About

We’ll access our sensual selves with slow, restful pleasure; find resonance and comfort in song; infuse the waters of our bodies with herbal nourishing teas; and cultivate intimacy through candlelit connection and deep care.

The focus of this class will be on gentle nourishment, joy, and togetherness; we’ll discover that these qualities can help move us toward healing. Rather than focusing on sexual harm, we’ll focus on the true warmth and delight our bodies hold.

We'll learn about the sexual body in depth, breadth, and wonder. We'll bring life into parts of our sexual selves that may have felt quieted or shut-down in protective responsive to past harm.

While there will be lots of anatomical learning, there will be no sexual touch. Not ever.

We'll grow in closeness. We'll very likely look forward to seeing each other each month, and miss each other in-between classes!

Who is this class for? Women and non-binary folks (ages 20+) who have experienced sexual harm. Intergenerational community is very, very healing.

*Isa will call each person who registers for class to answer your questions and to make sure this class feels right for you. *

Location

We’ll meet in-person at Isa’s home in Kingston, N.Y., with the address sent after registration.

Dates + Time

We'll meet once-a-month for 8 months, in-person, on Thursday evenings, 5:30pm - 7:30pm (If it's better for us to meet from 5:00 - 7:00 pm, we'll shift!), beginning Thursday October 10th, 2024 and ending Thursday May 8th, 2025. Dates include Oct 10, Nov 7, Dec 12, Jan 9, Feb 6, Mar 6, Apr 10, and May 8. *Depending on how this fall and winter develop, we make ask you to take a Covid-19 test before coming to class each week!

Registration & Cost

The workshop costs $50 each session; you'll have the option to pay for the entire course at once, $400, or to pay per session. You are welcome to pay more! The fee includes all the supplies we'll use, tea, and something yummy we'll eat together. A committment to attending the whole course is required, as is a phone conversation to make sure this class is just-right for you.

Our maximum number of students is 8. We want this class to be small and powerful. You can look forward to meeting some very special people.

About

This is the sex ed class for which your whole body - including your heart, your mind, and your soul - may be longing.

Throughout this 12 month class, we’ll move slowly toward developing a deeper erotic, a deeper sexual, self-knowledge. We’ll move slowly toward developing a more profound way of communicating with our own erotic selves, and with the erotic selves of others.

We’ll steadily create a trusted learning community within which we’ll work. This learning community might include strangers who will become close companions on our journey. It might include a lover. It might include a friend.

We’ll learn about our bodies. We’ll learn from our bodies.

We’ll learn about each other’s bodies. We’ll learn from each other’s bodies.

This class will be gentle, will move slowly, and often will be quiet. We’ll spend time listening, resting, sharing, moving, writing, and doing.

Some of what we’ll be doing will include deep learning about the anatomy of our sexual bodies. While we work, we’ll look for insight into possible pathways between our physical, emotional, and spiritual selves. What we discover about our sexual bodies may be surprising.

This journey can be transformative.

This class may become important to you; it may become profoundly important.

Dates + Time

REGISTRATION OPEN NOW
We meet the 2nd Monday of each month for one year, beginning in December of 2024 and ending in November of 2025.
7:00 - 9:00pm ET, via Zoom

Fall Semester 2024
Dec 9

Spring Semester 2025
Jan 13, Feb 10, Mar 10, Apr 14, May 12, June 9, July 14, Aug 11, Sept 8, Oct 13, Nov 10

Registration & Cost

Registration will close at 12 students. All adults (21+) are welcome. If you, like me, get anxious about being in class with folks who are different, maybe try it on. I've been trying it on, and am grateful for what I'm learning, and how I'm changing and growing.

$50 - $75 is the sliding scale per class, or $550 - $850 if paid in full before class begins, which offers a $50 discount. Partial scholarships will be available, depending on enrollment, with priority given to LGBTQ + Black, Indigenous and People of the Global Majority.
Some of the income will be shared with other organizations doing the esential work of now.

Materials A supplies list will be sent after registration. Total cost of supplies will be about $25.

