Join Sam for conversations about everyday ecstasy - how to orient to pleasure and purpose and live a life worth savouring. This podcast explores the existential, the esoteric and the erotic, getting phenomenological about the phenomenal, offering practices and pro tips for swimming in this cosmic soup.
Season one is a series about altered states in somatic sex education - what are they, how do they come about and how can we work with them ethically and usefully?
Sam Beer and Barbara Carellas discuss the transformative power of somatic sex education. Barbara, author of "Urban Tantra" and "The Book of Ecstasy," shares her journey from healing circles during the AIDS crisis to developing ecstatic states through practices like the breath and energy orgasm and erotic massage. They explore the concept of ecstatic states, the importance of integration, and the role of curiosity and radical acceptance in teaching and practice. Barbara emphasizes the need for...
27 May 2026
Altered States with Rahi Chun
Rahi Chun discusses his journey in somatic sex education, focusing on genital dearmoring and altered states. He emphasizes the transformative power of sexuality in healing and expanding consciousness, likening it to psychedelic experiences. Rahi highlights the importance of creating safe spaces for clients to explore their bodies and emotions, using techniques like full-body and genital mapping. He also shares his personal experiences with altered states, including meditation and plant medici...
13 May 2026
Altered States with Joseph Kramer part 2
In a follow up conversation, Joseph and Sam shift focus to the phenomenological qualities of altered states in somatic sex education, discussing the distinction between educational states and upper echelon states. Joseph shares his 40-year experience with erotic massage, emphasizing the importance of preparation, attention, and safety. He describes a two-day class called "Celebrating the Body Erotic," which includes prolonged erotic massage and group activities. Joseph also highlights the ben...
8 May 2026
Altered States with Joseph Kramer part 1
Sam sits down to chat with Joseph Kramer, a pioneer in somatic sex education, to discuss his 40-year journey in body-based work, starting with massage therapy in the 1970s. Joseph developed and began teaching his approach to erotic massage during the AIDS crisis in San Francisco to provide a way of accessing pleasure and heightened erotic states without infection risk. This conversation traces how sexually, sensually and somatically induced altered states have shaped his life path and w...
20 Apr 2026
Altered States with Ellen Heed
Ellen Heed is a somatic sex educator and the creator of STREAM (Scar Treatment, Remediation, Education and management). In this episode, Sam and Ellen discuss the role of altered states in the integration of physiological and existential aspects in somatic sex education. Ellen emphasizes the importance of safety and presence in altered states, particularly when dealing with regression and emotional material. Ellen describes three layers of touch: basic nervous system regulation, deep provocat...
13 Apr 2026
Altered States with Caffyn Jesse
What a delectable conversation! Caffyn and Sam discuss the integration of ecstatic states in somatic sex education and their personal experiences with ecstatic states. Together they explore the rhythm of ecstasy and equilibrium as a way of understanding how to move from edge to integration, sharing moments of embodied noticing. Caffyn offers us relational mapping as a tool for understanding our own, and our clients support structures for coming back into the world community from univers...
31 Mar 2026
Altered States with Betty Martin
In this episode, Sam chats with Betty Martin, creator of the Wheel of Consent. Betty and Sam discussed Betty's work in somatic sex education, focusing on altered states. Betty shares her journey from peer counselling to sacred intimacy and how her own experience of altered states in Celebrating the Body Electric informed her path. Sam and Betty chat about focused sensory awareness as a non-ordinary state, with particular attention to the quality of surrender and absorption in the ...
22 Mar 2026
Altered States with Deej Juventin
Sam chats to Deej Juventin about altered states in somatic sex education. This conversation was forms part of a research project about altered states in somatic sex education. This discussion explores the concept of altered states in somatic sex education, emphasising the integration of neuroscience and somatic practices. Deej Juventin, a director at the Institute of Somatic Sexology, highlights the evolution of somatic work over 20 years, delving into the importance of presence, ...
12 Mar 2026
Altered States with Uma Furman
In the first episode Sam chats to Uma Furman about altered states in somatic sex education. This conversation forms part of a research project about altered states in somatic sex education. Uma, a renowned somatic sex educator, emphasises the importance of grounding and presence in sexual practices, contrasting the "right hand path" (slow, grounded methods) with the "left hand path" (fast, intense methods). They explore the benefits of pleasure saturation, a prolonged state of arousal, ...
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