Emergent Nature With Sandrine Harris

06/12/2025

On Friday, July 4th, the 8th annual MEDITATION IN NATURE summer series commences!

We sit in the shade of the 300+ year old mighty oak, gazing out at the hilltops. We walk in meditation, with sensory explorations of different garden environments throughout the property. We slow down and reflect, while deepening our connection within the natural world. We appreciate this Mohican land and the life of its ecosystem.

These sessions are attended by community members from several areas of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York State, to be in a nurturing togetherness which supports wellbeing.

Fridays in July & August
4 - 5pm
Register via TheTrustees.org

*No experience is needed to join us. This is a guided community experience for adults. 🌿

06/08/2025

Hiding in plain sight.

The theme of hiding came up in some sessions today, so I spent time exploring hiding through my own body, to integrate the day of session work and my curiosity in what it means to embody hiding energy differently.

The body that hides, holds an intensity of charged / activated energy and qualities of binding and burrowing inwards, to get smaller.

In my own integration of this theme tonight, I enjoyed exploring occluding parts of myself from other parts (one hand from the other hand, face behind leg) with PLAYFULNESS.

I met the charged state of hiding (which holds particular memory in my own bodily history that is challenging): with playful embodied curiosity. The big kick (pictured here) felt liberatory because there was force and defense mobilized (kick) and hiding embedded in it (face burrowed behind leg), momentarily. It felt like clearing out space in front of me, and moving through hiding, into more strength and openness at the front of my body.

Wishing each of you who finds this post, time to be with - feel - move through what's here, in you.

💫 Everything is a messenger (thought, bodily sensation, emotion, mood), just passing through.

06/03/2025

A big, heart-centered weekend of learning with folks in EVOLVE, a 300-hour advanced Yoga Teacher Training hosted by the Breathing Room

We walked a long and winding path together, exploring somatics, trauma education and trauma-sensitive facilitation, embodiment, creativity and authentic expression within structure, and more.

16 hours of training in the depths, with more time together anew in August.

I am grateful for everyone's presence and care, and for the emergent revitalization we are in together.

05/25/2025

MARROW is a whole world of experience and a lifeline back to ourselves.

I invite you to forge conscious time and space this August, to return home to your expressive, sensory self.

We move together to restore ease. We explore the terrain of sensation and awareness. We meditate as a path of self-learning. We walk in the forest to remember our belonging within Nature. We rest into the quiet. We unlearn longheld patterns of bodily tension and rigid thoughts, to adapt back into our wildness. We cultivate joy and playfulness through our bodies. We make markings with paints, as imprints of our aliveness. We write and reflect on what is emergent from this process. We hum and sound our voices into the Earth.

We connect. We connect.

We celebrate what is outside of language, and lives in our tissues.

We unearth to remember.

We laugh. We cry. We engage in deep listening. We share and care for each other in warmth of presence. We build community.

We make space for shaping new worlds and dreaming together.

MARROW is a process that is generative and loving. Like the lush marrow of our bones, we begin again.

Join us: Sunday, August 17th evening
through
Friday, August 22nd midday

Lodging, on-site camping, and commuting are all options.

Read & Register via OMEGA

Aug 17 - 22, 2025
📍eomega.org/workshops/marrow

05/24/2025

I let myself be taken by the beauty of this moment.

Many things are painful and difficult, and this very breath and this very connection with Nature, is what I'm in.

05/22/2025

"We are always in the process of being and becoming.

We are Emergent Nature."

— Sandrine

We are a part of the natural world, with seasons, rhythms, interdependence, and connection.

All of the international trainings and retreats, private sessions, and experiences I offer are based in (*many) years of personal work, professional, longterm trainings and education, regular peer and mentor consult hours, and DEPTH. I do not offer any process or approach that I have not personally benefited from and hold embodied experience with.

Reach out if you wanna go deep. ⚓️

📸: An unstaged, self-portrait during a big day in my vegetable garden, where I grow food five (5) months of the year 🪏🫜

05/18/2025

https://mailchi.mp/sandrineharris/may2025

Death Doula training, Private Session openings, and programs ahead!

05/17/2025

Oh the worlds we move through together!

grief and death, longing and desire, sadness and deep sorrow, illness and regeneration, wounding and wounded, angry and enraged.

Loving and in love, processing and discharging, be-longing and integrating lived experience, resting and softening.

Human-ing in Connection and Embodied Presence.

Reach out if you'd like to connect:
• Somatic Experiencing: for processing and healing the impacts of trauma, stress patterns, and chronic pain
• Pain Reprocessing Therapy: for addressing chronic discomfort
• Death Doula services: for those wishing to explore death's meaning; for those nearing death; for families or caregivers supporting and grieving someone who is dying
• Guided Meditations and mindfulness process for your specific life and needs
• Feldenkrais: somatics for moving with ease
• S*x Therapy: exploring your sexuality somatically, to deepen embodied understanding of your layers of identity and expression

And if you're looking for group programs, visit: sandrineharris.com/calendar

My annual program MARROW at the OMEGA Institute 📍
eomega.org/workshops/marrow

05/17/2025

We invite you to join us this summer for the 8th annual MEDITATION IN NATURE

We gather on seven (7) Fridays in July and August at 4pm, to explore how our internal landscapes meet the beauty and wonder of the garden environments at Naumkeag

Register in Advance to join any / all of these Fridays, via the trustees.org

July 4th is our first gathering, and no experience is needed to be a part of these sweet experiences.

*rain or shine (there's shelter from light rain)

Fridays:
July 4, 11, 18, 25
August 1, 15, 29
*no sessions August 8th + 22nd

05/15/2025

F**k.

Ralph — you were a lightning bolt.

May you rest in LOVE and thank you for all you have so generously shared with us. 🖤

05/01/2025

The ethereal light and energy of Beltane, captured during tonight's forest walk with folks at Gould Farm for our weekly gathering, Finding Ground.

Mossy patches, baby ferns unfurling, birdsong, trees swaying in the breeze. And we, humans, sensing our place in the family of things.

04/25/2025

Cutting through the Density
a practice from MARROW

📸: me practicing this (and it doesn't require or need to include lifting your legs high!)

Moving through qualities of dense material (inside and outside) to sense embodied agency. Creating space around the body, by clearing / carving / shaping new room to be.

When I feel stuck or bogged down with so much muddy water in my mind-heart-body, this is one of the embodiment tools that helps. And if it's not available in my body (cuz feeling heavy, immobilized or other), I do it in my imagination, and also witness carving through space from birds, my cat, a branch moving in the wind, ocean waves shifting.

Join me this summer, at the OMEGA Institute (August 17-22) for 6 days filled with rest, embodiment process, meditation in nature, creativity and connection.