Announcing a series of courses aimed at supporting individual growth and resilience.
Embodied Choice: A Somatic Coaching Cohort
Wednesdays, February 25-April 29 / 7:00 - 8:30pm ET
Sliding Scale participation $350- $500
A Balanced Blend of Theory and Practice
Each session is a curated weave of neuroscience education and experiential practice. You will learn the why behind your nervous system's responses and the how of shifting them in real-time.
A Supportive Container for Integration
We provide the tools to ensure your insights from our time together integrate and stay with you out in the world.
Each session is a curated weave of neuroscience education and experiential practice. You will learn the why behind your nervous system's responses and the how of shifting them in real-time.
- Somatic Centering & Grounding: Techniques to find your "home base" when life feels overwhelming or stagnant.
- The Window of Tolerance: Learning to identify when you are in "fight/flight" or "shutdown" and how to return to a state of social engagement and flow.
- Boundary Work: Using the body to feel and communicate your "yes" and your "no" with clarity and kindness.
- Neuro-Reflexive Repatterning: Gentle movements and breathwork designed to soothe the Vagus nerve and signal safety to the brain.
A Supportive Container for Integration
We provide the tools to ensure your insights from our time together integrate and stay with you out in the world.
- Active Inquiry: Journaling prompts that bridge the gap between your physical sensations and your life choices.
- Accessible Practices: Somatic embodiment practices you can do on your own to assist in bringing your nervous system back to balance in your everyday life.
- Vulnerability in Community: A private platform where you can witness and be witnessed, breaking the isolation that so often accompanies feeling "stuck."
- Compassionate Pace: We move at the speed of safety. Everything is invitation-based, allowing you to honor your capacity and pace each week.
Evicting the System: Somatics for Thriving through Capitalism
Tuesdays, March 17-April 7 / 12:00-1:30pm ET
Sliding scale $150 - $250
Course Promises:
Over these four weeks, you will transition from a reactive state to a responsive one. By the end of this journey, you will be:
Over these four weeks, you will transition from a reactive state to a responsive one. By the end of this journey, you will be:
- More Present: Experience a deeper connection to your own life and the relationships you value most, unburdened by the "mental load" of the next task.
- Clearer on Boundaries: Develop the somatic "felt sense" of your own limits, allowing you to say "no" to the system and "yes" to yourself without the crushing weight of guilt.
- Rooted in Resourcefulness: Shift your focus from financial scarcity to the abundance of community resources and mutual aid networks.
- Powerfully Responsive: Exchange frantic, urgency-based reactions for calm, centered action that honors both your needs and the needs of your community.
Generative Conflict Somatics
Thursdays April 30- June 4, 2026 / 12:00 - 1:30pm ET
By sliding scale $120-$375
Interest form below.
Generative conflict moves us closer to purpose. For that reason, you might expect communities and organizations to embrace and celebrate generative conflict. Too often, however, our societal conditioning and past traumas prevent us from responding well to the opportunity to embrace conflict. We are so steeped in punitive systems culture that, rather than offer loving corrections, we disavow nuance and cancel one another or avoid raising issues at all. Creating cultures of belonging that are resilient in the face of individual missteps and political disagreement requires us to accept generative conflict for the sake of our shared purpose. When we practice holding generative conflict skillfully, deeper relationships and greater cohesion become possible, and our campaigns benefit from greater efficacy and more nuance.
Piloted for Harvard University faculty and hosted by the Kirkridge Retreat Center, participants will explore generative conflict through the embodied modalities of somatics and applied theatre. Using collaborative exercises, group challenges, and storytelling, participants will explore their skills and growing edges while learning to develop a culture of belonging for application in the larger world.
This workshop is for you if…
Imagine…
By the end of the workshops you will…
Piloted for Harvard University faculty and hosted by the Kirkridge Retreat Center, participants will explore generative conflict through the embodied modalities of somatics and applied theatre. Using collaborative exercises, group challenges, and storytelling, participants will explore their skills and growing edges while learning to develop a culture of belonging for application in the larger world.
This workshop is for you if…
- You want to feel secure in your relationships without fear of ruptures or cancellations.
- You long for less guardedness and more transparent communication in your professional relationships.
- You’re skilled at analysis, but not at staying present when things get hard.
- You want to feel confident, compassionate, and open when addressing sticky conversations.
- You want tools to express your boundaries and needs with ease and openness.
- You're curious to gain insight about your own conflict shaping for the sake of more responsive choices when under stress.
- You are interested in exploring group dynamics through collaborative experimentation.
Imagine…
- Willingly engaging in repair without avoidance or fear of vulnerability.
- Freely expressing your needs without guilt.
- Openness and care being your immediate response to conflict.
By the end of the workshops you will…
- Expand your capacity to spot the signs of nervous system defenses in yourself and others.
- Have a greater awareness of your unconscious adaptive strategies and safety shaping around stress or conflict.
- Have more tools and an increased ability to respond more constructively to pressure.
- Be more conflict secure and conflict responsive.
- Be more skillful at communicating your boundaries and needs.
Community Somatic Practice.
Practice makes presence. Drop in (via Zoom) on Wednesdays from 12-12:30pm ET for the sake of more feeling capacity, and nervous system resilience. All are welcome; no prior experience needed.
This is an open invitation to come together to sense, feel, and notice what's alive within us — holding space for ourselves and one another. We gather each week to move toward greater balance, integrity, and collective embodied liberation.
