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The result of nervous system regulation isn't just being calm all of the time.
As our regulation increases, we gain range. It gives us this incredible ability to welcome all parts of ourselves and be present for many more experiences.
We get to voraciously experience life's highs and lows without shutting down. Instead we are here for it - grounded, centered and connected to each moment whether it being fast or slow, high or low, pleasant or unpleasant or anywhere in between.
My definition of healing trauma is "to embrace." When we are able to slow down enough and allow anything to come up and meet it with warmth and care.
As we begin to practice slowing down, our entire histories tend to show up in our bodies/hearts and minds. In a healing process... we have space to allow all of it and meet it in a new way.
We can either do old school pushing into the discomfort and try to dig it to the root OR we could softly welcome it like we were welcoming an old friend and follow the body's wisdom to see what wants to unfold next.
When we can allow all parts with this level of spaciousness and range - we don't have to effort to cut out past experiences, try to figure them out or fix them. Instead we have the bandwidth to expand wide enough to be with all that arises - sensations, emotions, experiences... all of it.
When we're healing through nervous system regulation work, we're growing a greater sense of somatic safety which brings us a wide range to face all of life's experiences.
How do we grow ourselves wide enough to welcome it and be with it just like we would be with an old friend?
And that naturally allows for trauma resolution... we come into new relationship to it. We learn that we can be with discomfort, we learn that we can be with pain and suffering and grief because it's part of being human.
And we ALSO learn that we can be with joy and play and pleasure and aliveness. The more we have capacity for one of these, the more we have capacity for all of them.
It allows us to have that full spectrum of our humanity. It gives us back who we are, what we want to do and how we want to be.
As our trauma physiology gets updated to the safety available in the present moment, we get to exhale into infinite possibilities of how to engage with life, with ourselves and others.
We make empowered choices out of our greatest intentions - moving from an entirely new paradigm.
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In a culture that tends to drive a state of urgency and action, it’s an act of rebellion to practice and choose spaciousness. That old paradigm is one I no longer subscribe to and I’ll tell you why and how.
The more regulated our nervous systems get, the easier it is to consciously choose peace and ease within - even amidst challenge.
I am adamant about the power of discernment and choice. It’s not easy… especially when our physiology has been conditioned to a state of survival and stress. It goes against the stream to find ways to pause when we believe we need to be in action.
When we can commit ourselves to spaciousness, presence and peace - there are so many possibilities of healing, growth and awakening in ways we may have only dreamed of.
Less becomes more. More wisdom, more precise action, more boundaries, more clarity. Because when we know how to slow down and come back home to our own center in a moment - everything we need is right there.
This is also true of how we sit with our clients as coaches and therapists. When we learn that slow is the new fast and we go lighter to go deeper we give our clients some of the greatest gifts.
When we push for big transformations out of a state of urgency and wanting to feel helpful, fix or figure out - we’re out of the present moment and we’re possibly putting more pressure on our clients when what would be healing is to take the very familiar pressure off.
What might be possible when we’re settled deeply in ourselves and we can trust that state of being fully and completely?
When we can learn to sit with the unknown, the discomfort and what’s truly alive here in the present moment (even if we don't’ like it), we have the ultimate super power. Especially when we can sit with it with curiosity and care. We can learn to do that for ourselves and others.This is a revolutionary gift.
Too often we’re trying to heal with the same oppressive mechanisms that we were hurt by. Through standing in this revolutionary commitment to an entirely new way of being with ourselves and others - we are choosing a new paradigm to move from.
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Having taught meditation for decades and sharing various practices, I have learned that for me… I need both consistency AND variety. Others need the same thing every day. And others need to scattered bouts of showing up.
Listen in and see if there’s one thing that you can take with you that helps you give yourself permission to see what most supports YOU. There’s so much space to remember who we are through practice and it doesn’t have to look any particular way.
Practicing what’s nourishing for us brings us towards our highest goals. Can we do that while putting perfectionism aside and allow it to be a never-ending experiment?
It’s easy to get distracted or shut down, especially when practice starts opening us towards what we most want (that old “rubber band” effect). How do we keep showing up no matter what we’re facing whether pleasant/unpleasant/neither? While life keeps lifing?
We’re all different. We all need different practices and permission to explore where we put comparison and rigidity aside.
There is one big thing I share in this podcast about what ultimately helps us return again and again to what helps us expand into our greatest intentions for ourselves. Listen in and see what that is.
