Learning through practice

In our monthly membership 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 would love to have you with us.

Warmly,

Laurie and Melanie

These embodiment sessions are facilitated by Laurie or Melanie weekly. 

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. 

Rituals for continuing to love the world

 Grieving is relational.  Grieving is an ancestral skill.  As we practice grieving together we are recovering our ancestral practices.  

We can be with Grief as an elder who helps us develop capacity to meet these times as an embodied adult.   

An ongoing grief practice supports us to tend to personal, lineage, and collective sorrows, encounter our soul medicine, and keep our hearts current.   

Guidance for trauma informed practice and  care that includes the spiritual, ancestral, and relational

We want to offer this Mentorship in support of the collective:

1. facilitation of embodiment practice and work that is in Integrity and alignment with the Sacred, the Earth, and liberation for all beings. 
2. reducing the likelihood of reproducing systems of domination and control on ourselves and the people we help. 
3. 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.