the soma journey membership
Educational + Integration support for nervous system regulation
A letter from my body,
There is no silver bullet.
There is no healed.
There is no broken.
There is you in this one life. This is the journey. The soma journey is for the ones who seek to speak body. The ones ready for a rest from the mind’s work. Ready for a new rebuilt relationship to SAFE.
the soma journey lens
This ongoing membership examines Nervous System Regulation and somatic techniques through three lenses.
Lens One: Exploring the modalities that contribute to nervous system regulation.
Lens Two: What it takes to design a daily life that supports whole Self-health and grounded safety.
Lens Three: Learning ways to turn off the mind and understand the messages from your body.
About the different lenses
Lens 1
Healing by, what I call, the % method. This is learning about the different treatment modalities that are not meant to be done all the time but when leveraged they offer a % of healing to contribute to overall wellness. They offer a big relief when leveraged and often leave us in a better space than before we started.
EX: massages, reiki, cold water therapy, neurofeedback, sound bath, acupuncture, essential oils, breathwork, tea, earthing, laughter, heel drops, dance ...
This group will expand your knowledge of what modalities can help you regulate your nervous system. You will learn to know when and how to use the resources around you and within you. You’ll start this process by being able to recognize what stage of arousal you’re in and begin to widen your Window of Tolerance. You will find that you yourself are medicinal. Each week you will receive an email with a regulation technique and the community forum will be a place to discuss its integration.
Lens 2
Lens one is looking at your non-negotiable practices. These are the actions that keep us alive and functional. These are the ones that I know are best for me but my brain makes it a battle.
EX: Exercise, healthy eating, socializing, nutrition.
This group will help you pick and uphold your non-negotiable practices that support your nervous system health. We will have professional support to work through the mental and emotional process of keeping our practices and to remount the horse when/if we fall off. Your group forum is intended to help navigate integration complexities.
Lens 3
Learning to shut “IT” off. Gaining knowledge about somatic techniques, trauma, nervous system development, codependency, energy, healing, and having time to digest and integrate the learning. We will have guest speakers, weekly modality emails and a group call a month to stretch our understanding about ourselves and compassionately move through the work. We will essentially study and practice how to shut the mind OFF.
How this will flow
Virtual Somatic Experiences
Your registration gifts you quarterly Virtual Somatic Experiences. Each quarter will have a Virtual Somatic Experience to support your connection to your body. We will take a deep dive into new somatic techniques with masterful facilitators in modalities for nervous system regulation.
These experiences are retreats from your safe space over Zoom. Each is recorded and uploaded into a shared virtual classroom so you can revisit the modalities time and time again.
Private Facebook Group Support
In a private Facebook group, we will share how the integration of somatic modalities looks on the court of life. Here you will gain access to meditations, books, podcasts, practices, and more that will encourage a strong mind and body connection. Perhaps you are looking for a community of like-minded souls, or you need accountability to keep your body work a priority, whatever your pull towards this is, the Private group is a newly added support to the program so you have support in your pocket.
Virtual Round Tables
Each month we will have biweekly calls. These calls will be recorded and uploaded to our group portal so you can use them over and over. These calls are our round tables for integrating regulation in real and raw life.
The Virtual Round Tables will cover
Practices you want to create that support you each month.
Book discussion over the monthly book. Twelve books on the exploration of ANS regulation have been selected for the year.
Hearing from expert facilitators and getting a chance for Q&A. These are brilliant human beings from diverse fields such as neuroscience, cognitive behavioral therapy, neurofeedback, functional medicine, shamanism, reiki, nutrition, sound therapy, play therapy, and others.
Weekly Modalities in your Pocket
Each Sunday you will receive an email with a Somatic Integration tool. This may be a technique, podcast, journal prompt, reflection quote, or the like. It will help set your focused intention on your body for the week ahead. The Facebook group will help support your understanding and accountability for trying the tool of the week.
Understanding and committing to a regulated state is nothing short of a healer’s journey. It is love and compassion.
I’m not broken and you’re not either. This is a way of life. This is undoing things from childhood- deep default coping strategies in your DNA.
FAQs
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You might be sitting with some questions about your ability to commit to the journey. A few questions I have received are about commitment. Consider reading what I’m about to share with a deep love for yourself and forgiveness for where you feel you disappoint. Consider the only expectation I have is that you love yourself and that alone is enough. You owe me nothing, not signing up, not reading this- NOTHING. If you do read on, read compassionately and curiously.
This is not a group program with a rigorous attendance requirement. The calls and activities below will be 100% recorded along the way so that you can access the resources when you most need them (this is all part of the journey- knowing how to navigate lovingly).
I know what it’s like to not engage because I didn’t know If I could get out of bed or muster the energy it takes to show up. Or God forbid that if I did show up and be a crying, emotional wreck.
I’m not a coach or therapist, but rather a connector and facilitator. To close out, I told a friend the other day, think of this invite like sweatpants-not spanks.
-There is a 90-min call the last Friday of every month.
-There will be a four-hour virtual somatic experience six times a year. These will be held on Sundays.
-There will be weekly modalities emailed to you every Monday and dropped into a private Facebook Page.
-All calls are held for you in the cloud to watch anytime you need.
-Cancel anytime.
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There will be a monthly fee to pay our facilitators, virtual event support, as well as the purchase of a book to read for each month. The subscription is $125 a month. If you are in financial hardship, please reach out to me.
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All calls and virtual experiences will be recorded and uploaded to a members portal for year-long access.
Meet Tiffany Bednar
Tiffany Bednar is a Cultural Anthropologist and Senior Market Strategist. She has served over a decade as a strategic marketing communications expert in the fields of healthcare, e-commerce, public health, and IT.
She is the founder of SFMinc.co, Somatically Rooted, and is an advising consultant for investment management organizations. She has a strong stance on healthy digital practices and ethical business processes that create beautiful environments for future generations.
On her path to understanding two things she loves deeply: people and culture, she completed a training course led by Bessel Van Der Kolk on trauma and recovery and has a certification in Somatic Regulation Techniques from Linda Thai. She is currently enrolled in a certification program on traumatic stress research through the Trauma Research Foundation. She was a licensed massage therapist for eight years, completed a parent training program for play therapy techniques, and served as a post-partum aid to new parents at a birthing center in Dallas, Texas. Her focus of anthropological study in college was documenting what people reported they most needed as support structures to live a self-proclaimed happy, healthy, and fulfilled life. To read about her journey with Nervous System dysregulation visit the About page.