Whether your regular or daily practice is meditation, journaling, feeding yourself well, budgeting, showing up for therapy or healing work, a movement practice… can you find a way to fight for yourself and what matters most… whole-heartedly? Here’s how.
Ask yourself… “what is the most loving thing I can do in this moment?” Maybe today it’s 3 breaths and saying “it’s safe to feel this.” Whatever it is.
Start listening in to your mind/heart/body and see if you can show up as best you can. It takes practice and remind yourself you get to start over and have do-overs anytime.
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Start here and see where you go with your practice(s). Have you ever started a practice thinking it would help you get to where you want to go? Only to realize a day or weeks or months in that it felt impossible to keep going?
This applies to everything from exercise to meditation to money management to therapy or coaching or nutrition. If resistance didn’t exist… there are so many more possibilities of healing.
Check out this episode to learn about how to move from stuck to effortless over time.
I explore concepts around why we stop or get stuck or shut down and how we can compassionately and curiously move towards ease and flow in showing up in our lives in a way that is nourishing and wildly supportive so that we can move towards our greatest goals of self-trust, freedom, awakening, strength, power, steadiness, flow, connection, AND MORE.
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This episode we bring something different. Mari Mu interviews me, Shelby Leigh on my thoughts and views around a new paradigm of healing. It's a revolutionary path towards trauma healing and beyond.
Both practitioners and folks in a process of healing their own trauma will take something meaningful away from this episode. We also talk about an exciting new 9-Month offering that starts in September 2024!
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Kristin joins me again as we settle in to the moment and really explore and enjoy the aftermath of my Soulful Retreat in Panama. If you were curious how it went and also about some of my behind the scenes process... here's a window in to all of that. It was an epic coming home and a remembering of our deepest hearts. This time spent reflecting together really anchored in the nourishment of it all.
Kristin Mathes, LCSW is a psychotherapist specializing in trauma, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Anxiety, and Depression. She owns and operates her own private practice where she works with women and adolescents who are finding themselves trapped by physical symptoms of trauma, anxiety, and depression. Much of her therapeutic practice is inspired by her time spent as a Wilderness Therapist guiding clients through wilderness expeditions. Nature has always shown her how much our present-day activities disconnect us from our Self, our body, and our relationships. And, importantly, how our physical and emotional health issues can arise from such disconnection.
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Natalia Sanyal returns to The Relationship As Medicine Podcast for a second time. We dive into trauma-informed and anti-oppressive marketing PRACTICES for business owners.
We take a look at how to care for our audience AND ourselves when marketing from this perspective. We look at some outdated ways of marketing and talk about possibilities of an entirely new foundation and paradigm of marketing that's inspired, supportive and creates ease and connection.
About Natalia:
Natalia is an anti-oppressive copywriter and brand messaging strategist. In the last decade, she has worked with billion-dollar businesses like Apple and lululemon, New York Times bestselling authors like Layla Saad & Deepak Chopra, and award-winning marketing agencies. Now she teaches high-integrity personal brands to use marketing as a force for good so they can sell better and harm less.
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Stephen Terrell joins me for a third time in this inspiring episode about bringing a caring heart to our work in supporting clients on their trauma healing journey.
We:
Talk about a pet peeve of how clinicians talk about trauma. Explore the difference between pain and suffering Share about nervous system regulation work vs. pathology Look at how a somatic trauma treatment without words can actually work Emphasize how having an agenda in trauma healing can be counter-productive and make us and our clients work far too hard.And... SO much more.
Have a listen and let us know how it lands for you. We truly want to know.
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Stephen J. Terrell, PsyD, SEP, is a leading expert in the field of Developmental Trauma and Adoption and is recognized around the world for his work in Developmental Trauma and Healing. He understands Developmental Trauma from the inside out and the outside in. Terrell has performed more than 25,000 individual Transforming Touch® sessions and taught thousands of students from around the world in the art of Transforming Touch® as it relates to healing Developmental Trauma.
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Gail Susan Gordon joins me as we look at nervous system regulation within the therapeutic relationship, whether working with individual adults or supporting parents, caregivers and children. As we support and foster attunement and regulation within the healing relationship, we create the conditions that allow people to grow and flourish.
Gail describes her compassionate view on how to best support the healing process for adults who’ve had challenging childhoods. You're sure to leave this episode feeling warmth in your heart and more grounded and at ease.
About Gail, in her own words:
My own journey has taught me that healing is not only possible, it’s a reality one can count on. When I bring together my training and my personal experience, I’m able to support people to move forward in a meaningful way.
