Making Love: A Podcast with Sarah Rose Bright

About Making Love: A Podcast with Sarah Rose Bright

Making Love: A Podcast with Sarah Rose Bright is a podcast exploring the evolution of love, sex, relationships, and life - and the future we are co-creating. Through intimate and soulful conversations, I speak with love revolutionaries and pioneering voices - from grassroots visionaries to global leaders - who are reimagining how we connect, how we love, and how we live. Music: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here - https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/.

Publisher

Sarah Rose Bright

Category

health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Mar 2022

Latest episode

14 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

70 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Sept 2026

   Penetration with Presence with Graeme Waterfield

   In this episode, Graeme and I talk about penetration, specifically penis-vagina penetration with all its cultural and personal histories. When we think of improving penetration, we think of trying new positions. We never consider other ways to explore. We go deep into what becomes possible when we bring real, embodied presence to penetration instead of rushing towards a goal. In this episode we explore: How most of us learned penetration as a mechanical act, not an intimate oneWhy letting go of the script and be uncomfortable and how to navigate those moments Checking in before penetration, and why this simple practice can be so healing How childhood wounding and old conditioning can show up in intimacy and how we've learned to navigate that together The Taoist concept of "the way" - learning to listen and move with what's actually happening, rather than following a script How to practice presence in the everyday Conscious penetration as a healing pathway through peri / menopause Why arousal doesn't have to come first and how willingness and openness can be a doorway into intimacy The Making Love scissors position How to play with subtlety How penetration can be a practice Why women not orgasming through penetration says more about the style of sex we've learned than anything being ‘wrong’ with them Passion as fire and how it becomes a life-giving force Checkout two other podcast episodes mentioned in this one: Episode 61 on sex and menopause Episode 68 on the pleasure of planned intimacy If this piques your curiosity, join us for our Making Love Retreat for couples in Devon in October - a full week dedicated to exactly what we talk about in this episode, through embodiment practices, teaching, and practice time. There is space left for two couples. You can find out more here: https://sarahrosebright.com/making-love-retreats/ (https://sarahrosebright.com/making-love-retreats/) Graeme Waterfield is a men’s coach who guides men into deeper presence, embodiment, and self-awareness. His sexual energy mastery training, blends meditation, Taoist principles, and nervous system awareness to transform sexual energy into love, vitality, and consciousness. Moving away from performance and intensity, his work emphasises relaxation, heart connection, and integrating sexuality into everyday life, helping men deepen intimacy, authenticity, and inner ease. Graeme and Sarah teach The Making Love Retreat®. Together they guide couples into deeper dimensions of intimacy, lovemaking, and conscious connection. RESOURCES FROM GRAEME To explore Graeme's work in meditation, embodiment and sexual energy mastery for men, including courses, coaching, retreats and teachings, visit: (https://www.graemewaterfield.com/)https://www.graemewaterfield.com (https://www.graemewaterfield.com/) Graeme’s Sexual Energy Mastery Training for men (https://www.graemewaterfield.com/slscourse) - a training for men exploring meditation, embodied awareness and the deeper potential of sexual energy as a pathway into embodiment. This course starts April 14th, 2026 (though you can join up to April 21st). You can also find Graeme on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/graeme.waterfield). RESOURCES FROM SARAH The Making Love Retreat for Couples (https://sarahrosebright.com/making-love-retreats/), 12th - 18th October, 2026 For free gifts for women and couples and to explore Sarah's work - including private coaching, group programmes, courses, retreats and her podcast - visit www.sarahrosebright.com (http://www.sarahrosebright.com) ABOUT YOUR HOST Sarah Rose Bright is an Erotic Embodiment and Intimacy Guide, authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreat®, and host of Making Love, a podcast on the evolution of love, sex, and relationships. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives - and know this is the missing piece. Women come home to their bodies, awaken their desire, and reclaim their power. Couples create an erotic life of depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/ (https://sarahrosebright.com/) MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here - https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/ (https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/)

2. 

   10 Aug 2026

   Untamed Pleasure with Carly Mountain

   Carly Mountain, psychotherapist, sex therapist, and author of Descent & Rising, joined Sarah to talk about her new book, Untamed Pleasure: Unleash Your True Erotic Nature. She shares that we weren't born tamed - we get trained into cages, that keep us from our own erotic nature. Carly's book offers twelve keys to find our way back out. In this conversation, Carly joins Sarah to explore what it really means to untame, they talk about the twelve keys and cages framework at the heart of her new book, what emerged from interviewing over sixty people aged 23 to 71 about their erotic lives, why creative transgression was the hardest chapter to write, and what midlife opens for women reclaiming Eros. Carly shares the "pleasure paradox," rewilding orgasm and what it looks like for couples to untame together, including taking penetration off the table as a gateway to deeper intimacy. What you’ll hear: Defining "untamed pleasure" - why not "wild," and the difference between returning to something innate versus learning something new The twelve keys and cages framework: physical, mental, emotional, energetic, relational, soulful Communication as a "skeleton key" for every cage What over 60 interviews (ages 23–71) revealed What untaming brings up: grief, fear of family rejection and more Midlife as a threshold for reclaiming Eros The chapter she found hardest to write, and why Why midlife is such a specific threshold for reclaiming Eros The "pleasure paradox" — why the road to pleasure isn't always pleasurable Rewilding orgasm beyond quick and genital-only What it looks like for a couple to untame together If you've ever felt like there's more available to you, more pleasure, more aliveness, more permission - this conversation is for you. Carly Mountain is a somatic psychotherapist, sex therapist, sacred space holder, breathworker and author of Descent & Rising: Women’s Stories & the Embodiment of the Inanna Myth and Untamed Pleasure: Unleash Your True Erotic Nature. She is passionate about facilitating people to reconnect with their inherent erotic aliveness, power and pleasure. She lives in Sheffield, England with her husband and two daughters. RESOURCES FROM CARLY https://carlymountain.com/ (https://carlymountain.com/) Instagram https://www.instagram.com/carly_mountain Facebook Carly Mountain (https://www.facebook.com/p/Carly-Mountain-100063485346635/?locale=en_GB) Substack https://substack.com/@carlymountain (https://substack.com/@carlymountain) RESOURCES FROM SARAH The Making Love Retreat for Couples (https://sarahrosebright.com/making-love-retreats/), 12th - 18th October, 2026 Visit www.sarahrosebright.com (http://www.sarahrosebright.com) ABOUT YOUR HOST Sarah Rose Bright is an Erotic Embodiment and Intimacy Guide, authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreat®, and host of Making Love, a podcast on the evolution of love, sex, and relationships. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives - and know this is the missing piece. Women come home to their bodies, awaken their desire, and reclaim their power. Couples create an erotic life of depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/ (https://sarahrosebright.com/) MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here - https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/ (https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/)

