When the intention is to heal, the body shows the way

Practice weekend with Sage Hayes

A chance to build capacity for the intangibles, the intuitive, the intentional in our sessions.

It's an invitation beyond the practitioner's brain, into a wider aperture for what wants to emerge in work with clients. We'll be a multidisciplinary group of healing practitioners who want to expand collaborative possibilities and lean out of the dominant role.

Emergent Somatic Practice is a collaborative learning weekend for a multidisciplinary group of body-based practitioners who want to practice the commitment that: when the intention is to heal, the body shows the way.

Starting on Friday with a potluck dinner, we'll spend Sat & Sunday in embodied practice together.

Friday May 9th, 530-730pm: Potluck dinner

Saturday May 10th 9-5pm

Sunday May 11th 9-4pm

In this experiential workshop we will open our capacity as somatic practitioners to work with emergent somatic material arising in our sessions. We'll explore the 5 points on the somatic practice compass:

Anchoring in our practitioner body. Moving from our wisdom and deep trust of the client’s innate inner medicine. Moving from an invitational stance and at the speed of trust.
Clarifying and kindling client intentions to animate a collaborative map of healing.
Increasing our capacity for utilization of the ‘sacred pause’ and uncertainty
Learning to listen for non-cognitive somatic cues and clues. Discerning between movements of adaptive habit or movements of health. How to spot energetic willingness.
Translating somatic information into experiential exploration and spontaneous activities.

For practitioners of all kinds

Investment: In the spirit of access, cost for workshop is offered at a sliding scale. To discover where your price access point is, please refer to this amazing resource by Alexis Cunningfolk.

Workshop cost:

lower price point: $275, pay HERE.
mid price point: $350, pay HERE.
high price point: $450, pay HERE.

Payment plans available, contact sage@embodiedliberation.com.

A percentage of proceeds from this workshop will go to support an innovative queer/bipoc project focused on local healing work in the Hudson /Catskill area.

Resilience Toolkit: Skills for Healers

March 30th: 2-5pm

Tenth House Health: 29 2nd Street, Athens, NY 12015

We're FULL! Join the waitlist here

A special edition of The Holding Field practitioner gathering through Tenth House Health - with Char. This is a 3-hr immersion in a set of somatic tools healers can implement to create more trauma-informed sessions.

We focus on:

Understanding a nervous system model to share with our clients for increased agency, awareness, and communication
Navigating power dynamics in sessions & the impact of practitioner power on nervous system safety
Practicing (experiencing and then facilitating) a set of somatic tools to support clients through tough moments in & out of session
Tracking (in ourselves, then each other) signs of system state shift so that we know when to use tools & when they're working
Neurogenic tremor practice. We practice tremoring ourselves and then discuss ways to facilitate client tremors when they occur in session

This is a hands-on, experiential practice workshop. Expect to interact in-depth and to give & receive live feedback. We'll take plenty of breaks, bring plenty of tea & snacks, and move at the pace that our group co-creates.

next offering is in May

Holding on to hurt - that we caused or that we experienced - is like tensing a muscle.

The tension pulls on everything around it, limiting movement, breath, and ease.

Practicing myofascial release invites hydration, movement, and integration into our tissues - and opens up the possibilities of apologies doing the same thing in our relationships.

When genuine apology is offered, it’s like applying gentle attention to that knot, allowing it to soften and create space. The nervous system shifts from bracing into relief, making room for new possibilities.

Apologies can feel like releasing a deep knot in the body.

This is a hands-on, experiential practice workshop combining myofascial massage techniques with apology skills.

Expect to interact in-depth and to give & receive live feedback. We'll have plenty of tea & snacks, and move at the pace that our group co-creates.

With Julia & Char

Tremor Practice Club

A 1-hr community space for folks who have completed one or more tremor workshops or sessions with Char, Sabrina, or Julia.

At Tremor Practice club, we

tremor together, share tea, and journal/share in small groups
learn new ways to interact with our tremors
get support from experienced practitioners to move through any stuck points or challenges with our tremor practice.

Have you learned to tremor before, but want a refresher?

