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Nov 17, 2021 • 1h 1min

110: First Date Sex + Being Monogamish with Alexa Bowditch

When you’re sex positive + have a proclivity towards alternative styles of sex + relating, how do you date in the modern, mainstream world? That Sex Chick, Alexa Bowditch gives us insights into how to introduce ideas of sexual exploration + non-traditional relationship styles in your dating life to support your finding your partner. We talk about the unique challenges of dating as a sex expert, tips about how to explore BDSM + kink for the first time in a relationship, + advice for starting the path towards non-traditional relating. In this episode you’ll hear: Introducing alt sex + non-traditional relationship desires to a partner who has never had the experience How kink can be a powerful practice for transmuting pain into pleasure What it’s like dating as a sex educator + expert Why differences in sexual preferences + styles doesn’t need to mean the end of a relationship The how having difference + individuality in relationships contributes to polarity + attraction Qualities + skills needed for helping your partner move through sexual shame Skills to consider to avoid becoming “the teacher” in a relationship + maintaining a partnership LINKS FROM THE SHOW www.yonipleasurepalace.com code: DRCAT for 10% off any order THE SKINNY ON OUR SEXY GUEST Alexa is a sex and relationship by design coach and sex coach business mentor on a mission to reform sex education and sexuality expression across the globe. She is from the deep south of Louisiana and if anyone knows how to bust through taboos regarding sex, it’s her. She is known as @thatsexchick across social media and is the founder of That Sex Group, a NY Times featured community with love, sex & relationships as the central focus. Alexa speaks and teaches internationally on the subjects. You can find out more about her at thatsexchick.com WANT MORE? Start your journey to coming back home to your body + developing a sensual relationship. Grab my FREE Sensual Sundays Guide full of all my favorite products + Sunday ritual to reconnect with your pleasure once again. If you’re desiring a deeper dive into the lifestyle of sensual pleasure, come join me for a 14 day initiation into Sensual Awakening. Learn the foundations of activating your pleasure senses, creating luxury without expense, + cultivating a lovership with your body, again.
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Nov 3, 2021 • 43min

109: Awakening to the Sensual Life with Josefina Bashout

Being a sensual person in the modern age has its challenges. Add to that, the pressures of “sensuality” looking a certain way contributing to performance rather than embodiment. My guest, friend, + powerful embodiment coach, Josefina Bashout, is BACK for another round! Here, we dish about our personal journeys, struggles around sensuality after trauma, + what it’s like dating as sex + sensuality experts. We get real about the issues of spiritual bypass + materialism that can create sensuality as a performance rather than an embodiment. We even share with you about our favorite sensual products + my Sensual Awakening 14 day online initiation. This is episode 4 of 4 of my series around sensuality. Be sure to check out the other 3! In this episode you’ll hear: Our personal journey with sensuality + what sparked our sensual awakening How trauma impacted our embodiment + what indications clued us in How to brand yourself as a leader + permission slip for other women in sensual expression The challenges + rewards that come with being a woman embodied Unique challenges for BIPOC women + sensuality The traps of spiritual bypass + spiritual materialism creating sensuality as a performance rather than an embodiment The importance of Boundaries + discernment Dating as a sensual + sexual expert Favorite sensual practices + products Inside scoop on Dr Cat’s Sensual Awakening Online initiation course THE SKINNY ON OUR SEXY GUEST Josefina Bashout aka “The Pussy Priestess.” Josefina is a Tantric Love and Sex Educator, Feminine Empowerment Expert & Certified Advanced Spiritual Psychologist. She is focused on dismantling the old stories of past pain and suffering as she guides her clients into moving beyond their limitations into a new place of empowering potential where sexuality + spirituality meet. Josefina has a holistic approach to empowerment through the doorways of sexuality that is process & pleasure focused. She has a sensual, soulful, and spiritual attitude to life making her equally popular with ALL GENDER audiences as she helps them create a more blissful, intimate, and orgasmic relationship with life. You can stay connected with her on instagram @pusssypriestess and discover more about her teachings well as upcoming course through her website www.josefinabashout.com LINKS FROM THE SHOW Sensual Awakening 14 day Initiation WANT MORE? Start your journey to coming back home to your body + developing a sensual relationship. Grab my FREE Sensual Sundays Guide full of all my favorite products + Sunday ritual to reconnect with your pleasure once again. Then head over to SexLoveYoga.com for more articles, practices, + events.
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Oct 27, 2021 • 55min

