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Our friend and teacher Dr. Alexandra Solomon has spent over 20 years working with couples as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and teaching the popular Marriage 101 course at Northwestern University, and is the author of two bestselling books on love and erotic intimacy. Dr. Solomon is one of the teachers we most love learning from in this field, and we find our philosophies and approaches align and complement one another.

So when she recently launched an online course, INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS 101, we enrolled right away, and Charlotte and I have been spending time with the course, both together and exploring on our own. We are both having mind-blowing aha! moments that are breathing new life into our own relationship. We’ve been together for 15 years, and even as dedicated love professionals, this course is giving us so much support and new tools to reconnect – especially after the pressures of this past year!

We love this course so much we asked Dr. Solomon for permission to share it with you, and she generously agreed to join us for an interview about why we need Relational Self Awareness now more than ever.

And to be clear – Relational Self-Awareness is for ALL of us.

Relational Self-Awareness is grounded in the most important relationship – your relationship with yourself.

If you are single or between relationships, this course will help you make sense of your last relationship and help you get ready for your next one.

If you are in a relationship, this course will help you use relational and sexual self-awareness to navigate these troubling times.

★ INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS 101 is a self-paced online course and offers you:

• 6 modules with 20+ videos that bring together cutting-edge research, clinical wisdom, and practical tools that you can integrate into your life today.
• Worksheets and resources designed to help you apply the content into your life.
• Support along the way via in-course comments and emails from Dr. Solomon.
• A copy of Dr. Solomon’s books, Loving Bravely and Taking Sexy Back… because every good class includes some required reading!

This course is a deep dive and will give you a comprehensive foundation in the skills of relational and sexual self-awareness— the skills you need to create a thriving and healthy intimate partnership. Enroll in INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS 101.

More Resources About Relational Self Awareness from Dr. Alexandra Solomon

• Taking Sexy Back: Speaking Of Sex Podcast Interview with Dr. Alexandra Solomon

Relational Self-Awareness is a framework that helps us understand who we are as individuals in relationship to others and within culture and society. Relational Self-Awareness invites us into self-compassion, self-love and self-knowing through careful examination of ourselves and our relational patterns.

Alexandra Solomon, Ph.D. is a pioneer in the field of relational self-awareness, and is now bringing her 20+ years of experience as a therapist, professor and popular author into a self-paced online course Intimate Relationships 101. This course offers you hours of powerful lessons, interactive worksheets and guided conversations so you can develop your relational self-awareness skills, from the privacy of your own home.

We are currently enrolled as students in this course and, even after our 14 years as love geeks and explorers, are learning so much and having game-changing conversations prompted by Dr. Solomon’s loving wisdom and poignant guidance.

This course is for all of us – single folks, lovers, folks just getting out of a relationship or dating again after a long time. Join the course here with our exclusive discount, and then be in touch and let us know what you discover.

Cheers,

Chris and Charlotte, PleasureMechanics.com February 2021

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Big thanks to Marie Jenicek from This Thing Called Movement Podcast for allowing us to share this beautiful interview.

In this interview between Charlotte Mia Rose and Marie Jenicek, discover:

• how Charlotte got into this work originally
• why Chris and Charlotte started Pleasure Mechanics
• why touch is an underestimated essential for our wellbeing
• how shame gets in the way of our sexual experiences and what we can do to dismantle it
• how to explore the relationship between your movement, sexuality and pleasure
• how ecstasy can be a renewable resource for each of us  
• how we can train our body to experience more pleasure and wellbeing

This Thing Called Movement Podcast was featured in The New York Times Dance section article: ‘Slowing Down to Feel’: Moving Our Minds Around Our Bodies

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It goes by many names, each pointing to different variants of the same issue: erectile dysfunction, performance anxiety, premature ejaculation. Your body isn’t responding how you want it to, when you want it to. You aren’t staying hard long enough and are ejaculating to quickly to really enjoy your encounter. Or maybe you are able to have great erections alone, but when you are playing with a partner you don’t get hard, even if you are turned on.

There is a ton of misinformation and myth about the penis, male sexual pleasure and the male sexual experience. There is so much pleasure possible when we get over the “always hard, cum on command” concept of sexuality that so many men struggle to live up to!

Here are some resources about ejaculation control, erectile dysfunction and performance anxiety. We’re here for you as you explore your way to relaxed, abundant, full body arousal and climax.

Podcast Episodes About Performance Anxiety

Podcast Episodes About Erections

The late and great Jack Morin was a sex therapist in San Francisco and author of several books including The Erotic Mind. His work offers profound insights into not only what causes relationships to breakdown over time, but also on what makes a successful relationship work. He was one of the first to bring the ideas of positive psychology into the field of sex therapy with frameworks like Peak Erotic Experiences and Core Erotic Themes.

Dr. Jack Morin was one of our biggest advocates, consultants and collaborators as we pioneered the field of somatic sex education with the Sexological Bodywork training in 2003. He was a regular advisor to Joseph Kramer, Ph.D in the development of the training, and worked in collaboration with many of the first generation of Sexological Bodyworkers.

Dr. Jack Morin was also a pioneer and early advocate for anal pleasure and healthy anal sexuality. His book, Anal Pleasure and Health, was a groundbreaking book that countered the homophobic narratives about anal eroticism and invite readers into a healthier relationship with their buttholes! Dr. Jack Morin was a friend and advisor to Chester Mainard, who was Chris’ primary mentor and massage teacher.

Dr. Jack Morin died on June 14, 2013. He was 67. We give thanks to Jack Morin for his legacy of education, advocacy and leadership. We are grateful for your professional generosity and mentorship. Rest In Power and may your words continue to reach generations to come!

Listen in as Dr. Jack Morin addresses one of the first trainings of Sexological Bodywork at The Institute For Advanced Study Of Human Sexuality in San Francisco (since closed) Thanks to Joseph Kramer, Ph.D. for capturing and sharing this talk.

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