This 4-week deep dive will guide you to create a new, vibrant sense of safety, love, and belonging within yourself that leads to unshakeable confidence, clarity, presence, and increased pleasure— on all levels— in your life.

These are f*cking hard times. Even before Coronavirus reared its ugly pandemic head, we live in a time of turmoil, unprecedented climate chaos, polarized politics, social injustice, and mass extinction previously unseen in human history—a time called “The Great Unraveling” by ecologist Joanna Macy and “The Age of Loneliness” by herbalist Mila Prince.

It’s a time of existential loneliness, disconnection and demoralization, which can manifest as stress and anxiety, heartbreak and depression, mental fog, desensitization of our hearts and intuitions. It can look like procrastination and flightiness, being unable to follow through with anything, even the things we care about. It can look like stuckness, isolation, being unable to sleep deeply and dream.  It can damage our relationships and sap our libidos. For some of us, life can feel tasteless and smellless, and for others, it feels like a frenzied, disorienting flurry of color and busyness, all surface level, without depth, balance, or presence.

In these four weeks, you’ll banish anxiety, overcome overwhelm, sooth your stress, and reforge connection, so that you can get back in touch with your true nature and throw yourself into a life of presence, purpose, and passion.

finding clarity + calm in the midst of Covid-19

For whatever reason (I have a few guesses but no answers) the onset of the pandemic hit me hard… weeks before most of my friends were aware of how serious a situation we would soon find ourselves in. The crippling anxiety attacks of my late twenties— when I was out living the partying life in Hollywood and taking psychedelics multiple times a month, drinking coffee until 8pm, and eating way-too-many carnitas burritos— had nothing on these. Every day in mid-March, I had crippling panic attacks.

And when I wasn’t having a panic attack, I felt foggy, fatigued, and depressed.

For 3 weeks, managing my anxiety and mood became my part-time job, leaving me a lot less time and attention for work, writing, mothering, and being present to the incandescent beauty that is around us, all the time.

But I learned some things in those three weeks, and remembered others. Herbs that had sat unused on the shelf for quite some time became treasured friends again. Yoga nidra (the yoga of sleep, or getting yourself to sleep, in my case) became my daily nightcap. I swapped 5am wake-up, brew, and power-up sessions for sleeping in, a gentle meditation in the living room, and self-massage. When I was ready, I began regular breathwork sessions to start shedding accumulated trauma and complete frozen stress cycles.

Now, I’ve put together the exact tools that I used to get calm, centered, energized and passionate into the program that I’m excited to invite you into…. Sweet Serenity: a 4 week Guided Journey to Overcome Overwhelm, Banish Stress, Ease Anxiety + Live Deeply

Sweet Serenity explores the 4 keys to finding balance + wholeness in these hard times:

• Herbal medicine: the plants can help—their magic is one of deep belonging and connection, and their medicine has the ability to heal us deep at roots of the issues we face, creating pathways of vitality and clarity that enliven us from the tips of our toes to the crowns of our heads. In this program, you’ll learn about natural botanical medicines that help with the symptoms and root causes of anxiety, depression, overwhelm, irritability, fatigue, burn-out, insomnia, and daily, chronic stress (bonus: many also help boost your immune system function, as well).

• Meditation: this ain’t your mama’s 70s-style ten minutes of boring sitting, feeling like nothing is happening, and then bouncing up before the timer goes off. In these four weeks, you’ll be guided through meditation practices rooted in both ancient spiritual traditions and proven neurobiology that will help you get your mind, heart, and psyche back in order and feeling sharp, aligned, creative and calm again.

• Breathwork: biodynamic breathwork and TRE-style practices allow you to shed trauma from the body and complete frozen stress cycles to make sure that it doesn’t take root again.

• Connection: in this course, we’ll gather in sacred space every week, in real-time, to share our experiences, forge new friendships, dissolve loneliness, break through inner blocks and reconnect to one of the greatest pleasures that life offers us: connecting with others. By engaging in an intentionally held, loving space, we’re able to bypass the chitchat and go deep, fast, even though we’re still sheltering-in-place and can’t give and receive hugs. I’ve facilitated spaces like this for over 15 years in-person, and for 4 years online, and I promise that this will be unlike the many millions of depthless, chatty-cathy zoom happy hours your coworkers have invited you to (unless, of course, you just happen to have amazing coworkers).  

