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I'm a sex coach for individuals and couples in Portland Oregon and online.

I am Emerald (she/her), an international certified breathwork & intimacy coach, and Sexological Bodyworker, driven by a deep commitment to empowerment, self-discovery, and transformation.

I value the power of embracing vulnerability, accepting oneself, and finding the courage to live authentically.

 

On this page you will discover more about my mission, vision, values, story and education.

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My Mission.

My mission is to guide individuals and parents to live a more authentic, connected and pleasure filled life.

 

Through embodiment practices, coaching,

hands-on bodywork, and breathwork. 

My Vision.

Rooted Pleasure's Vision is to empower global villages of self-aware adults to support themselves, and raise the next generation to live in embodied, authentic truth.

 

Where pleasure is celebrated, with compassion, with responsibility for themselves, and in connection and care for others and the earth.

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Woman meditating in the forest. Rooted Pleasure Sex Coach.

My Values.

Some core values of my work include;

  1. Embodied consent & boundaries first.

  2. Self-compassion - honor your journey and meet yourself where you are at.

  3. Self-acceptance - love yourself more, expand safely in a titrated way.

  4. Self-responsibility - learn embodied consent and empower yourself to make changes.​

  5. ​Client centered.

  6. Non-judgmental.

  7. Growth oriented.

  8. Pleasure centric.

  9. Integrity.

  10. Professional & educational.

About you.

You are a woman, or a couple of any gender and sexual expression who has lost connection to yourself, your sexuality and your partner.

 

I also work with cis-het men who are working concurrently with a therapist, have done some personal development work, or have attended an intro to consent and conscious sexuality workshop. 

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Why I became a sex coach

My work was born from lived experience, of motherhood, healing, love, and loss; of rediscovering my body and pleasure after years of tending to everyone else’s needs first. As a mother of two teenagers, I understand how parenting reshapes identity, relationships, and desire. It invites us to evolve again and again through the changing seasons of our bodies, hearts, and lives.

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This work is not only for me and my children, it is a reclamation for my ancestors, too. I carry forward a lineage of women who were silenced, shamed, or severed from their sensual selves. Each breath, each brave conversation, each moment of embodied truth is an act of repair, restoring what was once taken, and creating new pathways of freedom for future generations.

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My background in developmental psychology and early childhood education shapes how I hold space, with curiosity, compassion, and a deep understanding of how our earliest experiences imprint our capacity for intimacy and regulation. My approach blends Somatic Intimacy Coaching, Breathwork, and Sexological Bodywork, guided by trauma-informed care and the belief that

healing begins with self-compassion.

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My ongoing evolution includes unlearning patriarchal conditioning, embracing queerness and kink as pathways to authenticity, and cultivating relationships rooted in truth and mutual respect. These lived explorations help me walk beside my clients, sometimes holding a lantern, oftentimes with a map,

as a fellow traveler reclaiming wholeness, joy, and belonging.

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I identify as a woman, queer, kinky, ethically non-monogamous, white, able-bodied, and neurodiverse.

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My Journey

Becoming a parent

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I first became a parent in 2007 and like many, found myself in the unknown-disconnected from my identity outside of being a parent. After a challenging separation in 2013, finding myself a single mother with two young children, I embarked on my path of self-discovery to re-connect to the lost and forgotten parts of me.

 

Sexological Bodywork & Conscious Connected Breathwork

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Throughout my journey of exploring different healing modalities, immersing myself in sex-positive, neo-tantric, conscious sexuality and conscious kink communities in London, whilst raising my children, I realised my mission to support others to explore themselves through their body. So I trained in Sexological Bodywork and Conscious Connected Breathwork, to bring these healing opportunities to mothers and parents. 

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It takes a village

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Co-creating community is my heart song and I co-founded Vermilion, a sex-positive wellbeing community in London, UK and was a production team lead for many online tantra and conscious relating festivals during the pandemic years. These experiences shaped how I craft group spaces, helped illuminate my shadows and guided me to move into more integrity with how I work.

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I blend lived experience and training

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With my personal experience of being a solo parent, navigating and thriving with Herpes Simplex Virus and Lichen Simplex Chronicus, a late diagnosis of ADHD, and exploring my avoidant attachment style, sexuality and queerness. Alongside being a recovering perfectionist and person socialised as a woman trying to break out of internal and relational patriarchal and misogynistic conditioning, I have an embodied understanding of re-learning my pleasure in order to stay true to myself, connect with others deeper, with more presence and self-acceptance. And I never stop learning. 

 

I bring this lived experience alongside my life-long educational endeavors, to walk alongside you on your journey to your wholeness.

My journey

"We're all just walking each other home"

Ram Dass

Roots in a forest. Rooted Pleasure Sex Coach.
"I’m really glad that we worked with you and it’s very rare that I get back in touch with a coach years after we worked with them but just wanted to remind you how important and life changing the work you do is. The world needs a lot of healing and you are more than doing yours by untangling assumptions and prejudices from individuals, couples and groups and allow them to fully flourish."

Couple, UK

My Education

My Education and Trainings

*Although I do not affiliate myself with ISTA anymore due to unethical leadership, and harm caused and my personal experience of working alongside and for teachers who were also facilitators for ISTA. I also want to recognise the transformative  journey I took with the organism and remain transparent about my experiences. If you have questions about any of my trainings, please email me hello@rootedpleasure.com

 

Current Training

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