Books by Author Pavini Moray, PhD
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ReviewsIn this deep and heartfelt book, 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. Their writing is clear, accessible and thorough as they travel with you on your journey. Tending the Bones helps you tap into all of your senses and sensibilities as you wend your way through ritual, poetry, journaling and prayer towards 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 Co-founder, Somatica Institute Author: Coming Together | Making Love Real | Cockfidence |
"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 13 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, co-author of Assuming the Ecosexual Position—The Earth as Lover
Annie Sprinkle
Ecosex educator, artist, co-author of Assuming the Ecosexual Position—The Earth as Lover
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: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
Barbara Carrellas
Author of Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
Tending the Bones offers a brilliant and much-needed map of embodied and ancestral pathways for transforming inherited sexual trauma and accessing pleasure that is whole. The thirteen-moon journey Pavini offers unabashedly roots in the body, welcomes creative exploration and calls us to trust what we deeply know. This book is chock-full of exquisite invitations and simple yet profound ritual practices for healing and cultivating connection with supportive ancestors. Readers receive clear instruction in discernment, boundaries, to navigate ancestral trauma effectively and with grace. Pavini has crafted such a powerful and unique blueprint toward creating legacies of erotic wellness and nourishing pleasure ~ this book is a treasure!
Taya Mâ Shere
Priestess, host of Jewish Ancestral Healing,
Founder of From the Deep
Taya Mâ Shere
Priestess, host of Jewish Ancestral Healing,
Founder of From the Deep
In Tending the Bones, Pavini Moray, a wise witch and a somatic sex therapist, presents a guidebook for intergenerational trauma healing and imbues it with potent spells that can be used to nurture erotic embodiment. Moray's method for addressing trauma does not promise a simple cure but emphasizes a lifelong commitment to continuous practices, chosen because they foster sexual well-being in one’s body and in one’s lineage.
The book guides readers through a three-part journey: starting with preparatory practices that help reconnect with one’s body, then moving through ways to deal with sexual trauma, and culminating in practices that savor the aliveness we carry in our bodies. This aliveness has been passed down from our ancestors. Tending the Bones reminds us to pass this on to our descendants.
Joseph Kramer, PhD
Founder Sexological Bodywork
The book guides readers through a three-part journey: starting with preparatory practices that help reconnect with one’s body, then moving through ways to deal with sexual trauma, and culminating in practices that savor the aliveness we carry in our bodies. This aliveness has been passed down from our ancestors. Tending the Bones reminds us to pass this on to our descendants.
Joseph Kramer, PhD
Founder Sexological Bodywork
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Reviews:"Weaving experiential practice with hard-won insight, this book is indispensable for anyone who wants to lead in a powerful, embodied way."
David Treleaven, PhD, author of Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness "This book addresses one of the biggest challenges of leadership: how to hold on to your humanity while maintaining empathy for those you lead, all while meeting your bottom line.
Nir Eyal, Best selling author of Hooked & Indistractable |
HOW TO HOLD POWER: A Somatic Approach to Becoming a Leader People Love and Respect
Essential skills for today’s leaders: learn how to embody your ethics, earn your team’s trust, and dismantle toxic work culture
Leaders and managers everywhere are learning the importance of creating safe, satisfying workplaces rooted in principles of social justice. But many of us who try to lead with ethics and integrity struggle with embracing a position of power and authority. You might worry about “being bossy,” unintentionally disrespecting others, or making the wrong call—and in the process, put your mind and body under so much stress that you burn out.
Somatic educator and coach Pavini Moray argues that the secret to being an ethical, inspirational boss is rooted in our own bodies. In more than 30 simple exercises, reflections, and daily practices, you’ll learn how to:
Drawing from client case studies and their own experience as a manager, Moray teaches foundational embodiment practices—breath, grounding, observing, centering, and moving—through concrete examples that show how to use these skills in a variety of common workplace settings. By learning to practice embodied leadership presence, you can become a boss who truly listens to your employees; leads with inspiration; and brings your whole self to work every day.
Essential skills for today’s leaders: learn how to embody your ethics, earn your team’s trust, and dismantle toxic work culture
Leaders and managers everywhere are learning the importance of creating safe, satisfying workplaces rooted in principles of social justice. But many of us who try to lead with ethics and integrity struggle with embracing a position of power and authority. You might worry about “being bossy,” unintentionally disrespecting others, or making the wrong call—and in the process, put your mind and body under so much stress that you burn out.
