Practices to deepen connection
WHAT IS INTIMACY?
- Closeness to Self: Deep self-awareness and the ability to connect with your own emotions, thoughts, and desires. It’s cultivating self-love, self-trust, and honoring your personal boundaries.
- Connection with Others: Building meaningful relationships based on trust, vulnerability, and mutual respect. It involves sharing your true self and being present with others.
- Emotional Intimacy: The experience of sharing feelings and emotions with another person in a safe, trusting space. It’s about being seen, heard, and accepted for who you are.
- Spiritual Intimacy: A deeper connection with the divine, nature, or the universe that fosters a sense of belonging and shared purpose. This can be experienced individually or in relationships.
- Physical Intimacy: Touch, closeness, and physical connection that can range from platonic to romantic, and often involves consensual touch, affection, or sexual connection.
Intimacy weaves together emotional, spiritual, and physical aspects, deepening our relationship with ourselves and with those around us.
our unique approach
VALUES
- Expansive, inclusive, & affirming: enthusiastically in support of all humans in all forms, in all relationship styles, all identities, sexualities, races, and abilities. You belong here and we embrace you!
- Safe space to explore & learn: healing-centered, trauma-informed, culture of consent
BELIEFS
- Every body is sacred and wise
- Learning about yourself, others, and relationships is fun and empowering
- It’s always the right time to build connection
- Joy and belonging are priorities for a life well lived
TEACHING & COACHING STYLE
- Trauma-informed, healing-centered engagement education to address potentially awkward or challenging topics that are riddled with societal stigma.
- Guided body awareness practices like centering, breathwork, and somatic movement, which allows participants to drop into their bodies, to find a calm center from which to learn and to access the inherent wisdom of their bodies.
- Multi-session, small-group approach to learning and growing which fosters relationship building and trust amongst the participants over time, improving the overall learning experience.
Sarah Koch
Sarah Koch (She|Her) is a trained Embodied Intimacy and Relationship Coach, Somatic Guide, Sex Educator, and Yoga Teacher. She is a cis, queer, curious nerd of all things personal growth, dancing wild and free, tree-hugging nature-loving, and woo woo mystical energies of the universe. She resides in Peterborough, NH with her two lovely children, her dog Fern, and her chosen community. Sarah travels worldwide to find her tribe, teach, and share her gifts.
Trainings
- Embodied Intimacy and Relationship Coach (Embody Lab)
- Trauma-informed Somatic practitioner (Staci Haines)
- Certified Sex Educator (Everyone Deserves Sex Education)
- Our Whole Lives (OWL) facilitator (Unitarian Universalist Association)
- Registered Yoga Teacher, 200-hr RYT (YogaWorks)