Lua Menezes
Sex and Relationship Expert, Educator & Writer
Exploring sexuality, pleasure, and connection for a more fulfilling life.
Lua Menezes is a Brazilian sex and relationship expert, writer, and educator based in Aotearoa New Zealand. For more than a decade, she has been supporting individuals and couples in exploring sexuality, intimacy, and relational well-being.
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Her work bridges therapy, somatic awareness, and pleasure activism, helping people cultivate deeper connection, pleasure, and self-understanding. In Brazil, Lua became widely recognised for her educational work through Escola Lasciva, an online school she founded in 2018 dedicated to sexuality and pleasure studies. Since then, she has taught over 4,000 students across 27 countries, leading workshops, retreats, and mentorship programmes that centre body literacy, desire, and relational health.
Lua is also the author of
Rio Profano, an acclaimed erotic novel exploring desire, embodiment, and love.
Lua is also the
author of Rio Profano, an acclaimed erotic novel exploring desire, embodiment, and love.
Her writing and public work have appeared in national and international outlets, including Glamour Brasil, where she writes about sexuality, gender, and relationships.
Now based in Auckland
Lua brings her experience to Aotearoa with a commitment to creating spaces where pleasure and healing can coexist — spaces where people feel safe to explore the complexity of their desire, their bodies, and their relationships.
Areas I Work With
01.
Sexuality & desire
Expanding pleasure, understanding desire, addressing changes or challenges in libido, navigating mismatches, and reconnecting to your erotic self.
02.
Relationships & intimacy
Communication, conflict, emotional closeness, patterns that repeat, and finding your way back to connection after rupture.
03.
Meaning, purpose &
self-understanding
Making sense of your inner world, clarifying what matters to you, listening to forgotten longings, and finding direction when life feels uncertain or unfulfilled.
Meaning, purpose & self-understanding
Making sense of your inner world, clarifying what matters to you, listening to forgotten longings, and finding direction when life feels uncertain or unfulfilled.
04.
Emotional blocks
& feeling stuck
When life feels repetitive, empty, unclear, or disconnected from who you want to be.
Emotional blocks & feeling stuck
When life feels repetitive, empty, unclear, or disconnected from who you want to be.
05.
Self-esteem & confidence
Feeling more grounded, worthy, expressive, authentic, and connected to your needs.
06.
Relational patterns & family dynamics
Understanding what you’ve inherited, how attachment styles shape your relationships, and finding new possibilities beyond old emotional patterns.
07.
Non-monogamy, open relationships & kink
Navigating the complexities of consensual non-monogamy, opening or reshaping relationships, and exploring your erotic identity with curiosity and safety.
08.
Healing from trauma
Especially sexual and relational trauma, always at your pace, with safety and care.
09.
Gender, identity
& social narratives
Understanding how gender norms, cultural expectations, minority stress, and social narratives shape your intimate and emotional life, supporting you towards healing and self-determination.
Gender, identity & social narratives
Understanding how gender norms, cultural expectations, minority stress, and social narratives shape your intimate and emotional life, supporting you towards healing and self-determination.
10.
Embodiment
& body connection
Reconnecting to sensations, pleasure, boundaries, and bodily wisdom.
Embodiment & body connection
Reconnecting to sensations, pleasure, boundaries, and bodily wisdom.
11.
Life transitions
Endings, beginnings, migration, identity shifts, and the thresholds where you are becoming someone new or remembering who you were meant to be.
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Her work bridges talking therapy, somatic awareness, and pleasure activism, helping people cultivate deeper connection, pleasure, and self-understanding. In Brazil, Lua became widely recognised for her educational work through Escola Lasciva, an online school she founded in 2018 dedicated to sexuality and pleasure studies. Since then, she has taught over 4,000 students across 27 countries, leading workshops, retreats, and mentorship programmes that centre body literacy, desire, and relational health.
Lua is also the author of
Rio Profano, an acclaimed erotic novel exploring memory, embodiment, and desire.
Her writing and public work have appeared in national and international outlets, including Glamour Brasil, where she writes about sexuality, gender, and emotional life.
Now based in Auckland
Lua brings her experience to Aotearoa with a commitment to creating spaces where pleasure and healing can coexist — spaces where people feel safe to explore the complexity of their desire, their bodies, and their relationships.
Lua is also the author of
Rio Profano, an acclaimed erotic novel exploring memory, embodiment, and desire.
Her writing and public work have appeared in national and international outlets, including Glamour Brasil, where she writes about sexuality, gender, and emotional life.
Now based in Auckland
Lua brings her experience to Aotearoa with a commitment to creating spaces where pleasure and healing can coexist — spaces where people feel safe to explore the complexity of their desire, their bodies, and their relationships.
Exploring sexuality, pleasure, and connection for a more fulfilling life.
Lua Menezes is a Brazilian sex and relationship expert, writer, and educator based in Aotearoa New Zealand. For more than a decade, she has been supporting individuals and couples in exploring sexuality, intimacy, and relational well-being.
Her work bridges talking therapy, somatic awareness, and pleasure activism, helping people cultivate deeper connection, pleasure, and self-understanding. In Brazil, Lua became widely recognised for her educational work through Escola Lasciva, an online school she founded in 2018 dedicated to sexuality and pleasure studies. Since then, she has taught over 4,000 students across 27 countries, leading workshops, retreats, and mentorship programmes that centre body literacy, desire, and relational health.