We teach
Empowered Submission
Empowered Submission is the capacity to surrender without losing your fire,
and to repair intimacy through presence, not performance.
Many people have learned to manage intimacy rather than inhabit it.
To be kind, easy, attentive, or competent, while slowly losing contact with their own aliveness.
This work is an invitation to return.
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There is a quiet revolution happening inside the human heart. So many of us have spent years performing intimacy rather than inhabiting it, tending to others, managing, or caretaking others emotions, being good, being kind, being “easy,” while slowly losing contact with our own aliveness.
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A return to intimacy that doesn’t require performance.
Empowered Submission is not about giving yourself away.
It is the capacity to orient to surrender from choice, not collapse.
We teach people how to read bodies, voice tone, pacing, and patterns of distraction and how anxious attachment softens into presence when it is witnessed without agenda.
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This is relational repair through embodiment, not analysis.
Safe
Sovereign
Sublime
What People Often Notice
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Before
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Feeling agitated or confused by their body
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Projecting urgency or discomfort onto others
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Doubting they will ever feel truly at ease in intimacy
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After
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Greater connection to their needs
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Patience and presence without mental pressure
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The ability to attune to the pacing of life and relationship
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Relief in no longer having to “figure it out”
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It’s not just sex positive.
It’s being erotically intelligent…
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate". Carl Jung
EROS, SIMPLIFIED
Here, Eros is not performance.
It is a living current of creativity, connection, and freedom.
It reveals where we abandon ourselves, and where we are ready to return.
We approach erotic energy through safety, self-responsibility, and play...
not urgency, intensity, or reenactment.
How We Offer This Work
All of our teaching materials and lectures are offered freely.
We do not sell packages, use scarcity tactics, or create artificial urgency.
If you wish to work with us, you are invited to explore an intention.
From there, we connect to see whether a bespoke process, workshop, or retreat is appropriate.
Love itself describes its own perfection. Be speechless and listen.
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- Rumi
About Sarah Shepherd & Chris Dierkes
People often report relief simply in being with us.Our work is rooted in decades of lived experience, relational practice, and energetic facilitation.What we offer is difficult to describe to the mind—but unmistakable when experienced.
With years of experience guiding couples and individuals through intimacy repair, polarity embodiment, and shadow alchemy, Chris and Sarah are facilitators of both fierce integrity and deep compassion. Their combined polarity holds both immense nurturance and just enough creative provocation, making them uniquely equipped to walk with you to your edge — and beyond.
An Invitation
If something in you feels relieved, curious, or quietly empowered while reading this,
you’re welcome to explore an intention.
There is no pressure to apply.
Only an invitation to listen.
