Wednesdays, Jan 28 - March 4 | 9-11am PT / 12-2pm ET / 5-7pm GMT

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How often do you find yourself saying yes when you mean no? Staying silent when you need to speak? Or asking for something in a way that feels more reactive than grounded?

Our boundaries—and our ability to make requests—shape our relationships, our work, and our capacity to care for ourselves and others. They offer us the ability to recognize and meet our physical, emotional, and energetic needs. Yet so many of us were taught to override these needs to find safety or connection. This 6-session workshop is an invitation to practice something different.

In this series, we'll work with somatic practices that help you develop centered boundaries—the ability to feel for how yes, no, and maybe show up in your body, and then express them with clarity and care. We'll explore how to return to a grounded, present state when stressors pull you off-center, and how to make requests that are clear, choiceful, and values-aligned. 

We approach this work as both personal and collective. Through somatic practice, we not only support our own healing—we develop skills to move our relationships, our communities, and the larger world toward what we care about.

What we'll practice together:

• Cultivating an embodied practice for identifying and honoring your boundaries 

• Making requests grounded in what you need and care about

• Feeling for your own needs and longings, while staying in connection with others

• Returning to a connected, present state under pressure

• Cultivating resilience as an ongoing practice

By the end of our six sessions, you'll have a foundation of somatic skills that support you in navigating life with more choice, presence, and capacity to care for yourself and others.

What to expect: 

In this series, we’ll learn through the body using individual, partner and group practices. The practices are simple, but require repetition to become accessible under pressure. Please plan to experiment with these practices in your day-to-day life between sessions.

This is an intro course designed for both people new to somatics and those who've been practicing for a while. Somatic practices are meant to be revisited again and again, inviting new depth and understanding with each repetition.

About the facilitators:

This workshop is co-facilitated by Shaleece Haas and Tess Waechter-Smith and is grounded in the methodologies of Strozzi Somatics and generative somatics. Tess and Shaleece are queer politicized healers from different parts of the country, both committed to community care and mutual aid. They approach somatics as an essential practice for weaving together personal healing and collective liberation.

Cost: Subsidized cost - $375   |    True cost - $450   |    Sustainer cost - $525

🐦 EARLY BIRD: $25 discount off all rates if you register by January 7

Please register at the highest level accessible for you. The subsidized rate is supported by those in our community who are able to pay the actual cost or sustainer rate. If these amounts are inaccessible for you, please reach out to us at tess.waechter@gmail.com and we can talk about what is possible.

Cancellation / Refund Policy: If your circumstances shift, please let us know. We offer full refunds for cancellations made by January 14, a 50% refund for cancellations between January 15–27, and no refunds for cancellations on or after January 28.