PULSE is a transformative space designed for emergence, intimacy, and intentional community.

I’ll be offering facilitation, structure, and guidance, but the real magic will come from our collective presence, needs, desires, edges, and longings. The flow of the program will be shaped both by application responses and by what feels most alive in the group. We will be following the thread week after week while also going deeper with prompts and check-ins via Signal in between sessions.

That said, what you receive from this space is directly connected to how you show up- with willingness, curiosity, and a commitment to taking responsibility for your own journey and healing process. Relational work can stir things up, and while some of that can be processed in the group, you are ultimately responsible for your own care. If at any point things feel overwhelming or unmanageable, I strongly encourage you to seek additional support from a therapist or trusted networks outside of this space.

Together, we’ll explore:

• Ancestral + intergenerational healing, weaving grief, lineage, and liberation

• Embodied practices that ground us in our bodies, cycles, and desires

• Play, creativity, and storytelling as pathways to intimacy and connection

• Sex, Love, Intimacy Trust - our work is rooted in SLIT! We know this work is working, when we have more vital energy and openness in all of our relationships!

The full cost of this 8-week program is $888. I invite contributions on a sliding scale of $500–$1200.

For those who can, please consider giving more, so for those who have less can give less. If we wish to move into interdependence, equity, and collective liberation together, please consider donating the amount that makes you feel generous and committed to this work.

• Reparative ($500–$888): Choose this if meeting basic needs* is a stretch, you have limited expendable income, little or no savings, significant debt, or no family safety net. This rate redistributes healing resources in the face of systemic oppression.

• At-Cost ($888): This is the true cost of the program. Choose this if the program is an investment, but not a hardship. You can meet basic needs, have some expendable income, and can manage debt.

• Pay-It-Forward ($888–$1000): Choose this if you are comfortably resourced. You are able to meet basic needs with ease, have savings, investments, or inherited wealth, and/or want to help make the program more accessible for others.

*Basic needs defined for these purposes as housing, healthcare, food, transportation, and childcare.

If finances are still a barrier, I want to encourage you to still apply. Limited partial scholarships and payment plans are available. I’m always open to money conversations. Money, like sex, can be a powerful portal for growth and relationship. Let’s explore this together.

As an experiential group process facilitator/facilitant, I love gathering people in real life- to witness trust and intimacy deepen, to see folks stretch beyond their comfort zones, and to feel weird, tender, fierce, and alive together. In that juicy space, hearts can open, creativity can flow, and desires can be safely expressed and realized.

This past summer, SLIT felt like an opening, a culture and community coming alive! Deep within it lies practice, trust, ongoing friendships committed to living an authentic desire-based life.

PULSE grows from that opening. I feel the call, the readiness, the necessity for more spaces of belonging, healing, and playful emergence, this time with a focus on ancestral healing and listening for where the Spirit of our ancestors wants to guide us. I imagine its towards more freedom and vitality.

As a 1.5 gen Taiwanese American and the first openly queer person in my family, I live a tension: the need for individuation and authentic freedom, alongside the desire to remain connected to family despite our differences. That integration is hard AF- often marked by grief, loneliness, and inexplicable longing. For much of my life I avoided it, carrying resentment and internalized oppression, that felt like stuck energy in my body.

But in the last 5 years- through building intentional Asian diaspora community, ritual performance practice, and reclaiming ancestral traditions- I’ve felt that stuck energy move, and healing become possible. I still have a ways to go and I can celebrate how far I’ve come. This work is for a lifetime.

And it’s work I want to do in community. Collective witness and group process are conduits for our freedom.

PULSE extends SLIT by centering ancestral beliefs and family-of-origin conflicts- tracing the patterns that shape how we relate to ourselves, each other, and the world. For queer Asians, integrating freedom and family is hard, but through collective witness and moving at the speed of trust, transformation is possible.

My wish: that from belonging, we grow dignity and choice in how we orient toward life- and from there cultivate the spiritual stability and solidarity to nourish the movements we care about.

Looking at ancestral baggage is a privilege of our lifetime. It carries heaviness and resistance… but maybe we can make it a little less scary, a little more possible- together. :)

Read here

You can’t deny when you’re turned on.
The erotic is an access point to aliveness.
Once you touch that pulse of life, you can’t go back to playing small, to silencing yourself, to numbing out.

Playing in the relational erotic field opens doorways to transformation - in how we love, how we work, how we create, and how we hold ourselves.

There’s a reason patriarchy has always sought to suppress the erotic: to strip us from our pleasure is to strip us from our power.

This is why relational healing is essential - why sexual healing, emotional literacy, conflict resolution, and consciousness in love and intimacy are vital. And when we look through the lens of ancestral healing, we begin to see where in our lineage we lost connection to our erotic vitality.

Where our ancestors, in order to survive, may have had to bury desire, silence longing, or cut off pleasure.

To reclaim the erotic, then, is not just personal - it’s ancestral.
It’s remembering what aliveness feels like in our bodies and restoring what was numbed or forgotten through generations of survival.

When we touch that erotic pulse, we begin to call out the bullshit- both in the world around us and in our internal navigation system - and reorient toward empowered choice.

As Audre Lorde writes in Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power:

“The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings... once we have experienced it, we know we can aspire.”

For me, this is the heartbeat of PULSE - a co-created field where erotic aliveness and ancestral remembering meet.

Where we gather as Queer and Trans Asian adults to move, to feel, to transform old narratives, and to remember that desire is sacred.

forest (they/them) is a mycelial connector, intimacy activist, BaZi Chinese Astrology practitioner, bodyworker, and embodiment coach who delights in creating magical, transformative spaces for connection, healing, art, and play- especially for Asian diasporic kin.

They are the creator of SLIT (Sex, Love, Intimacy, Trust), an immersive program for Queer Asian femme-bodied and gender expansive folks. forest is also a facilitator with the Asian Diaspora Jam, a ritual performance artist with Asian Refugees United CREdirected by Dohee Lee, and a co-steward of Chinese Medicine & Magic. They offer intuitive bodywork through QiKi Club and weave community by organizing healing retreats within Mycelium Network / Asian Healers for Liberation.

They love gathering people to grow, build community, and move together toward individual and collective transformation.