Class description:

If you want to dive deep into a focused meditative state a SOMA Breath Journey will get you there. In a SOMA Breath Journey, a SOMA Breath Advanced Instructor will guide you through a customized breathwork meditation with a specific focus in mind. They will do this using visualization techniques so you can fully embody the purpose of the meditation and use breathwork to supercharge your meditation. See below to find out what the specific focus of this session is.

Additional details:

Event by Hilary Lake and Will Michael

Online Event

Sunday at 7 PM EDT

Public  · Anyone on or off Facebook

(This is a 5 week course, see payment options below)

After our first journey of Deepening Connection this winter, Will and I are excited to go deeper and offer it again as we move into spring together. You are invited to honor the growing aliveness of spring as well as the spark of connection and longing for deeper connection that lives within you.

Join us to return to your essence and nourish your wholeness in connection with the elements learning from these raw forces of resilience that live within each cell of our being. Join Will Michael, Advanced SOMA Breath Instructor, and I in the inquiry of how the wisdom of our bodies, the wisdom of the land and of the elements can support our deepening growth within ourselves as the awakening of spring returns within and around us.

You will be guided through gentle trauma informed somatic practices that are intended to support you to deepen your relationship to your body through the body systems as they relate to the larger natural body systems of our planet Earth. Will then offers breathing practices that have been adapted to the element that we are working with each week. We will also connect with others through authentic movement that allows for vulnerability and authenticity to emerge from the body in both moving and witnessing that we can then bring into a group sharing in circle.

Here’s what you will receive and learn during the 5 weeks:

-Build up your immune system through tapping into your embodied resource and inner medicine
-Practice renewal and regeneration through connecting with the elements in the body
-Learn simple and powerful breath-work techniques
-Learn about and practice cultivating ritual with the elements and with the land to deepen your relationship with place
-Practice being more alive and present in the moment
-Sacralize your life through deepening your relationship with yourself and/as the elements in simple rituals
-Resource your own inner guidance through our body
-Connect deeply with yourself and others even on zoom! It is possible!

5 weeks on Sundays 7:00-9:00pm EST

March 14th – Earth – Security and Discovering our Needs
Lessons: Structure, Stability, Simplicity, Nourishment
Body Allies: Bones, Connective Tissues, Marrow
Nature Allies: Rocks, Stones, Trees, Roots, Magma

March 21st – Water – Safety and Cultivating Trust
Lessons: Flow, Release, Rhythm, E-motion
Body Allies: Blood, Fluids, Notochord, Amniotic fluid
Nature Allies: Water, Rivers, Lakes, Ocean, Ponds, Streams, Rain, Ice, Snow

March 28th – Fire – Sovereignty and Activating Aliveness
Lessons: Passon, Power, Presence
Body Allies: Digestive System, Glands, Nervous Systems
Nature Allies: Sun, Stars, Fire, Mycelium

April 4th – Air – Co-Creation and Joyful Collaboration
Lessons: Spaciousness, Expansion, Communication
Body Allies: Breath, Lungs, Voice, Vocal Chords
Nature Allies: Wind, Breeze, Tornado, Hurricane

April 11th – Ether – Union of Bliss & Emptiness
Lessons: Wonder, Envisioning, Surrender
Body Allies: Cerebral Spinal Fluid, Pineal Gland, Glandular Integration
Nature Allies: Spirit

Each Session will include:
-Grounding and land acknowledgement
-Short personal check in
-Sharing about the element as well as body and earth allies of each week
-Trauma informed somatic movement guidance connecting the body systems to the Earth systems
-Breathwork practice
-Authentic movement embodiment and sharing practice in diads
-Group circle sharing
-Invitation to personal practice with nature
-Song for each element
-Inquiry worksheet for each element

Investment:
$166 – Receiving Rate (low income, unemployed or minimally employed)
Register Here: https://bit.ly/2KxJJUj
$222 – Sustaining Rate (adequately employed and can save)
Register Here: https://bit.ly/37KZTTd
$288 – Abundant Rate (feeling generous and can support others)*
Register Here: https://bit.ly/3hdf0rw
*Abundant Rate includes a 1 hr personalized embodiment and sound healing journey with Hilary.
There are also options for partial trade. Don't let the cost keep you from joining us, we can work it out!

Deadline to sign up is Friday, March 12th  (Some scholarships are still available, contact Hilary if interested)

About Hilary:

Hilary Lake, MDiv, Expressive Arts Community Minister, has been leading community rituals for 20 years within religious, spiritual and secular environments. She is a somatic movement educator having completed the Somatic Body 500 hr ISMETA Training (based on Body Mind Centering) and completed a Masters in Buddhist Ministry from Harvard Divinity School. She lived in dance community for 5 years developing Moving in Grace and has studied Buddhism in Thailand, India and Nepal where she also studied Charya Nritya, a Nepalese temple dance form. She is also trained in Infinity Healing Practice and in trauma informed techniques for embodiment practices as well as JourneyDance and Infinity Healing Practice as well as Walking in Balance, an indigenous led & created council practice. She was recently a Buddhist chaplain resident and now offers individual and group mindful embodiment and sidereal astrology sessions with a commitment to cultivating a culture of liberation, connection, inclusion and resilience for all beings. For more information about Hilary and Moving in Grace: www.movingingrace.com
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About Will:

Will Michael, PhD, CHt, Advanced SOMA Breath Instructor has over 50 years of experience with conscious breathing and has worked with and/or studied with all the top names in the field of breathwork. He is a certified transpersonal life coach, a certified clinical hypnotherapist, a holistic health and integral life practices educator and a lifelong student and practitioner of natural healing and energy medicine. Will is giving his time freely for this event as heart centered gift to the community.  

You can PM or email Hilary at [email protected] to ask any questions you may have.

Join us in this deepening connection to nourish your wholeness and honor the wonder of life!