Workshops

Workshops (Workshops are typically 75-120 minutes, can be held virtual or in-person, and include a blend of knowledge sharing and embodied learning with practices such as gentle movement, journaling and breath work). All workshops can be tailored to your organization’s needs.

Managing Anxiety

Anxiety is the most common mental health condition in the United States, with over 40% of adults and over a quarter of young adults reporting feeling more anxious than ever before. In this workshop, we will explore what anxiety actually is (and how it differs from feeling stressed or overwhelmed), how it feels in and impacts the body, and its consequences, seen and unseen, in our daily lives. We will explore techniques to understand the root causes of anxiety and effective practices to help us manage our personal and collective anxiety.

Understanding Trauma and its Impacts on the Body

Trauma–both physical and emotional, acute and chronic–can have devastating effects on our health and wellbeing. In this workshop, we will increase our understanding of different types of traumas and their symptoms and explore strategies to tend to our trauma, support someone who has experienced trauma, and how to create a trauma-sensitive environment.

Holding Our Anger

Anger is often viewed as undesirable, something that needs to be stifled or ignored. Depending on our intersection of identities, our anger can be perceived as unattractive, threatening, and dangerous. Very rarely are we taught or encouraged to look deeply at our anger, to hold it and understand it, to be in a relationship with it. During this workshop, we will do just that, connect with the energy of our anger and explore what’s underneath, how it impacts us and how we can take care of it. This workshop is not about overcoming but rather understanding and befriending our anger.

Resourcing Ourselves

We are living at a time of unprecedented exposure and experience to suffering, violence and loss near and far. In addition to anger, frustration and grief, we may find ourselves feeling inadequate, insufficient, depleted. This workshop is designed to resource ourselves with universal elements (earth, water, fire, air, space), memories/lineage, and our dreams so that we can replenish ourselves, cultivate clarity, and respond with full awareness.

Cultivating Rest

In today’s world, we often prioritize and value work and effort over rest and ease due to which many of us experience difficulties with digestion, weaker immune systems, and sleep. During this workshop, we will reflect on the impact of stress and insufficient rest on our nervous system, immune system, and overall physical, emotional and spiritual health. We will explore what it means to cultivate rest while remaining awake, engaged and present.

Meeting Our Imposter Syndrome

Imposter syndrome–what is it, how does it feel in our bodies, what in our pasts has led to feelings of inadequacy and insufficiency? These questions (and more) are what we will sit with during this workshop. The invitation will be to hold ourselves gently so we can investigate what or who is behind emotions that make us feel anything less than whole and worthy.