Sheri Winston
CNM, RN, BSN, LMT

Wholistic Sexuality
Teacher and Counselor

Founder & Executive Director of the
Center for the Intimate Arts

Sheri Winston is a medical professional, sexuality educator and author who is on a mission to transform our culture's attitudes about sex.

Sheri's journey began when she became a licensed massage therapist in 1980. She soon discovered that she felt called to become a midwife and began assisting and apprenticing at home births. That was rapidly followed by becoming a childbirth educator and doula (someone who provides professional labor support). In order to become a legal midwife, she attended nursing school and graduated valedictorian, summa cum laude, receiving her BSN (Bachelor's degree in Science of Nursing) and becoming a RN (registered nurse). Finally, she attended midwifery school for her graduate education, becoming a certified nurse-midwife and gynecology nurse-practitioner. 

Sheri has always been a teacher. During her first two decades of clinical practice, Sheri Winston also taught Childbirth Education & WomanCraft, classes on pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and women's health issues.* A decade ago, in response to a growing awareness of the need for accurate, comprehensive, accessible and empowering information about sex, she expanded into sexuality education and began development of what has become her major work, the Wholistic Sexuality Curriculum.

Sheri is now retired from clinical practice to focus full time on teaching Workshops and Counseling through the Center for the Intimate Arts. She also lectures and makes appearances around the country to talk about sex and Wholistic Sexuality. Sheri believes her twenty years in women's health care have given her an excellent foundation for sexuality education and counseling, and formed her unique approach.  She has also studied a wide variety of holistic healing modalities including integral health, herbalism, energy healing, psychological and emotional healing, women's health, and many hands-on healing techniques. 

She feels that life is for learning and believes that her current calling is to help transform our culture into one that celebrates sex as our vital life force, as a source of ecstasy, and as the glue and lubricant of delicious intimate relationships. She invites you to make your own journey to empowering yourself with information about your body, your potential and about Wholistic Sexuality!

Personal Mission Statement

I have a vision of a world where sex is normal and sacred, pleasure is valued, and intimate connection is honored and supported. My purpose in life is to be an agent of transformation and empowerment, especially around issues of sexuality.  In service to my mission, I offer empowering erotic education based on accurate information, conscious connection and an integrated view of sexuality. 

I am committed to deep integrity, personal responsibility and a reverence for pleasure. I delight in bringing more joy to the world and to supporting everyone in fully accessing their ecstasy and power.

My Goals & Intentions

I'm inspired to change our cultural models around sexuality in many ways. I want to facilitate healthy authentic relationships, beginning with our own relationship with our Self.  I want people to understand their sexuality, free themselves from the bindings of shame and fear, and fully experience their vast sexual potential.

One significant part of my vision is to transform the way people perceive the anatomy and function of male and female genitalia.  I wish to create a thorough understanding of exactly what's there and help everyone understand that our bodies, especially our sexual parts, are perfect, sacred, and designed to work wonderfully to give us enormous pleasure.  I believe this is essential information for all people to possess, as understanding how the body works facilitates not just the sexual response journey, but also is foundational to feeling empowered in multiple ways.

I seek to facilitate a healing process for men and women in connection to their own bodies, to their sexuality, and in relationships with intimate partners. My vision is of personal, cultural and planetary transformation of sexuality into an integrated, revered and celebrated aspect of being human.

 Juicy Blessings,
Sheri Winston

“Better Sex for a Better World”

* This early work is the foundation of the WomanCraft Curriculum, a small segment of the Wholistic Sexuality teachings that includes women's anatomy and physiology, vaginal/pelvic health, puberty, menstrual health, fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, breastfeeding, and menopausal health.

The term WomanCraft was first coined by the late, great Jeanine Parvati Baker.