Workshops, Labs + Community Gatherings
Self Study Lab hosts integrative, community, and educational events for deepening connection, embodied healing, and intentional intimacy in San Diego, CA and occasionally online. We believe access to connection and community is vital for healing and liberation and our events center education, integration, and connection with self to deepen our connections with others through healing, wellness, intimacy, expanding relationship dynamics, rope, and kink.
Events are facilitated from a trauma-informed foundation, and strive to begin promptly at the event start time and end on time. This allows us to co-creating a closed container that each guest can find and determine their own sense of safety, comfort, and opening within. Each event holds space for self selected pay-what-you-can ticket pricing and we offer payment plans and relational equity pricing for most of our higher priced offerings.
If you'd like to support this work by sponsor another community members experience inside The Self Study Lab, you can make a donation by clicking the button below. Thank you.
Upcoming Events + Group Offerings
Thursday November 30th, 6pm PT
EsXeD Series: Erotic + Sensual Herbalism
(Zoom Online)
Aphrodisiac Ritual with Herbal Medicines. Learn how to use herbal medicines to expand your sensuality, sexual desires, and arousal for greater pleasure. During this 90 minute workshop we will learn about common plants and herbs that can be used to active the way you experience feeling, sensations, pleasure + presence in the body. Workshop includes recipes and rituals for opening and exploring sensual herbalism, self pleasure practices, and partnered connection rituals.
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Friday December 1 - Sunday December 3rd
Intimacy, Pleasure + Play with Duck Duck Roar
at the DDR Fest Nightmare Before Christmas
This 90 minute experience will center the basics for foundational exploration of intimacy, pleasure and play. We'll use principles of kink, tantra, communication, breath + body work, and consensual touch with self + others. During this workshop, guests will receive information and be guided into embodied exploratory exercises that will help them explore sensual connection, presence, and intentional intimacy + pleasure in new ways. *This is a non-sexual gathering designed for introduction + integration of information. Guests may attend solo or with their partner(s). Please purchase a ticket for each guest attending.


Wednesday December 6th, 6pm PT
EsXeD Series: Find Your Kink
(Zoom Online)
This 90 minute class will center the basics for foundational exploration of intimacy, pleasure and play within kink. We will cover the foundations of ethical play and explore communication, and consensual connection with self + others. During this workshop, guests will receive information and be guided into embodied exploratory exercises that will help them explore desires in kinky connection, presence, intentional intimacy, pleasure + play in new ways.
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Monday December 18th, 7pm PT
EsXeD Series: Queer Hard Skills Lab
(in person experience)
A 3 hour in person hands on demo + educational centered skill share for hard skill application with an emphasis on popular queer kink experiences. Guests may attend solo or bring a partner. Please purchase a ticket for each guest. This event is for queer identifying community members.
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Past Events
Sunday, November 19th, 1pm PT
Grief + Release Ceremony
(in person)
Join us for a communal connection and a space to allow yourself to be supported just as you need to as we open a container for moving with rituals as we move through what may be weighing on or has been heavy inside of you.
We will share rituals for release and hold space for a variety of options to do this in your own way with talk, touch, herbal medicine, and peer connectivity. No experience needed, this event is accessible at all levels.


Postponed
EsXeD Series: Intimacy, Pleasure + Play
(in person experience)
This 90 minute experience will center the basics for foundational exploration of intimacy, pleasure and play. We'll use principles of kink, tantra, communication, breath + body work, and consensual touch with self + others. During this workshop, guests will receive information and be guided into embodied exploratory practices that will help them explore sensual connection, presence, and intentional intimacy + pleasure in new ways.
*This is a non-sexual gathering designed for introduction + integration of information. Tickets are sold as a set for (2) people. Guests should prepare to attend with a partner of their choice.
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Monday November 13th, 6pm PT
EsXeD Series: Queering Identities, Sexuality + Intimacy
(Zoom Online)
A space explore, expand, and refine your embodied identities tied to your sexuality, gender, pleasure + intimacy. During this 90 minute workshop we will cultivate a space to rewrite the ways we feel and express that affirm our most authentic selves with a center and celebration for queerness.
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Wednesday, Nov. 8th, 6pm PT
EsXeD Series: Bodywork for Embodying Pleasure - Part I
(Zoom Online)
Art of Abyangha and creating your own therapeutic touch for exploring embodied pleasure. Learn basic principles of the Ayurvedic self-massage technique that uses warm oil and pressured movement to create release, healing, and connection to the body. In part one of this series, you'll learn how to center non-sexual intimacy + touch as a ritual for embodiment. Members will be guided through designing their own bodywork patterns and rituals. *This is a non-sexual gathering designed for introduction + integration of information.
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Monday, November 6th, 6pm PT
Grief + Release Ceremony
(online)
Join us for a communal connection and a space to allow yourself to be supported just as you need to as we open a container for moving with rituals as we move through what may be weighing on or has been heavy inside of you.
We will share rituals for release and hold space for a variety of options to do this in your own way with talk, touch, herbal medicine, and peer connectivity. No experience needed, this event is accessible at all levels.


