Growing Capacity for Living with Change ~ Awakening Self & Community Healing through Connection ~ In Service to Community and the Greater Earth Body
Welcome
Here you will find various approaches and lifeways to tending aspects of the human body, mind, heart, soul as a living extension of the Earth body. All of them help to facilitate a deeper sense of connection with spirit, self, each other and ultimately with the larger living Earth and web of life. I look forward to meeting and supporting you! ~Kari Stettler
Somatic Resiliency Sessions
Somatic Resiliency supports your embodiment of agency and creativity through reconnecting you with your own innate healing wisdom of your body, nervous system regulation and growing your capacity and tolerance for the range of experiences you may encounter, from pleasure to the challenges of unexpected change and disaster. Ultimately, session work can support you wholeheartedly engaging in life. Somatic Experiencing® touch work is available as part of our session work. Individual, Couple, Relational and Family sessions are available.
Initiation in the Great Turning
These deep dive offerings support people in growing connection with one’s true nature, breaking patterns that don’t serve, strengthening nature , spiritual and community connection and clarifying purpose and service path. These initiatory experiences can be supportive of marking life stage changes and growth milestones. Offerings are grounded in the Work that Reconnects drawing on the root teachings of deep ecologist and eco-philosopher, Joanna Macy. Rites of Belonging is grounded in elemental and ancestral connection. We explore elemental ritual, ceremony and lifeways in group settings on the land to deepen solidarity, community healing and resiliency in the changing times in which we live.
Astrology & Garden Apprenticeship
In the Garden Apprenticeship we are guided by the constellations and planets that can be seen in the sky with the naked eye drawing on the approach used in both Vedic Astrology and Biodynamic Agriculture to grow the human soul and the Earth’s soil! The Garden Apprenticeship offers a four season, hands-on experience applying cosmic knowledge to the garden. Participants will grow nutrient-dense food and medicine while exploring how the garden reflects our inner landscape.
Vedic astrology readings offer a compass and support to your life and growth path providing a helpful compliment if you are working with Kari in the context of Somatic Resiliency sessions, Initiatory journeys and/or the Garden Apprenticeship.
Kari Stettler and Somatic Resiliency offerings reside on the stolen lands from the ancestral and current inhabitants of Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo tribal nations. These communities, currently represented by but not limited to, The Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, who have called this place home for hundreds of generations before European and other mixed race settlers arrived, are the original and current human stewards of these dynamic ecologies. The diverse landscapes of this region which provide an abundance of food, medicine and textiles from which I benefit is an ongoing legacy from generations of their tending. Wherever you are reading this from, I invite you to take a moment, reflect on the Indigenous peoples of the place you call home. How can you learn more about them, their culture, their stories of past and present, and most importantly, what can you do to support local Indigenous led organizations, projects and movements? If you are living in or around the “Bay Area of California”, there is a list on the Allyship page of local Indigenous-led organizations and projects you can consider researching and supporting.