108: Queens of Productivity / Death to Our Sensuality with Natalie MacNeil

In a society that labels busyness as chic + prizes side hustles + productivity, we have also become familiar with the experience of overwhelm + burnout. This is not the answer to living a life of pleasure + sustaining health. But how do we get out? How can we be high achieving AND sensually connected? In this episode, the badass boss babe Natalie MacNeil talks about the challenges she has faced as a 7 figure entrepreneur to multiple companies + how she’s learned to integrate sensuality as medicine to her soul, her body, + her continuing success. This is the third episode of a special 4 part series on sensuality. In this episode you will hear: The effects of “hustle culture” on our bodies, minds, + relationships How sensuality can benefit us as professionals The effects of stigma around our sensuality + sexuality that have caused a segmentation in our other aspects + identities How moving fast + excessive work can be a trauma response or solution to coping with emotion The protective mechanism of “Ain’t got time” + how to overcome it How sensuality as a coach + CEO can benefit the company + clients’ wellbeing Natalie + Dr Cat’s personal struggles with maintaining a sensual life + solutions they discovered The necessity to slow down in order to feel the subtleties of sensation THE SKINNY ON OUR SEXY GUEST Natalie MacNeil is the founder of Coaching Evolved, and its ICF-accredited, multi-modality Professional Life Coach Certification program. She's also the bestselling author of five books on business and personal transformation, and an Emmy Award-winning media entrepreneur who has been named a "transformer of our generation" by Levo and listed as one of "27 women leaders changing the world" by Inc. Learn more about the Coaching Evolved, and its ICF-accredited, multi-modality Professional Life Coach Certification at nataliemacneil.com/drcat. You can also attend free weekly transformational classes at Coaching Evolved at https://coachingevolved.co/evolve-live-journeys/ WANT MORE? Start your journey to coming back home to your body + developing a sensual relationship. Grab my FREE Sensual Sundays Guide full of all my favorite products + Sunday ritual to reconnect with your pleasure once again. Then head over to SexLoveYoga.com for more articles, practices, + events.
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Oct 21, 2021 • 48min

107: Unlocking the Body’s Armor for Sensual Expansion with Liz Letchford

We live in a culture that is obsessed with obtaining perfection, and as a result, can ignore the needs of the body to favor the image of fantasy. The issue here is that the body cannot sustain this. After awhile, she starts to break down, become ill, ache, fail. And it’s doing nothing for our sensuality, pleasure, + sexuality. Dr Liz Letchford is here to talk to us about the shadow side of the fitness industry, how our emotions affect our body’s functioning, + how sensuality can heal. In this episode you’ll hear: What causes our body to become tense + rigid + how this impacts our pleasure + sex How old messages + distressing events from our past have built as rigidity + less sensitivity + pleasure potential overtime How tense pelvic floor muscles impact our orgasmic potential Trauma + mental health’s impact on the body + sensuality Sensuality as medicine - how it heals The impact of mental health on young women’s bodies + performance in athletics The shadow side of fitness + how it can contribute to disconnection from the needs of the body Practices to release the body’s armor + experience greater flow of energy + pleasure Our upcoming workshop collaboration - Body Release: Awakening Through Our Sensuality Then join us on November 7th at 11am PST as we present an epic collaboration of Dr Liz’s signature Release class fused with Dr Cat’s sensual intelligence. Grab your spot today: Body Release: Awakening Through Our Sensuality THE SKINNY ON OUR SEXY GUEST Dr. Liz Letchford is an Athletic Trainer and strength coach who takes a holistic approach to improving mechanics, posture and pain. With a PhD in Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Science, her research interests focus on injury risk reduction and the relationship between biomechanics and human emotion. She is the creator of The Release, a self-massage and movement experience designed to help students get out of their head and into their body. Liz is a founding coach for Tonal, a connected fitness company where she is also part of the research and innovation team. With a deep passion for using movement to improve quality of life, Liz plays an integral role in  understanding and influencing change at the intersection of fitness and rehab. Learn more at lizletchford.com WANT MORE? Start your journey to coming back home to your body + developing a sensual relationship. Grab my FREE Sensual Sundays Guide full of all my favorite products + Sunday ritual to reconnect with your pleasure once again. Then head over to SexLoveYoga.com for more articles, practices, + events.
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Oct 13, 2021 • 32min