Saturday, November 4th, 12pm PT
Rope Practice at House of Black
(in person social experience)
This is an all skills levels event for people interested in rope bondage intended for community connection, knowledge + skill share, labbing and play. We welcome you to bring your own rope, mats, and toys and ideas / contributions on Ichinawa and tying with one rope. This month we'll be having an open discussion + demo on rope for quick bondage with euni.
Details on the House of Black members website.


Friday, November 3rd, 8pm PT
BDSM Night at House of Black
(in person social experience)
Meet us at San Diego's premiere lifestyle club for BDSM night! We'll be hosting and hold live demos and opportunities to learn + play. Come explore your kinky side with them at House of Black.


Wednesday, October 25th, 7pm PT
Breathe, Tie, Meditate
(in person experience)
A space to reset and drop into the present moment through a guided embodiment class. The Breathe, Tie, Meditate class includes trauma-informed somatic practices that will support you with building a deeper connection, presence, and empowering relationship within your body. This 90 minute experience includes guided breathwork, movement, meditation, and rope bondage. No experience needed, this class is accessible at all levels. We will have hanks of rope for borrowing as well as rope for purchase to take home with you. Tea service included. Please bring your own mat, blankets, journal, and water.
Details on the Maya Moon Collective website.


Monday October 23rd, 5:30pm PT
EsXeD Series: Releasing Shame in the Body
(Zoom Online)
Our bodies store information from our lived experiences and carry data through our DNA. This 90 minute class is designed to guide you into focusing on creating space to receive more abundance, pleasure, and authentic alignment in your embodied intimacy + sexuality. This is an interactive intended to lead you through body centered wellness practices, techniques, and rituals for release + expansion.
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Friday, October 20th, 6pm PT
Inbody Community Meet up + Casual Vanilla Social
(in person social experience)
Come meet us offline for our first Community Meetup at Maya Moon Collective in Normal Heights, Friday, October 20th from 6-9pm! This event is a fantastic opportunity to connect with like-minded people, make new friends, and cultivate the connections we're seeking in this community. This will be a casual, social gathering with some icebreakers and connection activities to help turn any social anxiety into lighthearted play. Find your friends + make new ones. We will also have members from the INBODY team there to answer questions about THE HUB and our community and a giveaway!
There will be tea, cocoa and treats available for purchase through the venue and live music to enjoy. This is a free public event, but please kindly RSVP + bring your friends.


Saturday, October 7th, 12pm PT
Rope Practice at House of Black
(in person social experience)
This is an all skills levels event for people interested in rope bondage intended for community connection, knowledge + skill share, labbing and play. We welcome you to bring your own rope, mats, and toys and ideas / contributions on Ichinawa and tying with one rope. This month we'll be having an open discussion + demo on rope bondage for erotic play with euni.
Details on the House of Black members website.


Friday, October 6th, 8pm PT
Kink Ed at House of Black
(in person social experience)
Meet Kinkbenderr + euni at San Diego's premiere lifestyle club for Kink Ed night! They'll be hosting and hold live demos and opportunities to learn + play. Come explore your kinky side with them at House of Black.


Saturday, Sept. 30th, 7pm PT
Wax, Fire + Temperature Play
(in person workshop)
Tap in and turn yourself and your partner on with temperature play for sensual connection. Join us for this WAX, FIRE + TEMPERATURE PLAY hard skills workshop as part of the SELF STUDY EMBODIED SEX ED series.

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Saturday, Sept. 16th, 6pm PT
LUSH: 1 Year Anniversary Party for The Rope Collective
(in person experience)
Performances throughout the night both inside and outside: rope suspension, bdsm scenes, fire, movement arts, and more to celebrate one year anniversary in the studio space + 5 years of being in business at The Rope Collective.


Tuesday, Sept. 12th, 7pm PT
Orgasmic Breathwork + Sensual Intimacy
(in person workshop)
Our pleasure centers live within the body and expands through our breath. Join us for an educational and interactive workshop on how to use your breath to clear your energetic bodies, charge your chakra channels, and elevate your orgasmic potential through tantric practices of presence and connectivity.


