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OUR MISSION IS BOLD:
Personal and collective liberation.

11/03/2026

✨November✨

November is here, and we have a beautiful month of opportunities to gather, connect, and explore together. 🍂

Our November calendar is filled with offerings to nourish the body, settle the nervous system, deepen connection, and make space for meaningful experiences.

Join us for a circle, a ceremony, a class, or simply some time in community. There’s a place for you here.

Take a look at our November calendar and find something that speaks to you. We look forward to gathering with you! 🤎

🔗link in bio or on our website:

www.somaticwisdominstitute.com/events

11/03/2026

Funding 2027:
Small Gifts. Big Impact.

✨The Power Is in the Community✨

🌀Big change doesn’t always come from big gifts. Sometimes it comes from many people offering a little, consistently, and trusting that together, those gifts can become something meaningful.

🌱The Somatic Wisdom Foundation is built on the belief that healing, connection, and meaningful support should be available to everyone. Through scholarships and financial assistance, we help make participation in transformative experiences possible for people who might otherwise be left out.

And we do that work together.

💛Our goal is to raise $15,000 for 2027, primarily through recurring monthly gifts. A monthly gift doesn’t have to be large. A $5, $10, or $25 monthly gift may feel small on its own. But when many people contribute what they can, those small gifts become a steady, reliable source of support—and that consistency allows us to keep saying yes to people who need a little help getting through the door.

This is grassroots giving. This is community care. This is what we can create together.

✨When you become a monthly donor, you aren’t simply making a donation. You’re becoming part of the ongoing circle of people who help sustain this work.

Give a little. Give regularly.

Help keep the circle open.

🔗link in bio or visit our website:

www.somaticwisdominstitute.com/foundation

10/29/2026

✨Women’s+ Breathwork✨

🗓️Tuesday, December 8, 2026
⌚️5:15  - 9:00pm

🌀CONSCIOUSLY CLOSING THE LOOPS OF 2026: A Women’s+ Breathwork Ceremony🌀

Join us for a women’s breathwork ceremony devoted to consciously closing the loops of 2026.

We’ll create space to look honestly at what this year has held and tend to the things that may still be taking up energy—unfinished business, lingering emotions, old stories, unspoken words, or commitments that no longer belong to us.

What to Expect:
✨Somatic Journaling: Discover what is ready to come to completion as we close out 2026.

✨Group Discussion: Find inspiration, clarity, and connection as we share our truths, witness one another, and explore what we are ready to resolve, release, or leave behind.

✨Breathwork Journey:Somatically process and release what no longer needs to be carried, creating space for the new year.

Part of our practice will be asking:
✨What is still taking up space in me? ✨What am I ready to complete? ✨What am I ready to release? ✨What do I want to leave behind as this year comes to a close? ✨What am I taking with me into the year with me?

🌙Through reflection, group discussion, live music and breathwork, we’ll create space for what is ready to move.

👯‍♀️Enter the new year clear, spacious, and alive.

♥️Come exactly as you are.

Note that this is an offsite event in Sparta, MI. Exact address will be provided upon registration.

🔗registration in bio or on our website:

www.somaticwisdominstitute.com/events

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10/29/2026

🧘Kundalini Yoga: An Owner’s Manual for the Human Body🧘

🗓️Series begins Tuesday, December 1, 2026

✨Choose AM or PM classes✨

December 1 - March 4

AM Program: Tues + Thurs 7:00 - 8:15am
PM Program: Tuesdays 7:00 - 8:30pm

👯‍♀️What if you had an owner’s manual for your own body?

🍵There is an old sory from ancient China that people once paid their healers to keep them healthy, rather than waiting until they became ill. Whether or not the story is historically accurate, I love the philosophy behind it: What if we gave as much attention to maintaining our health as we do to restoring it when something goes wrong?

🕉️For centuries, Kundalini Yoga practitioners have developed and passed down a remarkable collection of practices called kriyas — specific combinations of movement, breathwork, meditation, and sometimes sound — traditionally designed to support the body’s different systems and promote overall balance and vitality.

🧘In this 10-week journey, we’ll explore the human body, one system at a time, discovering how Kundalini Yoga can help us care for ourselves with greater awareness and intention. From our muscles and joints to our respiratory, circulatory, digestive, and nervous systems, each week will introduce practices that can become part of your own personal yoga toolbox. We’ll also explore some of the science behind these practices, learning how movement, conscious breathing, and meditation can influence our physiology and support our well-being.