Somatic educator and coach Pavini Moray argues that the secret to being an ethical, inspirational boss is rooted in our own bodies. In more than 30 simple exercises, reflections, and daily practices, you’ll learn how to:
- Nurture trust with clients and coworkers
- Ground and re-center when you’re thrown off by a mistake or problem
- Soothe the “Ouch!” of negative feedback
- Break away from grind and hustle culture
- Turn workplace conflict into a source of positive change and growth
- Help your employees voice their own needs and feel heard
- Understand the nuances of consent beyond contract negotiations
- Gracefully acknowledge mistakes
- Repair relationships with employees, colleagues, and clients
Drawing from client case studies and their own experience as a manager, Moray teaches foundational embodiment practices—breath, grounding, observing, centering, and moving—through concrete examples that show how to use these skills in a variety of common workplace settings. By learning to practice embodied leadership presence, you can become a boss who truly listens to your employees; leads with inspiration; and brings your whole self to work every day.
Advance Praise
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“Perfectly timed and necessary reading for today’s leaders. How to Hold Power is filled with inspiring insights, stories, and practical exercises to implement right away. Reading this book feels like Pavini Moray is sitting calmly beside you, ushering you on a journey to becoming a more grounded, impactful, and sought-out leader. Highly recommend this book!”
~Carrie Melissa Jones, community builder, entrepreneur, and community management consultant “Drawing from decades of experience in somatics, Pavini breaks leadership down into its most essential components: boundaries, consent, and listening. Chock full of effective and practical suggestions for how to deal with workplace triggers and conflict, How to Hold Power will help you develop a meaningful leadership practice. Filled with compassion and wisdom, this book is a must-read book for every leader who wants to hold their power with skills and grace.” ~Becky Margiotta, author of Impact with Integrity: Repair the World Without Breaking Yourself and cofounder of the Billions Institute “Pavini offers a unique voice in the world of embodied leadership. They can only be described as one who has great courage and has worked hard to accomplish and realize what it means to be embodied in truth and wholeness. Breaking down a system to understand how to realize this is an invaluable offering to the world at a time when it is deeply needed.” ~Lucia Horan, 5Rhythms Lineage holder and Executive Somatic Coach “Pavini Moray is compassionate about the pressures those in positions of leadership face, having lived those pressures, while at the same time holding those leaders to a high standard. The book shows how a path of development based on connecting to our sensations and emotions allows us to be better bosses. In addition, it remains practical and grounded and provides leaders a set of practices to be the bosses they aspire to be. It is a must-read!” ~Pete Hamill, PhD, senior teacher at Strozzi Institute and founder of Uncommon Leaders Ltd “With a balance of personal stories, humor, and notes on somatic leadership, Pavini Moray delivers an easy-to-read book that will benefit a wide range of folks at every level of leadership.” ~Meredith Broome, Master Somatic Coach |
“How to Hold Power is a practical and invaluable guide that is accessible, down-to-earth, insightful, and honest. It will help readers transform the way they lead and the way they live their lives. If you are ready to rethink your relationship to leadership and power, to lead with compassion and empathy, to strengthen your communication and listening skills, and to work on creating and honoring boundaries, read this book, work through its exercises, and be ready to become a boss or leader that inspires others.”
~Jennifer Lenhart, owner and lead teacher at Satsang Yoga Studio, Berea, OH “By combining content with real-time practices, Dr. Moray lays out an easy-to-follow roadmap that guides the reader on a journey of self-awareness, self-acceptance, and finally, self-leadership—skills that any boss must master before they can lead others. How to Hold Power is sure to become an essential resource for any boss who wants to pursue personal growth toward more conscious leadership. ~Michelle Coyle, president of BGSD Strategies Reading How to Hold Power, I kept coming back to one overwhelming thought: How I wish I’d had this book decades ago! It’s full of wisdom, insight, and practices that will be invaluable not just for managers but for anyone taking leadership in an organization or finding themself in a position of influence in a group. Moray’s metaphor of the dragon tail—the extra weight and impact your words have when you take up a position of authority—alone would have saved me many challenging conflicts! I look forward to using these teachings and will recommend the book to my students and trainees. ~Starhawk, Author, activist, permaculture designer and teacher “Dr. Pavini Moray has crafted a mind and heart-opening journey of discovery for anyone in the world of work and beyond. How to Hold Power belongs alongside all of your best business and management books, and by your bedside. For the business leader, you will get immediate practices that open avenues of empathy and vision. For visionaries, you will find delightful pathways to patience, presence and perseverance.” ~Steven Hoskinson, founder of Organic Intelligence
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PUBLICITY
For Publicity inquiries, contact Michelle Phan at North Atlantic Books: [email protected]
For Publicity inquiries, contact Michelle Phan at North Atlantic Books: [email protected]
