Formation Self Care Studio

Formation Self Care Studio Somatic Strength
For big-visioned women in pain & grief
Reclaim trust & sturdiness in your body
So you can lead + create fully
🏺Embody your vessel 🏺

Integrated Functional Movement & Self-Care Coaching.

06/26/2026

The most underrated form of wealth is body wealth.

This kind of wealth doesn’t rob, beg, or steal. It simply compounds.

It pays dividends in energy, resilience, muscle, confidence, mobility, presence, and choice.

The return accumulates quietly for decades.

And unlike most forms of wealth, no one can take it from you.

If we’re disgusted by the power structures playing out around us, it’s worth asking where we’ve normalized similar dynamics within ourselves.

The body is one place to look.

The endless cycle of deprivation and excess.
Restriction followed by rebellion.
Ignoring signals until symptoms become loud enough to command attention.
Treating the body like an enemy occupation instead of land you lovingly steward.

A culture that profits from body distrust creates obedient and confused consumers.

Body wealth asks something different:

Build trust.
Build capacity.
Build strength.

Build a relationship with your body sturdy enough to outlive trends, marketing cycles, and industries built on your dissatisfaction.

Embodying your Body wealth makes you harder to manipulate.

06/24/2026

Tiny tweaks for more direct action and body mind muscle connection.

Give it a whirl and don’t go blindly into lifting without FEELING.

06/23/2026

Join us at “How to Be a Villager” July 19th 11-12pm at Formation Self Care Studio.

I’d like to learn more from each of you and dig into so@e juicy conversations.

Most of us know how to be consumers of community. Fewer of us know how to be villagers.

A villager doesn’t need everyone to think the same way. They need enough trust to stay in relationship when they don’t.

Being a villager might look like:

• Bringing your perspective without needing it to become everyone’s perspective.

• Listening for understanding instead of listening for openings to defend yourself.

• Letting people be complicated.

• Offering your gifts without keeping score.

• Assuming good intent before assuming harm.

• Repairing when you get it wrong.

• Staying curious when someone’s experience challenges your own.

• Remembering that belonging isn’t agreement. It’s a willingness to remain in conversation.

A healthy village isn’t built from sameness. It’s built from people strong enough to remain themselves while making room for others to do the same.

06/22/2026

People. Plans. Training. Health goals. Anything that didn’t give me a return I could feel immediately.

I was always a hard worker , not lazy.

Long-term goals are abstract. The body doesn’t live in abstraction. It lives in today’s vote and today’s emotions

So if today feels empty, the brain calls it quits and writes a story that makes it okay.

Here’s what I learned:

You don’t override that pattern with pressure.

You interrupt it with proof.

Short-term goals are not “lesser.” They’re the bridge.

Finish the workout today. Not for the body you want in six months. For the identity you are rehearsing right now.

Because the moment you can trust today, tomorrow stops feeling like a gamble.

06/19/2026

Ladies: Don’t Ask , Don’t Get.

State your actual needs or wants and the worst thing that can happen is someone can says no to you.
Often the “ask” we want to ask aren’t even that bold. So say the damn thing and gamble with the 50/50.

When we don’t state our needs we create story and miss possible opportunities. We reinforce our wound stories and carry them along till the next opportunity to tell ourselves “this is why it is the way it is”

06/17/2026

There is natural law when it comes to the body.

We can tweak it, biohack it, peptide the pain out of sight—but you still pay the piper.

In over 22 years in this field, I’ve watched the same pattern repeat. It works… until it doesn’t. And when it breaks, the rebound is often louder emotionally and physically than if the person had stayed on the steady middle path of health.

And that middle path is what we should actually be aiming for.

Because if there is rupture in your relationship with your body, if there is rupture in your relationship with food, it does not disappear through GLP-1s, peptides, surgeries, or restrictive diets.

The ghost doesn’t leave. It just changes form. It stays in the field.

What I see, over and over, is a swinging pendulum. One extreme to the next. Always trying to outrun the body instead of rebuilding trust with it.

I’m not here to shame anyone. I am here to name the pattern.

There is a system that profits from quick fixes. And there is always another solution waiting when the first one stops working. Another intervention. Another promise. Another way to keep the conversation outside of yourself instead of inside your relationship with your body.

But eventually, the body asks for something simpler.

The middle path is not flashy. It is not marketed well. But it is where integration actually happens.

Chop wood, carry water. And watch what your body reveals when the noise settles.

The swinging pendulum is what hurts.

The middle path is where you meet yourself again.

06/16/2026

The shape you’re in today is telling a story
No this isn’t about fitness levels or age but what seasons your in.

The body shows and gives you a felt sense of What you are emerging from. How you still armor yourself and carrying. Where you are still a little shook up. Where there is room for a little more tenderness.
You don’t need to figure it out either your body…the body and your subtle energetic field holds these in plain sight.

Part if creating a movement practice is creating an outlet for our embodied tendencies to show themselves in the light of day. In their presentation we see ourselves more clearly in our past,present and future timelines.
Where we point ourselves towards our future selves is what we practice holding, being, and most of all summoning from the depth of our being. Our truest iteration. The you that is truly you in the body that can hold your light.

This is where change that sticks happens through the physical body… often without words, without narration.

What next shape will your body take in your next iteration?

06/12/2026

That’s all I got folks!

06/10/2026

Nature don’t play.

She takes and gives on her own terms.

She shows up exactly as she is.

She lets her s**t hang.

She doesn’t care what blooms you’ve got.

She has her own.

She knows she’s a rose and isn’t trying to be anything else.

And she’ll cut a bitch.

Nature will remind you who’s in charge.

She doesn’t negotiate with reality.

She sheds, blooms, rests on her laurels & starts again.

No apology or explanation. Without the grand story or identity crisis.

Just a deep trust in what season she’s in.

Welcome to my rowdy, overgrown garden. I’ll be here everyday this season.

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448 Charnelton Street, 2nd Floor
Eugene, OR
97401

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 7:30am - 4pm
Wednesday 7:30am - 4pm
Thursday 9am - 6:30pm

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