106: Who Owns Our Body?

Women have been fighting for ownership of their bodies for centuries, and as far as we’ve come with our rights, we are still having arguments about who gets to decide what we do with our bodies. ⁣ ⁣ In this episode I talk about the recent events happening in the political stratosphere around women’s reproductive rights, the body terrorism that we each contribute in criticism to our own bodies + that of other sisters, the cultural wounding of powerlessness represented in the case of Britney Spears, and how I believe we can continue to make progress in reclaiming the rights of our bodies by devoting time to develop loving relationships around our bodies + around sensuality.⁣ ⁣ This is the first episode of a special 5 part sensuality series. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss one! ⁣ ⁣ In this episode you will hear:⁣ * My take on the politicalization of women’s bodies + reproductive rights pertaining to Texas senate bill 8.⁣ * How the court + legal system is failing women on the parts of protection regarding a woman’s decisions for her body.⁣ * How we all may be unconsciously contributing to body terrorism + perpetuating body shame + hate.⁣ * Cultural messages about being a woman who is in her body + sensual expression⁣ How social fear + shame can cause us to disconnect from our feeling.⁣ * What we can learn from the details surrounding Britney Spears + what this has to do with us as women.⁣ * Reclaiming our body + our personal power through sensual practice + body worship.⁣ * The evolution of my personal voice over the podcast years + the importance of coming into your own voice + power.⁣ * Undone Sensual Yoga as my action towards building a safe community for women to come together and practice sensuality.⁣ ⁣ Links from the show:⁣ My Body Is Not An Apology - Book⁣ Britney versus Spears⁣ ⁣ WANT MORE?⁣ Start your journey to coming back home to your body + developing a sensual relationship. Grab my FREE Sensual Sundays Guide full of all my favorite products + Sunday ritual to reconnect with your pleasure once again.
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Sep 29, 2021 • 1h 2min

