Somatic Savvy Rhythms
Regsitration now open: We are back and hosting this next series in person at Inside Out Total Fitness - 1324 11 ave SW - Starting Thursday April 24
Do you experience anxiety or depression? Struggle with sleep or tension in the body? Perhaps interpersonal conflict or habitual patterns that cause you distress? Or simply are curious to re-learn how to lean in and align with your rhythmic nature? Or perhaps a desire to release your grip on one way of knowing to access the terrain of multiple intelligences that you have access to?
Somatic Savvy is a class series that takes you on a journey, both as an individual and as a collective. An experiential exploration to introduce and deepen your nervous system literacy for skillful self and co-regulation. An opportunity to broaden your understanding of somatic tools and techniques. Guidance to enhance and diversify your movement practices. And playful experiments to increase your curiosity around natural rhythms to improve sleep, focus, rest, relationships and self-compassion. By perceiving through the lens of rhythms we reduce uncertainty and gain access to a well of wisdom that teaches us how to expand and rest.
Please join Marin McCue for this unique five part series to journey into the vast intelligence of rhythms with your breath and heart as your teacher.
The numerous benefits of somatic exploration include:
Development of your right-brain hemispheric mode of processing
An ability to zoom in on detail and zoom out for a broader perspective
Insight, presence, and spiritual growth
Release of stuck energy and access deep rest
Recognition of patterns that do not serve you and access to cultivating the change you desire
A flexible and adaptive nervous system
Empowerment, confidence, and increased window of tolerance
Included: Somatic Savvy Rhythms workbook
What to bring:
- Wear comfy clothes, perhaps layers for an easeful transition into meditation at the end
- A blanket and pillow (if desired) *There will be approximately 15-20 minutes of lying in savasana
- Yoga mat
- Water
- Journal (if desired)
When: 7pm - 830pm, Thursday April 24, May 1, 8, 15 and 22
Where: Inside Out Total Fitness (upstairs studio)
Investment: $185
email me with questions (I will update this page when the class is full)
when ready to register, ensure I have your email for communication related to the series
send e-transfer to marinmccue@gmail.com
*15 people maximum
Past ParticipantS:
“The Somatic Savvy series was the absolute perfect addition to all the transformational, albeit mostly intellectual, work I have done. I had no idea how profound it would be and how much would shift for me. It was the perfect puzzle piEce I didn’t know I was missing. In the space where complete safety, nonjudgemnt and so much grace is created, miracles can happen. With Marin’s guidance, I was able to access the most subtle whispers my body was sharing and unlock healing of those parts of me that I have not been paying attention to and abandoned. Thanks to this work, I am more in love with myself and by extension, with the world around me. I am eternally grateful”
Ola
“I've known Marin for years and have worked with her in a variety of ways. She's been my yoga instructor, personal coach, and workshop host, to name a few. Regardless of the delivery method, I have always come away with further awareness and knowledge about myself. Somatic Savvy was no different. Marin puts her entire being into her work and it shows! Yes, she's book educated, but she has life experience with the practice she preaches, and a constant curiosity and openness for new ideas. I'd highly recommend absolutely anyone to take part in one of Marin's many offerings!”
Jess
**More information on the inspiration of this series here
What to Expect in Each Session:
Guided grounding and attuning to self, each other and the relational space
Experiential Learning: While some content, structure and framework is helpful, at least 70% of each session is devoted to practicing skills, techniques and embodied explorations
Meditation for completion and harvesting insights
Closing discussion to share insights, questions and land on unique commitments for practice
Not sure if ‘somatics’ is for you?
Our symptoms of pain, stress, unrest, anxiety, depression, instability and disconnection from self and others are multifaceted and are often not the result of one thing we are doing or not doing. Culturally, systemically, historically, and globally, there is a lot to be stressed, anxious, angry, overwhelmed or defeated about. Somatic practices are not meant to be an avenue of taking personal responsibility for all the pain, heartache or struggle you experience in life - it is however, an opportunity to embody your power and heart-centeredness more fully so you have more space to process and be with what you are feeling.
