emerge
A supportive community for those grieving. A resource for body, mind and heart to renew strength.
8 week live on-line somatic program
Next course April 2024
We have a fee sliding scale available.
Contact us for scholarships.
Live on-line program with curated gentle movement practices, explorative discussion and take home resources
Program runs over 12 weeks with 9 x 2 hour live weekly class sessions, divided into 3 modules each with an integrative break
We are meant to grieve together not alone.
Module 1
Grieving in a world that doesn’t know how to grieve
As a society we have lost what grieving is.
Our world seems unable to hold us in our grieving.
We can become a supportive community to hold each other in our grieving.
Module 2
Grieving with and through Your body
Your body knows how to grieve and is a powerful resource that is already there for you.
We will learn somatic approaches to feel grounded support for our grieving.
Module 3
hope and feeling the heart of grieving
We each have our own grieving story and we can be the storyteller.
Your body can help you integrate and heal.
Your body knows how to grieve.
Topics
How to reconnect to the body
Body as a source of resilience
What shapes our grieving?
Nervous system regulation
When we get stuck
Somatic emotional processing
How somatic healing can support grieving
How grieving affects the body and brain
How do we support a grieving body and mind
Grieving and physical pain
Body as a resource of knowledge
What part is trauma? What part is grief?
Living with loss
The heart of grieving
Gentle movement Practices
Orienting practice
Grounding exercises
Reacquainting with the body practice
Qi Gong
Regulating exercises
Movement for Humans practice
Releasing tension exercises
Body knowing practice
Writing from the body practice
Resourcing exercises
This Program is not meant to “fix” anything.
It is a resource toolbox for grievers.
Program Structure
EMERGE is an eight week somatic program to support grieving. Held in three week modules, each week has a 2 hour live on-line small group (max 12 people) class session with optional home practice along with supporting resources. There is a one week guided integration break after completing each module. Each class will explore gentle somatic exercises and practices along with discussion topics to understand the effect of grief and how to somatically support the grieving body and mind. The three modules are Grieving in a world that doesn't know how to grieve, Grieving with and through our body and Hope and Feeling the Heart of Grieving.
The primary focus will be methods and practices that we can experience through the body, enhancing and deepening these with discussion and writing. Somatic approaches, based in neurobiology research, greatly support, ground and process difficult emotions associated with trauma and grief. These limbic therapies bring back a sense of balance, control and resilience by working with the nervous system and brain to restore regulation and homeostasis.
Grieving is not linear and there is no right or wrong way to grieve. This course is not to “fix” anything but is a resource toolbox for grievers. It’s a place of support, to check in with each other and an online community. The course offers a collection of curated thoughtful, gentle strategies you will be able to use while grieving. You will understand what is happening in your body, brain and nervous system when grieving. It is a safe space where we can honor our own grieving at our own pace in the healing presence of others who are grieving.
No previous movement experience is necessary.
Next course April 2024
We have a fee sliding scale available.
Contact us for scholarships.
What is our intention for the program?
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 grief, grieving and trauma, so each can begin their own journey to grieve and heal.
We want to create a supportive environment, a place for people to be as they are in their grief, to hold a space of hope when it may feel there is none.
We want to share valuable tools for processing grief, using the nervous system for centering and the body for supportive grounding.
Who did we have in mind when we created this program?
For anyone grieving, who have experienced any kind of loss, experienced trauma, pregnancy loss, unresolved or estranged relationships, infidelity, broken family bonds, spiritual betrayal, life changing event.
What are the benefits
A safe space to grieve your own way and honor the loss on your own terms, support and resources for healing and for grief that has lasted a very long time, a place to acknowledge the physical and emotional toll of grief and the impact the grieving process has on all the parts of who we are, time to understand the effects of grief on your brain and nervous system, how to use the body as we grieve, self care focus that can reduce anxiety, depression and guilt, how to maintain connection to others as well as to what was lost.
“Grief does not change you ... it reveals you”.
John Green
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.
Giselle
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, often 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.
Andreanna
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
WHAT’S INCLUDED in the program
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These are some topics that will be explored in classes
Module 1: Grieving in a World That Doesn’t Know How to Grieve
Class 1
The Orienting method part I
What leads to grieving?
How grief affects the body and mind
Grieving and physical pain
Movement For Humans: a gentle movement series
Class 2
Dealing with demands and commitments
How trauma impacts grieving
The Orienting method part II
What is felt sense?
Movement For Humans: a gentle movement series
Class 3
Connecting with and exploring felt sense
Body knowledge
Grounding and resourcing exercises
How the body can help grieving
Movement For Humans: a gentle movement series
MODULE 2: Grieving with and through your body
Class 1
Nervous system and emotional processing
Qi Gong
What does it mean to metabolize grief?
Supportive somatic practices
Class 2
Neurobiology of grief
Power of co-regulation
Qi Gong
Which part is trauma? Which part is grief?
When we get stuck
Class 3
The grieving brain
Qi Gong
Support of daily routines
The healing power of nature
Supportive somatic practices
MODULE 3: Hope and feeling the heart of grieving
Class 1
Living with loss
Grieving your way
Gentle movement exercises
Writing From the Body Part I
Class 2
Nourishment
Taking care of yourself when you don’t feel like it
Gentle movement exercises
Writing From the Body Part II
Class 3
Finding hope
The story and the storyteller
Writing From the Body Part III
Gentle movement exercises
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Program begins 20th May 2023 6pm PDT
20th April - 6pm San Francisco, 9pm New York, 21st April - 9am Singapore, 11am Sydney
Module 1
Class 1 - 20th May 6pm PDT
Class 2 - 27th May 6pm PDT
Class 3 - 3th June 6pm PDT
Integrative break no class 11th May
Module 2
Class 4 - 17th June 6pm PDT
Class 5 - 24th June 6pm PDT
Class 6 - 1st July 6pm PDT
Integrative break no class 8th June
Module 3
Class 7 - 15th July 6pm PDT
Class 8 - 22nd July 6pm PDT
Class 9 - 29th July 6pm PDT
Integrative break no class 6th July
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There is a sliding scale of three tiers available : Giving Tier $US550 for those with more than enough funds, Balance Tier $US450 for those who have sufficient funds and Receiving Tier $US330 for those with limited funds
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We are also offering two scholarship spaces at 50% off the Balance Tier fee, for each program. Scholarships are granted in the order the applications are received. Please apply here
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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
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