The Tending Studio
A 10-month group program for tending to the body of work you yearn to create, so it can move out of your brain and into the world with movement your body can actually show up for.
august 2026 to june 2027
You hold a big vision, a body that feels everything and work that is constantly pulling at the hem of your soul asking for your attention.
You’re a reflecting, processing and feeling kinda entrepreneurial woman. You’ve probably been in a ton of therapy and coaching and have a pile of well-worn journals. You have your patterns memorized and could tell me why you do every single thing that you do. You feel your inner landscape by every touch and texture.
You know that you are sitting on a wellspring of wisdom. You have things you want to actually move forward on: the offer you keep thinking of, the community asking for your leadership, the essay series brewing inside, the product line that’s calling you.
That practice, that project, that body of work that is cupping your face and saying, “love, it is time.”
And what you actually need is not more strategy, planning, or even mindset work.
What you need is the movement, agency and mobilization that you crave and your work deserves.
it's time to move
✿
it's time to move ✿
Most business support spaces flatten the absolute complexity that makes you so very wonderfully you.
They inherently bypass your brilliant brain and intelligent body by having you outsourcing your authority, focusing on output and productivity or performing for metrics or results.
This is at it’s best, a distraction and at its worst, harmful.
Marching orders at you like, ‘be consistent’ and ‘choose one thing’ and ‘get visible’ without ever considering your agency or what kind of online attention your body can actually metabolize.
What you might call resistance, I actually see as a sacred refusal to put yourself in a mechanism of work that will flatten you and empty you of your brilliance.
The Tending Studio is a
reckoning with your own agency where your work actually
becomes practice.
This is a space built to help you mobilize, so that the body of work that is stirring in you, can be formed outside of you and truly become real.
I am giving you a room where you will be held both with compassion and gentleness, while also deep respect for your power, agency and leadership. You will not be coddled here and you will also not be forced.
You will be held.
Because of how powerful I know you are and your work is.
What do I mean exactly by body of work?
The work that moves with your vision, leadership and lived experience. The work that only come from you because of what you have noticed, practiced, questioned, loved and refused to dilute.
Work that carries your thinking, your care, your artistry, your convictions, and your way of seeing the world into something others can encounter, return to, and be changed by.
writing a collection of essays that articulate your brilliant, nuanced perspective
designing a framework that gives language to something your people have felt but not yet named
recording a podcast season around a question or conversation that is orienting for you and your work.
pioneering a research project around a recurring theme in your work
developing a lens, philosophy, or approach that becomes associated with you
gathering a series of talks, teachings, or recordings around your core message
creating a manifesto that names what you stand for and what you refuse to keep participating in
facilitating a series of client stories or case studies that reveal the depth of your work
Working with Ashley has really shifted my perspective of what's possible and how different (in the best way) business can feel. It doesn't have to be from this frantic, hustle energy but can feel so much more gentle and grounded. Our sessions are so powerful; the perspectives she shares, the guided questions that help reveal and uncover so much, and her intuition and sense about what could be shifted helps to make so much progress. Everyone needs the magic and power of Ashley in their life!
Nicole Clausen
The Tending Studio is part of my larger body of work around The Online Body - the way our bodies, nervous systems, identities, creativity, leadership, and agency are shaped by the experience of being online.
Creating on the internet is a layered experience where we are constantly being asked to move our creativity into output and our bodies into something that can somehow metabolize attention, silence, comparison, and visibility.
And for those with big visions + bodies that feel everything, this is not neutral.
The online world shapes inevitably shapes how we relate to our work; what we think is worth making, how quickly we believe something should become profitable, how we measure whether our ideas matter, and how much permission we feel to move at the pace our real work requires.
This is why The Tending Studio is not about “getting it done,” but about holding a nuanced perspective between agency, your body of work and capacity.
Over ten months, there will be five facilitated cycles where you will be invited to choose a meaningful focus inside your own body of work.
Our shared practice won’t be found in the focuses we choose,
but in the practice of agency.
A cycle focus could be anything; developing an offer, a workshop, an essay series, an experiment, a public philosophy, a community or anything else that might be stirring inside.
In every cycle, we will follow this rhythm:
Orient: Name where you are and what’s most important.
Map: Get honest and bold about what keeps pulling at you, and what is asking for attention.
Decide: Choose your focus and commitment.
Build: Draft, outline, write, design, record, structure, revise, practice, plan, or create.
Contact: Share, test, publish, invite, pitch, teach, send, speak, or let it be witnessed.
Integrate: Process and reflect by asking questions like: what did you learn and what wants to continue?
Over 10 months together, here’s what could happen for you.
You develop your body of work in very practical and meaningful ways.
More of that brilliance actually living and breathing outside of you.
You actually have done the things bravely and with support and there is
an experience of empowerment and momentum that gives.
You stop being “the best kept secret” and start leading with the authority
that doesn’t come from hustle, but from a felt sense of agency in what you’re creating.
You practice staying with work when it is visible, ignored, wanted, unfinished,
or misunderstood with the utmost compassion.
You shift from hustle and crash cycles of action to
a rhythm of action that your body can actually sustain and hold.
Across ten months, you may move a signature offer, a workshop,
a methodology, an essay series, a sales page, a client pathway,
a Substack, a visibility rhythm, or a creative project into the world.
And the deeper invitation of The Tending Room? You cultivate a capacity to mobilize and move on the work you’re here to do in a way that does not empty you of resource but gives you more.
