by Natasha | Jan 5, 2026 | Body Awakening ©, Courses and Certifications |
“I have never been a part of anything so transformational in my whole life and it’s something so tied to my self worth and pleasure. I’ve never ever been a part of a program that’s been so well done, has so much integrity and the information you’ve shared there’s been such a powerful amount of education so now I understand.”
– D.M, Body Awakening® Course Practitioner participant
Super early bird registration opens today for my Body Awakening Course, and one of the most important things I want to share with anyone considering joining, is that this course is about so much more than touch. When we value doing things well, we often take some form of class or training to gain confidence in, and develop our skills. As important as what can tangibly be taught, is the person behind the skill who expresses themselves through whichever medium they’re using — whether we’re an artist, musician, counselor, parent, teacher, coach and so on. When we open ourselves to flow through our work and interactions, we become what we’re doing and everyone can feel it. In Body Awakening, the medium of expression is touch. What makes this kind of touch so special though, just as what makes a work of art or piece of music so special, is not as much the skill as it is the person who’s touching.
In my experience, many of us have, over the course of our life, learned to dim and hide ourselves becoming who we think we should be or what we think other’s want us to be in intimacy. I imagine a filter with sticky mud blocking our essence and what we have to offer through our touch. With this sticky mud in the way, it doesn’t matter how many 5 step techniques we know or what skills we have, if who we are can’t really flow through.
Throughout this course, we’ll learn to reconnect to the parts of ourselves that have been hidden and, to do so, we need to get acquainted with the “mud” that’s in the way. This “mud” often began forming right at birth from our family of origin and continued sticking like glue through intimate life experiences thereafter. The better we are able to see, feel and understand the contents of the “mud”, the easier it will be to move beyond it and connect to YOU. Being you, is what will make the quality of your touch extraordinary and exceptional.
When I touch a body — whether it’s my husband’s, children’s or a clients — I want them to feel more than just the mechanics of my touch. I want them to feel me coming though. Will you join me? Follow link https://natashasalaash.com/body-awakening-course/ to register or email natashasalaash21@gmail.com
“All parts of this course guided me towards myself; it continues to offer me an expanded spectrum of available insights: sensorily, emotionally, and interpersonally. I am ever grateful for this guided time inwards amongst companions.” – L. Body Awakening Online Course participant
by Natasha | Dec 8, 2025 | Body Awakening ©, Courses and Certifications, For couples, Intimacy, Raising children with a healthy sexuality |
I spent over a year creating my Body Awakening Course, because I wanted it to encompass much more than simply learning a new style of touching. Intimacy, to me, is a whole person experience and I wanted the participants to, at the end of it, recognize touch as something sacred. I imagined them walking away from the 9 months with a feeling of reverence for; the gift of touching another person, the body of the person they touch (whether it be their own or someone else’s) and the sensations that can be experienced through all the wonderful textures that skin provides. Along with this, I wanted them to be aware of and prepared for what can come up when we touch another person’s body in a safe and attuned way. Soft, slow, present touch can create an opening that extends much deeper than the surface of the skin —bringing up intense sensations, emotions, pleasure, resistances, wounds, insecurities and unmet needs in both the person being touched and the person touching. To hold space for this requires self-awareness, attunement, curiosity, communication, reverence and lots of practice.
We began our 9 month online journey learning about ourselves and how experiences in infancy and childhood shape the way we interact in intimacy as adults. We learned to attune to our own breath as a tool for self-awareness and how to expand our breathing patterns so we can safely feel more and ultimately experience more pleasure. We practiced exploring and touching our own bodies to discover what sensations we could feel through our skin, and learned how to combine breath, touch and imagery to increase and plateau those sensations when feeling more gets too much. We developed self-awareness around what gets in the way of our ability to be present when touching others, noticing when it happens and how to continually come back to the sensations in our fingers we feel through our touch. While we practiced all of this individually or in partnership, we came together online every two weeks to share our discoveries, pleasures, doubts, feelings, insecurities, tears and lots of laughter. In this safe, shared space we discovered that we aren’t the only ones who find intimacy challenging, scary and exciting.
We spent 7 months ensuring the quality of what we are able to offer through our touch — whether alone, in partnered intimacy or with clients — before applying our learning to touching others. Body Awakening touch is less about techniques (although there are some) and more to do with getting out of our own way to be present, attuned, curious and reverent to the experience so that who we are really comes through our touch. This, to me, is what intimacy is all about. In the last month of learning, some of the participants chose to participate in the In Person portion of the course where they deepened their practice on each other and then with volunteers from the community. It was an absolute joy for me to witness them creating a cozy space for their volunteer touch partners and welcoming them in with reverence, compassion and curiosity for whatever might come up.
As the teacher and creator of this modality and course, the past 9 months have been more rewarding than any previous work I’ve done. Creating a course that embodies the integrity that I believe touching a body deserves, and witnessing the evolution of the participants as they grow and learn together has been beyond meaningful to me. When we touch in a reverent, present and attuned way, there is no limit to our potential for connection, pleasure, growth and intimacy.
I’m excited to be once again offering this course beginning in March of 2026. There are options for Individuals, couples or practitioners interested in Online learning, In Person Experiential learning and Certification. Early bird registration opens January 5th and I would be honored to have you join. Details on my site and please reach out if you have any questions.
https://natashasalaash.com/body-awakening-course/
by Natasha | Dec 18, 2024 | Courses and Certifications |
“Body Awakening has been a revelation for me, personally and professionally. As a certified Somatic Sex Educator working with clients for over 10 years, I felt I had turned over every stone offering new insights into embodied erotic awareness, arousal edging, awakening pleasure, sensate-focus, and down-regulating the nervous system via touch. Body Awakening provided new lessons and somatic understanding in each of these realms at once. Natasha has developed a new sensate-focus modality that offers individuals greater agency and understanding of their own arousal system, practitioners a beautiful new toolbox of skills to add to their business, and couples endless adventures in arousal and pleasure without the distraction of being hijacked by goals or performance. I cannot recommend Body Awakening and Natasha as a facilitator/teacher highly enough.”
– Rahi Chun, Somatic Sexual Wholeness
I’m SO excited to be offering a course in Body Awakening for Practitioners, Couples and Individuals beginning March 2025. The course will involve 8 months of online learning including 18 modules, 14 live zoom sessions and videos to learn from. The online portion is a stand alone course, however, for those seeking certification and facilitated experience there will be an additional in-person training in November, 2025 along with additional requirements. Full details of the course as well as early bird registration will be available on January 6th, 2025. I welcome any inquiries and questions!
