This group is FULL. Next one starts in March.

Four week somatic SE mentoring circle on Zoom with Sage Hayes.

These groups are intended to support SE students at all levels deepen their somatic practice while in a collaborative learning circle. Your wisdom is welcome. We will cover cases, questions/themes and do some somatic practice.

Each week begins with a guided somatic arriving which is followed by building our agenda together. For the first week we will spend time getting to know each other through introductions. All knowledge and skill levels are welcome.

• Thursdays, February 13, 20, 27 & March 6. Our first meeting Feb 13th will be 3 hours, 12pm-3pm EST, the remainder or meetings will be 2 hours for a total of 9 group consultation hours.

• Investment $275. Payment plan available, contact sage@embodiedliberation.com

Eligible for 3 credits towards Somatic Experiencing certification (beginning, intermediate, advanced or post-advanced). . During the 4 weeks you may miss one week and still receive credit as long as you watch the recording which is sent out every week.

Registration link HERE.

More info about Sage here.

THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL.

Join us in community and practice the weekend of November 15-17th, 2024 in Ottawa, Canada for the workshop Emergent Somatic Practice with Sage Hayes, organized locally by Anne Walzak.

When the intention is to heal, the body will show us the way. The intentions clients bring to somatic work can act as the cohesive element which can guide our inquiry together.  One of the biggest learning edges and opportunities in practicing somatics is learning to utilize emergent and spontaneous openings with clients.  There’s often a lot more guiding information available than we ‘think’ there is.  The nervous system and body are constantly sending out non-verbal clues which can point us in surprisingly effective and helpful directions.  Clues can show up in the form of body movements, changes in vocal prosody, phrases a client uses which might have extra weight, energetic shifts, sacred pauses, ‘random’ detours and intuitive guidance.  This emergent information which arises during sessions can be a way our client is letting us know what is important and what is ready to be looked at next.  

Part of this territory includes setting conditions which gently encourage these embodied clues, to then notice when they arrive and to be able to meet them well and effectively in the moment with something exploratory and experiential.  This way of practice takes patience, courage and the willingness to open states of listening to and beyond our ‘practitioner mind’. 

Our role is to become extraordinary listeners, to become attuned to non-linear realms of somatic communication and to accompany these movements from the deep with skill and care.  Listening and moving into a more emergent somatic practice can facilitate a less dominant flow of movement during sessions and generate more collaborative change.

In this experiential workshop we will open our capacity as somatic practitioners to work with emergent somatic material arising in our sessions.   We’ll explore many ways of listening and the varied elements of what we might be listening for.  

The workshop process will aspire to model all the concepts and practices being taught.

The 5 points of exploration for this workshop:

• Anchoring in our practitioner body.  Moving from our wisdom and deep trust of the client’s innate inner medicine. Moving from an invitational stance.

• Clarifying and kindling client intentions to animate a collaborative map of healing.

• Increasing our capacity for utilization of the ‘sacred pause’ and uncertainty

• Learning to listen for non-cognitive somatic cues and clues.  Discerning between movements of adaptive habit or movements of health.  How to spot energetic willingness.

• Translating somatic information into experiential exploration and spontaneous activities.

This workshop is for healing practitioners of all types including therapists, body workers and movement teachers.  

About Sage Hayes:

Since 1999, Sage Hayes (she/he/they) has been building capacity and sight towards emergent somatic practice since beginning their work facilitating anti-oppression work in schools, churches and communities. Sage began studying healing arts in 2000 including somatic experiencing, biodynamic craniosacral therapy, therapeutic touch, developmental trauma work, family and systemic constellations and embodied anti-oppression work of all sorts.  Sage was a lead assistant with the Somatic Experiencing Institute for many years and mentors somatic students from all types of modalities.

Sage hails from Peaks Island off the coast of Maine and enjoys a vibrant local life while having the great honor to travel facilitating and teaching with somatic students around the world.  Most recently Sage has been offering embodied movement classes and somatic mentoring support with individuals and groups. Coming up soon Sage will be co-facilitating Love at the Center: Politicized Healing and Collective Liberation, an international gathering of healers and activists in Sicily this fall. 

