{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Other Side of Things","title":"The Other Side of Things (Ep 06) - \"Intimacy with All Things\" with Alyssa Morin","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3774,"description":"00:00 Introduction\n01:17 Who is Alyssa Morin?\n02:22 Michael's early trauma\n03:35 Gwyneth Paltrow Love, Sex and Goop\n04:00  What is Somatic Sex Education? \n05:00 Alyssa's background in Zen, Soulwork and being a minister's daughter.\n06:00 Alyssa's journey to SSE and what it is.\n09:35 Let me dive into everything during her first Saturn Return\n11:00 Caffyn Jesse and healing circumcision trauma\n13:00 Zen practice as a prelude to SSE\n14:50 The power of lineage and containers\n15:45 Dogen, \"Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.\" \n19:00 Sitting with whatever arises.\n20:50 Eros/Life Force and Aliveness.\n23:00 Eros/Psyche/Natura - bringing opposites into relationship and longing.\n24:00 Meaning of Rilke's phrase, \"Go to the limits of your longing.\" \n28:50 How do you bring a soulcentric/soulwork approach to your work?\n29:50 The Soulwork Lineage of Bill Plotkin and her teachers\n32:30 Sexuality, Trauma and Initiatory experiences and finding meaning in the suffering\n36:00 Art as Ritual/Ritual as Art\n37:40 Self-designed Ceremony\n41:00 Losing the Sacred\n42:00 The Verdant Collective \n45:11 Women exploring their belonging and regulating their nervous systems\n47:00 Pleasure and Please have the same root word - does this please you?\n48:50 The power of listening\n49:30 Your sexuality is yours!\n50:00 Somatic Sex Education in more detail\n51:40 Your arousal IS the event\n55:30 Closing Comments and Thoughts\nI came across Alyssa's work as part of my own healing journey after watching the riveting and painful documentary American Circumcision. It triggered some old trauma's from multiple surgeries I had between the ages of birth and age 7.  It hit me really hard.  I came across the work of Caffyn Jesse who offered a free online training for those who may have been traumatized by the experience.  It was life changing.  She was one of the founders of Somatic Sex Education, and it turned out I would later discover trained Alyssa.  When I went to explore this area of healing further I came...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/YnH_L-OQgkULW3pyyymcS7QxXjX55uQvw8afFgyc5jA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mMWI0/YjlmZDdlNTBkYjJh/NGI5NDJjMjc2MWUx/ZWFjZC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}