Healing Trauma and Awakening the Devotional Heart

Trauma-safe and nervous system-informed practices.

Join Candace and a small group of friends for a transformative journey into Healing Trauma and Awakening the Devotional Heart. This online series will provide clarity, direction and support for attuning to the traumatized physiology with gentle curiosity and a compassionate heart.

“Thank you so much for your insights and loving, tender and slow pace. For helping us learn how to listen and respond with kindness to our nervous system.”
~ Participant

The imprint of trauma lives in the body as an over zealous, protective, highly reactive and primal impulse. It sends messages from the past that often have nothing to do with what is really happening. Those of us on a spiritual path eventually discover that all of our spiritual insights and practices have little impact on this highly activated system. This is a point of impasse for many of us as we are faced with the reality that spiritual bypass is no longer an option if we want to live an authentic and embodied life.

Over the course of eight sessions, you will be learning to listen and tend to what your traumatized system really needs to settle into it’s natural state of ease and receptivity. You will learn to orient your physiology towards safety and provide a reliable anchor into the present moment. This groundwork is essential to your traumatized physiology. You will learn how to dissolve the tension, bracing and contractions in the body with your compassionate presence; gentle attunement and steady devotion.

As your orientation begins to shift from forcing and fighting against the “past” you will begin to come into a greater align with all that is right now. You will begin to notice that tending to undigested trauma begins to call forward qualities that were lying dormant in your psyche. The traumatized system will not settle for anything less than what it needs which is what it didn’t get in childhood. Gentleness; presence; attunement; patience; slowness; softness; consistency; compassion; protection; love and devotion.

During this course, Candace invites you to:

• Recognize and identify the unchanging qualities of Presence.
• See urgency; complexity and reactivity as symptoms of the survival system.
• Explore your connection to the ground and the present moment.
• Find safety through the reiteration of simple experiential practices.
• Come into relationship with your traumatized physiology.
• Attune to the needs of your undigested past.
• Learn unconditional grace for the traumatized system.
• Allow your devotional heart to open naturally as a result of these practices.

With attuned teachings; slow and gentle repetition and simple neurosensory practices you will learn to:

• Pause and listen.
• Recognize home as right here.
• Discern between past and present.
• Find safety in the present moment.
• Recognize the difference between complexity and simplicity.
• Listen to and recognize what your physiology needs.
• Be attuned to the past as it’s still living in your physiology and to the quiet nature of present moment.
• Move with the natural impulses of contraction and expansion instead of against them.
• Come to know that contraction isn’t only a movement towards protection but an impulse towards rest; retreat; slowness; quiet; contemplation; devotion and surrender and that expansion (opening) isn’t always unsafe but a natural impulse towards the authentic expression of our innate aliveness and connection with all things.
• Learn to trust the present moment as the sacred ground of tending to the past and awakening your devotional heart.
• Embrace tenderness and compassion as messengers of mercy to the body.

What to Expect

Each session offers a blend of teachings, guided practices, optional sharing and listening exercises, and interactive questions and answers.

Registration includes:

• Access to all 8 live classes.
• All class audio recordings.
• Weekly homework practices and primings for upcoming topics.

To arrange e-transfer payment for Canadian participants email candace@candacekirby.ca.

If cost is a barrier please message me.  I am happy to arrange a payment plan that fits within your budget.