Begin in the Body
A Somatic Path to Knowing What You Want
Find your full-body “YES”
Beginning in the body is essential to know what you desire and to create the reality that matches that desire. It is foundational for every relationship, community, and creative endeavor, because if it’s not a full-body “yes,” it just isn’t your heart’s desire.
This cornerstone somatic training supports you in coming home to your body, finding your internal navigation, and gaining direct experience of your somatic guidance. You’ll tap into your unique somatic wisdom and erotic energy and naturally observe how they resource your creative, relational, spiritual, and sexual expression.
Learn practices for re-opening pathways to your body's intelligence in ways that aren’t “woo-woo,” but are most definitely “holy s*%#!”
This is a humorful, safe, and powerful training, shaped by somatic therapy practices, principles of pleasure activism, and emergent strategy. You’ll not only tap into your somatic intelligence, you’ll learn how to protect it and partner with it.
Begin in the Body Curriculum
Following guidance from the body isn’t about self-indulgence, following craving or grasping. It’s a reconnection with the balanced, collective wisdom that flows through our bodies and our intuition. Our curriculum trains individuals who are committed to wise relating, wise consumption, and wise expression.
Session 1 and 2
Making contact and re-opening communication with the body.
Connect with your somatic intelligence, understanding how your body can support you in grounding, clearing, balancing, centering, and being at ease. You’ll then explore the field of your natural energetic and relational boundaries. This will give you an experiential understanding of how to maintain your agency, integrity, and embodiment when in relationship to others and the external world.
Session 3 and 4
Release old “dominator” contexts and begin orienting around pleasure and your unique, full-body “YES.”
You’ll open pathways to release body shame, dis-ease, disfunction, sin-and-repent cycles, and toxic narratives about the body. All the “not good enough” software that’s running around in there has reached its expiration date. You’ll then explore the flow of satisfaction, flow, ease, harmony, expansiveness, or desire that is emerging. These experiences of feeling good and feeling your “yes” are both powerful and also surprisingly casual.
Modalities
Every session will include group conversation, somatic practices, and imaginal journeywork (like going into a waking dream). This training is both an art and a science. It is your own unique exploration and also a training in proven technology for tapping into somatic intelligence. This training does not include any hands-on work. If you are unfamiliar with somatic practices, we recommend scheduling a consultation with us to learn more.
Crossfield Support is offered in between sessions for current clients.
This Retreat is now closed.
Please contact us for information on future retreats.
Registration
First 2 Sessions $1900 (early bird $1700)
All 4 sessions $3200 (early bird $2800)
Early bird deadline 8/15
Regular deadline 9/15
Current Executive Training and Consulting clients, please contact us for discounted registration rates.
“By working with with Julie Ann, I turned up the dial on embodying delight, spiritual confidence, inner attunement, and courage, and redefined what work, leadership, service, and healing means to me.” - Ashley D.
Where Did Our Bodies Go?
We did not inherit a lot of thinking that supports an authentic and erotic experience in the the body. Most systems (patriarchy, capitalism, puritanism, Calvinism, racism, sexism, and gender norms) actively shut down, shame, or subvert the body and cut us off from erotic experience.
But an experience of the erotic -- the braid of creative, spiritual, and sensual experience -- is as natural to our bodies as it is to the Earth.
Just at the Earth is designed for pleasure, interdependence, and endless creativity, bodies are also designed to balance and re-balance in enjoyment and ever-expanding expression.
This energy is not just sexual energy, it’s life-force energy. It’s the source of our creative expression, spiritual experiences, sensuality, and sexual desire. Erotic energy fuels our interest, arousal, and desire in all areas of our life. By unshaming our bodies and reconnecting with our somatic guidance, we allow more attuned and accurate decision-making processes to flourish.
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Everyone’s relationship with their body is unique, with different experiences of somatic guidance and erotic energy.