Myfanwy Van Vliet
Certified Practitioner -
Somatic Sex Education and
Sexological Bodywork
I want to support people in accessing more pleasure and aliveness in their bodies. Pleasure can be healing and empowering.
I am certified through the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education and I am establishing my professional practice.
I offer a free 20-minute video consultation to see if we are a good fit to work/explore/play together. Please email me at IlluminatingPleasure@gmail.com to set this up.
Illuminating Pleasure
Somatic Sex Education and Sexological Bodywork
Why Somatic Sex Education?
We could co-create a safe(enough) space to explore: consent and boundaries, identifying and asking for your desires, your yes/no/maybes, pleasure mapping, self-pleasure, re/learning your body/pleasure after or through major life situations (such as giving birth/parenting, health challenges, surgeries, relationship changes/endings, gender affirmation, disabilities).
Body acceptance, unlearning shame, and finding pleasure that feels right for YOU in your body.
Rates & Info
Discovery Call (20 mins) - Free
Intake Session -
Online (zoom, 1 hour) - $100
In-person (90 mins) - $150
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Follow-up Sessions (90 mins) - $150
Bodywork Sessions (90 mins) - $200
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*Rates subject to change
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Longer sessions and session packages available
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Sliding scale spaces available
In-person sessions take place in either Central/West Ottawa or Kanata.
Please let me know about accessibility questions/needs.
Illuminating Pleasure: A Declaration
With a full heart and a trauma-informed lens, I support:
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Shining a light on the potentially hidden pleasures of bodies and minds
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Coming together of mind, body and spirit
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Expanding pleasures and examining what may challenge pleasures
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Exploring the wisdom of connecting with nature and animals
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Working through, and playing in the darkness to help reveal pleasure that is already here
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Finding the fullest expression of self
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Knowing that ALL of you is welcome
My Commitments:
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Maintain clear professional/ethical boundaries
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Move at the speed of trust
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Work collaboratively with other care supporters when needed and wanted
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Bring my full self and my full presence to the work of illuminating pleasure
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Resource my own personal embodied experiences of darkness and lightness
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Continue on my own healing/wholing and pleasure journey
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Practice awareness and accountability to my privilege as a white settler, cis-gender female, English-speaking, appearingly able-bodied, and otherwise privileged self.
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Poly/ENM/kink-friendly
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Endeavor to make my practice and offerings open and supportive for 2SLGBTQIA+, BIPOC, disabled, low-income, and otherwise potentially disadvantaged folks.
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Show loving-kindness, compassion, and acceptance for all human beings
I Believe:
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All people deserve to feel safe (enough) in order for the possibility of pleasure to be illuminated
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Play, curiosity, and the exploration of yes, no and maybe are all welcome and encouraged
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People are not broken, though sometimes we all need a little support to find the light and pleasure within
Get in Touch
Ottawa, ON
The traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg people
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