Jennifer Grace Healing Arts

16/07/2025

Sunday Reset- a somatic meditation and Reiki infused sound bath experience

Sunday, July 20th at 7pm
📍Studio She Collective
Alexandria, MN

Somatic meditation is a body-centered approach to meditation that focuses on sensing, feeling, and inhabiting the body from the inside out. Rather than trying to quiet the mind by force or detach from the body, somatic meditation invites you to both include thought and drop beneath it into direct experience—feeling your breath, noticing sensations, and allowing holding patterns to arise and unwind naturally.

The goal of somatic meditation isn’t to escape or transcend the body, but to return to it—to reconnect with your inner landscape, regulate your nervous system, restore harmony and organically metabolize residual trauma imprints.

Register here: https://JenniferGraceHealingArts.as.me/?appointmentType=80011088

04/07/2025

Soft launching classes at Studio She Collective next week! Come try out a class! 🌀🔥💪🏼🧘‍♀️💃🏻

NOW OPEN!Check Schedule for Classes! Studio She Collective is a women-only wellness space created to support the full spectrum of your being: physical, emotional, spiritual, and creative. We offer a sacred and nurturing environment where women can connect with their bodies, express themselves freely...

08/05/2025

Some exciting things are in the works over here…..

I am in the process of opening a women’s wellness studio here in Alex!!

Just so that I can offer more ways to love on you! 😆🥰

My vision for this space is:

• a collective of women owned and operated wellness businesses/services.

• a variety of daily group classes – yoga, Pilates, meditation, breathwork, dance, etc.

• weekly wellness-based workshops.

There are 3 office spaces, a gorgeous lobby/waiting area, and a large studio space for group classes/workshops.

I am looking for women owned and operated wellness businesses who currently specialize in serving women or are shifting their business model to serve women to sublease the office spaces.

Women who work within the Physical, Emotional, Mental, Spiritual, Energetic and/or Relational realms of wellness.
examples:

Women’s coaches

nutrition coach

Mindset coach

Sexuality coach

mental health provider

Counselor

Brain spotting ect.

Bodyworker/massage therapist

Natural Esthetician (in office water access available)

Physical Therapist

Energy worker

Functional Med Dr

Naturopathic Dr

Midwife/doula

occupational therapist/physical therapist

I am also looking for yoga, Pilates, dance, meditation, breathwork and other wellness-based movement instructors to lease the studio space to teach group classes and/or provide private lessons/sessions weekly or multiple times per week (at hourly or monthly lease rates depending on the number of classes/sessions per week)

I believe this community is ready for a women’s wellness collective!

I’m so excited to begin gathering together some of the brilliantly talented women of this community to offer their gifts of wellness to you
and to bring this vision to life!

If you are interested in more information, please comment or shoot me personal message.

If you know of someone who may be interested, I would be so appreciative if you could share.

I would also love to hear your thoughts, ideas, tips, encouragement, and/or questions.

It is my heart’s mission to create the conditions (time, space, place) for all aspects of women to be optimally resourced and supported.

This Mother’s Day (and everyday), it is my heart’s greatest wish that all women (not just mothers) are living their most vibrant lives with their most radiantly nourished selves calling the shots! 😉

because VITALITY is your birthright, sweet momma!

I’ll just be over here just bubbling over with all the spring vibes of birth, renewal and expansion 🌱😆

🤍 Jen

19/03/2025

The spring equinox can be an exquisite opportunity to tap into the felt sense of balance. 🌄

A moment in the wheel of the year in which there is equality of light and darkness in our environment (well in nature anyway).🌀☀️🌑

Creating the potentially ideal conditions to somatically explore the themes of harmony, equanimity and balance.⚖️☯️

I get it. Life is FULL. We don't always have the time and space to really take advantage of these potent portals.

I want to make it super easy for you to dip into your innate realms of inherent knowing and alchemy.🔮

A Spring Equinox Mystical Somatic Journey meditation experience sent directly to your inbox as a THANK YOU for being part of this sacred web of life with me.🫶🏼

Just pop on a pair of headphones and receive your own inner transmutation within the spring equinox initiation.✨

https://mailchi.mp/jennifergracehealingarts/spring-equinox-somatic-journey-sign-up

03/02/2025

Somatic is a bit of a buzz word lately… and for good reason! The world is recognizing the significance of the body-mind- Whoop whoop! 🙌🏻

But do you find yourself unsure where to start and a little confused with how to discern the misleading information from the helpful information?

