The 2025 Imiloa Retreat Team
INSTRUCTOR BIOS BELOW
Dr. Saida Désilets
Co-Instructor
Dr. Saida Désilets wants to live in a world filled with audacious, sexually sovereign people living life on their own terms. As a TEDx speaker, researcher, counter-culture creatrix, body philosopher, and author, her work has touched the lives of millions globally. Dr. Saida's innovative approach to PsychoSexuality, desire, and pleasure invites both the public and professionals to better understand the importance of accessing their erotic genius. Her medically endorsed method integrates somatic awareness, neural and cellular re-patterning, and robust reframes of sensuality and sex, which all work in harmony to support the erotic individuation process. This work is an essential part of a medical protocol to transform sexual dysfunction with penetration and support sexual optimization, as well as part of the BrainTap and other Apps. When not researching or creating transformational programs, Dr. Saida enjoys leading Wilderness Safaris in South Africa and swimming in the Aegean Sea.
Barbara Collier
Co-Instructor
Barbara Collier has been guiding individuals, families, children, and communities toward trauma recovery and self-discovery for more than 30 years. She brings an expansive perspective informed by her work as an intensive care nurse, somatic trauma psychotherapist, certified Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) Practitioner, and certified Embodied Psychosexual Practitioner (EPSP™). With her compassionate and integrative approach, Barbara addresses the complexities of developmental, intergenerational, sexual, and social/historical trauma. Barbara’s expertise includes integrative touch and movement therapies wherein she supports humans alongside the wisdom of horses and nature with a focus on complex physical health conditions, developmental trauma, and chronic pain.
Aaron Michael
Co-Instructor
Aaron Michael, author of Optimal Sex Life, creator of Bedroom Masterclass, and the “World’s Leading Relationship, Intimacy, and Sexual Wellness Coach - Optimizing Sexual Health Beyond Dysfunction.” He is your coach’s coach and has dedicated himself to helping others discover, explore, and integrate their sexual sovereignty by providing a pragmatic, pleasure-based, adult, sex-positive sex education.
With over 5,000 hours of sexological bodywork, his work has influenced over 100,000 people and two venture-funded startups. Aaron has created multiple online courses, from 9 Naughty Nights to YEAHFAP to Awakening The Sensual Woman, which support individuals in giving and receiving ecstatic pleasure as well as enhancing their mental and physical arousal.
Aaron is sought out for his innovative approach to resolving issues such as genital pain, anorgasmia, premature ejaculation, penetration anxiety, mismatched arousal, and mental arousal. His method is at the core of scientifically proven and doctor-approved medical protocols for transforming sexual dysfunction, biohacking, and optimization.
He has an MA in Cognitive Semiotics, where he specialized in adult romantic attachment, courtship, and how the brain interprets love. With over 20 years of experience as an embodiment coach in the fields of dating, relationships, and sex, he crafts bespoke embodiment programs to meet the specific needs and goals of you and your loved ones.