Sage is thrilled and honored to be returning to Ottawa to connect with local somatics practitioners. 

Click here for more info about Sage’s background.

Location:  

Willow Wellness, 5944 Perth St, Ottawa, ON K0A 2Z0, Canada.  Willow Wellness has an onsite cafe where lunch can be purchased.  

Schedule:

Friday Nov 15th, 530-730pm: Potluck dinner gathering at Anne Walzak’s in Hintonburg  

Saturday Nov 16th, 9-5pm at Willow Wellness

Sunday Nov 17th, 9-1pm at Willow Wellness 

In the spirit of access, cost for workshop is offered at a sliding scale: 

• $450 CAD, register here.

• $350 CAD, register here.

• $275 CAD, register here.

• Or to save your spot, you can make a $175 CAD deposit here.  Payment in full due by Nov 14th, 2024, you can make payment via paypal, venmo or will receive an invoice for your total due.  

To discover where your price access point is on the sliding scale, please take the time to refer to this amazing resource by Alexis Cunningfolk, The Sliding Scale: A Tool of Economic Justice..

Payment plans available, contact sage@embodiedliberation.com. 

If you are traveling from outside Ottawa, on-site sleeping arrangements are possible at Willow Wellness,3 bedroom options with shared living space and private backyard.  Contact Chris at Willow, chrisclapp17@gmail.com.

If you are interested in bringing this workshop to your neck of the woods, contact Sage at sage@embodiedliberation.com.

Four week somatic SE mentoring circle with Sage Hayes.

These groups are intended to support SE students at all levels deepen their somatic practice while in a collaborative learning circle. Your wisdom is welcome. We will cover cases, questions/themes and do some somatic practice.

Each week begins with a guided somatic arriving which is followed by building our agenda together. For the first week we will spend time getting to know each other through introductions. All knowledge and skill levels are welcome.

• Fridays 11/1, 11/8, 11/15, 11/22. Our first meeting on Nov 1 will be 3 hours, 12pm-3pm EST, the remainder will be 2 hours.

• Investment $275. Payment plan available, contact sage@embodiedliberation.com

Eligible for 3 credits towards Somatic Experiencing certification. During the 4 weeks you may miss one week and still receive credit as long as you watch the recording which is sent out every week.

Registration link here.

More info about Sage here.

Love at the Center: Politicized Healing and Collective Liberation

SICILY, ITALY

OCTOBER 14-22, 2024

INVITATION ONLY.

We are a community of practitioners, dreamers, weavers, activists, doulas, seers, high priestesses, bodyworkers, anti-racist organizers, somatic and trauma therapists, visionaries, and most of all- humans who want to engage and converge our creative energies to birth new worlds (within and beyond ourselves!)

We are coming from Serbia/Netherlands, Germany, Spain, US, Mexico, Romania, Kenya, Guatemala, Oaxaca, Tunisia, South Africa, Colombia, Georgia, Philippines, Bosnia, Canada, and Thailand.

We are located in various social justice movements in the Global South, some of us are Global Majority folks, some of us from indigenous lands and wisdom traditions, all of us are holding healing spaces for our beloved communities and movements.

This initiative is one of a kind, our very first step is gathering - it's an experiment in solidarity practice, and what it takes to birth new worlds.

The proposed gathering (5 days) will be place-making experiments dedicated to expanding what enters our bodies, how we metabolize, and what imaginative possibilities exist beyond our day-to-day. 

This path recognizes that knowledge and truth are discovered and enriched through diverse perspectives and dialogues. This space is imagined and created to embrace the journey as a collaborative exploration, where trust is placed in the collective rather than solely in the authority of a few. We embrace the humility and openness of "a way" (rather than “the way”) that evolves through collective wisdom and shared experience.

If we can imagine it, we can make it real.

If we can recognize our connection, we can tend right relationship.

We will engage with our unique edges, personally and collectively.

• Focus on our roots, communal practice, and rituals.

