Coming Back to Okay
Fast self-care for a body that's had enough
A two-and-a-half hour experiential class in self-touch, breath and body awareness — practical skills for settling a nervous system quickly.
2.5 hours Groups
Somatic practice · Portland, Oregon
Each one is experiential — half teaching, half practising on yourself. No partner work, no hands-on from me. You can pause or step out at any point, without explanation.
Fast self-care for a body that's had enough
A two-and-a-half hour experiential class in self-touch, breath and body awareness — practical skills for settling a nervous system quickly.
2.5 hours Groups
Working on your own nervous system, with me, on what's actually happening in your body rather than in general.
This isn't life coaching — and that's not modesty about my scope. It's the order things have to happen in.
I spent years trying to set goals, manage ADHD, find a purpose, and think my way into a different life. None of it took. Not for lack of trying. My body didn't feel safe — and a body that doesn't feel safe will tread water indefinitely rather than strike out for a shore it hasn't been convinced is safe to reach. Nothing I was trying accounted for that.
Then I did the somatic work. The goals started showing up on their own, the sense of purpose came with them, and I stopped having to push for either.
I can't promise you the same — it's what happened to me. And it's what I've watched happen with clients, which is the reason this is the only part I teach.
Everything else you might want is downstream of it. I don't think any of it sticks until the body underneath it is settled, so that's where I start, and it's where I'd tell you to start too.
The library. The same material, at your own pace, for a monthly subscription rather than the price of a class. The point of it is slowness — time to get genuinely familiar with one tool before the next one arrives, which is the thing a two-and-a-half hour class can't give you. Everything new lands in it as it's finished, including the series below, at the same monthly price.
The six-part series. Coming Back to Okay is the first class in it — not a shorter version of it. The other five carry on from where it ends.
Both are being built. If either is close to what you or your group needs, say so — that's genuinely useful to me, and it's how they get finished.
I don't teach yoga. I'm not teaching pranayama yet — that one is waiting on a credential rather than on a doubt. And I don't do hands-on work on other people: that's a licensing line, and I stay on my side of it.
What I teach is smaller than any of those, and it's yours to keep: a handful of tools that have been made far more complicated than they are. There's an enormous amount of system built up around breathing — counts, names, rules to get right — and most of it is head clutter that leaves out the part actually doing the work. I'd rather just hand you that part.
No lineage to join, no teacher to keep coming back to. You fold it into whatever practice you already have, and you leave able to do it without me — that's the whole point.