In this conversation, we speak with Taila Rose, somatic pleasure guide, cultural midwife, eros devotee, and founder of Rewilding Eros — a body of work exploring embodiment, intimacy, emotional expression, and the reclamation of our innate aliveness.
Together, we explore eros not simply as sexuality, but as a life force that moves through creativity, feeling, purpose, relationship, and our connection to nature and one another. Taila shares how modern culture often conditions us away from our instinctual bodies, emotional truth, erotic innocence, and cyclical nature, creating a profound sense of severance between mind, body, self, and community.
We speak about the ancient myth of Inanna and the remembering of older stories that predate many dominant cultural narratives. We reflect on how myths such as Inanna’s descent offer alternative frameworks for understanding feminine initiation, cyclical living, death and rebirth, and the rhythms that shape both psyche and nature — from the menstrual and lunar cycles to the wider Venus cycle itself. Together, we reflect on what it means to descend well, and the trust required to surrender to periods of dissolution with the understanding that rebirth often emerges through the very process of letting go.
Taila speaks candidly about her own journey with body dysmorphia, PMDD, depression, and the path that led her away from careers in criminal defence law and the NGO sector toward embodied work. Originally drawn toward psychology and the deeper questions of truth, justice, and humanity, she reflects on the growing realisation that many of the systems she moved through required a hardening away from her own sensitivity and life force.
We also explore the ways unexpressed emotion and nervous system contraction can manifest physically within the body, particularly in the realms of intimacy and sexuality. Taila reflects on her experiences working with both men and women, and how reconnecting with emotional expression, sensation, vulnerability, and embodied feeling can create profound shifts physically, emotionally, creatively, and relationally. Together, we speak about the larger possibilities contained within orgasmic states beyond sexuality alone — as openings within the body through which life force, sensation, emotion, and aliveness are able to move more freely.
Taila also shares the deeper intentions behind offerings such as Opening to Eros — a foundational container drawing together many of the modalities and pathways she has explored over the past decade — as well as gatherings such as Wild & Holy. We reflect on grief and love as deeply intertwined forces, depression as a messenger that something within us longs to be expressed and moved, and the importance of learning to follow emotion not as pathology, but as a kind of inner compass pointing us toward greater aliveness and wholeness.
Throughout the conversation, we reflect on embodiment, eros, emotional expression, creativity, community, and the possibility of returning to a more whole and fully alive relationship with ourselves, one another, and the living world.
Further Exploration:
Books & References
- Descent & Rising — Carly Mountain
- The Artist’s Way — Julia Cameron
Connect with Taila Rose:
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