• Use somatic movements, constellations work, and kundalini awakening as portals 

• Be each other's Medicine

•  Slow down and collectively make present our human experiences

• Use simple and powerful creative music and practices to engage with new visions of desire, pleasure, longing, and liberation.

• Actively practice  and learn from each other and move with the speed of relationships

• Create space for profound, slow, imaginative exploration.

Each person who enters the space matters on this journey of new culture creation, and we each bring medicine and contributions that help foster the soil in which new and reclaimed knowledge/experiences/imaginings can take root.

Like ripples on water, we trust that even small moments of encounter can have seen and unseen impacts on our relationships and worlds that are impossible to measure.

We want to explore:

• Building and re/imagining Community

• Care Ecologies: Generating and crafting a space of mutual reverence, respect, dignity, and care. It's a direct challenge to the dehumanizing aspects of dominant culture and an embrace of the unknown possibilities present in moving at the speed of relationships.

• Un/learning for Liberation: We want to move beyond harmful cultural narratives. The politicized healers’ space invites us into an experience of un/learning, which is about coming into a deliberate and discerning relationship with what supports personal and collective liberation and what does not, valuing an embrace of our multiple and diverse intelligences.

SANADORES POLITIZADOS:

Somos una comunidad de practicantes, soñadores, tejedores, activistas, doulas, videntes, sumas sacerdotisas, trabajadores corporales, organizadores antirracistas, terapeutas somáticos y traumatólogos, visionarios y, sobre todo, humanos que queremos involucrar y hacer converger nuestras energías creativas para dar a luz nuevas. mundos (¡dentro y más allá de nosotros mismos!)

Venimos de Serbia/Países Bajos, Alemania, España, Estados Unidos, México, Rumania, Kenia, Guatemala, Oaxaca, Túnez, Sudáfrica, Colombia, Georgia, Filipinas, Bosnia, Canadá y Tailandia.

Estamos situados en varias movimientos de justicia social en el Sur Global, algunos de nosotros somos gente de la Mayoría Global, algunos de nosotros somos de tierras indígenas y tradiciones de sabiduría, pero todos tenemos espacios de sanación para nuestras queridas comunidades y movimientos.

Esta iniciativa es única y nuestro primer paso es reunirnos: es un experimento en la práctica de la solidaridad y lo que se necesita para crear nuevos mundos.

La reunión propuesta (5 días) es un experimento de creación de lugares dedicado a expandir lo que ingresa a nuestros cuerpos, cómo metabolizamos y qué posibilidades imaginativas existen más allá de nuestro realidad immediata. 

Este camino reconoce que el conocimiento y la verdad se descubren y enriquecen a través de diversas perspectivas y diálogos. Este espacio se imagina y crea para abrazar el viaje como una exploración colaborativa, donde la confianza se deposita en el colectivo y no únicamente en la autoridad de unos pocos. Abrazamos la humildad y la apertura de "un camino" (en lugar de "el camino") que evoluciona a través de la sabiduría colectiva y la experiencia compartida.

Si podemos imaginarlo, podemos hacerlo realidad.

Si podemos reconocer nuestra conección, podemos tender a una relación correcta.

Nos involucraremos con nuestras ventajas únicas, personal y colectivamente.

• Centrarse en nuestras raíces, prácticas comunitarias y rituales.

• Utilice movimientos somáticos, trabajo de constelaciones, despertar kundalini como portales. 

• Ser nuestra Medicina

•  Ralentizar y presenciar nuestra experiencia humana juntos

• Utilice prácticas y música creativa simple pero poderosa para interactuar con nuevas visiones de deseo, placer, anhelo y liberación.

• Practicar activamente y aprender unos de otros y avanzar con la velocidad de las relaciones.

• Hace un espacio para una exploración imaginativa lenta y profunda.

Cada persona que ingresa al espacio es importante en este viaje de creación de una nueva cultura, y cada uno de nosotros aporta medicina y contribuciones que ayudan a fomentar el base en el que los conocimientos, experiencias e imaginaciones nuevos y recuperados pueden echar raíces.

