Thursdays in November
6 - 7:30pm

The Yurt, Arden Rd
Courtenay

This class may be a good fit for you if

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.

• We start with Embodiment Practice - 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.”

• 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 end the class with music and free flow movement. This is time to swoosh out our bodies like a clean wind through an open window. This is move at your own pace, in your own way, with guidance from me for deeper awareness of embodiment.
  
  These are the skills that I’ve been practicing for for three years - since I learned of Non-Violent Communication, and then Sarah Peyton’s Resonant Healing Work.
  
  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.

This class runs for 90 minutes and includes a low-key “dance” portion. 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” class 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.

***This work isn’t therapy, I’m not a therapist. Resonant Healing work is like the workouts you do at the gym between the appointments with your personal trainer. It works in conjunction with whatever therapeutic modalities you are currently implementing in your life, whether that’s working with a therapist, working on your own with journalling and self-improvement books, etc, or as a seeker on the path of truth and compassion.

***The November session is for women and non-binary identified people.