EVENTS + Workshops

Self Study classes, workshops + events incorporate trauma-informed facilitation, consent + education to empower body-centered connection + intimacy. Offerings are designed to hold space for all experience levels and a variety of genders, identities, expressions, ethnicities, cultures, and relationship dynamics. Each experience is facilitated in a way that is unique to the space + individuals within it while holding a foundational structure and flow. Events + workshops run 90 minutes up to 3-4 hours.

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 intimacy, kink, expanding relationship dynamics, healing, sexual health + wellness, rope, and art + movement. Below you will find our core + current group offerings topic list and descriptions, click the View Events button for our current offers and to purchase a ticket.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Join us for an intimate, family style dinner for folks with curious minds. This is a monthly gathering that centers good food, curated conversations, and community connection. Deep dish is a phone-free experience and each dinner will have a topic and theme and guests will be invited to become fully present with the food, people, ambiance, and conversations at hand.

RSVP required for each person attending. As this is intentionally designed to be an intimate experience, space is limited and tickets sales end 36 hours before the event.

 

Self Study signature experiences

Self Study signature experiences are available for booking at retreats, seminars, festivals, and private parties + groups. We are also available to curate programming for your space or collaborate on hosting to help you bring an experience you envision to life. To inquire about booking, please contact euni.

HELD: A Space for You A practice space for you to drop into. HELD will gather online 2x/month and will be a guided integrative space to explore traditional somatic techniques + body centered practices for self connection, regulation, clearing + intimacy. Each gathering is 75 minutes total and includes a 30-45 minute guided practice with space for group connection before + after. This is a community centered, blended space and will be accessible for a single class or monthly pass. 

breath + body is a 75-90 minute guided somatic experience that centers breathwork, guided practices for connection, and an exploration of non-sexual intimacy through the body + the intersections of kink inspired modalities. This signature Self Study experience is available for booking at wellness studios, private parties, group gatherings, festivals, and retreats.

CONFIDENCE IN INTIMACY + KINK The Confidence in Intimacy + Kink series is designed to empower exploration in expansive relationship, connection + play dynamics for open + like minded adults. During this series, we learn + lab foundational information + integrative techniques to introduce and showcase elements of intimacy, kink, BDSM, and tantra. This series is available for private group bookings. Guests may join solo or attend with a preferred partner and will be required to register for each attendee. This space will explore definitions, dynamics, and technical soft + hard skills that will support confidence in creating new relationships + connections with community or exploring new ways of relating with existing partner(s) - platonically, sensually, and romantically.

Intimacy, Pleasure + Play is a soft play lab designed for body-centered exploration through connection + sensual play. The 90 minute experience is a combination of information + integration and includes basic terminology tied to intimacy, relationship, connection + adult play, ethics, etiquette, safety, consent, communication techniques, and guided practices for pleasure + play solo or with on or more partner(s). Guided embodied exercises and techniques are designed to learning how to create greater pleasure in kinky and sensual connection teach guests how to become more creative, present and intentional with intimacy + play. Classes includes sensual connection skills such as tantra, breath + body work, intimate touch, movement + body mechanics, foreplay, and elements of kink such as rope, bondage, temperature play, sensory play, and light impact. This signature Self Study experience is available for booking at clubs + members venues, wellness studios, private parties, group gatherings, festivals, and retreats.

body </> play is an interactive experience for guided connection, movement, intimacy + play. classes are designed to showcase + give hands on demonstrations that teach guests how to use their body and interact with a partners body in intimate, playful, and assertive ways. This class has (4) sub-categories: Creative Fluidity, Sensual + Seductive, Some Like it Rough, and Flirt + Flow. Skills can be applied to platonic connections, the bedroom, performances, or for designing scenes, connection + play. Each class covers integration and translation of intimate connection with one’s own body, sharing space + touch with another, and external modalities that center creative + artistic expression. This signature Self Study experience is available for booking at clubs + members venues, wellness studios, private parties, group gatherings, festivals, and retreats.

learn + lab is a 3-4 hour gathering designed to be a hybrid of informational + integrative experiences. class begins with ethics + consent follow by a 30-45 minute educational centered discussion + demo. The remaining time will be space for open practice, play, and guided peer-to-peer mentoring on the activities or other forms of play centering the topic of the learn + lab. This signature Self Study experience is available for booking at clubs + members venues, wellness studios, private parties, group gatherings, festivals, and retreats.

Adult Play 101 is an informational class designed as an introduction of kink, BDSM, and Lifestyle community. Classes include foundational soft skills to learn before opening up or redefining your relationship romantically and/or sexually. The 90 minute class explores alternative lifestyles, building community with like-minded people, and ways to start adding more fun, pleasure, and play to your life. Each class covers information that will empower guests to follow their desires more confidently, consensually, and ethically in kink, BDSM, EMN, and Lifestyle Communities. This signature Self Study experience is available for booking at clubs + members venues, wellness studios, private parties, group gatherings, festivals, and retreats.


PAST OFFERINGS + COLLABORATIVE EVENTS

Kink Ed is an educational demo + lab held monthly at House of Black. This night was created by the venue to expand technical knowledge through community. euni of Self Study is currently designing + facilitating monthly programming that includes a 90 minute in person hands on demo + educational centered skill share for soft + hard skill application covering kink, BDSM, and sex positive topics like creating scenes, power dynamics + showcasing popular kink experiences like bondage, impact, and temperature play. The demo is open to the public + members of House of Black can stay for peer-to-peer hands on lab + learning after the demo ends.

Formerly facilitated monthly at House of Black

Rope Practice is a lab + learn social for the HOB members community who are interested in rope bondage. This is a space for practice + skill share and is held monthly at House of Black. This event was created by the venue to expand connection and strengthen community. euni of Self Study is currently designing + facilitating monthly programming that includes a rope topic of the month and space for skill share, labbing, learning + rope-centered scenes. The event is available exclusively for members of House of Black.

Formerly facilitated monthly at House of Black

MELANATED KINK: TAKING UP SPACE A dedicated space for BIPOC people. This series will have 4 in person workshops in San Diego and 4 online discussions held from April through May. In person workshops will run 3 hours and online discussion will last 1 hour. Our intention with this series is to connect BIPOC people to one another, their body-centered expressions, resources, education, and a closed container space that will empower them to find, express, and explore kink within community.

Formerly facilitated at club safeword