12.2.26 - 1.20.27 | wednesdays, 9 - 10:30 Am PST

Many of us have experienced presence at the end of a yoga class, during a meditation, or when in great awe or deep connection with nature or others. We often attempt to recreate or recapture the feeling from the outside-in, instead of the inside-out.

This course is an invitation to experience presence from the inside-out; as an emergence instead of a consumption.

Presence does not always equal peace. Presence allows for contact with reality and responsiveness to reality from a place of connection to one's Self. Every lineage's mysticism and magic dies on each exhale, only to be revived with the breath of presence, not performative absence. 

The Gift of Presence is a small group, big work learning container for 6 folks who would benefit from focused somatic and spiritual support during this time in your life. Through a 7-week arc we will weave our way through science, soma, and soul, emerging with a piece of work all your own, spun of resource, source, and Self. 

Schedule:

We will meet online Wednesdays from 9 am to 10:30 am PST. There will be no session December 23. Live attendance is required. 

This course includes:

• 7 90-minute group sessions, Wednesdays, 9 am to 10:30 am PST
• 1 50-minute private somatic session with Monique to support your focus and intention, scheduled anytime during the course

Together we'll explore:

• stillness and quiet as inner movements, not outside impositions
• the art of not doing
• trauma-informed movement and meditation
• nervous system regulation as a soul tool, not a self-help application
• somatic steppingstones as the path for soulful reconnection with the essential self or true self or soul
• somatic buffers and blocks to spirit and spirituality and how to meet them with presence

Each session will weave together:

• experiential, titrated, exploratory education
• somatic inquiry that is curious and compassionate
• nervous-system-informed yoga and meditation
• self-paced, accessible embodied movement, writing, and dyad practices

You will leave with:

• a felt sense of your own resources and how to speak to your body in the language it understands
• a new connection to your spirit and spirituality
• an embodied understanding of your unique nervous system's adaptations and superpowers that will serve as a reference and resource in your continuing journey
• class materials, recordings, community support

Monique is a San Diego-based Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and Trauma-informed yoga teacher. Since 2015 she has been educating groups of humans on the nuances and science of trauma, healing and the body through organized, exploratory education.

Her approach is informed by her embodied understanding of the science of human healing and connection and her reverence and joy for being human. Her workshops offer the philosophical structure of 12-step programs and echo the nondualistic, neurocognitive insights from Somatic Science®.