**This is an ongoing series that will meet once a month. Future dates will be posted here as they come up.

“When patterns are broken new worlds are born.” ~Tuli Kupferberg

Does anxiety feel like it rules your life? Are you feeling stuck in a pattern of anxious thoughts or near paralyzing sadness? Numb? Like you’re watching the world move around you while you’re on the outside?

This workshop provides somatic and mindfulness based techniques to aid in shifting long held patterns of thought and behavior.

We’ll use voice and movement techniques that assist in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension and trauma. They combine yoga-esque positions, breath, sound, and mindfulness techniques that are grounded in somatic gestalt psychotherapy. And we’ll learn techniques to build new ways of being in community, in relationship, and the world.

Voice means both the sound you hear and also identity. To say you have a voice is to say “I have a place in this world. I have permission to take up space.”

If you’re ready to reconnect to the fullness of you, and to be held in a safe container while doing so, sign up today or reach out for a consultation to see if the class is a good fit for you.

Each class is designed to supplement the work you are doing with your individual mental health practitioner.

Group size is kept very small. Register early to guarantee a spot.

Rate – $60 ($50 if registered before September 23rd)

For students/low-income discount use code STUDENT20 (20% off)

Melissa Grogan, LPC-Associate (supervised by Sarah Osmer, LPC-S). has over 20 years experience teaching and leading workshops that are based in voice, movement, and therapeutic practice. Recently graduating with her second masters degree (this time in Mindfulness Based Transpersonal Counseling) she became provisionally licensed as a licensed professional counselor – associate in June of 2024 (supervised by Sarah Osmer, LPC-S). Melissa’s skills of over two decades combine to allow her to be an effective guide and space holder for people who wish to utilize depth therapy tools to facilitate a more intimate relationship with their inner and outer life. She was key faculty at Texas State University’s Department of Theatre and Dance, has worked at University of Texas at Austin as a lecturer, is an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, has studied Knight-Thompson Speechwork, Presence with Patsy Rodenburg, and Body-Mind Centering at the Body-Mind Centering Institute and with Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen. She is currently pursuing a certificate as a Somatic Movement Educator and has certifications as a yoga and meditation teacher and is a Reiki Master Teacher. She works professionally with therapy clients, clients seeking connection to their voice and body, as an energy worker, and in film and tv productions. She has lead workshops nationally and internationally training people in mindfulness-based voice and movement practices to aid in greater balance and success in life and work.

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