Sara Vatore-Spaces for Healing, Integration and Expansion

11/21/2025

In every cycle of growth (in business, creativity, or life) there’s a point where energy shifts.

After a launch, a big project, a full client week, or even an emotional breakthrough, your system naturally contracts.

This is the body’s way of integrating. A recalibration.
A moment to absorb what’s changed.

However, if we ignore the impulse to contract and push past our limits and boundaries, our system moves into collapse.

👉🏼Getting sick after working 2 weeks without a day off.

👉🏼Throwing your back out, after not listening to the clear signal that you couldn’t bring up one more load of laundry.

👉🏼A migraine that hits the moment you stop moving.

👉🏼Forgetting things, losing track of time, or spacing out because your system can’t take in one more thing

Contraction feels like:

🌀Fatigue or the need to slow down
🌀Emotional release or tenderness
🌀A desire for space, rest, or reflection

Collapse feels like:

⚡️Burnout, illness, or injury
⚡️Disconnection or shutdown
⚡️Emotional overwhelm and loss of choice

When you listen early and honor contraction, you protect your body from collapse.

This time of year, it’s easy to override your own cycles, to push through for “one more event,” “one more sale,” or “one more deadline.”

What if success didn’t come from doing more, but from recovering well?

Before you add another thing to your plate, pause.

Ask your body: Am I in expansion, contraction, or collapse?

What would support me most right now?

Each state requires something different.

🌬 Expansion asks for expression and output.
💧 Contraction asks for quiet integration.
🔥 Collapse asks for repair, tenderness, and deep restoration.

This inquiry is one of the foundations of the 1-1 customized Spacious Weekend Retreats — learning to listen to your body’s cues before it has to shout.

At these retreats, we practice the art of expansion without burnout. We rebuild nervous-system capacity through rest, movement, and reconnection with the body’s wisdom.

Come restore your rhythm.

Learn more about The Spacious CEO Retreat or Spacious Somatic Healing Retreat with the links in the comments. Now booking for 2026. I also have one open weekend in December 2025 that belongs to someone 😉. If you feel the call, send me a DM and let’s connect.

XO Sara 💙🌀

11/19/2025

I can’t believe it’s already been one full year since I officially retired my husband. 👏🏼🎉🙌🏼💥💫🤩

This milestone still gives me chills to write, because it represents so much more than a career shift. This has been the embodiment of years of visioning, working, and expanding into the life we dreamed of together.

For those of you who’ve been following along, you know this was a long-term goal.

Years of holding the dream, nurturing it, and slowly building toward it.

At the start of COVID, we planted the first seed. Jeff went down to four days at work instead of five.

Then, we slowly kept moving the needle, mostly because Jeff needed things to be in his own rhythm. 🤪

Last November, we took the leap: Jeff officially stopped working outside the home and fully stepped into homeschooling, cooking, cleaning, and holding down the fort so I could keep expanding my businesses and so we could test whether we could truly make it work.

And we did.

Actually… we are thriving! Financially, yes, but even more importantly, energetically and relationally.

Now, one year later, I can say with full-body gratitude that it was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made.

My businesses are thriving, beyond anything I imagined.

We’re making incredible money without burnout.

Our days are more aligned, our home feels grounded, and Jeff being here full time has completely transformed the energy of our family.

He homeschools, cooks, handles the day-to-day, and holds our home with such care — while I get to lead, create, and serve from a place of deep nourishment and support.

This past year has shown me what’s possible when you honor timing, capacity and stay devoted to the long game: to the small steps, the quiet faith, and the nervous-system-supported growth that builds the foundation for sustainable expansion.

If you’re holding a dream like this, please hear me:

It’s possible. 🔥

It might not happen overnight, but every small shift you make, every seed you plant and tend, moves you closer.

One year later, I’m standing in a life that once felt like a wild dream.

It feels spacious, aligned, and alive…and it’s only the beginning!

If you’re ready to grow your capacity to hold your own expansion (without collapse) I’d love to support you.

Through Somatic Coaching, Somatic Healing, or my Spacious Retreats, we can build the inner foundation that lets your dreams take root and thrive.

Here’s to expansion with ease, sustainability, and soul.

Here’s to what’s possible when you trust your timing.

XO Sara 💙🌀

11/17/2025

November and December can often feel really conflicting.

There is so much external noise and business with the variety of holidays swirling, but seasonally and cyclically November is asking us to slow down and move more towards inward reflection and care.

These two competing energies can feel really unsettling to hold within our bodies at the same time.