I’ve worked as a psychotherapist with children and adults for almost 15 years. My training includes advanced studies in early development, trauma and somatics (body-oriented therapies). My work incorporates the impact of culture and social/political oppression in our daily lives.
A special interest has been integrating the body into therapy through many programs, including Somatic Experiencing, Somatic Resilience and Regulation, and Transforming the Experienced Based Brain/Transforming Touch. Learning the abundance of ways the body and mind are designed to heal from stress and trauma is an ongoing revelation. I share with you what I learn, incorporating it into my approach to working together. I’m looking forward to our journey.You can learn more about Gail and her services on her website
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Jivana Heyman shares how accessibility flows naturally from ethics. We explore how accessibility and trauma informed care weave together as we support those in our care. This conversation applies not only to. yoga teachers and facilitators but to anyone in a supporting and healing role.
We delve into the theme of sharing power and why we do this with those in our care. Collaboration is key in how we show up and empower students, clients and participants. This conversation is sure to leave you feeling inspired and with some fresh perspectives in your approach to healing whether you're facilitator or participant.
About Jivana:
Jivana Heyman, C-IAYT, E-RYT500, is the founder and director of Accessible Yoga, an organization dedicated to increasing access to the yoga teachings and supporting yoga teachers.
He’s the author of the books: Accessible Yoga: Poses and Practices for Every Body; Yoga Revolution: Building a Practice of Courage & Compassion; and a new book, The Teacher's Guide to Accessible Yoga: Best Practices for Sharing Yoga with Every Body.
Over the past thirty years of teaching yoga, Jivana has focused on welcoming all people to yoga and celebrating our individuality and our differences. His work has focused on dismantling ableism in the yoga world, as well as looking at the intersection of yoga and social justice.
His books, classes, and trainings offer support to yoga teachers and yoga therapists in finding ways to bring creativity and collaboration into their teaching while still respecting the ancient yoga tradition.
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Justin Salamon and I explore the intersections between the therapeutic power of working in the outdoor industry and supporting clients in our healing modalities. We explore river running, nature, regulation, intuition, sharing power and why we don’t give our clients “psychic downloads”. Listen in a find out more about how we can become a safer space for those we support.
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Justin Salamon, MA - Certified Rolfer:
"My first experience with Rolfing® SI was in 2000 when I was seeking help for chronic shoulder dislocations. I was an avid climber, backpacker and paddler working in the outdoor industry but injuries threatened my ability to continue my livelihood. My first ten series was transformative – walking was joyful in a way I had never experienced, breathing was effortless, my coordination improved and old pains disappeared. I realized that I needed to study Rolfing SI to understand the changes that had occurred in my body and to share the work with others.
Since 2002 I have been privileged to practice Rolfing Structural Integration, and in the process help clients of all ages and backgrounds. I approach each session as an opportunity to understand the physical and psycho-biological patterns that make each client unique, and enjoy the challenge of helping each person become pain-free, embodied, and more comfortable in his/her everyday life. Rolfing fuels my passion for deepening my knowledge of the human body and the human experience through formal education and independent study.
When I am not Rolfing you can find me helping with the management of Canyon Explorations where we offer 13-18 day human powered river trips through Grand Canyon. I still get on the river as a Guide and Trip Leader but have more time to devote to Rolfing and management. My free time is spent exploring the mountains, rivers and canyons. Most importantly my time is spent learning, adventuring and growing with my children."
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In this episode, Sarah Buino and I dive into the current business landscape of therapists and care providers. We shine a light on the prevalent issue of burnout gripping many within these professions, particularly in our current times.
Sarah shares her personal journey, from the early days in community mental health to running group therapy practices. Through her experiences, we uncover valuable lessons and insights that have shaped her path. As we navigate the conversation, it becomes evident that a pandemic of burnout is silently affecting therapists and care providers on a wide scale.
This episode serves as an illuminating exploration of the challenges within these professions, offering a candid look at the struggles many practitioners face. Together, Sarah and I discuss strategies to navigate and alleviate burnout, emphasizing the importance of finding ease and steadiness in the midst of demanding roles.
Whether you're a therapist or a care provider of any kind, this episode provides valuable insights into the unique challenges faced and the crucial role of self-care and support. Tune in for a conversation that sheds light on the realities of the field and offers guidance on cultivating resilience and well-being in the face of burnout.
