Group offerings

Online via Zoom

5 Thursdays: March 12 - Apr. 9 ​​

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific 

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This series builds on my recent series, Resonance & Effortless Relating, and is equally relevant to those who did not participate in that series as to those who did.  

 

In this series, we will first and foremost deepen contact with our own body and being. With inner-resource, we will then practice subtle relational attunements to support the recognition of new relational possibilities and explore somatic inquiries to become more intimate with our relational sensitivities, patterns of defense, needs and preferences. We will slow down for the slowest ones within us.... the parts/places that need extra care and attention to feel safe enough to stay open in relationship. When we commit to not overriding these most tender places, we create the conditions for true, sturdy embodiment to rise. 

 

In everyday human interaction, things are often going way too fast for us to notice and truly be with the places within us that start to contract and feel uncertain or unsafe. When we can slow down enough to sense the very onset of these contractions and meet them from a place of curiosity and deep inner-resource, we can begin to transform our relational life. This is why containers are so important.... places where we are supported in bringing profoundly sensitive and caring attention to our relational habits/movements.      

 

We will spend most of the first meeting settling into our group space, deepening internal contact, and honing our container. This will be a continuous process of honing... checking in throughout the series to see what adjustment we need to make to support the safety and strength of the container. In subsequent weeks, we will more consciously open to contact with others, practicing subtle relational attunements and noticing what we need to stay in connection with others without losing connection to ourselves.  These relational attunements are designed to support resonant connection. Resonance is a response from the depths of our being. Experientially, it is a subtle vibration within the core of our being. More poetically, it is our being speaking to us that this right here is true, beautiful, safe, right and trustworthy. From the core our our being, we can allow resonance to guide our relational life rather than our conditioned strategies for creating, negotiating and maintaining connection. As long as is needed, we honor these essential and intelligent strategies. When resourced enough, we can enjoy the guidance of resonance.      

 

Contact with our own being is the priority here.  It is only where we are open and in contact with ourselves in our body that we can contact and experience connection with another. Using Realization Process exercises we will deepen our inward contact and uncover a felt-sense of safety and wholeness within our body. Through somatic inquiries and gentle attunements, we will bring attention to and support the softening of relational holding patterns. From our subtle core, we will open to a pervasive relational field and to mutual contact with others in the group.  Everything will simply be an invitation, and choosing not to explore a specific attunement is as valid as doing so.  The sensitivities and needs of your own being are your ultimate guide.  

 

This will not be a group therapy or processing space.  During group sharing and reflection time, we will not be responding verbally to each other in the form of feedback or advice. Rather, we will invite expression of what is arising in the moment and allow for each person’s expression to simply be received and held by the field itself. This unique structure is often new to some people and we will take time to go over the nuances and importance of it.    

 

As we experience human relating / connection in this new way – from our depths, in a safe container and prioritizing our own inward contact – we are creating an imprint within our being. Most relational holding patterns do not dissolve overnight. And yet to experience contact from our core and within the relational field creates an imprint from which we can source in the future.  

 

Some experience with the Realization Process is helpful but not necessary to join. If you do not have experience with RP practices, I would encourage you to connect with me for a 30-45 minute meeting prior to the start of the series in order to familiarize a couple of the main practices that form the foundation for many of the attunements we will be exploring. This is included in the cost of the series.  

 

The group size will be limited to 10 people.

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There is the possibility for this format / group to continue if there is interest from those who participate. 

 

Please email me with any questions.  I will be happy to respond via email or have a brief phone/zoom call to discuss. 

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To register, click here​

With questions, email  jason@wholeness-embodied.com.

Cost: $175 (Sliding scale available; please email me if you'd like to join and finances are a barrier).

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From past participants:  

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"Jason is a skilled and grounded facilitator. His ability to hold a supportive container allowed our​ group to feel safe and engaged, which was especially beneficial for this particular series. He brings a calm, kind, and open presence that fosters a true sense of belonging." - C.W. 

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"I had a deep sense of gratitude that I was experiencing the capacity to enter into the I and Thou relationship space more fully, more bodily.  Buber's great insight has always resonated with me; but, your teaching and practice ground this possibility in the body, in space and time: a dynamic of centering and connecting (from the center)." - D.M.

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"Through Jason's knowledge and skills of RP and his kind, open presence there is a sense of belonging, and I feel like any input is regarded as important and valid." 

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