Welcome
Welcome to Sensate Canvas™, your home for body–mind wellbeing and sexual intelligence.
“Where waves meet, the senses come alive, reminding you that your body and mind are one system, not separate parts.”Â
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House Of Life Learning StudioCome home to your body.
You deserve a life that feels good in your body—rich with love, steady joy, and everyday meaning.
At Sensate Canvas, we support you with somatic psychology, nervous system regulation, and sexual intelligence that you can apply in real life.
Learn to sense what’s true, practice what helps, and keep the changes that last.
Learn one tool today. Feel the difference this week.
One home. Two practice pathways. One model of vitality.
Sensate Canvas™ is our shared home. From here, you can walk two practice pathways—Sexual
Canvas and Embodied Canvas—supported by our science-based framework, the Five
Canvases of Vitality is a proprietary somatic and sensory longevity model rooted in modern health research.
Bilingual: Sessions and materials available in English and Spanish.
Founders
Two sisters. One integrative approach.
We unite sex education and somatic psychology in a trauma-responsive, consent-based model. One of us advances bold, compassionate sex education and sexual intelligence. The other brings depth in somatic psychology, nervous-system regulation, and trauma-responsive practice.
Together, we bridge research, art, and lived experience—so you can reconnect mind, body, and spirit without jargon, pressure, or performance.
Dalia La Fontaine
Teresa M. LaFontaine
SCIENTIFIC ROOTS & THE FIVE CANVASES OF VITALITY™
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How this comes from science
Across the world, epidemiological data confirm that most deaths and disability are caused by a specific cluster of noncommunicable diseases. We focus on the core areas of concern, summarized as:
- Atherosclerotic cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease (heart attacks, strokes).
- Cancer.
- Neurodegenerative disease (e.g., Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s).
- Metabolic disease (insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, fatty liver).
Why This Matters
The science names what tends to go wrong. The Five Canvases of Vitality™ show how to practice feeling right—today, in real life, with sexuality integrated as a core dimension of health rather than an optional extra.
THE FIVE CANVASES OF VITALITY™
Our core framework turns solid health science into something you can feel. It brings together the four significant biological drivers of long-term health, circulation, metabolism, brain/attention, and cellular repair, and adds a fifth, often overlooked, factor: human sexuality. Each “canvas” is a clear area where biology, sensation, creativity, and relationships meet so that you can learn practical skills for everyday life.
1) Canvas of Flow (Heart & Circulation)
Cardiovascular & cerebrovascular health.
What is it:Â Circulation feeds every organ, including the brain and skin. A steadier tempo supports mood, focus, and day-to-day energy. Builds a more consistent internal tempo that supports circulation and emotional ease, reducing bracing and helping restore healthy flow dynamics.
Why it matters:Â Circulation feeds every organ, including the brain and skin. A steadier tempo supports mood, focus, and day-to-day energy.
Sexual link: When flow improves, pelvic circulation and arousal capacity often follow; paced breathing and cardiovascular fitness support erectile function, lubrication, and endurance.
2) The Canvas of Balance (Metabolism & Energy)
What is it: Your body’s timing system for fuel, energy, and mood. Balance fosters gentle daily rhythms, allowing blood sugar, appetite, and attention to remain steady.
Why it matters: Metabolic steadiness supports focus, emotional stability, and long-term health (insulin sensitivity, lipids, inflammation). When Balance is off, people feel spike-and-crash energy, fog, and irritability.
Sexual link: When energy levels and sleep stabilize, many people report more consistent desire and easier recovery after sex; metabolic care often reduces fatigue-related sexual difficulties.
3) Canvas of Awareness (Attention & Brain Health)
What is it: Your system’s way of placing attention in the present. Awareness uses sensation (sight, sound, weight, breath) to steady the mind without forcing it.
Why it matters: When attention anchors in the body, thinking gets kinder and clearer. This protects against overload, reduces reactivity, and supports long-term brain health.
Sexual link: Mindful attention and sensation literacy reduce performance pressure and increase capacity to notice pleasure, boundaries, and subtle “yes/no/maybe” signals.
4) Canvas of Awareness (Attention & Brain Health)
 What is it: Your body’s repair window. Renewal sets steady rhythms for winding down, sleeping well, and completing the stress cycle, allowing tissues to restore—key for maintaining immune balance and reducing pathways linked to cancer risk.
Why it matters: Deep, consistent recovery supports immune tone, lowers inflammation, and protects long-term cellular integrity. Without it, everything feels harder—mood, focus, and healing are all affected.
Sexual link: Restorative sleep and lower inflammation support libido, lubrication/erection quality, and pain thresholds, making intimacy easier and more comfortable.
5) The Canvas of Creation (Human Sexuality)
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Somatic doorways: Sexuality is a living source of vitality, as the body, emotions, imagination, and relationships create a sense of belonging. It includes desire, pleasure, boundaries, gendered and cultural scripts, attachment, and the language we use with ourselves and others.
