🌟 Episode Recap: Exploring Erotic Wholeness with DarshanaDarshana shares her journey through loss, transformation, and self-discovery 💔✨, guiding listeners to reconnect with their bodies, life force energy, and authentic pleasure 🌿💖. She explores erotic wholeness, reframes midlife and menopause, and offers practical ways to cultivate presence, vulnerability, and self-acceptance 🌈.Key Takeaways:· 🌺 Erotic wholeness is about life force energy and integrating all parts of yourself.· 🌀 Trauma-informed practice...
🌟 Episode Recap: Exploring Erotic Wholeness with Darshana
Darshana shares her journey through loss, transformation, and self-discovery 💔✨, guiding listeners to reconnect with their bodies, life force energy, and authentic pleasure 🌿💖. She explores erotic wholeness, reframes midlife and menopause, and offers practical ways to cultivate presence, vulnerability, and self-acceptance 🌈.
Key Takeaways:
· 🌺 Erotic wholeness is about life force energy and integrating all parts of yourself.
· 🌀 Trauma-informed practices can help reclaim safety, agency, and intimacy.
· 🌙 Midlife and menopause can unlock new levels of self-knowledge and pleasure.
· 📌 Simple embodiment practices help you tune into your body and preferences.
· 🌈 Embracing your authentic expression leads to self-acceptance and empowerment.
🎧 Listen now: Watch the recording here
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Episode Summary:
Darshana's background and journey @ 00:01
Darshana shares how her personal experiences, including the end of her marriage and the passing of her father, led her to explore the connection between spirituality, embodiment, and . This journey ultimately guided her to her current work as a trauma-informed somatic educator and practitioner.
Defining erotic wholeness @ 07:54
Darshana defines "erotic" as life force energy that extends beyond just expression, and "wholeness" as the process of integrating fragmented parts of ourselves. She emphasizes the importance of cultivating self-awareness, presence, and vulnerability in order to experience deeper intimacy and pleasure.
Navigating trauma and shame around @ 27:35
Darshana discusses how she supports clients, especially those with trauma histories, in unwinding protective patterns and reclaiming a sense of safety and agency in their bodies and intimate relationships. This involves a gradual, trauma-informed approach focused on nervous system regulation and embodied exploration.
Reframing midlife and menopause @ 32:21
Darshana challenges common myths and negative narratives around midlife and menopause, highlighting the potential for increased self-knowledge, authenticity, and access to pleasure during this stage of life. She encourages an attitude of curiosity and creativity in exploring one's evolving erotic needs and desires.
Practical tips and resources @ 39:35
Darshana provides simple, accessible suggestions for beginning an embodiment practice, such as tuning into the senses and exploring personal preferences. She also shares information about her online community hub, Galgasm, and ways for listeners to connect with her further.
Closing thoughts @ 44:47
Darshana emphasizes the importance of self-acceptance and authenticity, encouraging listeners to embrace their unique erotic expression without judgment or the need to perform to external standards.
About the Guest:
Darshana Avila is a trauma-informed somatic educator, practitioner and international speaker who helps people reconnect with the most essential aspects of themselves — their truth, their desires, and their capacity for profound pleasure and power.
Known for her grounded, candid, and relational approach, she bridges the worlds of embodiment, emotional intelligence, and personal agency with depth and accessibility.
Darshana’s work has been featured on Netflix’s Sex, Love & goop, The Guardian, The New Yorker, and numerous leading podcasts.
Contact:
WEBSITE: darshanaavila.com
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About the Host:
Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Master Trainer of Hypnotherapy, Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.
Melissa has launched Amplify Impact Academy, with business partner, Billie Aadmi and together they train other coaches, practitioners and counsellors in the 4 mind-body healing modalities mentioned above, giving them powerful tools to use with clients to get results with greater ease, speed and grace. These courses teach life skills and anyone can take them, if you want to be a better leader, parent, partner, be empowered in your own life, these courses are for you!
Melissa’s passion project is her non-profit, Girls Matter (www.girlsmatter.ca), breaking the poverty cycle 1 girl, 1 family, 1 village at a time. The mission is to keep girls in school and stop teenage marriages, because school isn’t free in over 50 countries around the world and when parents have to make the difficult choices of feeding their kids or paying for school, food wins. And when the girls hit their teen years, they will often be married off so that someone else becomes responsible to feed them. Keeping girls in school instead creates a generational ripple effect, because an educated girl is more than twice as likely to ensure her own children are educated. Educating girls also grows the GDP of countries, when they get into the workforce. This is how together, we can change the world. Guests on this podcast are invited to donate to this important cause. Learn more here in this short video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3-xqzJLZW14om1PhFClcU_oRSZ8zgip/view?usp=share_link
Melissa is also the winner of the 2024 Women in Podcasting Awards in the “inspiration & motivation” category and the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022, 2023 & 2024 for Whistler.
Melissa has been featured at a number of Health & Wellness Summits, such as the Health, Wealth & Wisdom Summit, The Power To Profit Summit, The Feel Fan-freaking-tas-tic Summit, the Aim Higher Summit and many more! She has also guested on over 90 different podcasts teaching people about the importance of prioritizing our health and how to get started.
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