WiseBodies offers a unique approach to whole-being sexuality education. 


Important Note

During this stressful time, WiseBodies is here. 

We are especially here for young folks.

We understand that the social isolation, the separation from our friends, and the loneliness can be really hard right now. Be in touch.

If you are feeling suicidal, please try the following resources. If you cannot connect with anyone, please call 911

  • If you are LGBTQ, and are having a hard time, and especially if you are having suicidal thoughts and feelings, call the Trevor Project at 1-866-488-7386.

  • The National Suicide Prevention Hotline can be reached at 1-800-273-8255. They field calls 24/7 for anyone with suicidal thoughts or who are in crisis. They offer help for Spanish-speakers and anyone who is deaf or hard of hearing. 

  • If you are a kid, or a teen, or someone in your 20’s, and are having a hard time, you can write us at wisebodies@wisebodies.org

  • If you’re looking to get support via text try the Crisis Text Line by texting hello to 741741. Crisis Text Line fields messages about suicidal thoughts, abuse, sexual assault, depression, anxiety, bullying and more. You can also message Crisis Text Line on Facebook for help. You'll be matched with a volunteer counselor, who is supervised by a licensed, trained mental health professional.

  • YouthLine is a free 24-hour crisis, support, and helpline for youth. YouthLine is a peer-to-peer youth crisis and support service that is answered by teens from 4-10pm PST and by adults at all other times. Text teen2teen to 839863, or call 1-877-968-8491.

WiseBodies Responds to Covid-19

In the months following the sudden arrival of Covid-19, WiseBodies was incredibly busy. 

We maintained our classes for girls and for teenagers through mid-summer, quickly moving classes on-line, and increasing the numbers of classes offered. We made sure all our students had the steady, regular contact with staff that has been critical to our community’s well being.

When WiseBodies first learned about the virus, we realized immediate action was needed to have masks available for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) communities, for folks on the front lines of the medical system, for incarcerated women and men, for kids with special needs, and for all members of our local communities. WiseBodies founded what has grown into The Mighty Masketeers of Columbia County, an organization that now has made thousands of fabric masks for children and adults in these communities


Our Story

WiseBodies grew from the recognition that we all benefit from the opportunity to learn about human sexuality in an environment that is warm, intelligent, student-led, family-friendly, and safe. An environment in which all questions are welcome.

At WiseBodies, important learning takes place, community-building is supported, everyone enjoys the learning process, anxiety about sex-education is reduced, and students and teachers have the chance to relax into learning about a subject so important to healthy, whole being.

2024 marks the thirteenth year we’ve led WiseBodies education from our home, now in Kingston, New York. We currently are shifting our focus to small in-person classes for adults, focussing on workshops for women who’ve experienced sexual harm, on women 49 and older, and on teaching men how to teach boys, teen boys, and men sexuality education with the intention of decreasing sexual violence and rape.

Our Mission

WiseBodies recognizes the inherent goodness of human sexuality.

WiseBodies is unique in teaching children, parents, teenagers, and adults the natural wonder of the human sexual body in relation to itself and its place within the natural world.

At WiseBodies we offer compassionate, heart-centered, thoughtful, age-appropriate learning. We recognize this educational journey to be life-long.

WiseBodies understands that students and teachers benefit from learning in a fully diverse, respectful community, and that respectful diversity within community is the dearest and most exciting path to whole-hearted learning.

Unaffiliated with an organization or school, WiseBodies is unique in being able to teach from a foundation of open inquiry, intellectual freedom, and whole-hearted compassion.

WiseBodies is helping create a world in which all people are offered the right and the knowledge to gain full understanding, and full knowing, of the human sexual self — a world in which, together, we are able to use our voices, minds, bodies, and our built communities to advocate for sexual freedom, justice, and whole living for ourselves and for all.