Sexual and Emotional Intimacy Skills

Name: Sexual and Emotional Intimacy Skills
Start: 2026-01-28T02:00:00.000Z
End: 2026-01-28T04:00:00.000Z
Location: Zoom

Zoom
Wednesday, Jan 28th
2 AM - 4 AM
Organized by TurnON.love

Have you ever felt like the depths of intimacy you’re longing for are just out of reach?

There are many reasons it can be hard to create a pleasure-filled sex life and emotionally secure relationships. We all receive messages about who we are supposed to be, how we ought to feel, and how we should express ourselves that is often enforced through shame, silence, and disconnection.

For anyone who finds intimacy challenging or wants to expand their mastery, the Sexual and Emotional Intimacy Skills Mastercourse, taught by Dr. Alison Ash of TurnON.love offers practical tools and evidence-based techniques to connect more deeply and experience pleasure and desire more fully.

Whether you’re exploring new connections or deepening a relationship, this course provides a supportive, shame-free environment that will transform your capacity for nourishing sex and thriving relationships.

This course features 8 live virtual classes designed to support you in creating, deepening, and sustaining sexual and emotional intimacy in your relationship(s).

All classes:

weave together science-based data, embodied exploration, and skills development
combine lecture with optional breakout room discussions and experiential exercises
offer supplemental materials including handouts, readings, and videos
include extra time for Q&A after
are recorded for those who can’t attend live or want additional review

Class meets on Tuesday evenings from January 27th - March 17th.

Individuals, couples, and groups are invited to participate. Course content applicable to both monogamous and non-monogamous dynamics.

EARLY BIRD TICKETS ON SALE THRU DEC 15th - SAVE $100-$200!

Curriculum:

Class 1: The Nuances of Consent and Boundaries (Jan 27, 2026)

Examine what it means to be sexually empowered. Explore how to seek and give ongoing consent. Change how you relate to saying and hearing no and ease fears around rejection. Discover ways to find shared yeses. Explore the importance of boundaries and how to assert them. Practice having meta consent conversations.

Class 2: Embodiment and Nervous System Care (Feb 3, 2026)

Explore how embodiment is essential for healthy intimacy, and get practices for increasing your capacity to be embodied. Discover resources for noticing sensations and emotions in the body and how they relate. Learn to track your triggers and ways to soothe your nervous system with self-care and co-regulating activities.

Class 3: Skills for Emotional Depth and Safety (Feb 10, 2026)

Examine your relationship to having needs and learn how to make requests to have your needs met. Explore ways to create more vulnerability with others and improve your capacity to be empathetic. Learn how to give and receive heartfelt affirmations for deepening intimacy. Discover how to have safer heart conversations.

Class 4: Flirting, Seduction, and Expressing Desire (Feb 17, 2026)

Learn techniques for verbal and nonverbal flirting. Explore how to avoid being “creepy,” ways to create safety, and how to recover from failed flirting attempts. Learn to read body language and discover ways to escalate and de-escalate while staying in connection. Practice having safer sex conversations.

Class 5: Skills for Maximizing Pleasure (Feb 24, 2026)

Class 6: Erotica, Fantasies, and Unpacking Shame (Mar 3, 2026)

Get tips for how to get out of your head and into your body. Discover how to let yourself receive, and how to reveal enjoyment without performing. Learn how to stop enduring and redirect touch that doesn’t feel quite right. Explore how to experience pleasure from giving and how to create positive feedback loops. Discover how to keep the spark alive in long-term relationships.

Class 7: Conflict and Repairing Ruptures (Mar 10, 2026)

Learn when and how to repair relationships when miscommunications happen, boundaries get crossed, and conflict occurs. Explore common repair pitfalls and how to avoid them. Receive a template for effective repair conversations. Practice repairing ruptures in ways that can build trust and deepen intimacy.

Class 8: Picking Partners and Ending Relationships (Mar 17, 2026)

Examine what you’re looking for in a partner (for hookups, relationships, and even work collaborations) and develop a filter so you can feel more confident about your choices. Explore how to know when to end a relationship and discover healthy ways to approach it. Learn ways for coping with break ups and processing grief.

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Reviews:

"This class changed my life, I am such a different person than I was 2 months ago! I now own my sexual desires, have found an amazing sexual partner, and am exploring new forms of pleasure. I have started to cultivate healthier relationships with my family, friends, and partner!” – S.S.

