Rekindle Love: The Living Love Symposium

Hosted by Diana Richardson · Online · September 17–20, 2026

Our talk: “Love Labs, One-Way Touch and the Art of Receiving”

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What would change if you and your partner gave intimacy a whole day, every week?

We open the doors on our own practice – the Friday love lab – and the intricacies of devoting spaciousness and awareness to the subtle invitations & resistances to greater and more vulnerable pleasures… Why receiving turns out to be so much harder than it sounds. Why fawning has become a quiet epidemic in bedrooms everywhere. And why the low and medium states of arousal, the ones most people pass straight through, are infinite portals of discovery.

We close with practices you can try the same evening, and a question worth sitting with: what is your nervous system waiting to feel safe enough to receive?

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Also speaking: Gay & Katie Henricks · MaAnanda Sarita · Michael Winn · Neal Donald Walsh · Devi Ward Erickson

Divine Union For Lovers: Sacred Sexuality & Erotic Attunement

The Art of Relating · Tammy Kay Chow · May 2026

The fullest conversation we’ve had about what this work actually is.

Tammy Kay Chow is a somatic attachment facilitator, which means she asks about the floor underneath everything else – safety, rupture, repair, and the slow way two nervous systems learn one another. This is the conversation where we lay out Divine Union For Lovers most completely: what sacred sexuality means when it stays grounded in the body instead of floating above it, how erotic attunement gets built rather than found, and what shifts in a partnership when both people stop caretaking and let themselves be received. If you want to understand what we teach and why before you go any further, start here.

→ Watch the full conversation, or listen on Apple Podcasts 

Expanding Erotic Intelligence: Rewiring Intimacy Through the Nervous System

Sex Is Medicine · Devi Ward Erickson · April 2026

Why technique falls flat until the body feels safe and what to do about it.

Devi Ward Erickson has been working in holistic sexual wellness for close to three decades, and this conversation explores the mechanics of how intimacy actually rewires. We talk about what rewiring means in the body rather than the mind – how early imprints shape adult sexual expression, how the nervous system governs arousal, presence and shutdown without ever asking permission, and why the most sophisticated technique in the world lands on nothing when a body is still in survival mode. Ariel brings the thread of plant medicine and pleasure. Rahi brings 15 years of genital de-armoring practice and the neuroscience underneath it. It’s a conversation about reaching consciousness through the body, held by someone who has been asking these questions as long as we have.

→ Watch the full conversation, or listen on Apple Podcasts 

Erotic Attunement & Extended Lovemaking: Deepening Intimacy Beyond Performance

Deeper with Darshana · Darshana Avila · April 2026

What changes when sex stops having a finish line.

Darshana Avila asks the question most people never think to ask: what if sex isn’t a thing with a beginning, a middle and an end? In this conversation we lay out the architecture underneath extended lovemaking – the 0–10 pleasure scale as a shared language between two people, attunement as a skill that can be learned rather than a gift some couples happen to have, and why the nervous system decides what’s possible long before technique enters the room. We talk about the eight pillars of intimacy, about genital de-armoring and the protective patterns a body is finally willing to release, and about what it means to treat a trigger as an opening rather than an ending. We also make the case for scheduling intimacy – and why devoted ritual time, far from killing spontaneity, is exactly what makes the unknown reachable.

→ Watch the full conversation, listen on Apple Podcasts, or read the show notes 

Breaking the Orgasm Chase: What Opens When Pleasure Stops Being a Destination

The Sex Reimagined Podcast · Leah Piper & Dr. Willow Brown · April 2025

Why pelvic holding usually sets in before age seven — and what it takes to release it.

Leah Piper and Dr. Willow Brown host one of the most established shows in this field, and they go straight at the thing most couples are quietly stuck inside: the chase. We talk about what becomes available when climax stops being the point – what slowing down opens, and the arousal ripples that move through a room and reach people who aren’t even part of it. We get into why pelvic holding patterns are usually laid down before a child turns seven, and what it takes for that tissue to let go. Ariel shares her own path into embodiment and the part plant medicine, San Pedro in particular, played in it. And we talk about what we’ve watched break open for couples at our retreats – the moments nobody expects and nobody can unfeel afterward.

→ Watch the full episode, or listen on Apple Podcasts 

The Art of Extended Pleasure & Intimacy for Couples

Permission to Be Enchanting · Claire Sente · March 2025

Where intimacy actually begins… and it isn’t with your partner.

Claire Sente opens on the premise that intimacy is a dance requiring self-awareness, trust and vulnerability, and we spend the hour on the part most couples skip entirely: self-intimacy, self-trust, self-attunement as the ground everything else has to stand on. We talk about how childhood patterns follow people into adult bedrooms without ever announcing themselves, what extended states of pleasure look like once orgasm stops being the boundary, and we walk through one-way touch – the single practice that undoes decades of guessing and performing in one session. We close on the link between sexual energy and life force, and what tends to open up in the rest of a person’s life once this part of it does.

Listen to the full episode on Spotify

Extended Lovemaking & Deep Intimacy: Slowing Down… even more.

Organic Sexuality Podcast – now “Your Body Remembers Pleasure” * Ariel Szabo & Rahi Chun * March 2025 

The two of us, in our own words, on what slowing down makes possible.

This one is from Rahi’s own show, which means there’s no need to explain the basics and we go straight in. The Eight Pillars of Intimacy, nervous system attunement, and what it feels like in practice rather than in theory. Edging as a genuine practice rather than a trick. And the specific ways pacing changes what a body is able to feel at all. We talk about building a container safe enough that real vulnerability becomes possible, about the difference between finishing and being satiated… which most people have never had language for – and about what happens to consciousness itself when lovemaking extends well past the point where most people stop.

Listen to the full episode with show notes

These conversations are a doorway.

Everything we talk about in them – the pleasure scale, one-way touch, what the nervous system needs before any of it can land – is taught step by step, with demonstrations, inside the course.