In the Body as Resource series, you will experience guided practices and supportive materials that enrich the process of self awareness and transform limiting patterns that no longer serve what you want now. Through body-mind practices, you will clarify what is behind your No! and make space for your full body YES! to thrive.
Body as Resource is a 101 on body + brain interconnection. No previous experience is necessary, just commitment to your own holistic self care.
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“This work has changed my life. I’ve never worked through my emotions, and more importantly, my trauma, in such a deeply interactive and dynamic way. Alycia has taught me how to be so much more compassionate with myself, and how to open to the world while holding space for the fears that come with it. I am so grateful for all of her expertise, life experience, and the deep and expansive Love she has shared with me. I would recommend any work with Alycia to anyone who feels called to explore being in their body and soul in a new way. ” - K. Yanagida
During this 6-week series of classes, you can unpack patterned mindsets & revolutionize ways your body, thinking, and emotions relate to how you feel and live.
We all have the capacity to get to know our nervous system, our breath, our energy, and our patterns of thinking and being. This series will offer opportunities to delve more deeply into your dynamic Self to cultivate energetic awareness, healing, and rejuvenation within the container of an inclusive and compassionately held space.
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Through Bioenergetic exercises, breathing techniques, deep anatomical awareness and holistic movement, you will explore:
The underpinnings of how you use or block your own energy with your brain, connective tissues and muscles.
Tools to regulate your nervous system and tenderly address inner needs .
How to empower personal resources to track patterns of thinking, being and interacting with the world; transmuting triggers, sensitivities, and wounds into fertile ground for personal growth.
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You will walk away with self-governing life skills to incorporate into your daily reality with heart-centered confidence and embodiment.
“I don’t think I could find someone more skillful in teaching these exercises - it requires vulnerability, humility, and personal expression to teach an unusual moving art / type of mindfulness. I have a VERY sensitive disposition - HSP is the Wikipedia version of my internal sensitivity. That said, I experienced the expressive portions of this class as an exercise in mindfulness that brought a distinctly different inner experience and feeling that I do not achieve in Yoga, Tai Chi, Qi Gong or seated meditation.” - Brett C.
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This 6-week intensive program is designed for you if:
You are interested in deepening awareness and understanding of how your subtle body and energetic patterning relates to your experience of aliveness and connection in daily life!
You are ready to intentionally focus on how your energy gathers and flows in relation to how you feel, and how you want to be in connection to yourself, others, and the world around you.
You desire to claim your body as your resource and power to re-pattern your inner life through intentional practices.
For practitioners, this series can be an experiential resource for broadening your body-brain connection tools for use in professional practice and self-care.
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Throughout the series, classes will weave philosophy and neuroscience, anatomy and energy mapping, as well as experiential practices, breath-centered meditations, and points of inquiry for reflection, transformation and integration into daily life.
You will garner practices for:
◎ Nervous System Regulation
◎ Centering, Grounding, and Integrating
◎ Self-Governing & Actualization
◎ Tending to Somatic States & Body Sensations
◎ Body-Brain Connection
◎ Clarifying your boundaries
◎ Empowering your full body YES!
◎ Comfort in Your Body and Movement
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Body as Resource: May 26 - June 30th
6 weeks, 1 (2 hour) class/ week, Wednesdays from 6 - 8pm PST
Investment: sliding scale $300 - 350
Some insights into class experience…
“I have learned so much about my potential, and what my body can accomplish. The discovery of movement is fascinating to me. Alycia taught us the importance of doing everything with a purpose… How can you share with everyone else what you are feeling? I look forward to being able to explore deeper and more meaningful places in the future.” - W. Moreno
“I’ve never really expressed myself through my body like this. Emotionally, it was really quite odd and uncomfortable at first. But still it was an exciting and new experience. I loved it. I love being pushed outside my comfort zone into a whole new world of possibilities and that’s really what it was; an entire world of possibilities. The possibilities of the body are endless. The principles I have learned so far in this class have been enormously helpful. I’ve loved every minute of it. It’s so cool to explore our bodies in such a way that is immensely helpful and constructive at the same time. I’ve noticed that I have become more upright and carry myself in a different way than before. I’m an entirely different person now and I like it that way.” - C. Iverson
“It’s very interesting. Alycia, you really share your knowledge with passion and love. I felt a bit unsure at the beginning, but as more moves and sounds came out of my body, and my system, little by little, let go, I gave myself entirely to the moment, to the movements and sounds. It really felt good. Leaving, I was filled with calming energy and totally relaxed. Have to let you know that I had the BEST VERY BEAUTIFUL BLESSED sleeping night in a long time (amazing 7+ hrs.) that evening... So, it is fantastic.” - Beatriz B.
“Alycia is an incredibly powerful and intuitive woman. If we would all be brave enough to engage this work, our world would become unrecognizable. I have been a yogi and mediator for 20 years and it was not until I had the honor of working with Alycia that I found true integration in my body, mind, heart and spirit. This work heals the wounded psyche, gives us the opportunity to hear and honor the voices in ourselves that our loud lives render mute. It frees the bound body. It lifts and lightens the heart. Alycia creates a sacred space to feel whatever arises, and be prepared, it will rise up. You will cry, and there she will be holding that space for you, without judgment, with pure love. ” - K. Tull-Esterbrook
“I don’t think I could find someone more skillful in teaching these exercises - it requires vulnerability, humility, and personal expression to teach an unusual moving art / type of mindfulness. I have a VERY sensitive disposition - HSP is the Wikipedia version of my internal sensitivity. That said, I experienced the expressive portions of this class as an exercise in mindfulness that brought a distinctly different inner experience and feeling that I do not achieve in Yoga, Tai Chi, Qi Gong or seated meditation.” - Brett C.
“I have absolutely loved working with Alycia, first as a part of the community cast in Ovum, and then as a regular attendee of her Deepening Sense workshops. Before working with Alycia, it’d been years since I’d taken a dance class or danced much at all. From the first time I walked into her home studio, I felt safe in her presence and under her guidance as a teacher. I love the intuitive way in which she teaches, a way that feels deeply attuned to whatever theme we are exploring, the energy and experience of the participants and group as a whole, and the natural elements of the world. In her classes, I feel encouraged to experience whatever movement is spontaneously seeking to rise up out of me, without judgment or expectations to do things a certain way. I leave her workshops feeling more connected to my body, to my heart, to my spiritual path, and to my own deeper presence in the universe. Her teaching is a gift, as is her bright, loving and penetrating presence.” - A. Liu Kellor
Body as Resource: Cultivate Your Holistic Self Care Practice
