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 9 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.
This class will run concurrently with a private class for WiseBodies teachers and staff, co-taught with Cynthia Koppe.
Dates + Time
REGISTRATION OPEN NOW
2nd and 4th Thursdays beginning Sept 22nd
7:00 - 8:30pm ET, via Zoom
Fall Semester 2022
Sept 22, Oct 13, Oct 27, Nov 10, no class Nov 24, Dec 8, Dec 22
Spring Semester 2023
Feb 9, Feb 23, Mar 9, Mar 23, Apr 13, Apr 27, May 11, May 25, June 8
Registration & Cost
Registration will close at 12 students
$375-975 Sliding Scale; Partial scholarships available depending on enrollment, priority given to LGBTQ + Black, Indigenous and People of the Global Majority. Payment plans available.
Materials A supplies list will be sent after registration. Total cost of supplies will be about $25.
Teacher: Isa Coffey
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.
Photo by Katherine Ferrier
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?
Guest Teacher: Cynthia Koppe
I’ve always loved all things body and movement and have devoted much of my adult life to exploring bodies through various forms - dance, yoga, Pilates, Feldenkrais, Klein, craniosacral therapy, pelvic health… Recently I’ve been curious about the borderlands between formlessness and form. Can we catch that spark just before something comes into being? What unconscious fires are lighting up our lives? And how can bringing awareness to the things that burn within us change what our worlds look like outside of us?
