Polarity 101 - A Group Workshop
Inner Union of Shakti & Shiva
Polarity 101 invites you into a living exploration of this sacred balance — through Contemporary Tantra and Somatic Embodiment Practices designed to help you experience, not just understand, these energies.
Polarity 101 is an immersive, somatic workshop designed to guide you out of the mind and into the body—where real connection lives. Through embodied practices, relational exercises, and guided exploration, you’ll experience the subtle yet powerful dynamics that awaken aliveness within yourself and between you and others.
This is about becoming a clearer vessel for connection, presence, and love to move through you. You’ll learn how polarity creates attraction, tension, and chemistry — and how to consciously play with it in your relationships, your sexuality, and your own internal world.
What You’ll Experience
Grounded Aliveness
Learn how to anchor into your body and access a deeper sense of presence, vitality, and inner steadiness.From Head to Heart to Body
Shift out of overthinking and into embodied awareness—where intimacy naturally unfolds.The Essence of Polarity
Explore the energetic interplay between masculine and feminine dynamics—not as rigid roles, but as living forces within all of us.
Experience the masculine as conscious presence—holding, witnessing, and protecting through awareness rather than control or doing. Experience the feminine as awakened aliveness - expression, movement, creativity and aliveness.Relational Depth & Connection
Discover how your relationship with yourself directly shapes your capacity to connect with others.Safety & Trust from Within
Understand how creating safety inside yourself allows for deeper trust, openness, and connection in your relationships.What Gets in the Way
Gently uncover the patterns, conditioning, and protective mechanisms that block intimacy—and learn how to move beyond them.
Why This Work Matters
Many of us were never taught how to truly be in connection. We’ve inherited patterns shaped by societal expectations, fear, and disconnection from our bodies. This work invites you into a new possibility:
When you become more open…
When you feel more deeply…
When you trust yourself…
Connection transforms.
For couples, this creates a deeper sense of safety, attraction, and understanding.
For individuals, it opens the door to more authentic, aligned relationships.
Who This Is For
Individuals seeking deeper connection with themselves and others
Couples desiring more intimacy, aliveness, and understanding
Those curious about polarity, embodiment, and relational growth
Anyone ready to move beyond surface-level connection into something real
Facilitated by:
Josephine Lauer
Embodiment Guide • Tantric Practitioner • Somatic Intimacy Coach
Details:
📅 Saturday, December 19, 2026
🕑 1:30–4:30 p.m.
📍We The People Studio
💲 $60 per person | $110 per couple
Urban Intimacy | THE RETREAT - Chicago
In a city that never stops moving, intimacy rarely happens by accident.
We live surrounded by people yet often disconnected from ourselves, our bodies, our relationships, and our communities. Between careers, technology, endless obligations, and the pace of urban life, genuine connection can become something we long for rather than something we actively cultivate.
The Art of Intimacy is a full-day urban retreat designed for modern humans who want more—from themselves, their relationships, and their lives.
Join Somatic Intimacy Coach Josephine Lauer and guest facilitators for an immersive journey into embodiment, authentic connection, polarity, contemporary tantra, and relational presence.
This experience welcomes individuals, couples, non-binary folks, polycules, and all relationship configurations who are curious about deepening intimacy, expanding self-awareness, and exploring conscious connection in a grounded, inclusive, and sober environment.
Throughout the day, you'll participate in a carefully curated progression of somatic and relational practices designed to help you move from your head into your body, from performance into presence, and from isolation into authentic connection.
The Connected Couple | A Group Workshop - Chicago
Tantric Date Night for Couples is an immersive three-hour group workshop designed to help couples rediscover connection through the body. You Will Leave With
• A deeper sense of emotional and physical connection
• Practical rituals to continue at home
• Greater confidence communicating desires and boundaries
• Increased trust and nervous system co-regulation
• A renewed sense of playfulness and curiosity
• More access to intimacy, sensuality, and aliveness
The Edge - Chicago
Urban Intimacy: The Edge is an experiential workshop in Chicago for individuals and couples seeking courageous connection, embodied intimacy, and erotic expansion thru group shadow work, advanced Tantra, somatic practices, polarity, and consent.
RITUALS - Miami
There are moments in life when the familiar feels too small—
when something deep inside begins to stir, whispering toward mystery, depth, and awakening.
RITUALS is created for that moment.
