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Tending the Bones: Reclaiming Pleasure After Transgenerational Sexual Trauma--A 13-Month Somatic Journey of Ancestral Ritual and Embodime
A 13-month guided pathway for healing transgenerational sexual trauma Body-based practices, ancestral connection rituals, and reflective empowerment exercises to integrate trauma, build resilience, center pleasure, and reclaim wholeness Healing from sexual trauma is deep, transformative, and life-changing work. And when we begin the journey to address not just our own traumas but those borne by our ancestors, we heal across generations--finding wholeness and reclaiming erotic wellness for ourselves while lovingly tending the harm and trauma carried in our lineages. From altars to reverence practices, resilience plans to somatic resourcing, Tending the Bones holds you in care and power. Pavini Moray, PhD invites you to reconnect to the profound wisdom of your body--and your ancestors.
Guided by the 13 lunar cycles of the year, each module includes a ritual, prayer, poem, daily practice, and worksheet for reflection and healing. With chapters like "Blessing Moon," "Ancestor Moon," "Sovereign Moon," "Integration Moon," and more, Tending the Bones takes a holistic, multidisciplinary approach to healing from sexual trauma and provides a safe container and solid foundation to explore this deep transformational work. Engaging, warm, and authentic, Tending the Bones centers your experiences as a reader and survivor, whether you've experienced sexual trauma, are living the embodied impacts of your ancestors' trauma, or both.
- Part One: Build Inner Resources offers skills, practices, and resilience tools essential to healing the wounds of transgenerational sexual trauma
- Part Two: Heal Trauma helps you acknowledge and integrate traumatic experiences and invites you to explore what justice means to you.
- Part Three: Savor shows you how to connect and work with ancestral guides. It also explores principles of somatic sexuality for recovering wholeness and pleasure after sexual trauma.
Guided by the 13 lunar cycles of the year, each module includes a ritual, prayer, poem, daily practice, and worksheet for reflection and healing. With chapters like "Blessing Moon," "Ancestor Moon," "Sovereign Moon," "Integration Moon," and more, Tending the Bones takes a holistic, multidisciplinary approach to healing from sexual trauma and provides a safe container and solid foundation to explore this deep transformational work. Engaging, warm, and authentic, Tending the Bones centers your experiences as a reader and survivor, whether you've experienced sexual trauma, are living the embodied impacts of your ancestors' trauma, or both.
Book Details
- Publisher: North Atlantic Books
- Publish Date: Jan 28th, 2025
- Pages: 288
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.81lb
- EAN: 9798889841203
- Categories: • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)• Abuse• Sacred Sexuality
About the Author
PAVINI MORAY has started, failed, and succeeded at many businesses. A serial entrepreneur, they have built private practices, a worker collective, and a for-profit company. Thirty years of teaching experience has shaped them into a service-oriented leader, facilitator, and teacher who meets students and clients where they are. A somatic coach specializing in trauma and rela- tionships, they have developed pedagogy and methodology for embodied relationships. They have helped thousands live lives of pleasure and satisfac- tion. Pavini is a queer, trans, nonbinary founder with insight into outsider cultures and the need for accessibility. Moray holds an MEd in Montessori curriculum design, as well as a PhD in somatic psychology. They are the author of How to Hold Power. Learn more at pavinimoray.com.
Praise for this book
"Deep and heartfelt ... Pavini Moray offers a unique program to access your autonomy and your pleasure power. With this step-by-step guide, you can stay grounded as you engage with your ancestral trauma.... Tending the Bones helps you tap into all of your senses and sensibilities as you wend your way through ritual, poetry, journaling, and prayer toward your ongoing evolution. Dr. Moray shows us how our own healing is a tender practice we can weave throughout our life. What a beautiful gift!"
--Celeste Hirschman, MA, cofounder of the Somatica Institute and author of Coming Together, Making Love Real, and Cockfidence "From cover to cover, Tending the Bones blends and layers Pavini's intergenerational insights, compassion, sex research, and embodied experience. Their generous, uplifting guidance has the potential to heal us all--the walking wounded--with a fresh, visionary approach. This thirteen-month program rooted in ancestral ritual and somatic practice is exxxxcellent psycho-magic which gives me hope that we can create a more peaceful, pleasurable, loving society. Tending the Bones blew me away--in the best, sexy way."
