Growing Capacity for Living with Change ~ Awakening Self Healing through Connection ~ In Service to Community and the Greater Earth Body
Welcome
Here you will find various approaches and practices to tending aspects of the human body, mind, heart and soul. All of them help to facilitate a deeper sense of connection with self, with others and ultimately, with the larger earth body and its inhabitants. I look forward to meeting and supporting you! ~Kari Stettler
Somatic Experiencing (SE) Sessions
Somatic Experiencing supports trauma resolution through reconnecting you with your own innate self-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. SE touch work is available as part of our session work. Individual, Couple, Relational and Family sessions are available.
Spiral Initiations & the Work that Reconnects
These deep dive offerings support people in growing connection with one’s true nature, breaking patterns that don’t serve, strengthening nature and spiritual 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. We will explore elemental ritual, ceremony and practices in group settings to deepen solidarity, community healing and resiliency in the changing times in which we live.
Naked Eye Astrology & Garden Apprenticeship
Naked Eye refers to the constellations and planets that can be seen in the sky and is the approach used in both Vedic Astrology and Biodynamic Agriculture to grow the human soul and the Earth’s soil! 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 Experiencing or a Spiral Initiation journey. The 2026 Garden Apprenticeship is an opportunity to apply this cosmic knowledge in the garden and grow potency in food and medicine.
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.