Across three immersive days, you are invited into a meticulously crafted container designed by Andy Buru, a renowned facilitator of esoteric somatic and relational arts. RITUALS is not a performance, not entertainment, not spectacle—it is a transformative encounter with yourself.
What Is RITUALS?
RITUALS is an experiential journey exploring three archetypal forces. This season, in Miami in 2026 Andy Buru will guide us thru an exploration of:
PASSIVITY
Surrender as intelligence. Stillness as expression.
A study in what happens when you release the urge to control and let yourself be moved.
MONEY
Value as energy. Exchange as revelation.
An embodied look at how you relate to resource, worth, giving and receiving.
THE CARNAL
The primal body. The ancient body.
A grounded, artful exploration of your instinctive nature and the truths it holds.
Throughout the weekend, you will engage in structured rituals, teachings, and embodied exercises that draw from personal development, conscious BDSM, tantra-inspired practices, polarity work, and shadow exploration. Andy’s approach is refined, intentional, and unlike any other—merging discipline with softness, mystery with clarity. This is a deep experience to discover and align yourself with your truths through a series of themed rituals. This could be considered a mix of a personal development, BDSM, Tantra, and shadow work event.
Polarity 101 - CHI
You’ll learn how polarity exists first and foremost within the Self, represented by the masculine (Shiva) energy and the feminine (Shakti) energy. You will do work cultivate both of these energetics within yourself and with practice partners.
You’ll experience:
Guided embodiment journeys to awaken masculine (yang/Shiva) and feminine (yin/Shakti) energies
Partner rituals to explore energetic balance within and attraction/magnetism with others
Somatic tools for grounding presence, deepening receptivity, and cultivating trust
Tantric frameworks for bringing play, passion, and polarity into everyday life
This workshop is for:
Individuals seeking to integrate their inner masculine and feminine energies
Couples wanting to reignite spark and deepen their polarity
Anyone curious about conscious love, Tantric intimacy, or embodied connection
Urban Intimacy: Polarity 201: D/S Dynamics
Polarity 201: D/S Dynamics, a workshop Exploring Power & Surrender led by Somatic Intimacy Coach and Tantra Teacher Josephine Lauer in Chicago.Power and surrender are ancient forces that live inside every relationship, every touch, every breath of intimacy. When held with consciousness and consent, these energies become pathways to profound trust and magnetic connection. In this workshop you will learn the energetics of Dominant and Submissive polarity, explore consent as sacred foundations, practice embodied exercises to access grounded power and open-hearted surrender and discover how to channel these energies in connection, love, and daily life.
The Sensual Woman Activation
The Sensual Woman Activation
Activate Your Voice • Embody Your Truth • Awaken Your Sensual Power
with Olivia Dydyna & Josephine Lauer
Thursday, January 15th | 6:30–8:30 PM
We The People Studio – Chicago, IL
$50
A space for the woman who’s ready to feel her body again — without pressure, without performance, and without holding back.
Urban Intimacy: Polarity 101
Polarity 101: The Art of Magnetic Connection — Urban Intimacy Workshop with Josephine Lauer
Discover the secrets of attraction, presence, and emotional connection in Polarity 101: The Art of Magnetic Connection, an immersive workshop on January 11, 2026, led by Somatic Intimacy Coach and Tantric Teacher Josephine Lauer. Designed for adults aged 30–60 who crave deeper, more vibrant relationships, this experiential event explores masculine and feminine polarity, the dance between Yang and Yin, and how these energies shape magnetism and intimacy in modern love. Through guided somatic practices, conscious communication, and energetic exploration, you’ll learn how to embody both dominant and receptive energies, cultivate trust and passion, and reconnect with your natural aliveness. Whether you’re single or partnered, this workshop offers a grounded, transformative roadmap to understanding attraction and creating more authentic, fulfilling connections.
The Embodied Man
Tired of feeling stuck in old patterns and surface-level relationships? It’s time to step into The Embodied Man, a 2.5 hr. workshop in Chicago by Intimacy Coaches Josephine Lauer and Steve Ware crafted to awaken your true masculine presence. Learn about masculine consciousness and energy, practice a powerful 3-part breath technique, and cultivate emotional depth and attunement.
Saturday Dec. 6th 2:30 - 5 p.m.
INNER ALCHEMY : Kundalini Energy Workshop
Join us in Chicago for a group workshop exploring kundalini energy, led by Victoria Magnus.
