SPECIAL EVENT

All levels welcome, no prior experience is necessary.

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A Somatic Solstice Workshop for Nervous System Healing & Embodied Return

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At the turning point of the sun’s cycle, we gather to meet the turning point in ourselves.
This is not a performance.
It’s a return.

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This seasonal workshop invites you into a deeper relationship with “the soft animal of your body”—the mammalian intelligence within you that longs for safety, connection, and rhythmic movement.

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Through guided somatic practices, rest, breath, and somatic shaking, we will:

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• Explore the autonomic nervous system and its felt expressions

• Practice shaking and undulating to discharge tension and restore flow

• Reclaim neuroception—your body’s ability to detect safety

• Honour the seasonal transition with ritual and reflection

• Feel into the softening of your primitive heart—the part of you that longs to connect, to rest, to belong​

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Here’s Why the Soft Animal of Your body is Important:

The soft animal of your body relies on neuroception—your nervous system’s unconscious ability to detect safety or danger.
It happens automatically, below the level of thought—guiding how your body responds, before your mind even catches up.

 

Beneath the complexity of your thoughts, self-judgements, and reasoning lives a very alive and vibrant soft mammal that simply wants to feel safe.

Just like a deer in the woods, your mammal body is always scanning—Can I rest? Is there danger?

If it senses safety, it can:

• Rest

• Digest

• Play

• Experience pleasure

If it senses threat, it wants to respond—not to stay stuck, but to return to regulation and connection as soon as possible.

And that’s what this workshop is about—giving your system the tools to come home.

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Why Shaking Works

Somatic shaking—also called therapeutic tremoring—is instinctive, natural, and powerful.
Just like animals shake off adrenaline after a threat, you can too.

It helps to:

• Release held tension and stress

• Burn off adrenaline and cortisol

• Shift from survival mode to restoration

• Reclaim your sense of aliveness

• Activate the parasympathetic nervous system (your “calm and connect” response)

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This workshop provides a supportive space to heal, transform, and expand your capacity for resilience and connection. Whether you’re seeking to deepen your practice or explore the intersection of somatics and felt sense, this experience offers tools and insights to align more deeply with your authentic self.​​​​

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What to Expect:

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We will journey into a day of experiential embodiment.:

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Somatic Practices: As we journey through the somatic language of the body,  embodying their unique qualities, and frequencies we simultaneously create a somatic toolbox.   Using inquiry, meditation, asana, and movement we will learn where our resistances lie and where there are possibilities for expansion, magnetism, spaciousness, and lightness.  We will expand fluency, adaptability, and flexibility as we move through physicalisations and bring harmony into our individual systems, building on the fundamental consciousness of our expanding collective

Breathwork. Reclaim the pleasure of breathing. Breathing is central to being at ease in relationship with our bodies, our Selves, and the world around us.  Learn  simple, practical, and relevant tools that engage the transformative nature of breathing while exploring fluid movement. 

Learn about the nervous system’s survival states.  We will use practical somatic movement methods, emphasising being gentle with ourselves when we move through, fight, flight, freeze, fawn. 

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From releasing limiting self-perceptions, hidden beliefs and sabotaging mechanisms, we will recreate who we are. Open up to be more loving, intimate and joyful with ourselves and others by using powerful tools to reprogram the subconscious mind, remove self-sabotaging programs, and fortify our integrity, self-esteem and self-love.. We will move from not just surviving but THRIVING.

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Using breath work, somatic release work, poly vagal theory, kriyas, mantra and movement we will embody ritual to transform our deeply held limiting beliefs and  frustration into passion and fuel for change, wisdom, and deep compassion for healing.

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We will be embarking on a journey filled with breath, song, ceremony and sound to remember where we came from and why we are here today.