Relational Bodywork

12/05/2026

Find out More About Our Practitioner Trainings For 2026 - The School of Relational Bodywork

Applications are now open for the 2026 Clinical Applications of Somatic Sexology Certificate in Sexological Bodywork - online and Algarve, Portugal.

This blended-learning professional training begins online from 1st September 2025, with three immersive in-person embodiment intensives taking place in 2026. The program combines experiential learning, somatic practice, relational skills, theory, and supervised practical application to support deep personal and professional development.

Designed for therapists, coaches, bodyworkers, educators, healers, and those called to explore sexuality, embodiment, trauma-informed practice, and authentic human connection.

This training offers the opportunity to deepen your capacity to work with intimacy, embodiment, nervous system regulation, consent, pleasure, and transformational healing in a grounded and ethical way.

✨ Early bird enrollment closes 15 May ✨

Watch the short introduction video and explore the full program details here:
🌿 www.relationalbodywork.org

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20/04/2026

Become a Somatic S3xologist

Full info: https://relationalbodywork.org/somatic-sexology-training-algarve-portugal

26/12/2025

We can’t pretend placebo isn’t happening in bodywork.
Every session is embedded in context, meaning, expectation, and relationship.

The ethical question isn’t whether placebo is present —
it’s how consciously and responsibly we relate to it.

In client-led, person-centred practice, placebo isn’t a trick.
It’s the nervous system responding to safety, coherence, and agency.

When we stop trying to “create results” and instead focus on relational conditions, something shifts — for both practitioner and client.

👉 If you’re interested in relational bodywork that prioritises ethics, presence, and nervous system intelligence, my trainings explore this deeply.

Where might placebo already be operating in your work — without being named?

26/12/2025

We can’t pretend placebo isn’t happening in bodywork.

Every session is embedded in context, meaning, expectation, and relationship.

The ethical question isn’t whether placebo is present — it’s how consciously and responsibly we relate to it.

In client-led, person-centred practice, placebo isn’t a trick. It’s the nervous system responding to safety, coherence, and agency.

When we stop trying to “create results” and instead focus on relational conditions, something shifts — for both practitioner and client.

👉 If you’re interested in relational bodywork that prioritises ethics, presence, and nervous system intelligence, my trainings explore this deeply.

Where might placebo already be operating in your work — without being named?

19/12/2025

Relational Bodywork

Relational Bodywork is touch that listens.

It recognises that bodies respond not only to what is done, but to how it is done — the pacing, the timing, the consent process, and the quality of relationship between practitioner and client.

Rather than imposing change, relational bodywork creates the conditions in which change can emerge. The nervous system is central. Safety, choice, and responsiveness are prioritised over intervention or outcome.

This way of working asks the practitioner to remain attentive not just to the client’s body, but to their own internal state — noticing impulses to fix, push, rescue, or withdraw, and learning to work from clarity rather than habit.

We have a Foundations training starting March and Amplify - Our 6 Months Mentoring container starting April 2026.

Find out more at www.relationalbodywork.org

30/11/2025

🦋 EARLY BIRD ENDS TONIGHT! 🦋

AWAKENED HUMAN - TANTRA-TAO MEN'S RETREAT
with Pola Vida & Julian Marcus
6-11 January 2026
Location: Moncarapacho, Algarve, Portugal

ABOUT:
In this 6-day Tao-Ta**ra men's retreat, you are invited to come with us on a path of self-exploration, deep healing and uncovering your true sexual and human potential, to become more authentic, truly present and loving, a (hu)man who can access newfound states of embodied power and awakened bliss in your daily life.

Somatic Sex-Coach and Taoist JULIAN MARCUS, and POLA VIDA, Ta**ra teacher & Therapist, will guide you through practices and teachings of

* Male Sexual Alchemy
* Embodied Relating
* Healthy Masculinity
* Becoming a Conscious Lover

The results of these practices and approaches both change our sexual story and have the power to change our physiological and emotional state. All areas of your life can be enriched.
Reclaim your sexual energy as a source of vitality and strength, and transform pleasure into power!

EARLY BIRD ENDS TONIGHT!
www.awakened-human.com
IF YOU BOOK YOUR CALL TODAY YOU WILL STILL BENEFIT FROM THE EARLY BIRD WITH YOUR REGISTRATION!

12/09/2025

Real change doesn’t come from positive thinking alone. 💡
To create lasting transformation, we need to shift three things:

1️⃣ Story – the beliefs we hold about who we are.
2️⃣ State – our emotional + physiological condition.
3️⃣ Strategy – the actions we take.

It all begins with radical acceptance. When we accept where we are without shame, we can let go, choose differently, and step into our power. ✨

Breath, movement, sound, and touch help us shift our state—reminding us we do get to choose how we feel and what we create. 🔥

👉 Save this for when you need motivation.
👉 Share it with someone who’s ready for change.
👉 Follow my work for more tools to transform your story.

My telegram channel for men: https://t.me/+bK0qbe-IIC8xMDJk

22/06/2025

Thought is born out of known-relationship. We know our brains are wired for safety and survival rather than happiness and satiation/satisfaction.

As we have evolved beyond the times of the Sabertooth tiger, those of us fortunate enough to live in areas and times of relative peace often find that are thinking is not contributing to our well-being and human connection. Why is this?

No consider another kind of intelligence...felt-relationship.. This type of intelligence on the other hand is born out of the living breathing and sensing body and nervous system not the past but the NOW.

In relational Bodywork we put the emphasis on the relationship, the relational quality, the experience of being in connection. , taught me that embodiment and being itself is born out of relationship. We have our relationship to our body, the planet and in the worm touch and Movement. Our primary relationships are our direct experience.

In a world where known-relationship, abstracted knowledge has been put on a pedestal and Rain‘s king I feel it is important to bring emphasis back to our felt sense, our felt relationship and the wisdom of thinking and feeling from the innate intelligence of the present moment this intelligent is alive, receptive and responsive. We are not more intelligent by focusing on choices made from our intellect alone. How can we be more intelligent by only operating from one of our faculties?

If you are inspired to support others and go on your own embodiment journey and get in touch with us and find out about our training programs, mentorship and supervision.

We have events for the public and practitioners.

Relational Bodywork is the meeting point between talk and touch with Somatic (body based) coaching and treatment models. In practice this means that we are person centred, operating in a collaborative co creation of personal leadership. If you are inspired to find out more DM us today and let’s start a conversation :-)

My relational bodywork site:
https://relationalbodywork.org/