--Annie Sprinkle, ecosex educator, artist, and coauthor of Assuming the Ecosexual Position "In this brilliant, essential book of healing, Pavini Moray offers a clear, practical, and pleasure-centric path back to your body after trauma. Using the simple, powerful tools I recommend to all my students--breath, movement, vocalization, imagination, and clarity of intention--Tending the Bones gives you gentle yet powerful guidance on how you can work with and through your past to arrive warmly and ecstatically back home to yourself in the present."
--Barbara Carrellas, author of Urban Tantra "A brilliant and much-needed map of embodied and ancestral pathways for transforming inherited sexual trauma and accessing pleasure that is whole.... This book is chock-full of exquisite invitations and simple yet profound ritual practices for healing and cultivating connection with supportive ancestors.... Pavini has crafted such a powerful and unique blueprint toward creating legacies of erotic wellness and nourishing pleasure--this book is a treasure!"
--Taya Mâ Shere, priestess, host of the Jewish Ancestral Healing podcast, and founder of From the Deep "In Tending the Bones, Pavini Moray, a wise witch and a somatic sex therapist, presents a guidebook for intergenerational trauma healing and imbues it with potent spells that can be used to nurture erotic embodiment. Moray's method for addressing trauma does not promise a simple cure, but emphasizes a lifelong commitment to continuous practices, chosen because they foster sexual well-being in one's body and in one's lineage. The book guides readers through a three-part journey: starting with preparatory practices that help reconnect with one's body, then moving through ways to deal with sexual trauma, and culminating in practices that savor the aliveness we carry in our bodies. This aliveness has been passed down from our ancestors. Tending the Bones reminds us to pass this on to our descendants."
--Joseph Kramer, PhD, founder of Sexological Bodywork
--Celeste Hirschman, MA, cofounder of the Somatica Institute and author of Coming Together, Making Love Real, and Cockfidence "From cover to cover, Tending the Bones blends and layers Pavini's intergenerational insights, compassion, sex research, and embodied experience. Their generous, uplifting guidance has the potential to heal us all--the walking wounded--with a fresh, visionary approach. This thirteen-month program rooted in ancestral ritual and somatic practice is exxxxcellent psycho-magic which gives me hope that we can create a more peaceful, pleasurable, loving society. Tending the Bones blew me away--in the best, sexy way."
--Annie Sprinkle, ecosex educator, artist, and coauthor of Assuming the Ecosexual Position "In this brilliant, essential book of healing, Pavini Moray offers a clear, practical, and pleasure-centric path back to your body after trauma. Using the simple, powerful tools I recommend to all my students--breath, movement, vocalization, imagination, and clarity of intention--Tending the Bones gives you gentle yet powerful guidance on how you can work with and through your past to arrive warmly and ecstatically back home to yourself in the present."
--Barbara Carrellas, author of Urban Tantra "A brilliant and much-needed map of embodied and ancestral pathways for transforming inherited sexual trauma and accessing pleasure that is whole.... This book is chock-full of exquisite invitations and simple yet profound ritual practices for healing and cultivating connection with supportive ancestors.... Pavini has crafted such a powerful and unique blueprint toward creating legacies of erotic wellness and nourishing pleasure--this book is a treasure!"
--Taya Mâ Shere, priestess, host of the Jewish Ancestral Healing podcast, and founder of From the Deep "In Tending the Bones, Pavini Moray, a wise witch and a somatic sex therapist, presents a guidebook for intergenerational trauma healing and imbues it with potent spells that can be used to nurture erotic embodiment. Moray's method for addressing trauma does not promise a simple cure, but emphasizes a lifelong commitment to continuous practices, chosen because they foster sexual well-being in one's body and in one's lineage. The book guides readers through a three-part journey: starting with preparatory practices that help reconnect with one's body, then moving through ways to deal with sexual trauma, and culminating in practices that savor the aliveness we carry in our bodies. This aliveness has been passed down from our ancestors. Tending the Bones reminds us to pass this on to our descendants."
--Joseph Kramer, PhD, founder of Sexological Bodywork