Discover the realness within.
Transformational intimacy for big-hearted babes who want to love deeply without leaving themselves behind.
Tender Core offers embodied experiences in self-intimacy, pleasure, touch, consent and authentic connection.
For people who want more out of life
For the empaths, overgivers and big-hearts who love deeply, give generously and sometimes disappear inside other people’s needs.
For queer women, queer-curious women and late bloomers questioning what they were taught to want.
For mature women entering a more honest chapter. For people who have done the therapy, understand their patterns and are ready to feel change in their bodies.
For anyone drawn to chosen family, unconventional relationships and a life beyond the expected.
And for those who are simply sick of their own shit. You know the pattern. You know the story. Now you want somewhere to practise a different way of living.
You are not here to become more acceptable. You are here to become more alive.
We are living through a modern intimacy crisis
We have never had more ways to contact each other, yet so many of us feel lonely, touch-starved and unsure how to create real closeness.
We have less time for long conversations. Less courage for emotional risk. Fewer places to practise social depth.
Many of us have had our boundaries crossed, so we learnt to armour ourselves. We were taught how to perform, produce and survive, but rarely how to ask for care, receive pleasure, communicate a boundary or stay present when intimacy feels vulnerable.
Tender Core is a place to practise creating closeness again.
Intimacy you can practise
Tender Core creates embodied spaces where you can:
practise consent and honest boundaries
learn how to give and receive care
question what pleasure means to you
explore touch, sensuality and authentic expression
be witnessed without pressure to perform
stay connected to yourself while being close to someone else
This work lives beyond talking and theory. We use rituals, touch practices, relational experiments, pleasure education and shared experiences to create small changes your body can actually remember.
Something shifts when intimacy is practised together. Your body begins to discover that closeness can be honest, playful and safe.
Pleasure as a path back to yourself
Self-intimacy is the ability to know what you feel, need, want and prefer.
It is learning to enjoy your own company. To listen when your body speaks. To hold yourself through loneliness, heartbreak and change without disappearing from your own life.
It is what allows you to love deeply without abandoning yourself.
From there, intimacy expands. You become braver in friendship, more honest in love and more comfortable receiving. You begin to choose relationships that can meet the person you really are.
create relationships where our full selves can live.
TENDER CORE
Why I created Tender Core
I began this work because I was searching for intentional, emotional, spiritual and connected touch from an embodied woman.
When I could not find the experience I was longing for, I began creating it.
Through one-to-one touch sessions, I discovered that people were rarely seeking touch alone. They were seeking intimate experiences. Closeness without pressure. A place to be real. A chance to question their pleasure and discover what it felt like to receive.
I began creating live sensual massage experiences so people could witness what safe, soft pleasure and intimacy could look like.
Again and again, people asked me:
Where can we go to practise this with others?
Tender Core became my answer.
Why my work is different
I am queer. I have had to pull apart compulsory heterosexuality and inherited ideas about sex, love and relationships, then ask what is actually possible.
I did not learn this work through theory alone.
My education has taken me through sex work, sexual shame, performance, touch, consent and the creation of boundaries that protected my body, heart and spirit.
I have taken my clothes off in front of hundreds of people and performed transmissions of authentic intimacy. I have created experiential playgrounds where people can meet what is happening inside their bodies in real time.
My work has been shaped through bodies, rooms, rituals, risk and the trust of hundreds of clients and participants.
I do not ask you to understand intimacy only with your mind. I create experiences that let your body practise something new.
The skills of intimacy are the skills of life
To ask.
To listen.
To receive.
To honour a no.
To stay present with a yes.
To risk honesty.
To reveal something tender and discover that you are still worthy of love.
Shame blocks pleasure. Fear blocks vulnerability. When our hidden thoughts and desires are met without judgement, we feel less isolated. We recover our freedom, our sensation and our capacity to be fully alive.
Expressing our true selves is an antidote to the modern intimacy crisis.
The world I want to help create
I want us to know how to create closeness instead of waiting for it to happen.
I want friendships treated with the devotion we reserve for lovers. I want people who know how to ask, listen, receive, repair and tell the truth.
I want us to romance our lives, protect human touch as sacred and build stronger tribes of relational love.
This work happens alone and together!!! I need you!
We build a home inside ourselves. Then we
WHO IS TENDER CORE FOR?
Tender Core is for the over-givers.
The lovers. The carers. The people pleasers. The emotional support humans. The “don’t worry, I’ve got it” people.
Do you work in Social Services? Health Care? A Nurse? A Therapist? Teacher? A Mother? I SEE YOU!!!!!!!
Women, queer women and queer folks 30+ who have become really fucking good at holding everyone else…
You give your time.
Your attention.
Your energy.
Your care.
Your partner.
Your kids.
Your body.
Your emotional labour.
You know how to read a room.
You know what everyone else needs.
You know how to make people feel comfortable.
But what happens when the attention turns towards you?
Can you receive without immediately giving something back?
Can you ask for what you want without watering it down?
Can you be touched without performing?
Can you rest without earning it?
Can you disappoint someone in order to stay loyal to yourself?
Can you let yourself be seen, wanted, celebrated, held?
Because somewhere along the way, you may have learned that being needed feels safer than having needs.
And fuck, that gets exhausting…. and youve problem burnt out dozens of times already.
Tender Core is about changing that.
Not by becoming selfish or caring less.
But by finally including yourself in all that love you so freely give away.
More receiving.
More boundaries.
More pleasure.
More creativity.
More intimacy.
More play.
More honest self-expression.
Less performing a life.
More actually living one.
You don’t need to burn your entire life down.
Just begin to realise that you cant give from an empty cup babe. Lets fill yours.
How can I do
Tender Core?
TENDER CORE
A body of work devoted to deeper self-connection, body liberation, pleasure, intimacy & aliveness.ALIVENESS COACHING — 1:1 private journey (3 OR 6 MONTHS)
A personalised journey back to yourself — and toward who you're becoming. (ONLINE & IN PERSON)TENDER CORE — 6-month group journey (FEB 2027) (ANY GENDER OR SEXUALITY)
Feel. Receive. Express.
A sustained practice in building your capacity for pleasure, intimacy, creativity, connection and being fully alive within community.THE ANTIDOTE — immersive retreat (NOV 6-9) (8 spots only)
The antidote to disconnection.
A concentrated in-person experience of getting out of your head and back into your body through feeling, receiving, expression, pleasure, play, intimacy and connection.
TENDER HOUSE — monthly community gathering (October 3rd 11am-2pm melb)
A place to belong, connect and keep showing up. (QUEER WOMEN LEANING)
A monthly gathering for the Tender Core community to slow down, meet beyond the surface and practise deeper connection through conversation, shared experiences, creativity, food, play and togetherness.TENDER CORE LIVE — (OCTOBER COMING SOON) talks + matchmaking + human experiments - (ALL GENDER ANY SEXUALITY)
Where we practise connection, together.
Listen, learn, meet people and actually experiment with what deeper connection can look like.TOUCH PORTAL — embodied touch experience (QUEER WOMEN LEANING)
A practice in giving, receiving and connection.
Exploring consensual, non-goal-oriented touch as a pathway into body awareness, boundaries, receiving and intimacy.
And underneath all five offers is the same Tender Core methodology:
FEEL → RECEIVE → EXPRESS = ALIVENESS
There is also a philosophical relationship between the words:
Tender Core is the world.
Becoming is the individual journey.
Aliveness is the collective practice.
The Antidote for spaciousness.
Touch Portal is the playground for touch.
Tender Core LIVE the exploration of human connection.
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