Groups + Workshops
Homebody: Online Somatic Process & Practice Group
A deeply supportive and experiential 4-week group for cultivating the relationship between mind, body, and spirit in connection with others.
An invitation to learn through process, experience, practice, and collective care.
A space to slow down and be with your body in a different way.
Tuesdays: 1:00-2:20 PST / 4:00-5:20 EST
September 9, 16, 23, 30
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Homebody is about:
listening to your body & learning the language of your nervous system
making space for all parts of yourself and aspects of your experience
unearthing the connections between emotions, sensations, thoughts, actions, and memories
experiencing your mind/body/spirit as a wise, interconnected ecosystem
remembering that humans are ecosystems within ecosystems, and we need each other
realigning with deeper values, purpose, and direction, especially in times of turmoil
I’m thrilled to co-facilitate this group with Julie Davidson, a fellow therapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and born cultivator of conversation, laughter, honesty, and depth. You can learn more about her here: https://www.juliedavidsoncounseling.com
Register below, or scroll down for more information & FAQs.
The group will run with a minimum of 6 participants. If you’re planning to join, please register ASAP so we know to expect you! And if you have questions or concerns that aren’t answered below, feel free to send me an email.
Details & Registration
Dates & Times
Tuesdays: 1:00-2:20 PST / 4:00-5:20 EST
September 9, 16, 23, 30
Cost for the 4-Session Series:
Supporter Rate - $200 ($50/session)
Standard Rate - $160 - ($40/session)
Community Supported Rate - $80 - ($20/session)
Scholarship Rate - $40 - ($10/session)
Choosing A Rate
This group is intended to be a community resource. We ask that you pay at the highest rate you are able to at this time, being mindful of your social/cultural position and access to resources (generational wealth, etc).
The standard rate reflects the true cost of Julie and Bethany's investment in preparation, facilitation, and the unseen labor that goes into creating a deeply anchored and nourishing space. If you’re able to pay the supporter rate, you help make room for someone who needs a lower rate. If you need the community supported or scholarship rate, please take it and know that you are welcome and wanted in the circle.
OUr Goal for Homebody
This is a space to spend time with your nervous system, noticing not just how it signals fear or threat, but how it signals ease, safety, and desire. A space to learn what allows your organism to find more equilibrium and aliveness. A space to practice moving at the pace of your own needs, your own body.
Groups are complicated for lots of us. Maybe we don’t like meeting new people. Maybe we’re afraid of taking up too much space. Maybe we get overstimulated. Most of us have had annoying or difficult group experiences in our lives. It’s ok to come with all of that history to this group. The magic is in seeing and feeling that we are all just human-sized — needing to feel supported, needing space to be in our bodies in our own way, needing to be weird in whatever way we are afraid to be weird.
You are welcome to come exactly as you are to this group. Whether you’re new to somatic/embodiment work, have been on the path for a while, or if you’re a therapist or somatic practitioner yourself. You’re welcome if you’re curious, skeptical, exhausted, or deeply invested. This is a space of collective care and mutuality: bringing what we have, receiving what we need.
The world we’re in pushes us to the limits of our capacity — pushes us to go fast, feel less, produce more, silence our intuition, ignore our pain and the suffering of others. Larger systems often profit off of division, scarcity, and fear. In this group, we create an alternative rhythm, an alternative way. We honor all intersecting identities, all bodies, all neurotypes. We make space to feel, listen, and connect. We honor lived wisdom, internal pacing, intuition, and our innate capacity to heal.
FAQs & More Info
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Each week will offer space to show up as you are (really!), get to know your nervous system, and receive care.
We’ll practice listening to the body and paying attention to different channels of experience (sensation, emotion, images, movement, impulses), noticing how the nervous system signals safety, threat, needs, and more.
We’ll experiment with somatic resources and practices to discover what allows your particular nervous system to find more equilibrium and aliveness.
We’ll also explore concepts and questions that come up as the process unfolds.
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Anyone who wants to foster more connection between their mind, body, and spirit.
Some specific pathways that might lead you to this group:
knowing you’re stuck in cycles of stress, fear, frustration, or shut-down, and want a different kind of support
you’re struggling, as many are, with staying connected to your humanity, hope, values, resilience, and direction in this time of global turmoil
you’re a healthcare worker, organizer, therapist, healer, social change worker, or caregiver constantly holding space for others, but craving a space to be held yourself
you’ve read books or done trainings on the nervous system, embodiment, trauma, etc., but finding yourself stuck in theories rather than having a new experience
OR, you’re new to somatics and embodiment, but just long for a deeply supportive space
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It can be SO HARD for therapists / healers / somatic practitioners to 1. get in touch with our need for care 2. allow ourselves to receive care, and 3. trust or believe that a collective space will be able to hold us well. There are some real binds here, and that isn’t lost on us (the facilitators) who are also therapists and have struggled with the same things.
This group is intended to meet you where you are — as someone who holds clinical wisdom and skill, but who also needs and deserves care.
We hope you will trust us to honor your need for a sturdy space to be welcomed, to let down, and to be held in your own process.
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This group is about process and experience - exploring individually and collectively, in real time, what our bodies are sensing and signaling, and experimenting with new ways to respond. You only need to show up with curiosity to participate!
You will pick up new information along the way, and you may learn from the experiences of others in the group who are more familiar with somatics. They will also learn from your process.
It’s a great place to begin.
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Groups hold a lot of layered experience for many (if not all!) of us. Just as we can experience some of the most powerful, important things in groups (belonging, welcome, support, being seen and heard, acceptance, care) - we’ve often experienced the opposite.
Our intention with this group is to offer a lot of choice and scaffolding to meet these fears. You can have your camera off or on. You can be far from the screen. You can be doodling, curled up under the covers, moving and fidgeting, laying down, etc. You are invited to be honest about what’s difficult, weird, annoying, or uncomfortable about the group! Your whole experience is welcome.
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This makes sense! Even something that’s meant to be nurturing or helpful can feel like another task when you’re in burnout. This is an invitation to you to drop down into rest and the support of others, even if only for an hour and twenty minutes a week. For you, “practicing embodiment” in this group might mean saying “yes” to the part of you that needs to collapse on the couch and let us hold space for you.
When we say we are “creating a space of collective care and mutuality”, this means we commit to bringing what we have (presence, however depleted, is a gift), and receiving what we need, trusting that in the collective there is enough to go around.
Past Offerings
Somatics for Parents: Spring Edition
PARENTS NEED SPACES TOO. We’re constantly given information about how to support our kids, but we don’t have a lot of spaces that support us. If that’s what you’ve been looking for, come join us!
Why Somatics?
Our bodies hold information about our needs, our stories, our reactions and more. Yet the body/nervous system is often the “missing link” in parenting supports. We have a lot of information about what to do, but we still get stuck in old patterns. Somatics is a bridge that helps us support ourselves and align values with actions, even under pressure.
Somatic Parenting 101 Workshop
Saturday February 24, 10am-12pm
Somatic Parenting Circle
Fridays in March, starting 3/1, 11am-12:30pm
More info & registration: bit.ly/springsomaticparenting
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Somatic Parenting Circle: Back To School Edition
This is a somatic practice space created specifically for parents anchoring themselves and their families through fall transitions. Together, we’ll witness the moments that push us to our edges, hold space for each other, and practice finding anchors and resources within our own bodies.
Kate Guthrie and I created this circle in part because it’s the space WE need, too. Hope you’ll join us.
More info and sign-ups here: bit.ly/fallparentingcircle