EMBODIED ARTS & WELLNESS
Come home to your body
Three Movements, one return
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Return Home to Your Body
Before anything else, come home to yourself through intuitive movement and somatic practice. Drop out of your head and into your body, releasing the chronic tension of caregiving and rediscovering what it feels like to inhabit your own skin and remember what it feels like when you are not being needed.
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Make Space for Self Expression
From that embodied place, find more space to explore freely through art prompts, reflective writing, and guided creative play. Flow begins to return, not as an achievement but as a state of being.
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Find Your Belonging
​Being witnessed inside a small, intimate circle of women transforms personal reflection into deeper healing. You weave together the parts of you motherhood and caregiving has asked you to put down - your creative inklings, your wild aliveness, your sense of purpose, and leave feeling connected to your fullness, not just your function.
Does this sound familiar?
There is a version of you who moved
through the world differently.
A little less tired, a little more wild.
​But life asked you to set her down.
Just for now. Except now has lasted a long time.
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It's not too late.
​Creativity is not a luxury that you lost the right to.
​It is how you find yourself. It is the doorway back to your aliveness.
She has been hovering close by, like a hummingbird, waiting for you to welcome her back.
All you have to do is put out the feeder.​​​
Somewhere underneath the mental load,
the years of giving everything to everyone else,
there is a secret fear.
What if I missed the boat?​
You want to be a role model your family can actually see. Not just devoted, but fully alive.
You want to stop moving through
your days like an administrator, and actually feel something.
You want to come back to your own interests without feeling guilty, to make something that is yours without needing to justify it.
You want to remember, or maybe discover
who you are when you are not being needed.
You are in the right place if...
You really need a break, but you feel guilty
taking time away from your kids.
You feel disconnected to your body
and you need a doorway back in.
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You can’t remember what it feels like
when you are not being needed.
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You used to express yourself creatively,
but you ran out of time, permission, energy.​
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You never thought of yourself as creative,
but feel pulled towards discovering
something new.​
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You crave meaningful connection,
not just another social event,
but real and unhurried belonging with other women.
What past participants have said
Caryn Davis,
Mom of two, public school teacher
​I loved the idea of being mothered myself, of holding space for rediscovering my creative side. What I found was a way to move where my body led me without performing. I’m starting to really care for and listen to myself, and I notice the people-pleaser in me stepping back while a more empowered version of me steps forward. For the first time in my life, I actually feel my body, and it’s all so new and freeing.
Katie Tanski,
At-home Mom of two
I realized the real urgency of dance in my life, as a way to move emotions through instead of harboring them. That shift alone has helped me clear my mind more than I expected. I feel more confident, more joyful, and more generous now. I’ve started making decisions based on my own opinion and choice instead of automatically deferring to everyone else. Knowing other women were on this same path made all of it feel validating instead of indulgent.
Melissa Sarno,
Mom of two, writer
I came into Mothering the Maker with a creative practice I didn’t know how to find my way back to. What shifted was permission. I stopped feeling like I needed my partner’s or kids’ okay to take time for my own work. A buzzing creative energy came with it. I walked away with three new short story ideas, and I started giving myself quiet afternoons for baking, stretching, and being outside, things I used to write off as frivolous. Dancing playfully, without worrying how it looked, turned out to be revelatory. It connected me to myself and to my creative spirit.
What you will receive
• 4 in-person somatic-creative sessions, 3 hrs each (12 hrs total)
• 3 somatic yoga sessions to practice on your own time
• 4 playlists and guided embodiment practices to use between sessions
• A private WhatsApp community to stay connected