Are you like me and find all the scientific jargon and neuroscience to be slightly sterile and “over-my-head”?

Like- Where’s the magic? Where’s the mystery? Where’s spirit/energy in it all? Where’s the humanity?

The truth is that somatic healing is not obtained in preboxed, sterile scientific protocols.

Rather it is about connecting to our inherent interdependence with all forms of nature’s intelligence. From our own innate inner wisdom in the forms of our instincts, impulses, physiological senses and images/visions to our connection to one another, plants, animals, spirits, guides, ancestors, energies, natural elements ect.

At the core, somatic healing is a relational process.

When we gather with the common purpose of attuning to ourselves (our nature) and nature itself, our nervous systems are able to re-regulate, repair, reorganize and regenerate effortlessly.

Honoring the organic intelligence that emerges from our shared space and tapping into collective wisdom and co-stabilization to nourish the parts of ourselves that are or have been strained, overburdened or abandoned. And completing “unfinished business” in the relational field of the soma.

Somatic Healing Circle
Sunday, February 9th at 6pm
Jennifer Grace Healing Arts Studio- Cedar Building, Alexandria MN

A communally oriented, somatic centered and nature inspired approach to healing developmental, inter-generational and societal wounding.

· Learn foundational nervous system theory and somatic skills

· Practice embodiment exercises and somatic tools

· Experience somatic rituals and meditations

All within a communal environment to create a container of ideal healing conditions.

Facilitating the effortless metabolization of old imprints and wounding.

An economical opportunity to dip your toes into the magical side of Somatics

Registration required-$30 link in comments ⬇️

Space is limited!

06/01/2025

The all-too-common lived experiences of being punished, shamed or criticized for “doing nothing” or “being lazy”……

And Emotional neglect. A young one receiving love, worth or belonging only when helping, doing, achieving or accomplishing.

For these reasons and more, when we initiate a slower pace or try to give ourselves a moment to just be, our nervous system responds with a visceral, “Danger, danger- This is not safe.”

The intention of this beautiful somatic experience is to offer your soma the opportunity to become a little more familiar with rest in order to begin the process of uncoupling the threat responses and gradually gain more capacity to ride the ebbs and flows of life and access more peace, joy, re-regulation and re-invigoration.

Wintering- A somatic experience of deep nourishment and rest

Sunday, January 12th 6-7:15pm
Alexandria, MN

· Resourcing Somatic Meditation

· Contemplative Exercises

· Somatic Deep Rest embodiment practice

· Restorative Reiki infused Sound Bath

Space is limited

Registration required- $30
Link in B1O

12/07/2024

After almost 20 years of practicing bodywork- 😲🫣 and consistently continuing my education in many areas of health and wellness (sound healing, Myofascial release, aromatherapy, reiki, etc.) over those 20 years…….

I feel like I have stumbled upon a golden key of sorts. 🗝️
Like a crucial missing piece has been set into place- unlocking a portal to our most optimal, healthy and vital selves.

One of my biggest frustrations as a bodyworker is feeling like I can only offer temporary relief.
My desire to serve is so much bigger than what I can accomplish in an hour or 90mins of manual soft tissue manipulation. (ugh that sounds so sterile and heartless 😑😕)

Seeing the same clients coming in month after month with the same tension and physical holding patterns…… pouring every ounce of my being into their session…. knowing that while yes, they will walk out of my door feeling relief, they will also return next month with the same or another variant of dis-ease, pain, or tension ….

I would think to myself,

“There’s got to be more to it, another component to why these holding patterns continually return…… there’s got to be an underlying mechanism at play here.”

