• 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.

• Julie and Bethany will be there every step of the way to guide and support group and individual process.

This is a space for anyone who wants more connection between mind, body, and spirit.

Some specific pathways that might lead you to this group…

• wanting a more consistent space to practice connecting to your body

• knowing you are stuck in cycles of stress, fear, frustration, or shut-down, and want a different kind of support

• have read books or done trainings on the nervous system or trauma, but finding yourself stuck in theories rather than having a new experience

• OR, you are completely new to somatics and embodiment but just long for a deeply supportive space

• you are struggling, as many are, with staying connected to your humanity, hope, values, resilience, and direction in this time of global turmoil

• you are a healthcare worker, healer, therapist, organizer, social change worker, helper, or caregiver constantly holding space for others, but craving a space to be held yourself

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. It’s a great place to begin.

It can be SO HARD for therapists / healers / somatic practitioners to 1. allow ourselves to need care 2. allow ourselves to receive care, and 3. know/trust/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 questions.

What we can offer is this: this group is intended to meet each person where they are -- including those with clinical wisdom and their own knowledge of neurobiology, somatics, and trauma. We honor your presence as one who holds knowledge and capacity — and we hope you will trust us to honor your need for a sturdy space to be welcomed, to let down, and to held in your own process.

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.

This makes sense! Even something that’s meant to be nurturing or helpful can feel like another task when underwater with stress and overwhelm. 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 just acknowledging and 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 holding a space of collective care and mutuality, this means we commit to bringing what we have (however depleted or small -- presence is a gift), and receiving what we need, trusting that in the collective there is enough to go around.