Embodying Intimacy
T R U S T I N G S P O N T A N E I T Y
Inhabiting new ways of being
Radical Acceptance
We work privately while you grow your new roots and discover your gifts, ready to share them in new relationships. I facilitate the Wheel of Consent, Body Poem and a range of Somatic practices that empower your self-expression and confidence in intimate relational decision-making informed by all the different parts of you.
Every human being has gifts to share, and these are often grown from where we have suffered the most. When we are witnessed and acknowledged with radical acceptance, trusting spontaneity with our intimate self-expression gains confidence. This process involves integrating exiled aspects of ourselves and illuminating unthought-knowns through the practice of Body Poem™. I guide you step by step into inhabiting new ways of being, updating habitual adaptive versions of yourself that you may have been repeating.
With over 35 years of professional clinical practice informed by affective, relational neuroscience research, I have learned to trust these tried-and-tested practices.
I am an Art Psychotherapist, a facilitator of the Wheel of Consent™ and Right Use of Power™, and a Playback Theatre Practitioner. I teach UK and worldwide practitioner training in Somatic Intimacy Coaching & Bodywork, Sexological Bodywork and Body Poem™.
Online or In-person Retreats
“It’s a joy to be hidden but a disaster never to be found”
— Donald Winnicott
-
One, Two or Three-Day Retreats in UK
Arrive the evening before between 5 pm - 8 pm and we meet together for a check in together or arrive on the day of your retreat in the morning.
Days are 10am - 6.00 pm for Embodying intimacy practice. These times are flexible and extendable at the end of each day with no additional cost to make the optimum use of our time together if more time is needed.
2026 for UK Retreats in £. Dates available in July, August and September.
Three Day Retreat - £4,360
Two Day Retreat - £3,360
One Day Retreat - £1,960
After we have arranged our dates and location and I have received your payment, I go ahead and book our session space for your retreat. The cost of the retreat includes my professional Intimacy embodiment guidance and the session space and does not include your accommodation and meals out.
Locations in the UK vary and sometimes I may be able to travel and book a retreat space near your home or other times this will be in Devon. London or Bristol airports are within easy travel distance.
There are beautiful places to stay in Devon that I can recommend especially if you might wish to extend your time here and make this a holiday. Lunch on the days of your retreat is included but meals out are not included.
-
One, Two or Three Day Retreats in Portugal
Arrive the evening before between 5 pm - 8 pm, and we will meet together for a check-in, or arrive on the day of your retreat in the morning.
Days are 10am - 6.00 pm for Embodying intimacy practice. These times are flexible and extendable at the end of each day with no additional cost to make the optimum use of our time together if more time is needed.
2026 Portugal Retreats in €. Dates available in mid May or Early June.
Three Day Retreat - €4,360
Two Day Retreat - €3,360
One Day Retreat - €1,960
After we have arranged our dates and location and I have received your payment, I go ahead and book our session space for your retreat.
The cost of the retreat includes my professional Intimacy embodiment guidance and the session space and does not include your accommodation and meals out.
There are beautiful places to stay that I can recommend especially if you might wish to extend your time here and make this a holiday. Lunch on the days of your retreat is included but meals out are not included.
Location is between Lisbon and Porto. I can support you travel guidance landing initially in Lisbon airport or Porto Airport. Its an easy trip that I have done regularly.
-
Two or Three-Day Retreats in Kenya
You can arrive anytime before and leave anytime after to make this a holiday and we can arrange your session times in one block or spread out over two weeks.
Full days are 10am - 6.00 pm for Embodying intimacy practice and we can also do half days 10am - 1pm spread out during your stay. These times are flexible and extendable at the end of each day with no additional cost to make the optimum use of our time together if more time is needed.
2025 for Kenya in $. Dates available in December.
Three Day Retreat - USD $ 3,550
Two Day Retreat - USD $ 2,450
One Day Retreat - USD $ 1,350
2026 Dates available in March, November and December.
Three Day Retreat - USD $ 4,360
Two Day Retreat - USD $ 3,360
One Day Retreat - USD $ 1,960
After we have arranged our dates and I have received your payment, I go ahead and book your session space.
The cost of the retreat includes my professional Intimacy embodiment guidance and does not include your accommodation. There are beautiful places to stay that I can recommend especially if you might wish to extend your time here and make this a holiday. Lunch on the days of your retreat is included with a private chef but meals out are not included.
Location is along the coast near Malindi Airport. I can support you with the visa application and travel guidance landing initially in Nairobi airport or Mombassa Airport. Its an easy trip that I have done regularly.
