Earth Body

Re-membering the Home Within

A 3-Hour Experiential Immersion into the Living Waters of the Body, Belly, Breath and Sacred Center

Our first home is not a house. It is our spirit, and our spirit finds its home within the physical body.

Come home to your inner sanctuary. Learn the language of your body. Meet the wisdom living within you. All you ever need is within you.

Like a labyrinth, this path spirals in before it spirals out. There is only one way through, and it leads to the center of you.

There are some common themes amongst women that I am privileged to be witness to and provide support for…

They are in a relationship (can be a partner, child, parent, sibling, friend, work related…) that no longer feels fulfilling and they reach for control on the outside which doesn't work, because what's actually shifting is within themselves.

Trying to make peace with the way a body looks and feels as she enters perimenopause and menopause (there is BIG wisdom here my dears).

Learning to trust her own intuition and inner knowing again, after years of being told by others, by systems, by fear what her body needed instead of listening to what it was already telling her.

Coming home to a body that is different now after a birth, an injury, an accident, a season that changed everything, or a belief she's carried her whole life.

I hear women say, I just want my body back.

What body do you want back? Is it familiar, more than it is right? The truth is, our bodies are not meant to stay the same and most of us were never given a map for how to navigate these transitions with care, compassion, love, and ease. Until now.

I'll say this plainly: we will never get our bodies back the way they were. Not even with the best support in the world. But we can come home to the body we have now, and learn how to be with all of her.

What would that feel like for you, if you could stop the fight, and just listen?

Here is a little secret, it is not only the body that we are feeling the call to come back home to. It is a relationship with our spirit — this is the one that matters the most and is so worth cultivating the path back home to. The body is the doorway.

Imagine being fully you, letting your belly take up all the space it wants, allowing your full self out of a container held tightly, wound by responsibilities, roles, expectations. This is the space where all of that will be placed aside, so you can come home to the true center of your being. Meet her, know her, love her.

Friday, September 25th

6:30–9:30pm

Rising Earth Healing Arts

$77

So much of the time, we live from the outside in, abandoning the soft, sensual river of life that runs beneath the surface. We may have learned to say yes when a truer voice whispered no. EarthBody is an invitation back into an intimate relationship with the belly and the pelvic bowl, the home and nest of our spirit, and the cyclical, seasonal wisdom that lives uniquely in a woman's body.

Offered as a monthly immersion, each gathering flows into the next as we orbit around belonging, safety, and boundaries, each one deepening a practice of coming home to the belly, the breath, the pelvic bowl, one season at a time. For our first two months before the weather turns toward the winter, we gather in the sunroom, just beside the creek, its sound and its rhythm becoming part of the container we hold together.

Attending monthly is strongly encouraged, as each immersion builds on the last, and there is real value in returning to orientation each month. Our sense of where we are shifts season to season, and coming back together regularly lets us re-orient, again and again, rather than orienting once and hoping it holds.

For many of you, our work together has been one-on-one — and for those of you in a season of transition, seeking this kind of embodiment work and support, this immersion is also a wonderful way to continue that support with me: three hours a month, held in community rather than in a single room, just the two of us. I trust there is much commonality between us, and this is a chance to gather and discover it together.

Why This Work Exists

For years, I have been quietly navigating my own relationship with my body, through every season it has moved me into. Now, in the autumn of my own life, I am branching out — sharing nearly 20 years of gathered wisdom in a new way, so you don't have to walk your own seasons as alone as I once walked mine.

These immersions are for every woman. We all have a rhythmic cycle, and we all belong within a season of our lives.

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What We Do Together

You don't need to know which of these you need. Your body will let us know, and we'll follow her lead. (Every gathering is different, and may include some of these or one of these, depending on the collective energy of our group.)

• Belly and pelvis self-touch practices, so you leave knowing how to read and release what your own belly is holding

• Breath and diaphragm awareness, so you can meet tension spirals and ease in your body with your presence and curiosity, not just talk about it

• Earth/Body connection for grounding, stability, and presence, so safety becomes something you can find in yourself, not borrow from outside

• Belly and pelvic holding patterns, and how to release them, so tension stops feeling random and starts feeling readable

• Body-mapping and energetic clearing via integrated energy therapy. Learn where our spiritual DNA and physical tissues store emotional, mental and spiritual records and become ready to clear them. These practices don't need us to tell a story or to relive past experiences, but rather clear the energy that has been in the way of accessing our highest good and being.

• "Unwinding," a craniosacral technique that allows the body to reorganize and re-member itself, building a relationship with trusting your body's own intelligence

• Menstrual and seasonal life-cycle reflection, so you know what season you're actually in, and what that season is asking of you and gifting you

• Body/earth-based rituals to carry this practice home with you, so this doesn't end when the immersion does

• Movement for release, connection and integration, so what opens in your body has somewhere to go

• Play/sculpt with clay as a medium to connect with our body (materials provided and will incur extra fee for firing, mentioned when scheduled for that month)

• Raise our voices in a song circle (yes, you can sing… if you can breathe, you can sing). Hear your true self emerge.

This Immersion Is For You If You Are:

• A woman seeking a deeper, more honest relationship with your body

• Navigating stress, disconnection, or holding in the belly

• Desiring a more loving and compassionate relationship with your body

• Wanting support for chronic or on/off again illnesses or pain cycles (anywhere in the body)

• Secretly at war with your body, often demanding more than it can give you

• Navigating a transition and feeling disconnected to your body in the process: i.e. postpartum, menopause, retirement, career change, relationship shifts, dynamic shifts with parents/children…

• A therapist or body-based practitioner seeking a nature-rooted somatic foundation in abdominal and pelvic embodied self-care

• A doctor, nurse, or medical provider craving a more embodied relationship with your own body and curious about how to bridge Western medicine with nature based practices

• Simply craving a monthly pause to come back to your own center and be in community with women desiring to know themselves deeply

No experience is required. Come as you are, in whatever season you're in.

My Approach

This immersion is educational and experiential, and it is not a replacement for medical care. Here, we cultivate relationship with the ever shifting nervous system, connection to the Divine presence (you may call this Nature, God, Higher Self, The Ocean, The Forest, Holy Mother…) and body-based awareness, fostering a compassionate relationship with the body through presence and listening. My practice embodies nearly two decades of merging spirit and body, and over a decade of clinical bodywork practice. Woven through, it is a lineage of somatic and feminine embodiment practices, shamanic womb teachings, archetypal wisdom, cycle living, ancestral practices, and the understanding that life is a labyrinth, an ebb and flow, death/birth cycle.

I walk this way in life as a woman, a mother, a student and a guide and am ready to share with you all the ways that I have come to know the true magic and wonder our bodies are capable of and to learn alongside of you as well.

I teach the way I know my ancestors did — through transmission, not instruction. Through story, not lecture. We will meditate, we will map the body with our own hands and attention, and we will play, because play is how the body learns what the mind alone cannot. This is not a classroom. It is a circle, and circles have always been how women pass down what cannot be written in a textbook. The more I lean into this calling, the more I realize how much is really pouring in for us all here.

We meet:

Friday, September 25th

6:30–9:30pm

Rising Earth Healing Arts

Exchange: $77

EarthBody is a growing body of work, offered at the sanctuary and continuing to unfold.

This is special for all of us!