Mindful Somatic Wellness

11/08/2025

What a world that could be 🌿🤍

11/06/2025

Sitting with Feeling — Trauma-Informed Meditation & Mindfulness
Sunday, Nov 30 · 1–3pm MT · In-person (Calgary) or on Zoom

When emotion rises, we often manage, minimize, or muscle through. In this gentle class, we treat emotion as a messenger—energy born from sensation that points to a need. We’ll slow down, listen in, and meet what’s here with kindness.

Through simple gestures, soft sound, and small, mindful movements, your body learns, “this is feel-able.” Everything is invitational: close your eyes, rest, or keep your camera off.

Why this helps
• When your body feels safe to feel, the message beneath the feeling gets clear—so you can respond, not react.
• Sensing > naming > meeting the need reduces the pressure that builds when emotions are ignored.
• You’ll leave with a repeatable micro-practice: meet emotion through sensation, name it simply, and choose next steps that honour your nervous system.

Details
• Duration: 2 hours
• Format: In-person at Mindful Somatic Wellness (Calgary) or Online (Zoom)
• Date/Time: Sun, Nov 30, 1–3pm (MT)
• An ideal starting point for beginners and longtime meditators alike.
• Part of a four-part series in Therapeutic Contemplation—body-centered mindfulness that honours physiology, emotion, and lived experience. Attend one or all; each session stands alone and builds cumulatively.
• Trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, and inclusive of diverse identities, nervous system patterns, and body stories.
• A foundational step toward the Mindful Somatic Meditation & Therapeutic Contemplation Teacher Training (2026).

Sliding Scale — Choose your rate
🌱 Supporter: $65 (helps fund reduced & karma spots)
💛 Standard: $50 (sustains the work)
🫶 Reduced: $35 (no questions asked)
✨ Free/Karma spots available—access matters.

11/05/2025

Build it. Offer it. Share it — with care.
Somatic Skills Lab #2: Build | Offer | Share
Dec 6-7, 10:00 AM-6:00 PM (Calgary, in person)

Turn what you know—and what you love—into a trauma-informed, results-ready group experience. In two immersive days you’ll design a repeatable workshop, craft a clear and honest offer, and practice consent-led facilitation with options, pacing, and repair. You’ll leave with a launch-ready plan you can run this month.

Real talk: things will wobble in groups. Learn what can go wrong—and what to do. Trust me, I know. Use my years of facilitation to build your dream offering with clear scripts and repair maps you can use right away.

What you’ll learn:
• Backward design (outcomes > evidence > activities)
• Trauma-informed in action: safety, titration, boundaries, repair
• Cueing that lands (clear, invitational, inclusive)
• Mindfulness that supports insight (no bypass)
• Regulation: down- and up-shift options woven into flow
• Pacing & presence: timing, arcs, rests
• When things go wrong (and right): practical troubleshooting
• Crafting an honest offer (title, promise, pricing band, policies)

You’ll leave with:
• A repeatable run-sheet + props/access notes
• A personal consent & safety script (hands-on/hands-off options)
• Copy-ready event description + short email/social blurb
• One micro-taught practice refined with coached feedback
• A 7-day launch checklist (publish, promote, deliver, debrief)
• A brief impact/feedback template to keep learning from your people

Tuition (plus GST):
Standard $350
Supporter $425 (helps fund reduced/karma spots)
Reduced $300 (limited income—no questions asked)
Free/Karma spaces available—message me if this calls to you but finances are a barrier.

Very limited spots—save yours now.
Link in bio or DM “LAB” for the registration link and payment plan options.

11/05/2025

PHASE 2: Advanced Embodied Trauma Skills for Caring Professionals

Move beyond the fundamentals. Build a personal + professional toolkit to help a dysregulated nervous system reorganize—safely, gently, and effectively. We’ll deepen nervous-system literacy, apply polyvagal tools, and craft movement + mindfulness protocols from a trauma-informed lens.

What you’ll practice
• Advanced nervous-system mapping + applied polyvagal strategies
• Grounding, centering, and in-the-moment regulation skills
• Somatic Dialogue skills: attuned, consent-based verbal co-regulation and titrated inquiry
• Emotional embodiment: feel → understand → guide
• Trauma-informed movement & mindfulness protocols for you and your clients
• Resilience through options, pacing, boundaries, and consent

Who: Graduates of Intro + Phase 1
When: Nov 14–16 and Dec 12–14, 2025 (6 sessions)
Investment: $650 + GST. Hold your spot with a $200 + GST deposit (payment options available).

Spots are limited. DM “PHASE 2” for details or tap the link in bio to register.
Planning ahead? Phase 3 runs Jan 23–25 & Feb 20–22, 2026.

10/30/2025

10/01/2025

Meditation isn’t one-size-fits-all. For trauma survivors, traditional approaches can sometimes overwhelm instead of soothe.

That’s why trauma-informed somatic meditation matters. It offers guidance, safety, and practices that honor both your inner and outer experience.

Join me for Breath, Body & Boundaries—where you’ll explore:
🫁 Breath as an anchor, not a demand
🧘 Body-based containment tools
🌱 Internal boundary awareness for regulation

With a skilled guide holding space, meditation becomes a practice of belonging to yourself again.

📅 Sunday Oct 19 | 1–3pm
📍 Studio + Online
🔗 mindfulsomaticwellness.com

09/01/2025

✨ Meditation has a PR problem.
Empty your mind? Sit perfectly still? Chase bliss? 🙄 Nope.

That’s not how real nervous systems work.

I’m not here to sell you a 5-step hack to enlightenment. I’m here to show you Mindful Somatic Meditation™—a trauma-informed, body-centered practice that actually works with you (not against you).

🌿 Sometimes meditation means moving with your breath.
🌿 Sometimes it means settling into stillness.
🌿 Always—it means safety first.

If you’ve ever felt weird, anxious, or even disconnected after meditation or breathwork… it wasn’t you. It was the container.

I’m offering something different. Safer. Smarter. Somatic.

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08/26/2025

08/06/2025

“If we could think our way out of anxiety or depression, we would never be in it.” – Stacey Madden
What if these aren’t flaws to fix—but signals from your nervous system asking to be heard, felt and moved?

This 8-week online course is a nervous system reorganization practice that weaves together movement, awareness, sound, somatic parts work, written reflection, and safe community to support emotional regulation, self-understanding, and embodied presence.

✨ Mindful Somatic Wellness for Anxiety & Depression
📅 Mondays · 7–8:30pm MT · Online
🎥 Zoom + Recordings + Reflection Journal
💸 Sliding scale: $180–$320 CAD

We won’t try to override your experience. We’ll meet it—with breath, movement, and compassionate curiosity.

You’ll learn to:
💧 Shift internal states using movement and sound
💧 Reconnect with your body’s truth
💧 Cultivate emotional capacity and regulation
💧 Use writing to support integration
💧 Show up with presence—especially when things get hard

Facilitated by Stacey Madden (), Certified Somatic Educator & Trauma-Informed Practitioner.

🌱 No experience needed. Just bring your body, your breath, and your honesty.

🖥️ Link in bio to register.

08/04/2025

Mindset Without Embodiment is Just Performance

Here’s the truth no one wants to say: If we could think our way out of trauma, overwhelm, or depression none of us would never experience it! But let’s be honest: Telling the mind new stories is still just the mind talking to itself. It doesn’t reorganize a braced body. It doesn’t melt chron...