Out of the Head, into the Body (Winter Offerings)
Drop into classes, events, and private sessions inside the Self Study Lab this winter and let us guide you into deeper connection with your body-mind-heart-soul.
If we’ve learned one thing about healing, intimacy, and deepening connection it is that there’s no time like now. And the greatest way to expand how we feel, heal, and connect is to be in a committed practice to exploration, expression, and curious play within being present. This winter, we’re returning to monthly offerings for group gatherings and private sessions for individuals and couples inside the Self Study Lab.
What’s new:
As we prepare to open the doors to our OWN physical space, we’ll be hosting our offerings in private residence in North Park San Diego, in collaboration with local studios and public spaces, and livestream online. This means, classes, workshops, and events will often be limited in capacity, smaller, and more intimate. Which feels exciting for the work that we are ready to unfold. It also means that the ways in which we hold space will be more intentional and have a little more room for individual questions, adjustments, and dialog.
What’s sticking:
We will continue to facilitate from a trauma-informed lens. We aim to start and end each experience on time. Every offering will begin with space to ground + drop in, review agreements, house rules, acclamation to the experience, and an overview of what to expect in the time ahead. We will close each experience with a grounding out and next day digital check in for aftercare.
What’s expanding:
This space has always been one for information + integration of body-centered practices that evoke healing, intimacy, pleasure + play. Inside the Self Study Lab, we explore taboo topics and hold space for empowerment in the ways we take up space, relate with others, express, feel, and share connection to our own bodies. The spaces that we curate and hold are inherently designed to give permission to find self-determined safety in curious exploration without judgement or shame. We often explore topics that tap into expansive perspectives on sexuality, relationship, and identity. And within this, the spaces that Self Study holds and curates are platonic, even as we explore our sensual and erotic energies.
What dissolving:
A huge part of our pause over the last year was rooting into our own energy and finding our voice with understanding, permission, honesty, and authenticity for how we choose to hold space. There are many beautiful and powerful communities that provide similar experiences and work to what you can find inside Self Study Lab. And although we may use familiar words and expand common principles known in communities, we are moving forward expanding this work in ways that are uniquely our own.
What we’ve come to know and own is that this space is one for deepening connection with our body-mind-heart-soul through somatic practices that center trauma informed connection + body centered healing to move us towards pleasure centered lives. We utilize a mix of modalities, topics, and cultural practices to expand information + technical skill-sharing to empower individuals + couples to live more authentically. Our offers incorporate a balance of healing, pleasure + play with the intention to support every person joins us along their journey - whether for a single class, multiple experiences, private sessions or mentorships, or as a long standing community member to feel liberated in the ways in which they choose to live their lives.
READY? LET’S PLAY!
Upcoming winter offerings + invitations to experience, learn + lab, connect + play.
GROUP CLASSES - OFFERED MONTHLY:
In person group classes will be limited + registration is required for all classes. Descriptions can be found on the class page and details including location address will be sent the day before the event to all registered guests. Link to join virtual classes will be sent 30 minutes before the event start time and a link to access the recording will be shared with all registered guests and available for viewing for 2 weeks following the live class.
(SUNDAYS, VIRTUAL LIVE STREAM)
(SATURDAYS, IN PERSON - NORTH PARK, SAN DIEGO)
(SATURDAYS, IN PERSON - NORTH PARK, SAN DIEGO)
WORKSHOPS + EVENTS:
In person workshops + events capacity will be limited, registration required for all offerings. Descriptions can be found on the events page and details including location address will be sent the day before the event to all registered guests.
(FIRST SUNDAY, IN PERSON - NORTH PARK SAN DIEGO)
PRIVATE SESSIONS FOR INDIVIDUALS + COUPLES:
Private sessions are offered in person and can be arrange virtually or in your location of choice with prior agreement. Descriptions can be found on the sessions page and details including location address will be sent the day before the session to all registered clients. Link to join virtual sessions will be sent 30 minutes before the session start time. If desired, sessions can be recorded upon request.
A Place to Become:
We’re charging ahead with the vision to open our physical space this coming summer! We’ve begun the process to make this possible and your help and support will be an intricate part of making this a reality. This studio will be unlike any other place you’ve experienced and will be a place for this work, our collective groups, and greater visions to evolve, become, and belong. Each month we’ll share more about the progress, plans, and sticking points so that you can be involved every step of the way. Profits, donations, and contributions collected through Self Study will go towards the bringing this space from a dream into reality.
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