Perhaps you have a home tremor practice - but are looking for ways to expand or deepen your experience.

Practice club is not for first-time learners of tremor - come join us at an intro workshop or immersion instead.

Some Previous Offerings

Bodies are a Web of Choice & Freedom: Philly

A day of somatic learning and exploration w Julia & Char.

We discuss the Circle Model, a nonhierarchical understanding of our body's stress responses through a critical power lens. We explore accessing more choice and freedom in our stress responses. Then, using myofascial release principles, we practice freeing fascia's patterns of stuckness.

After lunch, we practice the body's natural ability to tremor - to increase embodied freedom!

Loving Conflict Practice Group

Loving Conflict is a commitment to everyone having the skills for transformation through difficult relational moments.

This 9 week practice group is a learning, unlearning, and practice space - in the lineage of Transformative Justice & Abolition - for folks wanting to build skill with conflict.

Freeing Fascia w/ Julia: Philly

Intro to Therapeutic Tremor: Manhattan

Julia and Char co-facilitate an embodied practice workshop that introduces self-massage techniques based on myofascial principles and supports us to track shifts in our nervous system through the fascial & muscular release.

Julia offers nearly 30 years of anatomy study along with training in Upledger Craniosacral Therapy, Barral’s Visceral and Neural Manipulation, Alignment Yoga, Myofascial Release, and Somatic Experiencing.

Intro to Therapeutic Tremor: Manhattan

We start by mapping our nervous system states and trying out several simple tools to help us move between states.

Then, we focus practice time on building comfort and skill with the body's inherent stress-care response: tremoring.

Learn & practice the therapeutic tremor to increase embodied freedom. Experience the inherent skills our bodies have to reduce chronic stress load.

Co-facilitated with Sabrina Hayeem-Ladani

Nervous System Immersion 2: Philly

In-depth, discussion based workshop exploring the Red and Purple nervous system states. Group and individual practice of the resilience tools list, then generous time exploring and building comfort with the therapeutic tremor.

This is part two of the Circle Model nervous system immersion 1, which is a required pre-requisite.

Hosted at The Sanctuary

Circle Model: Nervous system immersion 1

Online

These 3 hr classes are a chance to somatically experience the nervous system through a systems & power lens.

We map our own systems, and work with a 2-page list of somatic tools to help shift nervous system states.

Nervous System Immersion 1: Philly

Loving Conflict Practitioner Training

These 3 hr workshops are small group, discussion-focused explorations of common ways our nervous systems respond to stress & strain, with the goal of expanding more choice and agency.

Join to somatically experience the nervous system through a systems & power lens.

We map our own systems, and work with a 2-page list of somatic tools to help shift nervous system states.

Loving Conflict Practitioner Training

This group is a learning, unlearning, and practice space for practitioners wanting to build skill with facilitating conflict.

We combine somatic practice and embodied inquiry with reading & discussion. Loving Conflict is rooted in abolitionist, & transformative justice principles.

Loving Conflict practitioner training is a commitment to more of us having the skills to support others' transformation through difficult

relational moments.

Nervous System Immersion 1: Hudson

Loving Conflict Practitioner Training

Nervous System Immersion 1: Hudson

These 3 hr workshops are small group, discussion-focused explorations of common ways our nervous systems respond to stress & strain, with the goal of expanding more choice and agency.

Join to somatically experience the nervous system through a systems & power lens.

We map our own systems, and work with a 2-page list of somatic tools to help shift nervous system states.

Loving Conflict Practice Group

Resilience Toolkit Intro: Athens

Nervous System Immersion 1: Hudson

This group series is for anyone who is wanting to build conflict capacity and skill and will be heavily focused on personal practice

Join us to practice nervous-system informed, abolitionist conflict skills in community.

Resilience Toolkit Intro: Athens

3-hour workshop based on the Resilience toolkit and the Circle model of the nervous system. Join to:

Map your body’s nervous systems patterns and practice more choice & regulation
Learn simple stress care tools (“The Resilience Toolkit”) & practice in community
Learn & practice the therapeutic tremor to increase embodied freedom
Experience the inherent skills our bodies have to reduce chronic stress load