105: Healing through Psychedelics with Dr Nicholas Bruss

Remember the 90s commercial implying your brain on drugs was like smashing an egg with a frying pan? We’ve come a long way to learn that psychedelics have more opportunity to heal than we were told as kids. Dr Nicholas Bruss is here to talk to us about the leading advances of psychedelics in the clinical therapy world. He informs us about the current research + his experience working in ketamine, MDMA, + psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression, trauma, + couples therapy. In this episode you’ll hear: What classifies a psychedelic + how does it work on the brain + body What the war on drugs was really about How Ketamine + MDMA have been proving to be powerful treatment for couples + for trauma The stigma about psychedelics + creating compassionate, accurate conversation around it Tough conversations about ethics, abuse of power + missing critical steps in the healing culture around psychedelics Dr Cat’s personal experience in psychedelic assisted therapy for her PTSD Ceremony culture + the importance of integration How you can get involved + educated about psychedelics or becoming a psychedelic-assisted therapist Ways we can preserve honor + reduce commoditization of psychedelics as they continue to roll out in the mainstream + psychotherapy world. THE SKINNY ON OUR SEXY GUEST Nicholas Brüss is an integrative psychotherapist and clinical researcher who specializes in helping people heal and grow with psychedelics-assisted psychotherapies. He's the co-founder and lead trainer at Psychedelic Coalition for Health, an organization for Psychedelic Medicine Education & Advocacy and offering clinical training in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy & Integration. He was trained as a psychedelic therapist by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and is a co-therapist on the MAPS-sponsored FDA Phase III clinical trial of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD in Los Angeles, CA. Nicholas has provided ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) since 2017 and has been a certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapist since 2015. He is a leader in psychedelic-assisted IFS therapy, the Clinical Director of Psychedelic Therapies at Hope Integrative Psychiatry, and a volunteer with MAPS’s Zendo Project. Having seen the power of psychedelic-assisted therapy, Nicholas advocates and educates for science over stigma and is inspired to provide reliable information and integrated training to work and explore with psychedelic medicines. Find out more about the symposium or training + connect with Dr Nick here: https://www.psychedeliccoalitionforhealth.com/ Links from the show: https://www.psychedeliccoalitionforhealth.com/ How to Change Your Mind Consciousness Medicine WANT MORE? Head over to SexLoveYoga.com + get your FREE guides to up-level your sex life. 
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Sep 23, 2021 • 50min

104: Tech, Sex + Virtual Reality with Lyle Maxson

Imagine taking a sacred sexuality class with me...but it’s in the virtual reality world. Tech expert, Lyle Maxson, joins us to share about how advancing technology is expanding our potential in sex, love, + self-development. We dive about the latest in neurohacking tools designed to alter our states of being, tech designed to amplify our sexual experiences, + conversations around ethics that need to be had to maintain protection as technology continues to evolve. I even share with you my personal experience using these tools before we aired! In this episode you’ll hear: Latest trends in tech + sex, including virtual reality porn + sensory experiences How technology has/can improve our personal connectivity + building community The future of mental health using technology like Entheo Digital to simulate psychedelics Virtual Reality systems designed for learning + self-development Conversations about ethics + consent as VR continues to evolve The shadow side of advancing tech + how this has impacted social skills What is neurohacking + biohacking + how can this improve our wellbeing THE SKINNY ON OUR SEXY GUEST Lyle Maxson is a pioneer of Transformative Entertainment, impacting thousands of people at the world's largest music festivals. His immersive design agency, The Courtiers, and passion for biohacking led to co-founding  Andromeda Entertainment, a VR publisher bringing to market "Games for Good". Birthed out of the pandemic, GeniusX, a VR education platform, is the next horizon for creating a metaverse that "upgrades the real world avatar that is you" with a goal to better humanity's relationship with technology along the way. In addition he is addressing the world's mental health crisis with the creation of  Entheo Digital a digital therapeutics company perusing FDA clearance within the intersection of psychedelic therapy and experiential medicine Find out more + connect with Lyle at https://lylemaxson.com/ WANT MORE? Tap into your Inner Sex Kitten + unleash her prowress. Get my FREE audio to guide you to her Then head over to SexLoveYoga.com to go down the rabbit hole of juicy articles, guides, erotic audio stories, + more!
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Sep 8, 2021 • 53min

103: Widows Getting back into Dating + Sex after the Death of a Partner with Krista St Germain