Como ondas en el agua, confiamos en que incluso los pequeños momentos de encuentro pueden tener impactos visibles e invisibles en nuestras relaciones y mundos que son imposibles de medir.

Queremos explorar:

• Construyendo y re/imaginando la comunidad

• Ecologías de Cuidado: Generar y crear un espacio de reverencia mutua, respeto, dignidad y cuidado. Es un desafío directo a los aspectos deshumanizantes de la cultura dominante y una aceptación de las posibilidades desconocidas presentes al avanzar a la velocidad de las relaciones.

• Des/aprendizaje para la Liberación: Queremos ir más allá de las narrativas culturales dañinas. El espacio politizado de los sanadores nos invita a una experiencia de desaprendizaje, que se trata más de establecer una relación de discernimiento con lo que apoya la liberación personal y colectiva y lo que no, y valorar la aceptación de nuestras múltiples y diversas inteligencias.

** THIS GROUP IS FULL

Four week somatic SE mentoring circle with Sage Hayes.

These groups are intended to support SE students at all levels deepen their somatic practice while in a collaborative learning circle. Your wisdom is welcome. We will cover cases, questions/themes and do some somatic practice.

Each week begins with a guided somatic arriving which is followed by building our agenda together. For the first week we will spend time getting to know each other through introductions. All knowledge and skill levels are welcome.

• Mondays 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/7. Our first meeting on September 16th will be 3 hours, 12pm-3pm EST, the remainder will be 2 hours.

• Investment $275. Payment plan available, contact sage@embodiedliberation.com

Eligible for 3 credits towards Somatic Experiencing certification. During the 4 weeks you may miss one week and still receive credit as long as you watch the recording which is sent out every week.

Registration link here.

More info about Sage here.

Belonging and the Body: Movement Centered Healing Justice, a Soul Play Immersion

with Odessa Perez, vicki abadesco + sage hayes

SoulPlay is an immersive experience filled with transformational workshops, celebration, dancing, connection, and play.

It is an experience designed to facilitate learning and growth, while having a lot of fun and making great connections in the process.

Belonging and the Body is a co-facilitated deep dive into the core themes that bring us together.

More info here: https://www.soulplay.co/

** MARCH GROUP IS FULL

Four week somatic SE mentoring circle with Sage Hayes.

These groups are intended to support SE students at all levels deepen their somatic practice while in a collaborative learning circle. Your wisdom is welcome. We will cover cases, questions/themes and do some somatic practice.

Each week begins with a guided somatic arriving which is followed by building our agenda together. For the first week we will spend time getting to know each other through introductions. All knowledge and skill levels are welcome.

• Mondays, March 4, 11, 18, 25. Our first meeting March 4 will be 3 hours, 12pm-3pm EST, the following weeks will be 2 hours.

• Investment $275. Payment plan available, contact sage@embodiedliberation.com

Eligible for 3 credits towards Somatic Experiencing certification. During the 4 weeks you may miss one week and still receive credit as long as you watch the recording which is sent out every week.

Registration: Link for March 4th start date.

2 spots left

Four week somatic SE mentoring circle with Sage Hayes.

These groups are intended to support SE students at all levels deepen their somatic practice while in a collaborative learning circle. Your wisdom is welcome. We will cover cases, questions/themes and do some somatic practice.

Each week begins with a guided somatic arriving which is followed by building our agenda together. For the first week we will spend time getting to know each other through introductions. All knowledge and skill levels are welcome.

• Thursdays, February 15, 22, 29 & March 7. Our first meeting Feb 15 will be 3 hours, 12pm-3pm EST, the following weeks will be 2 hours.

• Investment $275. Payment plan available, contact sage@embodiedliberation.com

Eligible for 3 credits towards Somatic Experiencing certification. During the 4 weeks you may miss one week and still receive credit as long as you watch the recording which is sent out every week.

Registration: Link for March 4th start date.

Four week somatic SE mentoring circle with Sage Hayes.

These groups are intended to support SE students at all levels deepen their somatic practice while in a collaborative learning circle. Your wisdom is welcome. We will cover cases, questions/themes and do some somatic practice.

