VOL II
FALL 26’
A study in the unseen architecture of self.
Fieldwork is an 8-week anatomical study and embodied (co)lab to unearth the wisdom of your body and lead your life from inner intelligence.
We live in a world increasingly optimized to tell us how to think, what to do, and who to become.
AI. Algorithms. Wellness trends. We are outsourcing more and more of ourselves to external systems, and the quieter our own inner intelligence becomes. But before the conditioning. Beneath the habits, adaptations, and inherited patterns that shape how you move through the world, there is a part of you that can see, sense, and know. In yoga, this is called the seer: the awareness beneath the fluctuations of the mind.
The work isn’t to find it. It’s to become fluent enough in your own experience to hear it. Because you can do all the things. Lean into the resources. Build the habits. Reform your schedule. Reinvent yourself. Learn the practices. You can understand why you do what you do—and still find yourself doing it. Because knowing yourself intellectually is not the same as inhabiting yourself.
We live in a world increasingly optimized to tell us how to think, what to do, and who to become.
AI. Algorithms. Wellness trends. We are outsourcing more and more of ourselves to external systems, and the quieter our own inner intelligence becomes.
But before the conditioning. Beneath the habits, adaptations, and inherited patterns that shape how you move through the world, there is a part of you that can see, sense, and know.
In yoga, this is called the seer: the awareness beneath the fluctuations of the mind.
If you’re done living in default mode and feel that the ways you’ve learned to occupy your body—shaped by outdated systems you’ve subconsciously adapted to—no longer fit.
Fieldwork is a 6-week education and embodiment co/lab for studying the deeper architecture beneath your patterns, at the intersection of:
○ fascia and movement
○ nervous system science
○ somatic intelligence
○ embodied anatomy
This isn’t a course with tips and tricks to reinvent yourself. It’s about understanding the patterns in your body that have shaped how you move, feel, and think.
Because the patterns in your body aren't just giving you information. They're actively shaping your lived experiencein real-time.
Here, you’ll develop a deeper relationship with your body that gives you more agency and choice in how you meet yourself and the world around you.
Fieldwork gives you a framework for understanding the language of your body, so you can hear what your tension, posture, breath, movement, and responses are communicating to you.
This is where we bridge the gap between intellectual understanding and sustainable, embodied change.
When you recognize what your body has learned, you gain the capacity to choose what happens next.
The Four Pillars of Fieldwork
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01 — Body Literacy
Learning to read the body's language.
Body literacy is the practice of understanding the body's internal language. This is the ground of all change. Rooted in interoception (tuning into the body’s signals) you'll develop a refined understanding of your inner workings and the language of your body.
Rather than seeing sensation as something to change or correct, you'll learn to perceive it as information that can be intelligently adapted when intentionally listened to.
Awareness becomes the foundation for discernment, which is where agency is born.
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02 — Structural Intelligence
Understanding the body as an adaptive architecture.
We study anatomy, biomechanics, fascia, and movement as an interconnected system rather than a collection of isolated parts.
You'll explore how repetition, load, environment, gravity, and experience shape how your body is organized, and how local adaptations influence the entire system.
The body then becomes something you understand, not something you need to fix.
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03 — Nervous System Stewardship
Learning to work with the systems that shape how you respond and adapt.
We explore the relationship between nervous system activity, muscle tone, breath, perception, movement, and behavior.
Rather than treating stress responses as problems to eliminate, you'll learn to understand them as adaptive strategies—and explore how capacity, neuroplasticity, and new experience create opportunities for change.
Not control. Relationship.
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04 — Awareness & Integration
Turning information into lived understanding.
Knowledge only becomes transformative when it changes how you perceive and relate to your experience.
Through observation, movement, reflection, and practice, you'll begin integrating what you're learning into the way you inhabit your body and meet your life.
This is where knowing becomes embodied.
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“The combination of knowledge, intuition, and embodiment created a completely different way of understanding my body. Anatomy became something I could feel, not just something I could study.”
