Past Work
Everything I teach comes from lived experience, years of embodied practice, and an ever-deepening relationship with self-trust, nuance, and body-knowing.
Below is a collection of my past programs, experiments, and trainings, all of which represent the foundation behind what I offer today.
A Note on Language
My work has always centered around embodied discernment: the ability to feel what’s true in your body and let that guide your choices. For a while, I used the word pleasure as a gateway to that work: the felt sense of joy, vitality, aliveness, the internal yes.
But “pleasure” got misunderstood as indulgence, self-soothing, extraction, or sex coaching. It became clear that I was speaking one language while people were hearing another. So I shelved the word (reluctantly), and kept doing the work.
What I offer (then and now) is about:
- practicing self-honesty
- building relational integrity
- taking responsibility for your impact while also holding fast to desires
- and learning to stop abandoning yourself in micro-moments of misalignment
The language has changed. The body of work remains the same.
Embodied Discernment (Before I Called It That)
The Great Pleasure Challenge - 2022 to 2024
A 3-week experiment in radical self-trust. Participants had one rule: ask “Is this in my pleasure?” before every action. Hundreds joined. Habits changed. Permission happened.
“The Pleasure Challenge helped me realize I haven't been living from my heart for a long time."
Calibrating The Compass - 2023
10 weeks, tuning into your felt sense. This program helped people re-attune to their inner guidance system, reduce susceptibility to guilt, obligation, manipulation, and external pressure, and make aligned, truthful choices with more ease.
Pleasure 101 - 2024
A shorter, softer entry point. Less intense than the Challenge, designed for people new to this work — especially those who thought they “couldn’t feel anything” or didn’t trust what they felt.
WTF Is Pleasure and Why Does It Matter?
A 3-day intro training that broke down the difference between chasing comfort and cultivating aliveness.
Boundaries, Self-Trust & Relational Repair
Foundations of Connection - 2025
A one-day, in-person intensive focused on building fluency with the internal yes and no. For anyone ready to stop betraying themselves in their connections. Ran twice in 2025.
Dating Apps for People Pleasers - 2024
A workshop for those exhausted by performing “cool girl” dating. We worked on interrupting people-pleasing, reclaiming honesty, and building capacity for desire without apology.
Nope! (Coming Soon)
Saying no in a way that feels like a yes. A workshop for over-functioners, chronic consent-benders, and everyone still saying yes before they can stop themselves.
Relational Judo: Becoming Untriggerable Without Being a Jerk (Coming Soon)
How to stay resourced and relational with people you can’t just ghost. (Colleagues, family, in-laws, that person in your group chat who loves giving unsolicited advice.)
Nervous System Tools for When Things Are On Fire
Weathering - 2025
Tools for collective nourishment and nervous system resilience.
For humans navigating climate dread, news exhaustion, community grief, and general collapse. Taught in-person at Long Table Farm in Lyme, CT.
Deactivation Tools to Survive the Apocalypse (Coming Soon)
Gentle, body-based tools for staying grounded and connected while the world is loud.
Somatic Foundations
The Sensuality of Food - 2020–2021
A 7-week course using food as a portal to presence, mindfulness, and sensory connection. Not currently offered, as my body (post-COVID) has said a clear no to food-related work and I practice what I teach.
Your Body is F*cking Awesome (aka "Rebuilding Trust in the Body") - 2021
A three-week program to help participants rebuild body trust, confidence, and intuition through felt sense. Focused on learning to listen to the body.
The Art of Giving - 2023
A workshop on gift-giving as a form of intimacy, and an avenue towards fostering connection and closeness. Anchored in consent, limits, and self-connection.
The Art of Receiving - 2023
The mirror of Giving. Focused on increasing capacity to receive — compliments, gifts, support, love — without guilt, shrinking, or endurance.
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