Relational Somatics and Ritual:
An Animist Somatic Mentorship and Practice Space
skills for remembering
embeddedness in an ensouled world,
anchored in body liberation
and decolonial values
Membership for Embodiment Students and Practitioners
Learning through practice: reciprocity, tending, and emerging
In our monthly membership Relational Somatics and Ritual: An Animist Somatic Mentorship and Practice Space we are building capacity for steadiness and connection within the web of life for the reality of our changing world, for uncertainty, and for Descent into the Unknown.
- We meet four days a week for Nervous System Nourishment,
- We gather weekly for practicing meeting Grief relationally,
- We meet twice a month for Animist Somatic Mentorship
We would love to have you with us.
Warmly,
Introductory Tiered Pricing available through May 2025:
$40-$50-$60 monthly
Join before June 1, 2025 to lock in this Introductory Rate for the rest of 2025
Nervous System Nourishment guided practices
(30 minutes) Four days per week
These embodiment sessions are facilitated by Laurie or Melanie four days per week.
Animist somatic practices for
- orienting to the multiplicity of bodies we inhabit,
- organizing for aliveness,
- experiencing our embeddedness in an ensouled world
Somatic practices anchored in Spirit, animism, earth reverence, and ancestral connection adapted from from a variety of lineages that we are trained and mentored in, including:
Somatic Experiencing
Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders
Transforming Touch (Transforming the Experience-Based Brain)
Forces of Nature: Foundational Approaches to Ritual
NeuroAffective Touch
Embodied Ancestral Inquiry
These are also inspired and nourished by our own ancestral practices and connection.
We are committed to facilitating somatic practices grounded in animist, body liberation, anti-supremacy, and decolonial values, as we believe this is needed in the world at this time.
Grief Tending
(60 minutes) Weekly
One hour gathering to remember tending to our grief relationally and being with grief as an elder.
Rituals for continuing to love the world
We are recovering ancestral skills and practice of grieving within a web of relationship.
It is through the rites of grieving that we are ripened as human beings
Francis Weller
Mentorship for Embodiment Students and Practitioners
(90 minutes) Twice per Month
Guidance for trauma informed care that includes the spiritual, ancestral, and relational
We want to offer this Mentorship in support of the collective:
- facilitation of embodiment practice and work that is in Integrity and alignment with the Sacred, the Earth, and liberation for all beings.
- reducing the likelihood of reproducing systems of domination and control on ourselves and the people we help.
- increasing our skillfulness, courage, and heart to be with the Reality of this changing world, what Francis Weller calls “The Long Dark.”
Melanie and Laurie are bringing our combined 30+ years of experience as practitioners of counseling and somatics, 20 years in trauma informed practice, 40+ years of experience as witches and ritualists, and extensive training in somatics and care lineages.
*We consider ourselves embodiment practitioners and educators anchored in these values rather than experts on anti-supremacy and decolonizing. We have learned from and encourage you to study with and pay Black, Indigenous, Women and Femmes of Color to deepen your own understanding and integration of these movements.
