Upcoming Eco-Somatic Events
Body Part Mapping In Nature:
Harvest the Fruits of the Season as You Prepare For Winter.
Where: Skyline Park-Specific Location Given at Registration
When: 10:30am -12pm on Thursdays Oct. 8-Oct 29, 2026
5 Participants Max Per Session for a Micro-Group Experience.
Registration must be made prior to attending the event.
Cost: $240/Full Series or $65/Individual Workshop
+ Park Entrance Fees ($6/per day)
Take some time to connect to yourself in Nature this October. Just like we harvest from our summer gardens and prepare our soil for winter growth, we can take time to collect our inner harvest as we prepare for wintering.
Restorative Movement ~ Time To Land ~ Connect To Self
The Oak Trees and native gardens of Skyline will be our companion as we spend four Thursday late mornings in workshops combing Restorative Nervous System Practices with the Tamalpa Life/Art Process methodology of Body Mapping. Body Mapping means each week there will be a body part in focus- we’ll connect to this body part as its mythology informs our inquiry. In this way we weave between aesthetic, kinesthetic, artistic and cognitive ways of experiencing ourselves in relationship with our embodied experience.
The Restorative Nervous System Practices will be taught layer by layer, so that by the end of the workshop- you will have practices that you can take home and do as your own; anchored into your sensory memory with the assistance of the breezes in oak leaves, crisp fall morning air, and sounds of migratory birds supporting you.
Individual Session Themes:
Oct. 8th: Legs & Feet
“Where have your legs been taking you lately?” And “what are they rooting towards?”
Oct. 15: Shoulders, Arms & Hands
“Are your shoulders holding the weight of the world? What are your arms embracing? Letting go of?”
Oct. 22: Abdomen
“What are your gut feelings?” And “What are you digesting lately?”
Oct. 29: Ribcage & Heart
“Where is your heart leading you?” And “If your heart could speak, what would it say?”
These 90 minute workshops focus primarily on time for individual experience and exploration, with short format group sharing at the beginning and end. They are very beginner friendly, where others who have experienced this work prior will take their expressive arts skill and experience even deeper. Each session begins with Restorative Nervous System Practices before moving into guided somatic movement explorations, drawing prompts using pastels and writing prompts all anchored to body part themes. This method bridges the experience from the abstract to the tangible here and now. Art materials are provided, participants provide their own journaling materials.
Space is limited to 5 maximum participants for a quietly tailored experience.
"Time in nature, intentionally moving, experiencing, noticing has allowed me to be more present and patient in my daily life."
A.L.
The Peace of Wild Things, by Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
