Meet euni
Embodied Healing + Intimacy Artist, Facilitator, and Educator
euni is a multi-disciplinary artist who facilitates embodied healing + intentional intimacy practices as a ritual. She incorporates cultural reverence, ecopsychology, herbal medicine, spiritual ideologies, and socioeconomic intersectionality to inform and inspire collaborative creative expression.
Full Bio
As queer femme holding many racial and cultural identities and a variety of social locations, euni seeks to create pathways for embodied intimacy through accessible healing practices + rituals that span across generational and ancestral stories. This work is for every body and centers creating space, connection, and community that communities of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color can find their individual sense of safety and home within. euni's passion is expanding tools for healing that ignite liberation within bodies that have been marginalized, oppressed, or deeply impacted by capitalism and toxic masculinity.
euni’s work centers the intimacy of human connection with the belief that each person is their own greatest healer and she is passionate about bringing balance into the world by restoring balance within individual bodies. This work explores normalizing self-determination as truth, individual-centered autonomy + choice, and reverence, recognition, preservation, and respect for indigenous, cultural, nature, and universal wisdoms as channels for healing, reconnection, and expansion across communities.
euni’s work brings their clients to meet and face their edges emotionally, spiritually, and intimately. She supports humans through transitions of relationship with gender, sexuality, lifestyle, interpersonal relationships, partnership, and identity.
They utilize a mix of modalities to empower individuals, couples, families, and communities through transitional experiences and life-altering events centering trauma-informed techniques, embodied practices, and creative expression.
Inside the Self Study Lab
Self Study's method + foundation is built upon connection, clearing, and healing stored traumas living within our foundational energetic pathways in order to open to deeper love, connection, and transformation as individuals and as a society.
Inside the Self Study Lab you will discover art, guided sessions, and group experiences that bring individuals into deeper body-connection.
euni uses methods that center embodying feeling, expression, and creativity to assist in surfacing, releasing, and clearing stagnation within the root, sacral, and solar plexus chakras.
Self Study's resources provide education that guides people into the incorporation of food, herbal + plant allies, and creation of lifestyle practices to balance reproductive + digestive ailments creating greater alignment within the body-heart-mind-soul.
The Method
The Self Study Method is an exploration of deepening embodied healing, intentional intimacy, and evolving balance and aligned connection in the body-mind-heart-soul. Each experience is a personalized collaboration and a reciprocal relationship between the guide, the client, and the stored personal, generational, and ancestral knowledge.
euni guides people into deeper self connection and exploration using photography + art coupled with facilitated somatic practices and depth work that ignites healing. She uses trauma-centered connection, tantric principles, sensory play, and reiki + energy healing to support individuals, couples, and a variety of relationship dynamics. Each experience provides tools that evoke autonomy, discernment, and empowerment for those involved to lead their own healing journey.
The Self Study Method focuses on foundational healing to surface and release personal, relational, generational, and ancestral trauma, shame, emotional pain, and oppression stored within the body. Through guided sessions, there is an opportunity to open blockages in the root, sacral, and solar plexus chakras and create fluidity, opening, and channeling of greater love, joy, expression, enlightenment, and liberation.
In collaboration with self, source, nature, plant allies, and other licensed professionals, euni can guide one through the layers of intentionally navigating healing in a way that integrates embodiment and opening of self to experience life more fully.
Modalities + Framework
Self Study incorporates a variety of modalities to surface, release, and empower deeper connection, healing, and intimacy. Each session utilizes trauma informed facilitation and customized to the individuals within the container and can include one or multiple of the following:
• Breath + Body work
• Reiki + Energy Healing
• Therapeutic talk + touch
• Movement
• Sensory Play
• Principles of Kink, BDSM + Rope Bondage
• Foundations of Tantra
• Somatic Practices
• Artistic expression
• Photography or Videography
• Guided auditory meditation
Research Focus
euni is currently researching and building two case around the possibility of healing and clearing generational and ancestral trauma through educational-centered communal care.
Case Study 1:
Focus: Long-term empowered + informed postpartum care
Project: Empowered Postpartum
Funding: Slowbirth Foundation
Case Study 2:
Focus: Whole body healing through clearing traumas stored with the reproductive and digestive systems and energetic pathways through communal care, growing relationship with plant + herbal medicines, and utilizing creativity as an embodied ritual and expression for clearing, healing, release, and transformation of emotions, traumas, and addictions.
Project: (re)EMBODY, The Release Lab, RELEASE for Men
Funding: Accepting contributions
For more information on Research Projects and to submit funding, please contact euni at hi@selfstudylab.com
Topics, Focus, Study
Relationship between emotions, trauma, and self-connection to the Reproductive, Digestive, and Lymphatic Systems
Personal, Generational, and Ancestral Trauma
Healing and Clearing Stagnation and Imbalances through Chakras + Energetic Fields
Postpartum
Cultural Approach and Intersectionality
Identity
Relationships
Tantra
Grief + Bereavement
Communal Care
Intersectional Wellness + Empowerment for Marginalized Communities
Projects
BODIES
The Release Lab
Men's Intimacy Integration
Postpartum Planning + Trauma Care Case Study
Clearing Foundational Pathways Case Study
You will find representation of these topics and projects throughout euni’s work on and offline. Their blog centers perspective, experience, observation, and study-based information that is designed to serve as a tool for support in guiding others deeper into their own self-lead healing journey. The information included on this site should be absorbed with discretion, understanding that each person’s journey is unique and what may have worked for one individual, couple, family, or community may not directly apply to another. The findings, shares, and information provided should serve as an inspiration for exploration in ways that feel safe, mindful, and appropriate to one’s own personal journey. It is strongly encouraged that each person build a support system of many individuals with a variety of personal and professional perspectives and expertise to walk with them throughout their own journey towards clearing, healing, and liberation.
