Uncovering the Roots of Sexuality Trauma

Presented by Ariel Giarretto 

The Full Embodiment Model

The program is aimed at increasing awareness, aliveness and pleasure in our whole bodies. It looks at developmental imprints and other formative influences that interrupt a clear, stress-free relationship with ourselves as fully embodied sexual/sensual beings. It offers transformative experiential practices for all levels of interest—for self-exploration and personal enhancement, healing sexual abuse, as well as providing useful strategies for therapists working with sexuality and trauma. It is open to anyone desiring to learn more about sexuality from a somatic/social/cultural, psychological or physiological perspective.

This workshop is primarily experiential, and is aimed at healing the shame that both men and women carry from countless generations of negative messages about sex, the body and gender, whether they’re cultural, religious or intergenerational. 

Introducing the latest in somatic sex therapy and sexuality research, it is designed for anyone who desires a deep and lasting change. It supports therapists in working with sexuality trauma in their practices, however it is also appropriate for anyone interested in personal exploration. Clinicians, this is your chance to bring, or refer your friends, clients, colleagues and intimates. 

This workshop will cover how to:

- Have more ease, confidence and connection with your whole body

- Examine the messages than many are given about gender, the body and sexuality, and begin to access and embody more authentic beliefs and desires, underneath the conditioning

- Explore and heal the hidden social psychological and developmental influences that shape shame poor body image and disconnection from self and others

- Get comfortable talking about the body and sexuality with your clients an intimate

- Establish a strong somatic container and develop honest “embodied consent” through boundaries and learning how to voice preferences

- Identifying the unconscious “brakes” that thwart pleasure and desire   

- Learn new ways of finding peace, pleasure and safety after sexual abuse or assault

Format and Techniques: 

• The workshop is a friendly mix of science and education, psychological and emotional inquiry, and gentle, respectful exercises designed to deepen contact with self. 

• It will include mindfulness practices, self-reflection, small and large group sharing, lectures, videos and suggested readings.

Who can benefit:

• Therapists, coaches, social workers, bodyworkers, healthcare professionals, and anyone hoping to find more ease and pleasure in their bodies

Location:

Staybridge Suites 6600 Mannheim Road, Rosemont, IL. Staybridge Suites is giving us a special group rate so be sure to mention Full Embodiment. If there is a problem, call and ask. 847-380-5800

Time:

11am-6:00pm Friday March 14th

9:00am-5:00pm Saturday March 15th

9:00-4:00 Sunday March 16th

As part of the registration process, please fill out this application.

Payments:

To reserve your space please send a deposit of $100. The cost is $575 (early bird price) per module if you pay in full a month before the module starts. $625 is the regular price. Apply a discount of $550 if you plan to attend all four—so $2,200 for the series.

Wise Transfer (prefered method of payment)

Account holder: Ariel Giarretto

ACH and Wire routing number: 026073150

Account number: 822000117976

Account type: Checking

Wise's Address: 30 W. 26th Street, Sixth Floor New York, NY 10010 United States

Other Payment Methods:

Venmo @ariel-giarretto, Zelle (ariel@fullembodiment.org), or Paypal between friends

Cancellation policy:

• A full refund will be given if the training is canceled by us.

• A full refund, minus a $100 administrative fee, will be issued for cancellations made no later than One Month before the start date.

• Cancellations made after One month before the start date will be refunded 50% of the total tuition paid.

• No refund will be issued for no‐shows or if registration is canceled after 4 days before any training start.

Essential Strategies of Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality

Presented by Ariel Giarretto 

The Full Embodiment Model

Course Description:

All of us work with clients who have experienced sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, with couples who grapple with sexual incompatibilities, or people who struggle with debilitating shame, dissociation, flashbacks, sexual/gender identity, body image and just generally resist being in their bodies.

This workshop is designed to tackle just these issues, and is aimed at helping practitioners acquire a variety of new and effective tools to best serve these clients—even the toughest ones. Introducing material and exercises not covered in the Somatic Experiencing training.

Professional Content

• How to help those most reluctant to inhabit their bodies actually find ease and pleasure!

