What is Somatic Sexology?
Somatic Sexology is a body-centred approach to sexual learning, healing, and wellbeing, combining the study of human sexuality with somatic practices that emphasise embodiment and experiential awareness.
What is Sexological Bodywork®?
Sexological Bodywork® is a certified, body-based modality that supports individuals and couples in exploring their sexuality, embodiment, and pleasure through direct, experiential learning.
What is Somatic Sex Education™?
A certified, body-led approach to learning about sexuality, intimacy, pleasure, and self-expression. It invites people to reconnect with their erotic bodies through experiential, consent-based practices that go far beyond traditional models of sex education.
Who Is Somatic Sexology For?
Somatic Sexology helps you reconnect with your body, explore your sexuality, and expand your capacity for pleasure. Learn how individuals, couples, and professionals can benefit from Somatic Sex Education and Sexological Bodywork.
Tools & Techniques
Somatic Sexology provides a client-led toolbox of body-based practices – like interoception, mapping, breathwork, and embodied choice – drawn from somatic psychology, sexology, and bodywork traditions to support safe, paced exploration of self, sexuality, and sensation.
Trainings & Certification
Begin your professional journey with internationally recognised training in Sexological Bodywork® and Somatic Sex Education™. Become a Certified Sexological Bodyworker or Somatic Sex Educator, and learn ethical, body-based tools to support others in sexual embodiment, healing, and empowerment – whether you’re a coach, therapist, bodyworker or educator.
Ethics & Legal Framework
In a field as intimate as sexuality, ethical clarity and legal responsibility are essential. Somatic Sexology – including Sexological Bodywork® – follows clear guidelines that protect clients and practitioners, uphold consent and autonomy, and establish professional boundaries, ensuring safety, trust, and integrity for everyone involved.
About Us
This website is authored by Kian de la Cour, founder of the School of Somatic Sexology and a leader in ethical, embodied sex education. Kian is a Certified Sexological Bodyworker®, Somatic Sex Educator, Wheel of Consent® Facilitator, Chair of ASIS, and Vice President of ACSB, and has trained hundreds worldwide in trauma-informed, body-based sex education.