The Sensuality Wound

FREE 2 PART
WORKSHOP SERIES

Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th of June,

11:00-13:00 EST/16:00-18:00 CEST

Join Maanee Christelyn, founder of The Somatic Institute for Women for a 2 day journey back into your body, exactly as it is, right now.

From a young age, many women learnt to see themselves through someone else’s eyes. Instead of living inside the body, we monitor it: how it looks, how it’s judged, how it might be consumed.

And woven through all of this is the quiet programming that sensuality belongs to other women

the younger women,
the thinner women,
the desirable women,
the women whose bodies fit the cultural script of femininity.

Sensuality is the capacity to feel, to be present in your skin, alive to texture and temperature, awake to your own breath. And it belongs to ALL women :

aging women
large women
disabled women
tired women
grieving women
unconventional women
women outside beauty standards

Women at any stage of their life.

This capacity was yours before anyone told you what your body should look like. It's yours still.

Sensuality is your birthright

Reclamation of your Sensuous self begins with letting go of
“Am I beautiful enough to be sensual?”

and start asking:
“Can I allow myself to feel again?"

WORKSHOP 1
Saturday June 27
11:00-13:00 EST
16:00-18:00 CEST

The Sexualization of Sensuality,
The Beauty Myth &
The Performative Feminine

In this opening session, we will explore how many women learned to experience themselves through the gaze, expectations, and conditioning of the outside world. Together we will unpack the difference between sensuality as an authentic embodied experience versus sensuality as performance, desirability, or social currency.

We will examine how beauty standards and “the beauty myth” have shaped women’s self-worth, body image, aging, visibility, and value, while also exploring the nervous system patterns of self-monitoring, comparison, perfectionism, and validation-seeking.

WORKSHOP 2
Sunday June 28
11:00-13:00 EST
16:00-18:00 CEST

Return To The Sensuous Self

A Sensual Dance Journey

In this session, we will explore what it means to return to the body beyond performance, conditioning, and external validation.

Together we will reconnect with sensuality as a lived, embodied experience through a somatic sensual dance journey.

You will walk away with the felt knowing that sensuality is accessible to you all the time and is not something to achieve, perform, or prove, but something felt from within.

Your guide

Maanee Christelyn is a global leader in feminine somatics. Her work is deeply body-led, emotionally honest, and rooted in real human complexity. Founder of the Somatic Institute for women, a somatic psychotherapist, erotic educator and shadow work teacher, Maanee is known for creating spaces that are both psychologically safe and radically truthful.

With over 150,000 students world wide, Maanee invites women to explore the parts of themselves often rejected or hidden - Blending somatics, depth psychology , feminine embodiment, dance, shadow work, and nervous system education, her teachings move beyond intellectual insight and into lived, embodied transformation.

Her work speaks to women seeking something more honest, confronting, liberating, and deeply alive than surface-level empowerment or performative femininity.

Your guide

With over 150,000 students world wide, Maanee invites women to explore the parts of themselves often rejected or hidden - Blending somatics, depth psychology , feminine embodiment, dance, shadow work, and nervous system education, her teachings move beyond intellectual insight and into lived, embodied transformation.

Her work speaks to women seeking something more honest, confronting, liberating, and deeply alive than surface-level empowerment or performative femininity.