Joseph Reid & La Maison Diev
present
Body ∙ As ∙ Classroom
A 3-month intensive workshop for inner transformation
Integrating art, tantra, and media ecology,
Body As Classroom
is an opportunity
to release old patterns, unblock creative vision,
and permanently transform your work, relationships, and life.
Sunday November 22 @ 11:00 AM ET
Free Online Event
What's At Stake
"When you are on the air you are, in a way,
everywhere at once... you have no body."
-- Marshall McLuhan
"I've done everything right. I'm successful...
So why do I feel like a stranger to myself?From the outside, everything looks fine...You're smart, ambitious, capable, and highly successful
in the eyes of the outside world.Career, relationships, the life you’ve built —
people tell you they're envious.
But when you're alone, a question surfaces:
“Is this really all there is?”No matter how much you achieve,
no matter how much money you make,
something remains elusive —
the sense of feeling at home inside your own skin.You've done the therapy, the retreats,
that meditation app, even executive coaching.
Maybe something shifted for a week.
Then just as quickly faded away...Sound familiar?Because you are stuck in your head,
and surprise! you can't think your way out of this.You have to come back to the body.
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My Story
Great to meet you. I'm Joseph Reid.
I spent decades managing other people's visions: on the Broadway stage, inside the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, across film sets and strategic communications campaigns. From the outside, it looked like a life fully realized. Underneath, I was fluent in everything except my own interior.What changed was a subtle but profound shift in consciousness -- realizing and accepting that I was so much more than what I did. It was aligning and expressing all of my "bodies": twenty years of yoga, meditation, and astrology practice, and a long study of Marshall McLuhan's media ecology, which taught me that the environments shaping us are invisible until something forces us to perceive them directly.Body As Classroom is that aligning function. It is the container I built because I needed it first.— Joseph
About Joseph Reid
Mentor, producer, and co-founder
Based in New York
・Production and management background spanning Broadway, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, men's fashion, film, journalism, and strategic communications
・Over twenty years practicing and teaching tantra and meditation
・18 years practicing astrology
・Alumnus and former teaching assistant, The McLuhan Institute's "Understanding Media Intensive"
・Contributing author, Marshall McLuhan: Then and Now (2026), and The Journal of Media Literacy's "A McLuhan Mosaic" (Spring 2026)
・Co-founded La Maison Diev, an art house integrating art, spirituality, and media ecology.
Is this workshop for me?
Body As Classroom is built for a specific person.
・Entrepreneurs who appear by every external measure to be successful, but privately wonder, “Is that all there is?”・Leaders who direct someone else's vision for a living but have ignored or suppressed their own・High-functioning achievers who've tried therapy, retreats, or coaching and found the results didn't stick・Creators drawn to depth, who are tired of having the vision stay stuck in their head・Those ready to stop managing their body and start listening to it
The Program
Five chapters. Gross body to bliss body.
Body As Classroom is structured upon the five dimensions or "sheaths" of the human being described in the Taittiriya Upanishad, which must be completely integrated and harmonized in order to achieve wholeness.
01 · Shake
Catharsis through movement, sound, and creative explorations returns sensation to the physical body, clears energy blockages, and awakens vital force.
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02 · Breathe
Pranayama and personalized tantra yoga meditations revitalize the energetic body that you've been steadily depleting for years.
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03 · Feel
Your astrological birth chart offers a cosmic cartography of the mental/emotional body, and a precise map of your genius, your wound, and the karmic patterns you’re ready to release.
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04 · Perceive
Perceiving anew with all our sensory faculties illuminates the lamp of the wisdom body, rendering visible the inherited and unconscious narratives that have been running your life.
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05 · Align
The bliss body is the felt presence of direct experience. Act in the world from a sense of multi-dimensional alignment.
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Commitment & Curriculum
Begins: Thursday November 5, 2026 at 7-8:30PM ESTDuration: 3 monthsFormat:
・Six 90-minute live group sessions (twice monthly)
・Three 60-minute one-on-one sessions (once monthly)
・8 - 12 hours of personal practice per week
・private support channel
・course materialsInvestment: shared live at the event
Sunday November 22 @ 11:00 AM ET
Free Online Event
Before / After
Who You Are, Right NowYou've spent so long performing the roles others expected of you. At some point, you stopped knowing why you were even doing it. You told yourself work was something to endure. You looked away from your own emotions. You lived trying not to see yourself too closely.Chased by responsibility, urgency, and the fear of being seen, time simply slipped by. Was this it?
Would nothing ever change?Somewhere inside, that silent despair has been hiding
for a long time.---
Who You're About to BecomeWith every step forward, you remember more of who you truly are. Expression stops feeling like something extra. It simply follows, naturally. An unshakeable confidence begins to take root, and you find yourself speaking your mind, even in front of others. The gaze you once feared no longer holds any power over you.You judge yourself less, and in turn, become more forgiving of the people around you. For the first time, it feels like your life has opened, like you can actually live it.
In the Room With Joseph
"Sessions with Joseph are like a dance of body, breath, and mind. He is a very intuitive teacher, and I feel full of strength and energy."- Alexandra T.
France
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"Both of us are over 60 years old and absolute beginners. Although we made a lot of sport in our lives, our bodies are rather stiff! Joseph our teacher gave us the feeling of our bodies in a way that we didn't know."- Betty & Hans-Ruedi B.
Switzerland
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"Thank you so very much for a profound experience today... deep and fulfilling in a number of ways. There is a certain kind of awareness that took me to a very different place today, and I cannot express how grateful I am to you for your energy. I trust your guidance and your intuition and that's what matters."- David M.
New York
Frequently Asked Questions
I'm not into astrology or yoga. Is this still for me?
The method doesn't require belief, only willingness. Most participants arrive skeptical of at least one piece of it. That's completely fine. Come as you are.I'm not a creative person. I can't draw, write, or act.
The creative work exists to bypass the inner critic, not perform for it. "Good" and "bad" aren't categories that apply here.Do I really have time for 90 minutes a day?
Honestly, that’s the question the program is built to answer. You most likely spend more than that unconsciously looking at screens. This creative time, spent on you on purpose.What if I can't make live sessions?
Recordings are available, and one absence is fine. But this is a cohort — your presence matters to the group, and the group's presence matters to you. If you know you'll miss more than one, this probably isn't the right moment.Is there a payment plan?
Yes. Full pricing and payment options are shared live at the webinar.
---Something in you is already stirring.That's the sign you've already begun. What waits on the other side is the full, multidimensional expression of who you've been protecting beneath the performance all along.Body As Classroom is the door.---
Sunday November 22 @ 11:00 AM ET
Free Online Event