PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
THE SEA SCHOOL OF EMBODIMENT
T R U S T I N G S P O N T A N E I T Y
The Sea School of Embodiment
The Sea School of Embodiment hosted the first UK & Ireland Certificate in Sexological Bodywork® (CSB) and Certificate in Somatic Sex Education (CSSE) in 2014; the first European workshops with Betty Martin in the Wheel of Consent® & the first UK training of Cuddle Party facilitators in 2015; and the world's first comprehensive training in Women's Pelvic Health: Scar Tissue Remediation, Education and Management (STREAM) taught by Ellen Heed & Kimberly Ann Johnson in 2016.
Due to demand and logistical reasons, in 2022 we launched two new schools under the umbrella of the Sea School of Embodiment, to deliver our Certificate in Sexological Bodywork® (CSB) & Certificate in Somatic Sex Education (CSSE) trainings going forward. These are described below:
The Sea School of Embodiment Story
Reflections from our Certified Sexological Bodywork Practitioners
“This is a deeply empowering opportunity to integrate and learn constructive, empowering practices working with sexuality. It's a Certified training with an international network for support and continuing professional development. I feel equipped with an empowering and essential tool kit for my practice.”
"It's serious, practical and incredible. And heart-opening. It's very well organised and you start at your own level of knowledge and that's completely valued and supported."
"Do it! If you want to know how to teach classes in sexuality and how to work somatically with clients it is brilliant learning."
Why we co-created the Sea School
The Sea School of Embodiment is a collaboration between Kian de la Cour and Katie Sarra.
We created the Sea School to host and share the teachings, training, and workshops that had most facilitated our embodiment and creative growth.
Both of us had been working for many years in the field of sexuality and we felt called to share trainings that had broadened our horizons, liberated us from old patterns, deepened our integrity, developed our skills and supported our relaxation into our naturalness.
It can be confusing for practitioners wishing to explore working with sexuality with so many training and workshops in this field not informed by professional codes of conduct or the ethics of consent.
Our events are intended to support the expansion of informed dialogue about intimate conscious relating and to support professional development in this field - Katie Sarra & Kian de la Cour
The SEA SCHOOL OF EMBODIMENT
Professional Training
Our Schools
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The Institute for Relational Harmony Studies
Directed by Katie Sarra and Dr Phoebe Garland
Next training Enrolling now. The dates are April to January each year for all four training pathways.
Year 1 - April 2025 - January 2026 ( with August holiday) Certificate in Sexological Intimacy Coaching practising Sexological Bodywork online from anywhere in the world.
Year 2 - April 2025 - January 2026 (August holiday) ~ Certificate in Sexological Bodywork - Open only to CSI graduates Includes an 11 day in-person Embodiment Retreat in Europe 8th - 18th May 2025
The Third year CSSE Somatic Sex Education Coach and Leadership Certification and Fourth Year Professional CSSE Supervisor training run parallel to the 1st and 2nd year CSI & CSB Trainings
As a Certified CSI & CSB practitioner or a student certifying in the three-month supervised practicum phase, you are invited to the Postgraduate CPD monthly webinars. These sessions provide a valuable opportunity to network, meet fellow practitioners, and engage in Community practice, Q&A, and Peer Supervision with a visiting teacher each month.
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The School of Somatic Sexology
Directed by Kian de la Cour
Next Training enrolling now
January 20th - November 23, 2025 The 9 Month Online & In-Person Somatic Sex Education professional training (Level 2 Certificate in Somatic Sex Education)
~ Includes 2, 7-day in-person Embodiment Weeks in England.
February 3rd - November 23, 2025 The 9 Month Online & In-Person Somatic Sex Education professional training (Level 1, Certificate in Sexological Bodywork)
~ Includes 2, 7-day in-person Embodiment Weeks in England.
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Katie Sarra
SEA SCHOOL CO-FOUNDER
Katie Sarra is the founder of the Institute of Relational Harmony Studies where she choreographs and teaches professional certification in Sexological Bodywork, Sexological Intimacy, Somatic Sex Education & Body Poem with an international team of leading-edge educators. She follows the Code of Ethics of the Association of Somatic and Integrative Sexologists (ASIS) and the Association of Certified Sexological Bodyworkers (ACSB).
She is a Certified Somatic Sex Educator and Sexological Bodyworker; Certified Wheel of Consent® Workshop Facilitator and Cuddle Party™ Facilitator; Ethics board member of the Association of Certified Sexological Bodyworkers (ACSB); co-founder of the Association of Somatic and Integrative Sexologists (ASIS), 2008 Erotic Artist of the Year Winner at the Sexual Freedom Awards; Founder of Body Poem™, Certified Art Psychotherapist (Post Grad Dip AT), Certified NLP Practitioner, Certified Right Use of Power™ Teacher, Gabon Bwiti Initiate, Professional Artist, Professional Playback Theater Practitioner over 17 years, Tantra Teacher, Quodoushka I-III Shamanic Sexuality, Recapitulated Shamaic Dearmouring & Aura Perception Analysis I over 15 years, Visceral Mind Professional training in Functional NeuroAnatomy and Member of The International Neuropsychoanalysis Society.
Katie has developed her practice over 35 years of professional clinical practice and research. She specialises in facilitating radical acceptance and the integration of exiled aspects of the self to enhance trusting spontaneity, inhabiting personal power and play, understanding what supports our belonging to feel more and fear less using understandings from affective neuroscience and its application with the Wheel of Consent® to support "trusting spontaneity" and co-creating win-win harmonious decisions.
She believes every human being has gifts to share and that our self-acceptance, kindness, and ease with ourselves ripples out to support ease with each other in service of care and our purpose in life.
"Its a joy to be hidden but a disaster never to be found" - Donald Winnicott -
Kian de la Cour
SEA SCHOOL CO-FOUNDER
Kian is the founder of the School of Somatic Sexology, where he directs the UK and Ireland Certificate in Sexological Bodywork professional training, together with an international team of leading-edge educators. He follows the Code of Ethics of the Association of Certified Sexological Bodyworkers (ACSB).
He is a Certified Somatic Sex Educator and Sexological Bodyworker; Certified Wheel of Consent® Workshop Facilitator and Cuddle Party™ Facilitator; Vice President of the Association of Certified Sexological Bodyworkers (ACSB); co-founder and Chair of the Association of Somatic and Integrative Sexologists (ASIS); Chair of Judges for the Sexual Freedom Awards; a structural integration bodyworker and nutritional therapist.
He brings a thorough grounding in Somatic Sex Education modalities to the training, having first encountered many of them when training as a Sacred Intimate with the Body Electric School at Wildwood, California in 1994. He qualified as a Certified Sexological Bodyworker in the UK in 2014, gained the CSSE in 2015, interned with Deej and Uma at the subsequent UK training and co-directed the following 6 CSB/CSSE UK & Ireland trainings. In 2022 the Sea School held our first CSB / CSSE embodiment intensive in Portugal. The second training under the School of Somatic Sexology banner is underway with the third enroling now.
”I create a world of safety and connection through touch and open-hearted communication so that my clients can access open-hearted choice in manifesting their life potential.”
He is passionate about sharing the joys and trials of greater embodiment with the world.
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