Being supported by you is like being held in a safe cocoon while you are prompted to feel into your own brilliance and next steps. Your gentle, slow approach to business felt like the balm I needed to come alive. I knew I didn’t have to push or be something I wasn’t, which gave my whole self permission to slow down and listen in. Each session was like a gentle nudge to get out of the mind and into the body.
Rachel Germann
The experience is designed around a rhythm and a set of curated agency tools intentionally designed to help your work move and be tended to on repeat.
The Rhythm: The Studio Calls
Over 10 months, we move through five 60-day studio cycles. Each cycle will include four live, 75-minute calls.
Orient + Choose: We map what is asking for your attention from a self-led space and choose your focus for that cycle.
Studio Lab: We work with what is actually happening: stuck points, strategy, drafts, decisions, questions, nervous system experience through coaching and support.
Mobilize and Capacity: We play with the somatic practice of agency to help you expand your ability to capacity mobilize in a way your body can actually sustain.
Integrate + Continue: We look at what moved, what you learned and how this forms how you want to move forward.
The Tools: The Agency Archive
You will receive a set of agency tools to support the process.
Body-of-Work Map: a Google doc helps you gather the bigger vision, name the thread of your work, and see what you’re actually building over time.
60-Day Tending Guide: a supporting Google doc to help you choose one focus for each cycle and give it a clear shape and next steps in a way that is brimming with choice and self-leadership.
Choice in the Body: a somatic agency practice to help you discern agency-driven action, so your next step comes from choice instead of force.
Return Ritual: a simple process for coming back to the work after freezing, overthinking, or disappearing.
Studio Witness Practice: a go-to approach that gives the group a shared way to respond to work-in-progress with useful reflection instead of overwhelming advice.
Here’s What Crafts The Experience Together
Inside the STUDIO
Between the rhythm and tools, you will also have access to:
Your Tending Sheet
A private Google spreadsheet between you and me where we track what you choose each cycle, what you’re moving, what support you need, so I can help hold the thread with you.
Monthly Making Room Session
A monthly coworking session for creating, body-doubling, and actually spending time with the work you chose. Not processing or brainstorming, but putting the pen to paper.
Private Group Chat
A quiet, focused space to share what you’re choosing, what’s getting stuck or dizzy, and what kind of support would help you keep moving.
This is for you if:
you have big vision + a body that feels everything
(this was designed with you in mind)
you have processed enough to know something
needs to move
you want to build a thoughtful body of work
over just feeding the machine
you want feedback without the room becoming overwhelming or advice-heavy
you want to be met with compassion while also not being excused from the work you committed to
you want to build the muscle of choosing,
acting, sharing, and staying with your work
in the presence of others
you are ready to start building the conditions
that help movement become possible
How do you know if
this is actually for you?
This is not for you:
you want me to make choices for you or outsource your authority to me
you want to stay in endless processing without
making decisions or taking action
you are interested in building work that is more
urgent and social content focused
you do not yet have enough of a thread, project, offer, question, or body of work to bring into the space
you want support to feel validating and not
necessarily mobilizing
you want to be understood, but you are not yet available to be challenged, redirected, or
called back to the work
you are not in a season where you can realistically give your work time, attention, or follow-through
Let’s talk cost.
First, I know how powerful it can be to invest in support, and also how tender it can feel.
So honour yourself here.
Look honestly at your season, your capacity, your desire, your resources,
and what your work needs right now.
Tier One: The Tending Studio
Tier Two: The Tending Studio with Private Support
The Tending Studio:
$3000 or $300 a month
For those ready to move
on their powerful body of work.
10 months inside the studio: a longer space to really practice doing the work and making serious movement.
Five 60-day sprints and four live calls per cycle: 20 live calls total to help you orient, choose, mobilize, work through what’s happening, and integrate what happened.
Monthly Making Room co-working sessions: a supportive space to spend time with the work you’re choosing.
A custom, collaborative Tending Sheet: a private shared tracker between you and me where your focus and movement are held throughout each cycle with witness + challenge.
Private group chat: for support, check-ins, questions, camaraderie, and staying connected.
The Agency Archive: the full set of tools and resources to help you choose, move, contact, integrate, and return.
One private 60-minute 1:1 mapping session for founding cohort: where sit with your body of work, name the thread, and set a vision for what’s possible for you over the ten months.
NEED A LONGER PAYMENT PLAN?
You can pay over 18 payments here.
The Tending Studio + Private Support:
$4500 or $450 a month.
For those who knows they move best
with more individual attention and direct support.
Includes everything in The Tending Studio plus:
1 private 60-minute session per sprint: in these sessions, we wil work directly on your chosen focus using body intelligence, neuro-inclusion, self-compassion, and business strategy.
Private Voxer support in between sessions: weekday support for feedback, coaching and support, where you will feel me in it with you one hundred percent.
Feedback on what you’re creating: if you want to get my brain on the work you’ve moving in the world, this is for you as I am available to review the materials and strategies of your focus. Need me to look at your sales page, your website, your program, your essay series? I got you.
NEED A LONGER PAYMENT PLAN?
You can pay over eighteen payments here.
If you got to the end of the sales page, hi. I am so glad you’re here.
If you know that it’s time for you to move on your body of work and that you want to do that from a space of agency and choice, this is for you.
You will be held in both structure and support, in compassion and also being held to your commitment by myself and the group.
You will return again and again to a practice of being with your work, expanding your access to agency, and learning how to hold mobilization in your body.
On the other side of this, you will have created, published, made, led, and spoken the things you’ve been journaling about for awhile.
You will feel the joy that only
movement can give
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