Welcome to Open Hands, Soft Palms

You’re not broken. You’re learning, reconnecting, and awakening to deeper understanding.

You are not broken.
You are learning, reconnecting, growing, and awakening to a deeper understanding of yourself.

If you’ve found yourself here, it’s likely because something within you is asking for more — more self-understanding, more connection, more confidence, more clarity, more authenticity, or a deeper relationship with your body, emotions, relationships, and inner world.

Maybe you feel disconnected from yourself.
Maybe your relationships feel difficult to navigate.
Maybe you’ve spent years adapting, surviving, people-pleasing, shutting down, or carrying shame without ever truly understanding why.
Or maybe you’re simply seeking a space to explore who you are beneath the conditioning, pressure, expectations, and noise of everyday life.

You’re in the right place.

I’m Jacinta Lee — Sex & Intimacy Consultant, Counsellor, Sex Educator, Love, Sex & Relationship Coach, Registered Nurse, Yoga Teacher, Author, and Founder of Open Hands, Soft Palms.

But beyond my qualifications, I’m someone who understands what it feels like to experience disconnection, trauma, shame, self-abandonment, and the long journey back toward self-trust, embodiment, emotional safety, and authentic connection.

From Surviving to Self-Understanding: My Journey

In my early twenties, I entered therapy to begin addressing the complex layers of trauma I carried, including CSA, c-PTSD, ADHD, and dyslexia.

As I unpacked these experiences, I realised something important was missing:

I had never truly been taught how to understand myself.

I understood survival.
I understood hypervigilance, shame, self-protection, and disconnection.
But I didn’t understand emotional safety, embodiment, nervous system awareness, boundaries, communication, intimacy, self-worth, or what it meant to feel genuinely connected to myself and others.

I knew how to function.
I didn’t yet know how to feel safe being fully present within my own body and life.

That began to shift when I attended my first Shakti Circle.

What I found there was not pressure or performance, but compassion, emotional safety, curiosity, shared humanity, embodiment, and deeper self-awareness.

For the first time, I experienced spaces that encouraged understanding instead of shame, connection instead of performance, and curiosity instead of fear.

What I Learned — and Now Share With Others

Over the next decade, I immersed myself in studies and practices surrounding embodiment, nervous system awareness, psychology, intimacy, communication, somatic healing, yoga, relationship dynamics, sexuality, women’s health, emotional wellbeing, and conscious self-development.

I wasn’t becoming someone new.
I was learning how to reconnect with who I had always been beneath survival, conditioning, and disconnection.

Today, I bring together lived experience, formal training in the VITA Method, clinical experience as a Registered Nurse, and postgraduate studies in Sexology to support women, men, and couples in developing deeper self-awareness, confidence, communication, emotional safety, embodiment, intimacy, and authentic connection.

Who I Work With

I support women, men, and couples who:

• Feel disconnected from themselves, their bodies, emotions, or relationships and want to reconnect
• Want to better understand themselves, their patterns, needs, emotions, and ways of relating
• Desire deeper confidence, embodiment, emotional safety, and self-trust
• Value practical, science-backed education combined with embodied self-awareness
• Want healthier communication, intimacy, connection, and relational understanding
• Are navigating healing, personal growth, identity shifts, or self-discovery
• Are curious about embodiment, nervous system awareness, conscious relationships, or authentic self-development but aren’t sure where to begin
• Want to feel more present, connected, alive, grounded, and authentic within themselves and their lives

Whether you are exploring individually or together as a couple, my role is to help guide you toward greater understanding, connection, awareness, confidence, and authenticity.

What You’ll Find Here

At Open Hands, Soft Palms, you’ll find:

🌹 Embodiment and nervous system education designed to support self-awareness and emotional wellbeing
🌹 Practical tools to deepen body connection, emotional understanding, and self-trust
🌹 Relationship and intimacy education grounded in consent, communication, authenticity, and emotional safety
🌹 Educational experiences that support reflection, curiosity, confidence, and personal growth
🌹 One-on-one support, workshops, books, resources, and programs designed to help you reconnect with yourself and others in meaningful ways

This work is not about perfection, performance, or becoming someone else.

It’s about coming home to yourself.

It’s about understanding your body, your emotions, your patterns, your relationships, and your inner world with greater compassion, awareness, and clarity.

It’s about creating a more connected, authentic, informed, and empowered relationship with yourself and the people around you.

Ready to Begin?

This space is an invitation to slow down, reconnect, learn, reflect, explore, and grow — on your terms.

Explore the website, browse the books and resources, or join a program designed to support deeper self-understanding, embodiment, emotional wellbeing, authentic connection, and personal transformation.

Let’s walk this journey together — one open hand, one soft palm at a time.

With love,

Jacinta Lee