DESIRE LAB: A Workshop for Embodied Wanting

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Desire Lab is your playground to explore what’s alive beneath the surface—beyond what’s polite, expected, or familiar.

Do you ever feel disconnected from what you truly want? Or wish you had more practice recognizing, naming, and voicing your desires with the people around you?

Maybe you crave deeper intimacy but get stuck in people-pleasing, disconnection, or just… not knowing how to begin.

Perhaps you long to say “no” more clearly, or “yes” more fully, but find yourself defaulting to safety or silence.

Desire Lab is your playground to change that. We explore what’s alive beneath the surface, beyond what’s polite, expected, or familiar.

🔥 What You’ll Experience:

1. Map your real desires, not the scripted ones.
2. Practice voicing wants in ways others can actually hear and meet.
3. Build somatic awareness to help you slow down, check in, and choose honestly.
4. Uncover the fears, patterns, and beliefs that block desire from flowing.
5. Explore how to initiate, invite, and respond to desire with clarity and care.
6. Strengthen your capacity to say YES and NO from the body, not just the brain.
7. This is a space to fumble, play, and experiment. Our culture rarely gives us room to do that with desire, but here, we’ll make that room together.

Come willing to show up honestly. Come curious. Come hungry.

📆 When: Tuesday, September 30th, 2025 - from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Please arrive between 6:45 and 7:00 p.m. so we can begin at 7:00 p.m.

7:00 pm - Opening Circle and workshop

9:00 pm - Closing circle, sharing free flow connection time, wrapping up & goodnight!

📍 Where: HeartLab (3095 21st St, San Francisco)

Contribution 💰

The San Francisco Community Nights events are not commercial events; this is not a for-profit business. All contributions go to cover the venue rental and support the facilitator.

1. Free Tickets. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please contact me, and I'll give you a free ticket.
2. Please come with a ticket. We have a "no ticket, no entry" policy to ensure we have the correct number of people to fit the space.
3. Last-minute tickets on the event day will start at $45 to encourage early commitment.

Meet Christina

Christina Hsiang is an experiential coach who helps high-functioning individuals and couples shift patterns rooted in old fears and hidden beliefs. A former corporate attorney who advised on high-stakes tech negotiations, she now helps clients reclaim the parts of themselves they’ve quieted (e.g. desire, rage, hunger, tenderness) by working through the body, voice, and relational dynamics. Her Flavors Framework and Thresholds Guides offer visceral tools for transformation that go beyond insight into lived change.

Meet Justina

Justina Lydia is a somatic coach who catches the moments when words and body tell two different stories. A decade as a software engineer and manager taught her to read systems, and now she applies that same precision to the human body through her Coherence Method. With an aggressively gentle approach, she helps clients face and integrate the parts of themselves that once resisted, shut down, or pushed away connection. The result is a grounded fire that transforms how they love, lead, and let others in, leaving a presence that can be felt in every room they enter.