🔗registration in bio or at:

www.somaticwisdominstitute.com/kundalini

10/05/2026

Behind the scenes at Somatic Wisdom Institute!

10/01/2026

🍁o c t o b e r🍁

We’re feeling really excited about the events for October and into November! The Women’s+ Breathwork is nearly sold out and the Silent Retreat is selling fast - register early to avoid the waitlist.

Learn more about Somatic Wisdom Institute by visiting our website:

www.somaticwisdominstitute.com/events

09/30/2026

✨A Prayer for Indigenous People’s Month - Community Discussion and Breathwork✨

🗓️November 18, 2026
🪶 5:15 PM – Optional Hapé 🌿 6:00–9:00 PM – Teaching, Somatic Contemplation, Community Discussion & Live Music Breathwork 🥗 Salad Potluck to follow

Our local community is largely white, and it’s possible to move through our daily lives without ever pausing to consider whose land we inhabit or whose wisdom has been preserved through tremendous resilience and sacrifice. This evening is an invitation to do just that.

Together, we’ll explore what it means to honor Indigenous wisdom with humility, gratitude, and respect. We’ll sit in curiosity rather than certainty, asking how we can cultivate appreciation without appropriation, deepen our relationship with the land, and become more thoughtful stewards of the healing traditions that have influenced so much of our work.

Through teaching, somatic contemplation, and authentic community, we’ll consider how reverence can become a lived practice rather than simply an idea.

After a brief discussion, we’ll move into a live-music breathwork ceremony, creating space to embody our prayers through breath, presence, and deep listening. Following the ceremony, you’re invited to stay for a simple salad potluck and community connection.

May this evening deepen our appreciation for the wisdom that has been so generously preserved, inspire us to walk with greater humility and respect. May it remind us that healing is something we cultivate together.

www.somaticwisdominstitute.com

09/25/2026

✨silence✨

November 13 - 15, 2026

This retreat is an opening into silence as a presence that restores, softens, and renews.

Together, we will share in the sacredness of quiet, listening for what emerges when words fall away and our bodies can rest into the deeper rhythms of being.

Nestled within 27 acres of open land and forest, this retreat offers ample space to wander, breathe, and reconnect with the natural world.

Why Silence?

Silence is a teacher. It allows the nervous system to reset, the heart to attune, and the body to remember its natural pace. In shared stillness, we feel the beauty of being together without performance. It’s a collective energy that uplifts even in its quiet.

What the Retreat Offers:

🔥Hot tub and sauna for warmth and renewal

✨Sound Bath to deepen rest and resonance

🌀We’ll walk a labyrinth together

🧘Guided meditation

🎨Quiet studio space with cozy nooks for reading, journaling and creative expression

💤Individual sleeping pods for private, restful nights

🥗Nourishing meals: self‑serve breakfast, hearty late lunch, and dinner provided

All inclusive! Stay one night or two!

🔗click the link in bio for additional details and booking information.

www.somaticwisdominstitute.com/coedsilent

09/25/2026

✨Authentic Relating✨

🗓️October 14
⌚️6:30 - 8:30pm
📍Somatic Wisdom Institute - Eastown

⛓️‍💥For most of human history, people gathered in circle to speak, listen, and make meaning collectively. Most of us were never taught how to be in honest, embodied relationship — with ourselves or with others. We learned how to perform, adapt, protect, or disappear in order to belong.

🌀The Authentic Relating Wisdom Circle draws from these ancient ways of gathering as a place to practice something different.

🪶Through somatic awareness, authentic relating, and the ancient practice of circle, you’ll learn to trust your body as a source of truth, speak what is real without losing connection, and experience what it feels like to be seen and witnessed in community.

🔥Over time, this structure allows you to build trust in your body, your voice, and your capacity to be in honest relationship with others — one conversation at a time.

🔗link in bio

www.somaticwisdominstitute.com/wisdomcircle

09/22/2026

✨e q u i n o x✨

The equinox invites us into balance.

Equal light. Equal dark. A moment of equilibrium.

Our bodies know this longing better than we realize… The subtle pull toward center, toward enoughness, toward a place where we don’t have to strain against ourselves, because we are already whole.

Equanimity is the capacity to remain rooted as everything moves. It doesn’t mean we’re constantly regulated. Our bodies are always listening for that rooted place. The equinox gives us a moment to get quiet and listen, too. 🍂

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Grand Rapids, MI
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