Embodied Spirituality:
Opening to Our Body
Monday, May 15, 2023
Virtual via Zoom
12-2:30pm PT
Why is the word embodiment so popular today?
How does embodiment relate to your spirituality?
Our culture often tells us to ignore or control our body. Yet our body is our main means of experiencing all of life!
We are born as bodies. From our very beginning, we explore our environments with our bodies. This is how we relate to ourselves and others. As we grow, we adapt to our family and the cultures around us. We learn how to perform to ‘fit in.’ We become disengaged from our body, disembodied. We lose this vital authentic relationship with ourselves and others.
Thankfully, we can learn to be open with our body again, connecting with who we have been created to be. Ultimately, learning to embrace our body, embodiment, is about relationship. We are invited to find comfort, healing, and deep Love, along the way.
Join April in this 2.5-hour workshop. We will explore our five senses and what we mean when we talk about body. Through reading, discussion, facilitated practices, journaling, and a closing ritual, we’ll open space to experience ourselves, God, and others. Bring your curiosity and compassion to this experiential workshop to begin the journey toward embodiment.
How does embodiment relate to your spirituality?
Our culture often tells us to ignore or control our body. Yet our body is our main means of experiencing all of life!
We are born as bodies. From our very beginning, we explore our environments with our bodies. This is how we relate to ourselves and others. As we grow, we adapt to our family and the cultures around us. We learn how to perform to ‘fit in.’ We become disengaged from our body, disembodied. We lose this vital authentic relationship with ourselves and others.
Thankfully, we can learn to be open with our body again, connecting with who we have been created to be. Ultimately, learning to embrace our body, embodiment, is about relationship. We are invited to find comfort, healing, and deep Love, along the way.
Join April in this 2.5-hour workshop. We will explore our five senses and what we mean when we talk about body. Through reading, discussion, facilitated practices, journaling, and a closing ritual, we’ll open space to experience ourselves, God, and others. Bring your curiosity and compassion to this experiential workshop to begin the journey toward embodiment.
Your Guide
Instructor April Brenneman
April Brenneman is a Somatic Spiritual Companion, a Hatha Yoga teacher (200 hour RYT) and an Embodied Spirituality Teacher. She was sent from the two-year Living School program for Action and Contemplation in 2020, where she studied Christian Mystics, some Buddhism, and the prophetic call to social justice. Her somatic training came through The Embody Lab: Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy and Somatic Attachment Therapy.
April's passion is helping others connect with their bodies and discovering the Divine within themselves through embodiment practices, somatic meditations and compassion. Her own spirituality can be described as Creation Spirituality and Embodied Christic Contemplation. She spent the majority of her adult life raising and nurturing her five children, two of which had major medical complications. These hard experiences shaped her in multiple ways. She enjoys walking, reading, hiking, the natural world and long dynamic, life-filled conversations with close friends.
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April's passion is helping others connect with their bodies and discovering the Divine within themselves through embodiment practices, somatic meditations and compassion. Her own spirituality can be described as Creation Spirituality and Embodied Christic Contemplation. She spent the majority of her adult life raising and nurturing her five children, two of which had major medical complications. These hard experiences shaped her in multiple ways. She enjoys walking, reading, hiking, the natural world and long dynamic, life-filled conversations with close friends.
What Others Are Saying...
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Vanessa Sadler
April did a wonderful job providing a space to encounter divine presence through our felt sense of what it means to occupy a body. The pace was great and th...
Read MoreApril did a wonderful job providing a space to encounter divine presence through our felt sense of what it means to occupy a body. The pace was great and there was time for reflection and sharing.
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