Sydney Price - Press Here! Sensual Massage for Beginners

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FOR BEGINNERS

YOUR GUIDE TO PLEASURE AND INTIMACY

SYDNEY PRICE

Illustrations by
Emily Portnoi

I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE HERE. CHOOSING TO LEARN ABOUT SENSUAL MASSAGE TAKES COURAGE, BUT IT'S WORTH IT. I WOULD KNOW; IT TOOK TIME FOR ME TO GATHER ENOUGH TO CHOOSE THIS PATH AS PART OF MY MASSAGE PROFESSION. I'M HAPPY I DID! IN MY TWENTIES, I HIT A WALL IN BOTH MY PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LIVES. I REALIZED, WITH GRIEF AND CONFUSION, THAT I LIVED INSIDE AN INCREASINGLY NUMB BODY AND MY INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS CONSISTENTLY LEFT ME DISSATISFIED. I BEGAN TO LEARN THAT MANY OF MY MASSAGE CLIENTS FELT THE SAME, BUT I HAD NO IDEA HOW TO HELP THEM WHEN I BARELY KNEW HOW TO HELP MYSELF. I SEARCHED FOR AND TRIED ANYTHING THAT MIGHT HELP ME FEEL AGAIN; MY BODY, MY PASSION, MY BOUNDARIES, MY SELF. LUCKILY, I STUMBLED UPON THE WORLD OF SENSUAL PRACTICE, INCLUDING SEXOLOGICAL BODYWORK AND SENSUAL MASSAGE.

I AM TRULY GRATEFUL. LEARNING TO GIVE AND RECEIVE PHYSICAL PLEASURE THROUGH TOUCH HAS OPENED MY HEART AND MIND IN UNEXPECTED WAYS. I KNOW AND TRUST MY BODY MORE, I COMMUNICATE WITH PARTNERS BETTER, AND I RECOGNIZE

HOW ESSENTIAL SENSUALITY IS TO MY OVERALL HEALTH. I TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DESIRES THAT I CONSCIOUSLY EXPLORE, AND I UNDERSTAND BOUNDARIES, MY OWN AND THOSE OF OTHERS, WITH REFRESHING CLARITY. I DECIDED TO BECOME A CERTIFIED SEXOLOGICAL BODYWORKER, AND HELPING OTHERS EXPERIENCE THE MANY BENEFITS OF SENSUAL MASSAGE BRINGS ME JOY IN EVERY SESSION.

I BECAME A PROFESSIONAL, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO! SENSUAL MASSAGE IS EASY AND FUN TO LEARN. THIS BOOK WILL GIVE YOU THE TOOLS YOU NEED TO CREATE A PLEASURABLE EXPERIENCE, WHETHER YOU'RE SOLO OR PARTNERED. AFTER LEARNING THE FOUNDATIONS OF EMBODIED CONSENT, TUNING INTO PLEASURE, LOOKING AT SENSUAL ANATOMY, BUILDING YOUR SENSUAL TOOLBOX, AND FOLLOWING THE STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE, YOU'LL BE PRACTICING IN NO TIME!

GO FORWARD WITH AN OPEN MIND, STAY CURIOUS, AND YOU'LL FIND A WHOLE NEW WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES WAITING FOR YOU.

Sydney Price

Learning about sensual massage is, at its heart, learning how to touch. In both giving and receiving touch, what is really happening to our bodies, hearts, and minds?

How do we bring compassion and playfulness to the ways we touch one another? How do we track our sensations and see them as markers on the path to a greater understanding of ourselves and others? How do we do this with presence?

These are the kinds of questions that I believe sensual massage begins to answer, through all of our senses, but our sense of touch in particular. Our skin is our largest organ of perception and it is our clearest, most tangible boundary. Touch your own, and you feel an unmistakable, essential part of yourself. Touch anothers, and you have access to a part of their unmistakable and essential self. Exchanging sensual touch can teach us how to take better care of one another. We can create a space where it is safe to explore our senses, desires, and boundaries, and to see where our explorations take us. Where else in our lives does such a space exist? We have the key right at our fingertips.

Reconnecting

Sensation is the language of the present moment. We live inside bodies that are designed to experience it in myriad ways. Our five senses are pathways that we can explore at length and incorporate into a sensual massage to deepen and enhance it. I include sexual anatomy in this perspective and write about it extensively in this book. Sadly, it is possible to live out our lives without ever accessing the potential pleasure of our sexual anatomy due to a lack of meaningful education and cultural taboos. Sensual massage can reconnect us to the lost parts of our bodies, remembering us to ourselves in profoundly beneficial ways.

Personal discovery

Learning to touch with curiosity, integrity, playfulness, and compassion can lead to surprising revelations, for yourself and for a partner. You may already be a step ahead of most people in knowing that the whole body, from your head to your toes, has the potential for pleasure. Ive met people who can orgasm just from stimulating their ears or hands, or who regularly have orgasmic dreams! The possibilities are endless. If we approach a sensual massage practice as an opportunity to expand our access to sensations, including bliss and pleasure, we can cultivate a range of experiences, from the grounding to the elating and everything in between.

I hope this book serves as a blueprint for your own unique and special adventures. I hope that you discover things about yourself and your partners that surprise and delight you. Above all, I hope you find out for yourself what it means to touch and be touched.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The first two chapters use games and exercises to discover, communicate, and negotiate boundaries around touch, and ways to explore desires and practice sharing them.

you will learn how sights, sounds, scents, and touch come together to enhance your sensual massage experience.

The fifth chapter puts together the tools of the first four chapters and guides you through a complete, partnered massage sequence, including suggestions for how to open and close the practice and the importance of sharing after the session, while considers the benefits of self-massage and ways to explore your self-pleasure experiences.

There are many benefits to sensual massage, and I hope you try it as often as you can! However, there are a few instances in which it would be wise to abstain or make some changes in order to practice safely.