When we feel incongruence inside or are struggling with chronic or recurring symptoms, we certainly do not have the energy, space and time needed to collaborate and problem solve the way we need to in order to guide our world in a more harmonious direction. Somatic practices guide us back to our inherent flexible and resilient state where healing and growth occur as our human nature. The question becomes, once you feel stable and connected in your being, what will you do?
As someone informed by Internal Family Systems, Polyvagal Theory, Yogic Philosophy, Somatics, and Social Justice Work, I have come to formulate a model of decolonizing consciousness that we will explore (primarily as reflection in between sessions), which can be understood as a reclamation of CHURCH.
Centered
What does it feel like to be centered? How do you breathe when you are centered? What do you notice with your breath when you are centered? How does being centered impact your doing? How does your experience of being centered change (if at all) when you consider the center is everywhere or a centerless center?
Harmony
Growth is an inherent quality that we all have within us when we are in a state of harmony and balance. A nervous system that is constantly activated is not creating space for conscious change, and instead will keep us locked in patterns of protection and expressions of wounds we inherited and have accumulated in this lifetime. What habits have you become unconsciously conditioned to? How have these habits served you, or how have these habits been in service of a positive intention (despite their maladaptive results)? Until you experience harmony internally, the concept of harmony externally will remain a far-off and unrealistic proposition.
Unity
The polarizations and conflicts we see and participate in in this world are a reflection of conflicts and struggles internally. As within, so without. While the changes needed in the world can seem daunting and outside our reach, what we can do is focus on the battle(s) within. We can differentiate the aspects of our being to study them and recognize how they impact every aspect of our lived experience, while also remembering and feeling the sense of one-ness and unity that we all share. This becomes the template for participating and co-creating unity in the external world. Unity is a non-dualistic state, meaning all expressions, emotions, and differences are welcome and included, AND, we are not separate.
Relationality & Resonance
In many Indigenous cultures around the world there is a common belief regarding inherent relationality and interconnectedness. When we are attuned to this field of connectivity and turn towards what we notice with curiosity, compassion and courage, we repair energetic ruptures that have been stored in our bodymind and field, and energy begins to flow with ease where it was once stagnant or dense with protective forces. When we practice with the premise of multiplicity we can organize our internal system, guide it towards collaboration, lead from our Higher Self, and become masterful with wise discernment.
Congruence
While there are different contexts and environments we attend to in life, and perhaps varying requirements and relationships within these, when we are attuned to who we are at our core, we sense a cohesive identity that has room for flexibility and a spectrum of expression. By exploring various shapes, expressions, emotions, movements, ideas, pulsing in and out, etc., we not only differentiate the aspects of who we are and our experience in life, but we also come into more intimate contact with that which is unchanging. Do you feel connected and congruent with your ancestry, the land around you, your past, present and future?
Heart & Health
In many Indigenous cultures there has been a saying passed down through the generations regarding the journey from head to heart. Recently listening to Tiokasin Ghosthorse, a man from the Cheyenne River Lakota in South Dakota, he said the English language has misconceived this notion as a journey from head to heart, and instead, it is meant to be a remembering that we are already capable and born to lead or express from our heart. So rather than coming back home to your heart, notice the visceral difference when you consider you are already connected and capable of leading from your heart, and perhaps we can practice embodying that reality more fully.
What else might you want to know?
Nervous system regulation: not that there is a “regular” or “normal” that we are striving for. Rather, the ideal is a flexible nervous system that can move through the various nuanced expressions of the nervous system and continually come back to the state of harmony, inclusion, and high-heart rate variability, where rest and play are accessible, and the body heals and grows as its innate intelligence guides it to do so. The goal is to notice as ruptures happen and skillfully support and guide our system back to its optimal baseline.
I look forward to sharing this experience with you. Please reach out if you have any questions.
xo
Marin
marinmccue@gmail.com