Reconnect with What Feels Good
Clarify What You Want
Sunday, January 18 • 12-1:30pm ET • Live on Zoom
Sliding Scale: $35/$55/$75
A Workshop for People Who Want to
Orient Our Lives Towards What Feels Good
So much of New Years resolution/reflection culture is about being more virtuous, more restrictive, controlling more; a sense that if you push harder someone outside you will reward you. But none of that is how to actually build a life you want — a life that feels good.
You find a life you want by listening inside to what feels good and what doesn’t feel good, listening to your desires and needs, and learning to care for yourself generously.
Through meditation, writing, and sharing, we’ll use tools from Internal Family Systems to connect with your pleasures and longings in 2025, and what different parts of you desire for 2026.
What To Expect:
Discussion of pleasure, desire, what they feel like, and their roles in our lives - theory, research, poetry, personal experiences
IFS meditation and journaling on what felt really good for different parts of you in 2025
IFS meditation and journaling on what different parts of you want in 2026
Gentle intention setting based on this information about what feels good and what you want
Sharing and conversation on our relationships with pleasure and desire, what we’ve learned, and how we’re feeling after connecting with pleasure and desire
Think of this workshop like calibrating the North on your compass. Your pleasures get to be your North, that you keep orienting towards throughout the year!
What You’ll Leave With:
More clarity on what’s feeling really good to you right now. Sometimes it’s not the things you expect!
More clarity on what pleasure/enjoying actually feels like for you
More intimacy with yourself, and all the different parts of you
More trust, safety and confidence in yourself
A sense of clarity and orientation to inform your choices throughout the year
This Workshop Is For You If:
You want some wide open time to really feel and celebrate what you enjoyed in the past year
You want a clarifying framework to guide your priorities and decisions for the year to come
You’re curious to explore your own relationship with pleasure and desire
You want to shift away from making decisions from a place of trying to “be good” or please others — and towards providing for yourself generously too!
You want your life to be a pleasure!
I can’t wait to support you to connect with what you want, what you don’t want, what feels good, and anything that needs care for you to move towards this.
About Your Facilitator
Rakhel Shapiro, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, Internal Family Systems Therapist (Level 2), meditation facilitator, and movement artist. Hi!
I have decades of experience meditating and facilitating meditation workshops; and I have nearly a decade of experience as a therapist, integrating IFS, attachment, somatic, and meditation frameworks and practices. I see connecting with pleasure and desire as part of becoming who I actually am. I can’t wait to share that with you. You get to want what you want! You get to feel what you feel! You get to live as you!
FAQ
Q: Can I participate asynchronously? Will you share a recording?
A: This workshop will take place virtually, on Zoom. Everyone who registers will receive the link via email. In order to create safety and trust during this program, I won’t share the recording with anyone who wasn’t there live. So, unfortunately, there isn’t an asynchronous option for participating in this program. Folks who attend live will receive a recording that you can go back to and review as you like. I may share some clips of myself talking on socials after the program, but nobody else’s likeness will be shared beyond the group who attends live.
Q: Is this workshop about sex?
A: It’s so interesting. Whenever I use the words “pleasure” and “desire,” people think I’m talking about sex. But pleasure and desire apply to all areas of life! If you want to explore sex in this workshop, you’re absolutely welcome to. This is a sex-positive space. And, you don’t have to. Every moment is filled with pleasure and/or displeasure, desire and/or fulfillment. Let’s explore these themes throughout our lives!
Q: How many people will there be at the workshop?
A: This is a live, interactive workshop. Space is intentionally limited to keep it intimate.
What Past Participants are Saying About Rakhel’s Programs and Meditations:
“★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Thank you so very much! I learned a lot about myself and how so much of what looks like self sabotage and self-destruction is misguided self love. I can work with that.”
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Rakhel’s style is seasoned and practical but with a sense of self-compassion and lightness that is unique. ”
“★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Just what I need right now. A fresh guilt-free perspective.”
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Tears of gratitude. Thank you.”