Thursday, September 7th, 7pm PT
Imagining + Setting the Perfect Scene
(in person workshop)
You’ve learned the soft skills and now you’re ready to build the perfect scene but not sure where or how begin? Join us for this hard skills workshop as part of the SELF STUDY EMBODIED S<3X ED


Saturday, September 2nd, 1pm PT
Rope Bondage Practice
(in person workshop)
This is an all skills levels event for people interested in rope bondage intended for community connection, knowledge + skill share, labbing and play. We welcome you to bring your own rope, mats, and toys and ideas / contributions on Ichinawa and tying with one rope. This month we'll be having an open discussion + demo on rope play working only with one rope.
Details on the House of Black members website.


Tuesday, August 29th, 5pm PT
Intro to Kink
(Online workshop with INBODY WELLNESS CO)
Ready to explore your kinky side? Join us for this online, introductory workshop that will empower you to uncover the soft skills to move into any connection, scene or relationship dynamic with greater confidence. This workshop is hosted by INBODY WELLNESS CO and is available on a sliding scale donation or free to INBODY members. Click the button below for more details + to purchase your ticket.


Saturday, August 19th, 6pm PT
Intro to Tantra + Intimacy
(in person workshop)
Open up the ways you feel pleasure in your body and get ready to open a new layer of intimacy. Join us for an introductory workshop that will empower you to uncover the more sensual and seductive sides of yourself. Click the button below for more details + to purchase your ticket.

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Friday, August 11th, 7pm PT
Intro to Kink
(in person workshop)
Ready to explore your kinky side? Join us for an introductory workshop that will empower you to uncover the soft skills to move into any connection, scene or relationship dynamic with greater confidence. Click the button below for more details + to purchase your ticket.

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Friday, August 4th, 8pm PT
Kink Ed
(in person experience)
Meet Kinkbenderr + euni at San Diego's premiere lifestyle club for Kink Ed night! They'll be hosting and hold live demos and opportunities to learn + play. Come explore your kinky side with them at House of Black.

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Wednesday, August 2nd, 7pm PT
Breath, Body + Sensual Play
at Maya Moon Collective
Join us for a guided experience will take you deeper into a sensuality awakening ritual that activates your root, sacral and solar plexus energy. We will explore the body and our sensual energy through the breath, movement, consensual platonic touch, and energy.


Thursday, July 13th, 5pm PT
How to Build the Perfect Sensual Scene
(online workshop)
Join us for an online workshop hosted by Bloom Community. In this 75 minute workshop, you will be guided into and through how to activate all 5 senses to build a sensual scene for pleasure + play. Click the button. below for more details.


This 90 minute experience will center the basics for foundational exploration of kink, pleasure + play. During this workshop, guests will receive information that will help them navigate into opening up to their desires, fantasies, and deeper pleasures with greater confidence and autonomy. This workshop will be more focused on learning, dialog, and exploration of self and uncovering ones own kinky desires. Guests may attend solo or with their partner(s). Please purchase a ticket for each guest attending.
*Note: To expand a sense of safety and create a container that can allow all people to explore more fluidly, it's requested for you to arrive (15) minutes before the event's start time so that we can ground into the space, review community agreements, and co-create safety + connection in shared space.
This 90 minute experience will center the basics for foundational exploration of intimacy, pleasure and play through cultivating a tantric practice for deeper connection. We will cover connections of tantric integrative breath + body practices that can evolve rituals for deeper connection, pleasure, and play with one's self and across relationships.
During this workshop, guests will receive information and be guided into embodied exploratory exercises that will help them explore desires in tantra connection, presence that centers embodying ethical, intentional, and consensual connection with ones sexuality.
*This is a non-sexual gathering designed for introduction + integration of information. Guests may attend solo or with their partner(s). Please purchase a ticket for each guest attending.
For more information or questions about this workshop, contact euni at hi@selfstudylab.com
MAY'S TOPIC: Exploring Identity + Self Expression
This is monthly community event and dedicated affinity space for the BIPOC community members. During this event we will explore authentic connecting and relating, soft skills, identifying and following curiosities, and open space for practice, play and consensual connection.
Organized + facilitated by Self Study by euni, co-hosted by black, brown, indigenous members in our collective community. We will have introductions and a guided dialog, reviewing of house rules, co-creation of shared agreements and intentions, and information sharing including establishing ethical and consensual connection before open practice + play space begins. Within this space, we will practice identifying and finding our boundaries and openness that allow us to find safety in our explorations.
Each month we will highlight a different topic during our connection hour and then guests will be invited to lab, play, or hang out in ways that feel aligned to them for the remainder of the time.
*Note: To expand a sense of safety and create a container that can allow all people to explore more fluidly, it's requested for you to arrive (15) minutes before the event's start time so that we can ground into the space, review community agreements, and co-create safety + connection in shared space.
All BIPOC + QTBIPOC folks are welcome. This is an all skill level event - and if you're new, this is a great way to get your feet wet!
Feel free to bring a dish, snacks, non-alcoholic beverages to share with the group.