Tending Our Wild Roots

08/28/2024

I am so excited to offer honoring the menopause journey in an all day retreat, at an urban farm in Berkeley, on September 21st from 10-5. We will be exploring the transformation of menopause, this is for perimenopausal, menopausal and post menopausal women. As we move into the second half of life, taking the time to retreat and pause, listen and explore through somatic, depth and eco-therapy, this second adolescence of life. The personas and masks we have put out into the world, are rarely who we truly are, we often betray our own authentic, wild and true nature. Who are we becoming? What is our calling? We will explore through somatic therapy methods, nature therapy, art making and creative process. Tapping into our souls calling, in this rite of passage and initiation into deeper resonance and intuitive living. More details in link above or at www.tendingourwildroots.com 🌿

08/01/2024

“The heartbreak forces us to begin to learn how to court the divine, the first grand step toward becoming a whole person, a person who can turn loss into grief and grief into a song of life giving praise. This is the metabolization of grief into beauty.” Martin Prechtel

Survivorship is about life after diagnosis and treatment. Survivorship lasts from diagnosis until the rest of our lives. In this workshop series, we will dive deep each month into a different theme around issues relating to survivorship and stages of healing and recovery. These workshops are for anyone in any stage of recovery. We will explore through somatic explorations, creative process and expressive arts. Please bring art materials of your choice, for drawing or painting, as well as writing materials.

August 3
Honoring our Grief
Love is the mother of grief, in this workshop, we will explore deeper in what it is that we deeply love, and how do we honor that which we have lost? We explore our grief about the changes in which we have experienced in this journey, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and energetic. These experiences often deeply change us yet our lives that await us often expect us to be the same person we were before. What can we release and let go of and how do we create rituals to honor what we have lost?

Please join me this Saturday August 3rd, 10-12pm on zoom, for our monthly survivorship group. To sign up you must fill out intake form at Women’s Cancer Resource Center here, then sign up under wellness workshops.

https://www.wcrc.org

06/28/2024

“The overculture (dominant culture that creates social norms and punishes those who do not live by them) does not offer rituals and resources for the brokenhearted, only distractions and numbing agents….” Pixie Lighthorse

I created this offering as after my cancer treatment, the doctor told me, I would now be transitioning into what they called, Survivorship. Hearing that word, I felt excited, yet was quickly disappointed as these were just continuing doctor appointments at the cancer center that solely focused on continuation of medical treatments and bloodwork and testing. Missing this emotional and spiritual component and healing of integration that I felt a deep longing for. I wanted to offer a space for community to gather and create and heal together while exploring ways to transform and alchemize the pain and poison of our experience, into medicine.

I am excited to announce an offering for cancer survivors, Survivorship, a monthly wellness group. Survivorship begins once a diagnosis has been made, and lasts for the rest of our lives. Survivorship explores life after diagnosis and treatment. Each month we will dive deep into various themes related to life after treatment and diagnosis, related to healing and recovery. For many, receiving a cancer diagnosis changes one forever. There is often an immediate change in one’s life trajectory, one’s beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions of life, relationships, and self.

And the first of the series, Saturday, July 6, via Zoom, 10-12 PST, we will explore themes of nourishment, restoration and loving ourselves in this very moment, exactly as we are. We will explore through mindfulness, somatic explorations, creative process, expressive arts and movement. 

A diagnosis often sets off a landslide of what needs to be tended to inside of us. Can we touch in and walk with our wounding, rather than fixing, controlling or dominating the pain that we feel. Honoring our own divine timing, listening to our own heartbreak and betrayal, can we allow grief and rage to birth new levels of self to emerge.

To sign up for this workshop, you will need to first need to go to the Women’s Cancer Resource Center website and fill out their intake form.

https://www.wcrc.org

Then register for the group here, under wellness workshops.

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlc-GpqD4oH9P3fc_JxRJPjehtcvAMXsX5

03/20/2024

Let Your Wings Dry
Transformation of a Dragonfly
Excerpt from The Flowering Wand, by Sophie Strand

“Healing is disregarded and diminished in our culture. We are taught to ignore the fire alarms of our own body creating psychic and spiritual wounding. Deep wounds can’t immediately be stitched closed, they must be kept clean and open, until they turn into a scar. Healing is not rushed, healing happens from the roots. healing at the bodies pace, from the body up.”

“Deep healing cannot be rushed.”

“It is difficult and slow to become anew.”

“During the metamorphosis of a dragonfly, the transformation can be agonizingly slow, sometimes taking up to five years in this process of becoming…. After shedding, not one version of itself but many, they crawl into shallow water under the cover of darkness….”

“This emergence time is slow and transformative time. The roles we are trying to shed, and the roles we are trying to embody and move into…. giving our wings time to dry. Otherwise we will never be able to fly.”

“Honoring our griefs, tending to our losses and transforming our dreams does not happen overnight.”

This is healing from the bottom up…

Please join us for a 6 Week Online Course and Support Group, Honoring the Menopause Journey. April 1st-May 6th.

Details and Link 🦋

https://www.tendingourwildroots.com/about-4

03/12/2024

Honoring the Menopause Journey
A 6 Week Online Course Honoring the Transformative Passage of Menopause through the lens of Somatic Therapy, Hakomi and Expressive Arts.

Hakomi is a Somatic Therapy Method of guided self study and self exploration with focus on embodied somatic mindfulness, exploring deeper core beliefs and core material, which may affect our perceptions and experiences of our own reality. We explore ourselves, our conditioning and patterned responses so that we may have more insight and ability to change. The paradox in somatic work is in order to change some thing, we do not try to fix it or get rid of it, but rather, if we want to change something, we must fully get to know it.

“When I accept myself just as I am, then, I can change,” Carl Rogers

In Hakomi we explore our ability to stay with parts of ourselves that we may often deny, shun or turn away from. So that we, as a whole can become more integrated, and truly who we are.

Instead of feeling ashamed, isolated or wrong for our own experiences at this time of immense change, using this as a place to literally pause, deeply reflect and explore within community of others, where do we want to go from here? Who am I becoming? Somatic therapy methods are different than traditional therapies, as the brain changes through experience, not just through gaining insight. We can begin to explore new neural pathways as a way to explore new experiences of our self.

Link below

Our Online Course is designed to provide women with the support they need to navigate the transformative rite of passage that is menopause. Our course honors the changes, death and rebirth cycles of regenerative grief while connecting to our soul's purpose that come with this stage of life, allowing...