25. Sep.. 2025 – 18. Dez.. 2025
Decolonial space-holding for Sexological Bodyworkers
with Dana Reina Téllez
This is an offering for sexological bodyworkers holding spaces of somatic, sensual and sexual exploration in shape of 1:1 sessions or in group contexts.
The intention of this lab is to offer an introduction and a deeper dive for those longing for community, guidance and structure to learn more about anti-racism and decoloniality as living practices and make their first steps towards weaving social justice into the spaces they offer & hold.
We will journey together for 12 weeks, having a 2-hour call every week for the first five sessions of introduction and then deepening into a live call every two weeks.
During the deepening period, you will receive further material to fully engage with and deepen in reflection & practice in between the live calls.
I am offering this lab, committed to the need of awareness around how strongly coloniality lives in the way(s) that many spiritual and somatic practices are taught and shared in the west, specially within predominantly white circles. From personal experience, this includes the field of sexological bodywork.
Many of these ways, and almost always unintentionally, perpetuate separation and often cause deep harm, especially to non-white folks in „conscious“ or „healing“ spaces.
Over my past nine years of space-holding, I’ve grown in a deeper knowing that the ability to notice systems of oppression is essential to (co)creating true transformational spaces that are serving ALL of life.
Working at the intersections of embodiment, spirituality and social justice, you will be guided to lovingly expand in the discomfort and softly move through the resistance to meet the imprint of internalised white supremacy (e.g. constant sense of urgency, fear of open conflict, or hyper individualism) in the body and in the way you might create, invite and hold spaces.
I will offer a space for information to flow, not only in form of words and theories, but also where somatic experience supports the learning and where my guidance can be a living example of practicing decolonial space-holding.
My focus of work is not to show „quick fixes“ on how to „do it right“, but rather offer a space to expand in humbleness and curiosity, in order to perceive and acknowledge the fear and the separation our current paradigm is built upon and the impact this has on our erotic being ans sexual/sensual experience. From this place of deeper recognition, we can discover decoloniality as practice and antidote for our (sex) lives and (co)creations.
Some of the methods we will practice are: guided movement and meditation, transrational input, journaling, ritual work. The further material includes guided somatic practices, reading material and story-telling.
This online laboratory is dreamt and woven, based on my personal experience as a facilitator and sexological bodyworker of afro-indigenous and european decent holding spaces around transformation, sexuality and artistic expression, focused on decolonial practices and eco-social transformation through embodiment.
Here you can read about the living lineage of the wisdom I share: https://lenta-menta.info/lineage/
TOPICS WE WILL EXPLORE:
- Embodied Social Justice
- Intersectionality & Positionality within Whitenes
- Nervous System & White Awareness
- Decoloniality & Somatic Work
- White Supremacy Culture & Pleasure
- Othering & Cultural Appropriation
- Space-Holding & Trust
- Centered Accountability & Sexological Bodywork
- Pleasure & other Antidotes
DATES FOR THE ONLINE CALLS: always 18:30 – 20:30h CET, via zoom
INTRO: every week
25.09
02.10
09.10
16.10
23.10
DEEPER DIVE: every two weeks
06.11
20.11
04.12
18.12
The group will be predominantly white, also open to people who may be mixed race or mixed heritage and yet experience white privilege in their daily lives.
Language: English.
COSTS:
overflowing fee: 490 EUR
regular fee: 390 EUR
for students in Sexological Bodywork Trainings (low(er) income): 290 EUR
* This offering will cycle back 10% of earnings to finance offerings on empowerment and somatic experience for people who experience racism and live on the margins.