Upcoming Events

This workshop is for anyone who feels disconnected from their body and exhausted by the cycle of trying to fix it.

Maybe you think about your body constantly - what to eat, how to move, how to finally feel at peace.

Maybe you skip meals or forget to drink water, not, intentionally, but out of disconnection. Maybe you can’t quite hear your hunger cues, or don’t understand why your body aches when stress builds.

You might have tried every diet, felt like the failure each time, and still find yourself hoping the next thing will finally bring peace.

You may avoid pleasure or touch because of how you feel in your body - or you’ve dipped a toe into intuitive eating or body trust, but needed more support.

This space is for you if you’re longing to come home to yourself - not through control or perfection, but through softness, curiosity, and care.

Every aspect of this workshop is invitational, you can choose what works for you, and leave anything else behind. There is no expectation that you engage in a certain way. This is a time for you and your body to truly receive.

Expect a mix of guided reflection, individual journaling, invitations to try embodiment practices and tuning into the experience of your body, and optional sharing, either out loud, or through chat.

There will be room for quiet, inner work and optional sharing - but no pressure to speak if you’d rather not.

You don't even need to have your camera on if you don't want to.

You’ll receive some very light, optional pre-work from me via email and follow-up materials after the workshop that will support you in integrating what you learn and discover in the workshop.

I can see why! I'm a big picture person, full of vision, and sometimes forget to share the concrete structure behind that. So here it is:

We'll meet on virtually, through Zoom, on Saturday September 13th from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm (MST) with a one-hour lunch break, and again on Sunday September 14th from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm (MST)

Here's a look at the agenda:

Saturday 9/13

9:00am - 12:00pm - "Unearth" -

This section of the workshop will focus on the narratives and stories we've carried about our bodies. You'll be invited to engage with poetry and some narrative therapy techniques that will aid in identifying the stories you currently have about yourself in relationship to your body. Through journal prompts and guided mediation, you'll then be invited to rewrite those stories to better serve you in having a more peaceful relationship with your body. I'll invite group sharing, which is always optional, and never expected.

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm - Break for lunch, movement, a nap, further journaling, whatever you need.

1:00 pm - 4:00 pm -"Reclaim" -

This section of the workshop will focus on tuning into the experience we have in our body. We'll explore how we connect to our 5 senses, what true embodiment feels like. We'll also learn about the spiritually of our bodies, and what it means to relate to them through reverence and honor instead of discipline and harshness. Here, we'll focus on identifying how to hear the voice of our bodies and intuition. We'll learn about what it means to reclaim rest, pleasure, and attunement in our bodies when the world encourages disconnection and hustle.

*Breaks throughout can be taken as needed - the comfort of your body is paramount!

Sunday 9/14

9:00 am - 12:00 pm - "Devote"-

The final section of the worksop will focus on identifying sustainable strategies for care for the body. This is where we she the unhelpful and untrue notions that our bodies are feral- in need of drastic discipline in order to serve us. We'll learn how to determine if a self - care or nourishment strategy is freedom-focused or diet culture focused. We'll spend time creating a specific-to-you map of what devotion to caring for yourself through love and compassion really looks like. This section is intentionally done last in the workshop to ensure that choices here incorporate the work of Unearthing and Reclaiming we'll do Saturday.

*Breaks throughout can be taken as needed - the comfort of your body is paramount!

Shortly after the workshop concludes, you'll receive an email from me with the follow up materials and slides from all three section of the weekend workshop.

This workshop weekend won't be recorded.

In order to honor the energy created by the participants, and the depth of the work that often occurs in spaces like this - the workshop is only available live.

But don't worry - there are plans to run it again in Spring. If you'd like to be the first to know about the next one, email me to get on the waitlist: jesie@jesiesteffes.com

In addition to the live experience of the workshop:

Optional Pre-Work

About a week before the workshop, you'll receive an email from me with optional pre-work, that will include reflective prompts you can journal through, as well as a suggested ritual for inviting your body into the work we'll do in the workshop.

Post-Workshop Materials

Right after the workshop concludes, you'll receive and email from me that includes an Integration Guide containing suggested journaling prompts and practices for continuing the work from the workshop.

Surprise Goodies

In the days following the workshop, you'll receive some "real mail" from me! A gathering of some of my favorite goodies to support the work of the workshop, sent to you via "snail mail" including a love note from me, and special tokens specific to YOU.

Custom Guided Meditation (Early Bird Registrants Only)

Right after the workshop, early bird registrants will receive an email from me asking about their hopes for their relationship with their bodies, and what they'd like specific support integrating or being reminded of from their time in the workshop. I'll record a custom guided meditation for you based on those answers for you to use as long as you'd like - consider this a audio pep talk for when you need it most.