5 week online classes—
Facilitated with a trauma-informed, eco-feminist pedagogy of pleasure.
Eco Resilience in the Face of Climate Disruptions
June 17 - July 15 2024
Are you—
Freaked out about the polycrisis?
Ready to face the realities and the feelings?
Worrying about the climate, rather than exploring possibilities?
Wishing for care, love and pleasure without denying grief and uncertainty?
Then you will benefit from this class and being in community.
Without skills in self-regulation and resilience practices, our capacity to respond in healthy and choiceful ways is diminished.
In this 5 week interactive online class, you will learn core embodiment principles, so you can respond from presence, compassion, and embodied choice:
How to catch yourself when you’ve disconnected and bring yourself back to presence.
How to breathe fully, and use breath to calm and quiet your nervous system.
Practice rest, joy and pleasure as an antidote to pain, sorrows and suffering.
Share concerns and ideas in a community of like-minded people.
Explore choices of what to do in the radical uncertainty we face.
When we connect with our deeper self, we are less reactive to outside pressure and what others think. As our capacity for presence increases, our capacity for pleasure widens to include simple and daily delights. Our capacity for play opens up enjoyment and creativity. In these small classes, we increase connection with ourselves and others and the more-than-human world as we navigate these times—experiencing community care as part of self-care.
RSVP by email, or book a 10 minute consult to find out if a class is right for you: 510-219-5097
A Zoom link will be emailed upon registration.
Suggested donation is $150 Financial challenge? Smaller donations or trades are possible. Really want to take the class, but don't have the cash or time right now? Let’s work it out together & make it a win-win.
If you can pay the full amount, please deposit $50.00 to Venmo @Constance-Clare-Newman *If you prefer PayPal or check, let me know.
Embody Wholeness for Artists—
In this 5 week online class, we will explore somatic principles as they apply to creating art. Come join a rich and practical exploration of how mind and body habits influence your way of being as you create.
Tune your whole self to a “blank slate” to begin work.
Learn to use less tension and effort in your making.
Explore using the “just right” amount of energy for your technique.
Find the space between idea and execution that allows spontaneity and surprise.
Practice catching yourself when you disconnect from your wholeness, and bring yourself back to presence.
Self-Regulation for Anxiety and Stress
Stressed? Overthinking? Negativity? Uneasy? Dread? Worry? All completely normal in our current times.
If you experience an inability to focus, or feel that you aren’t thinking rationally, or have trouble taking in new information, or if you are overthinking, ruminating and imagining negative outcomes, and all you can focus on is fear, uneasiness, worry, dread or nervousness, you are experiencing anxiety. Since the pandemic, anxiety has risen even among people who normally feel centered and content. But when we live in a near-constant state of alarm, we are not able to access our inner body-based resources to return to center. In this 5 week interactive online class, we will practice skills in self-regulation, strengthening our capacity to respond in healthy and choiceful ways:
How to catch yourself when you’ve disconnected from your wholeness and bring yourself back to presence.
How to breathe fully, and use breath to calm and quiet your nervous system.
Practice rest, joy and pleasure as an antidote to stress, suffering and exhaustion.
Release tension and experience easy posture.
Calm your mind and explore neuroplasticity.
In these small classes, we increase connection with ourselves and others as we navigate these times—experiencing community care as part of self-care.
This online 4-week class will help you practice the moment-to-moment ability to return to center in this time of enormous challenge. The ability to self-regulate and re-orient your nervous system to pleasurable calm and playful liveliness will help you move through this most un-ordinary time. In this time of disruption, resilience skills are not a luxury! This class teaches practical embodiment skills and resources from the Alexander Technique and other somatic modalities.
Calming your own nervous system
Connection with self, others and nature
Creativity meeting the current challenges
With increased presence, you’ll experience yourself as more centered, connected and creative. With presence, your moment-to-moment choices are more aligned with your inner self, and you are less reactive to outside pressure and what others think. As your capacity for presence increases, your capacity for pleasure widens to include simple and daily delights. Your capacity for play opens up enjoyment and creativity. It may seem weird to discuss the role of pleasure and play in general, especially while we’re in transition from “lockdown.” However, every day more research confirms the importance of play and pleasure for a healthy and resilient nervous system. Connecting to presence, pleasure and play leads to a more lively, robust, spacious, rejuvenated, vigorous, blooming, restorative, joyful wholeness.
How will your relationships be better when you feel more pleasure?
How will your work be better when you feel a dynamic centeredness?
How much better will your body feel with more playfulness?