Desire Lab (for female identified & assigned people including gender queer/non binary female assigned folks) led by Hana van der Kolk

What do you want? Specifically what do you want erotically, sexually? Does it feel difficult to tell sometimes? Scary to articulate? Like what you want changes in different contexts? Like what you want isn’t possible in your current circumstances? Like you want different things in fantasy than in reality? Like what you want is or could be difficult for your lover(s)/loved ones? 

In this four-week lab we will focus on cultivating awareness of, empowerment in, and communication about our desires as female identified & assigned/non-binary people beyond people pleasing, patriarchy, and limited tropes of what’s erotic/sexy. While we will turn our attention primarily to erotic/sexual desire, we will also explore the overlap between erotic and “non-erotic” desire in this process. Through meditation, writing practices, touch, breath work, consent practice, and verbal sharing we will create a collaborative space for exploration. This will be a clothes on workshop and touch will always be optional. Feel free to reach out with questions. 

Pricing/packages

desire lab: $75-160 sliding scale (no drop ins)

all 3 series in Troy (desire lab, rdk, total body love) (12 classes): $130-360 sliding scale

package payments are due before the start of the first class of the series 

payment options: Venmo (@hana-vanderkolk), PayPal (hjvanderkolk@gmail.com), check, or cash. 

For more information visit: https://www.hanavanderkolk.com/current

Hana van der Kolk

I am an artist, dancer, educator, Internal Family Systems and sex and gender expansion counselor, and an organizer of community events and spaces. I have been based on the unceded homelands of the Mohican people (now known as the Stockbridge Munsee community) in what is called Troy, NY for nearly eight years. A life-long dancer/performer, I have taught my community dance class “radial diamond kinetics” and other dance/movement/performance practices internationally for over 10 years to a wide range of populations. I also facilitate others in learning to teach rdk and other body-based tools for personal and group transformation. 

I taught yoga from 2002-2012 (primarily in Los Angeles and NYC), having studied with many renowned teachers/schools, and have practiced meditation in the Burmese and Thai Forest traditions for twenty years. I have also studied numerous dance forms, Body Mind Centering, Alexander Technique, Gyrokinesis, fitness, Contact Improvisation, ritual facilitation, Dream Lab method, astrology, Bondassage (certified in 2015), Urban Tantra (certified in 2021), and the Internal Family Systems method (level 1-trained in 2016). My approach to facilitating groups and counseling/coaching individuals is informed by these above methods, years of practice and study, and many phenomenal teachers, and is first and foremost fueled by my delight in learning, love of people and community, and deep curiosity about pleasure and what it means to live in a body and be human.

I worked with Troy Bike Rescue for 5 years building community coalition and helping to facilitate the shop’s youth program, threw Troy’s underground dance party Polly with many others, am part of the FlagSSS Day collective, recently initiated the new Club SPA spa, hold an MFA in dance, and just completed my practice-based PhD in art. My dissertation, which will come out in book version in 2023, focuses on queer friendship and body-based approaches to re-enchantment/the interruption of capitalism, individualism, human-centrism, and the gender binary.