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Sarah Buino is a speaker, educator, therapist and the founder of the therapy practice Head/Heart Therapy, Inc and consulting organization Head/Heart Business Therapy. She’s a member of the adjunct faculty at Loyola University Chicago and a podcast host. Her podcast called Conversations With a Wounded Healer examines the role of one’s own healing while being a care-giving professional. Sarah’s new podcast series The Burnt Out Practice Owner discusses the current state of group therapy practice ownership—the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Sarah’s Authentic Leaders Group, an 8- month program for therapists who want to enhance their leadership skills, begins this Friday, February 9, 2024
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Te and I dream together about the upcoming retreat in Panama, exploring how somatic-focused movement offers deep nourishment and support for the nervous system work we'll be diving into on the retreat. We delve into Te’s inclusive approach that honors all bodies that carry diverse stories and experiences about movement.
Take a peek into this conversation to get a feel for Te’s morning practice, which will set the tone for each day of our retreat.
Join us in Panama for Soulful in May - there are still spots left, and it would be an honor to support you on your journey from burnout to inspiration and newfound clarity as a health and wellness provider.
This retreat is designed especially for those on a trauma-healing journey, aiming to deepen the understanding of the impact of "less is more". Join us to find your True North through gently settling your nervous system and sinking into spaciousness so you can listen, receive and respond to the wisdom of your body, heart and mind.
In addition to our daily movement practices, you’ll find teachings and workshops on how to welcome all parts of yourself, alongside coaches, therapists, and health and well-being professionals surrounded by the sea and tropical forests
Reserve your place today and step into a space of renewal.
About Teresa
Teresa Prado has been a movement instructor for the past seven years after finishing the Rizze Yoga Immersion Training in Vancouver. Since then, they have done extensive training in somatic movement alongside training and volunteering with Yoga Outreach to offer free trauma-informed movement practices to a diverse population, from rehab centres to seniors' homes.
With a slow and steady rhythm in order to be inclusive of all bodies and abilities, Teresa encourages folks to tap into their needs to experience the class however they wish. The main objective is to offer a safer space for people to connect with their bodies and explore what movement, breath and mindfulness means to themselves.
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Learn new concepts around nervous system regulation and healing, to be guided in 20-25 minute daily practices, meditate, breathe, move, laugh, love it, hate it, and everywhere in between.
You are invited to my 7-day live free series starting Monday, January 8th through Sunday, January 14th at 9-9:30 AM PST. Just 30-minutes a day. Come home to yourself, add support for your trauma healing, and get in touch with your innate capacity for healing and growth. Learn more here.
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This week, I am so grateful to welcome Kristen Ales, LPC & Kristin Mathes, LCSW of the Wilder Wellness Podcast. Our conversation delves into the power of connection through group experiential work - a topic that we’ve been reflecting a lot on lately. We also explore how we as practitioners learn to let go of old habits, particularly the tendency to push ourselves too hard in not only our own healing journeys but also in our professional lives.
The three of us also share our experiences facilitating retreats in nature and the power of connecting in groups. Kristin gives us a preview of her deep prep for launching EMERGE, a surf therapy retreat which involves a lot of somatic-based practices with Mother Ocean - happening in February 2025. And in a very vulnerable and honest share, I open up about my process around planning my upcoming retreat and what it’s been like in getting the word out about it.
This episode invites you into a circle of kind, regulated, well-intentioned, compassionate and wonderfully inspired humans. For healing practitioners (especially for those who focus on trauma healing and nervous system regulation), I hope this episode serves you as a deep exhale.
Wilder Wellness is a podcast all about exploring our relationship with our bodies, minds, and communities through an adventurous lens. Tune in each week as Kristen Ales & Kristin Mathes navigate new topics around emotional health, physical health, and living life outside of the box. Kristen and Kristin are two licensed therapists, & friends, for empowering and inspiring interviews with wellness professionals, outdoor enthusiasts, and big thinkers, dreamers & doers who are changing the prescription for true well-being.
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Kristin Mathes, LCSW is a psychotherapist specializing in trauma, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Anxiety, and Depression. She owns and operates her own private practice where she works with women and adolescents who are finding themselves trapped by physical symptoms of trauma, anxiety, and depression. Much of her therapeutic practice is inspired by her time spent as a Wilderness Therapist guiding clients through wilderness expeditions. Nature has always shown her how much our present-day activities disconnect us from our Self, our body, and our relationships. And, importantly, how our physical and emotional health issues can arise from such disconnection.
Check out Kristin’s website to learn more about her work.