Each week begins with a guided somatic arriving which is followed by building our agenda together. For the first week we will spend time getting to know each other through introductions. All knowledge and skill levels are welcome.

• Mondays, Oct 30, Nov 6, 13 & 20th. Our first meeting on Sept 11 will be 3 hours, 12pm-3pm EST, the rest will be 2 hours.

• Investment $275. Payment plan available.

Eligible for 3 credits towards Somatic Experiencing certification. During the 4 weeks you may miss one week and still receive credit as long as you watch the recording which is sent out every week.

Registration: Link for October 30th start date.

Four week somatic SE mentoring circle with Sage Hayes.

These groups are intended to support SE students at all levels deepen their somatic practice while in a collaborative learning circle. Your wisdom is welcome. We will cover cases, questions/themes and do some somatic practice.

Each week begins with a guided somatic arriving which is followed by building our agenda together. For the first week we will spend time getting to know each other through introductions. All knowledge and skill levels are welcome.

• Mondays, Sept 11, 18, 25 & Oct 2. Our first meeting on Sept 11 will be 3 hours, 4-7pm EST, the rest will be 2 hours.

• Fee is $275, payment plan available.

Eligible for 3 credits towards Somatic Experiencing certification. During the 4 weeks you may miss one week and still receive credit as long as you watch the recording which is sent out every week.

Registration: Link for September 11 start date.

Join Kusum Crimmel, Erin Sweeney and myself in this 6 session program.

“What does it mean, as white bodied people, to engage in reparations in an embodied way? From a place of relationship and connection rather than guilt and shame? How do our ancestors want to support in this? How does our lineage inform the ways in which we engage in reparations? How does place and land shape and inform this process?”

Explore, embody, and evolve our understanding, practices, and current paradigm toward repair, reparation, healing, and reconfiguration of our responsibility as white folx in cultural genocide, slavery, and the ongoing abuses of white supremacy.   

This is a six-part pilot series for white-bodied people to come together with intention and care to explore the possibilities of embodied reparations. Co-created by 3 seasoned facilitators and space holders, we will explore specific steps toward reparations and an embodied and reparative stance anchored in truth-seeing, amends, community, and mutual liberation.  

We will use genealogical research, storytelling, sharing, family constellations, somatic practices, and collective witnessing as tools to support the energetic, emotional, cognitive, and embodied metabolizing of collective racialized trauma. In community, we will work toward earnest reparation, authentic solidarity, and relinquishment of supremacy in all its forms.

Let’s explore together.

Sessions will be held on zoom.

More info here: https://sites.google.com/view/embodiedreparations/home

Rest as a portal for healing.

Mediterranean sea as medicine.

Myth as doorway.

Play as possibility.

Collective care as coherence.

This is a restorative and creative retreat for healing practitioners.

Oikia Karapanou, House of Angels, Aegina, Greece.

Sunday to Sunday, June 23-30, 2024

Co-facilitated by Sage Hayes and Elissavet Koutouxidou

Who is this retreat for?

We are inviting somatic, healing and psychotherapy practitioners to join, who we have relationships with in the spirit of deepening intentional and liberatory somatic practitioner community.   With the intention of renewal, community, healing and collaboration we cordially invite you to join us and a special group of healing practitioners

THE RETREAT INVITATION

Our intentions for this retreat is restorative/rest practice, community-building and enjoying the beauty of Aegina.  

Our values are spaciousness, community connection, intuitive body based care and shared nourishment with the sea, mediterranean cuisine, the island and each other.  

The only somewhat required daily activity will be a Check-in Circle.  All other activities are optional.  We want you to be able to find your flow during each day.

There will be daily movement classes offered including choices like Tai Qi and Qi Gong, Yoga, Dance, Authentic Movement and more.  

There will be ample space to offer your own classes to our group, if you feel inspired.  Elisavet and Sage will be offering Constellations, Archetypal Exploration, enthusiasm and support for you work in the world, and Ritual/Shamanic work, depending on interest.  

