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Tending the Bones

Reclaiming Pleasure After Transgenerational Sexual Trauma--A 13-Month Somatic Journey of Ancestral Ritual and Embodiment

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Tending the Bones

By: Pavini Moray PhD, Daniel Foor PhD
Narrated by: Pavini Moray PhD
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A 13-month guided pathway for healing transgenerational sexual trauma

Body-based practices, ancestral connection rituals, and reflective empowerment exercises to integrate trauma, build resilience, center pleasure, and reclaim wholeness


Healing from sexual trauma is deep, transformative, and life-changing work. And when we begin the journey to address not just our own traumas but those borne by our ancestors, we heal across generations—finding wholeness and reclaiming erotic wellness for ourselves while lovingly tending the harm and trauma carried in our lineages.

From altars to reverence practices, resilience plans to somatic resourcing, Tending the Bones holds you in care and power. Pavini Moray, PhD invites you to reconnect to the profound wisdom of your body—and your ancestors.

  • Part One: Build Inner Resources offers skills, practices, and resilience tools essential to healing the wounds of transgenerational sexual trauma
  • Part Two: Heal Trauma helps you acknowledge and integrate traumatic experiences and invites you to explore what justice means to you.
  • Part Three: Savor shows you how to connect and work with ancestral guides. It also explores principles of somatic sexuality for recovering wholeness and pleasure after sexual trauma.

Guided by the 13 lunar cycles of the year, each module includes a ritual, prayer, poem, daily practice, and worksheet for reflection and healing. With chapters like “Blessing Moon,” “Ancestor Moon,” “Sovereign Moon,” “Integration Moon,” and more, Tending the Bones takes a holistic, multidisciplinary approach to healing from sexual trauma and provides a safe container and solid foundation to explore this deep transformational work.

Engaging, warm, and authentic, Tending the Bones centers your experiences as a listener and survivor, whether you’ve experienced sexual trauma, are living the embodied impacts of your ancestors’ trauma, or both.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2024 Pavini Moray (P)2024 North Atlantic Books
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"From cover to cover, Tending the Bones blends and layers Pavini's intergenerational insights, compassion, sex research, and embodied experience. Their generous, uplifting guidance has the potential to heal us all—the walking wounded—with a fresh, visionary approach. This thirteen-month program rooted in ancestral ritual and somatic practice is exxxxcellent psycho-magic which gives me hope that we can create a more peaceful, pleasurable, loving society. Tending the Bones blew me away—in the best, sexy way."
—Annie Sprinkle, ecosex educator, artist, and coauthor of Assuming the Ecosexual Position

"In this brilliant, essential book of healing, Pavini Moray offers a clear, practical, and pleasure-centric path back to your body after trauma. Using the simple, powerful tools I recommend to all my students—breath, movement, vocalization, imagination, and clarity of intention—Tending the Bones gives you gentle yet powerful guidance on how you can work with and through your past to arrive warmly and ecstatically back home to yourself in the present."
—Barbara Carrellas, author of Urban Tantra

"Deep and heartfelt ... Pavini Moray offers a unique program to access your autonomy and your pleasure power. With this step-by-step guide, you can stay grounded as you engage with your ancestral trauma.... Tending the Bones helps you tap into all of your senses and sensibilities as you wend your way through ritual, poetry, journaling, and prayer toward your ongoing evolution. Dr. Moray shows us how our own healing is a tender practice we can weave throughout our life. What a beautiful gift!"
—Celeste Hirschman, MA, cofounder of the Somatica Institute and author of Coming Together, Making Love Real, and Cockfidence

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