How to Work with Emotions in the Body: A Somatic Workshop

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In Sojourn Healing Collective’s words

Your emotions hold wisdom. Learn how to listen to what your body is communicating. Feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or unsure how to work with difficult emotions? How to Work with Emotions in the Body offers a supportive space to slow down, reconnect, and gently explore your emotional world through the body. In this experiential somatic workshop, we’ll explore guided body awareness practices, somatic tracking, reflective journaling, expressive movement, and intuitive exploration to help you notice, name, and better understand emotions as they arise. Together, we’ll explore how emotions communicate through the nervous system and body sensations, while learning how mindful awareness and compassionate attention can help support emotional regulation, integration, and new neural pathways over time. Inspired by Somatic Experiencing® developed by Dr. Peter Levine, alongside expressive arts and movement-based practices, this workshop invites curiosity, compassion, and embodied reflection in a nurturing and nonjudgmental space. Leave feeling more connected to yourself, grounded in your body, and supported with tools for navigating emotions with greater awareness, understanding, and care. What to bring: A journal and pen. Please wear comfortable clothing. Materials will also be available if needed. Investment: $40 Meet the Facilitator: Nathalie is a therapeutic art and somatic practitioner who supports healing through creativity, embodiment, and presence. Her work draws from training in art therapy, a background in the arts, and studies in Somatic Experiencing®, the Tamalpa Life/Art Process® developed by Anna Halprin and Daria Halprin, yoga, mindfulness, and Reiki, as well as her lived experience as a mother. In addition to her formal training, Nathalie's work has been shaped by learning with a variety of teachers and mentors whose approaches to creativity, embodiment, visualization, ritual, and healing continue to influence her practice. For over ten years, Nathalie has worked with children and adults, facilitating workshops and individual sessions that integrate art, the body, movement, and creative expression as pathways to self-discovery and healing. After returning to California from London, she founded Finding Balance with Nathalie, a practice that reflects her commitment to cultivating balance of body, mind, and soul as a mother, woman, and human being.