Questions I’m holding, listening to:

• Is it possible to leave behind the common forms we have for sex ed, the ways and topics we expect to learn, in order to find something new, maybe unexpected, maybe more central to our sexual selves?
• What can happen when we develop enough trust within a community of learners to reveal ourselves, and to listen to the revealed stories of others?
• Can we allow the richness of our shared stories to help guide us?
• What might surprise us when we have the chance to deeply explore our—whole—physical bodies?
• Is there a sexual soul? What might it have to teach us?
• What happens when we become our own sexual wise elder?
• What happens when, as a group, we become our collective sexual wise elder?
• What is sex, really? How might sex guide us in ways that may be important for our wholeness?

About

This will be a sweet way to travel our perfect and perfectly-aging bodies together through this-coming winter.

We’ll describe experiences we’re having as our whole sexual bodies grow older and older; it will be good to find shared space, and also to learn what’s different.

We’ll make things with our hands, and learn how to use them, including aphrodisiac teas, drinks, and baths; breast/chest balms; lubricants for internal touch; and erotic massage oils.

We’ll learn the art of breast/chest self massage.

We’ll practice consensual, sensual touch, including our feet and hands.

We’ll explore how we can use water in baths, teas, and soaks, for nourishment.

We’ll explore pelvic-steaming with sweet herbal infusions.

We’ll develop skills for becoming more empowered in the rooms in which we receive pelvic care.

We’ll focus on our growing powers, including what we’re noticing; what we have in-common, what our shared commons hold.

We’ll strategize ways we can together make up for our culture’s lack of recognition of us, in our time of power.

We’ll sing, rest, get really quiet. Together.

Class Leader

About Isa: I’ve taught sex ed for decades, in many forms and in many venues. Recently, I’ve found myself curious about what we can learn about our sexual selves when we get very quiet; when we listen to, discover, and share the intimate stories of our bodies; when we have the chance to learn within trusted community; when we have the chance to remember and honor our past; when we develop pathways, including in the imaginal realm, for growing up and out from those deep, foundational places; when we give ourselves time to go slowly; when we are held with kindness and steadiness for the journey.

Registration + Cost

This workshop costs $100 a session, for a total of $500. This amount can be paid all at once, or monthly. A committment to the entire 5 months is required. Our class includes all the supplies we'll work with, and a delicious lunch we'll eat together. Our day will have a pretty delicious spa feeling, with the addition of really remarkable women you'll get to hang out with and get to know, and the addition of normalizing accessing what usually is kept behind closed, private doors. It's really special, unusual, and yummy. Truly. Be in touch with your questions: wisebodies@wisebodies.org. You must register for this class!

About

WiseBodies is going to run a test project to see if it’s possible to decrease sexual violence in our small, local communities by having WiseBodies’ trained sex educators - all men (trans and cis) - learn how to teach boys, teen boys, and men WiseBodies whole sexuality education. We'll place our students and our graduates in local schools, community centers, community programs, and at WiseBodies, where they'll offer what has not been offered before: WiseBodies whole sexuality education for boys and men, taught by men. Over time we'll see if this helps reduce sexual violence within our communities.

We understand this is as a long-term project.

We understand having men take on the responsibility for decreasing sexual violence by becoming sex ed teachers may be a new concept.

We understand that girls and women always have bourne the brunt of sexual violence. We understand that girls and women also always have bourne the responsibility for preventing sexual violence. Imagine with us the possibility of changing this, of having men take on the responsibility for ending sexual violence.

We hope you'll join us in this endeavor. This could include signing up to be a student, donating money for this project, and also simply sending us letters of support. We'd love to know our community is with us as we take this on!

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Registration + Cost

We're working on this.

Some of the income WiseBodies receives from tuition will go to a kid, teen, or adult who's been raped, for their on-going care.

Max 6 - 8 students.

If you find you're curious to know more, or are interested in joining us, be in touch by email to wisebodies@wisebodies. org. We'll look forward to hearing from you.