2024 Events
Ask Me Anything in NYC
Grab a drink at the bar and join our intimate gathering to ASK Lauren ANYTHING about sex, pleasure, and relationships!
As a Certified Holistic Sexuality Educator, Lauren will provide research-based answers to your sexuality related questions in a safe and relaxed environment. Common topics include: orgasm techniques, relationship struggles, self-pleasure, sexual communication in partnered sex, porn, menstruation, and more!
Lauren believes that sexual health is fundamental to the overall health and well-being of individuals, couples and families, and to the social and economic development of communities and countries; (World Health Organization) and that our understanding of sexual health is influenced by a breadth of factors including: race, religion, trauma, economics, tools and technology, politics and legislation, stability and change, historical background, and culture. (Sexuality Education Wheel of Context by: Azarmina & Nasserzadeh 2017)
By moving clients toward sexual freedom, her clients are able to leave behind “problematic barriers that hamper personal growth, limit hope, and create fear of risk taking.” (Dale & Keller 2019)
Lauren is honored to help her clients restore positive and respectful approaches to sexuality and sexual relationships, as well as increase the possibility of having pleasurable and safe sexual experiences, free of coercion, discrimination and violence.
You can read more about SEX ED FOR YOU HERE.
WHAT CLIENTS SAY
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WHAT CLIENTS SAY |
“Lauren facilitates in such a way that all were welcome and space for the process was given with such care. Lauren offered excellent feedback.”
“I felt so heard and validated in such a short amount of time! I also love how so much of the information is research-backed.”
“My one on one sessions with Lauren have been truly transformative. She has given my countless tools to help me take ownership over my own pleasure and a confidence I didn’t know I’d be able to achieve.”
THE LAVISH REST EXPERIENCE
Come as you are and pay what you can. Scroll down for additional price points. $35 recommended.
Embrace the concept of Radical Self-Love (Sonya Renee Taylor) this fall. Cease striving and the idea you must be strong.
Join us from 4-7pm on Sunday, October 1 at Atelier Lynchburg for an afternoon of gentle teaching, nourishment, and mindful meditation on the topic of rest, radical self-love, and pleasure as the greatest antidote to pain.
Wear your comfiest clothes and bring a pillow and blanket from home. We will provide food, drink, journal prompts, guided meditation, and liberating conversation.
Self-love cannot flourish in isolation, and we must hold each other accountable to do so.
Come as you are and pay what you can.
$35 recommended
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GUEST SPEAKER
Breana Turner
is a multifaceted woman who has a passion for empowering women. She is the founder of Sisters with Ambition, a mentoring, and confidence cultivating program for middle and high school young women. As a proud Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. member, Breana understands the importance of “Service to All Mankind.” Breana often uses her platform and voice to bring awareness to the importance of women’s health and empowerment. She is passionate about topics that surround the impact of the Superwoman Complex on Black women’s health, resilience, and overcoming challenges. She is a 2021 Master of Public Health graduate from Virginia Tech. Breana also holds a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology from George Mason University. Currently, Breana is a PhD candidate pursuing Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health at Virginia Tech. Her current research interests align with Black maternal health and Black and African American health and wellness. Breana continuously aspires to advocate for women’s health, advance health equity, and uplift and empower others.
Sexy Summer Soirée | JULY
These casual, playful, and informal gatherings are specifically for survivors of Purity Cultures and Religious Trauma in the Central Virginia Area.
Come meet individuals who share similar stories YET who are committed to healing and THRIVING in this new season of life.
Fun-filled ice-breaker questions will be led by Lauren Elise Rogers, CHSE, then the rest is up to you! Make friends, bring friends, hang-out and be YOU! These events are meant to be FUN not serious.
The Sexy Summer Soirées will be held throughout the summer.
JUNE 13, 2023 7-9PM
JULY 11, 2023 7-9PM
Exact locations (restaurant/brewery/winery/coffee shop) will be shared a week before the gathering and will be determined by the amount of registered attendees.
A registration fee of $15 covers the time and labor of event coordination and facilitation. Food and beverage can be purchased at your own expense.
Sexy Summer Soirée | JUNE
These casual, playful, and informal gatherings are specifically for survivors of Purity Cultures and Religious Trauma in the Central Virginia Area.