How does one move forward with a life of pleasure + finding love again after the death of a partner? Krista St Germain is here to talk to us about the unique challenges widows face when getting back into dating + sex. She shares with us the how to navigate the perspectives + pressures from the outside world, as well as our own inner critic. In this episode you’ll hear: Signs to help indicate that you’re ready to move forward in sex + dating again Why we need to get rid of the term "wid-hoe" for good. Blocks that widows may come up against when looking towards dating again Myths about dating + sex after the death of a partner that need a re-write How someone who is dating a widow can best support them in the process Important tips to create dialogue with your kids (young + adult) when you’re ready to start dating again Tips on navigating other people’s criticisms regarding your dating decisions THE SKINNY ON OUR SEXY GUEST Krista St-Germain is a Master Certified Life Coach, grief expert, widow, mom and host of The Widowed Mom Podcast. When her husband was killed by a drunk driver in 2016, Krista’s life was completely and unexpectedly flipped upside down. After therapy helped her unfurl from the fetal position, Krista discovered Life Coaching, Post Traumatic Growth and learned the tools she needed to move forward and create a future she could get excited about. Now she coaches and teaches other widows so they can love life again, too. Find out more about her work here. Books: Getting Grief Right Sex After Grief: FInding Your Story of Love In the Sorrow of Loss Want more? Click here for my guide to discovering your inner Sex Kitten Check out SexLoveYoga.com and EatPlaySex.com for more juicy articles, guides, erotic audio stories, + more!
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Aug 25, 2021 • 50min

102: Overcoming Relationship Burnout

Ever have the experience of exhaustion after sustaining hi levels of mental, emotional, and physical output? Maybe even to the point of the loss of excitement or attraction towards the object of focus? Of course you have! We call that burnout, and it can happen in love, life, sex, work, even in our day. In this solo episode with me, I share with you my personal experiences around burnout in the pandemic, as well as how you can help prevent it from happening in your relationships + sex life. In this episode, you’ll hear: How resentment + burnout are symptoms of operating from an inauthentic state + loose boundaries 3 skills we all need to cultivate for sustaining healthy love + sex lives Where you learned how to self-sacrifice + how to combat patterns of conformity How to differentiate between your intuition + worry/trauma Different types of boundaries + how they may be hurting the health of your relationships Tips on developing your authentic voice so you can lead the life that you desire Want more? Head over to EatPlaySex.com for more fun Join us for a 6 day women's sexual rewilding retreat in the Mayan Jungle February 18, 2022!  Seats are limited. Check it out at UndoneYoga.com/retreats
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May 26, 2021 • 55min

101: Military Culture on Sexual Assault, Harassment, + Healing with Damika Wallace

*TRIGGER WARNING* Damika Wallace is an army veteran, doctoral candidate, + founder of the Her Vagenda conference + movement. She shares with us her journey through healing + reclaiming her sexual power after experiencing sexual assault in the military. She gives us the 411 on the unique (and not so unique) challenges faced in a culture like the military that contribute to ongoing sexual assault + harassment, and how she’s created a national community to help lead women to the sexual + sensual freedom they seek. In this episode you’ll hear: Contextual factors in the Military contributing to a culture of sexual assault + harassment How the government is changing education + support in the military around sexual assault culture Changing hardship into life’s mission Challenging the stigma of Mental health + therapy in POC community Her Vagenda conference for women on the path to healing from sexual assault in the military What does the Sexual Assault prevention + response programs in the military involve? THE SKINNY ON OUR SEXY GUEST Damika Wallace, Army veteran and doctoral candidate, founded of Her Vagenda on 9/11/2020 after developing a conference around intimacy and sexual trauma. In 2021, Her Vagenda launch monthly events with the aim to help women veterans build the confidence and intimacy they never thought they could have. Her passion for behind Her Vagenda stems from personal trauma and personal development.  She constantly imagines the life she wants and pursues it. Her favorite statement is, I created this company for my own growth, but you can come along for the ride. Want to join me + other epic experts on the topic of trauma, sensuality, relatioships, + sexuality? Get your ticket: https://www.hervagenda.com WANT MORE? Head over to SexLoveYoga.com to dive into the world of sexual liberation. Leave me a review of this podcast in itunes + gain access to my free Erotic Playlist sure to set the mood for your sexy evening with Boo. Check it out here. Join me June 7th for a 6 week deep dive with other women seeking to expand their erotic power Space is limited! https://sexloveyoga.mykajabi.com/EroticallyUndone

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