Info & Classes | embodiment

At this time I am mainly offering private sessions and group workshops or series throughout the year, please join mailing list to stay informed. I will be offering A Menopause Journey 6 Week Course in Fall of 2025. Here are some past offerings...and offerings coming up fall 2025

honoring the menopause Journey, fall 2025

in this 6 week online course, we will explore each week an aspect of the menopause journey while also working with a spirit dose of a plant. a spirit dose is a small dose, 1-5 drops, that allows the spirit and energetic medicine of the plant to be felt and explored. there will also be an in person option for those located in northern California to join for an in person ceremony and rites of passage event at la Tierra farms in sebastapol.

more details to come, small description of each week below

Module 1

Remembrance and Reclamation of our True Essence, Intuitive Body and Menopause as Spiral of Nature, Body as Soul Mate, Rosemary

Module 2

Deconstructing and Dismantling Beliefs and Internalized Systems, Rewriting Our Own Mythic Journey, Entering into the Second Half of Life, Yarrow

Module 3

Coming into Right Relationship with Body, Self and the Greater World, What is our Souls Calling? Chamomile

Module 4

Unraveling, Honoring Love, Grief, and Rage the un-woken Dreams, Connecting to Inner Child, Lemon Balm

Module 5

Death, Rebirth and Renewal, The Necessary Darkness Before Birth, Uncertainty and Being in the Mysterious Void, Mugwort

Module 6

The Sacred Portal of Transformation, Alchemizing the Wound, Our own Unique Medicine and Magic, Rose

Module 7- In person Ceremony, Ritual, Rite of Passage, Honoring our Journeys into this second half of life.

Pathway of the psoas January 10th 2021

This class was taught in January 2021 and will be offered again soon! Read below to get more information and click on the link to be on the waiting list!

Now offering the mini version of this as well! A once a month Pathway of the Psoas class: Tending our Wild Roots, Tending to our Ancestors. In this explorative based class we will explore the elements shared below, once a month in an hour and a half format class. See below for more info.

In this four week series we explore the pathway of the psoas and many of the deeper meanings of the psoas muscle group. In this deep dive into our relationship to our psoas, a 4 week long online course diving deep into this primal, spiritual, ancestral, animal, intuitive and instinctive messenger within us.

The psoas muscle group has been studied and even whole movement systems have been designed around it. Over the past several years, it has been come to be known, that maybe this muscle is not even a muscle at all. It is often referred to as the soul muscle, and is primarily made of connective tissue, with tissue really like no other. It's primary function is that it is a messenger. It is a part of the grand symphony of our nervous system and an integral part of what is called the enteric nervous system, or the belly brain, the second brain. It's primary focus and function is that of expression. That is why working with this deep primordial messenger of our bodies using the LifeArt Process work has been deeply transformative and life changing for myself. As we begin to explore and listen to the messages that our deep neuro-core is speaking, we can then express and explore these messages through drawing, movement and writing. Making meaning out of the stories that have been passed down and through us.

I have researched and taught about the Psoas muscle group, for almost 2 decades. This deep primordial muscle has connections to our ancestry, our nervous systems and deep core beliefs, and our adaptations as humans as we've evolved from four legs to two. This is a four week online series in which we dive in deep. The four weeks are divided into different parts of the meanings of this psoas.

We begin each inquiry with reading, journal prompts and guided mediations, followed by movement practices, as well as expressive arts explorations, drawing, creative writing and journalling, sounding and more.

Week 1

Evolution and Adaptation, central channel, and how to keep this channel open and alive, attention, listening, instinct, intuition, and trusting our gut, decolonizing the fear of our own body

Week 2

The psoas and its relationship to vulnerability, self-worth and value, trust, expression, ancestral patterns, safety, containment, fluidity and flow

Week 3

The psoas and its relationship to communication, time, past, present and future, true center and our sense of place, discernment and boundaries

Week 4

The psoas as an actual pathway, an inner and outer path, inner pulse and impulse, resonance and dissonance, our souls path and purpose, our body compass, and the psoas as the great transmitter of information

The psoas often holds trauma, either yours or inherited from our ancestors. I do recommend having a therapist or somatic practitioner that you can work with to help you navigate some of these if you have never explored before.

If interested, please email me directly and tell me why you want to take this course, and some of your history with this muscle group.

Are you ready to step into your path of healing, movement, and inner knowing?