Come meet individuals who share similar stories YET who are committed to healing and THRIVING in this new season of life.
Fun-filled ice-breaker questions will be led by Lauren Elise Rogers, CHSE, then the rest is up to you! Make friends, bring friends, hang-out and be YOU! These events are meant to be FUN not serious.
Three Sexy Summer Soirées will be held throughout the summer.
JUNE 13, 2023 7-9PM
JULY 11, 2023 7-9PM
AUGUST 8, 2023 7-9PM
Exact locations (restaurant/brewery/winery/coffee shop) will be shared a week before the gathering and will be determined by the amount of registered attendees.
A registration fee of $15 covers the time and labor of event coordination and facilitation. Food and beverage can be purchased at your own expense.
Virtual Tuesday Evening Pleasure for Purity Culture Survivors
Are you a Purity Culture survivor? How has Purity Culture affected your sex life? Your relationships? Even your mood? Survivors may not even be aware of how deeply they are impacted by these teachings.
This six-week online course for survivors of Purity Culture will leave participants with a deeper understanding of Purity Culture origins, agendas, and impacts. Participants will leave equipped with tools to develop a healing practice of self-love and reclaim their bodies and sexuality for themselves.
Awaken Your Senses: an Embodied Workshop
Join Deidre and Lauren to awaken your senses for 2023.
This 3-hour holistic workshop will weave prompted journaling, healing movement, and intuitive card reading into a step-by-step candle making experience.
Students will leave having created a scented candle of their own, engaged all five senses, and set intentions for 2023.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS
Deidre is a master craftsman and intuitive known for her ability to deliver wisdom and insight through art and spoken word.
Lauren is a holistic sexuality educator who specializes in reconnecting the body, mind, and soul to pleasure in all forms.
WORKSHOP GOAL
To awaken the senses
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
By the end of the 3-hour workshop students will have:
Created 1 scented candle from scratch in order engage their senses of touch and smell
Sampled refreshments with mindfulness in order to engage their sense of taste
Selected a color to represent 2023 and shared their choice in order engage their senses of sight and sound
Completed 4 journaling prompts in order to activate their personal insight and ability to self-heal
Connected to their physical bodies through inclusive movement in order engage their inner wisdom
Received an intuitive 2023 Card Reading and shared their reflections in order to imagine a larger narrative for 2023
Virtual Sunday Mid-Day Pleasure for Purity Culture Survivors
Are you a Purity Culture survivor? How has Purity Culture affected your sex life? Your relationships? Even your mood? Survivors may not even be aware of how deeply they are impacted by these teachings.
This six-week online course for survivors of Purity Culture will leave participants with a deeper understanding of Purity Culture origins, agendas, and impacts. Participants will leave equipped with tools to develop a healing practice of self-love and reclaim their bodies and sexuality for themselves.
The Healing Power of Consent in Client Care | PRIVATE CLASS
Do you struggle to help your clients communicate their needs? Do you practice a form of client care that requires consent? Do you wish you had ways to gently increase client trust over time? If so, this workshop is for you.
Students will leave with an understanding of Dr. Betty Martin's Wheel of Consent and the healing modality it provides. This 2.5 hour workshop will equip Care Providers with tools to respectfully ask and enthusiastically respond.
Coffee and light snacks provided.
THIS IS A PRIVATE GROUP CLASS. To schedule one of your own, email Lauren: lauren@sexedforyou.com
Virtual Thursday Evening Sex Ed Prep for Parents
Together we will craft a step by step plan to tackle the hard subjects and remain connected to your kids as they grow as sexual beings!
Students will leave with an understanding of the developmentally appropriate stages of sexuality and a lack of fear for the years ahead.
Virtual Tuesday Evening Pleasure for Purity Culture Survivors
Are you a Purity Culture survivor? How has Purity Culture affected your sex life? Your relationships? Even your mood? Survivors may not even be aware of how deeply they are impacted by these teachings.
This six-week online course for survivors of Purity Culture will leave participants with a deeper understanding of Purity Culture origins, agendas, and impacts. Participants will leave equipped with tools to develop a healing practice of self-love and reclaim their bodies and sexuality for themselves.