Insert- Somatics! 🪄

“Massage can temporarily relax a muscle or contraction, but the “shaping” or “armoring” in a body will not shift unless the concern that contraction is taking care of (safety, love, protection, shame, terror) is worked through.
From a neuroscience perspective, the body is the easiest doorway into working with those reactions, emotions, and memories that are primarily run by the reptilian brain, and the limbic and stress centers in the brain.
This is an integral part of the somatic transformation process.”
Staci K Hanes- The Politics of Trauma

Somatics is a holistic transformation methodology. A theory of change that understands human beings as integrated mind, body, spirit and social relational beings.

I just completed an 8-month training in a specific somatic modality called Regenerative Alchemy™️ which is a nature-based, body-led, nervous system centered approach to Somatics.

The core objective of Regenerative Alchemy™️ is to connect you to your own intrinsic embodied wisdom, resilience and VITALITY.

Working through the concerns your physical holding patterns are “taking care of” by attuning to what your nervous system is communicating in the present moment, and then skillfully guiding you to follow the cues of your body, so you can begin to unwind the somatic residue (or stored trauma) that has been keeping you stuck in looped behavioral patterns and armored physical patterns.

If this sounds like something you would like to learn more about, check out the Somatic Healing Guidebook I made to answer some common questions about this work + my recommended somatic recourses list!

Comment below or shoot me a DM and I’ll send you the Somatic Healing Guidebook!

Or if you’re ready to experience this transformative work, let me know and I can add you to my waitlist for sessions beginning this fall 👍🏻

19/04/2024

UPDATE- This class is full! Please reach out to be added to the waitlist, if you missed out!

Ahhhh Spring.
Full of promise and potential. 🌱

And that urge to clear out and make space for the new…. new life… fresh starts…. new beginnings…. Creativity…. Inspiration……

But sometimes that urge is thwarted. Sometimes we can’t find the energy or momentum to act on these vital natural instincts. Sometimes our default survival strategies block us from doing the things we most desire. Sometimes inspiration and creative energy can’t get through due to our somatic holding patterns from trauma.

And what do we do? Do we beat ourselves up over it?

No!!!!!!

We go to Jen’s Somatic Healing Journey Class and process the trauma, release the holding patterns, unburden the survival strategies, and reestablish our connection to the great nervous system (aka nature.)
😆

We are not separate from nature. We are an expression of nature.

When we deeply honor and restore our connection to Mother Earth and the natural cycles we share…..we HEAL!

You may not be consciously aware of your dissociation from the great web of life, but your nervous system is aware.

We are meant to co-regulate with the rhythms of nature.

This spring themed Somatic Healing Journey is an opportunity to do just that… sync up with nature.

Regenerating your entire system by rekindling your connection to natural intelligence.

Total System Regenerate

Somatic Healing Journey

Sunday, April 21st

7-8:30pm

This will be a journey style class including:

-Nervous System Education

-Somatic Awareness Practice (felt-sense meditation)

-Somatic Opening Practice (discharging and clearing somatic practice to make space for your most soulful longings to be recognized and embodied)

-Soma led Values Identification practice

-Somatic Mobilization Practice (create the energy to mobilize towards what you most care about)

-Activating and Energizing Reiki infused Sound Bath

Space is limited.

Registration is required -$30
Link to register in the comments ⬇️

Note- these classes fill quickly! If you missed out, please reach out to be added to a waiting list!

14/03/2024

But not all energy work is somatic work! And not all bodywork is somatic work! 🤯

Here’s how I see it-

When we feel and attend to our sensations, we begin to understand that they are fueled by energy- the animating force we share with all living things.

We are energy. Nothing exists that is not energy.

We are designed to feel.
Feeling is a deep biological inheritance.

Sensations are the original language of life.

When we feel, (have somatic awareness) we experience a more amplified level of aliveness and interconnectedness.

Becoming aware of our felt sense is the foundation to cultivating somatic awareness.

Somatic awareness brings increased agency (power to choose) in our actions, reactions, thoughts, ways of being and perceiving, etc.
Increased agency gives rise to sovereignty.

Choice follows Somatic awareness.

This is the ground work for all healing!

Stay tuned for exciting new opportunities to work with me to begin or deepen your somatic healing journey.
Coming late summer/early fall 😃

24/12/2023

Happy Holidays to you and yours ❤️
Wishing you peace, joy and love from the fullness of my heart ✨