ALTAR

A Seasonal Practice of Pelvic Self-Care

Upcoming Sessions:

Spring: Sunday March 23, 2025

Summer: Sunday June 15, 2025

10am - 12pm PST - 1pm - 3pm EST - 6pm - 8pm BST

Your pelvis is a living, responsive world unto itself.

It is influenced by the way you breathe. The way you move. The way you touch yourself and are touched by others.

Every layer - your soft and hard tissues, moving fluids, sensations and interoception, emotional and psychic presence in your pelvic bowl - is profoundly changed by the events of your life, their real-time and lasting impacts upon you, and by the way you hold and make meaning from those impacts.

Your pelvis speaks to you eloquently and directly through your emotions, your sensations, your structure and alignment, your range of motion, and your biochemistry.

If we want to deepen our relationship with our bodies, the quality of our attention is paramount, just as it is in any relationship.

The way we bring our attention, hands, and breath to our pelvises can rapidly bring about precise and essential waves of change in our tissues, sensations, and movement.

No matter what you’ve been diagnosed with. No matter how long it’s been going on.

This is your birthright, and it is always available to you.

Altar is a space for guided practice to bring us into right relationship with the immediate truth of our bodies.

Each practice will be rooted in the earthly and elemental transformations of each season of the year, and will include aspects of guided somatic awareness, attunement to breath and sensation, self-touch, reflection, rest, and dialogue.

If you experience pelvic issues of any kind, are curious about how you can come into deep connection and tenderness with yourself, and would enjoy tending to the marvelous altar of your body in alignment with the seasons, please join us.

Altar will take place quarterly, with the equinoxes and solstices, and we encourage you to come to all 4 to experience the full arc of changes through the year.

We are accepting registration and payment for the upcoming session on Sunday 23rd March 2025.

All sessions will be led by Emily and Pam.

Altar is open to people of all genders with internal sexual anatomy.

This is a 10000% queer- and trans-inclusive space.

WORKSHOP FEES

Fees are per individual workshop

We are offering a scaled payment structure in order to make it possible for more people to access this class with community support, and to provide an opportunity for those with more access to wealth to support others.

• Supportive fee, for those who are able to easily pay for "wants" and do not worry about securing basic necessities: $120

• Middle fee, for those who have access to steady income and are confident about meeting basic needs: $90

• Supported fee, for those whom the full or middle fees would impact ability to meet basic needs: $60

Limited scholarship places are available - please indicate on your application if you need further support in order to attend!

Registration for Altar is a 2-step process:

1. Please fill out the registration form below, and

2. Select from the payment buttons below the form to pay at the level that works best for you.

   Participants will receive the information to join the class on Zoom when registration is complete.

*Please note that if you are requesting scholarship assistance, you will receive an email from us within 48 hours with a scholarship code to use at checkout. If you don’t receive an email, please write to us at schoolforethicaltouch@gmail.com.