PULSE is an extension of SLIT (Sex, Love, Intimacy, Trust). With PULSE, we will be going into a deeper inquiry into ancestry and relationship: transmuting inherited wounds, beliefs, and patterns so that we can pulse with life, desire, and connection in real time.
WHY PULSE, WHY NOW?
Fall is the season of Metal, lungs, grief, and letting go. A time of death and shedding, but also of clarity, refinement, and renewal.
As Asian diaspora, immigrants, settlers, and guests on this land, we hold the legacies of migration, loss, rupture, and resilience. We inherit both the beauty and the wounds of our lineages- the fear, the grief, the hope and the longing. In this time of great upheaval, we are called to face these truths and to live fuller, more connected lives - not just for ourselves, but as an offering to our ancestors who carried us here.
We honor our ancestors by not only surviving, but by daring to live lives of love, depth, joy, meaning and connection.
This is our pulse.
This is our offering.
This is our right.
PULSE ASKS
How do we grieve what has been lost while also dropping into moments of joy, connection, abundance, and remembrance?
How can we identify and work on healing our intergenerational and familial wounds so can deepen in intimacy and trust with all of our relations?
What does it mean to let go- physically, emotionally, spiritually?
How do we live not the life expected of us, but the one we truly call in?
How does healing ancestral trauma help serve our work in individual and collective liberation during this complex moment in time?
who is this for?
This space is for Queer/Trans Adults who identify as part of the Asian diaspora. AFAB (assigned female at birth), raised and socially conditioned as “girls” or “women.” who now identify in ways that expand beyond the binary of “female/male” or “woman/man”. Non-binary, gender-queer, gender-expansive, gender-free, and those who are questioning or exploring their gender are welcome.
You’re tired of being the only one in your family working on healing your intergenerational trauma want to do this work in community
You seek to live authentically, choosing presence over performance and perfection
You want to identify limiting beliefs and roles you’ve inherited and practice using your voice to stand in your power
You want to move beyond numbness, shame, and avoidance into responsibility and ownership of your life
You feel the depths of your ancestral longing and want to channel it into ritual, art, and embodied expression
You know that healing ancestral wounds from the past is also healing relational wounds of the present
You are willing to hold the fullness of joy and pleasure alongside grief and rage, honoring both as sacred
You are curious, open, receptive, and willing to take responsibility for your life and your journey
details:
East Bay: In-Person (Location TBA)
For 6-8 Queer Trans Asian AFAB/gender expansive folx
8 Sessions! October 16 - December 11 4-6 PM / timing subject to change)
Private Signal group for further connection, digestion, and integration
Karaoke/Dance party Closing Night
1 complementary coaching session (Value of $200) with future discounted coaching package options
Full cost $888 (Sliding Scale/Payment Plan available)
30 min consultation calls will be scheduled with each potential participant after completion of application to assess fit
20% off Early Bird discount if you apply by Oct 9th $711
To enroll, apply here by Oct 13
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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
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The full cost is $888. I invite contributions on a sliding scale between $500–$1000. Pay towards the lower end if resources feel tighter, or contribute more to help make space for others.
If finances are a barrier, I still encourage you to apply. Limited partial scholarships are available. Payment plans are possible. Happy to talk it through. -
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!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.
As a 1.5 gen Taiwanese American and the first openly queer in both my family lines, I live inside a deep tension: the need for individuation and authentic freedom, alongside the desire to stay connected to my family despite our differences. This integration of both realities is HARD AF and often marked by grief, loneliness, and an incredible sense of longing. For most of my life, I had left these truths unprocessed which resulted in many painful years of avoidance, internalized oppression, and resentment. The last 5 years building intentional asian diaspora community, engaging in ancestral ritual performance practice, reclaiming ancestral traditions, I’ve experienced how that stuck energy can move, and how healing and reconciliation can become possible. My own relationships and dynamics within my family system and the way I steer myself in my path is a testament to all of this. I want more of this for people.
PULSE extends SLIT by centering ancestral beliefs and family-of-origin conflicts, identifying patterns that shape how we relate to ourselves, each other, and the world. For queer Asians, integrating freedom and family is hard work, but through collective witnessing, transformation can unfold.My wish is that from belonging, we grow dignity and choice in how we orient towards life, and from there, cultivate the spiritual stability and solidarity needed to nourish the movements we care about.
It’s important work ya’ll. Can we make it a little less scary and overwhelming to take on? Let’s do it together :)
PAST TESTIMONIALS
“In this portal of SLIT, I have been learning how to show up whole and authentic in any moment. Through the relational embodiment practices, I felt the gems of them seep down into the soil in me, into each crevices that have been untouched by talk therapy.
It felt so much more embodied than fragmented, heady breakthroughs, or chasing answers or fixing symptoms. It was about being here with myself and in my community and letting our bodies lead. I’ve often struggled with sensing my own body and wants especially relationally and in group settings so having this experimental space to build these relational practices with other queer Asian folx is so special.
Ever since joining SLIT, I noticed it is easier for me to be more attuned to my desires and to communicate them to people in my life. I am realizing more and more that we cannot heal ourselves by ourselves. Healing happens in relationship — in the witnessing, the resonance, the shared practices that carry us further than we could ever go alone. To be in community with other queer Asian folx feels like a shared remembering, weaving back into a lineage that I did not know I was craving.
It was truly a co-created space. The relationships we have built in SLIT have opened me up to more aliveness and invite me into ongoing practice. I’ve learned so much from every member of SLIT about holding our inner child and letting ourselves be held, navigating the heavy work of ancestral healing, expanding our capacity to love, witnessing each other experiment and play with change, and alchemizing our grief and pain into creativity in all forms.
Thank you Forest for creating this container, this living organism where we get to explore the edges of sex, love, intimacy, and trust while uncovering different parts of ourselves relationally. I am so excited to see how SLIT evolves over time!”