Kristin is launching registration for Emerge, her surf therapy retreat on February 21, 2024
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Kristen Ales, LPC is a licensed therapist who specializes in disordered eating and negative body image. After years of disordered eating and hating her body, Kristen built a more trusting and respectful relationship with her body through outdoor activity. Since her early twenties, Kristen has spent years guiding outdoor adventure trips which led to her receiving her Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with an emphasis in Wilderness Therapy.
Since receiving her Master’s degree, Kristen has founded her own company Wilder Wellness. She works with women of all sizes to help them build confidence in their bodies, on and off of the trail. In this work, Kristen has created and facilitated size-inclusive outdoor adventure retreats, designed online group programs, and courses, and works with clients individually in her clinical practice.
In her free time, she enjoys exploring new places, cooking, and finding new ways to bring her creativity to life.
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I am so moved and honored to welcome Kelly McDaniel LPC, NCC to the podcast to discuss her book Mother Hunger, a personal life-changer that I frequently recommend to my clients. During this powerful conversation, we explore the term “Mother Hunger” and its various impacts on daughters with mothers who weren’t able to tend to them in nurturing and supportive ways.
We also discuss:
The importance of using non-pathologizing language on experiences that are often so shamed
Yearning for nurturance, protection, and guidance and how someone might start the healing process
Mother Hunger as an Epigenetic inheritance from our maternal lineage and how it affects a mother-child bond
Implicit Memory and how our bodies carry experiences that elude verbal expression for many
Disorganized attachment and confronting the labels society attaches, such as “bipolar disorder” and “borderline personality disorder” and how these may reflect deeper, unmet needs.
Whether you’re a mental health professional or someone healing their own Mother Hunger, this conversation will offer insights and connection in a kind and compassionate way.
I left this conversation feeling deeply touched by the depth and topics we navigated through and truly in awe of Kelly’s ability to put words to such a heartbreaking experience that I have not only experienced but I know many of you have as well.
About Kelly McDaniel, LPC, NCC
Kelly McDaniel is a licensed professional counselor,author, mother, and women’s advocate. In her first book Ready to Heal, (2008) she named an attachment injury as “Mother Hunger” and started a movement.
Women resonated with the concept and wanted treatment. Since then, Kelly devotes herself to nurturing insecure attachment and maternal deprivation in adult women. In her second book, Mother Hunger, Kelly speaks to the millions of women who suffer with a life-long emotional burden that adversely affects self-worth, eating patterns, and relational wellness.
Catch Kelly speaking at Hay House’s I Can Do It! event in March 2024, located in Pheonix, AZ.
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I am so excited to be joined by Megan deBoer again as we reflect on expanding, receiving money/abundance, what we see in the clients we work with and what inspires us to do this work.
We touch on:
Expanding our capacities to cope with ebbs and flows within our businesses
The “Nourishment Barrier” and how we can lean into support and learn tools that help us know that money is safe to receive and hold
The intersection of love, money & security and how the lack of safety in one of these domains can ultimately lead to dysregulation and shape our responses to receiving abundance
Importance of embodiment work and nervous system support in healing our relationship with money and abundance
How to trust ourselves to receive and give ourselves permission to receive
This work not only applies to money, but about whatever it is we need to flourish in our businesses and lives.
About Megan:
Megan deBoer is the founder of Tended Wealth, a business that helps individuals heal their emotional and practical relationship to money. As a certified Financial Recovery Counselor, her approach considers the context of our current financial circumstance: our lived experience, our family of origin, and the broad culture that together shape our beliefs about money. She is passionate about transforming this fundamental part of our lives from shame and overwhelm to a sense of agency, clarity, and potential. She specializes in helping women who are self-employed to radically increase their earning. Her course participants and 1:1 clients regularly attest to the life-changing power of this work.
You can read more about Megan's work on her website.
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Check out our previous episode together here.
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In this episode of the podcast, I chat with Lacey Nagar Ammerman on how practitioners and care providers can best support individuals with different abilities or chronic health conditions through a trauma-informed approach to ensure they feel seen, acknowledged, and understood in their healing journey.
Lacey also shares her deeply personal journey through navigating muscular dystrophy in her personal life and in her business and how it has fueled her passion for supporting her clients with disabilities and body challenges.
We also discuss:
Health diagnoses as traumatic events and how to support people through them (especially when their diagnoses are ongoing and progressive)
How to be more inclusive of people with different abilities (whether visible or not) in meditations, practices, resourcing, etc
How to resource in the body when we don’t trust or feel good in our bodies because of illness
What “confidence” or “body image” means for Lacey and her clients
Tips and tools for practitioners who may be working with confidence and body image in themselves or their clients
About Lacey:
Lacey Nagar Ammerman is a Confidence & Certified Body Image Coach, author, and mentor. Her mission is to make a difference in the lives of women through confidence in their bodies, businesses, and relationships so they can show up fully, make more money, and create yummy partnerships.
