This Tantric Life with Layla Martin Attunement, Empathy, and Connection: Learn the "Soft" Skills of Sex
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Aug 24, 2025 In this conversation with somatic educator Steven Jaggers, learn about the transformative power of connection over mere healing. He emphasizes how to articulate feelings through body awareness and the importance of attunement in relationships. Jaggers explains why understanding our internal presence fosters deeper emotional bonds. He also discusses the interplay of breathwork and emotional resilience, revealing how this practice enhances authenticity and connection in intimacy.
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Connection Enables Integration
- Focus on connection rather than obsessively pursuing 'healing' because healing flows from embodied connection.
- Integration often happens through relational experiences like sex and co-regulation.
A Breath Session Unwound Layers
- Steven received holotropic breathwork and experienced a thoracic 'pop' that released layers from anger to bliss.
- That session revealed breath as the controlling force beneath the musculoskeletal system for him.
Attunement Is Co-Regulation Skill
- Attunement is co-regulation: hosting another's nervous system while maintaining self-boundaries.
- True attunement lets someone be felt without the attuner taking on or fixing their experience.