This tends to be a time when I double down on prioritizing space for myself and my body’s needs. Noticing the impulse to “get things done” and then interrupting that old pattern. The more I feel like I can’t create the space, the more I know I need it 😉.

🌀I slow down and get very intentional to sense my self.

🌀I slow down and get very intentional for my health and well being.

🌀 slow down and get very intentional in service to fuel my energy and patience.

Because of this, it feels so important to me to create these kinds of spaces for you to drop back in and sense your self.

If you are driveable to the pioneer valley, I invite you to sign up for a hands-on Somatic Integration Session

These sessions are designed for you to tap into the innate wisdom of your body and energy system.

This is about supporting the body to slow down at the nervous system level, be with what is showing up and allow your system to move and integrate the energy.

I’m booking into December and January at Embodied Chiropractic in Hadley.

OR, if you live a distance away, I invite you to sign up for a Recalibrate virtual somatic healing session.

Click the link in the comments to learn more about these two types of sessions, or reach out in a DM with any questions.

And, if you’re looking to commit fully to your space, your self and go deep, I invite you to check out a customized 1-1 Spacious Weekend Somatic Healing Retreat. If you’re feeling the call, send me a DM and let’s start a conversation. I have one open weekend in December and then am reserving weekends into 2026.

XO Sara 💙🌀

11/14/2025

This season, give yourself permission to slow your decision making.

When a request or opportunity arises, notice your instinct or urgency to respond right away.

Can you take a breath here and pause instead? Feel the question in your body before your mind rushes to answer.

Does your system expand or contract?

Do you feel warmth, openness, curiosity? Or tension, fatigue, resistance?

Those sensations are your compass.

One of my favorite responses to ANYTHING requested of me in November and December is “Oh, thank you so much for asking. Let me check my schedule and my capacity and I will get back to you with an answer”

“Let me get back to you” creates a sacred pause. This gets to be a breath of sovereignty for yourself between the stimulus and your response. Within that pause, your truth has room to emerge.

This practice changed everything for me, especially in November and December.

Actually checking in with yourself before committing, prevents depletion, honors your capacity, and keeps your nervous system in alignment with your choices. It helps you act from integrity instead of urgency, and engage an intentional discernment process instead of reacting from habit.

This weekend can you allow a moment to listen for the deeper yes that is meant for you?

If you desire a way back to reconnecting with your authentic yes and no or are wanting to develop stronger boundaries without guilt, reach out. Somatic Coaching may be a good next step on your journey. I have 1 spot open as we move into December. Let’s talk and see if working together would be a good fit.

XO Sara 💙🌀

11/11/2025

🌟New Episode Available! 🌟

𝙀𝙥𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙙𝙚 71: 𝘿𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣

In this solo transmission of Multidimensional Transmissions, we explore November’s energetic invitation: Bubble Up, which is a call to honor the protection of our energy, time, and truth.

As the year begins to wind down, we find ourselves in a paradoxical season. The outer world quickens with holidays, obligations, and expectations, while our inner world longs for slowing down, nourishment, and restoration. This tension can easily scatter our energy and pull us away from what’s sacred and essential.

This month’s transmission is an invitation to tend to your own energy field. To fortify your boundaries, clear your space, and remember that protection is about connecting with our truth and creating pauses for discernment. When we become intentional about what we allow into our field, we reclaim our clarity, sense of self and connection to the divine pulse moving through us.

Tune in to explore how you can prioritize protecting your inner and outer worlds, nourish your nervous system, and find the support you need to hold yourself in your own alignment, vitality, and truth as we navigate this often-overwhelming season.

In this conversation, we explore:

🌟The core medicine of Bubble Up and its multidimensional aspects of energetic protection

🌟How to navigate the paradox between external acceleration and the body’s call for rest

🌟The subtle ways we disperse energy by giving, absorbing, or doing too much

🌟What it means to set boundaries not just with others, but within ourselves

🌟The invitation to shore up your energy and be intentional about where your focus and attention are going

🌟The practice of creating an energetic bubble — a sacred container for clarity and sovereignty

🌟Building awareness about the ways our energy can leak

🌟Calling in unseen support — your guides, ancestors, and benevolent allies — to fortify your field

This conversation is a reminder that your body, energy, and truth are sacred territory. Slowing down, pausing before you commit, and tending to your own rhythm are acts of reclamation.

May this episode help you reestablish your energetic boundaries, honor your natural timing, and remember that you are both protected and supported as you move through the changing season.

