Awaken
unlock the wisdom of your body so you can feel a sense of safety and joy again
6 week live online course for healing stress and trauma
We have a fee sliding scale available
Contact us if you need a scholarship: support@embodiment.institute
Somatic healing course with gentle movement practices, informative sessions, explorative discussion and take home resources.
Together we will explore … listen … learn … move and heal.
6 x 120min live online weekly classes
AWAKEN brings together somatic principles, gentle movement exercises and neuroscience therapies to restore and heal your nervous system.
Together we can get to the heart of the issues underlying stress, trauma and grief.
Topics explored
Somatic healing for stress and trauma
Reacquainting with the body
Nervous system regulation
Restoring felt sense of safety
Stress, trauma and the brain
Grounding, resourcing and self regulation
Working with emotions
Polyvagal Theory and Window of Tolerance
Managing triggers
Neuroscience of trauma
Balance, center and anchoring
Resilience
Trauma and grief
Self Care
Internal Family Systems
Somatic practices and gentle movement
Orienting Exercise for Self Regulation
Breath work
Healing visualizations
Writing from the Body
Qi Gong
Embodied movement
Focusing
Movement for Humans (a gentle movement practice)
meet the facilitators
Andreanna
Somatic Movement Educator
Giselle
Somatic Psychotherapist
Hi, we’re Giselle and Andreanna. Giselle is a somatic psychotherapist and Andreanna is a somatic movement educator. Together we have over 50 years of combined experience.
We have both experienced our own traumas and health challenges. We have been where you are. In our courses, we don’t just teach you the information, we share our experiences and what has worked for us.
We know that trauma breaks trust in ourselves.
It can feel like we’re lost or broken. It can feel like we’ve never really felt safe. We may battle a myriad of feelings daily and we may feel relationships are just too difficult.
Trauma disconnects us from ourselves.
Somatic healing restores that connection.
course structure
AWAKEN is a somatic course to re-connect and integrate body, mind, and heart through movement practices and methods that restore well-being.
We will meet once a week (live and online) for 2 hours of class with home practice along with supporting resources. Recordings of each class will be available. 12 people max per course.
Our primary focus will be methods and practices that we can experience through the body, enhancing and deepening these with discussion and writing.
We will look at our experiences through a trauma informed lens and create a safe place to explore and broaden our understanding, in the healing presence of other participants.
No previous experience is necessary.
We have a fee sliding scale available.
Contact us for scholarships.
What is our intention for this course?
We want to give people a safe space and time for healing, honoring each person's process, and recognizing each person as important, worthy and powerful.
We want to share valuable information about trauma and stress, so each can begin their own trauma self inquiry, becoming more and more who they really are.
We want to teach people how trauma impacts the body, brain and nervous system and to share simple methods and practices for calming the nervous system and getting back to center.
Who did we have in mind when we created this course?
People experiencing the effects of trauma, chronic pain issues, fatigue issues, people who want to let go of stress, want to learn about the body and mind connection, want practical exercises for the nervous system, want to heal trauma, and want to improve their nervous system health.
What are the benefits?
Improve self awareness to better meet the demands and changes of life, reconnect with your internal messaging systems to enable you to create safety and address your needs, regulate your nervous system and emotions to interact and relate to others in healthier ways, rewire your body, feelings and thoughts to an integrated grounded sense of self in the world and increase your capacity for joy and ease.
We recognize the prevalence of trauma and its widespread impact and believe in the importance of sharing potential pathways of healing and restoration. We acknowledge that knowing how to work with the body is essential to trauma recovery.
We know that trauma disconnects us from ourselves.
It affects all aspects of our life.
It changes the way we feel and how we respond because our nervous system has been most affected.
We can reconnect and build trust.
Our nervous system is the key.
Testimonials
Giselle and Andreanna's Awakening course is something I wish all humans could take. The material and practices help reconnect us to our bodies and understand and change any cycles that got stuck from traumatic experiences in our past. For me, the course was empowering and life-changing. And, participating with a group of others on the same journey made it all the more powerful.
Jennifer
Andreanna and Giselle have crafted a very effective transformative course with Awaken, a perfect balance of information and somatic practices. I'd done 30 years of psychotherapy when I joined the course, and through this course learned about the major components of the nervous system, and how to increase the frequency with which I am mainly operating through the ventral vagal (calm, grounded, clear minded) nervous system. I now spend more time in ventral vagal than sympathetic or dorsal vagal, a magnificent improvement in my life!