Virtual Sunday Mid-Day Pleasure for Purity Culture Survivors
Are you a Purity Culture survivor? How has Purity Culture affected your sex life? Your relationships? Even your mood? Survivors may not even be aware of how deeply they are impacted by these teachings.
This six-week online course for survivors of Purity Culture will leave participants with a deeper understanding of Purity Culture origins, agendas, and impacts. Participants will leave equipped with tools to develop a healing practice of self-love and reclaim their bodies and sexuality for themselves.
Sex Ed Prep for Parents
Together we will craft a step by step plan to tackle the hard subjects and remain connected to your kids as they grow as sexual beings!
Students will leave with an understanding of the developmentally appropriate stages of sexuality and a lack of fear for the years ahead.
FREE Ask Me Anything in NYC
Have you ever been chatting with friends about sex and relationships and wished you had a sexuality educator there to answer your burning questions?! Well this is your chance!
Bring a friend (or three) and join me on the roof for happy hour! I’ll provide the drinks and snacks you provide the juicy questions.
REGISTRATION REQUIRED!
Join me on Sunday, July 10th for a FREE conversation where you can ask me anything about sex, relationships, masturbation, communication, pleasure, rest, menstruation, or whatever you want!
Virtual Sunday Morning Pleasure for Purity Culture Survivors
Are you a Purity Culture survivor? How has Purity Culture affected your sex life? Your relationships? Even your mood? Survivors may not even be aware of how deeply they are impacted by these teachings.
This six-week online course for survivors of Purity Culture will leave participants with a deeper understanding of Purity Culture origins, agendas, and impacts. Participants will leave equipped with tools to develop a healing practice of self-love and reclaim their bodies and sexuality for themselves.
Taking Pleasure in the Body (In-Person)
Are you a Purity Culture survivor? How has Purity Culture affected your sex life? Your relationships? Even your mood? Survivors may not even be aware of how deeply they are impacted by these teachings.
This six-week online course for survivors of Purity Culture will leave participants with a deeper understanding of Purity Culture origins, agendas, and impacts. Participants will leave equipped with tools to develop a healing practice of self-love and reclaim their bodies and sexuality for themselves.
FREE Virtual Introduction to Sex-Positive Parenting
Parents will receive a general overview of the differences between sex-negative and sex-positive parenting. A timeline of age appropriate sexuality education will be shared. Parents will have an opportunity to recall their personal introductions (or lack of) to sexuality, sensuality, sexualization, identity, and reproduction.
How to Screen for Sexual Satisfaction
Do you struggle to address sexual satisfaction with clients due to your own discomfort surrounding sexual functioning? If so, this workshop is for you!
In this 3-hour workshop, Professional Sexuality Educator, Lauren Barnes, will walk mental health providers through Trauma-Informed and Pleasure-Based screening methods that center the sexual satisfaction of their clients.
Attendees will leave the workshop having asessesed several case studies, participated in role play scenarios, and come to an understanding of when to refer a client to a Sex Educator, Sex Therapist, Pelvic Floor Therapist, or other Medical Provider.
Taking Pleasure in the Body (Virtual)
Are you a Purity Culture survivor? How has Purity Culture affected your sex life? Your relationships? Even your mood? Survivors may not even be aware of how deeply they are impacted by these teachings.
This six-week online course for survivors of Purity Culture will leave participants with a deeper understanding of Purity Culture origins, agendas, and impacts. Participants will leave equipped with tools to develop a healing practice of self-love and reclaim their bodies and sexuality for themselves.
Married Sex: Tools to communicate your way to sweeter pleasure!
Preparing for married sex? Newly married and feeling like you wish you could communicate your sexual needs better? Wish you understood more about your partner's body? Then this three-hour course is for you! Come learn to how to notice, trust and value your own desires and COMMUNICATE them to your partner in a safe, loving, and playful environment
Couples will leave feeling creative and excited about their current or future SEX lives!
Taught in collaboration with Sarah & James Hobson!
Orgasm 101 for Femmes (In-Person)
IN-PERSON
Do wonder what is getting in the way of your pleasure? Do you have trouble "achieving" orgasm? Do you feel like your own mind often gets in your way? You are not alone!
Come learn and play in this one-day workshop for FEMMES ONLY!
