The intimate space is where emotional nourishment happens. It's where you experience acknowledgement, restore boundaries and activate true power.
This course is for you if you want to:
Tend to your heart, body and soul with more ease and illumination.
Create space within and around you where things move, open and are illuminated.
Come back home to your brilliant and powerful self with pleasure.
The intimate space is first and foremost between you and yourself. It also lives between you and any other entity, whether it's a lover, friend, nature or spirit. It can exist in one breath or become an enduring dynamic and flexible relationship.
How this course can influence your self-care and relationships:
If you've been feeling like meditation would be good for you but haven't been able to develop a steady practice, this course can help you find that deeper connection with yourself.
If you desire both autonomy and intimacy in relationships, this course can give you the clarity to find deep connection with healthy boundaries.
If you've been wishing for more space or time to stabilize and flourish, this course will revitalize your self-care practice and strengthen your instincts and skills for balancing energy.
This course includes...
- 6 rich and illuminating talks about how to create enduring intimacy with your body and emotional energy.
- 6 nourishing movement classes to nurture intimacy with your body and the emotional energy flowing through it. Yoga-based flow, meridian tapping, vocalizing.
- 11 in-depth essential oil lessons to support key energetic shifts. Guided Aroma Point Therapy self-treatments.
Summary of the course curriculum:
Phase One: Create space
- Pivot out of reactivity towards responsibility
- Become available for intimate connection
- Understand the intimate space, what it is and who it’s between
Phase Two: Anchor into your body and see your whole self
- Connect with your innate wholeness
- Clear anxiety and soothe survival mode
- Establish strong presence and initiate embodiment
Phase Three: Feel emergent energy
- Integrate and harmonize the head with the heart
- Clarify what is happening in your body with nuance
- Bring radical compassion and self-acceptance to your experience
- Create resilience, perspective, and presence through discomfort and pain
Phase Four: Facilitate and allow change within
- Cultivate receptivity, deep listening and co-creativity
- Dissolve shame and develop spontaneity
- Be nourished by movement, sound and grace
Phase Five: Return to yourself and stay with yourself
- Heal wounds of abandonment, betrayal and lack
- Reclaim ownership of your body and agency in your life
- Restore trust in yourself and know your power
Phase Six: Communicate and connect
- Become present to more than one reality
- Have power to choose your perspective and actions
- Connect and communicate with restored boundaries
- Sit with other people’s pain with autonomy
About Marisa...
A teacher of healing arts, creator and facilitator of healing trainings and retreats, and a lover of all things that bring us home to ourselves. Marisa has been helping people feel more at home in their bodies since 2004 through yoga, energy healing and integrative bodywork. Marisa has an extraordinary ability to integrate various methods and tune into what's emerging in the moment. Her teaching and hands-on healing bring people into deeper intimacy with their body and soul in an accelerated way. Her years of experience observing the subtle energy of life has given her not only an understanding but also an embodiment of the concepts she teaches. Her embodiment, of elemental and seasonal energies for example, lends a transcendent and also deeply grounded quality to the way she teaches.
Always learning and sharing, Marisa is most interested in our potential to feel more deeply, express more completely and choose with more power as we navigate these uncertain and rapidly changing times. She believes we can access our true power, resilience and integrity by growing our capacity to relate emotionally. She leads experiences combining movement, sounding, therapeutic essential oils, and energetic medicine practices as well as pleasure, improvisation, and integrity.
Reiki Master, 1200 hour certified yoga teacher, advanced Thai Yoga Bodyworker, Aroma Point Therapist and master healer.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: When does this course begin?
A: You gain instant access as soon as you purchase it.
Q: How long is this course?
A: It is self-paced.
Q: How long do I have access to this course?
A: You have unlimited access with no expiration date on the course site. It is also downloadable.
Q: Is there a group forum for this course?
A: Yes, there is a private Facebook group and monthly live Zoom meetings for sharing and Q&A.
Q: Are the essential oils included?
A: No, the oils themselves are not part of the package. An essential oil kit for this course—which includes bergamot, neroli, blue tansy, rose, palmarosa, jasmine, coriander seed, vetiver, saro, cardamom and black spruce—is available at monara.org. When you sign up for the course, you will receive a discount code.
Q: Is this like therapy?
A: No, this is not a substitute for mental health counseling or medical care. It is an extraordinarily helpful compliment to clinical care and healing arts.