Level 1:
Chill the F*CK out + Nourish Your Nervous System
DATES TBD

Level 2:
Healing The Heart + Shadow-Work
DATES TBD

Option 1: $397
for those feeling abundant in these hard times and want to make this work accessible
to those hit more intensely by the impact of Covid-19, capitalism, racism, or colonialism.

Option 2: $297
regular-rate enrollment for those who are telecommuting, working from home,
and in many other ways are feeling strong and forward-moving

Option 3: $197
for those who have become under-employed during this crisis, whether from situation or stress.

Option 4: $97
students, activists, BIPOC folks, and others who may be financially struggling in these hard times.

Sliding Scale (you choose! the words attached to each level
are suggestions for where to place yourself, but not requirements)

What you’ll receive:

• 4 weeks of content-rich workshops on herbal care, meditation practices, and practical strategies you can implement right away to bring more calm, clarity, joy, and focus into your life. The virtual classes will be recorded, so even if life pulls you away for a week or the timing doesn’t work for you, you won’t miss anything – and you’ll be able to go back any time you want for another listen.

• Weekly Connection Circles where we’ll go through the practices live, deepen our understanding of the material, and create sacred space where transformation, healing, and integration is upleveled and held within a supportive community.

• Audio meditations, recorded breathwork practices, relaxing yoga nidra sessions, and printable herbal medicine handouts with apothecary-worthy recipes that you’ll refer back to again and again.

Here's what we’ll cover in this four week guided journey...

week 1:  Pull the plug on the stress response and chill the F*ck OUt.

• Stress is the root cause of many other challenges we experience in our minds and hearts, especially anxiety, depression, overwhelm, and sleep issues. New science shows us that stress (and diet) has the power to “turn on” and “turn off” genetic markers for long-term, serious health challenges in mindy and body. It also causes inflammation, which can catalyze or exacerbate the other imbalances in our bodies and minds.

• Tackling many of our lifestyle stressors (work stress, lack of sleep, lack of exercise, living through global pandemics) can take weeks or months to course correct and transform. The practices and breathwork that we’ll be working with this week can immediately turn down the body’s volume dial on stress, while providing balance and inner connection to love and pleasure so that we can actually make the changes we need to make, and experience long-term peace, presence, and joy.

• Guest Expert: Alexandra Solomon, Anxiety-free, Supportive Intimacy + Partnership in Times of Stress.
  

week 2:  (RE)Building a foundation of inner safety, love + Belonging

• This week, we’ll build on the practices from week one that will empower you to shed stress, banish anxiety, and connect back into your essential nature. We’ll also use meditation and breathwork to build a strong foundation of safety, love, and belonging, which is the “silver bullet” to your primal brain freaking out and enables you to experience unshakeable balance and confidence.

• Plant Wisdom: kava, passionflower, california poppy, hops, CBD, skullcap, lobelia, and lavender.

• Guest Expert: Rebecca Ferrar, the Wild Witch of the West, Working with the Bright Shadow to Ease Anxiety (plus some good news, astrology-wise, coming up).
  

WEEK 3: Nourishing the Nervous system with Fierce self-care + Daily PLeasure Practices

• Fierce self-care and pleasure, coming back into the senses as an antidote to tension and fear, how pleasure can help you release cortisol and nourish the nervous system on a deep and profound level.

• Learn a simple and effective daily practice that will ground and center you in clarity and connection…. in 10 minutes a day , you’ll create a space for celebration / gratitude that feels genuine and authentic instead of saccharine and hokey; clear fear, irritability, and sorrow: and honor your holy desires…yes, even in the midst of everything that’s going on.

• Guest Expert: Melissa Kelly, Gently Releasing Trauma and Upleveling Your Pandemic Experience through Mindfulness + NLP.
  

WEEK 4: ADAPTING TO THESE WILD TIMES WITH ADAPTOGENIC IMMUNE TONICS + BADASS BREATHWORK.

• Understanding the felt-sense and reconnecting to your body through sacral-area / womb breathwork, to release stuck energy and bring you back into balance.

• Plant Wisdom: Ashwaganda, Shatavari, Holy Basil, Astragaulus, Siberian Ginseng, Reishi, Chaga, and Rhodiola

• Moving forward: integrating the work for true transformation and lasting balance, wholeheartedness, and presence.

Own your magic.

Show up for the things that matter most.

Soulfully. Aligned with nature.

Wholehearted.

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