Softening Intensives
Sometimes you just need something soft
Sometimes you just need something soft
Welcome to the Soft Something Haus. This is where the practice deepens.
The Softening Intensives are month-long cohorts, workshops, and day intensives designed for those ready to go further — into the body, the breath, the nervous system, and the specific seasons of life that ask the most of us.
Each intensive is rooted in the same method as the Softening Classes — designed from the care of people moving through the most physiologically and emotionally demanding experiences a body can know — and expanded into deeper education, embodied practice, and companionship care.
Space is intimate + limited. Below is a list of our current co-Horts and day intensives along with details. In the soft we go.
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Romance is healthcare. This intensive is for the relationship — with yourself, with your companions (people you consider in your life close), with the ways you give and receive care.
We move through the language of softness — co-regulation, emotional intimacy, companionship as practice, and what it means to tend to one another in the everyday. This is not therapy. This is something softer and just as necessary.
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For anyone carrying loss — of a person, a pregnancy, a version of themselves, a season that has ended.
This intensive creates a soft, held container for moving through grief without rushing it. Guided breath, meditation, education, and companionship care for the nervous system in one of its most tender states.
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For the person who is pregnant and ready to build their own toolkit — breath, movement, nervous system support, questions to ask, and the emotional, physiological and relational preparation that no one talks about enough.
This intensive meets you where you are and walks with you through the physiological and emotional landscape of pregnancy — building presences, comfort, and capacity for what’s coming.
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Because we believe postpartum is forever.
This intensive is for anyone in the postpartum season — whether you are 6 weeks out or 6 years out or 60 years post. We move through nervous system recovery, emotional processing, identity, rest, and the kind of companionship care that postpartum deserves but rarely receives.
“Ånewsün (a/new/sun) retreat is inspired by the Octavia Butler quote - “there is nothing new under the sun but there are new suns.”
I wanted a space where black women could fall apart in if they needed, space they could rest easy, where they didn’t have to take care of themselves so much. This was curated to nurture and care to every detail…so simply put Black women could just sit to sit, lay just to lay and be in leisure (free time). Perhaps in that they can experience their “new sun” amongst an intimate collective of women doing the same.”
I want to sponsor Ånewsün retreat or ask someone to sponsor me.
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+ When you pay it forward you are taking stake in addressing the disparities that exists in spaces and intersections BIPOC navigate in their health, care and healing. All donations and sponsorships directly go to gift registration fees, and to cover any expenses that could better make things more accessible.
+You are creating a world that fosters rest, holistic health & care equity and promoting sustainable healing through community, therapeutic care & experiences.
+In so few words, every single person who wants & needs to come to this, deserve it in more ways than one. Rest and curated care is basic human need & right. This is one collective that has been under-protected & cared for.
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These are good resources available when you click:
+Health Equity Among Black Women in the United States
+By the Harvard Business Review: Stop Telling Black Women They Have Imposter Syndrome.
+We must educate healthcare providers’ about Black women’s experience
+Sharing Our Story – A Conversation About Infertility in the Black Community
+The Nap Ministry: Rest Is Resistance+ Rest is anything that connects your mind and body.
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+In all of my heart, thank you. There is nothing like gifting a person with rest, safety, community and care.
+Thank you for being a human being that is making things better for other humans be-ing.
+Below is a button to donate button
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*I want you to know that asking for support isn’t always easy. But I want to tell you even if you do have the resources, there is no shame at all in creating an opportunity for people to help alleviate things for you. We all need to reimagine care and one of these ways is by allowing people to care for your expenses or cover your needs by letting people know the best ways to support you. Here are some things I myself and clients of mines have used to garner community and support. Please fill out the form “I want a new sun” above so we can connect & utilize our resources together!**
+Template- please modify and make it your own for this experience or in anyway you see fit:
**Hey, (insert name). Before I begin I want to say, this isn’t easy for me to ask you this.
I am in a season in my life right now where I am realizing how much rest, and time away from my everyday responsibilities I need. I found this retreat called Ånewsün. This retreat is focused solely on rest, care, and bringing intimate collectives of women like myself together to slow sip tea, have hand-drawn baths and every single meal cooked. Along with the other offerings, this could be an opportunity for me to take a much needed breath, and to just be for a moment or two.
In this season, I am learning to lean on my village more and to be vulnerable with where I am in my wellness. With that being said for me to attend, the rate per person is $2,500 and it includes everything outside of my airfare. I am asking my community to help get me there by donating (give a number or exactly what you need even if it’s babysitting or a ride to the airport)
Thank you for being who you are to me, and for loving me in all the ways. Let me know if you can support. okay love you byyyyeee. (Insert your ending)