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Janel Phillips, founder and co-owner of Sansara Resort in Cambutal, Panamá joins me for an inspiring conversation about the experience and land where we’ll be hosting our Soulful Retreat.
She shares the synchronistic story of how she and her husband found themselves in picturesque Cambutal and how it's unfolded into the special and sacred place it is today.
Together we look at the experience of retreat participants, including the delicious cuisine, the adventures along the Southern Panamanian coast, and the interactions with staff.
Learn why this retreat destination serves as the perfect place for allowing our nervous systems to find balance and regulation and how you can truly take up nourishment and goodness from each moment during this experience.
You can register for Soulful now, which takes place on May 12-28, 2024. Born out of burnout, this gathering of deep feelers, sensitive souls and adventurous spirits is a grounding, spacious, connecting way to return home to your deepest heart.
About Janel:
As a former high-school teacher, Janel continued her studies around the world to encompass her passion for yoga, working with educators, healers, and yoga teachers before opening a Canadian-based yoga business. Through her experiences and passion, she began to realize how important it was to me to develop a business model that focused on the mind-body-earth connection and healthy living for both clients and the earth. Along with her husband Mike, they wanted to create a place that catered to all, and shared their passion and belief in a simpler, more organic lifestyle, where people can slow down, unplug, and escape their hectic lifestyles, and thus Sansara Resort came into fruition.
Janel and Milke strongly believe in giving back to and improving our community by utilizing the benefits of tourism to promote sustainable development and employment in Cambutal. They support our community by employing local residents and purchasing local products whenever possible.
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In this episode, I am joined by Nuria Reed to explore embodiment-focused decolonization work from her perspective as a white-bodied practitioner with European lineage.
We delve into the power of this work in fostering a sense of deep belonging - whether it’s with the natural world, with each other, or inside themselves.
She explains the concept of Embodied Ancestral Awakening, shedding light on its important role in trauma healing. By becoming more rooted and secure in our own identities, we can forge more compassionate and connected relationships with each other, our work as practitioners, and the world.
Nuria is a certified sex coach, anthropology enthusiast, animist practitioner, and professional in transformation and liberation. Her approach is trauma-informed somatic-based coaching specifically for sexuality, spiritual awakening, and ancestral healing and her philosophy is planted in the reclaimed animist traditions of her ancestors and the Tantra of her yogic lineage. With 10,000 hours of teaching and training experience and two decades of transformative personal work, Nuria lives, breathes, and embodies liberation through pleasure.
Nuria’s 6-week program Ancestral Awakening will begin in November 2023. Ancestral Awakening is an intimate group course for women who long for an authentic and ancient spirituality. Find out more about the program here.
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Website: www.nuriareed.com
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Registration is open NOW for Soulful: A Somatic Embodiment Retreat for Healing & Wellness Practitioners.Born out of burnout, this gathering of deep feelers, sensitive souls and adventurous spirits is a grounding, spacious, connecting way to return home to your deepest heart. 🌴This unique trauma-informed retreat will take place in Cambutal, Panama at Sansara 5-Star Luxury Resort from May 12-18, 2024. Get ready and mark your calendars! ✨ Put your deposit down now
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In this special episode of the podcast, I wanted to take the time to talk with you about my upcoming retreat, Soulful. I dive into my intentions that will go into this retreat and share the inspiration behind this offering. I give a glimpse of what your experience will be like, exploring the day-to-day schedule and the deep HOW and WHY of it all. If you’ve been curious about what this retreat will be like, have a listen!Born out of burnout, this retreat is meant to guide you into deep nourishment and re-alignment with your soul’s compass. This gathering of deep feelers, sensitive souls and adventurous spirits is a grounding, spacious, connecting way to return home to your deepest heart. You are invited to come celebrate and luxuriate in the company of other coaches, therapists and health and well-being professionals (or for anybody who supports others in their day-to day) surrounded by the sea and tropical forests. This unique trauma-informed retreat is designed to help you regulate your nervous system through somatic and embodied practices so that you can expand your capacity for even more well-being, health, wealth, connection, clarity, and steadiness. You give so much to others, here is a time to allow yourself to receive, be held and lean in. Register now to save $300 before October 1st!In the episode, I mention the EXPAND 10-Day Series on Insight Timer App
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