Juli Maroux doesn’t do surface. A former ICU nurse turned Sensual Ritualist, she spent 14 years witnessing people at their most stripped back before following that same thread into the world of sensual ritual and intentional power play.
Now based in Amsterdam, she guides people through immersive, embodied experiences built on a simple but radical belief: that BDSM isn’t a subculture, it’s a language. As she explains, play isn’t something we grow out of. If anything, it becomes more meaningful the older we get.
How would you describe yourself in 3 words?
Attuned. Present. Devotional.
Tell us more about yourself and what you do
I’m Juli Maroux, a Sensual Ritualist and Edge Educator currently based in Amsterdam.
I learned how to hold the full human range working in ER and ICU for 14 years. I’ve seen what happens when people are stripped of everything – health, control, identity. There’s no pretending left in those moments.
When I began leading clients through immersive, cathartic power play in 2019, I recognised the same truth in a very different setting:
When you can’t hide – and have to meet yourself where you’d rather not – something powerful begins to unfold. Not by fixing yourself, but by allowing more of yourself to exist.
My work moves through the realms of sensuality, power, and human psychology.
I create experiences that take people out of performance and into direct contact with themselves – where roles, defenses, and identities start to loosen. What emerges there is often raw, intimate, and deeply human. And mesmerisingly beautiful.
For me, BDSM is not a subculture, but a language – one that allows us to explore truth through the body, sensation, and conscious power exchange.
What services do you provide on Sensuali?
On Sensuali, I offer immersive, in-person experiences as well as coaching-based work.
This includes sensual ritual and power play – designed as intentional, embodied encounters rather than scripted scenes. Each experience is tailored and invites a deeper exploration of desire, control, and self-perception.
Alongside this, I offer coaching and guidance for those who want to integrate these experiences beyond the session – working with themes such as power, embodiment, relational dynamics, and personal expansion.
What turns you on?
Attunement, curiosity, and depth. The moment someone drops the act and becomes real. When they’re willing to go beyond what they think they are – and discover what else is there.
What was your journey into this world?
I’ve always been drawn to the edges of human experience – especially in a sensual and sexual context.
It felt natural when I began working in a dungeon and fetish clinic alongside my work in the hospital. What seemed like two very different worlds were, in essence, exploring the same thing – just under different conditions.
From there, I went deeper. Through play spaces, events, temples, and trainings.
I’m deeply curious by nature – a real pleasure geek. In 2025, I completed a six-month advanced BDSM practitioner training with Om Rupani and Lauren Harkness, alongside studies in tantra and hypnosis. That period fundamentally shifted how I approach this work.
I began to see more clearly how precise and potent it is. How patterns really repeat across contexts. And how to intentionally work with identity, resistance, and desire through the body and the mind.
For me, this work isn’t separate from life. What you meet and move through in the realm of sensuality and sexuality doesn’t stay there – it reshapes how you relate to yourself and others, and how fully you allow yourself to exist.
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What do the first 60 minutes of your day look like?
A celebratory glass of fresh grapefruit water, fresh dates, and pecan nuts.
I like to start my day slowly and with intention. Moving through my morning routine and into exercise – often Barre, Pilates, or sensual movement. This allows my body to wake up fully before anything external asks for my attention.
Why do you do what you do?
Because it’s such a privilege to hold a space where people can fully exhale – and let go of who they think they need to be.
And to witness what emerges when they do.
What is an unexpected pleasure you discovered in your work?
Receiving slow, devotional foot worship.
And witnessing the raw human beauty that emerges when we drop the mask, let go – and allow ourselves to get messy and real.
What should more people know about your work?
That BDSM is far more than what most people associate it with.
It’s not just dungeons, leather, latex, or pain – but a clear and powerful language for human interaction. A way to explore desire, control, vulnerability, and shame in a direct, embodied way.
In my experience, many of the patterns and blocks people face in life show up in sensual and sexual play as well – making BDSM and adjacent practices a powerful space for exploration, learning, and transformation.
And maybe most importantly: play isn’t something we grow out of.
If anything, it becomes more meaningful as adults – because we get to choose the rules, be present in our bodies, and meet the moment as it unfolds.
What’s your superpower?
The wide permission field I hold – where people feel safe enough to drop control, stop performing, and allow themselves to be seen fully.
We love vices. What’s yours?
Depth. I have a hard time staying on the surface – I’m easily bored by small talk and always want to go deeper. Which can feel intense for people who aren’t used to it.
Who are your sensual inspirations?
I’m inspired by what lives at the intersection of art and pleasure – from sensual garments to authentic expression through movement and sound.
Jocelyn Pook’s Dionysus, for example – it opens a sensual, vulnerable yet powerful, ritual-like space immediately. That kind of atmosphere stays with me.
Closing thoughts?
There’s a difference between understanding something cognitively – and experiencing and integrating it through the body. For me, everything I do lives in that difference.
And that’s where I meet people.
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Isobel Clark
Isobel is a writer and creative based in Paris. She has been part of the Sensuali team 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 drawn to the best things in life: candyfloss, trashy karaoke bars and heart-shaped sunglasses.
Juli Maroux
Juli Maroux is a Ritualist, Edge Educator, and devoted Priestess of Eros. Since 2019, she has been guiding people through sensual ritual, intentional power play, and erotic mentoring as pathways for pleasure, self-exploration, and transformation. Her work combines embodied experience, psychological depth, and devotional practice - creating spaces where people can meet, explore, and integrate the parts of themselves they’ve learned to hide.
