Finding Flow
- Course
Advanced Nervous System Care for Thawing Freeze Dynamics
8 Weeks - Starts on May 31, 2024
Finding Flow
Advanced Nervous System Care for Thawing Freeze Dynamics
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Are you tired of feeling stuck?
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Are you wondering how you can help your clients who often feel stuck?
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Are you a person who’s done all the “work,” but still can’t seem to move past patterns that are negatively affecting your life?
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Are you wishing you had more supportive tools and ways to empower your clients who suffer from depression or chronic somatic symptoms?
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Are you wondering why you feel “nothing” so often? Or always seem to respond with “I don’t know”?
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Are you suffering from chronic health issues, anxiety, depression, malaise, apathy or lack of desire?
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Are you functioning – though just barely – with freeze patterns playing out in your body?
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Finding Flow is an 8-week nervous system dynamics course – with a limited retreat option in the enchanting and healing land of Taos, New Mexico! – that will meet you in all this, plus more.
Slow leads to flow.
Sustainable movement allows healing to happen, which leads us to speed.
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There’s so much information on nervous system dynamics in healing, coaching and therapeutic teachings, but what most folk – including practitioners – are missing is a deep, embodied understanding of freeze dynamics, plus effective ways to work with it both in your own body and other people’s bodies too.
There are many areas in which we experience freeze:
Business, sex, relationships, health, community, activism, and more. Or perhaps we don't experience it ourselves, but we see how freeze dynamics play out in our clients or friends' and families' lives.
Finding Flow looks at freeze from a nuanced and detailed perspective, understanding how it can exist on physical, emotional, mental, relational, spiritual and/or energetic planes of life, and how to better tend to it when it does show up.
Thawing freeze is not just a one-and-done thing.
The way most people approach freeze is to resist, push past, or shame one’s self. This isn’t our fault. The world at large and systems we operate in on a daily basis are set up to encourage us to push past pain, to blame and shame and ridicule ourselves when we freeze, and to make ourselves wrong and bad for not being able to just DO THE THING (whatever that thing might be)!
On the other hand, when we're in a dissociative state, many of us don’t even consciously recognize that we’re feeling resistance, or an inability to “achieve,” or are constantly worn out halfway through the day. When we're in these states, often what we are dealing with are freeze dynamics in the system.
Thawing out freeze in the body is a deep and, quite honestly, sometimes long process that if done intentionally – with love and care and somatic embodied attunement to a person’s unique system, soul, and make-up – can result in beautiful flow and freedom once again.
There’s always a reason a system goes into freeze. It’s never just a random occurrence. Understanding WHY our bodies do this – and creating a space where we can unshame this very intelligent trauma response – is a key piece to healing that many are missing when they’re looking at freeze as a problem that needs to be fixed.
Thawing out – especially at the beginning – often needs to be a gentle and slow process, since rushing or pushing ourselves through freeze will often result in a deeper freeze response.
This course offers you the education and opportunity to truly attune to what is happening inside of you or your clients systems, giving you the knowledge and understanding to equip you to create the right conditions for authentic thawing.
CLASS SCHEDULE
All classes are 2 hours long on Friday at 11 AM MST
All classes will be recorded and you'll have access to the recordings in the Podia platform for many years to come! It's totally okay if you can't join live.
Week 1 - May 31:
Trauma Informed Care + Creating Right Conditions for Healing
Week 2 - June 7:
The Blueprint of Health + Range of Regulation
Week 3 - June 14:
Unshaming Freeze – Safety + Self-Trust + a “No” Centered Approach
Week 4 - June 21:
Sympathetic Activation – Working with hyper-response
Week 5 - June 28:
Integration Week (no class) or Live Retreat in New Mexico (option for 8 people)
Week 6 - July 5:
Parasympathetic Activation – Understanding the 5 Layers of Freeze
Week 7 - July 12:
“Functional Freeze” & Syndromal Activation of Hypo/Hyper Dynamics
Week 8 - July 19:
Capacity, Capability + Gentle Thawing Celebrations
Welcome
Drop-In's for Finding Flow
1-on-1 Flow Sessions with Rachel
Week 1 // Trauma Informed Care + Creating Right Conditions for Healing
Week 2 // Safety + Self-Trust + a “No” Centered Approach
Week 3 // The Blueprint of Health + Range of Regulation
Week 4 // Sympathetic Activation – Working with Hyper-Responses
Week 6 // Parasympathetic Activation – Working with Hypo-Responses
Week 7 // Neuroception & GHIA + Syndromal Patterns
Week 8 // Double Binds + Closing the Container
Optional: The "Finding Flow" Retreat
Experience this work in person.
