Pillow Talk With Nixi

Nishita Rao is a Behavioral Neuroscience Consultant, a certified Sex Work-affirming Care Provider (ECC), an Interdisciplinary Sex Researcher, Reiki Grandmaster and a Certified Sex Educator from both ISEE and AASECT (first Indian to be certified as CSE). She hails from a background in Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (MS Neuroscience) and Genetics (BE Biotechnology).

As a Behavioral Neuroscience Consultant and a Reiki Grandmaster, she integrates Eastern and Western modalities into my practice. Her healing approach intertwines Attachment-Based Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Trauma-Focused Interventions, Integrative Therapy, and Person-Centered Therapy, with Mandala Art Therapy, Carnatic Music Therapy (inspired by 11th-century Indian classical music), Bibliotherapy, Mindfulness, Pranayama (Breathwork), Aromatherapy, Usui (Jikidem) Reiki, Karuna Reiki, and Seichem Reiki, Chakra Balancing, Body Mapping, Tea Blending Therapy, and more.

As an Interdisciplinary researcher, she delves into Neuroscience, Genetics, Anthropology, Psychology, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Linguistics and Biopolitics. Her current research revolves around post-colonial imprints on human social and sexual attitudes. She is also a decolonial dance ethnographer with a research focus on Belly dance, Sadir, Bharatanatyam, Mohiniyatam, Kathak and Kathakalli. She is philologically tracking sex negativity emerging in lyrical structures of Tantric Carnatic Sanskrit renditions of the early 18th century. Finally, she is iconographically analyzing sexual politics surrounding the Chamunda sculptures, aka the Crone Tantra Goddess.

As the founder of Pillow Talk With Nixi, she has several initiatives under her belt:
InclusiSex Studies Initiative
Curious Research Cortex
Applied Neuroscience Consulting
Soul Sync Sanctuary
Sex Scholars Library
Sexual Revolution
South Asian Sexuality Professionals