Listen now on your favorite podcast platform or with the link in the comments

XO Sara 💙🌀

11/07/2025

As we move into the last two months of the calendar year, many of us are feeling the pull to do more.

More commitments. More giving. More socializing. More output in our businesses before year’s end.

And yet, the natural world is doing the opposite.

It’s contracting. Pulling energy inward, conserving, and resting.

Our body is wired for that same rhythm. Every expansion in our life and work is meant to be followed by contraction– a natural ebb that allows integration, digestion, and renewal.

The trouble is that most of us override this cycle.

When we feel fatigue, the need to rest, the desire for quiet or space we interpret this as wrong.

Contraction however, is an essential part of the cycle.

When you honor your contractions, your body breathes more easily.

When you fight it, you start to spiral toward collapse.

Contraction says: pause, exhale, come home.
Collapse says: you’ve gone too far for too long.

This season, pay attention to where you’re stretching beyond your capacity.

Notice what the early warning signs are a signal you’re moving towards collapse and make space for the pendulum to swing back.

Let quieter moments restore your nervous system and refuel your expansion.

Your business, your family, and your body will all benefit from the wisdom of that rhythm.

If you’ve been craving deep space to reset and restore your system or know that it’s a type of experience that will support you through Winter, I invite you to explore my Spacious 1-1 weekend Retreats.

Come home to your rhythm. Learn more about The Spacious CEO Retreat (for leaders & entrepreneurs) and Spacious: The Somatic Healing Retreat (for humans needing deep rest) with the links in the comments.

I have one weekend available in December 2025, and I’m booking into 2026.

XO Sara 💙🌀

11/05/2025

Ooooh only a few days left, friends! The Natural Living Expo is coming up this weekend and I would love to see you!

Join us on Saturday November 8th and Sunday November 9th at the Best Western Royal Plaza Trade Center & Hotel in Marlborough MA. This is a really fun expo to attend if you are interested in all things health and healing. There are 200 vendors to check out and shop with 70 free workshops and great food!

Stop by my booth ( #9) and say hello (located across from the food!)! You can purchase tickets online on the website or at the door. I am speaking about the medicine of embodied awe on Sunday at 10:30am in Salon C, I would love you to join me!

Grab your tickets with the link in the comments .

XO Sara 💙🌀

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11/03/2025

Each month in 2025, I’ve pulled a card to offer a soul-centered invitation—a way for us to root deeper into our bodies, our inner knowing, and our connection to the divine within and around us.

What can we prioritize and focus on to access and amplify our vibrancy and our radiance, so that our divinity may shine through in all that we do and BE?

𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝙉𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙨: 𝘽𝙪𝙗𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙐𝙥.

This month’s invitation feels like a gentle, yet powerful call to tend to the sacredness of our own essence.

It is asking us to reflect on how we prioritize our own protection of self: our energy, time, capacity, body, thoughts, space etc.

I love this reminder and orientation as we move towards the holiday season. It is a time when life begins to swell with activity. There are more invitations, expectations, family dynamics, emotional tides. It is so easy to lose ourselves (our needs, our boundaries, our sense of center) to the noise of what everyone else wants or needs from us (or what we 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 they need from us 😬).

And yet at the same time, November also carries the whisper of the dark season. This is the beginning pull toward stillness, introspection, and rest that Winter begins to offer. The paradox is palpable: the outer world accelerates, while our inner world longs to slow down.

Caught between those two currents, we can easily disperse our energy. We give more than we have. We agree when we mean no. We absorb emotions that aren’t ours. We forget to pause and check in with ourselves.

Bubble Up arrives as medicine for this moment. It is a reminder that your energy, your truth, and your vitality are precious, and they are worthy of being protected (especially if we want to make it through the season intact!).

This month is asking us to do a couple of things.

First to intentionally create energetic protection around yourself: your bubble. This is your sacred container.

Within it, you get to decide what enters your field and what stays outside. You have the power to decide what you allow into your space: energetically, emotionally and physically.

From within this bubble, you can meet the world with openness, clarity and discernment, without merging or unconsciously absorbing into the chaos around you.

Your body and energy are sacred territory. Slowing down to become intentional about what you’re letting in (and what you’re not) will help your system feel steadier, clearer and more resourced.

The second invitation is to bring that same awareness to your boundaries in daily life, with others and within yourself.

Consider what helps create the most generative environment for your wellbeing. What conversations feel nourishing? Which deplete you? What topics or dynamics feel misaligned?

This card reminds us that boundaries are pathways to presence. They help you stay connected to yourself so you can meet others from integrity and not depletion.

