The Hearth:
A Somatic Practice Community

The Hearth

The Hearth is a weekly practice group rooted in somatic attachment therapy and eco-spiritual embodiment.

Together, we move beyond clinical articulations of the nervous system to experience its true purpose: rhythming us into aliveness and belonging in our living world.

This is a gentle, curious, and courageous space for all genders and levels of experience to explore the wisdom that spirals out from our bodies, and into the worlds we shape together.

Next 4-week cohort begins: November 5th from 7-8:30pm.

See below for more details.

Breathe / Move / Learn / Feel / Play / Return - around the Hearth.

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There is an ancestral memory in all of us that, if given the opportunity, can renew our kinship to the Circle of all Life

Pegi Eyers

class ethos.

We live in rhythmic bodies in a living world - our very nature is cyclical. What we call "traumas" are the places where our body's innate and rhythmic healing capacities were interrupted, and we became "stuck" in cyclical survival loops.

Through my practice as a birthworker, rhythmic movement for trauma specialist, somatic psychotherapist, and bodyworker, I have found that moving, breathing, feeling, and living cyclically can restore the innate and rhythmic healing capacities of our bodies. Here, the solution to our disconnection lies within the wisdom of those cycles we get stuck in.

Hearth offers gentle practices aimed at meeting our "loops" with tenderness, drawing on the support of the rhythmic allies already built into our systems - breath, movement, sound, ritual, and relational cycles of reaching and softening into safety.

With curiosity, compassion, playfulness (and a little bit of time travel), we can gently restore connection by reminding the body of its innate capacity to heal. Here, we return together to what are bodies already know - that rhythm restores aliveness.

Hearth classes are rooted in:

Breath Expansion

Expanding our breath expands our capacity to feel our way to freedom. Like life itself, each class begins and ends with breath.

Ritual Movement

Explore the spaciousness of your innate body rhythms through embodiment rituals, intentional movements and organic physical unwinding.

Intentional Feeling States

With reverence for our wounds, we intentionally explore feeling states, express and unwind somatic stress, and practice feeling our Self in its fullness.

Restoring Connection to the Sacred

Shared rituals of connection put us in contact with our nervous systems' sacred purpose: feeling aliveness and belonging in our world.

class rhythm

Part 1: Circle

The first half of Hearth is for expansive practices and somatic skill-building in community.

These include:

Ritual Practices for Nervous System Care
Somatic Psychoeducation
Group Embodiment Experiences
Community Discussion
Council (Accessing Group Wisdom)
Home Practices & Resources
Q&A

Part 2: Practice

The second half of Hearth is an inward experience in somatic processing and deeper internal work.

This includes:

Somatic Breathwork
Somatic Bodywork & Touch-Based Practices
Rhythmic (Guided) and Fluid (Organic) Movements for Somatic Re-patterning
Intentional Feeling States & Gentle Emotional Release
Explorations of the Sacred in the Body
Collective Opening & Closing Rituals

Details

Upcoming Cohorts:
- October (4-week series begins Oct 8th @ 7pm)
- November (4-week series begins Nov 5th @ 7pm)
Timing:
- 7-8:30pm (soft arrival at 6:45pm for those who want a quiet place to land before class). Some classes may go a few minutes past 8:30pm.
Cost: $222-$444/month sliding scale ($55-$111 per class)
- This series will run as group therapy, so folks with benefits may use them
- If you have access to mental health benefits, please consider using the higher end of the scale to help keep these offerings affordable for those who don't
- If you're unsure where you might land on the sliding scale, read here.
Who is this group for?
- All genders, bodies and levels of experience with a curiosity for what becomes possible when we connect to our Selves with reverence and care
Registration:
- If you are a new client, please email me at emily@thefeelingspace.com to register. (A brief intake call is required for new clients.)
- Current clients may register via your Client Portal
Location:
- Downtown Guelph (given once payment is made and registration confirmed).