UPCOMING 2026 CLASS: From Urgency to Digestion
RESTORE A RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD AND YOUR BODY
Many struggles with food are not problems of discipline, knowledge, or motivation. They emerge when urgency sets the pace—when the body is asked to manage threat, uncertainty, or meaning through eating. In these conditions, food is recruited as an intervention rather than allowed to remain a process.
This class offers a different orientation.
Rather than prescribing rules or corrective strategies, From Urgency to Digestion explores how eating becomes compulsive in the first place, and how it weakens bodily jurisdiction. It also teaches the conditions on how nourishment can return to rhythm, discernment, and regulation.
Drawing from Interpersonal Neurobiology, along with somatic, cultural somatics, archetypal psychology, and ecological models of self-organization, this class invites participants to observe their relationship with food through a new lens—one that prioritizes the potential space for circulation of aliveness, context, imaginal life, and bodily authority over control or compliance.
In this class, you will learn:
NEUROCEPTION
IMAGINAL CIRCULATION
IMAGINAL CIRCULATION
Learning to locate threat accurately in the body.
How the nervous system detects safety and danger beneath conscious awareness
How cultural and archetypal parasitic dynamics distort threat perception and feed on urgency
Why urgency often reflects mislocated threat rather than hunger
How eating becomes an intervention when neuroceptive signals are confused
What restores clarity so the body no longer needs urgency to protect itself
IMAGINAL CIRCULATION
IMAGINAL CIRCULATION
IMAGINAL CIRCULATION
How meaning moves without becoming behavior.
Why sensations, emotions, and thoughts become urgent when imaginal space collapses
How food is recruited to carry symbolic weight when imagination is offline
What it means to let experiences circulate symbolically rather than be enacted through eating
How restoring imaginal life relieves food of roles it was never designed to hold
CREATIVE EMERGENCE
IMAGINAL CIRCULATION
CREATIVE EMERGENCE
Letting eating reorganize without control or rescue.
Why health is an emergent property, not a behavior to enforce.
How digestion—both physical and symbolic—depends on pace and context.
What allows new patterns to arise without fixing old ones.
How food can return to being nourishment rather than management.
guest speakers
Ingrid Tucci
Paula DeSanto
Paula DeSanto
Ingrid has worked as a psychodynamic therapist for 14 years. She has incorporated medicine based, somatic work for the past two years. Ingrid has always been drawn to working with people with dissociative disorders and with severe trauma histories, which for her requires creativity, spontaneity, and self-trust.
Through her research on healing sexual trauma through safe, exploratory sex, she has discovered significant overlaps between safe, sexual play and the healing arts.
With her assistance, we will be applying the concepts and principles of the taboo world of sexual play to better understand how to heal from sexual trauma and emerge with more agency and creative capacity.
Paula DeSanto
Paula DeSanto
Paula DeSanto
Paula is a consultant for the mental health industry. She will be discussing the limitations of the therapeutic industry, and the ways creative emergence can be unintentionally thwarted within the client-therapist interaction.
In addition, she will explore the deep bone level attachment imprints therapists make on client's nervous systems, that can leave clients feeling vulnerable and dependent without also tending to client's capacity for self-authorship and creative emergence.
Class facilitator: Majia Lee
Majia Lee is the founder of Embodi Aliveness. She holds a master’s degree in psychology and completed doctoral studies in Somatic and Archetypal Psychology. Her work examines how urgency and eating distress emerge within nervous system, cultural, and archetypal conditions rather than personal failure. She focuses on restoring bodily jurisdiction, neuroceptive clarity, and imaginal circulation so eating can return to rhythm and process.