Mindful Somatic Wellness

09/03/2026

09/02/2026

SEPTEMBER 11 • CALGARY
$1,495 + GST
$400 + GST holds your seat

YOU STILL HAVE TIME.

Uplevel the way you work with people.

You already know the people you work with have trauma histories, nervous-system patterns and protective responses.

But do you know what to do when those responses show up in front of you?

When they freeze.
Shut down.
Become overwhelmed.
Lose their words.
Can’t “ground.”
Or seem perfectly calm — but aren’t.

You don’t need more techniques.
You need embodied nervous-system literacy.

EMBODIED TRAUMA SKILLS

FOR CARING PROFESSIONALS

Learn to better read nervous-system data, recognize trauma responses, and respond with more confidence, presence and care.

3 IN-PERSON WEEKENDS • 84 HOURS
Sept 11–13 • Oct 1–3 • Nov 6–8

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Registration is still open. Limited seats available.

Mindful Somatic Wellness

08/29/2026

Truth!!

Love this from .seaman

08/28/2026

You can know trauma theory and still wonder:

What am I actually seeing here?

Is this regulation — or freeze?
Is this movement activation, protection, completion, or something else entirely?
Do I guide? Wait? Orient? Slow down?
And what is my nervous system doing while I’m trying to support theirs?

This is where embodied nervous-system literacy changes the work.

Embodied Trauma Skills for Caring Professionals is not about memorizing another formula or collecting another modality.

We learn to recognize the nervous system as a living source of data — through breath, tone, posture, attention, sensation, impulse, movement and relationship.

We learn how to witness and support spontaneous and guided movement.

How to pace without overriding.

How to become more attentional and intentional in the room.

How to recognize activation and shutdown with greater nuance.

And how to stay connected to ourselves while another nervous system is doing something complicated.

The goal is not to become the practitioner who always knows exactly what to do.

It is to become the practitioner who can notice more, understand more, rush less and respond with greater confidence.

For counsellors, therapists, social workers, educators, healthcare providers, coaches, yoga and movement teachers, bodyworkers and other caring professionals.

Embodied Trauma Skills — Intro / Phase 1
📍 Calgary
📅 Sept 11–13 • Oct 1–3 • Nov 6–8
🧠 84 hours total
💫 $1,495 + GST
🤍 $400 + GST deposit holds your seat
🌿 Limited Access Seats available

We begin September 11.

If this is the layer that has been missing from your work, I’d love to have you in the room.

Registration at the link in bio.

08/27/2026

You’re not failing to communicate. You’re failing to comprehend what’s happening underneath the communication.

Have you ever looked at your partner mid-argument and thought, Why can’t you just hear what I’m trying to say?

Meanwhile, they might be thinking the exact same thing.

Because once your nervous system moves into fight, flight or freeze, you’re not just arguing about the dishes, the money or who said what.

Your body is responding too.

Maybe you get louder and feel everything rising inside you.

Maybe you go quiet, shut down and disappear into yourself.

Neither response automatically means you don’t care. These patterns can exist in us long before the conflict ever begins.

My work is about helping you recognize that feeling before you reach the breaking point.

And a little hot take: anger isn’t always unhealthy.

Women especially are often taught to be calm, agreeable and keep the peace. But healthy anger, when it matches the situation, can be an important response. The same goes for men.

The goal isn’t to never fight.

It’s to understand yourself and each other well enough to stop feeling alone when you do.

Which are you in conflict: the one who gets louder or the one who shuts down?

08/25/2026

I’ve been following the Lindsay Clancy case, and as a mother who experienced postpartum anxiety myself, this one sits differently with me.

I remember loving my baby deeply while also not feeling like myself. Smiling, functioning, caring for everyone around me, while struggling inside.

My experience was postpartum anxiety, and I would never compare my story to another mother’s. But it showed me how vulnerable the postpartum period can be and how important it is for women to be able to say:

“Something is wrong. I need help.”

And actually be heard.

Postpartum depression, anxiety and psychosis are different and can require different levels of care. Somatic therapy does not replace medical or psychiatric treatment, but I believe we need to care for the whole woman.

Her nervous system. Her fear. Her exhaustion. The things she may be terrified to say out loud.

The Lindsay Clancy case is devastating. Children lost their lives and a family has been forever changed. But I hope the conversations surrounding it remind us of something important:

Listen to mothers sooner.

Before she has to prove how badly she is struggling. Before “I need help” becomes “I can’t do this anymore.”

Maybe instead of only asking, “How’s the baby?” we need to ask:

“How are you?”

And stay long enough to hear the real answer.

08/22/2026

Our EXHALE Retreat has been amazing. We’ve dropped out of our everyday and into ourselves. We’ve slowed down, and spaced out, swam in the ocean and moved our bodies. We’ve been watered and fed by the amazing folks Salt Spring Centre of Yoga with care and consideration. Join us next time, won’t you?