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Meet Atena Martelloni: exploring Eros as a tool for transformation

Meet Atena Martelloni: exploring Eros as a tool for transformation

Meet Atena Martelloni, a sexual wellness and intimacy advocate and erotic performer exploring Eros, sensuality, healing and authentic expression.

By Isobel Clark & Atena Martelloni 2 min read 4 September 26 2 min read 4 September 26
Practice
1-1 sex education and erotic performance
Based in
Bologna, Italy
Sessions from
€100
TL;DRIn 60 words

Atena Martelloni is a sexual wellness and intimacy advocate, erotic and ritual performer, and Ecstatic Dance curator. After 15 years travelling the world, she now creates spaces centred on freedom, expression and connection. In this interview, Atena shares how sexuality transformed her life, why Eros fuels her creativity and what she hopes others can discover through exploring their sensual intelligence.

Atena Martelloni is a sexual wellness and intimacy advocate, erotic and ritual performer, and Ecstatic Dance curator who has spent over a decade creating spaces for self-discovery, expression and connection.

After 15 years of travelling the world, Atena sees Eros as far more than sexuality. For her, it is a life force tied to creativity, authenticity and transformation. We spoke to Atena about her journey, the role of sensuality in healing, creating spaces where people feel comfortable enough to explore, and why dancing naked might just be her favourite vice.

Isobel Clark

How would you describe yourself in 3 words?

Atena

Sensitive, Deep, Passionate

Meet Atena Martelloni: exploring Eros as a tool for transformation
Meet Atena Martelloni: exploring Eros as a tool for transformation
Isobel Clark

Tell us more about yourself…

Atena

Traveling the world for the past 15 years has been my greatest education. It’s given me a life full of depth, adventure, healing and unforgettable experiences.

Yoga and ecstatic dance saved my life so I am now creating spaces for freedom, expression, and connection, where I can share those wisdoms.

I embrace intensity and always seek positive transformation for me and the collective, for me Eros is a life force: a source of creativity, authenticity, deep connection and is what fuels my life.

Isobel Clark

What services do you offer on Sensuali?

Atena

1:1 Sex educational sessions as well as erotic performances. I also offer nuru massage and occasional intimacy workshops.

Atena Martelloni: Italian sex educator
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Isobel Clark

What turns you on?

Atena

Beauty, emotional intelligence, care, slow conscious touch.

Isobel Clark

What was your journey into this world?

Atena

Crazy, intense. I could write a Netflix series about my life.

Isobel Clark

What do the first 60 minutes of your day look like?

Atena

Tea or Cacao and meditation in front of my Altar.

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Isobel Clark

Why do you do what you do?

Atena

Because it saved my life and it’s now the fuel of my life, my mission is to help anyone to live sexuality in the most empowering way.

Isobel Clark

What is an unexpected pleasure you discovered in your work?

Atena

When people look at me with such curiosity about what I’m sharing, as if they’ve never heard it before.

Isobel Clark

What should more people know about your work?

Atena

That is always useful no matter what level of experience you are.

Sex educator and performer, Atena Martelloni: lingerie shot
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Isobel Clark

What’s your superpower?

Atena

I know how to make people comfortable.

Isobel Clark

We love vices. What’s yours?

Atena

To find environments where I can dance naked and feel safe.

Atena Martelloni: sex education in Bologna
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Isobel Clark

Who are your sensual inspirations?

Atena

Hedone and the family that works behind it (me included now)!

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Isobel Clark

Isobel is a writer and creative based in Paris. She has been working with Sensuali since 2022 and is deeply passionate about eroticism, kink, the feminine experience of pleasure and its place in art and culture. Originally from a Northern UK seaside town, she is naturally…

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Atena is a Sexual wellness and Intimacy advocate, Erotic/ritual performer and Ecstatic Dance curator for over a decade she creates spaces for self-discovery, emotional awareness and authentic expression, exploring the relationship between sensuality and healing. Through her work, she invites people to embrace their vitality and…

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