Creative cue: Sexual health is linked to whole-body health. Vascular integrity shapes arousal; metabolic steadiness and sleep influence desire; attention and mood shape availability and pleasure; repair and inflammation affect tissue comfort and pain thresholds. When sexuality is supported—not shamed or coerced—it amplifies regulation, bonding, meaning, and motivation for healthful behaviours.
THE INVITATION
This platform invites you to choose your canvas, allowing you to follow a path that truly resonates with your self-discovery journey—while knowing that behind every practice, the Five Canvases of Vitality™ are quietly organizing the work.
(CHOOSE YOUR PRACTICE PATHWAY)
One home, two pathways. Start where it helps most now—you can switch or blend later.
Sexual Canvas
Sex education you can use
Who it’s for:
Individuals or couples who want clearer consent, better communication, and a kinder, more confident relationship with pleasure.
What you’ll learn:
Consent language and pacing, desire dialogue, aftercare, shame-softening, and sexual intelligence rooted in body signals.
What changes:
Less pressure and confusion; more clarity, comfort, and connection—at your body’s pace.
Explore Sexual CanvasEmbodied Canvas
Somatic psychology in daily life
Who it’s for:
People seeking steadier days, options under stress, and body-based tools that stick.
What you’ll learn:
Breath, posture, interoception, sensation literacy, long-exhale resets, and micro-rituals for sleep and overwhelm.
What changes:
More regulation options, less reactivity, better sleep and focus, and a felt sense of “I have choices.”
Explore Embodied CanvasHouse of Life: Learning Studio
Learn it. Feel it. Keep it.
Self-paced courses, live online classes, and in-person trainings that turn science into everyday skills. We teach skills, not performance.
The Studio: Classes, Courses & PassÂ
Studio Pass
All-access to live classes + replays + our on-demand library. Come as you are; leave with one new skill.
Classes (live)
Short, focused practice rooms—Flow, Organize Energy, Understanding, Sleep & Repair, Eros/Creation.
Courses (2–6 weeks)
Online courses you can watch at your own pace.
Practitioner Certification (annual cohort)Â
Teach what bodies can trust.
A once-a-year passage for facilitators and helping professionals who want evidence-aware, consent-centered somatic skills—taught with artistry and rigor.
You will leave with
âś“ A trauma-aware facilitation toolkit- âś“ Live labs with supervision and feedback
- âś“ Simple outcome tracking (practice-based evidence)
- âś“ A capstone rooted in your setting (private, community, organizational)
- Format: Hybrid (live online + on-demand) with one in-person intensive.
Organizational Programs
Culture you can feel.
Organizational Programs
Culture you can feel.
We design trainings and programs where regulation, consent, and repair become everyday behaviours.
For whom: Businesses • Government & agencies • Shelters • Correctional/Re-entry programs • Schools & healthcare
What we build :
âś“ Team trainings (regulation under pressure, consent-centered communication, repair & de-escalation)
- âś“ Program architecture (curriculum, policy drafts, practice labs)
- âś“ Quarter-to-quarter advisory for durable change
Why choose usÂ
We design trainings and programs where regulation, consent, and repair become everyday behaviours.
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âś“ Evidence-based: somatic psychology and human sexuality, taught with clarity and warmth.
- âś“ Made for real life: Skills that travel with you.
Who It's For / Not a Fit
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Individuals seeking nervous-system tools and sensation literacy
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Emotion regulation & couples wanting practical consent language and repair skills
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Practitioners and leaders bringing trauma-responsive practices to teams
❌ Not a fit (we refer out):
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Crisis intervention or emergency clinical care
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Medical diagnosis or treatment
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Hands-on bodywork (we can refer to qualified providers)
Stories Against SexismÂ
A free community to name and heal everyday sexism. You don’t have to carry it alone.
A free, moderated story community where you can put words to what you’ve lived—comments, jokes, microaggressions, harassment, and other gender-based harms—and see that others have walked similar paths.
PODCASTS 🎧
Short, listenable series that pair stories with simple practices.
The Art of Feeling
Somatic stories and simple practices at the meeting point of psychology, art, and the living body.
Sexual Canvas
Evidence with empathy: consent, pleasure, culture—sex ed you can actually use.
ACCESSIBILITY & CARE
We center clarity, consent, and practical accessibility.
Plain language & bilingual resources
All core materials are available in English and Spanish. We avoid jargon and write for everyday understanding.
Camera-optional live calls, captions & transcripts
Join with camera on or off. Every live session and recorded resource includes captions and a downloadable transcript.
Sliding-scale spots
A limited number of sliding-scale spots are available each cohort — apply during checkout or contact our team for support.
Referrals & care pathways
When needs extend beyond education, we provide referrals to vetted therapists and licensed bodywork practitioners.