“It can often be very challenging for POC to feel safe in such vulnerable environments, but I can't emphasize enough how incredibly informed and compassionate Dr. Aly is, and how safe I felt in the space she clearly worked very hard to curate. I would recommend this class a thousand times over to anyone.” – J.G.

“The digital zoom format works really well for this topic, perhaps is even better than in-person, as you feel safe to engage as much or as little as you want in any activity. Hearing other viewpoints from a very diverse group of participants helped universalize our own experiences during interactive portions. We can't speak highly enough of this course!" - M.H. and B.H.

“I have found myself using many of the tools I learned not only with my partner, but also with friends, family members, and even colleagues at work. The discussion groups allowed me to practice new skills and helped me feel a lot less alone. I frequently find myself referring to the course handouts when I am experiencing something challenging in my life.” - D.A.

"Dr Aly is able to dive deeply into each topic, answering questions and adding rich details. I have not only seen my relationships and communication skills improve, I’ve seen myself understanding improve. This was very much worth my time.”- S.L.

"We found ourselves in these deep conversations we'd previously avoided--and equipped with tools for compassionately navigating them. Dr. Aly encouraged us to verbalize our desires, and when we started communicating these more, we found our time in the bedroom to be sexier.” B.H. and M.H.

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Instructor Bio:

Dr. Alison Ash, aka Dr. Aly, is a trauma-informed intimacy coach and educator, Stanford University Lecturer, author, and founder of TurnON.love. As a sociologist with a PhD from Stanford, she has a comprehensive understanding of the complex societal challenges that often lead to unsatisfying and disempowering intimate experiences. She also draws on her extensive training in the Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy, Innate Somatic Intelligence Trauma Therapy Approach, and Somatica Method of sex and intimacy coaching to support her clients to radically explore and courageously express themselves. Dr. Aly designs workshops, courses, and retreats and offers individuals and couples coaching to give others the tools to be able to cultivate and sustain nourishing emotional and sexual intimacy. Dr. Aly invites you to TurnON pleasure, intimacy and love at www.TurnON.love

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Additional details:

Early Bird Tickets available through December 15th, 2024. Regular tickets are available thereafter.

Each participant must have their own ticket. Any two people can purchase a "Ticket for 2" so feel free to invite a friend, lover, or partner to join you for additional savings!

Experiencing financial difficulties? Apply for a sliding scale ticket or send an email to coordinator@turnon.love to create a payment plan.

Tickets are not refundable but may be transferred to another individual.

Folks of all genders, sexual orientations, relationship structures, ages, body types, abilities, races, and ethnicities are welcome.

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Upcoming Workshops

Sleaze-Free Seduction Skills (also available as an on-demand rental)

January 13th, Oakland

Has flirting always felt awkward and anxiety-provoking? Tired of letting opportunities pass you by because you’re afraid to make a move? Whether you want to learn how to create new romantic connections or improve your ability to seduce your current lover(s), this workshop will help you figure out how get freaky without being creepy! Gain verbal and non-verbal skills for flirting and seduction and feel more confident initiating. Discover how to effectively escalate flirting and how to read body language to know if they’re receptive to your advances. Learn how to recover from failed flirting attempts and how to recalibrate so you can stay in connection.

Ask the Sexpert: A Free Event

January 20th on Zoom

Your questions, my support, no judgment, no cost. Topics may include body shame and insecurities, consent and boundaries, nervous system regulation, creating emotional safety, flirting and seduction, confidence with dating and how to find people to date, maintaining the spark in long term relationships, maximizing pleasure, exploring and sharing fantasies, unpacking shame, repairing conflict, dealing with rejection and breakups, navigating ENM dynamics, anorgasmia, challenges with ED, earning secure attachment, creating novelty, exploring kink and BDSM, and more.

How to Eat Pussy like a Champ (also available as an on-demand rental)

January 25th in Oakland

Discover the 5 central tenets to champ-quality pussy eating and receiving. You’ll learn about nerve pathways and the different kinds of orgasms possible, plus science-based techniques for exploring them. Gain tools to get out of your head, overcome awkwardness, explore preferences, give and elicit feedback, and maximize pleasure from giving and receiving. Explore a wide range of ways to mix it up, including different hand and oral techniques, positions, and toys. Participants will receive a Guide to My Pussy instruction manual to share with lover(s). Plus, there's a thorough live demo so you can see all the skills put into action. Both individuals and couples are welcome!

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