This episode explores a unique intersection between education, health and kink / pleasure-based healing with my guest Faith Laux. Faith is a Somatic Sex and Relationship coach based in Asheville, NC. In May of 2022 she was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. Since then she has been adding pleasure as a healing modality to help her and her clients thrive and enjoy life. Faith weaves her experience with emotional intelligence, erotic leadership, tantra, conscious kink, movement and somatic coaching to form a unique space for those she serves to connect with their authentic erotic expression. She is normalizing the conversation around sexuality, kink, illness and desire. When her cancer returned in 2025 Faith went on a supervised two week fast, drinking only water, to help reset her body and heal at a deeper level. It was a modern Vision Quest that’s left her more connected than ever to her purpose. She’s here to share this incredible journey with us all, and help all of us have more pleasure in our lives!

Victoria Magnus speaks on grief, eating disorders, addiction, and the unexpected empowerment of sexual submission in this raw and real conversation on how losing control led her home to power, purpose, and feminine embodiment. This episode speaks to and for any woman, especially for the woman who’s done playing nice — and is ready to rise, raw and whole. This is for the woman who’s been silenced, shaped, or shattered, as a reminder that this path home might just look like surrender, radical reclamation, feminine fire, and taboo as transformation. Sharing this episode with my sister also is meaningful because of the sacred sisterhood woundings we have healed together – proving that you can be triggered by other women and become deep friends with them. We explore the medicine that has been revealed in our collective journeys, and in our friendships with other women. Victoria Magnus is a multidimensional practitioner devoted to guiding others into embodied remembrance through the sacred technologies of Kundalini Activation, intuitive energy work, Reiki, channeling, and somatic body-based healing. Her practice is rooted in the alchemy of transformation—where shadow meets light, and the body becomes the bridge between the two. With a gift for navigating the unseen and unspoken, Victoria specializes in shadow work, helping clients uncover the parts of themselves that have long been hidden, buried, or silenced. She believes that within the depths of our repression lie the very keys to our freedom—the raw, wild, beautiful truths of who we really are. Her work invites the grief, rage, shame, and longing to surface—not to be feared, but to be honored, felt, and expressed. This is not surface-level work—it is the sacred art of returning to wholeness. And Victoria embodies this in this podcast episode as well, shedding the layers and going deep, to touch your heart and soul, as a sacred anchor for your becoming.

In this episode we explore the underground world of Professional Domme-ing, a space when femme embodied practitioners help support the transformational healing journeys, pleasure seeking, edge play and erotic expansion of individuals. Honeybee is the founder of Flow Temple Chicago, a femme-bodied se.ggs positive space where individuals, couples and multi-dynamic relational beings get to express and explore their fullest selves possible, all held of safe containers by trained professionals. She is also a dancer, performer, Temple Arts practitioner, producer and Creatrix, who weaves her artistry, poise and presence into a multitude of fields. Queen Velvet Amethyst is based in Tulum, Mexico and fuses her experiences in event planning, experience design, marketing and spirituality with her attuned capacity to take her clients on remarkable journeys that can blow their minds and crack open their souls! My intention of hosting them on Universal Intimacy is to not just share with you their incredible practices and energy, but to also de-bunk and de-mystify the world of dom’ing/domme’ing, because I often feel our society and culture projects a lot of shame, misunderstanding and fear on this niche of the human experience. So many humans are curious about this world, and it is my hope that this episode helps you understand it from an integrated wholeness - fusing spirituality, psychodrama/psychotherapy, trauma-informed healing, somatics, the arts, and energy.

In this intimate and deeply personal episode, musician Dan Allen and Tantrika Josephine Lauer come together to explore what happens when sound, spirit, and soul align. Through the lens of their own relationship, they dive into a candid conversation about love, creativity, and what it means to live authentically. Blending musical expression with Tantric wisdom, they discuss how tuning into your desires—both emotional and sensual—can create a symphony of connection and truth. This is more than a dialogue; it’s a dance of frequency, feeling, and fearless honesty. We go deep, we get really vulnerable...and some of our shares are a bit X rated, so listeners, please be advised and don’t have this episode playing in the car when kids are present.