… these sessions are designed to support you in trusting in your creative decisions and feeling the ground underneath you with your next steps
Trusting Spontaneity
It can take courage to inhabit our ‘personal power,’ which we can define as our creative self-expression in symbolically representing the many aspects of ourselves with authenticity. It takes even more courage to acknowledge where we may have made agreements that don’t represent the more vulnerable aspects of ourselves that may be hidden in shame. ‘The more you are you, the more of me I can be’ widens the bandwidth of acceptance that secures our belonging.
My aim with this intimacy training is to hold space with the most tender and exuberant aspects of being human. I have the capacity to hold the unspeakable parts of us with deep compassion and humour. My ultimate goal is to help you find the courage to venture under the masks and layers of who you are not, to liberate and release your vulnerable true essence. This is an invitation to discover ways of delivering our gifts like nuts and seeds, fruits and flowers, and all of nature's offers without shame. This might begin with a timid peek-a-boo or in exuberant shameless self-expression as we experiment and play with learning how safe it is ‘to be me’.
In this training and life! I welcome the emotional landscapes of all categorisations of identity ascribed to belonging with radical acceptance and understanding that our personal and role power is influenced by society's systemic power structures that secure or make our belonging insecure.
My mission is to contribute to healing separation by creating accessible step-by-step structures that support trusting to feel more and fear less. The more we tune in with ourselves with kindness and compassion, the more likely we are to be kind to the people and animals around us and less likely to suffer from being commodified and commodifying others without care.
As the founder of Body Poem™ and the Institute of Relational Harmony Studies, I am committed to contributing to ethical professional development. I choreograph and teach professionals the Certificate in Sexological Bodywork Practitioner, Sexological Intimacy Coaching, Somatic Sex Education, and Body Poem.
This work is a political movement of collective power to update the social reality maps of living that I see as a hologram of security that is simultaneously taking humanity out to sea when we are disabled from swimming in the emergence of living. Body Poem is pioneering in facilitating illuminating unthought-knowns and playing creatively with life's decisions, even the seemingly impossible ones like the need for secure reliability at the same time as the need for adventure, trying new ways of being with expansions of consciousness. These pole positions can play a harmony like two ends of a harp string when they don't tune out from each other.
I bring over 35 years of professional clinical practice and research and have honed my expertise in facilitating radical acceptance and integrating exiled aspects of the self. I focus on enhancing trusting spontaneity, empowering personal power, and play to ultimately bring us into service and contribute purposefully to the ecosystems of life.
I am a “Right use of Power” teacher trained with Cedar Barstow www.rightuseofpower.org and have learned the power of acknowledgement, understanding, remorse, repair and learning that can heal the harm and impact we have caused ourselves and others and where others have impacted us. Ultimate freedom can be understood as having repaired our relationships with others and with ourselves from when we found ourselves in separation. Remorse is sometimes the most complex ‘come clean’ to navigate, but we carry heavy burdens without braving this. I am an expert in facilitating this in structured ways that offer freedom with a lighter, warmer heart.
-
I’m seeing reality from an easier place and its been good to share all that I’ve been holding on to releasing into more space inside. I realise that I can have desire
Confidential Source
-
“When I started working with you I expected it to be painful and traumatic and was pleasantly surprised that it was so gentle and nurturing despite the depth of the emotional wounds that were being healed”
Adam
-
“Katie has facilitated my inner person to become my outer person. She has unlocked and liberated my mind and body.”
John
The Relational Harmony Institute
Katie Sarra is the founder of the Relational Harmony Institute, where she choreographs and teaches professional certification programs in Body Poem, Somatic Sex Educator, Somatic Intimacy Coaching & Bodywork, and Sexological Bodywork. She follows the Code of Ethics of the Association of Somatic and Integrative Sexologists (ASIS) and the Association of Certified Sexological Bodyworkers (ACSB).
As your receptivity to feel more increases and you find words that come close to describing what matters to you, and you learn to stop overriding these communications, your decision-making can have the benefits of hindsight in each moment.
Body Poem
Videos from live sessions.
Body Poem™ offers a way of illuminating unthought-knowns and trusting in self-organising intelligence when we practise radical acceptance.
Your Body Poem might be the beginning of a session with your arrival, or completing a session with where you have been. Here are two live recorded examples that have been made into short films, helping us not to forget the wisdom that speaks when we listen in this way.
I am with you every step of the way on the journey with the internal dialogue that is limiting your expansion supporting these parts of you to feel safe enough for these protection strategies to relax.
Through this process, you may find yourself expressing parts of yourself that might have been held in limbo. You will discover how to trust your spontaneity in welcoming into your life what nurtures, excites, and relaxes you into your naturalness.