We will set up spaces during the week for creative work and to share with each other about your visions and work in the world. House of Angels and its Garden is a wonderful setting for Journaling, Writing, Self Reflection, Nourishment and Connection with Nature, Ourselves and with the other fellow healer-Companions. 

Local sacred sites you will have the option to visit are Aphaia’s Temple, Apollo’s Temple, Eleonas - an ancient olive tree grove, Aegina Port.

Co-Facilitators

Sage and Elissavet are the co-facilitators of this retreat, along with local island host Anita Pataga who lives on Aegina and is a somatics and energy healing practitioner.  Sage, Elissavet and Anita met right before the beginning of the pandemic at module 1 of the first Somatic Experiencing cohort in Athens, Greece.  On a visit to Aegina In June of 2022 Anita brought Elisavet and Sage to Oikia Karapanou and we planted the first seeds for this retreat.  Since then they have deepened their friendship and collegial relationship and have discovered a shared vision to create generative space and restful space in Greece for practitioners from around the world.  

Dates / Time

This retreat begins Sunday afternoon June 23, 2024 and ends at noon on Sunday, June 30th, 2024. It is a total of 7 days/nights. You are welcome to arrive anytime after 3pm / 15:00 on June 23rd.  We will have our first dinner together that evening.  Check out time on the 30th will be 12.00.  

LOGISTICS

SPACE:  Oikia Karapanou

• An hour by ferry from Athens (Piraeus port)

• Oikia Karapanou is a beautiful mansion from the 19th century, surrounded by a huge garden close to the sea. It has been restored to provide an atmosphere of peace and inspiration, an oasis on the soul's journeys. 

• Oikia hosts and organizes workshops, retreats, trainings, art residencies and all kinds of events aiming at a happier, more conscious life on Earth.

• There are 10 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, a living room, a kitchen, numerous terrasses and balconies and of course the spacious and magical garden.

• Lodging options:  6 shared double rooms, 2 singles.  

• We have space for 14-16 participants to stay at Oikia 

• There is no air conditioning at Oikia Karapanou.  During our dates the average temperature is 79 degrees.  We recognize that for some bodies this may be too warm and wanted to let you know.

• Roommates can be figured out with care.  We will have at least 2 group gatherings via zoom for folks to get a sense of each other.  We will also collect specific roommate preferences (ie. snoring, up early, up late etc. / sleep needs on the google doc we will ask you to fill out after paying the deposit. 

MEALS:

Per Oikia’s website:  Meals at Oikia are heartwarming experiences – tasty, festive and nutritionally balanced. Our cooks only use fresh products, on season and as much as possible organic. They will be at your disposal to adapt the menus to your needs. The food is based on vegetables, pulses, grain and dairy products – basically semi-vegetarian, with poultry and fish on offer every two to three meals if you like.  

When you fill out your retreat info sheet we will ask you about food allergies, sensitivities and needs.  

RETREAT COST

We are interested in this retreat being as accessible as possible while balancing our expenses.   We have set up a pricing tier and ask that you consider what level you can afford while staying in alignment with your budget.  In addition, we know flights/travel are additionally pricey and we imagine that some of you might be able to reach out to your communities to ask for financial support to support this journey.  

Your retreat cost covers:

• 7 days/nights of lodging

• Two meals a day + snacks

• Transportation to/from Aegina Port to Oikia Karouponou

• Offsite trips 

• Activities during our retreat

Cost tiers:  

• Tier 1:  1000 euros (4 spots available)

• Tier 2: 1250 euros (4 spots available)

• Tier 3: 1500 euros (4 spots available)

• Tier 4: 1750 euros (4 spots available)

For currency translation, go here. 

To book your spot, we ask for a 200 euro deposit.  On the deposit payment link we will ask you to indicate what payment tier you are choosing.   Balance in full is due by May 11th which is 6 weeks before the beginning of the retreat.  You can indicate in your deposit if you’d like us to send you an invoice for balance in full or split up into four payments.  

PAY DEPOSIT HERE.  

