Realizing Your Life Dreams
If life was a project, like the kind you're asked to complete at work or school, and you knew you only had 20-60 years to get it done, wouldn't it make sense to have a plan?
Restart Your Health in Just 5 Weeks
Part nutritional education, part sugar detox, part support group – an empowering combination!
The RESTART® Program is a simple, powerful way to give your body a vacation from sugar and processed foods. With a 3-week sugar detox built right in, the program focuses on how to use REAL FOOD to boost your energy, reduce inflammation and get rid of sugar and carb cravings. Discover how good you can feel!
Please note: It is possible to do The RESTART® Program with a vegetarian diet, but it is not compatible with a vegan diet.
An Approachable Introduction
In this course, you’ll learn what kink is at its best and how it works. We’ll begin with the culture’s vocabulary, move to examples of lively practices, and then begin using exploratory fantasy tools that will help you further discover your own interests.
Creating the Kind of Relationships We Want
Ever feel like your head and heart are at war? Ever wrestle with who and how you're allowed to love (or not)? Feeling torn about loving yourself? All of that is the direct result of colonization. Misogyny, objectification, fetishism, exoticism, monogamy-as-standard. All colonization. This course is about getting to the heart of your love and rejecting colonization's stronghold on our relationships.
Learning to Put First Things First
Life happens — and our truest priorities can quickly feel lost or out of place. But good news: that experience doesn’t need to be your norm. This workshop will equip you with the tools needed to become the boss of your work, time, and life... instead of them being the boss of you.
Creating the Kind of Relationships We Want
Ever feel like your head and heart are at war? Ever wrestle with who and how you're allowed to love (or not)? Feeling torn about loving yourself? All of that is the direct result of colonization. Misogyny, objectification, fetishism, exoticism, monogamy-as-standard. All colonization. This course is about getting to the heart of your love and rejecting colonization's stronghold on our relationships.
How to Navigate Tough Times with Resilience
When your life is rocked by loss, grief, or loneliness—whether through death, divorce, unemployment, or unmet dreams—it doesn’t have to be robbed of strength and solace. By learning how to embrace emotional waves and by working through them with a compassionate community, you can process big emotions and navigate to a new place of depth and gratitude.
What You Should Have Learned In School
To level up your sex life, you just need some new tools for exploration. Learn about consent, pleasure, and sexual communication — all the sex ed you should have learned in school, and then some — in a welcoming environment.
Healing Wounds, Mending Relationships
Apologies have been all over the news recently, reminding us there are both good and bad ways to apologize. Good apologies heal the world. They mend wounds, transcend egos, bolster justice, and foster peace. Bad apologies fester and deepen wounds. Learn how to seek understanding of the wronged person’s perspective and why their perspective—not your sincerity or remorse—is the key to healing a relationship.
Change Your Palate, Change the Future
Ninety percent of the world's calorie intake comes from just 30 crop species. With a rapidly changing climate affecting many of those crops, we’ve got a problem. In this course, learn how crop diversity, a.k.a. agrobiodiversity, is the key to sustaining our food resources.
Finding Your Way When Things Fall Apart
When your life is shaken by loss or grief—whether through death, divorce, unemployment, or unmet dreams—it’s hard enough to get through the day, much less know how to process all the emotions you feel. Is it possible to fall apart and still keep it together?
Drawing to Connect with Winter's Rhythms
Drawing has a special way of slowing us down, allowing us to tune in to nature's rhythms. It’s a simple practice that can bring us to a mindful state anywhere we go. In this course, we’ll cultivate an openness to unexpected outcomes as we record our observations of the dark season’s wonders.
How did bitters go from traditional digestive medicine to quirky cocktail ingredient? Reclaim ancestral digestive medicinal knowledge and make your own bitters in this hands-on workshop.
How can understanding systems of equity and ecology help us create more nourishing relationships with the land, our limited resources, and each other? Use systems thinking to explore critical oppression studies and ecological literacy in the context of food. Look outward to understand structural systems of oppression and their effects on relationships, and inward to understand how our identities impact who we are in the world—and how that empowers us to work towards our visions right now.
Chocolate-crafting is a tradition with deep roots. Explore the bean to bar phenomena by tasting rare cacao beans from places like Peru, Nicaragua, Sao Tome, the Philippines, and Fiji. Guided tastings will help you distinguish the many nuances that derive from terroir, plant varietals, fermentation processes, and roasting techniques. Learn how to properly taste a chocolate bar and how to tell the difference between cacao beans from all over the world.
Your knife is your best friend in the kitchen, and knowing how to use it properly will allow you to cook more quickly, with less mess, and have more fun doing it. This course will cover the theory and practice of essential knife skills, to get you cooking like a professional in your home kitchen. From choosing a knife, posture, techniques, sharpening, and maintenance, this is like culinary school for your real life!
Climate change is real, terrifying, and only one of the many profound crises humanity faces. This class is designed for activists, concerned citizens, worriers and dreamers who want to live empowered lives in the face of the myriad devastating issues of our time. Together, we will explore spirituality as a resource to help us access deep sources of power. With an open and embracing definition of the spiritual, we will be utilizing many different practices and tools from a wide variety of sources.
You can reach deeper levels of creativity with techniques from magic and esoteric traditions from Shamanism to Surrealism. It's a modern and playful take on magic, designed for artists and anyone else who wants to be more creatively engaged with the world around them. How our own ideas create reality, and how we can use this principle to achieve goals, as well as desired states of mind and being.
For millennia, cultures have identified adolescent rites of passage as critical to success. They understand this life stage to be pivotal and accord it considerable resources. Explore the purpose of adolescence, how it is attuned to cultural renewal, and how to create a culture of rites of passage to support the youth journey into adulthood. This class is for parents, those passionate about culture, and anyone working with youth.
Our food system is corporatized, industrialized and globalized. The local, non-GMO and organic food movements lead the charge to affect policy change, yet often exclude a critical discussion of social justice. Inclusive change requires overlapping efforts of the social and food justice movements. This class examines how these movements are intrinsically linked, focusing on jobs, labor, structural racism and socioeconomic disparity. We’ll explore how we can cultivate an equitable and fair food system by breaking down barriers, challenging conventions, and redefining the way we think about food.
Rewilding in Action takes rewilding from the theoretical to the practical. We will cover how to integrate the ideas and concepts of rewilding into your life personally, collectively + institutionally. We will work as a think-tank, beginning to paint the mosaic of rewilding + assessing how various actions contribute to a larger vision. How can we break down barriers to rewilding? Share ideas + strategies as a learning community to integrate rewilding into your everyday life through concrete action plans.
Climate change, environmental destruction, patriarchy, privilege, consumerism, health issues, lack of community, disconnect from nature, hunger, population growth...all root from the same problem: domestication of humans and of the wild over the last several thousand years. How did we get into this mess? From conservation biology to the paleo diet, people are realizing the neolithic period led humanity astray. Rewilding offers us a way out. This is an intense crash course on what rewilding is, how you can rewild, and why you must.
When we feel stuck, expression can liberate us. In this course we apply the trifecta of imagination, memory and discovery to the body to develop a utility of creative prowess. This is your opportunity to learn your own signature recipe for getting unstuck and embodied be it creatively, personally, or professionally.