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“What I appreciate most is that I don’t just leave feeling different — I leave understanding myself differently. I have a clearer awareness of my body and the patterns I carry.”
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“The work helped me develop a deeper relationship with my body. I walked away with more awareness, more curiosity, and a better understanding of how to care for myself.”
For those ready to stop outsourcing the wisdom of their body
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You are deeply self-aware, yet your patterns persist.
You can name your patterns. You understand your tendencies. But understanding the story hasn't necessarily changed the response.
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You don't want another way to manage the symptom.
You're less interested in endlessly releasing, regulating, correcting, or optimizing. You want to understand the deeper organization beneath the response.
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You want anatomy you can actually feel.
You're tired of collecting information. You want to understand fascia, posture, breath, movement, and structure through direct experience.
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You're questioning the urgency you've built your life around.
Something in you suspects that there is another way to move through the world—and you're curious what your body has to do with it.
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You've become very good at doing.
You're capable, productive, and accustomed to moving things forward. But you're beginning to notice what constant momentum asks of your body.
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You want to make decisions from somewhere deeper than the noise.
You want to develop a relationship with your own signals, sensations, and perception so that your choices aren't always dictated by external expectations.
Fieldwork explores the body not as something to fix, but as a living map of self study and possibility.
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“Fieldwork gave me the ability to recognize how my internal state was showing up physically, and how to respond to my body’s signals with more clarity and care.”
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“I learned to identify when and how my mental state was impacting me physically, and I developed the tools to support myself before becoming overwhelmed.”
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“Fieldwork shifted me from constantly pouring my energy outward, to recognizing my own needs and honoring my boundaries to better care for myself.”
The Value of Body Literacy
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"Fieldwork helped me become aware of my patterns instead of automatically reacting to them. I left feeling more connected to myself, more present in my daily life, and with a deeper sense of self-trust."
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"This program shifted how I relate to myself. Instead of trying to fix what I thought was wrong, I learned to become curious about my patterns, slow down, and create space for a different response."
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"Fieldwork wasn't about fixing myself. It helped me understand myself more deeply. I now move through life with greater awareness, more compassion for where I am, and a stronger relationship with myself."
Why I created Fieldwork
My background is formal: anatomy, education, movement science, yoga, and bodywork. I've spent more than a decade teaching people how to understand and inhabit their bodies. And over time, I kept coming back to the same realization:
Information alone isn't enough.
You can understand the anatomy of the shoulder and still not understand why you brace. You can know the science of the nervous system and still find yourself living in urgency. You can know exactly what you're "supposed" to do and still feel disconnected from the body you're doing it with.
Because the body isn't a textbook.It is lived experience.
Stress, repetition, environment, relationship, movement, perception, and adaptation are continually woven into the tissues and systems through which we experience our lives.
This is the space that became Fieldwork.
A place where anatomical knowledge meets the lived experience of being human.
Where we don't treat patterns as failures. We study them.
Where we don't ask the body to conform to an ideal. We learn to understand its intelligence.
And where awareness isn't the end goal. It is the beginning of choice.
The body is not something to fix. It is a living archive shaped by the life you live.
My work weaves:
• the art and science of the body
• the intelligence of sensation
• the precision of biomechanics
• the spaciousness of contemplative practice
• the subtle magic of the inner landscape
I created Fieldwork because understanding ourselves requires more than information. It requires observation, embodiment, and relationship. This is a space to study the hidden architecture beneath your patterns—where anatomy, nervous system science, movement, and lived experience converge.
The Curriculum
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Before we begin exploring patterns, we begin by establishing a shared language, meeting the community, and orienting to the work ahead.
This opening session is designed to help you arrive and become familiar with the Fieldwork framework, understand how the container will unfold, and begin observing your own inner landscape.
