casia sobolewski

pleasure as your compass.

work with me

  • "I felt safe from the first moment I entered Casia’s door. I am keen to come back and I am grateful that I learned “taking with limits” which was also super fun to experience. But the most I loved was her PRESENCE. Incredible healing for me! I am feeling so much more alive, centered and empowered."

  • "Casia's openness, perceptiveness and communication skills were very reassuring. It’s the kind of skill that’s difficult to teach. Her comments also helped me clarify what I was really looking for."

  • "Every session was mind blowing. 
I already feel more connected to myself, more trusting in my body and in others, and that the healing process is rolling thanks to you.
 Both my partner and I are really grateful."

  • "I am very grateful for the opportunity you provided for me to safely work through some of my fears, to reprocess sensations, to create newer non-traumatic memories, and to experience that acceptance you showed towards me."

  • "Thank you, truly, for holding space for me, and holding me physically. Thank you for not shaming me or judging me or mommy-ing me. Thank you for the gift you give of your whole self. I don't know if you realize that your mere presence on retreat is like a warm, soft blanket. I feel instantly calmed and safe when you are around. The way that you hold space for others is profound and deeply nourishing. "

  • "Casia’s presence was also an active and attuned guide and guidance— she is someone who names the invisible, invites inquiry curiosity, and brings the sacred into sharp, embodied clarity. There is a premise that “even the profane can be sacred.” Casia seems to know this intuitively. "

  • "Literally the embodiment of eroticism; boundaried, fierce, capable."

  • "I just felt so incredibly safe with her. The invitation into the erotic in a very safe way was and is palpable. She is a sacred gate-keeper, holding the portal open for anyone who is curious."

  • "What she offers is profoundly regulating. Potent in its subtlety. Fierce in its certainly. There’s something about the way she orients that makes my system say yes. Yes to breath, yes to staying, yes to going deeper. Yes to creative expression of it, yes to getting to what might want to be expressed and how. A limbic welcome home."

  • "I trusted her without needing to build a bridge. Anything and everything feels welcomed, embraced, not to be shamed or distorted but to be set free and expressed, so thoroughly not boxed up, not pidgion-holed. Utterly and thoroughly welcoming of diversity and non-binaryness of self expression for all. Her presence in the field of this work was not background — it was essential."

Casia (pr. Casha) is a somatic sex educator and pleasure coach based in Victoria, BC on unceded Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ territory. She works with women, queer, and exhausted people who are ready to stop living inside patriarchy's terms — and start building their lives from the inside out.

Her work is body-based, trauma-informed, and touch-inclusive. She is a certified Somatic Sex Educator and Sexological Bodyworker, a trained Surrogate Partner, and co-founder of The Himeros Project.

Ready to use pleasure as your compass? Connect with Casia to find the right container for you.

  • Use pleasure as a navigation tool — back to your body, your joy, your own life

  • Decondition from the systems that taught you to override yourself

  • Rebuild your relationship to desire, sovereignty, and erotic self-trust

  • Do this work in a sustained container — virtually, in community, or in person

What is Pleasure Coaching?

Pleasure is not a reward. It's not something you earn after the work is done, the kids are in bed, or the to-do list is finished. It's a signal — your body's way of telling you what's actually alive, what's actually yours, what's worth moving toward.

Most of us were trained out of that signal early. Capitalism needs you productive. Patriarchy needs you compliant. Colonialism needs you disconnected from your body and your land. Pleasure — real pleasure, sovereign pleasure — is threatening to all of those systems.

Matriarchal values offer a different orientation — toward care, reciprocity, embodied wisdom, and collective thriving rather than extraction and hierarchy. This work is part of that reorientation. Coming back into your body is not separate from coming back to each other.

This work is about reclaiming it.

Through somatic coaching, embodied practice, and sustained relational containers, I work with people who are ready to stop organizing their lives around fear, performance, and approval — and start navigating from the inside out.

This is not self-improvement. It is a return.

 

https://bodyjoy.org/a-conversation-with-casia-sobolewski/
https://www.allure.com/story/sexual-wellness-retreat
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Background, Training, & Employment

Co-Founder & Practitioner at The Himeros Project (previously The Apollo Project: Retreats for Men), 2018 - Current

Practitioner & Teacher with Back to the Body: Sensual Retreats for Women, 2018 - 2025

Board Member of the Association of Certified Sexological Bodyworkers, 2019 - 2012

Board Member of the Somatic Sex Educators Association, 2018 - 2022

“Like A Pro” Wheel of Consent with Dr. Betty Martin, 2018

Certified Somatic Sex Educator & Sexological Bodyworker, SSEA / Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education, 2017

Intern Surrogate Partner, International Professional Surrogates Association, 2017

Certified Holistic Sex Educator, Institute for Sexuality Education and Enlightenment, 2015 - 2018

Founder of Spit.Exposed, Toronto’s Queer & Feminist Porn, 2014 - 2019

Volunteer with Planned Parenthood on HIV Awareness, 2015

Founder of “Body Pride,” naked workshops for body love, 2012 - 2016

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