Welcome to the Relational Salon, a creative, trauma aware group approach for practicing deeper, richer connections through somatic awareness. Emphasis is placed on listening with presence and emotional attunement, tracking the felt sense, reciprocal sharing and leaning towards the Space Between. Participants are encouraged to be curious about what all of this may open in the resonant field of Self/Other to promote body-mind integration, sense of safety and expanded states of consciousness.  If this appeals to your imagination and gives hope to your heart,  read on.

The Relational Salon is designed to create opportunities to cultivate vibrancy in the ventral vagal system through deepening into relational explorations. Our enculturated minds have glorified individualism, positivity and achievement over authenticity and belonging - and that has led to erosion of our mental, spiritual and physical bodies. Based on the fields of interpersonal neurobiology, attachment, transparent communication and somatic therapies, these dyad and small group practices are exciting and rousing at times but also contemplative, touching and deep.  This is not a forum for personal healing per se, nor is it a substitute for 1-1 therapy, but is an enlivening experience that engages our hard-wiring for connecting and belonging via embodied presence.  

Relating in safety is a biological imperative for mammals and the current polycrisis of ecological collapse, violence, social justice issues and political divisions on our planet continues to take an extreme toll on our nervous systems.  People report increased depression, anxiety and loneliness, and long for safe, meaningful conversations. Many feel stuck in a state of “scanning for threat” or in states of immobility, freeze and shut-down, all of which are exhausting and erode health and resiliency. It’s important to remember that we are hard-wired for love, cooperation, collaboration and bonding - and that there is plasticity in the nervous system which leans toward healing and optimum functioning given the right conditions.  The Relational Salon offers a container that is trauma wise/body wise and neurobiologically sound, creating opportunities in Dyad/Small Group Breakout Practices.

As we move forward in these changing times we need experiences that foster collective witnessing, authentic relating, mutuality and space to understand processes as they emerge. Let’s see what small doses of connection, honest sharing of what is happening in our world and time for tender emotions may bring us in this next phase of evolutionary potential.  

The Relational Salon is a 4-week process within a small group format.  We will be creating a safe container to support nervous system regulation and embodied presence via interaction with others, while staying with self.  Each gathering will focus on topics such as the State of the World, nervous system co-regulation, somatic tracking of the Body, the Field of Awareness and the Seen/Unseen Worlds. This process includes didactic/educational teaching and guided meditations, but the heart of the program will be in the experiential breakouts with others.  

Details

Please follow the links below and complete forms PRIOR TO payment. I want to make sure this program will be a good fit for you.  If not this first expedition into the Relational Field, then hopefully the next one!

Payments can be made through Paypal or Zelle - or Wise.com if you are an international participant.  

Dates and Times:  4 Live Sundays 5-6:30pm EST,  2024

Cost:  Doors Not Open Yet!

For Paypal please send as a gift/donation (Friends and Family); add a note indicating The Relational Salon for all payments please!

Paypal or Zelle: patelledge@hotmail.com

Wise for Intl’ Participants: patti@somaticmentoring.com

Number of spots available:  30

What this program doesn’t offer:  a replacement for 1-1 therapy or a way to heal deep traumas. If you find you need direct support regulating states, or are actively engaged at the moment in deep healing (Yay! for you) then it’s best to wait, as these experiential practices won’t offer enough individual support.  Instead, the Relational Salon offers an interactive process that we hope will open up new horizons of authentic connectivity, balanced presence, embodiment and joy with others, as well as a sense of being met and seen.