Awaken with Intent (2026)

10/12/2022

My current offerings.

All are offered virtually AND in-person except for the Energy healings. They are in-person only 🧿🙏🏽✨💚
•
•
•

29/11/2022

🍁Virtual Workshop Dec 10 1-3pm EST🍁
Live Q&A Dec 2 @ 6pm EST

It is not an easy thing to witness. Over the years we have developed patterns and neural pathways that tell us to observe, “to watch carefully especially with attention to details or behavior for the purpose of arriving at a judgment.” This keeps us safe. We go into old coping mechanisms to manage the difficult feelings, sensations, and expressions. To numb them or suppress them. To ignore them so we can keep moving forward.

Sometimes, when we sit in the role of witness, we experience uncomfortable emotions and sensations. Our minds want to protect us from that discomfort, so they quickly move into problem solving mode.

While this pattern can shift us out of the discomfort, it also represses, invalidates, and abandons the feelings and the sensations. It abandons the part of ourselves screaming for our attention. That’s what pain and discomfort is. Something wanting our attention.

So, what would it be like to witness these things as they arise. Witnessing is not easy. We must develop safety, ensuring our systems know that we are supported and have the capacity to feel and be with the more uncomfortable sensations. We must be in consistent conversation with the part of us that wants to move away from the discomfort.

In this workshop you will learn how to begin developing that sense of safety with yourself. You will learn how to discern between the observer and the witness and the tools and techniques to begin sitting in the role of witness more and more in your relationship with the different aspects of yourself (archetypes, shadows, etc) and with others.
✨Sliding scale available
•
•
•

22/11/2022

I have to say it.

Stop thinking that quieting the mind is the solution, or that there is a quick fix to shifting out of the spirals of the mind.

There isn’t. It’s a practice and you have to dedicate time to doing it EVERY DAY.

We as humans in modern society will never achieve a quiet mind. But what we can do is learn to acknowledge that the thoughts are present and begin to develop a different relationship with them.

We can remember to come into our bodies and find the path to healing the storylines and wounds through the body.

It’s not easy, and it’s not meant to be. But by being in the practice you will experience more space, a higher capacity, and more opportunities for ease.

DM for support in changing your relationship with the spiraling mind 🌀✨💚
•
•
•

10/11/2022

🍁Upcoming Half-day Retreat🍁

and I are excited for this half-day retreat next weekend.

This will be a welcome into the journey towards rest, both individually and as a collective.

Join us for a beautiful combination of Restorative Somatic Yoga and Somatic Therapy in what could be called an extended Restshop.

Past Restshop attendees have shared that this experience is something “I didn’t know I needed”

“a retraining of the body for deep relaxation through supported poses, deep listening, and following your own intuition”

Registration is sliding scale $75-$100 for the afternoon. Check the usual spots to learn more and register
•
•
•

25/10/2022

For this intro workshop I am offering a raffle! Over a $200 value

The workshop will focus on exploring the differences of observation and witnessing and teach you how to be in witness relationship with your body and the different archetypes and storylines that arise.

What you win:
- entry to the class
- two FREE 60 minute virtual sessions with me

How to enter:
- share this post to your story (and tag me)
- Venmo $5 to -abutaleb (counts as one entry. Each $5 counts as another entry)
- comment and tag someone who’d benefit from this workshop

I will be pulling a name on Thursday and send event and scheduling info to you that evening
•
•
•

18/10/2022

Do you know I never used to cry? I used to be so even keel all the time that my family said I was on natural va**um. Was this a trauma response? Yes. And my trauma response was validated over and over by those closest to me that I felt terrible if I let any kind of feeling out in its fullness. I didn't even know what that looked or felt like.

Fast forward a few years and here I am in the consistent practice of letting myself feel and express every sensation that arises. I've been able to develop enough trust with myself and these different parts of me to cry literally dozens (maybe hundreds?) of times a year. Whenever the tears want to come out, I meet them. I witness them. I hold them in reverence as they show me whatever there is to see. In just witnessing them, I let my body know that it can trust me. That I will always honor it and create safe spaces for my emotions to be expressed.

