Hello and welcome. My name is Drew, and I work as a somatic coach, facilitator & ecologist.
My practice is drawn from lineages including Yoga, Tantra, Breathwork, Holistic Massage, Authentic Relating, Sexological Bodywork, De-Armouring and trauma informed coaching methodologies.
I am known for my compassionate presence, loving acceptance, and for bringing a clear, boundaried, elegant, and effective approach to the client relationship. I distill over three decades of training into a coaching style rich with loving presence, playful curiosity & potent practices, empowering clients to dissolve unwanted patterns and cultivate deep intimacy with themselves, partners, community and life.
The core themes that show up in my coaching practice include life-purpose, living authentically, intimacy & connection, inner-child healing, erotic polarity, shadow-work, sex and porn addiction, intimate relationships & spiritual connection. I work with people of all gender expressions and sexual orientations, and find myself mostly working with men, women & couples who are predominantly cis-gendered and heterosexual / flexible.
Alongside coaching presence and life purpose, I have a passion for supporting men to change destructive patterns around sex, love, porn and intimacy, and to awaken, explore and reclaim the pleasure centres in their own bodies, including activating the prostate portal. I coach this via Breathwork, movement, somatic witnessing, journalling and self-pleasure practices. I have been involved in facilitating men’s work, circles and trainings for over 15 years.
My work in sexuality, and particularly with compulsion and addiction, emerges from my own life experience. I was born into a hyper-sexual, alcoholic family and spent much much of my life trying to understand, heal and integrate some very challenging childhood experiences, and ultimately learn to forgive myself and others for those experiences. I am by no means a perfectly healed human, but I have come a long way, and what wisdom I have cultivated I humbly offer to others so we may experience greater freedom, deeper purpose and intimate communion.
I also work with the African botanical medicines of Kanna and Iboga, both of which have an emerging body of research demonstrating their effectiveness treating addiction, depression, and anxiety, and cultivating a greater sense of love, connection, freedom, self awareness and connection to source.
Finally, I am involved with the setting up of a Solar Punk inspired DAO Wellbeing Community called AloolA. It’s purpose is to receive energy (in the form of money) from the well-being and conscious sexuality communities and alchemise this eros energy into ecological projects via re-wilding and conservation initiatives.
My purpose is to lovingly encourage all beings into a more intimate presence with life, to co-cultivate experiences of trans-personal surrender, and to dive deeply together into the profound web of connection between self, other, planet and mystery.
I am a lifelong ecologist with a particular love of the worlds’ underwater places, and I believe deeply in the intimate relationship between personal and planetary well-being.
Thank you for reading. Please feel free to explore my offerings across this website and via my socials, and please do sign up to my newsletter below.
With love, in service, Drew.
TEACHERS
JOSEPH KRAMER / DEEJ JUVENTIN / UMA FURMAN
Sexological Bodywork
I studied the Certificate in Sexological Bodywork in 2014 with pioneering somatic sex teacher Joseph Kramer, assisted by his senior teachers, and amazing somatic practitioners in their own right, Deej and Uma.
Sexological Bodyworkers are somatic sex educators, supporting individuals, couples and groups to learn to direct their own erotic development, learn about their bodies, sex and sexuality, or work through sexual issues or concerns. Our teaching involves a variety of instructive modalities, including breathwork, touch, erotic massage, pelvic release work, scar tissue remediation, and Orgasmic Yoga coaching. One of the somatic realms that Sexological Bodyworkers introduce to our students is a state of arousal that is free of fantasy, unfinished emotional business, religious dogma, cultural caveats and habitual sexual behaviors. In this meditative state, an individual becomes aware of the body as a source of wisdom and freedom. Sexological Bodyworkers believe that sexual health and erotic education are basic human rights.
OCTAVIO SALVADO
After first practicing with Octavio in 2012 when on a three month sabbatical in Bali, I spent a further two years studying with him and his excellent co-teachers at ‘The Practice’ in Canggu, Bali in 2016 & 2017. I completed the 200 hour teacher training certificate in 2017 and have been teaching & practicing this powerful Tantric Hatha Yoga ever since. It is a potent form, weaving together asana, pranayama and meditation seamlessly into an authentic modern expression of the alchemical yoga practices mostly unfamiliar in western yoga studios.
JASON DIGGES & RYEL KELSTANO
The Authentic Relating Training (ART) is a series of workshops offering cutting edge tools for deepening connection and human intimacy, gleaned from western and eastern lineages.
The social technology and tools presented in ART have been cultivated and tested for over 15 years and are on the cutting edge of relational empowerment. This is relational and emotional training that can instantly transform your ability to connect with others and recognize opportunities in the midst of conflict.
This training breaks down all the core skills needed and provides the ability to practice them in real time. The cutting edge ART trainings are designed to instill in you the skills that can be used in your life to transform yourselves and your relationships right away. The same Level 1 training has been offered in schools, corporations, spiritual practice groups, prisons and to the general public, all with deep and profound results.
MICHAELA BOEHM & STEVE JAMES
I have been studying with Michaela since 2012, and with her teaching partner Steve since 2015. The tapestry of their combined lineages weaves together Kashmir shaivism, tantra, martial arts, trauma therapy, Christian mysticism, Vajrayana Buddhism and more. Michaela and Steve are absolute leaders in their field and represent, in my opinion the very best of embodiment practices available today. As well as attending many of their workshops over the last 8 years, I have been on their ‘Apprentice Parth’ study track to facilitate the ‘Non Linear Movement Method’ and the ‘Intimacy & Attraction Workshop’, which I’ll be offering in 2019 in London & Europe. Their clients include many well known actors, business leaders and politicians including Will Smith and Gwyneth Paltrow.
OTHER TEACHERS & INFLUENCES
Bodywork & somatic awareness
David Cates: https://www.belly2belly.org/
Marcela Widrig:
https://fierceembodiment.com/
Tantra
Uma Inder:
http://www.umainder.com/
Neo-Tantra
David Deida: https://deida.info/
Alex Vartman: https://www.thenewtantra.com/
John Hawken:
http://www.thepathsoftransformation.com
Freediving
Sara Campbell, Dahab, Egypt: http://www.discoveryourdepths.com/
Apneista, Bali, Indonesia: http://apneista.com/
Apnea Total, Koh Tao, Thailand:
http://www.apneatotal.com/
Meditation
Reggie Ray: https://www.dharmaocean.org/
Alexander Filmer-Lorch:
https://www.afilmerlorch.co.uk/about-me
Men’s work / Rites of Passage
The Mankind Project: https://mankindproject.org/
A Band of Brothers: http://abandofbrothers.org.uk/
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