June 28 - 30 → Post-Solstice Retreat in Taos, New Mexico! (open to 8 people total - 5 spots still available)
Come & experience what it’s like to uthaw with…
Natural healing hot springs
River walks + swims
Healing rituals + working with the mountains and canyon as allies
Fire circles
Organic nourishing meals
Space + time to commune with nature, yourself + others in ways that help you find flow
***Retreat starts at 5 PM on Friday, and finishes Sunday evening.
***Price does not include housing or travel costs. You will pay for and find sleeping accommodations and travel to Taos.
***Two indoor/outdoor cats live inside the retreat space. If you are allergic, please keep this in mind. ***Feel free to message rae@raehalder.com about any questions or concerns, or if you'd like to see the retreat detailed document.
The Venue
Taos, New Mexico
The House
The Living Room
Outdoors
The Kitchen
Pricing
Please email rae@raehalder.com if you need an extended payment plan.
Finding Flow Course
8 Week Online Course
$450
Or 2 Payments of $225
Finding Flow + "The Finding Flow"Retreat
8 Week Online Course
+ "The Finding Flow" Retreat in Taos, New Mexico.
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$1338 total
Or 3 payments of $450
Who Should Take This Course?
If you identify as a healer, practitioner, coach, therapist or other service professional who works with humans and their bodies and you desire to meet your clients with freeze dynamics in more empowered and transformative ways
💧If you identify as someone who has freeze dynamics in your system, or you’re curious to learn if you have freeze dynamics in your body, and you want to know how to engage with them.
💧If you’re a person who loves nuance and depth, and you want an advanced education and understanding of freeze dynamics than what you can get from 99% of other coaching spaces and courses (even those focused on nervous systems)
💧If you’re a person who knows there must be waaaay more to freeze than what’s often spoken about, such as functional freeze dynamics or syndromal experiences of moving between a hyper-response and a hypo-response in the nervous system and body.
💧If you’re wanting a more spiritual and/or mystical approach to healing and nervous system health.
💧If you want to engage with the community around freeze dynamics and discover how you are NOT ALONE in these patterns + to have others hold your hand through the learning and transformation process.
Who is Guiding this Transformative Journey?
Hi I’m Rachel (she/her), though many call me Rae. I currently live next to the Rio Grande Gorge in Taos, New Mexico, the home of the Tiwa. And I’m the creator of this transformative container.
I am a neurodivergent and queer writer, thought-leader, coach and guide in the trauma, somatic and embodiment fields. I love working with highly sensitive coaches, healers and leaders who’ve done all “the work” and yet still sense there are unseen life-degenerating patterns dictating their reality.
I am a seasoned practitioner with over a decade of experience in post-traumatic growth healing arts, with some of the most advanced trainings around trauma resolution, sexual liberation, and collective healing. I have a unique, mystical, ancestral and energetic approach to trauma healing + pleasure. My work goes far beyond the typical somatic experiencing principles and enters into nature, plus the energetic and mystical realms of the “unseen.”
Outside of my Master’s degree--where I extensively researched sexual and spiritual healing through neuroscience, trauma recovery and embodied interspirituality, focusing on the spiritual trauma incurred by those marginalized in the Christian Church through sexual suppression, abuse and LGBTQ+ identification--additional qualifications include..
☼ Certified in Alchemical Alignment: Bodywork for Trauma Resolution and Embodiment of the Spirit with Brigit Viksnins (certified in levels 1 – 14, and retook levels 1-7)
☼ Certified as a VITA coach, a 600+ hr Sex, Love and Relationship coaching program with Layla Martin
☼ Studied with Rachael Maddox as a Support Coach for her Sex After Trauma program, and through the ReBloom Somatic Trauma Resolution Coaching methodology
☼ Two years of intensive study in Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy via my graduate degree
☼ Certified in The Spinal Attunement Method via SomaMystica with Sigourney Belle Weldon
☼ Certified in Levels 1-3 of David Elliott’s Pranayama breathwork training
☼ Certified in Energetic Justice, an anti-racism, anti-colonialism, and spiritual awareness modality
☼ Level 1 of Somatic Experiencing
☼ Level 1 of Craniosacral therapy through Upledger
☼ Certified in a year long Emotional Leadership Certification Program
☼ 2+ year long 1-on-1 mentorship with Tim DeSutter in Energetic Awareness and Energy Healing
☼ Consistently work with numerous coaches, practitioners, and experts in the fields of somatics and trauma
☼ Spent most of my early and mid 20’s in a transformational community rooted in permaculture, deep threads of spiritual traditions and practices, and healing