Meet Chef Greg Christian of Beyond Green Partners and theSustainable Food Institute of America, focused on supporting public institutions (K-12 schools, adult care facilities and carceral facilities) to transition from their current reality of mostly processed food to food that is made from scratch by cooks who care with ingredients that are locally sourced and as sustainably produced as possible. Greg has studied Systems Thinking with Peter Senge, Communication with Werner Erhard, Quantum Physics with Stephen Hawkings, Shamanism with Black Foot Medicine/men/women and Somatics with Marcela Widrig,+ fusing holistic practices into his 40 years of cooking around the globe to form his own methodology and approach to guiding cooks, food service works and lunch ladies/cafeteria employees into more embodied leadership for the betterment of the communities they work in and the planet overall.

Tantra Beyond Sex Tricks discusses the transformational world of Tantra with Pleasure Priestess and founder of Talk Tantra To Me, Leola! In this soul-stirring conversation, Leola and Josephina share the meaning of Tantra beyond the bedroom and in an application of authenticity via the spiritual path. Discover how healing your relationship with sexuality can awaken your authentic expression and life force energy. 💫 Leola shares her journey from Midwest conservatism to Tantric embodiment—where TAN means ”to expand” and TRA means ”to liberate.” Learn how this ancient practice celebrates your unique path to expansion without judgment. This conversation invites you into radical self-responsibility and authentic aliveness. We explore what it means to be a modern day woman, where the menu of options has shifted - we no longer have to be defined exclusively by being mother, wife or even a boss - we can also be the embodiment of our sensuality and sexuality - and can guide others on how to life a liberated life of fulfillment. Follow @TalkTantraToMe and grab Leola’s book ”Sacred Sex Ed” to continue your journey!

Cleo is a phenomenal Tantric body worker, a leader of freedom facilitation retreats, and devoted to sharing the mastery of the ancient Temple Arts with her clients. She specializes in empowering individuals to embrace their sensuality and sexuality to reclaim pleasure as their birthright and really is attuned to the importance of working with men. Cleo has a mastery level of understanding of Kundalini Ma energy, also known as sacred life force energy, and she shares more about this often mis-understoof topic in this episode. We also explore the importance of Throat Chakra energy work and healing, which is common amongst Priestesses and any woman who feels called to be of service and public speak. I’m also really honored to call Cleo a dear sister, friend, colleague, and a beautiful Priestess who I’ve shared so many experiences with, and we go deep in these episode to share many of our journeys together! You can follow her on IG @the.tantric.muse.

Empower yourself and live a life you love, as Justin Gottlieb, sexual freedom facilitator and transformational guide shares in this episode! From corporate finance to helping humans discover their authentic selves, Justin’s journey proves that your true path may be waiting beyond your comfort zone. As a Tantric practitioner, Justin de-mystifies what a ”Tantric Massage” is, and how his work is about healing the Self and healing our relationships through effective communication. Lastly, Justin shares his powerful 4-pillar approach to Tantra: • Acceptance of your body, emotions & sexuality • Self-love that serves your highest good • Connection to self, others & nature • Presence in every moment If you are looking to feel up-leveled in your life, this podcast episode is for you!

Feeling blocked in your sex life or troubled in your dating life? This episode if for you! I chat with my dear sister and fellow coach Olivia Dydyna. Olivia is your guide for integrating sex and spirit. Drawing from her extensive background in sex and relationship coaching, rooted in the transformative VITA method and Theta Healing, Olivia gently guides men and women to embrace their sexual energy from a heart-centered space, allowing them to experience profound soul-to-soul connection. In this podcast, Olivia shares her own journey of self-discovery, and the breakthrough of utilizing meditation and breath work to help her reconnect with her body’s wisdom, accessing pleasure states she never thought possible - without fantasy, just pure sensation! 💫 She now guides others through: • Releasing shame around sexuality • Turning sensitivity into a superpower • Using anger as fuel for pleasure • Creating sacred space for authentic expression Join us both in this podcast where we get intimate and personal about some of our sex, love and relationship experiences - part girl talk, part sex therapy - this is an episode you won’t want to skip over!