• Help clients with complex histories identify clear goals, so you both know where you’re headed, have the consent you need to nudge a bit, and then take the most direct path to recovery

• Learn some of the newest science in sex education that will help you explain essential facts to your clients that will normalize behaviors and lessen shame

• Learn multiple embodiment exercises that support regulation in the present—which helps people who are triggered by daily life find moment-to-moment resource and stability.

• Learn new techniques that strengthen boundaries, help people “find their voice”, and express genuine “embodied consent”

• Learn advanced strategies for reworking sexual trauma without re-traumatizing, and the order and steps that are most effective for success

• Learn a variety ways of working shame and helping clients escape from its clutches

There will be time to discuss some specific cases. 

What You Will Learn Personally:

• Get comfortable talking about the body and discussing sexuality issues with your clients and intimates.

• Become friendlier with your body, and inhabit it with new levels of comfort and awareness

Who it Will Benefit:

Therapists, psychologists, touch therapists, sex educators, intimacy coaches and any practitioner who wishes to become more adept at somatically treating sexual trauma and sexuality issues.

Location:

Staybridge Suites 6600 Mannheim Road, Rosemont, IL. Staybridge Suites is giving us a special group rate so be sure to mention Full Embodiment. If there is a problem, call and ask. 847-380-5800

Time:

11am-6:00pm Friday July 18

9:30am-6:00pm Saturday July 19

9:30-4:00 Sunday July 20

As part of the registration process, please fill out this application. If you filled one out for a prior module—no need to do it again.

Payments:

To reserve your space please send a deposit of $100. The cost is $575 (early bird price) per module if you pay in full a month before the module starts. $625 is the regular price. Apply a discount of $550 if you plan to attend all four—so $2,200 for the series.

Wise Transfer (prefered method of payment)

Account holder: Ariel Giarretto

ACH and Wire routing number: 026073150

Account number: 822000117976

Account type: Checking

Wise's Address: 30 W. 26th Street, Sixth Floor New York, NY 10010 United States

Other Payment Methods:

Venmo @ariel-giarretto, Zelle (ariel@fullembodiment.org), or Paypal between friends

Cancellation policy:

• A full refund will be given if the training is canceled by us.

• A full refund, minus a $100 administrative fee, will be issued for cancellations made no later than One Month before the start date.

• Cancellations made after One month before the start date will be refunded 50% of the total tuition paid.

• No refund will be issued for no‐shows or if registration is canceled after 4 days before any training start.

The Energetics of Intimacy, Attachment and Sexuality

Discovering the subtleties of relating intimately

Presented by Ariel Giarretto 

This workshop examines:  “What happens in myself, my body, and my being in relation to others?”

Open to:

• Individuals, either coupled or not, and actively sexual or not

• Anyone wanting to heal attachment wounds, hoping to learn to receive and give love and pleasure in new and profound ways

• Couples wanting to improve their physical and emotional intimacy

• People hoping to find satisfying relationships, or for 

• Therapists who work with any of the above

  This 3 day workshop focuses on connection to self, the heart and the body, while being in proximity with others. You do not need to be in couple relationship to get great benefit from this program. Nor does your partner need to be present. This workshop is open to partners or colleagues of somatic participants who are not professionals.

  It helps us experience the subtle and not-so-obvious ways we engage intimately, and how to open to new and yet-to-be explored possibilities of joy and pleasure.

  We’ll combine lectures, videos, the latest research, small group discussions, movement and dance, plus an array of gentle, respectful exercises to make for a rich and varied program. Mindful embodiment, sensation tracking and self-touch explorations are core practices as we get comfortable with the body as the ultimate “experiencer”. The goal is clearer boundaries, increased pleasure, self-acceptance and self-love, and greater freedom to explore your sexy self playfully in new and different ways, without shame.

  
  

  After the weekend, participants will:

  • come away with a clearer understanding of the subtle levels of relating that occur under conscious awareness

  • recognize and reduce triggers, enabling genuine wants and needs to emerge…..and learn to communicate these effectively

  • learn tools for staying present and embodied

  • identify deep desires and yearnings, and notice what gets in the way of opening to them

  • practice asking for what you want, and learning to receive 

  Topics we will cover include all of the above, plus:

  • Further exploration of boundaries

  • Identify genuine “yeses” and “noes”, as well as “turn-ons” and “turn-offs” in intimacy. 

