Indwelling

Happy New Year from Alicia and I!

Alicia recently joined Indwelling as a Support Coordinator and as a Sacred Counsel Guide, and I am so thrilled to have her on board.

Alicia, also known as Keera, is a certified cuddle therapist, registered trauma-conscious yoga guide, body and energy worker, and Sacred Counsel Guide who runs her body/mind/soul care business BeHeld.

Alicia received her bachelor’s in psychology in 2008, obtained her Reiki I and II attunements in the early 2010s, earned her cuddle therapy certification through Cuddlist in 2019, completed Svalja Whole Being’s yoga teacher training in 2022, and attended Indwelling’s first Sacred Counsel Guide Apprenticeship Program in 2024.

She ran a successful business from 2012 to 2022 with multiple employees before she fully shifted her attention to holistic care.

She works within LGBTQIA+, ENM, unconventional, and neurodivergent communities and loves to provide safer spaces for those in alternative lifestyles. Alicia also leads regular gatherings for non-normative folks where they can freely be themselves without masks. She’s passionate about relationships, sensuality, kink, the interplay of seggs, shame, and religion, and how to build deep and meaningful connections and survive combative/emotionally abusive people.

In her non-working life, Alicia likes to visit her favorite trees, stroll around with her overly enthusiastic Aussie/heeler mix, hoard bean bag chairs and fuzzy blankets, devour sushi, and engage in rambling conversations about Big Things with friends.

✨ We are taking new clients in 2025! DM for details ✨

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BECOMING EMBODIED CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
A few spots remain for the Becoming Embodied Certificate Program that I will be offering at Svalja Yoga this winter! This certificate program is a holistic trauma informed training that incorporates depth psychology, somatics, and inner work, as primary pathways of healing and well-being.

This program is for yoga teachers, movement practitioners, bodyworkers, therapists, social workers, healers, or anyone looking to strengthen their awareness and expand their experience of bodily and imaginal knowledge in their own lives and personal practice, or anyone seeking to incorporate more holistic strategies into their work with clients.

Upon completion of the program participants will be able to:

*Appreciate the importance of inner work and integrate it into their lives/practices

*Hold an awareness of Jungian theories and somatics in a trauma informed manner

*Practice dreamwork, incorporating it as a creative primary pathway for imaginal knowing

*Rely on the felt sense as an inner compass and primary pathway for bodily knowing

*Understand how trauma impacts embodiment and imaginal/bodily knowing

*Develop and/or get curious about having a healing relationship with their own embodiment

*Recognize the importance of a somatic ensouled psychology

*Apply healthy boundaries and communication in their lives/practices

*Get curious about reclaiming embodied joy and pleasure

For more information or to register:
https://www.svalja.yoga/becoming-embodied

Photo Credit: Wolfskull Creative

NEW WORKSHOP OPPORTUNITY, SUNDAY DEC. 5th!
In this workshop we will explore healthy boundaries and communication from a trauma conscious perspective. A boundary is a limit or space between you and the other person; a clear place where you begin and the other person ends—boundaries are how we teach others to treat us. The purpose of setting a healthy boundary is, of course, to protect and take good care of you. At a base level, boundary setting can be considered a radical act of self-care!

What is your relationship to boundaries? Were they modeled to you as a child? Do they come easily? Are they challenging to implement?

Does boundary setting make you feel guilty or selfish?

Do you often sacrifice your own needs through people pleasing?

Self-Care and Setting Limits: Healthy Boundaries & Communication — Indwelling A boundary is a limit or space between you and the other person; a clear place where you begin and the other person ends. The purpose of setting a healthy boundary is, of course, to protect and take good care of you.

NEW RETREAT: BY TOOTH AND CLAW, JANUARY 21-23
Join me this winter for the "By Tooth and Claw: Womxn & Wolves" retreat at the lodge at Camp Amnicon, January 21-23, 2022. During this weekend retreat we will examine what it means to be womxn aligned in our hearts and bodies with the strength and predatory nature of wolves--by exploring how we can belong to ourselves (sovereignty), how we can look within for answers (imaginal and somatic knowing), and how we can learn to trust our instincts (wild nature).

We’ll investigate where our wild nature lives in our bodies as we traverse the feminine Underworld with pointy teeth and sharp claws. We’ll sing bone songs and send our howls through the forest on the wind. We’ll explore the deep visceral wells of powerful medicine within us and establish new territory.

Circling together we will draw on art and creativity, music, depth psychology, stories from the Norse/Germanic tradition, and wisdom from authors Sharon Blackie (Foxfire and Wolfskin), and Jungian analyst Clarissa Pinkola Estes (Women Who Run With the Wolves), to explore what it might mean to live our most wild, authentic, and instinctual life. The retreat will include embodied movement practices, workshops, ritual, and time in nature.

Wolves devour and kill what is ill, injured, or no longer needed. What needs to be eaten in your life? Are you going to share the kill?

Wolves have the fangs and claws to do the killing and will feed you. Will you allow yourself to be fed? What will you make from the leftover bones?

Register here: https://www.indwellingduluth.com/retreats-workshops

“We are all filled with a longing for the wild. There are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning. We were taught to feel shame for such a desire. We grew our hair long and hid our feelings. But the shadow of Wild Woman still lurks behind us during our days and in our nights. No matter where we are, the shadow that trots behind us is definitely four-footed.” -Clarissa Pinkola Estes