In this Community Somatic Practice, we share simple embodiment tools to ground ourselves and increase our capacity to be with whatever shows up in order to have more choice around how we move through the world. Our focus isn't to 'fix' anything, but rather to listen, transform, and cultivate more presence and understanding together.
Wednesdays 12-12:30pm ET (starting Dec 3, 2025)
*This is a donation-based practice, designed to be financially accessible to all. Please contribute according to your ability.*
Practice makes presence. Drop in (via Zoom) on Wednesdays from 12-12:30pm ET for the sake of more feeling capacity, and nervous system resilience. All are welcome; no prior experience needed.
This is an open invitation to come together to sense, feel, and notice what's alive within us — holding space for ourselves and one another. We gather each week to move toward greater balance, integrity, and collective embodied liberation.
In this Community Somatic Practice, we share simple embodiment tools to ground ourselves and increase our capacity to be with whatever shows up in order to have more choice around how we move through the world. Our focus isn't to 'fix' anything, but rather to listen, transform, and cultivate more presence and understanding together.
Wednesdays 12-12:30pm ET (starting Dec 3, 2025)
*This is a donation-based practice, designed to be financially accessible to all. Please contribute according to your ability.*
Self-Guided Courses.
Somatics for Connection
A self-paced somatic learning series.
Access the following sessions at your own pace.
Session 1: Intro to Somatics/ Connecting to Self
What is somatic embodiment? We'll map our terrain by exploring when and where we're in our bodies, and learn tools for creating a more “flexible” nervous system.
Session 2: Unpacking Stress Defenses
We'll practice centering exercises and will explore nervous system defenses, parts mapping, and our “window of capacity”.
Session 3: Recovery from Override
We’ll get curious about bypass and override, practice coming back to a grounded state, and continue our parts mapping work.
Session 4: Safety Shaping, Shame, and Dissociation
We’ll explore shame and dissociation and how they show up in our bodies and our connections. We will dive into the vital importance of safety, dignity, and belonging.
Session 5: Building Resilience
Resilience is our focus—expanding our “window of capacity” and learning to better resource ourselves from within.
Session 6: Centering Receptivity/ Connecting to Others
We'll culminate our journey through practices centered on relationship and connecting with others without losing ourselves. We will learn mutual connection practices and other tools.
Access the following sessions at your own pace.
Session 1: Intro to Somatics/ Connecting to Self
What is somatic embodiment? We'll map our terrain by exploring when and where we're in our bodies, and learn tools for creating a more “flexible” nervous system.
Session 2: Unpacking Stress Defenses
We'll practice centering exercises and will explore nervous system defenses, parts mapping, and our “window of capacity”.
Session 3: Recovery from Override
We’ll get curious about bypass and override, practice coming back to a grounded state, and continue our parts mapping work.
Session 4: Safety Shaping, Shame, and Dissociation
We’ll explore shame and dissociation and how they show up in our bodies and our connections. We will dive into the vital importance of safety, dignity, and belonging.
Session 5: Building Resilience
Resilience is our focus—expanding our “window of capacity” and learning to better resource ourselves from within.
Session 6: Centering Receptivity/ Connecting to Others
We'll culminate our journey through practices centered on relationship and connecting with others without losing ourselves. We will learn mutual connection practices and other tools.
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Curriculum Topics.
Unlearning Racism
This interactive training will provide delve deeply into issues of race, racism, and whiteness. Through activities, dialogue, and lecture, participants will learn about the historical legacy of racism in the US, increase racial literacy, and investigate unconscious bias. Participants will learn about and practice strategies for interrupting racism on three levels: internally, interpersonally, and institutionally. By the end of the training, participants will have tools, resources, and practice in allyship. Learn more...
Bystander Intervention
Participants will observe their default nervous system responses and learn to use those responses as assets when disrupting racist behavior in both the public and private spheres. Role play is an effective tool because the nervous system responds in the same ways it would when activated on the street or at a family gathering when someone expresses harmful behavior. Practicing using our body's natural responses when interrupting injustice provides valuable muscle memory, making it easier and more likely that we will advocate for the rights of others when we witness racial injustice in real life. Learn more...
Unconscious Bias
Despite our best intentions, even the most pure-of-heart can make snap judgements that stereotype, generalize, and otherwise diminish the full humanity of another person. While conscious bias can be easier to identify, unconscious (aka implicit) bias is trickier to spot in ourselves and others; and that’s the thing, we all have biases. Unconscious biases are particularly important to work on because they can cause unintended harm to others. In this training, participants will learn to identify conscious and unconscious biases in self and others, learn skills for interrogating and combating bias, and non-violent communication skills to support healthy dialogue around this touchy topic.
This workshop investigates internal, unconscious favoritism and limiting beliefs through theatre games, dialogue and individual written exploration. Participants will explore blind spots where our biases lie and learn best practices for combating them. The goals of this workshop are to augment awareness, increase personal responsiveness, and explore best models for sustainable, responsive, culture-setting. Learn more...
This workshop investigates internal, unconscious favoritism and limiting beliefs through theatre games, dialogue and individual written exploration. Participants will explore blind spots where our biases lie and learn best practices for combating them. The goals of this workshop are to augment awareness, increase personal responsiveness, and explore best models for sustainable, responsive, culture-setting. Learn more...
Power & Privilege
This training investigates issues of power and privilege through theatre games, dialogue and individual written exploration. Participants investigate models of confronting interpersonal, institutional conflict and oppressive behaviors, contextualized within our nation’s historical framework. The goals of this workshop are to augment awareness, increase cultural and interpersonal responsiveness, and explore best practices for inclusion. Learn more...