  • Learn about your ”erotic style”

  • The basics of sensual touch for both women and men (fully clothed) 

  plus many more!

Location:

Staybridge Suites 6600 Mannheim Road, Rosemont, IL. Staybridge Suites is giving us a special group rate so be sure to mention Full Embodiment. If there is a problem, call and ask. 847-380-5800

Time:

11am-6:00pm Friday October 17

9:30am-6:00pm Saturday October 18

9:30-4:00 Sunday October 19

As part of the registration process, please fill out this application. If you have filled out one for a prior module, no need to do it again.

Payments:

To reserve your space please send a deposit of $100. The cost is $575 (early bird price) per module if you pay in full a month before the module starts. $625 is the regular price. Apply a discount of $550 if you plan to attend all four—so $2,200 for the series.

Wise Transfer (prefered method of payment)

Account holder: Ariel Giarretto

ACH and Wire routing number: 026073150

Account number: 822000117976

Account type: Checking

Wise's Address: 30 W. 26th Street, Sixth Floor New York, NY 10010 United States

Other Payment Methods:

Venmo @ariel-giarretto, Zelle (ariel@fullembodiment.org), or Paypal between friends

Cancellation policy:

• A full refund will be given if the training is canceled by us.

• A full refund, minus a $100 administrative fee, will be issued for cancellations made no later than One Month before the start date.

• Cancellations made after One month before the start date will be refunded 50% of the total tuition paid.

• No refund will be issued for no‐shows or if registration is canceled after 4 days before any training start.

Advanced Strategies for Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality

Presented by Ariel Giarretto 

This module is more informational—and addresses common sexual and intimacy issues that show up in couples and individuals—both straight and queer. Especially if one or both have experienced sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, grown up with severe religious messages….or who currently grapple with sexual incompatibilities, porn addiction, sexual dysfunctions, or those who just generally resist being in their bodies.

As an adjunct to "Essential Strategies Of Healing Sexual Trauma” Ariel brings more advanced strategies. In this workshop we will look at:

Professional Content

• Common sexual and intimacy issues that affect couples

• Low or incompatible Libido

• Spicing up long-term relationships

• Sex and aging

• How to support female and male survivors

• Pelvic/sexual complaints—including vaginismus, chronic pain and common sexual dysfunctions—for both women and men

• Infertility

• Kink and BDSM

• Porn addiction

• Navigating open relationships

• Working with dissociation, flashbacks

• Plus time for questions and cases that want to be discussed

Other learning objectives:

• Get comfortable talking about the body and discussing and treating sexuality issues with your clients and intimates.

• Learn a variety of strategies working with couples, or those who desire to couple healthily.

Who will benefit

• Therapists, psychologists, touch therapists, sex educators, intimacy coaches and any practitioner who wishes to become more adept at somatically treating relationship and sexuality issues.

Location: Online—2026 February 7-9 9:00-3:00PM Pacific time

Time: Since I will be signing on from the Netherlands, the times are as follows:

9:00- 3:00PM pacific time friday, February 7

9:00-3:00pm PST Saturday February 8

9:30-3:00 PST Sunday February 9

As part of the registration process, please fill out this application. No need to if you have filled one out for a prior module.

Payments:

To reserve your space please send a deposit of $100. The cost is $575 (early bird price) per module if you pay in full a month before the module starts. $625 is the regular price. Apply a discount of $550 if you plan to attend all four—so $2,200 for the series.

Wise Transfer (prefered method of payment)

Account holder: Ariel Giarretto

ACH and Wire routing number: 026073150

Account number: 822000117976

Account type: Checking

Wise's Address: 30 W. 26th Street, Sixth Floor New York, NY 10010 United States

Other Payment Methods:

Venmo @ariel-giarretto, Zelle (ariel@fullembodiment.org), or Paypal between friends

Cancellation policy:

• A full refund will be given if the training is canceled by us.

• A full refund, minus a $100 administrative fee, will be issued for cancellations made no later than One Month before the start date.

• Cancellations made after One month before the start date will be refunded 50% of the total tuition paid.

• No refund will be issued for no‐shows or if registration is canceled after 4 days before any training start.