This workshop will help you learn to awaken your true core strength. Access powerful tools to feel, access and strengthen your deep core, the one mainstream fitness forgot about. You won’t strengthen with traditional situps, crunches and planks. This is about an embodied connection to this important part of you.

You’ll learn how to:

• Ease tension and pain in your hips and back through deeper levels of core connection and engagement, taking the load off of your secondary stabilizer muscles

• Learn to stay calm and rooted in your core, no matter what types of challenges life is throwing your way

• Feel more confident moving in any situation knowing that your most central part of your body is supporting you in every step you take

Learn to actually listen to your body (and know what it needs). This deep-dive workshop will help you finally learn how to listen to, respect and give your body what it needs. If you’ve struggled with the advice “listen to your body” and don’t know how, this is what you’re looking for.

This workshop will help you:

• Let go of fixing, micro-managing and obsessing about your body

• Learn to attune to what it really needs to feel supported

• Access feelings of safety in your body so you can make more space for listening

• Learn to discern between your body’s messages and your mind’s stories about your body

Stop Shrinking Yourself and Take Up Space Exactly as You Are. Are there parts of you that you want to embody and have the courage to share more? Maybe you just want to feel like you can fully be you, owning and acknowledging your worth and dignity, with yourself. Whatever it is, learning to take up space with posture, energy and movement can be a profound source of support.

This workshop will help you:

• Learn how to give yourself the gift of really allowing yourself to be where you are without beating yourself up for being “behind” of where you think you *should* be in life

• Let go of old, limiting, but comfortable ways of being so you can step into the aliveness and beauty that your spirit is calling for

• How to feel and root into your own enoughness, so you can stop trying to perform and be someone you’re not

Learn How to Pair Supportive Movements for Your Mental Health. What if you had a go-to “medicine cabinet” of movements to support your mental wellbeing in any moment, no matter what you were going through? The beautiful part about learning these movements is that you can then know what to reach for in any moment. You can know how to soothe and support yourself so you can feel what you need to feel and let it fully move through.

This workshop will teach you how to:

• Get out of a constant “fight or flight” response and tap back into the safety of your body in the present moment

• Create a nourishing routine for self-care and healthy movement that isn’t burdened by expectations, self-judgment and old narratives

• Learn which movements are supportive for processing grief, anger, sadness, overwhelm and other challenging feelings

• Access more joy, playfulness and tenderness so you can not just be “sitting with the hard stuff”

Learn to Help Your Body Feel Safe to Deeply Rest. Do you feel chronically tired, wired and under-rested? You’re definitely not alone. Our world doesn’t encourage us to pause and be, let alone make space for hibernation. But that doesn’t mean it’s still not a critical need we all have.

In this class you’ll learn how to help you nervous system unwind and settle so you can drop into deeper states of rest and recovery.

This workshop will help you:

• Learn specific movement and somatic practices to help your body feel safe to rest

• Recover from burnout and fear of overdoing it, so you can live your life fully and deeply nourish yourself

• Unwind your body and mind from toxic hustle, grind, go-go-go culture and learn to prioritize and dignify your rest

Cultivate a Feeling of Being Home in Your Body. Who would you be if you felt totally at ease and at home in yourself, settled, rooted and trusting your body? You’ll have a greater trust in your ability to move, confidently knowing what your body can do and what it needs to heal and expand. Learn movement practices that can become resources for you to rely on, tools you can consistently come back to whenever you find yourself spinning out or off your center.

You’ll learn how to:

• Tap into feelings of ease and comfort in your body, so you can actually be present for the things that matter to you

• Reclaim a sense of confidence in your truth and the wisdom of your body to help you make important life decisions

• Regain confidence in your ability to honor your body’s strengths and limitations, so you can move more confidently in any situation

Somatic Practices for Opening to More Connection and Intimacy With Your Loves. Authentic, intimate connection can’t happen without vulnerability, and vulnerability requires that you’re in your body. The more we’re able to let our guards down and allow ourselves to be seen, the more love and intimacy we’ve unlocked in our relationship. We (Ev’Yan Whitney and Jonathan Mead) want to share some of the insights we’ve learned with you.

You will discover how to:

• Soften your habitual armoring that’s keeping you from receiving the love you really want

• Practice informed consent with yourself and your love so you can safely expand your capacity for connection and sweetness

• Stop holding yourself back from opening to love and new experiences because you’re afraid of getting hurt again

• Move beyond old childhood wounds and step bravely into intimacy in the present moment

How to Embody Healthy Boundaries. It’s one thing to know your boundaries from a mental place, it’s entirely different to feel your boundaries in your body. Boundaries aren’t all about saying no either (though that’s certainly a part of it). It’s also about being able to feel and honor what’s a clear hell yes for you. In this class we’ll explore somatic practices and embodied movements to help you clearly feel, honor and know what is aligned for you and what’s not.

You will learn how to:

• Access your innate worthiness and dignity, so you can honor your desires and allow more of what you truly want into your life

• Learn to feel what a clear, embodied YES feels like in your center, not just what you think you should want

• Powerfully own your NO in your body, so you can honor your boundaries, protect your peace and energy.

• Prioritize yourself and you needs before picking up other peoples needs and energies.

Move Beyond Pain, Injuries and Guarding to Trust Your Body. What would it feel like for you to fully trust your body in any situation? I imagine that you’d live life more fully. You’d probably say yes to more adventures. You’d likely feel more confident knowing what you’re truly capable of. In this class, learn to strengthen your connection to your body, befriend it, and learn to align with its signals so that you can rebuild that trust.

What you’ll be learning:

• Resource deep trust in your body, so you can heal from old injuries, neglect, lack of faith in your innate resilience

• How to develop more trust in yourself, so you can know what you most need to do to take care of yourself

• Practices to ground back into your sense of support in any moment you need it to develop more confidence in your body

Stop Being So Serious and Tap into the Joy and Play of Movement. Have you gotten too serious? Are you always trying to do it “right”? All around us we’re bombarded with messages about the “right” way to exercise, move and be in our bodies. But, are we missing out on something when we do this? What if joyful movement and feeling good in your body could guide you? In this workshop we’ll explore together how to reclaim our “taste” for pleasurable movement and delicious sensations.

What you’ll gain from this workshop:

• How to feel safe to allow yourself to receive more joy, pleasure and sweetness into your life. Trusting that it’s okay to feel this more aliveness

• Practices to help you break up rigidity and being an overly serious person, so you can access more flow and playfulness in your movement

• Invitations that will help train your body to expand its capacity for joy and pleasure

Move Beyond Over-Giving and Embody Your True Abundance. What if you could open your body to receive more joy and abundance in every area of your life? Who would you be if you experienced an overflowing of energy, joy, creativity and connection in your life? Opening to true abundance, is much more than reciting hollow, prescriptive affirmations. It’s about learning how to open through your body to receive all of the abundance that’s already around you.

What you’ll be learning:

• How to soften your patterns of guarding and protection so you can open to the abundance, beauty and joy that’s already all around you

• Learn to be an “antennae” for whatever you desire to create more of in your life through embodied affirmations

• Somatic practices to help you shake off and unlearn habits of closure and playing small in your body, that might be currently holding you back