In this module, we will lead from our embodied capacity and lean towards what we want through our transparent vulnerability. We invite our relational traumas to be brought into the community to be witnessed and met in presence and love. We learn to connect, safely embody and relate with these old ways of being protected. While being held, felt and met in our vulnerability in a present, attuned and relational community, the parts of us that have been frozen in time, slowly begin to melt. These conscious embodied encounters rewire our negative and outdated views of ourselves and the world through the attuned presence in each interaction. We learn that our power rests in our vulnerability, our capacity to trust and surrender to the now, to be real, raw and authentic in connection with others. Now the energy that was unconsciously used for protection becomes available for connection, aliveness and creativity. Each conscious embodied encounter rewires our sense of self with the possibilities of the present.

Trauma is stored, and healed, in the body. It’s not enough to talk about it, or do emotional processes around it. To really get to the core of it, we must become vulnerable again, in a place beyond words, and move into pure embodied experience. This can only happen in a safe container we can trust. Sometimes that safe container is with a lover or a trusted therapist. But the greatest transformation and deepest healing, seems to happen mirrored in a group. More often than not, our personal trauma is our collective trauma. 

In this process each individual is also invited to claim their power back. With the group committed to each person’s healing and liberation, now there is the opportunity to learn to stand on the foundation of one’s own inner strength. The bonds of the group remain, but move into the background as each individual develops their capacity to stand alone, connected to one’s own sense of safety, clear boundaries, authentic yes and no, and the strength of our essence. From here, a whole new experience of community can emerge from the woven tapestry of each individual’s offered wholeness, power and passion.

We are held within the community and we stand strong on our own two feet. This is the interdependent balance that real love requires: I am my own solid person and I can also merge into joyful oneness with you.

Susanne Roursgaard will be joining the facilitation team for module two. She will bring over 30 years of work experience with her evolved Sexual Somatic Body therapy now called: The Gaia method. The method consists of a variety of tools including de-armouring, touch-focused techniques, soft de-armouring, energy work, breath, sound and psychotherapy. The intention with her work is integrating body, mind and soul, creating a holistic way of working.