Simple and Here: The Beloved Nature of Right Now
Simple and Here: The Beloved Nature of Right Now
An 8 week online course created by Trauma Therapist, Organic Intelligence Certified Coach and experienced Nervous System Practitioner Candace Kirby.
- Arriving
- Our Nature of Loving Presence
- The Impact of Trauma on the Physiology
- Creature Nature: Fight Flight and Freeze
- Orientation; Attunement and Finding our Ground Here Together
- Soft body: Welcoming Ourselves Home.
- The Tenderness of our True Nature
- Unconditioned Grace
Trauma-safe and nervous system-informed practices.
Join Candace and a small group of friends for this 8 week transformative online course as we shift the orientation of our lives from Survival to Presence. This is a journey of arriving, over and over again, in the present moment. Because so many of us carry the impact of development trauma we feel a great disconnect from our nature of Presence. Presence is always here and yet we are somewhere else lost in the reactivity of past and the future.
The unintegrated past obscures our view of reality.
This online series will provide clear understanding, direction and clarity for attuning to the needs of the traumatized physiology while gently supporting the nervous system to recognize safety and align with the nature of the present moment.
“The essence of your meetings brings this visual to mind. We’re all on an open boat that you’re gently and effortless paddling. We’re in beautiful peaceful waters amidst lush and lovely natural surroundings. You’re in no hurry, going here, then perhaps idling, going there, and pointing out the beautiful scenery around us, and pointing gently to the landscapes inside us, as if there were no difference. Sometimes there is joy, sometimes there are tears, and always there is what is…” ~ Participant
The impact of trauma is experienced in our diminished capacity to recognize reality as simply what is without an overlay. In service to survival we forget our nature of peaceful and compassionate presence. Through no fault of our own we lost our sense of connection to the sacred nature of the present moment and feel caught in the survival currents of intensity and complexity. We are adrift and longing to be anchored here and resting in our own hearts. The momentum of our lives is reduced to managing complexity; intensity and fearing outcomes rather than being grounded here in the simple, ordinary and peaceful nature of right now. This is the human condition.
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.
“One of the most subtly profound and gently deep experiences I have ever had has been joining you in this workshop. Thank you so much.” ~ Participant
As your orientation begins to shift from identification with the survival self and forcing and fighting against the momentum of past trauma you will begin to come into a greater alignment with all that is right now. You will begin to notice that providing the proper conditions for undigested trauma patterns in the physiology 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 your unchanging nature of infinite Presence.
- See urgency; complexity and reactivity as symptoms of the survival system.
- Explore your connection to the ground in the present moment.
- Find safety through the reiteration of simple neurosensory practices.
- Come into relationship with your traumatized physiology by attuning to unmet needs of the past.
- Learn unconditional grace for the traumatized system.
- Allow your trust to deepen and 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.
- 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.