A Place for Joy Presents a 3 Night Somatic Experience…

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August 8, 9 @ 6 PM & 10th @ 6 PM, 2024

This three night somatic series is designed to help you shake free of your internalized Dis track and enjoy your gifts, skills, and success.

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The Situation

You have been shielded with a cloak of dissatisfaction masquerading as taste. It satisfies your need to solve puzzles by forcing you to take out your spy glass and get all the way down into why so-and-so or that event or the group cannot, will not ever succeed…even while they seem to be doing at least that.

You see, the drug of dissatisfaction is a comfort like no other–you get to pretend that you are going to do the thing, but you are just waiting for the right crew, space, people, grant, funding, sign to get going. You get to investigate forevah! You get to keep it a 100 forevah! You get to spill the tea forevah! You reign supreme in your lack of action because you do in fact have receipts of several times when you did get it together and do the thing…for someone else!!!

The irony! The sadness. The exhaustion. The loss.

Here’s the truth: you set the pace, you raise the bar, you define the crew that you are craving by starting. If you keep talking about when, then why and how, you’ll continue to have emotional complications around accepting that all the pieces of the puzzle have already fallen into place, save for one. You are the final piece. 

This series is for you if:

• You have recently noticed that you complain a lot…ALOT ALOT;
• You have trouble enjoying your wins;
• You would rather organize yourself around creativity, collaboration, and pleasure;
• You care deeply about your peeps, but have conversation patterns that keep getting in the way.

I invite you to let it all go on the spiritual dance floor. Maybe get free of a few habits of mind that have you trapped in your poise. Let’s get loose. Let’s get deep in those sinews and pull out all the old stories that you tell to get that dose of Dissatisfaction that holds you down and back. Let’s become present to what is and discover the safety and power of joyful, radical acceptance.

The Offering

Usually here the coach or class leader will tell you how much value they are going to provide. Because this is as much a spiritual undertaking as it is a physical one, I am going to tell you what you need to bring to leave on the altar of transformation. You’ve got to give to get.

• You will need to bring an open mind.
• You will need to bring the willingness to be uncomfortable.
• You will need to bring your attention.
• You will need to bring your biggest bag of emotional garbage you keep dragging around.
• You will need to bring your Cloak of Dissatisfaction.
• You will need to come prepared to sweat.
• You will need to bring your go-to, multipurpose dis, beautifully written out on a nice piece of paper
• You will need to bring any physical 'evidence' that reminds you that you need to keep playing small.

Take one or all three? Know that each night builds on the previous, giving you the effect of an energetic deep scrub. This is the workout that will work you back into alignment with your destiny.

The Preparation

It’s important to decide how many nights of the process you will engage.

Each evening is one hour in length, addressing a specific aspect of the way we create stories to justify hiding our shine under criticism. I have developed a full week long program, but for our first altar call in Memphis, I am offering three of them. Here they are.

Night 1: Imposter Syndrome

Let’s investigate releasing  the need to send oddly worded email replies that require that your colleagues, clients and cheer squad decipher them. Let’s release the apologetic sigh “because you just can’t tonight” once again with your alleged squad. Let’s repair the urge to vanish behind a wall of to-do lists and calendar reminders. Let’s accept that we have nothing to prove to anyone.

Night 2: The Devil is in the Details

This evening’s session might as well be called, I Ain’t Mad With You. Tonight we let go of needing an imaginary villain to fuel our success.

Night 3: Abandonment Issues

As you have developed your techniques of practice and survival, you changed, and by necessity, so have some of the scenes and people that can be with your Genius. Maybe you went back to school or took a certificate program that had you buzzing with hope. Or maybe you took that big trip you were always talking about but not all the homies could go. This practice is designed to allow you to grieve your maturity while allowing you to accept the gifts that it brings if only we celebrate it.

What is Somatic Activated Healing™?

Created by Sah DiSimone, the SAH Method™ is a movement experience designed to alleviate the stress and trauma of living in an extractive economy and culture. It is a radical, spiritual body technique that is practiced like interval training using movement, breathwork, meditation, affirmations, and ecstatic dance to create a circuit. A session can include as few as one circuit or as many as 5. 

This radical wellness practice — championed by Deepak Chopra, and heralded in Forbes, Vogue, the Daily Mail, and more combines science-based healing modalities to clear emotional blocks, build resilience, and reconnect with your innate and powerful essence.

Our students consistently rave that the SAH Method™ offers profound psychological, physical, and spiritual benefits including:

• Reduced depression and anxiety

• Reduced physical pain and lethargy

• Increased sense of resilience

• Increased joy and inspiration

• Improved physical health and energy

• Improved mental health and clarity
  Deepened connection to authenticity and self-expression

What is involved?

Each session addresses a particular state of mind that prevents true acceptance of yourself as you are right now. At the start of each session, a brief introduction of the title and intention for the class will be given as you are invited to direct your attention inwards as we set our intention for the class. You will be guided through the combinations each session by a certified Somatic Activated Healing™ Coach. You are free to move at your own pace, take the class from a seated or prone position, and hydrate when necessary. We ask that you arrive at least 3 minutes before the session and wait to be admitted from the waiting room. Late arrivals can be distracting to others and detrimental to your health.

What will happen?

That’s entirely up to you and your body. In SAH Method™ we ask that people arrive with no expectations for an outcome, but that you drop the story and stay with the feeling. Typically, people experience muscular and emotional releases during a session. You can expect to sweat A LOT. A session is like interval training for your mindbodyspirit. There will be loud music and encouraging shouting and laughing from the instructor. Your muscles will get a workout. You will learn and use specific breathing techniques. You will be guided through ways to meditate that flow with your life. You will dance like no one is looking. You will change. We cannot control the change that occurs, only accept it.

Is there a dress code?

Dress comfortably with enough support for a medium to intense workout. The invitation is to take the class in bare feet, but if you have foot issues you can wear athletic footwear that allows you to dance. This is key as many shoes prevent the foot from sliding and spinning, to prevent accidental slipping. Your body will be in charge of the moves you make, so dress accordingly. Be sure to take your clothing, hair, and jewelry out of the equation: if you are constantly having to pull up your pants or adjust your top, hair or jewelry, you will be too distracted to fully engage the sequences. You can serve a lewk (we love to see it), but make sure it is not in your way!

Ok, this sounds wild, I am in!

Great! To join us for all three nights the investment is $235. If you just want to try out one class, the cost is $85. Feeling generous? Pay it forward and provide a scholarship for someone who cannot mess with their cash flow at this time by registering at the $125 level! Scholarships will only be available at the level of the gift pool. 

A Place for Joy LLC will hold 5% of your investments to donate to protect elder trees in our community.