You will:
Move through a guided visualization to explore your internal landscape
Begin a body mapping practice to identify areas of tension, ease, awareness, and curiosity
Establish a personal baseline from which to observe change throughout the program
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Fascial continuity · breath · structural compensation · the feet + backline
We begin by dropping beneath the surface of conscious behavior and into the architecture of adaptation. This week explores the body as a living archive, shaped by memory, environment, stress, protection, and repetition.
Through the lens of fascia, posture, breath, and nervous system organization, you'll begin identifying where your history lives in the body. We’ll explore the feet and backline as foundational support systems, introducing maps of understanding how patterns are connected throughout your whole body.
You will:
Recognize inherited patterns as adaptations rather than identity
Understand the body as a map of lived experience
Observe how posture, tension, breath, and perception influence one another
Develop greater awareness of the fascial and nervous system patterns shaping daily experience
Begin identifying subconscious holding patterns and compensatory strategies
Establish a foundation of safety, observation, and curiosity for the work ahead
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Protection · patterning · the brain-body loop · psoas + pelvic organization
Our patterns are reinforced through constant communication between the nervous system, fascia, perception, and behavior. This week explores how the body learns protection, and how those protective strategies become woven into the way we move, feel, and relate to the world.
Through the lens of the pelvis, hips, psoas, and autonomic nervous system, you'll recognize how adaptation shapes both structure and experience. We’ll explore the relationship between tension and safety, and how unconscious patterns can be brought into awareness through observation rather than force.
You will:
Understand how the brain and body work together to reinforce habitual patterns
Recognize protective strategies held within posture, movement, and breath
Explore how the nervous system organizes around prediction, safety, and adaptation
Observe the relationship between vigilance, tension, and pelvic organization
Develop greater awareness of unconscious conditioning as it arises in real time
Differentiate between regulation and bracing within your own system
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Breath · bracing · emotional holding · the architecture of protection
The body contracts to protect what feels unsafe. This week explores the relationship between emotional holding, abdominal tension, diaphragmatic restriction, and the physiology of "holding it together."
Through the lens of the diaphragm, rib cage, deep front line, and breath mechanics, you'll begin understanding how protection is expressed through the center of the body. Together, we'll explore how stress influences breathing patterns, pressure systems, and the unconscious habits of bracing, gripping, and containment.
You will:
Understand the relationship between breath, safety, and protection
Recognize how stress and overwhelm organize the abdomen, rib cage, and trunk
Differentiate between structural support and chronic tension
Explore the connection between emotional holding and physical contraction
Develop greater awareness of how breath influences perception, regulation, and resilience
Cultivate new possibilities for support that do not rely on bracing or force
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Movement · repetition · perception · creating conditions for new possibilities
The body is not fixed. It is continiously adapting, learning, and reorganizing in response to experience. This week explores neuroplasticity as a lived process: how movement, attention, sensation, and repetition shape both the nervous system and the structures it inhabits.
Through the spine, trunk, and integrated movement patterns, you'll explore how habits become embodied and how new pathways emerge. Together, we'll examine the relationship between perception, movement, and learning, creating the conditions for meaningful and lasting change.
You will:
Understand how repeated experience reshapes both neural pathways and physical patterns
Explore the relationship between perception, sensation, movement, and adaptation
Recognize compensatory strategies and disorganized movement patterns
Develop a deeper understanding of how the nervous system learns through repetition
Build awareness of the feedback loops that reinforce both limitation and growth
Cultivate new pathways through intentional attention and embodied practice
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Fascia · posture · emotional body · shoulder + chest organization
The body adapts to what it experiences repeatedly. Over time, stress, emotion, habit, and environment shape the way we organize ourselves, which creates patterns that feel natural simply because they are familiar.
This week explores fascia as the connective architecture of the body and posture as an expression of adaptation. Through myofascial tracking and meridian theory, you'll begin seeing how strain patterns travel through the body which influence movement, perception, and the way you inhabit yourself.