Jan
“If the body feels safe the mind feels safe”
Bessel van der Kolk
WHAT’S INCLUDED in the course
The Facilitators
Andreanna and Giselle
Our life journey has always returned us to healing.
You could say that it’s all we’ve ever done and will ever do.
We may have many titles, qualifications and life experiences but at present we are answering the call to support people on their healing journey.
Giselle Lamberth
When I was younger I would have looked back on my life as a series of traumatic events that continually created hardships for me. Now I see it very differently.
With the current change of perspective, trauma has now become accepted and almost a natural part of living and even considered important for personal growth. Now I see my personal healing journey as not only for integrating myself but for helping others with this difficult path. What was once kept to the counseling room, I am now able to offer more people online.
My life’s journey has been all about becoming whole again. After experiencing many traumatic events in my life I came to learn the importance of healing in its many forms. My natural calling to help others drove me to become skilled holistically. I became a therapist, naturopath and a spiritual guide. Even with all these modalities that I could offer my clients I found that these did not address the underlying issue we face as human beings. We can heal the mind, the body, the spirit but fundamentally if we don't feel safe within our own skins it’s all bandaid. I believe this is the missing link that is critical to healing and integration. We have a right to feel safe. It is what we need and deserve.
Joy and an openness to explore our own being is the goal of my work in helping others on their healing journey.
Andreanna Rose
I had a deep intuitive knowing from a young age that I needed to dance. I loved movement in all its forms and experienced surprising transformations through moving my body. I decided to study dance full-time at university and it was there I began my training in gentle somatic methods. I was amazed to experience profound levels of healing through the work. It sparked a curiosity in me about how movement could have such a big impact.
At the same time I was engaging in service in my community, volunteering with battered women, working with young children, helping neglected and abused dogs. I saw how many people were disconnected from their bodies, understandably so under the circumstances.
It was so clear to me through all of these experiences that the body holds a wisdom beyond what most people realize. It seemed to me the body held the answers to most deep change and healing.
It became a passion and I embarked upon over twenty years of research and practice into somatic and other methods of healing and transforming body and mind. Things like yoga, meditation, Qi Gong, sacred and contemporary dance forms, the hows and whys the body is the key. I found life, vitality, joy. I wanted to shout what I had learned from the rooftops. We all have a body. Anyone can do this. I developed a deep desire to share those methods that had worked for me and make these more accessible to others.
When Giselle and I reconnected, it seemed our lives had been following parallel paths that always brought us back to healing. I felt called to support others on their healing journeys. The Embodiment Institute was born out of our friendship and this collaboration, this deep wish to share.
Our Values
We see every being as precious, valuable and worthy of celebrating and so we strive to be aware of all forms of discrimination by actively, internally and externally working against it
We believe that the core of healing and social change is connection with self and the body
Everyone has the capacity to heal, and we want people to have self agency in their healing journey
To best serve others we need to attend to our own healing
Knowledge should be accessible to everyone
We Endeavour
To serve others with respect and care
Build trust with transparency, honesty and openness
Provide actual transformation with tried and true methods
Create a space of compassion and safety
Always evolve with new ideas and research
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Some of the topics we will explore:
Class 1
Introductions
Somatic healing principles
Orienting exercise for self regulation
Restoring a feeling sense of safety to our nervous systems
Class 2
Orienting for self regulation part II
Neuroscience of reconnection
Inhabiting the body practice
Exploring our felt sense of safety
Class 3
Movement for Humans (a gentle guided movement sequence)
Deepening our felt sense
The Body Knowing practice
Class 4
Grounding and anchoring
The Qi Gong method part I
Trauma and your nervous system
Class 5
The Qi Gong method part II
Finding our centers
Polyvagal Theory
Working with emotions
Class 6
The Qi Gong method part III
Keeping our balance
Window of tolerance
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- San Francisco, - New York, - Singapore, - Sydney
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There is a sliding scale of three tiers available : Giving Tier $US600 for those with more than enough funds, Balanced Tier $US450 for those who have sufficient funds and Receiving Tier $US350 for those with limited funds
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Yes! We offer two scholarship spaces at 50% off the Balanced Tier fee, for each course. Scholarships are granted in the order the applications are received. Please contact us to apply for a scholarship:
support@embodiment.institute
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If after the first class session you decide this program is not for you, we will refund you, no questions asked
Trauma may leave us in a place where we can no longer ‘think our way through it’. Together we will learn trauma-informed somatic practices. We don’t have to do it all by ourselves.
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