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Healing the Erotic Self Erotic Liberation System
An Official Sensual Wellness Partner of SDS 2025:Â Spiritual Awakening
HEALING THE EROTIC SELF™ (HTES)
Healing the Erotic Self (HTES) is a personal healing and professional development platform founded to center queer, trans, and Black, Caribbean, African, Indigenous Turtle Islander, Latine, Asian American, and Pacific Islander (BCAILAAPI) professionals such as educators, therapists, somatic professionals, wellness leaders, and survivors in reclaiming erotic intelligence through somatic and erosomatic practices, spirituality, ancestral care, and healing-centered practice.
With offerings including erotic intelligent masterclasses, erotic healing personal and professional intensives, a workbook, an erotic energy challenge, a 6-Week Erotic Embodiment Healing Intensive, and erotic healing system healing, most available for AASECT CE opportunities. HTES is a collaborator with liberation-focused emotional, somatic, and erotic wellness practitioners, leaders, and wellness organizations globally.
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For too long, we have been taught that our spirituality and our sexuality must exist in separate realms. This year, Sex Down South (SDS) and Healing the Erotic Self (HTES) invites you to a revolutionary and liberating truth:
Your Erotic Energy is Your Spiritual Energy
This HTES x SDS partnership is your official guide to safely prepare for the Sex Down South's conference theme of Spiritual Awakening, providing you with the erosomatic tools, erospiritual rituals, and erotically like-minded community to experience a profound awakening—not just in your mind & body, but in your spirit.


Your SDS Spiritual Awakening Journey Begins Here:
The HTES 7-Day
Healing Your Erotic Energy
Practice
Prepare your mind, body, energy, and spirit for 2025 Sex Down South
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Prepare for your Sex Down South experience of Spiritual Awakening. From August 28-September 3, 2025, via email- join this free 7-day erotic energy practice to receive daily rituals, somatic practices, and guided meditations from Healing the Erotic Self Erotic Liberation Practice. Arrive at this year's Sex Down South Conference energetically ready to receive.
You are here because you know your spiritual awakening was already inside you, waiting to be unlocked or further nurtured. You know your erotic energy is more than just desire; it's your life force, your creative power, and your direct line to the divine.
Based of Healing the Erotic Self's erotic energy guide, Healing Your Erotic Energy, in this erotic energy challenge, TEDx Talks Speaker (2020) & the creator of HTES Clinical Somatic Sexologist, Erospiritualist, & Erotic Embodiment Guide Mx. Lena Queen, LCSW, M.Ed. (Queen/they) will guide you through daily practices to:
1. Release Your Energetic Blocks
2:Â Activate Your Erotic Power
3: Somatic Surrender
4: Decolonize Desire
5: Provide Erosomatic Rituals of Self-Devotion
6: Create Erotic Affirmations
7: Expand Your Erotic Curiosity
All to prepare for an empowering and somatically safe exploration of 2025 Sex Down South's Spiritual Awakening!
Join the FREE 7-Day HYER PracticeYour Erotic Energy is Your Spiritual Energy
Erospirituality:Â
Decolonizing Sacred Sexuality
2025 Sex Down South Pre-Conference Session
Wednesday, September 3, 2025, 1130am EST
Virtual
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This is the deep dive your soul has been asking for. In this immersive 2-hour workshop, you will move beyond theory and into embodied practice. Mx. Queen will guide you through the core tenets of Erospirituality and how they decenter colonial concepts of sacred sexuality helping you map your unique erotic needs and heal the oppressive blocks that keep you from your most authentic, spiritually-aligned self.
This is more than just another session. This is a sacred laboratory for your soul. The "Spiritual Awakening" theme of Sex Down South is an invitation, and this workshop is the key to unlocking its deepest potential.
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In this transformative 2-hour experience, you will:
1. Be introduced to the principles of Erospirituality that decenters colonial understanding of sacred sexuality.
2. Understand Erotic Intelligence as a framework for personal healing and self-liberation, distinguishing it from traditional emotional intelligence and integrating it into both professional and personal practices.Â
3. Explore the concept of Decolonizing sacred sexuality and its significance in reclaiming erotic autonomy, especially for marginalized communities, and how it relates to trauma, self-worth, and empowerment.
4. Create a Healing-Centered Practice by learning foundational principles of healing-justice somatic healing, erotic care, and how to integrate erotic intelligence into the healing journey.
5. Explore the 7 Principles of Authentic Consent to support clients and communities in activating their erotic power, setting embodied boundaries, and cultivating safe and empowered relationships.
Who is this for?
You feel the call of the "Spiritual Awakening" theme but don't know where to start. You're an educator, healer, or practitioner who wants to integrate somatic wisdom into your work. You're ready to heal the wounds that have severed your connection to your sacred sensual self.
Register for this pre-conference virtual session
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You are Erotic
You are your BEST Lover. Embody your power to create your lovership. Give yourself permission to explore your touch, your taste, and your discerning pleasures.
Claim " I am Erotic" to honor the divinity of your erotic energy and discover delight in your expansion with embodied safety and intuitive self-trust.

