🗓  8 classes from October 7th to December 2nd, 2026. (no class November 25)

🔥 Optional Celebration Sauna (Tentatively planned for Friday December 4th)

🗣️Taught by Ulysses Chuang, in collaboration with Samson Zhilyaev

🕰️ Wednesdays 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm (Optional open practice after 9:00 pm)

🗺 Merlin’s Place, Bushwick, Brooklyn

💰 Sliding scale of $200-$700

📋 Application: https://forms.gle/1Bahb4qfYjSH4Dzq7

👥 Class limited to 14 students

Steps to apply

1. Fill out the Application
2. Schedule a ~15 minute video call with Samson or Ulysses. We do ask that you watch the Consent Video [6:22 minutes] before the video call.
3. Check out course details below if you haven’t already!

About the course

In this course, you will learn to give a bodywork session to a friend or family member. The bodywork consists of accessible techniques with some gentle partner stretching. This course requires no prior experience. However, if you already practice a form of bodywork, this course will increase your toolbox with both fresh concepts and new techniques. I developed this bodywork over fifteen years of studying and practicing systems like yoga, Taichi, the Alexander Technique, and Kinomichi, and hundreds of sessions of exchange with research partners.

Short sessions:

Because my type of bodywork requires paying mindful attention from both giver and active receiver, actual bodywork sessions rarely last more than an hour. 30 minutes is plenty, and even 15 minutes is restorative.

Class structure: theory, giving, and receiving.