Pleasure as a resource for change.

Rewoven, founded by Susan Stark and Kendra Russell on Meanjin and Wurundjeri Country, offers experiential somatic training, workshops, and courses that explore the intersections of systemic violence and erotic liberation.

Susan and Kendra met over 7 years ago when working as Sexual Assault Workers for a grassroot community organisation in Meanjin. Attracted to each other's creative energy they soon found ourselves collaborating on new projects founded on our shared love of embodiment and commitment to liberating pleasure.   

In 2019, they developed Embrace - a support group and podcast on sex and intimacy for survivors of sexual violence. Little did they know, they were seeding the beginnings of many other dynamic, edgy and playful offerings that would continue to weave together and become Rewoven.  

Over the past two years they have been developing and delivering our pioneering workshops and training across the country as together they trust and follow the threads of Rewoven’s unfolding.  

Together they delight in diving deeply, dreaming expansively and savouring red wine.

  • ‍Susan is a passionate and warm practitioner and facilitator, who is delightfully and unapologetically at home in her body and exploring the challenges and joys of claiming an erotically expansive and vibrant life.

    She weaves together over three decades of experience, study, and personal exploration, and draws on her training as a Sexological Bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner® and Somatic Sex Coach. Susan has worked in a range of grassroot feminist organisations over the past 30 years, and is now working in private practice.  Susan has studied extensively with the School of Consent and an accredited Wheel of Consent® facilitator.

    ‍Susan has a special interest and long-term commitment to supporting survivors of sexual abuse and trauma reclaim their birthright of pleasure and sexual sovereignty.  In addition to sessions, Susan continues to offer groups on sex, pleasure and somatics to survivors as well as training and supervision to practitioners interested in working in these areas.

    ‍ Susan lives, works and plays in Kupidabin (aka Samford) in Meanjin (aka Brisbane) and offers individual and couple sessions as well as workshops and is co-organiser and owner of FEAST (the Festival of Embodiment and Sexual Transformation) www.feastunlimited.com.

    ‍For more information on her work please visit www.susanstark.com.au.

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  • Kendra is a social worker currently living in Naarm (Wurundjeri Country) with a decade of experience working in sexual & family violence as a counsellor, group-worker and community educator. She is currently working as a counsellor, external supervisor and a sessional academic.  

    Kendra is also completing her PhD in Criminology at the University of Melbourne.Their academic work examines the relationships between feminist sexual violence counselling, politicised somatics and witchcraft in the context of colonial modernity. She believes that personal transformation and collective liberation are profoundly spiritual processes. Kendra is an unapologetic abolitionist and centers this lens when working with systemic violence and trauma. 

    Underpinned by their lived experience of migration, queerness and family violence, Kendra’s work is guided by the notion that reconnecting with our bodies and erotic selves is vital to ending systems of domination and supremacy. Blending academic rigour and personal exploration, she is committed to resourcing individuals and communities to reclaim pleasure, connection and belonging in pursuit of collective liberation. 

     For more information on their work visit www.kendra-sulcs.com.

Susan Stark (she/her)

Kendra Russell (she/they)