Embodied parenting is a parenting approach that focuses on a parent's physical, felt experience and connection with their child, moving beyond just verbal commands. It involves paying attention to non-verbal cues, body language, and sensory experiences to understand a child's needs and communicate effectively. This approach emphasizes self-awareness, stress management for the parent, and a deep, relational connection with the child, promoting a more intuitive and present style of care. 

Key principles of embodied parenting

• Focus on the present moment:

  It encourages parents to be fully present and experience the joys and challenges of parenting in a mindful, non-reactive way. 

• Non-verbal communication:

  It recognizes that much of parenting is about non-verbal cues, like eye contact, touch, and body language, and teaches parents to be attuned to these signals from their child and themselves. 

• Parental self-awareness:

  A core part of this approach is the parent's own self-awareness, including understanding how their own body holds stress and how their personal history influences their parenting. 

• Body-centered practices:

  It uses practices that help parents connect to their bodies to better manage stress and respond to their children intentionally rather than reactively. 

• Relational connection:

  It emphasizes building a secure and trusting relationship through a "dialogue" of physical and emotional presence, which helps the child feel seen and understood. 

• Nervous system support:

  It incorporates an understanding of the nervous system to help parents support their child's emotional regulation and build their own capacity for self-regulation. 

How it differs from traditional approaches

• Beyond theory:

  It moves beyond just learning parenting theories to actually practicing and embedding new insights into their body, making them available when needed. 

• Emphasizes feeling, not just thinking:

  Instead of focusing solely on what to think or say, embodied parenting centers on what the parent and child feel in the moment. 

• Addresses the "whole" parent:

  It acknowledges that a parent's history, habits, and body are all involved in parenting, and works with these physical and emotional realities. 

No. The purpose of this group is to practice the felt sense of supporting ourselves as a caretaker while simultaneously gaining resolution through gathering, sharing, witnessing and being witnessed.

Infants welcome.

Toddlers need to stay home.

Childcare is hard to come by, I get it. Participating in the community with a child in arms is better than not at all.
However, consider that we are quite enmeshed with our children. When parents are present by themselves and for themselves it is a different headspace - the awareness of the changes we are going through as moms is more accessible.

Circle “works” best if parents come alone to be fully able to receive and rest from their caretaking duties.

Always. Email me.

90 minutes of formal class time.

For in-person gatherings there is always time to chit chat after.

In-person circles held twice a year, in the spring and fall.

Each year there are two circles planned, one for Fall and one in the Spring.

Add your email to the notification list for virtual circles below & when there is enough demand to gather online - I’ll send you an email with the details to register.