3. 

   27 Jul 2026

   Awakenings in Health and Heart for Women Who Love Men with Dr Stephania Sciamano

   Dr. Stephania Sciamano spent a decade practicing as a naturopathic doctor before realising that lab results alone couldn't explain why so many of her female patients weren't getting better. Underneath the hormone imbalances, she kept finding the same pattern: stuck anger, old grief, and a guarded, combative relationship to men in general — not just romantically, but with fathers, brothers, bosses, and colleagues. In this conversation, Stephania and Sarah unpack what femininity really is (hint: it's not lipstick), why a woman's cortisol rhythm can reveal exactly how safe she feels around men, and how softening that guard changes both a woman's biology and her relationships. They talk candidly about control, letting a partner love you in his own way and his own timing, why women so often have to "go first" energetically, and what's really happening beneath the surface during perimenopause and menopause. The episode closes with a short guided heart-opening practice. What We Cover - Stephania's path from 10 years in family and women's medicine, through a five-year shamanic apprenticeship, to focusing on the relational root of hormonal imbalance - Why treating hormones numerically often doesn't make a woman feel better — and what she found underneath the numbers instead - The direct link between a woman's stance toward men and her cortisol rhythm, including the classic signs of a disrupted rhythm (can't get up in the morning, second wind at night) - Defining femininity as an embodied intelligence — intuition, sensing, cyclical rather than linear energy — versus femininity as costume - The Chinese medicine frame of yin and yang as it relates to feminine and masculine energy - The difference between "nice" as a performance and real softness with a clear boundary underneath it - How a woman's presence — not her words — is what actually sets a boundary - What changes in men when women soften: standing taller, wanting to protect and provide, feeling inspired to build - A real client story: a successful business owner whose husband felt unwanted, and the humbling realisation of how much he'd already been trying to give - Why women often can't receive help, and what shifts when they can - Linking emotional openness directly back to cortisol and progesterone - What men experience when women lead with warmth instead of combat — and why "watching him chop firewood" hits differently than "watching him lift weights" - Practical starting points: noticing what spikes your adrenaline about men, and noticing the old grudge (dad, an ex, a boss) that's still running the show - Why women often have to go first energetically in a relationship — and why that isn't the same as doing all the work - The pitfall of expecting a partner's personal growth to look identical to your own, or to move at your speed - What's really happening in perimenopause and menopause beneath the physical symptoms: energy moving from "up and out" to "down and in," a return to lineage and roots, and why it can look like a midlife crisis when it's closer to a soul evolution - A guided heart practice: bringing scattered energy back into the body, expanding the heart in all directions, filling it with love, and sending that love out into the world - Stephania's definition of love: the presence of choice Dr. Stephania Sciamano (Dr S) is a naturopathic doctor and spiritual mentor to ambitious women worldwide who seek the feminine way to health, wealth, and love with men. She brings a rare synthesis of clinical experience and esoteric depth to her work, and her lifestyle is devoted to the union of men and women, with God at the helm. RESOURCES FROM DR STEPHANIA Dr Stephania Sciamano's free masterclass, *The Sexy Hormone Morning Routine*, available when you sign up to her Substack — https://drstephaniasciamano.substack.com/ (https://drstephaniasciamano.substack.com/) https://stephaniasciamano.com/ (https://stephaniasciamano.com/) https://www.facebook.com/stephaniasciamano (https://www.facebook.com/stephaniasciamano) RESOURCES FROM SARAH The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th - 18th October, 2026 https://sarahrosebright.com/making-love-retreats/ (https://sarahrosebright.com/making-love-retreats/) For a free e-book, How Relaxed Love Making Can Transform Your Sex Life and to explore Sarah's work - including private coaching, group programmes, courses, retreats and her podcast - visit www.sarahrosebright.com (http://www.sarahrosebright.com) ABOUT YOUR HOST Sarah Rose Bright is an Erotic Embodiment and Intimacy Guide, authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreat®, and host of Making Love, a podcast on the evolution of love, sex, and relationships. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives - and know this is the missing piece. Women come home to their bodies, awaken their desire, and reclaim their power. Couples create an erotic life of depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/ (https://sarahrosebright.com/) MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here - https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/ (https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/)

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