The Embodied Portrait

A playful, sensual photo session to capture your embodied essence.

These Self-Embodiment Photo Ceremonies are an interactive portrait session, designed to unhide your hiddens in an empowering + sensual experience - capturing your embodied essence and tapping you into your wild.

Creating a safe space to express yourself freely and forget the camera is even there.

By focusing on embodiment practices and the playful world of the sensory body Cara (Embodiment Facilitator) helps to bring you into yourself while Sarah (Photographer) captures your embodied state with a soft welcoming lens.

Bring your unseen world into view.

EACH SESSION INCLUDES:
A phone consultation, Sarah + Cara will meet with you to design your experience, Ceremonial Cacao, Embodiment Meditation, Sensory Experience to drop you into yourself, Decadent Food Spread to enjoy throughout the session, Props and objects to bring your vision to life.

Embodied Portrait Sessions

  • Solo Sessions

    BIRTHDAYS / MILESTONES / MATERNITY / BOUDOIR

    Highly custom + curated experiences, whether you want to capture profound milestones in your life's story, commission us for simple, embodied portraiture or to enhance your online presence.

    Our Self-Embodiment photo ceremonies are like no other. A celebration of Self, and the beauty that comes from your unique existence. The images you walk away with will be a lighthouse of your authentic nature, and an opportunity to tell your story.

    The pregnant mother, looking to commemorate her journey in picture form, a natural boudoir moment to dip deep into your sensual world, a simple birthday photoshoot or the ceremony for summiting in the many milestones of life.

    Together, Cara + Sarah will work with you to uncover your vision, and bring it into focus through the sacred container of the Roundhouse.

    $1,800 / 2 HOURS / 50 + IMAGES

  • Couples Session

    ENGAGEMENTS / PREGNANCY / ANNIVERSARIES / JUST FOR LOVE

    A photo sensory experience for you + your lover to drop into a playfield of sensory exploration, connective memories, and photographs that convey the depths of your connection.

    This is a place to honor intimacy and document milestones, chapters, and intimate details. The ultimate date idea of art therapy, if you will.

    A photo album of love.

    We'll help create a custom experience of lavish decadence within an afternoon.

    $2,000 / 3 HOURS / 70 + IMAGES

  • Group Session

    FRIEND GROUPS / BIRTHDAYS / BRIDAL + BABY SHOWERS / BACHELORETTE PARTIES

    Our group sessions hold a special energetic frequency that exudes playfulness and has an effect of deepening the intimacy within a community.

    The familiarity of friends also provides a light + playful invitation into the process of being photographed in a safe and empowered environment.

    These group sessions are a wonderful container for celebrations, circling with your women, and initiations into new chapters of life.

    Luxuriate in a day of self love, laughter and embodied portraiture. Indulge with us in the sensual world!

    3 PERSON MINIMUM

    COST IS SPLIT BETWEEN THE # OF ATTENDEES

    $3,000 / 4 HOURS / 150 + IMAGES

FAQs

I’m Camera Shy!

We believe this is a natural experience that we all share, and an important part of the cathartic experience of this ceremony. We welcome the initial discomfort, and invite you to see what lies on the other side of this photoshoot for you.

What Should I Wear?

We suggest arriving in loose, comfortable clothing to reduce lines on our skin, and bringing garments that make you feel good.

Will There Be Food?

Yes! We will have a fruit display for both nourishment + play. 

Is Clothing Optional?

Yes! This is a safe space to feel free in our skin. If you feel called to be captured artistically in the nude, we encourage the freedom + the exploration. Or, if you want to be entirely covered in fabric, we are here for that too :)

What Should I Bring?

Your personal garment options (or lack thereof), slippers, journal for reflections + a willingness to play! We'll take care of the rest.

When Will I Get My Photos?

Your full gallery will be delivered within 3 weeks of your session!

How Will My Photos Get Delivered?

Your private gallery will be delivered to you in both web-sized + high resolution images via a link sent to your email.

I Don’t Want My Photos Posted...

We love sharing highlight images from this project,  however we honor all requests for privacy without question.

Are Other Dates Available?

The Embodied Portrait collaboration between Sarah + Cara is available for bookings outside of this time + place. *Inquire for custom quotes in the contact page. We'd love to chat!

What People Are Saying

  • “I came in feeling tender and hesitant to be revealed, but was met with a setting that was so lovingly curated that my heart melted open. I felt both gently guided and allowed to follow my own impulses of expression. Seeing the photos afterward has given me a feeling of being able to locate myself in the cycles of my life and to see myself with greater clarity. I felt held by Cara’s emergent, low-intervention facilitation style and Sarah’s soft welcoming of essence through the lens, never pushing or pulling but allowing.”

    Lizzie Hart

  • “A magical, sensual, fortifying invitation to love ourselves in that fleshly, gorgeous way and to remember we are all goddesses.” 

    Kendra Bloom

  • “Here’s to more baths, more flowers, more deep gazes into nature, more trust in the sensual body, more spaciousness with the mind, more wisdom, more slow breaths, more intentional relationality, more honesty and authenticity, more courage - in the sense of making decisions from the heart.  This immersive experiential photoshoot was an intentional preview of these values. It felt truly radical to spend an entire afternoon slowing down and focusing on texture, taste, skin, aroma and color. It has stuck with me, affected the speed with which I see and do things. Thanks for holding space for this self investigation, friends, for allowing my sense of self to extend into the environment around me, to water, earth, fire and air.”

    Alison Dale

  • “I love the playful nature of Cara’s space holding. She guides with simple pleasures and natural luxuries for the senses to indulge in. It makes for a rich environment to witness and photograph.  Creating embodiment photo ceremonies with her is such a magical experience, I want everyone to know what it feels like to step into this container and walk out with their Self as art to take with them through the ages as a moment of presence to be exalted.”

    Sarah Wainwright