Rest & reset your week with ICA!
Start your week with a somatic and imaginative hypnotic experience at this month’s Sunday Reset. Hypnotist and life coach Joy Ding will demonstrate quick and efficient emotional regulation practices and lead a group trance experience centered on love, desire, and the natural environment. Joy will delve into the neuroscience behind these techniques and provide tips on how to incorporate these practices to reduce stress, ease anxiety, and build resilience in your day-to-day.
This heart-opening trance draws inspiration from our current exhibition, Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses, inviting you to notice, connect, and embrace your essential self.
Whether you seek meditative calm, a source of artistic inspiration, or a creative outlet, this one is for you! All supplies will be provided.
This program is part of our monthly series, Sunday Reset, which features Philadelphia area practitioners working at the juncture of art and wellness.
Registration
This event is free and open to all. | Register to attend here.
About the instructor
Joy is a queer, Chinese-American artist, musician, hypnotist, and life coach. She creates at the crossroads of art and healing, weaving together hypnosis, neuroscience, theater, unshaming, and storytelling to make spaces where gentle yet radical transformation unfolds. Committed to sharing grounded, effective practices that create lasting change—not just fleeting inspiration—she meets people where they are with warmth, curiosity, and deep belonging, whether through 1:1 coaching or immersive group journeys.
She’s the friend who arrives with snacks, a curious glint in her eye, and a question that opens doors you didn’t know were there. But she’s not here just for the easy moments—she’ll walk with you through the tangled stories, stuck places, and fears that whisper smallness. She’s all in for dreamers, artists, rebels, and entrepreneurs—those who long not just to exist, but to live in full color and create something meaningful. She celebrates the raw, messy magic of becoming and infuses the journey with laughter, tenderness, and spontaneous movement and sound-making along the way.
At the core of her work is radical self-love and possibility—an invitation to embrace, explore, and expand. Joy believes true creativity and growth are rooted in deep care and honoring all of who you are. As a teacher, she helps others unearth and love their wild brilliance, see beyond what they’ve been told is possible, and wonder, what if I let myself be everything I am? Fiercely committed to community, Joy believes healing, liberation, and creation are collective, electric forces that grow exponentially when we show up for each other.
About the exhibition
Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses: is the first in-depth survey of Carl Cheng’s prescient, genre-defying work from the 1960s to the present that will transform both floors of the ICA. Cheng began his career in the experimental context of the Southern California art scene and the post-war aerospace industry, resulting in artworks that operate at the intersection of identity, technology, and ecology. Over the last six decades he has worked in a variety of media to reflect on environmental change, the relevance of art institutions to their publics, and the role of technology in society. Because the majority of Cheng’s oeuvre is still in his possession, the exhibition will be an exciting and rare opportunity to animate the arc of his career through a presentation of artworks that are multidisciplinary, ephemeral, material, process-based, and interactive. The exhibition will also be presented at The Contemporary Austin – Jones Center (September – December 2024), Bonnefanten (May – September 2025), and Museum Tinguely (December 2025 – May 2026).
Accessibility
ICA is committed to creating a welcoming environment for all visitors. For more notes on accessibility including accessible parking nearby visit our Accessibility landing page. If you require any accessibility accommodations or have any questions about the program, please contact Brittany Clottey (bclottey@ica.upenn.edu).
Support
Programming at ICA is made possible in part by the Emily and Jerry Spiegel Fund to Support Contemporary Culture and Visual Arts and the Lise Spiegel Wilks and Jeffrey Wilks Family Foundation. Public and Student Engagement at ICA is supported by the Bernstein Public Engagement Fund, Suzanne Weiss Doft & Jacob W. Doft, Stacey & Robert Goergen Jr., Hilarie L. & Mitchell Morgan, the Nash Family Foundation, Joline & David Stemerman, and by Dana McDonald Strong & Mark W. Strong.