Cultural Reverence
All knowledge is recycled, replicated, expanded, and transformed. There is beauty in spreading healing, learning, and connection to understandings across communities, cultures, ethnicities, and bodies. From one life form to another. From the wildness of nature to the organization within modern society.
There is also a heartbreak of how we have centered capitalism in such a dominating way that the indigenous ways of living have been overridden in deeply toxic ways. In every part of my evolving and learning journey, I hope to return to the ways of expanding what I come across in such a way that empowers those I share knowledge with to hold deep gratitude, respect, curiosity, and open acknowledgement of the sources in which their healing were born.
It is to my belief that an important, liberating, and necessary part of the healing journey lies within our ability to extend reverence over appropriation of cultural knowledges and to build reciprocal relationships with sources of origin, nature, and communities of culture all around the world. As Americans, much of our knowledge is stolen and marketed, monetized, and tagged with credentials created by and connected to the face of a white man who more often than not has spent time extracting information from communities who have and continue to practice deeply connected relationships with nature, the Divine, community, and their own bodies innate wisdom for healing.
This page will continue to evolve as I continue to learn. I hope to share a beginning to understanding where and how my methods are being developed as I interact with sources outside of traditional academia and popularized accreditations that have more often than not been accompanied by price tags that make them inaccessible to folks who came from the communities in which the source of knowledge was birthed.
I choose to learn from mentors who hold lived experiences that can deeply relate to the topics at hand. From elders who have carried and preserved wisdom from many generations passed. From those who hold deep relationships with nature and the connections to god that can be found within the vastness of the universe and earth. From plant allies. From people of color and many cultures who have learned within the systems of white wellness and have molded their learnings to translate back to the ways in which the individuals making up communities of color, many cultures, and gender non-conforming existence can embody with safety and trust. And lastly, I receive the downloads of knowledge, remembrance, and resurfacing of information that has been passed through my bloodlines from ancestors and generations across many lifetimes before this one I live within.
And part of the responsibility I hold within my privilege as a person who holds many identities and intersectionalities, is to dissect the information I cross with discernment, integrity, and proclamation to the places that it originates. I have invested into learning from the systems of white wellness and as a human living within the world as it is today, there will be times when I continue to learn from those who have re-marketed knowledge as their own. This in some part in inevitable.
But my commitment is in the ways I show up in the world is to slow down enough to examine, explore, express, and expand everything I come across with respect and reverence. Knowing that I am simply a conduit for healing, and nothing I share with you is specifically my own. The knowledge we encounter is owned by nature, spirit, and the world. And with this, I hope that you take time to slow down, examine, explore, express, and expand everything you learn moving forward that centers expanding access to deep healing back into marginalized communities in a way that allows each of us to continue healing deeply all across every part of the world.
A few of the sources of knowledge euni currently weaves within their work:
• East Indian Ayurvedic, Tantric, and Religious Traditions
• Black American Southern Traditions
• Native American Indian and Indigenous Peoples of the World
• Japanese Wisdoms
• Traditional Chinese Practices
• Caribbean Cultural Practices
• Queer + Trans Community + Cultural Practices
• Kink + BDSM Community + Cultural Practices
• Polyamorous Community + Cultural Practices
More acknowledgments to come.
Credentials, Training, Mentorships + Education
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Center for Sacred Window Studies - Ayurvedic Postpartum Caretaker (200 hour)
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National Black Doula Association Sex Doula Training
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Birthing Advocacy - Full Spectrum Doula (certification in progress)
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Birthing Advocacy Crisis Response for Birthworkers with Project LETS
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Birthing Advocacy Abortion Support CE with Raven Freeborn + Olivia Martinez
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Birth Bruja BIPOC Mentorship
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School of Radical Healing Trauma Informed Teacher Training (in progress)
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Reiki I, Reiki II and Reiki for Pregnancy, Birth + Labor, and Postpartum with Usui System of Natural Healing
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Bachelors of Exercise Science, Health and Fitness from the University of Texas, Arlington
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Dinner Confidential - Confident and Compassionate Conversations Facilitator
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American Heart Association Basic Life Support CPR & AED training
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Dominance Course with Ms Mackenzie
Community Partners
Healing happens in community. Below are practitioners, facilitators, educators, and organizations we are in a growing relationship with and recommend for the San Diego community.
To view options for self-paced study and expanded recommendations for community resources, organizations, and service providers please visit our resources page.