This episode weaves together anthropology, theatre, sexuality and spirituality with Christopher Fuelling, founding member of the Kedesha Collective and founder of Teatro Korazon in Los Angeles. His projects explore ritual, the ecstatic, and the numinous in widely different contexts from Early Music liturgical reconstructions in European churches to experimental ritual theatre and outrageous rock operas from Bali to Burning Man. Working as a concept creator, director and experience designer, he collaboratively creates new works and radical adaptations of classics to allow music, theatre, and dance audiences to experience art in interactive ways, inviting deep impact through increased self-awareness and transformational up-leveling. In today's society where humans are seeking for more meaning and significance in their lives, we assert that immersive theater could be a viable option for healing. In the podcast we discuss how the Arts can revive humanity, from a variety of perspectives, specifically how immersive ritual-based theater ordeals can explore the human psyche, and how rites have the capacity to help humans in the fields of sexual consent and agency. ⁠https://teatrokorazon.org/⁠  

From a conservative Midwestern upbringing to a global journey of self-discovery, Gregory has walked the path of transformation firsthand. A former active duty Marine turned somatic coach, he has lived on five continents, immersed himself in diverse cultures, and explored the depths of human connection through movement, intimacy, and conscious self-inquiry. His work bridges neurodivergence, personal empowerment, and conscious sexuality, helping high-performing individuals navigate the complexities of their minds, relationships, and desires. Through somatic practices, kink, and BDSM as a modality for healing, he supports individuals and couples in cultivating deeper intimacy, unlocking authentic pleasure, and embracing their full selves—mind, body, and soul. Gregory’s journey has taken him from plant medicine ceremonies in the Amazon to the International School of Temple Arts, from personal rock bottoms to profound self-realization. His coaching is not about quick fixes—it’s about radical self-acceptance, lasting transformation, and finding a life filled with purpose, pleasure, and aligned community. Join us as he shares his insights on embodiment, conscious relationships, and the power of living in your truth.

Josephina and Violet Starkey explore the field of somatics thru a journey into their sisterhood, and the webs of connectivity in their experiences. Violet is a transformational facilitator, passionate about creating somatically-empowered soulful group fields where people feel deeply seen, felt and heard. Through intuitively gently steering the shop towards the delicious experience of group possibility of healing relationship wounds and experiencing breakthroughs in belonging, Violet is trained in trauma-informed Field Facilitation with Rachel Rickards, Devorah Bry and David Cates, Living Essence Spiritual Psychology with Scott Hamilton and Rose Pearson, Heart IQ Circle Work and Group Coaching with Christian Pankhurst, Hypnotherapy & NLP with Sunny Jackson and Shake Rising spiritual movement practice with Sara Folsom. She also draws extensively from trainings in Authentic Relating and a decade of conscious worls travel. She intuitively weaves her wisdom gained from all of these experiences to support beings to come home to a felt-sense of safety and true love. Violet is also a true HEARTists - a woman with an ever-growing devotion to living soulfully, always learning and sharing new tools for integration while channeling new practices into alchemical photo shoots and videography sessions. She shares in this podcast her process as a creative, for capturing content as a sacred witness and how her work with Divine Feminine embodiment inspired her to now offer boudoir photo shoots, giving women the opportunity to feel empowered and liberated in their authentic expression. Violet also designed the logo for this podcast, Universal Intimacy, so we are forever grateful for her creative contributions! You can find her on IG: https://www.instagram.com/violetstarkey_/

n this Introductory solo-cast, Josephine shares her journey of becoming embodied, including her upbringing in the Midwest, her education at Dartmouth and abroad, going to culinary school and working with farm-to-table chefs, mothering her 3 children and ultimately her journey on the Divine Feminine Embodiment and Priestess Path, which led her to become a Somatic Intimacy Coach. She shares why she believes in cultivating connectivity in order to heal humanity and this planet.