THE ENERGETICS OF COMMUNICATION
An 4-Week practice group into the Foundations of Relational Communication & Embodiment
We meet on Wednesdays for four weeks to explore some of what I feel and know to be fundamental relational skills — that shape and influence every single aspect of our lives. We are human. We have needs (and community requires us to have needs or else it wouldn’t exist). We have desires (and often they’re scary to express and find language for) that offer us a deeper understanding and a compass towards what it is we are longing for, underneath old patterns of suppression and judgment.
And yes, we all have limits to what we’re willing to give, to receive, or have actual capacity for. When we learn how to attune ourselves to these nuances within, we navigate our relationships with more honesty and integrity - and we all need more of that in our lives! We must help to co-create that which we desire.
Join us to explore your own internal energetics and build skills for more cohesive language and expression in all of your relationships and creations. I’m so excited to offer this Wheel of Consent inspired class again, that will invite everyone who participates to become more attuned, more skilled, and more confident in their relational energetics while navigating the shame, fear, and messiness of being involved in human intimacy.
We meet online for four consecutive Wednesdays from 5-7pm Pst.
Feb 25, March 4, March 11, and March 18.
relationship is practice.
And this space is a place to practice, to meet our edges, to unlearn and to learn — together.
We have to be willing to let our belly hang out if we are desiring to shift the internalized conditioning of our insides.
Many of us have been taught to pull our belly in, to be polite, or to perform in relating.
This cuts us off from the magic of our lifeforce.
And now we have more humans adopting so called “conscious language” that doesn’t mean shit, when it isn’t actually matching what is happening on the inside.
We build more trust and integrity in ourselves when we are more cohesive, more honest, and more self-expressed in our lives and relationships.
Cultivating more self-trust will oftentimes ask for us to learn to loosen our belts so we can feel, take some healthy risks in our communication, and remain curious as we practice.
The Energetics Of Communication is a 4-Week deep dive into the foundations of relational communication and embodiment that focuses on intimacy practices. We begin our next practice group on Wednesday, February 25th. Join us in the magic and mess of human-ing.
The Energetics of Communication is an intimate group class for learning and practicing the art and nuanced skill of embodying integrity, clear communication, self-responsibility and the crafting of relational agreements.
If you desire to co-create and cultivate more opportunity for honesty and self-integrity in your personal and working relationships, then this is the class for you.
We will be exploring with container building, collaborative relational agreements, honest dialoguing practices, bodily sensation and emotional tracking, titration and self-pacing, communicating desires and boundaries for desires in intimacy through Wheel Of Consent inspired exercises, and writing prompts.
The Energetics Of Communication will center Wheel Of Consent inspired practices to develop a deeper awareness of the energetics happening through our bodies, our language and communication. There will be ample time for real-time practice and skill building with other fellow students.
YOUR ATTENDANCE DURING THE LIVE CLASSES IS VITAL.
“The cultivation of self-honesty is the foundational root of the creation of intimate connections.”
Moving towards more intimacy for me, is moving towards living into more truth.
Truth, as many of us know, is not glamorous. It is inconvenient, but it frees.
Relational practices that bring us closer to being honest and cohesive, are incredibly generative.
Devoting ourselves to expanding our capacity to be with discomfort is essential skill building.
I don’t teach Masterclasses, but I do create a container where we can all be human.
Devoting ourselves to learning how to express what is more real and honest, is worth spending time on. Relational intimacy is often awkward and clumsy for most people.
Bringing humor, playfulness, and curiosity to these things as we practice and unlearn, can be a game changer.
The Energetics of Communication is a 4-part ‘Wheel of Consent’ inspired class, that includes the foundations of tracking the energetics for deeper intimacy, touch practices, practical skill building for more cohesive communication, and group explorations of:
Building frameworks to practice embodying self-integrity through honest self-expression
Developing more nuanced relational communication skills
Learning about and taking responsibility for one’s own wants and needs
Expanding one’s capacity to receive by staying in integrity with the self
Identifying resentment and taking responsibility for over-giving and/or not asking for what we need
Learning about and taking responsibility for one’s own personal limits and capacity to give
Gently identifying and unlearning inauthentic coping strategies in relating
Practicing how to make clear requests in relating
Knowing when to ask clarifying questions when negotiating relational agreements
Deconstructing and uncoupling the energetics of giving and receiving
There will be invitations for greater curiosity, presence and self responsibility with what’s happening in the subtle layers of our bodies and emotions. There will be dyadic explorations of relational roles and reflective exercises that increase our present moment honesty with our bodies ability to authentically give and receive. We will explore exercises created to bring more awareness in communicating what is true and and what is cohesive within us.
WE WILL MEET OUR EDGES. AND WE WILL LEARN DIRECTLY FROM THOSE EDGES.
Learning how to be more cohesive in our bodies and actions allows us to develop more trust and integrity within our selves. When humans trust themselves, they help to create the conditions for more honest and integrous relational energetics.
You will leave this class with countless tools, an increased confidence in your relational communication, and a newfound inspiration for more honest and direct relating, in all facets of your life.
These tools have the power to support various forms of relating, but we will be focusing upon more intimate contexts of relationship in this particular class.
When we develop more clarity and embodied intention when we are communicating with others, we have a better chance at getting met in the ways that we desire in those relationships.
True intimacy is built upon honest expression that arises from being able to make contact with the truth of what you’re feeling and experiencing.
It is impossible to experience the simplicity of honest relating if we are not connected to practices that help us discern when we are out of alignment with ourselves.
And- it is totally okay. We are not always honest or cohesive internally. We have to unlearn how to express ourselves as a way to please the other, or show up in ways that we still think will keep us safe, but only serve to cut us off from the real juice and vitality that is self-integrity.
Interpersonal relationships are what life and culture is shaped by.
Through reciprocity.
Through bodies.
Through desires.
Through language.
It’s crazy that the microcosms of our relationships become the blueprint for the “relational norms” that actually shape the future of our emerging culture isn’t it?
It’s crazy that when we practice embodying new relational patterns, we are literally influencing the trajectory of both the current and future generations of relating.
Culture building is relational work.
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The Energetics Of Communication: Foundations of Relational Communication & Embodiment
Your Guide —
ELISA SPRING
I utilize I wide variety of various modalities and roots of support that include but are not limited to: container building, guided visualizations, shamanic journeying, collaborative ritual practices, Wheel Of Consent relational work, titrated energy work, emotional intelligence and alchemy, somatic/body based practices to increase sensation and connection to the body, therapeutic storytelling, and personal myth-making.
I have steeped in many paths of embodied study that include Holistic Health Coaching, Specialized Movement Practices, Dance, Trauma-Informed Healing, Wheel Of Consent Professional Trainings, Somatic Sex & Intimacy Coaching, Ritual Grief Tending, Communication Studies, Sex Education/Yoga of Sex Practices, Birth & Blood Mysteries, Ancestral Healing, Mythological Studies, Dreamwork, and continual practice in the long lineage of frame drummers.
