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10 Week Psychosomatic Therapeutic Group
10 Week Psychosomatic Therapeutic Group
Trauma is not only stored in the body,
it makes our personal abode uninhabitable.
The chronic activation of the stress response system is an intolerable sensation- so we avoid, distract, numb, and suppress; but we know too well that trauma doesn't just "go away" in the same way our house doesn't magically clean itself.
So we use tools and maps to traverse through this unknown territory so we can make it our home.
A home that brings you peace, fosters connection, and flows with creativity and joy.
We are a vulnerable species and for as long as we are embodied on this planet, we will experience loss and pain.
Complex trauma leaves a residue of never-safe-enough. Growing up in chaotic environments leaves the nervous system in fight/flight mode or numb and disconnected. Safety is a felt experience. We reference geometry, movement, the breath and the imagination to cultivate a safe-enough environment in our bodies so we can courageously face and tend to our psychic wounds.
Rather than living our past, we reference our past to weave our future. Your past is encoded in every cell of your body guiding your behaviors, emotions and thought processes.
Where do you want to go? Who do you want to spend this beautiful, short embodied life with? How do you want to relate with those around you?
How are connected are you to your intuition and how confident do you feel to direct your time and energy to honor it and listen to your inner longings.
Feeling trapped, holding back, staying quiet, are just some of the ways we protect our authentic selves. Often the parts of us we dislike the most are the ones that worked the hardest to navigate relationships and environments in which you--all of you--were not welcomed.
We share and use good recipes to cultivate inner-harmony and help parts of us tell their story of pain and tend to our pain with loving kindness.
As we gain more access to the inner landscape of our bodies, our vision becomes clearer and more defined. When parts within us are heard, tended to, and given the opportunity to tell their stories, we tap into our true longings and we can envision a future that honors our true essence.
We go inwards to radiate outwards.
Life is disorienting in nature. With a centering practice, we have the capacity to return to our essence and radiate from a place of love and abundance.
Growth means change and change involves risk. There are risks in setting new boundaries, redefining who we are, and showing to the world authentically.
Our practice is centered around establishing the foundation so that you can take the necessary risk to potentiate your self.
We commit to show up authentically to ourselves and our community by making sacred contracts that honor where we come from and where we are going.
We cultivate power through willful actions. We become powerful when we get to make choices and are not trapped in unconscious patterns of destruction towards ourselves and the planet.
We gain self-agency when we gain self-awarness and cultivate the techniques for transformation and reformation.
"When faced with a challenging task or circumstance, the difference between joy and terror is technique. Skilled surfers celebrate a giant wave; novices are stricken with fear."- Nevine Michaan, founder of Katonah yoga®.
We use maps, recipes and techniques to guide our journey so that we don't paralized in fear or collapse of exhaustion.
Our practice references the seasons of Great Nature, the archetypes of sacred geometry and the imagination to cultivate joy.
Achievement, is joyful.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
We conclude our journey by participant-led movement practice. Here we step into our power and vulnerability to guide others through this practice. We access self-leadership when we can trust the community and relationships we have chosen to walk alongside in this journey.