Maybe it’s like this:

You want to listen well,
but get caught up in their crisis,
and find yourself flooded with emotions, memories, and dis-regulation.

You want to truly know yourself,
but it’s hard to listen inward when the world is so loud, and you feel so much of it.

You want to have some concrete, reliable way to help you move through feeling big emotions,
so your life doesn’t get side-railed while you deal with big upsets.

All the things - all the big feelings - all the stuff life has thrown at you, and that you still are fielding on the daily - all the ways you’re trying to do better… it can be so effing much.

This class gives you the foundation for a concrete practice
that helps you grow the neurons for self-regulation.

I’ve been practicing Non-Violent Communication for four years, and Sarah Peyton’s Resonant Healing Work for two years.

The immediate impact on my relationships with my adult daughter, my romantic partner, my friendships, and my work life, was almost boggling.
Even as a total newbie, walking around with my cue card in hand, I could SEE this stuff working.
I felt more and more safe.
They felt more connected with me.
I felt more connected with myself.
It’s almost impossible for me to tell you in words the difference that it’s made in my life.

It’s why I'm offering these classes. The world needs stuff that works immediately.
It’s not a magic wand - nothing gets erased, no magic birds start singing on your shoulders, not everyone is suddenly nice to you….
but you will have solid ground to feel yourself standing on while you deal with what comes your way in life.

• The class starts with Embodiment Practice and FreeDance - a series of easy movement patterns that refresh the neuro-muscular pathways in the brain that were developed as our brains developed in utero. It’s like pressing a re-set button for our body brain - like doing a quick tidy and vacuum in our house.

• We then move into practicing identifying our nuanced feelings and needs, so that we can understand in our conscious mind, and in our full body, just where we’re at, right now. It’s like being able to look at a map of the Comox Valley and pinpoint - “Here’s my house.” Our nervous system, especially the amygdala, LOVES hearing this.

• Then we practice Self Resonance skills. This is a specific pattern of warm and kind talking with ourselves, with our body parts, with our memories…whatever needs help right now. It’s like looking at our house and noticing what needs repaired - honing in on one or two things specifically, and then gently making the repair. We work together with precision and such warmth and tender curiosity as we come into the house and see what needs updating.

• We end the class with FreeDance. This is time to swoosh out our bodies, like a clean wind coming in through an open window. This is move at your own pace, in your own way, with guidance from me for deeper awareness of embodiment.
  
  I’ve been practicing Non-Violent Communication for four years, and Sarah Peyton’s Resonant Healing Work for two years.

  
  The immediate impact on my relationships with my adult daughter, my romantic partner, my friendships, and my work life, was almost boggling. Even as a total newbie, walking around with my cue card in hand, I could SEE this stuff working. I felt more and more safe. They felt more connected with me. I felt more connected with myself. It’s almost impossible for me to tell you in words the difference that it’s made in my life.

  It’s why I'm offering these classes. The world needs stuff that works immediately. Not like a magic wand - nothing gets erased, no magic birds start singing on your shoulders, not everyone is suddenly nice to you….but you will have solid ground to feel yourself standing on while you deal with what comes your way in life.

  
  

  *A note about the “dance” part:

  When we are working with embodiment, emotions, and nervous system regulation, dancing is so helpful. Heck, dancing is always helpful! But especially when we are moving through big stuff and asking our brains to grow new neuronal pathways so we can change our patterns of reaction. The “dance” part is free flow movement, with some guidance for continued embodiment, not choreography. You move at your pace, with what you are working with, in response to the embodiment of what’s arising in each moment. We want kindness and awareness while we move, so that we move more deeply into attunement with out own systems. We don’t want to hurt the body, or even cause it to feel unsafe. This is dance as medicine.

  If you are someone who has been told you can’t dance (even by your own inner voice), or that you have two left feet, or maybe that you look ridiculous, it would make sense that seeing the word dance might bring apprehension or tension for you. Maybe that part of you would like to hear that the space will be cozy, no one will be looking at you to see what you are doing, and you don’t even have to move if you don’t want to? It is an invitation, not a requirement! You can lay down and hear the music and take good care of yourself.