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Taylor Neal - somatic therapist

Somatic Therapist | Writer | Artist

Firstly I'm an artist. I'm also a writer, somatic therapist and sex educator, with an insatiable fascination toward the expressions and forms of the sensual body.

With my background primarily in dance, yoga and movement, my exploration of the body has lead me toward a practice in somatic therapy and sexology, and I now offer one on one sessions, and group containers, designed to tune into the language of your body and connect to your pleasure and authentic experience. 

I want you to fall in love with YOU, to reclaim your body and your pleasure, to lean in and hear the whispers from your body as a guide to living your juiciest life. 

want to learn more?

upcoming workshop:

Heartspace: A guided somatic self-massage practice for reconnecting to your chest/breasts and heart space. 

Hosted by Taylor Neal and Stella Artuso
online workshop

register here!

my latest articles:

Archer Magazine •

Solo sex in relationships: I am my primary partner

Whenever I’ve found myself in relationships, my solo sex life has always taken a drastic hit.
I would get so excited and wrapped up in my developing relationship(s) that all of my sexual energy and consideration would go towards another person. Essentially, my sexuality would become about them, their desires, their libido – how I could satisfy their needs.
I have a pretty high libido. I’m quite open-minded about trying new things or incorporating my partners’ desires, so I never thought of it as...
Sexfluent CANFAR •

Why Do I Have Better Sex With People I Don’t Like? (Part 2) | Sexfluent

This next part focuses on the experience of Overcoming Ambivalence, which is one of the Four Cornerstones Of Eroticism that contributes to confusing experiences of being turned on but also un-attracted or disliking the person or situation at hand. . The experience of ambivalence, of holding two or more contradicting feelings at once, can be confusing in any area of our lives, but when it comes to sex it can throw us off completely. Rom-coms love this cornerstone, because it’s something to be ove...
Good Vibes Clinic •

Body Positivity vs. Body Neutrality: How Do We Think About Our Bodies? — Good Vibes Clinic

Our relationship with our bodies is a complex and ever-evolving relationship that grows and fluctuates just as often as we do as we age and navigate the different phases of our lives. How we think and feel about our bodies affects how we feel about ourselves in general in many ways, as well as how we show up in relationships, and how we engage in sex and intimacy both with ourselves and with our partners. For most of us, our relationship with our bodies is one of the most difficult relationships...
huha underwear •

When the Pussy Says No: On Vaginismus, Tension & Trauma

Quite often, when anything doesn’t work the way we want it to in relation to sex and our bodies, the first response we feel is an enormous amount of shame.

Whether it’s with a partner, solo, or even with a doctor, if there’s something we feel is unusual going on with our sexual body; our genitals and our ability to have the sex we feel we should be able to have, we immediately feel as though we are broken, in a different way than we do with any other part of our body.

If we sprain an ankle or
Momotaro Apotheca •

The Scientific Patriarchy And Its Influence On Our Bodies

**Disclaimer: I use the term “female” in reference to Lucy Cooke’s research in animal species because this is the terminology used in the book. I use “AFAB” to refer to humans with uteruses (Assigned Female At Birth) to maintain clarity in my discussions of anatomy. In no way does my terminology intend to link anatomy with gender in humans.

I shake my head as I sit down to write this article, because it’s 2024 and as a general population we still aren’t familiar with proper anatomical terms for
Femme Art Review •

Eternally Shadow-Banned | Femme Art Review

I have always been fascinated by bodies and the natural beauty of bodies being bodies interacting with the world.I grew up as a dancer, which connected me intimately at an early age to the complexities and nuances of different bodies through all stages of life—the ways that youthful bodies move, how these movements change as we age, and the influence of one’s own lived experience on their relationship to their body.As a student, I became fascinated by fashion and costume and how ga...

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Spiraling is a monthly container and online community space inspired by the structure of traditional "women's circles" but with more space for flow and spiraling, and less gender binary. 

spiraling is not therapy, it’s a loosely facilitated space for embodiment, sharing, connecting, and being held and witnessed in your truth.

it’s a gathering, a coming together, a reconnection to one another, an evolving community.

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full bloom podcast

My Body Is An Orchard

By Taylor Neal, edited by Em Keeler

My Body Is An Orchard takes the form of a collection of original poetry written during my time as a steward of the land in northern California during the summer of 2022, in reflection of the ways my body gives and receives, serves and is served, heals and is healed, by the land, by love, by violence, and by the souls with whom I move through contact.

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my fortnightly newsletter, speed of trust, is a space for coming together in the messiness of existing as the fullest version of the self, where raw expression, cringe, nuance and pleasure, are uplifted as spells for living in a state of expansion.

here, I share personal essays, poetry, somatic and pleasure-based practices, and my upcoming offerings/events