(Part 3 of the Summer Saturday Workshops Series, “Managing & Metabolizing Overwhelm”)
One of the significant contributing factors related to overwhelm when you have a sensitive energetic system (i.e. if you identify as an empath, highly sensitive person, and/or neurodivergent) is often the flood of intrusive material that can flow through your energy field at any given moment. Because energy is something we can feel and sense but not necessarily see, it can be challenging to validate for yourself that this dynamic is even happening let alone figure out if/how to impact this flow such that you have access to a bit more consent regarding it and the sovereignty of your own field.
In addition, if you’ve felt flooded or bulldozed by other people’s energy and emotions or ancestral energies for much of your life and/or if you’ve experienced any kind of abuse, it often feels doubly difficult to even contemplate that this dynamic could be different as, with these experiences, there tends to not be much of a precedent in your experience or internal structures of a right to be protected, energetically or otherwise.
The good news here is that developing deeper relationships with the animal and plant energies on the other side of the veil can make a world of difference in beginning to shift this dynamic and experience. And that is exactly what this workshop aims to do. Through a combination of writing prompts, shamanic journeying with the drum and the playful creation of a visual protection map or grid, this workshop will help you open the door to new and/or deeper relationships with the specific animal and plant energies that can begin to offer your body and being a felt sense of relative safety and ease that may have felt elusive to you in the past.
This workshop can be taken as a stand-alone experience or as part one of a three-part series that includes the “Let’s Make Some Art: Building Containers” and “Unburdening & Re-centering” Summer Saturday workshops as well.
When: Saturday, 8/15, 11am – 2pm
Where: The Healing House
Investment: Single Workshop – $85; 2 of the Saturday Workshops – $160; All 3 Saturday Workshops – $230 Sliding scale available for LGBTQIA & BIPOC folx, if/as needed.
To Register: Click here.