Somatic Sexologist | Writer | Artist

Firstly I'm a dancer. Dance and movement is always where I feel most at home. 

I'm also a writer and a somatic sexologist 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 naturally lead me to somatic sexology, and I now offer one on one sessions and group containers designed to tune into the language of your body, connect to your pleasure, and cultivate awareness of your authentic embodied experience. 

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

tune into the language of your body

My 1:1 Sexological Bodywork sessions are designed with the intention of working with the clients' individual goals and desires to tune into the wisdom of the body and use somatic tools (movement, sound, breath, touch, placement of awareness) to connect with authentic embodied experience, and co-create practices that can support the client in moving toward their sexual and body-based goals.

From frontline sexual violence response, to harm reduction and crisis response in Vancouver’s DTES, sex worker support, sex education, writing sex educational content, teaching a 9-week disability sex ed program, hosting a sexual health-focused podcast and facilitating many somatic sexology workshops, and now maintaining a one-on-one somatic sex therapy practice, I’ve existed in the sexual health space from all angles.

From all of my roles and training, I’ve seen first-hand how politics, systemic oppression, colonialism, and disconnection from our bodies, can impact our overall well-being, and keep us complacent, in a world that benefits from our exhaustion and numbness.

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.

reminder:

intimacy with you is a privilege

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

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.

read more of my writing

my Somatic Sexology sessions are designed to tune into the language of your body

Using somatics and sexology as my foundation, I'm committed to exploring and uplifting your authentic, embodied experience and using the wisdom of your body as your guide toward healing and living a pleasure-based life. 

Areas of speciality: body connection, body image, performance anxiety, sexual pain, accessing pleasure, shame, desire & desire discrepancy, non-monogamy, sexual trauma, sex work, queer and trans experiences and working with disability

Having worked in harm reduction, sexual assault response, sex education, sex worker support and queer disability services, Taylor has developed a plethora of on the ground experience as a resource for many communities and individuals at unique and diverse intersections of marginalized identities. She is determined to provide a safe and supportive environment for folks of all genders and identities to get curious about their relationship to their body, and move towards developing connection to the body that can offer information about behaviours, beliefs, internalized narratives, what we come up against in the outside world, and how we may support ourselves along the way.

Counsellor Identities: non-binary femme, caucasian Canadian, feminist, queer