And so, I bring you this workshop, Witnessing the Body. Join me in this exploration of learning to develop a different relationship with the more difficult emotions and sensations that arise, especially in these darker months. To honor them and the wisdom they have for us.

Leave with tools to support you to come back to your body, come back to ease, and tools that help grow your capacity to be present with the feelings that show themselves. If we give ourselves the opportunity, we can release the overwhelm of feeling and get to be in the embodiment of feeling.

With love

✨Witnessing the Body virtual workshop Saturday, October 29th 1-3pm EST✨
•
•
•

13/10/2022

We had such a beautiful group for our first Restshop on Monday. FANTASTIC feedback. Something’s we heard were:

“I immediately felt safety dropping into the space.”

“Even when I’m supposed to be receiving, I’m somehow giving and I felt like I could fully receive in this experience.”

“Grief arose at one point but I let myself be it’s friend instead of pushing it away, and learned so much from that sensation.”

“I came in with so much tension and now feel relaxed and like the knots have unrolled themselves.”

This is why and I do this. A wide range of experiences can happen during a Restshop, and we are both honored to hold you through them. Join us for the next couple of sessions, and if you’re curious about going deeper, we invite you to our Rest & Reclaim retreat. All 🔗 in b1o for three upcoming events:

✨10/17 Restshop from 7-8:30pm
✨11/4 Restshop from 7-8:30
✨11/19 & 11/20 Retreat - a deeper dive into this exploration
•
•
•

10/10/2022

A theme I keep hearing this week is that we don't deserve rest. We feel guilty when we rest or create spaces of ease. All of the storylines arise and try to convince us that we are undeserving, or that we're bad people if we rest, or who are we to rest? We haven't suffered enough.

Those of us who have experienced trauma are typically hypervigilant in certain spaces of our lives, so when we rest our mind, storylines and belief systems all get hyperactivated telling us that this isn't safe. "Don't let your guard down! Not even for a minute." We tend to be in the habit of either pushing this voice away or submitting to it. Both responses create tension or constriction in our bodies.

What if rest didn't look like pushing that voice away or telling it to shut up? What if rest was giving ourselves the space to hear that voice, feel it in our body, notice what happens in our bodies when that voice is present, and just witness it? What if we could just hold that voice in esteem and begin to relate with it from a place of respect?

This is what the Restshop is all about.

Come join and I as we journey towards the exploration of rest and what our bodies know and feel when rest is introduced. Three upcoming events (one today with some spots still open!):

✨10/10 Restshop from 7-8:30pm
✨10/17 Restshop from 7-8:30
✨11/19 & 11/20 Retreat - a deeper dive into this exploration
•
•
•

26/09/2022

Discernment is developed through being in the pendulum swings.

You won’t know what a fear-based decision feels like until you’ve made one (or a couple).

You won’t know what an intuition-based decision feels like until you’ve made one (or a couple).

Can you be embodied in each swing of the pendulum? Can you witness what’s present in the swings? Let your body guide you.

I can help you remember what your body already knows. Booking open
•
•
•

07/09/2022

What are the possibilities available when we rest?

This inquiry has guided and I to hold this weekend retreat space for people in our community.

Our lives have been shaped by capitalist systems and hustle/survivalist culture, leaving little to no room for rest. And once we surrender to the moment of rest, so many other feelings and thoughts can arise that actually keep us from being in this experience.

In this weekend, Lydia and I will be guiding you into rest using restorative somatic yoga and somatic therapy as our platforms for remembering rest and reclaiming the wisdom within our bodies when we do so. You will be nested into a space of rest, and guided into the felt sense experience of your body. The exploration of what is here in these moments of rest is potent. It is in service to ourselves as well as the collective.

Join us for this in-person weekend retreat. Cost is $250 to join us for both days and there is a $300 option to support those who don't have accessibility to the $250 option. Registration is in the usual place. If you are in need of financial support, please reach out and we will work with you to make this happen.

May we come to remember the beauty of rest, together.

•
•
•

Awaken with Intent

10/12/2022

29/11/2022

22/11/2022

10/11/2022

25/10/2022

18/10/2022

13/10/2022

10/10/2022

26/09/2022

07/09/2022

Address

Website

Alerts

Shortcuts

Share

Listing takedown request