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Finding Your Feet

Hold More, Carry Less, Be Your Own Ground

A 12-week experiential program for cultivating centered presence, inner steadiness, self-trust, connection, clarity, purpose, and ease- no matter what is going on inside and outside of you!

What if LIFE didn’t have to be settled for YOU to be?

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Life asks us to hold so much-relationships, responsibilities, uncertainty, loss, decisions, possibilities, concerns for those we love, and a society that feels like it’s unraveling. Sometimes we wonder if we are holding our concerns or if THEY are holding US.

We get caught up in our heads and in everything around us . We lose touch with our own inner compass, our hearts and bodies, and the wisdom we already have. This course explores how to hold the fullness of life without carrying all its weight.

Finding Your Feet is about holding MORE (more life, more energy, more joy, more capacity). It’s also about carrying LESS (less worry, tension, responsibility, and guilt). And most importantly- about knowing what IS and IS NOT yours to carry). It’s about meeting life’s moments with grace. You’ll feel more centered, grounded, and trust yourself more deeply. You’ll learn to move in the world and in your life from what matters-even when everything is falling to pieces or on fire.

This course is for you if:

  • Feel pulled in too many directions

  • Carry more responsibility, worry, and overwhelm than serves you

  • Care for others so much that you lose yourself

  • Are considering what matters most in this life chapter

  • Want to feel more grounded in times of uncertainty

  • Aspire to be more inspired and on purpose

  • Desire to respond more and react less

  • Struggle with rumination, self-doubt, and mental noise

  • Long for more connection, joy, meaning, and ease

  • Are ready to trust yourself more deeply

  • Suspect there is wisdom your own body can teach you

You are not a problem that needs solving. You CAN expand your capacity to meet a fuller range of emotions and experiences with clarity, presence, ground, and compassion.

What this program is (and isn’t)

What this course is:

  • A place to pause, reconnect, & renew

  • Practical and experiential.

  • Experiential

  • A supportive group environment

  • A space where you choose the way you participate

What this course is not:

  • advice-giving

  • judgment or pressure

  • about fixing or reinventing yourself

  • about staying calm or positive all the time

  • about just tolerating more

  • therapy

Locating your inner compass, working skillfully with thoughts and emotions, listening to and learning from the body, caring for self and others with balance, discerning what to keep and what to release, moving in the world from what matters to you, creating space for more connection and joy.

We develop your ability to:

  • Know when you’ve moved away from yourself and how to find your way back

  • Quiet mental noise and gain perspective

  • Relate to emotion with awareness and allowance

  • Listen to your body’s signals and knowledge

  • Respond from purpose, rather than react from conditioning

  • Distinguish caring from over-carrying

  • Set clear and compassionate boundaries

  • Make friends with the parts of you that are hard to love

  • Make choices that reflect what you care about most

  • Show up solidly for yourself and others

  • Resource your soul with spirit, nature, beauty, and resilience

Two Class Formats

In-Person

(Divided into two sections by 6-week modules. Can attend 1, or both.)

  • Time: Tuesdays • 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

  • Location:The Charbonneau District, Wilsonville, Oregon

  • Dates: Section 1 (6 weeks) 9/22, 9/29, 10/6, 10/13, 10/20, 10/27; Section 2 11/3, 11/10, 11/17, 12/1, 12/8, and 12/15

  • Cost: $170 each 6-week module | $300 for the full 12 weeks 

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Online Only:Full 12-week series

Live and recorded

  • Time: Tuesdays • 4:00 - 5:30 pm Pacific | 7:00 - 8:30 pm Eastern

  • Dates: 10/6, 10/13, 10/20, 10/27, 11/3, 11/10, 11/17, 11/24, 12/1, 12/8, 12/15, 12/29

  • Cost: $300

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Meet Your Facilitator

Dana Brenner

Dana has thirty plus years of professional and personal experience; teaching, practicing, coaching, facilitating, studying, and guiding individuals, groups, and organizations. Roles played include: executive coach, therapist, professor, parent, meditation teacher, somatic coach and bodyworker, leadership and organizational development consultant, yogi, and intuitive healing practitioner.

What SomaSolidarity participants say…

  • “I’ve spent most of my life figuring out what everyone else needs and wants before asking myself what I need and want. The class helped me recognize my own signals and set firm but gentle boundaries without feeling guilty or unsure of myself.”

  • “Being self-sufficient and taking care of business is something that got me far in life, until it didn’t. I wasn’t interacting with people in a way that allowed ME to receive, or THEM to achieve. It was humbling, but I learned to recognize when I was getting in the way. I began to see that over-extension was a conditioned habit and that I could learn new ones that made life sweeter and easier.”

  • “I started this at a time when I questioned everything- my marriage, my choices, my sanity. I was so depleted and could not see a path forward. I still don’t have all the answers, but I know how to connect with my body and it’s wisdom and resource myself and go from there.”

  • “I used to think resilience meant staying calm and handling everything thrown at me with grit. Now I understand it as being able to lose my footing and find it again. That feels much more human and possible. And less likely to wear down my immune system again.”

  • “Every headline, legislative change, or fear of what could happen next was hijacking my nervous system. I took this class to be able to maintain better perspective and feel less crazy more of the time. What I got from it was so much more than that.”

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