If you need help deciding what tier to choose, here are two resources which can help you decipher your payment level:

• The Sliding Scale: A Tool of Economic Justice, Alexix Cunningfolk

• Sliding Scale guidance from www.ridefreefearlessmoney.com

“The sliding scale represents the idea that financial resources, including income, are not and should not be the only determining factor in whether or not someone can access services/care/etc.

Please be mindful that if you purchase a price at the lowest end of the scale when you can truthfully afford the higher ticket prices, you are limiting access to those who truly need the gift of financial flexibility. Being honest with yourself and your financial situation when engaging with sliding scale practices grows strong and sustainable communities. It also respects the work of teachers and creators.”

 TRAVEL OVERVIEW

We’re more than happy to offer some travel planning support.  We will set up a closed event facebook page so that our group can coordinate travel together if that is your preference.

Arrival in Athens:

There is no airport in Aegina. The closest one is Athens International Airport "Eleftherios Venizelos", which receives both domestic and international flights all year round. Upon your arrival at the airport of Athens, you need to reach Piraeus port and embark on the ferry that transfers you to Aegina.  The ferry trip is between 45 minutes - 1 hr and 15 minutes.

Participants coming from other countries will fly into Athens International airport. If helpful, we can help you coordinate your travel from the airport to Piraeus port.  You can travel quite reasonably by train or shuttle bus from the airport to the port where you’ll catch the ferry.  Taxi from airport to the ferry is another option but more expensive.  Check out here for more Athens travel info. 

Flights to Athens:

We recommend using a fare watcher with your dates and cities.  Google flights and hopper are great options.  

Ferry to Aegina from Piraeus.  

Check out ferry schedules here: https://www.ferryhopper.com/en/. 

We will pick you up at the port in Aegina and provide transportation to Oikia which is a short 7 minute drive.  We will also provide transportation back to Aegina port on departure day.

The Space

Four week somatic SE mentoring circle with Sage Hayes.

These groups are intended to support SE students at all levels deepen their somatic practice while in a collaborative learning circle. Your wisdom is welcome. We will cover cases, questions/themes and do some somatic practice.

Each week begins with a guided somatic arriving which is followed by building our agenda together. For the first week we will spend time getting to know each other with introductions. All knowledge + skill levels are welcome.

Details:

• Mondays, August 21, 28, Sept 4 & 11th. Our first meeting on Aug 21 will be 3 hours, 12pm-3pm EST, the rest will be 2 hours.

• Fee is $275, payment plan available.

Eligible for 3 credits towards Somatic Experiencing certification. During the 4 weeks you may miss one week and still receive credit as long as you watch the recording which is sent out every week.

Registration: Link for August 21 start date

Deepening somatic practice workshop in Aotearoa | New Zealand

This workshop is offered for somatic experiencing students and practitioners in New Zealand

July 21, 2023, Friday 10-6pm

July 22, 2023 Saturday 9:30am-12:30pm

July 23, 2023, Sunday 10-4pm

Friday

Essential map to begin somatic sessions

• Grounding, presence and nervous system assessment

• Deepening our trust in the client’s system

• Somatic intention setting with our clients

Energetic and nervous system hygiene 

• Embodied accompaniment - joining versus merging

• The impact of client’s activation on our system

• Practices and rituals for clearing

Creative & somatic mimicking- what’s ready to happen in the clients system?

Offering a felt sense, experiential and incremental opportunities to support growth

Saturday 

Somatic Experiencing Case Consultation with Sage Hayes 

Sunday

• Social trauma and somatics introduction - strategies of survival and the somatic costs.  Ongoing and chronic threat and fight, flight, freeze and appease.

• Identity and belonging

• Exploring and making visible social trauma,historical / environmental context

• Doing our work when we are practitioners in the dominant group

• Holding ourselves when we are in the non-dominant group

Tools for working with social trauma and somatics    

• Affirmation and accompaniment

• Cultivating and tracking dynamic consent between us and clients

• Presencing solidarity

Join Sage with practitioners Chris Lawrence and Anna Wilson for a restorative retreat at a beautiful retreat center in Missouri, June 8-11.

For more info: bit.ly/intothewoodsretreats