You are a Lover
To be a lover is to radiate warmth, passion, and tenderness in every connection you create. Embrace your capacity to love deeply & authentically- whether it's in romance, friendship, or self-compassion.
Claim " I am a Lover" to honor your capacity to give and receive affection with intention, honoring the beauty of shared vulnerability.

You are Energy
You are a vessel of dynamic, flowing energy-vibrant, sensual and alive. This erotic affirmation calls to you to recognize your erotic essence as a boundless force that pulses through every aspect of your being.Â
Claim " I am Energy" to honor the infinite power that you are. This energy creates, heals, and desires discerningly.
Erotic Liberation:
The Erotic Alchemy of Choice, Practice, & Surrender
2025 SDS Post Conference
Integration Session
Tuesday September 9, 2025, 730pm EST
Virtual
The conference may be over, but your liberation is just beginning. This post-conference healing session is a sacred space to integrate the weekend's lessons. Through guided practice and community sharing, you will learn how to alchemize your experiences into lasting change, surrendering to the wisdom of your newly awakened erotic self.
A 2-hour post-conference integration session to alchemize your experience into lasting erotic liberation. Attending the 2025 sex Down South Spiritually Awakened Conference- you came (possibly quite literally), you learned, you awakened.
But what happens with that post conference drop? How do you carry the magic of Sex Down South of being spiritually awakened into your daily life without it fading?
Integration is not a luxury; it is a necessity.
This session is the sacred bridge between the conference world and your real world. In this powerful integration circle, we will:
1. Use the erotic alchemy of choice, practice, and surrender to ground the weekend's lessons in your body.
2. Participate in a group healing ritual to process any unresolved emotions or intense experiences from the conference.
3. Create a tangible, actionable plan to continue your erotic liberation journey.
4. Support your intentions within a community of accountability and support.
Register for the 2025 SDS Post Conference Integration Session-Virtual
7-Day Healing Your Erotic Energy Practice
Complimentary
- HTES 7-Day HYER Erotic Energy Guide (pdf)
- Guided erosomatic practices
- Erospiritual Routines
- Erotic Affirmations
- Special promotions to Erospirituality Centre's offerings
Erospiritualty Pre-Conference Session
$197
2025 SDS Spiritual Awakening Pre-Con
- Decolonial Spirituality
- Affirming Eroticism
-  Erotic Intelligence meets Spiritual Integration
- AASECT CE-Eligible
- Discount on HTES offerings
- 60-Day complimentary membership to Erospirituality Centre
Erotic Liberation Post-Conference Session
$97
2025 SDS Spiritual Awakening Post-Con
- Erotic Integration Session
- Innerstanding Erotic Alchemy
- The ritual doesn’t end—it evolves.
- The awakening continues...
- AASECT CE-Eligible
- 30-Day complimentary membership to Erospirituality Centre
Who is this for?
What if I'm new to somatic or erotic healing?
Do I have to be attending SDS 2025 to join?
Will this be recorded if I can’t attend live?
Is this only for queer and/or The Global Majority of BAILAAPI?
Is this therapy?
Your Erotic Embodiment Guide
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Mx. Queen, LCSW, M.Ed. (Queen/they)
HTES Creator, Erospiritualist, & Erotic Liberation Author, Mx. Queen is a licensed clinical social worker (DE & NJ), somatic sex therapist, energy worker, breathwork facilitator, hypnotherapist, Authentic Consent Instructor, erotic liberation author, and self-liberator. Queen describes themselves as "A Black person of African American descent queer genderfluid person who came out late in life & in all her gendered roles does her decolonized best.
Find out more about Queen's Work
AASECT CE Disclosure
 “This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification.