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PODCAST

Esencia

Catrina Armendariz

A podcast on sensual self-care, sacred sexuality and intimacy hosted by Hawaii’s leading sexologist, Catrina. RECLAIM and ENLIVEN your SENSUALITY, feel more EMPOWERED in your relationships, have the BEST SEX, and live a life FULL OF MAGIC. Join me as I share pleasure-centered wisdom, practices, relationship tips, and personal insights to ignite your passion in life and love.

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All Episodes

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14. Saturn’s Fire: Playing the Long Game in Love,...

Esencia ·

2025/11/12

What if you’re not behind in love?What if Saturn is simply preparing you for the kind of union that's a match to your depth? In this deeply personal and illuminating transmission, Catrina shares the long arc of her 19-year Saturn Mahadasha — a sacred timeline of karmic relationships, feminine refinement, heartbreak, discipline, and devotion. Through the lens of Jyotish (Vedic astrology), she unpacks how Saturn initiates us into emotional maturity, spiritual leadership, and sovereign self-love. If

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65:29

13: When Saturn Breaks You Open: A Story of Rebirth,...

Esencia ·

2025/11/10

In this episode, I share a raw transmission recorded during 2023's Saturn Retrograde. I was in the 2nd phase of my Sade Sati (Saturn's transit through the house before, of and after the moon) and the 17th year (of 19 years) of my Saturn Mahadasha. This is from the lens of Jyotish / Vedic Astrology. My natal Saturn is retrograde in Scorpio (indicating a more intense and interiorized activation of Saturn's themes), and this entire Saturn era has been a time of deep karmic reckoning, grief, and

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90:41

Healing Dysregulated Arousal from the Inside Out:...

Esencia ·

2025/11/07

This is not your average sexual empowerment story. In this deeply personal episode, I share the unexpected journey of injuring myself during a self-pleasure practice, being diagnosed with Mycoplasma (specifically, Ureaplasma), and the spiral of shame and fear that followed, as well as the hormonal dysregulation this pointed to. This is a story about arousal literacy. The all too familiar experience you have when your body says “yes” whilst your nervous system screams “not yet.” It’s about reclaiming

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37:53

Inside My Dominatrix Era: Power, Eros & Sacred Kink

Esencia ·

2025/10/13

In this raw, intimate solo episode, Catrina invites you into the sacred, taboo, and wildly illuminating chapter of her life as a professional dominatrix.Through erotic storytelling and soul-level reflections, she shares how sensual domination became the unexpected portal to reclaiming her power, boundaries, erotic truth, and capacity to lead—not just in scenes, but in love, life, and business. You'll hear: The moment she first felt the magnetic pull of financial domination How the Erotic

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25:59

Seduced Into Self-Trust: My Journey Through Desire,...

Esencia ·

2025/08/28

In this raw backyard recording, I revisit season one of the show and the journey that unfolded as I unapologetically led with desire. What started as moments of “cringe” listening back, turned into a deep celebration of self-trust, erotic aliveness, and the art of letting life be mystery-led. I share how living on the Big Island opened me back into my feminine, how a fated encounter with Tejas (Sanskrit for “fire”) awakened a new chapter of reclamation, and how learning to walk with desire—without

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42:06

Scale with Pleasure: How Orgasm Shapes Your Business...

Esencia ·

2025/08/10

Step into a conversation that fuses sacred sexuality, sovereignty, and unapologetic success.In this 7-7 portal recording, Ana Gasol — womb-led business mentor, priestess of wealth, and former Cambridge scientist — shares how she transformed personal challenges into a pleasure-powered business and leadership path. We explore cult recovery, reclaiming power from the shadow, the art of pleasure-led manifestation, and why the same principles that spark cervical orgasms can also ignite quantum leaps in

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47:14

Holding the Expansion: Masculine Leadership with...

Esencia ·

2025/07/11

What does it mean to truly hold the expansion? When life shapeshifts, identities fall away, and your next level calls you forward?In this powerful episode, I sit down with Jakob Gricar. Trauma-informed coach, retreat leader, and masculine mirror for a raw, resonant conversation on nervous system alchemy, masculine integrity, identity death, and leading through chaos. We explore: • What women really crave in masculine presence • How to stay anchored when life pulls you into the unknown • Shame,

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16:35

When Repair Isn’t Mutual | Loving Without Losing...

Esencia ·

2025/06/15

Welcome to Season 2 of Come With Me — a podcast devoted to the portals that initiate us into deeper love, wilder truth, and unapologetic embodiment.In this opening episode, I share a deeply personal story of rupture with the woman who raised me — my Samoan grandmother — and the emotional reckoning that followed when repair wasn’t possible. This isn’t just a story about family; it’s a reflection on what happens when love remains… but safety, attunement, and accountability do not. We explore: The

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01:35:14

My Partner's Invitation into my Self-Pleasure Practice

Esencia ·

2024/03/03

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24:01

Multiorgasms vs. Orgasmic States - Audio Only

Esencia ·

2024/03/03

Welcome to an enlightening podcast episode that encourages the exploration and celebration of female pleasure. In this empowering dialogue led by Catrina Armendariz, a respected somatic therapist, sex and intimacy coach, our listeners engage in an insightful journey into the mysteries of female orgasms.Inspired by her own personal journey into understanding her sexuality, Catrina passionately shares her early experiences and evolution towards embracing multi-orgasmic states and exploring pleasure

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18:48

The Four Types of Sex (Primary Motivations) - Audio Only

Esencia ·

2024/03/03

In this episode, Catrina introduces the four key reasons why we engage in sexual activities. Delve into the profound connection between sexual energy and consciousness, and uncover the profound reasons for our seemingly insatiable desire for sex and orgasms. Catrina applies the teachings of Tao and Tantra and various embodiment practices to explore these motivations, namely: reproduction, recreation, restoration and transformation. Each reason holds its own unique hue in our sexual palette, casting

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24:55

Multiorgasms vs. Orgasmic States

Esencia ·

2024/03/01

Welcome to an enlightening podcast episode that encourages the exploration and celebration of female pleasure. In this empowering dialogue led by Catrina Armendariz, a respected somatic therapist, sex and intimacy coach, our listeners engage in an insightful journey into the mysteries of female orgasms. Inspired by her own personal journey into understanding her sexuality, Catrina passionately shares her early experiences and evolution towards embracing multi-orgasmic states and exploring pleasure

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19:16

The Four Types of Sex (Primary Motivations)

Esencia ·

2024/03/01

In this episode, Catrina introduces the four key reasons why we engage in sexual activities. Delve into the profound connection between sexual energy and consciousness, and uncover the profound reasons for our seemingly insatiable desire for sex and orgasms. Catrina applies the teachings of Tao and Tantra and various embodiment practices to explore these motivations, namely: reproduction, recreation, restoration and transformation. Each reason holds its own unique hue in our sexual palette, casting

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17:54

My Glass Wand Self-Pleasure Practice

Esencia ·

2024/02/29

Embark on a wonderfully intimate journey with your host, Catrina Armendariz, who opens up about the transformative power of cervical orgasm. A somatic therapist, sex and intimacy coach, and founder of Esencia, Catrina discusses her personal experiences with self-pleasure, erotic energy, and body consciousness. She also shares her insights gained from over 30 years of tantric and embodiment practices. The conversation revolves around her third experience with cervical orgasm since starting the

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49:06

Yoni Dearmouring and Cultivating Emotional Safety

Esencia ·

2023/10/22

Does your yoni tense up prior to or during penetration? This episode delves into the process of yoni darmouring as a means of cultivating inner-safety and unlocking receptivity on all levels of mind-body-soul. Join me as I share a bit of my own journey through dearmouring practices. Yoni Dearmouring is the practice of dissolving barriers to intimacy on all levels: energetic, psycho-emotional, and the physical. The physical practices such as massage are most accessible; however, the deeper work

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40:58

Transcendental and Cervical Orgasms

Esencia ·

2023/10/16

I just had my first cervical orgasm since completing my four-year celibacy last year. In this episode, I share the beauty that it was, it's healing and purifying qualities, as well as cross-overs with the HOURS-LONG energetic and transcendental orgasms I experienced in Tantric practices in India. References: Kundalini Yoga, the Microcosmic Orbit and ancient Taoist Sexual Reflexology, Tao Tantra.

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