So often we look to other people for a sense of protection. We may orient towards partners, family, or friends. This card invites a deeper initiation: to become our own guardian. To treasure our value and to hold space for the divine as it lives and breathes through us.

How are you honoring yourself?

If you are needing support with this, call on the unseen: your guides, ancestors, and the benevolent energies that walk beside you. Ask them to fortify your field and to help you hold your bubble strong and clear. Let them remind you that you are cherished, resourced, and surrounded by love.

Protection is both energetic and relational. The seen and unseen work together to help you stay aligned.

When I feel into this card, it is also asking us to practice a pause this month.

Make sure you slow down before committing. When a request, invitation, or opportunity arises, take a breath. Let your body feel the question before your mind answers it. Try saying, “Let me get back to you” as a default response and take the time you need to assess if you have capacity.

This simple pause can be revolutionary. It creates space for your truth to surface and space to discern whether this yes aligns with your energy, your needs, and your current capacity.

When we practice the pause, we shift from reacting to responding. We honor our internal timing instead of being swept by external momentum, especially when we feel like people need something from us.

For November, I invite us all to inhabit our own sacred bubble of sovereignty, to honor our yes and our no, and to remember that saying no is sometimes the most honest and loving act we can offer to ourselves and to others.

This is how we stay full instead of depleted.

It is also how we align with the natural rhythm of the season: resting, gathering energy, preparing for the next cycle of emergence.

May November be a month where you tend to your own light.

Where you remember you are both protected and supported.

Where you honor your pace, your truth, and your capacity.

XO Sara 💙🌀

10/31/2025

In a world that feels divided, chaotic, and overwhelming, orienting to awe can be medicine.

When we experience awe and wonder, something inside us softens. The lines between “me” and “you” blur. We are reminded of our shared belonging, our shared breath, our shared Earth.

Research shows awe increases generosity and kindness. It widens our perspective, making space for humility instead of judgment, and compassion instead of division.

When I feel/experience awe, my body settles. I remember that I don’t need to have all the answers, that life is holding me in ways I can’t fully see. From that place, I can connect more authentically with others without reactivity.

The world needs us to remember our interconnectedness. Awe is one of the most powerful ways we can recalibrate together.

As I continue to orient towards awe and wonder this month, especially as the season shifts, the veils thin, and we move into more darkness, I find amazement in what’s here, which evokes a healing balm of gratitude

What fills you with awe and wonder? A sunset, a stranger’s kindness, a synchronicity? Notice what catches your attention and let it ripple outward in generosity, connection, and care. When awe moves through us it impacts all those around us.

XO Sara 🌀🙏🏼

10/29/2025

So many clients have been navigating similar themes the last few weeks. There is a lot going on and it is feeling pretty overwhelming and chaotic these days.

When this kind of energy swirls, it often takes us up and out of our bodies. Into our heads or into some form of checking out/dissociation, and/or autopilot.

One of the practices that I love being in is rooting my energy deep and wide.

When there is chaos, or I’m in the face of a trigger or a big emotion, rooting my energy down into the ground and widening the awareness out, helps bring me back into my body and invites in stability.

Trees are beautiful mirrors for us. They root down deep and wide, and at the same time are flexible, adaptable and have mobility in their trunk and branches.

The more we have containment and stability in our body/system, the easier it is to find our flow and flexibility within that foundation.

Start to notice the trees in your environment. Look up pictures of redwoods. Look up images of trees and roots. Pay attention to the trees in your yard and in your neighborhood.

This gets to be a resource for you.

🌲To work with rooting deep and wide throughout your day or in a challenging moment:

🌲Pause what you’re doing and bring yourself to a standing position.

🌲Notice and sense your feet on the ground.

🌲Bring awareness to your breath.

🌲Notice how you can send your exhale down your whole body, into your feet.

🌲Take a few breaths intentionally following the breath down, down, down.

🌲See if you can send the breath beyond your feet, into the Earth.

🌲Start to sense the energy widening beneath you.

🌲Sense into the stability of your base (feet on the ground, legs and hips).

🌲From this rooted place, can you notice how your upper torso can move and sway, in a supported way?

🌲Stay here for a minute or two and allow yourself to feel the grounding.

If you are looking for some support to navigate the unfolding, I invite you to reach out. I have 1 spot open to step into a 1-1 Somatic Coaching container together. This space is for shifting patterns and behaviors that are no longer serving, for change that lasts.

Send me a DM and let’s connect.

XO Sara 💙🌀