Workshops
Group workshops are designed to build collective resilience, connection, and transformation within community.
Resilience Toolkit Training
These workshops offer a dignity based model for understanding your nervous system, offer tools to shift states or settle, and bring a collaborative, ecological approach to stress relief.
Self-Massage Workshops
You’ll learn and practice myofascial release techniques for pain relief, relaxation, and a more nuanced relationship with your own body. Simple, safe, and deeply supportive.
Anatomy & Awe Workshops
Somatically sensing into the experience of awe has transformative effects. In this workshop, we bring our gaze and hands to the anatomy in an area, exploring the bones, muscles, nerves and organs through this potent lens.
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Building a bond : engaging the nervous system for pain relief and a more secure attachment to self
This workshop combines applied neurology and trauma-informed somatic practices
Applied Neurology is the science of intentionally training the nervous system for better movement, pain relief and performance (next level neuro). Somatic practices invite nervous system state shift and noticing when you need to shift. Elaine and Julia want to share tools that have helped them to return agency and reverence to the body. We want to use these tools to teach the importance of feeding the nervous system new inputs to change outputs (pain, stress, tension, etc). It can be hard to trust the body when we experience pain, trauma, injury, but deepening your curiosity for how the brain and body function is the best way to bring back trust.
Some practices you can expect to be included:
Breathwork
Cranial nerve stimulation
Gentle mobility
Using the environment as support
Mindfulness practices
This is for you if:
You are dedicated to your healing process but are overwhelmed
You’re experiencing chronic pain
You’ve been interested in the benefits of breathwork
You’re excited about the nervous system and want to go deeper
Saturday, January 24th from 10am-12pm
Sliding scale cost: $60-95
Location: The Sanctuary, 171 W Thompson St. Philadelphia, PA 19122
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When The Body Starts Talking
4 week mentorship with Julia Taylor of Threshold
A four-week, small group practice square opportunity to build skill with the nuances of bodywork that emerge when we are in it.
This practice quad is a commitment to more bodyworkers collaborating with awe to strengthen client sovereignty. Over the four weeks we will discuss and practice hands-on approaches and skills needed to provide trauma and consent informed bodywork sessions. Julia draws from her multidisciplinary experience* of 17 years in the field and holds the group in her office at Threshold.
Details
June 13th, 27th & July 11th & 25th
90 minute meetings
$400 for full mentorship month or $100/week
At Threshold: 440 East Girard Ave, Philadelphia, PA
Sign up Here!
About Julia:
Julia’s multidisciplinary experience of 17 years includes Somatic Experiencing, Visceral Manipulation, Craniosacral Therapy, Myofascial release, Resilience Toolkit, Swedish and Deep Tissue Massage, Neural manipulation, Reiki, Alignment Yoga, Somatoemotional Release, Anatomy and Physiology teacher for Massage Therapy Students, self and couples massage class teacher. They’ve worked in spas, chiropracter’s offices, and in private practice and are a Co-director of Threshold.
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PAST: Bodies are Webs of Choice & Freedom
Join Julia and Char for a day of somatic learning and exploration
We discuss the Circle Model, a nonhierarchical understanding of our body's stress responses through a critical power lens. We explore accessing more choice and freedom in our stress responses. Then, using myofascial release principles, we practice freeing fascia's patterns of stuckness. We'll build friendly familiarity with our fascia.
After lunch, we practice the body's natural ability to tremor - to increase embodied freedom! Our time on the therapeutic tremor includes a demonstration, several practice opportunities and 1:1 support as you try the tool out for yourself. This is the Resilience Toolkit (not TRE) version of the therapeutic tremor, which is a short practice intended for reset.
Join to:
- Feel our individual and collective webs of freedom
- Receive 4 pages of take home somatic tools
- Practice a tool for applying myofascial principles at home on any part of the body
- Learn the therapeutic tremor & start a home tremor practice
- Increase appreciation for our bodies and the choices we have
In person Feb 1, 10am-3pm.
The Rebirthing Center: 1027 69th Ave, Philly, PA 19126Early bird: $185 - through Jan 18th
Regular price: $225 -
Apologies Workshop
Holding on to hurt - that we caused or that we experienced - is like tensing a muscle.
The tension pulls on everything around it, limiting movement, breath, and ease.
Practicing myofascial release invites hydration, movement, and integration into our tissues - and opens up the possibilities of apologies doing the same thing in our relationships.
When genuine apology is offered, it’s like applying gentle attention to that knot, allowing it to soften and create space. The nervous system shifts from bracing into relief, making room for new possibilities.
Apologies can feel like releasing a deep knot in the body.
This is a hands-on, experiential practice workshop combining myofascial massage techniques with apology skills.
Expect to interact in-depth and to give & receive live feedback. We'll have plenty of tea & snacks, and move at the pace that our group co-creates.
With Julia & Char
TIME TBA
Julia's House, Germantown, Philly
The first offering of Char’s Loving Conflict is Abolitionist Practice series, in Philly!