This in-person course will cover basic anatomy and the deconstruction of orgasm itself. Students will leave with an understanding of what turns them on and off and equipped with the tools to develop a personal pleasure practice.
Held in the comfort of Lauren’s home in Lynchburg, VA. Address sent 48 hours prior.
Virtual Tuesday Evening Pleasure for Purity Culture Survivors
Are you a Purity Culture survivor? How has Purity Culture affected your sex life? Your relationships? Even your mood? Survivors may not even be aware of how deeply they are impacted by these teachings.
This six-week online course for survivors of Purity Culture will leave participants with a deeper understanding of Purity Culture origins, agendas, and impacts. Participants will leave equipped with tools to develop a healing practice of self-love and reclaim their bodies and sexuality for themselves.
Sex & Tech - A Workshop for Tweens!
Do you struggle to create tech boundaries for your 10-13 year olds? Do you worry that they’re sharing and receiving innapropriate content? Do you feel pressured to provide them with the latest and greatest smart phone with unlimited data? Do feel the tug between wanting to empower them and wanting to keep them safe? Then this mini-workshop is FOR YOUR TWEENS! (Sorry, not for you!)
Parents will receive a two page outline and tech recommendations.
A zoom link will be sent once registration is complete.
Orgasm 101 for Femmes (Virtual)
VIRTUAL
Do wonder what is getting in the way of your pleasure? Do you have trouble "achieving" orgasm? Do you feel like your own mind often gets in your way? You are not alone!
Come learn and play in this one-day workshop for FEMMES ONLY!
This course will cover basic anatomy and the deconstruction of orgasm itself. Students will leave with an understanding of what turns them on and off and equipped with the tools to develop a personal pleasure practice.
Zoom link sent 48 hours prior.
Orgasm 101 for Femmes (In-Person)
IN-PERSON
Do wonder what is getting in the way of your pleasure? Do you have trouble "achieving" orgasm? Do you feel like your own mind often gets in your way? You are not alone!
Come learn and play in this one-day workshop for FEMMES ONLY!
This in-person course will cover basic anatomy and the deconstruction of orgasm itself. Students will leave with an understanding of what turns them on and off and equipped with the tools to develop a personal pleasure practice.
Held in the comfort of Lauren’s home in Lynchburg, VA 24503. Address sent 48 hours prior.
Help! I had a baby and now sex is bad! (Virtual)
Have you recently had a baby? Is sex painful? Is your libido has gone? Do you have trouble "achieving" orgasm now when it used to be easy? You are not alone!
Come learn and play in this virtual one-day workshop for postpartum people!
This course will cover basic anatomy and all that happens to the body in pregnancy! Students will leave with an understanding of what turns them on in this new season and equipped with the tools to communicate their desires to their partners.
Orgasm 101 for Femmes (Virtual)
VIRTUAL
Do wonder what is getting in the way of your pleasure? Do you have trouble "achieving" orgasm? Do you feel like your own mind often gets in your way? You are not alone!
Come learn and play in this one-day workshop for FEMMES ONLY!
This course will cover basic anatomy and the deconstruction of orgasm itself. Students will leave with an understanding of what turns them on and off and equipped with the tools to develop a personal pleasure practice.
Zoom link sent 48 hours prior.
Pleasure for Purity Culture Survivors (Virtual)
Are you a Purity Culture survivor? How has Purity Culture affected your sex life? Your relationships? Even your mood? Survivors may not even be aware of how deeply they are impacted by these teachings.
This six-week online course for survivors of Purity Culture will leave participants with a deeper understanding of Purity Culture origins, agendas, and impacts. Participants will leave equipped with tools to develop a healing practice of self-love and reclaim their bodies and sexuality for themselves.
Orgasm 101 for Femmes (In-Person)
IN-PERSON
Do wonder what is getting in the way of your pleasure? Do you have trouble "achieving" orgasm? Do you feel like your own mind often gets in your way? You are not alone!
Come learn and play in this one-day workshop for FEMMES ONLY!
This in-person course will cover basic anatomy and the deconstruction of orgasm itself. Students will leave with an understanding of what turns them on and off and equipped with the tools to develop a personal pleasure practice.
Held in the comfort of Lauren’s home in Lynchburg, VA 24503. Address sent 48 hours prior.