You will:
Explore the relationship between fascia, posture, and nervous system organization
Understand how repeated experiences shape structural and emotional patterns
Observe how compensation and strain travel through interconnected lines of the body
Recognize the connection between posture, perception, and emotional experience
Differentiate between rigidity and genuine support
Cultivate greater ease, efficiency, and coherence within your structure
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Jaw · voice · expression · control · TMJ + cervical spine
The face is the expression of the patterns carried throughout the body. The jaw, throat, eyes, and neck reveal how we orient toward the world and how we communicate, protect, suppress, perform, and connect.
In this final week, we explore the relationship between facial tension, nervous system load, expression, and perception. Through the structures of the head, neck, jaw, and sensory systems, you'll begin recognizing how adaptation influences not only how you feel, but how you relate, communicate, and are perceived by others.
You will:
Understand how vigilance, effort, and control manifest within the face, jaw, and neck
Explore the relationship between muscular tension, expression, and communication
Recognize patterns of suppression, over-efforting, and performance within your own system
Observe how stress influences perception, orientation, and social engagement
Develop greater capacity for embodied expression and authentic communication
Integrate the patterns, insights, and observations cultivated throughout the Fieldwork journey
Inside the Field
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Three Months Access of Inner Field Studio
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Your Fieldwork enrollment includes three months inside the ongoing practice space. The membership includes on-demand library of resources and practices such as breathwork, yoga, meditation and somatics, as well as a weekly anatomical yoga livestream class.
(6) Prerecorded Modules & Coursework
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Each week, you’ll receive a new prerecorded module exploring the anatomy, fascia, nervous system, and embodied patterning connected to that week’s theme. These are designed to help you understand the deeper architecture beneath posture, tension, movement, perception, and behavior.
(6) Weekly Live BodyLab & Q+A Calls (90 Minutes)
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A live space for integration and discussion. Bring questions from weekly modules, reflections from the coursework, or patterns you’re noticing in your own body. We’ll map what’s happening beneath the surface and explore the anatomy, nervous system, and structures shaping your experience. This is where theory becomes lived experience.
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Private Community
Throughout the program, you’ll receive a collection of practices, body mapping exercises, and reflective tools, designed to connect the teachings to your lived experience and integrate the work beyond the weekly lessons.
A dedicated space for reflection, conversation, and shared inquiry throughout the container, allowing live calls to build from the real-time observations and experiences emerging inside the group.
Ongoing 1:1 support via the “Ask G” channel
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Direct access to me throughout the program for questions, reflections, and moments where you need support and understanding throughout the program and between our calls.
An alumni space for continuing the study after Fieldwork ends to deepen your relationship with your body and continue the
study together.
The deeper experience
Space to explore the unseen patterns shaping your body, perception, and experience, and build a more grounded, embodied relationship with yourself - from the inside out.
Weekly Body Mapping + Practices
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Invitation to The Living Field
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“Giustina has a gift for making complex anatomy digestible, helping me understand the body as an interconnected system rather than isolated parts.”
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“I became more curious about not only anatomy, but the physiological experiences of the human body as something to experience, not just understand.”
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“Being able to visualize and feel the interior of my own body allowed the information to land in my body through an entirely different lens.”
Unearth the wisdom of your body so you can live from agency instead of adaptation.
Fieldwork Vol II: Fall Cohort
October — November 2026
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Available Spots
Limited to 15
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Program Begins
October
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Applications Open
TBA
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Program Concludes
November
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Time Commitment
6 weeks live + self study
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Weekly Live Calls
TBA based on group needs
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Financial Investment
$1,500 $1,200 (waitlist price)
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Payment Plan
3 x $400
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“Her ability to layer information, honor different learning styles, and connect anatomy to lived experience made a complex subject approachable and meaningful.”
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“Giustina’s approach helped me connect anatomical concepts with real movement, creating a deeper understanding of how the body functions as a whole.”
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“Learning anatomy with Giustina shifted it from something I could memorize into something I could actually feel and understand within my own body.”
This is the work beneath the surface. Meet you there.
You'll look back and notice what was once unconscious has become legible, and your body has shifted from something you managed into something you know how to read.
