Valentina Dellagravis

Valentina is a founder of Aetas Deae and is House Mother.  She is an active contributer to the stewardship of our philosophy, standards, and culture.

Within the Community, her primary responsibility is administrative and organisational. She oversees the day-to-day physical infrastructure and is closely involved in the design and execution of gatherings, retreats, and collective work.

Valentina is a trained Tantric Practitioner working with women, couples and men on intimacy, body comfort, and emotional and erotic connection.  She is an experienced rope artist, and uses rope as a tool to help open up the body to touch and surrender.

Within the broader sex positive community, Valentina’s many relationships with her fellow practitioners has meant that she is able to bring together a diverse set of talents for unusual and unique workshops.  She has benefited from mentorship relationships with some of the most prominent figures in alternative communities.

Drawing on a long career in executive leadership, charitable work, and somatic practice, Valentina specialises in holding complex containers. She works comfortably with intensity.   Her depth of experience in the corporate world provides an anchor for those who come on retreat to our events…she has lived it before. 

Women and men are drawn to her because she is at ease in authority and fully capable of delivering what is promised.

Alongside her work within Aetas Deae, Valentina is a writer and advocate for women’s sovereignty. In her private practice she works in a maternal, supportive mode of female leadership.

Valentina is formally trained as a somatic therapist and sees clients in her private practice.  She is also an experienced Reiki practitioner, trained in Karuna, Holy Fire, and Usui Reiki.  Valentina is a medical herbalist (Cornell), a nutritionist (Stanford), and holds a Bachelors degree in Philosophy and an MBA.  She is the author of several books on cooking.