactly as they are. A space for you to deepen your connection to your self, your desires, your voice, and your authentic expression.
We exploring sacred relationship with our selves, each other, and the natural world.
We lean into receiving and remembering pleasure as our birthright.
We deepen into vulnerability
We discover our authentic expression and desires
We reclaim our voices, bodies, sensuality, and sexuality.
This is sacred and radical work.
You will be guided to participate at whatever level of engagement is right for you.
The medicine is in listening to your body and moving at your body's pace of trust.
At the pace of your body’s trust, we will:
Gently and slowly ignite all of your sense, welcoming in all of your parts.
Explore what it means, and what it takes, to be in consensual and sacred relationship.
Journey into your body to allow it to express any stories or emotions they are holding onto.
Explore consensual self-touch and mutual touch. Mending and repairing relational wounds of violation and neglect. Discovering new ways of being in relationship to our selves and each other.
Orient towards pleasure and connection.
Use ritual, singing, ceremonial cacao, and spiritual support to hold the space.
Transformation occurs at our edges and in vulnerability.
This is a space that welcomes and encourages sensuality.
Sensuality is embodiment. It is feeling deeply into your senses and allowing yourself to derive pleasure from them.
There will not be any sexual exchanges in this space and this is a space where your sexuality and sensations of arousal are welcome.
This space affirms that we are sexual beings simply by being alive. This is a safe space to discover what sexuality means to you - outside of the heteronormative patriarchal scripts. This space knows that sensuality and arousal are not inherently sexual. And your sexuality is welcome here. Although never expected or required.
You always have a choice in your level of participation. Participation through witnessing is welcome. You are welcome here, just as you are!
The Liberate Your Body Series are for AFAB bodies who desire to
Deepen your intimate relationship with your body and sexuality
Liberate your life force energy
Unlock your authentic voice and expression
Center consent and pleasure
Cultivate a felt sense of safety and belonging in your body
Expand your capacity to hold your grief and pleasure
Reclaim your eros to alchemize your shadows
Dive into ritual and the wisdom of your body
Cultivate a sense of sisterhood
Re-write what sex, sexuality, and sensuality mean to you
The roots of this container:
We emphasize choosing over doing.
We listen to our bodies and move at the pace of trust. We enter the space with the understanding that we will all make different choices for our selves. We honor our own, and each others, choices. Moving from a place of consensual relationship with ourselves and one another.
We enter the space with the understanding that we are responsible to move at our own pace.
Everything Ariel offers is an invitation. The foundation of this experience is to listen to what your body wants. We intend to move through this experience from a place of consensual relationship with our selves.
We move beyond binaries
We hold nuance and complexity. We acknowledge that multiple truths may exist at once.
Individual difference is welcome and celebrated
We hold sensitivity to the diverse range of experiences, identities, and bodies present. We recognize that all bodies are affected by colonization and that our ancestry and race have an impact on our bodies and how we show up in spaces. We are mindful of how power dynamics show up and actively dismantle oppression.
We value transparency and curiosity
We value honesty around how we are feeling and what we want and need. Big feelings will show up in this space. We will invite an orientation of curiosity as we move through the space and ourselves.
Meet Your Facilitator
Ariel Szabo
Ariel is a certified somatic sex educator, sexological bodyworker, and psychedelic therapist. A medicine woman who shares her gifts through grief and pleasure tending, touch, song, and art. She has journeyed deep into her own body and darkness to uncover her greatest gifts. Alchemizing what was once numbness, despair, and terror into aliveness and loving connection. Freeing her voice, that had been silenced and lost, and now using it to ignite love. Ariel has walked the path of re-inhabiting and liberating her body. She now walks with others, holding the light, as they do the same.
Ariel has uncovered the key to living fulfilling, connected, aligned and purpose filled lives lays in reconnecting with our bodies and reclaiming our life force energy. In learning to listen. In building the capacity to be with our grief and our pleasure. In cultivating safety so that we may allow ourselves to be seen and heard and give and receive love. Coming back into connection with our interdependence, our inherent value, and the wisdom of the earth.
Ariel currently offers 1:1 and group sessions and ceremonies in Salem, MA and virtually. She facilitates plant medicine retreats in Peru.
We are sexual beings. Our bodies are not inherently sexual.
My Eros was in hiding,
terrified to come out.
Now it runs through me like a bubbling river.
It erupts in cycles
as sacred rage
as playful joy
as sensual softness
as devastating grief
as whimsical creation
as orgasmic explosions
My sensual self has been frozen in fear.
She led me to spaces, looking to connect, where other people violated me. Pillaged me. Used me. Raped me.
And as she unthaws, what melts away is the belief that it was ever her fault.
My body is the earth and so is yours.
A miracle of the womb's creation.