Therapeutic Boudoir Photography sessions
Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada
We offer immersive, personalized, fun, therapeutic, sexually and sensually empowering, shame and self-doubt shattering boudoir photo sessions to women and couples who want to explore their natural eroticism and self expression while being gently guided and witnessed by a romantic duo, practitioners of internal, healing and visual arts, with over 20 years of experience in their fields, an internationally published, boudoir and fine art photographer Alex Maxim and a specialist in feminine arts of beauty, energy and sexual healing, etiquette, styling and modeling Veronika Maxim.
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The modern world has departed far from the fact that women are the very generative force of desire. Dressing beautifully, dancing naked, swaying your hips, touching and admiring your body are ancient forms of embodied medicine that regulate the nervous system, reconnect you to sensuality and root you in your body, making you magnetic, alive and erotically sovereign.
A desire of an embodied woman becomes expressive, not just for a performance or a transaction but for herself. Her sexuality becomes intuitive, powerful, discerning, self-directed filling the body with pleasure of aliveness. The more this beautiful feminine energy is seen, the more radiant it becomes. And nothing is more erotic, beautiful and powerful as a woman who is fully at home in her body.
We invite you to reconnect with your unique sensual or erotic expression, and it is entirely up to you how deeply you wish to venture in a safe and supported environment, where you will be gently guided to reveal the most beautiful facets of your unique femininity.
This is a space for healing, reconnection, empowerment, remembering, rewilding and returning your sensuality to its original owner - You. You might want to offer your boudoir portfolio as digital images or prints to your beloved or keep it to yourself. Either way we guarantee that it will be one of the most liberating and empowering experience you will have with yourself.
Alex and Veronika Maxim
Additional details:
A photo session lasts 2-3 hours, depending on your level of energy, and can be customized to meet your desires and constraints. Depending on your preferences, it will be conducted in a rented photo studio downtown Nanaimo or Vancouver, at your place, or in a secluded outdoor nature location.
Your images can be delivered completely unretouched, lightly retouched with minor touch-ups or fully and professionally retouched matching the quality of magazine covers.
Each session will start with Veronika’s gentle, intuitive guidance that will allow you to relax and open yourself up to the natural flow of feminine energy permeating your body.
We don’t encourage you to copy other images, poses or facial expressions, we guide you to discover your very own, unique self-expression through relaxation, dropping of all beauty and sexuality standards, and reconnection with yourself and your wonderful body.
You will need to arrange your own make-up and hair for the session. Minor touch ups can be provided by us. We recommend natural make-up with minimal powders or foundation. Any imperfections can be resolved with retouching preserving your natural look and skin texture.
You will need to provide your own clothes and accessories which we might be able to supplement with some of ours. When choosing your styling, we encourage you to wear something that feels naturally sexy and comfortable to you. The degree of exposure is totally up to you. Feel free to explore the options. It might be something that you secretly wanted to try on but never allowed yourself.
We recommend taking a relaxing bath the day before the shoot, letting go of all the worries and concerns, resting from the internet and external sources of information and having a good night sleep.
For even more immersive and healing experience we recommend booking a relaxing, face sculpting, lifting and lymph draining massage session with Veronika a day or two prior to the shoot.
See the details on her website Sunblossom.ca
Prices:
The price of a 2-3 hour long therapeutic photo session in Nanaimo is $1500+tax, Vancouver and Victoria - $2000+tax, for other areas, please inquire.
The price includes digital delivery of 5 retouched images. Additional retouched/unretouched photographs as well as art prints can be easily arranged on request. You will see the entire set of images from the session and will be able to select your favourites within 3-7 days after the session.
Each additional hour is priced at $400+tax
A non-refundable $400 deposit will be required to book a session.
Our Special Offerings
Self-practice that will help you look genuine in front of the camera
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Why is one woman magnetic on the photographs and another - just a beautiful picture?
In the course of my 9-year experience in fine art nude and boudoir modelling I have discovered one subtle skill that makes all the difference, and it is not only the relaxedness, the feeling, the flow or perfect posing.
It is a skill of being able to hold attention. The moment when the lens is directed at you, many shrink, try to please or to produce the perfect angle/version of themselves. This is when the 'frozen' poses, empty unexpressive eyes and rigid stretched smiles are born and that nagging feeling that you are so different in life, why doesn't the camera capture it.
There is another way: a woman is in the spotlight, in the focus of the camera, she is being looked at… and she remains herself. She doesn't hide behind a character, doesn't dissolve into shyness. She just lets herself be looked at. She breathes, she feels her body and is aware that she is here and she can be looked at. This state is a true magnet, not perfect features, not the rehearsed posing, but this inner composure when she receives attention and this attention doesn't intimidate her, but strengthens her presence. Then camera stops capturing the beautiful appearance and reveals the alive and genuine woman behind it. Reality is always stronger than perfection.
This skill can be learned. Not by leaning into confidence but by relaxing into allowing...
We'll email you a description of this short (3-5 minutes), easy to do at home practice developed by Veronika a few days before your session.
Sensual Tantric session for couples
Intimate boudoir photo session for couples exploring deeper and more genuine connection with each other.
Photo session with a snake
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Our unique deeply meditative and immersive photo session with a snake is your chance, by proxy, to come in touch with this power closely and intimately. Not that a photoshoot with a snake automatically awakens the kundalini energy, but if you allow yourself to surrender, open up completely, trust, feel and listen to the essence of the snake undulating on your body, you might feel the resonance with the one within you, if it is your intent and desire. It is one of the most precious and unforgettable experiences I have had both on my spiritual journey and on the path of deep feminine healing.
A coiled serpent slumbers deep within us... But when it suddenly awakens, we are forced to meet ourselves anew, often for the first time.
No matter how terrifying it is to be so free, bold, and original, to surrender to this primal force, nothing is so enticing and rewarding! And that reward is living your true nature, when the fire and spirit of freedom burn in your eyes and the passion for life becomes stronger than all the fears in the mind. And at the source of this secret power lies a powerful, healing, life-giving stream from the Earth.
- Veronika Maxim
This unique photo session with a trained boa constrictor snake and an experienced female snake handler will take place in a photo studio in Vancouver. Please contact regarding fees and booking arrangements.