About Wholistic Kink
Wholistic Kink is an approach that intentionally utilizes BDSM/kink exploration as a pathway toward somatic integration and psychospiritual wholeness.
In the context of whole person wellness, kink as a modality fills a critical niche of the process: namely, the enthusiastic inclusion of the primal, erotic, sensual, feral, deviant, and often marginalized aspects of self and culture.
Embedded in kink lineage are practices of consent, compassion, communication, and containment. These qualities create safer spaces for edgy facets of identity to explore and express in a way that can be accepted, loved and celebrated… in their release or their deeper integration into the Self.
This is what we do at Wholistic Kink:
We create permission driven containers that invite aspects of your being to be witnessed, empowered, guided, creatively collaborated with and, ultimately, reintegrated into your being as an integral part of who you are.
Our approach blends traditional kink and BDSM activities and frameworks with a host of other modalities, including:
- Internal Family Systems/Parts work -
- Somatic healing modalities (body/energy/breath work, movement/dance, meditation -
- Organic Intelligence -
- Bill Plotkin’s Nature-based map of the human psyche -
- Jungian practices of working with the unconscious -
- Theater and archetypal work -
- Intuitive/channeled guidance and working with the unseen realms -
- Ritual and ceremony -
- Trauma informed practices -
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Kyle Lovett
Educator & Pro Switch
I have over 10 years of experience in the realms of opening relating, lifestyle kink exploration and recovery from alcoholism/co-dependency and the spiritual new age waters. I now have a wealth of experience, knowledge and skills to support people on their path.
I am a bridge between many worlds that don’t always cross over and it’s my greatest honor to be the person who supports the separation in the culture of the communities to start to come together. This all starts within self exploration and self love. That is ultimately what I support whether that’s 1:1 or through publicly speaking about my experience, strength and hope.
Recovery, authentic creative expression and kink have been the three pillars to my own healing and it's my honor to educate, share stories and empower people through these topics. Unwinding shame, authentically being who you are without reserve and communicating to yourself and others how you choose to live your life are a few of the ways I support the collective.
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Ashley Berry
Educator & Pro Domme
After nearly two decades of working and playing the realms of transformation, personal growth, altered states of consciousness, and traditional healing arts, I found my way to conscious kink as a framework for personal development, empowerment, healing, pleasure and FUN.
If you had asked me 10 years ago if I would have a thriving career as a professional dominatrix, kink educator, and mentor to aspiring kink professionals, I would not have believed you. And yet, within 6 months of stepping across the threshold of this potent and ancient role, I knew my soul had found a calling.
Conscious kink, or as we call our particular approach, Wholistic Kink, is an amalgamation of BDSM and kink with a plethora of healing and expressive arts modalities. It is the most expansive and all encompassing container I have found to encounter and reclaim necessary parts of my own whole self, with an attitude of curiosity, play, and radical acceptance.