Virtual Community Care + Connection Circle
“If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.” ~ Brené Brown
Each somatic practice circle is unique. Together, we set a container for collective care, embodied awareness, curiosity, creativity, acceptance, story-sharing, and presence.
3rd Wednesday of Every Month: 8 pm (Eastern US)
(5pm Pacific US, 7pm Central US)
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Connect with interesting new friends, participate in a collective of care and receive warm regard
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Bare witness and be witnessed while being embraced wherever you are right now in body, mind, and heart
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Relate with the present moment in a way that restores creativity, connection, and spaciousness
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Build your capacity to use your body as a tool for stress-system management + self-regulation
Each week we share our own personal stories, practice a body-based self-regulation technique (or two) and set down our “doing” for an hour and forty-five minutes of “being with” our selves and each other.
In order to maintain an intimate container, attendance is limited. Register below.
ALL ARE WELCOME.
(Always free. Donations appreciated.) ♥️
Be sure to stay in the know about upcoming dates & offerings!
Natural Giving & Collective Care:
This event is facilitated with the principle of joyful, natural giving.
We stand for leveraging privilege to support others and offer this Community Care Circle from the principle of joyful, natural giving. If you have the means to offer a contribution, please contribute any amount that feels joyful and sustainable for you at this time. (The average contribution range is $0-$25)
We are gathering to create a container of collective community care. Please give from your overflow. For those with limited financial means, please do not concern yourself with offering a financial contribution.
Your presence is enough.
artemisia shine
Somatic Therapist, Curandera, Liberation Warrior, Chingona.
(she/her, they/them)
Wild Heart Healing Arts
artemisia shine helps people and communities get free.
She is a stand for your right to live from a care-ethic (rather than a work-ethic) so that you can attend to yourself, others and the community in ways that are inspired and joyful. As a queer, multi-racial, healer, mamma, and coyote medicine maker, artemisia has committed her life to examining and interrupting systems of oppression around gender, race, ecology, mental health, and ability. artemisia has a passion for bringing conscious movement, nonviolent communication, and body-based mindfulness to under-served marginalized groups, incarcerated populations and trauma-impacted communities.
Over 900+ hrs. of training as a certified Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist, 22 years of personal yoga practice, three 200hr Yoga Alliance teacher certifications and over 15 years in private practice as a trauma-focused healer, somatic therapist, and counselor enable her to meet you with profound presence and unconditional warm regard for whatever you bring to the table. Her work as a Community Organizer, gender justice advocate, social justice activist, yoga teacher, and violence prevention workshop facilitator within the criminal justice system gives her an intersectional lens on trauma and oppression.
In her free time, she can be found trying to snuggle her newly adult son, successfully snuggling her rattie loves, preparing delicious vegetarian decadence, wandering the local nature trails, pedaling barefoot thru the streets of San Luis Obispo, falling madly in love with random animals that cross her path, and laying naked along pristine coastlines soaking up the radiance of the sun.
To learn more about artemisia, please click here.
Anne Therese Aure Esguerra
Yoga Therapist, Somatic Practitioner, Facilitator/Mentor, Teacher & Collaborator
(she,siya,niya)
Integrative Life Therapy
Anne Therese Aure Esguerra helps people explore & integrate their connections: within themselves, within their lives & relationships.
As a first generation Filipino American, TIta, future ancestor, lover of movement, music and dance who deeply believes that connection heals at the root level of your soma (body living in its wholeness). She values and respects the wisdom that lives within each being. A lifetime of experience and ancestral wisdom informs the work she offers in yoga, embodied mindfulness and somatic practices. For over 15 years, she has been working with folks in recovery, incarcerated youth and adults, elders and caregivers.
With 1200+ hours of training and mentoring with Phoenix Rising School of Yoga Therapy and 9 years of accreditation with IAYT, she continues to broaden perspective through intersections of learning while offering group training sessions and workshops based in Trauma Informed Care and community cultural competency. As a collaborator and co-founding teacher of Sea Change Yoga, she has contributed to the development, implementation and evaluation of programs and teacher development.
Outside of the work, she leans into the practice of existing, inhabiting space and remembering she is part of this world. Whether it’s cooking, singing or finding a place to float inside nature, she’s constantly reminded of the sensual sweetness of life that surrounds us all.
To learn more about Anne, please click here.