Upcoming online classes and workshops

PATHWAY OF THE PSOAS MONTHLY WORKSHOP

Unfolding From Within

Exploring the Psoas through the LifeArt Process®

Fluid Spine/Fluid Body

September Dates TBA

THIS IS A PSOAS CLASS LIKE NO OTHER. I HAVE TAUGHT HUNDREDS OF HOURS OF PSOAS RELEASE CLASSES, AND STRETCHING AROUND THE HIP FLEXORS AND RELEASE TECHNIQUES FOR THIS MUSCLE GROUP, WHICH IS OFTEN REFERRED TO AS THE SOUL MUSCLE. I STARTED TO REALIZE THAT MY PSOAS NEEDED MORE THEN STRETCHING AND RELEASING AND THAT I WAS ACTUALLY MAKING THINGS WORSE. I STARTED TO FOLLOW THIS CALLING AND BEGAN EXPLORING THIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THIS DEEP AND ANCIENT MESSENGER OF OUR BODIES, AND BEGAN TO LISTEN TO THE MESSAGES THAT WERE BEING EXPRESSED.

IN THIS CLASS WE USE MANY MODALITIES TO EXPLORE THE MULTIPLICITY AND LAYERS OF OUR BODIES IN ITS PHYSICAL, SPIRITUAL, IMAGINAL, MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL STATES. WE PRACTICE MANY MOVEMENT FORMS FROM YOGA, GYROKINESIS, GUIDED MEDITATION, DANCE FORMS, AS WELL AS FORMLESS NESS THROUGH MOVEMENT EXPLORATION, CREATIVE PROCESS OF DRAWING, WRITING, SOUNDING, AND STOARY TELLING, THROUGH THE LifeArt Process®.

WE BEGIN TO EXPLORE AND INHABIT OUR FLUID BODY.

WE WORK TO FREE AND HYDRATE THE PSOAS BY HYDRATING THE SPINE, USING MOVEMENTS AND BREATH THAT DEEPLY NOURISH OUR TISSUES, BRINGING RESILIENCE TO OUR TISSUES WHILE FINDING MORE SUPPLENESS, FLUIDITY AND A RESPONSIVE SPINE AND PSOAS. WE ARE LITERALLY A BODY OF WATER, A MATRIX OF FLUID CONNECTIVE TISSUE. AS WE BEGIN TO FIND OUR BONE RHYTHMS AND INNER LUSHNESS WE BEGIN TO INHABIT THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE CORE OF OUR BEING.

I DISCOVERED THAT THERE WAS A DEEPER TENDING TO THAT I COULD ACCESS THROUGH VARIOUS SOMATIC AND EXPRESSIVE ARTS PRACTICES, THAT LEFT MY WHOLE BODY, MIND AND NERVOUS SYSTEM FEELING REFRESHED, nourished, RESET AND RE-SOURCED. IN THIS CLASS, WE EXPLORE DIFFERENT ASPECTS AND CONCEPTS THAT THIS MUSCLE GROUP ENTAILS FROM THE LISTS ABOVE. EACH MONTH YOU WILL RECEIVE WRITING TO CONTEMPLATE BEFORE THE CLASS. IN THE CLASS, IT IS LIKE AN OPEN SPACE FOR YOU TO GATHER YOUR RESOURCES, ENGAGE WITH YOUR BODY AND SOUL ON A DEEP LEVEL, WHILE WE EXPLORE THIS MUSCLE GROUP THROUGH MOVEMENT BREATH, SOUNd, FORMLESSNES, creative process aND GUIDED MEDITATION. IN THIS WAY WE EXPLORE ALL AROUND ITS EDGES, NAVIGATING THIS INNER COMPASS OF OUR BODIES SO THAT WE CAN FIND OUR TRUE NORTH AGAIN through intuitive practices.

PLEASE JOIN US IN THIS CREATIVE EXPLORATIVE NURTURING MOVEMENT SPACE, WHERE YOU MAY HOPEFULLY LEARN NEW WAYS TO TEND TO YOURSELF, DEEPEN YOUR SELF CARE, WHILE CREATING MOVEMENT PRACTICES, RITUAL, ANCESTRAL CONNECTION THROUGH MOVEMENT AND TENDING TO THIS ANCIENT PRIMORDIAL MUSCLE OF THE PSOAS. TENDING AND FEEDING OURSELVES IN SUCH A DEEPER WAY THAN MANY OF US ARE USED TO. IN THIS WAY WE LEARN TO LISTEN, FEED AND NOURISH OURSELVES DEEPLY, WHICH IN TURN CAN HELP FREE UP THIIS PATHWAY, WHICH CAN ALLOW FOR GREATER EMBODIED LIVING AND PRESENCE IN OUR DAILY LIVES.

BUILDING RESILIENCE WITH A HOME PRACTICE....COMING SOON

I am also working on a 4 week series on Building Resilience with a home practice. Looking at all the ways we get in our own ways of having our own personal practice. Whatever that practice may be, a practice is holding space for ourselves, creating a boundary for ourselves, and creating and developing a relationship with ourselves. Many of us were never taught to care for ourselves, much less developing a relationship with our own bodies. Learning to tune in, navigate and know our inner terrain of our bodies is essential. We need to unplug, disconnect from the outer noise of life, to actually begin to hear our own inner voice and sensations of the body. Which in turn, brings us in deeper connection to the earth, the universe and who we truly are and our purpose.