SHADOW SIDE OF
THE FEMININE
THE FEMININE
FREE WORKSHOP
SERIES FOR WOMEN
SERIES FOR WOMEN
This series highlights how we as women have been conditioned to suppress some of the most vital aspects of our emotional, sensual, psychological & spiritual landscapes, in order to keep up to the unattainable & limited standards of patriarchal femininity.
This 3-part workshop series is an antidote to these structures & and an invitation to open to the hidden and denied aspects of self ( the shadow), in order to reclaim your natural, embodied aliveness as a women.
Hosted by Maanee Chrystal.
Somatic Integrative Trauma therapist, Dance Therapist, Erotic Educator & founder of the Somatic Institute For Women
The shadow is the unconscious.
Shadow work assists us in birthing otherwise unknown parts of ourselves and our experience into the known, by making the unconscious conscious. As women, many of us often don't feel safe to just be ourselves.
Rather, we are programmed though patriarchy to adapt our behaviour, please others & live by unattainable standards of perfection & "femininity" based on what we do, how we look, how successful, youthful
& sexy we are, to affirm our worth.
It is In our search to be accepted, belong & avoid feelings or experiences of abandonment,
we end up self abandoning in order to feel safe & fit in.
In this workshop series you'll receive trauma informed shadow work & somatic practices that support your own investigation around these topics.
You will be supported to come into intimate relationship with your own shadow as a pathway towards a deeper embodiment of your birthright to feeling safe, alive & free in your own body as a women.
The shadow is the unconscious.
Shadow work assists us in birthing otherwise unknown parts of ourselves and our experience into the known, by making the unconscious conscious.
As women, many of us often don't feel safe to just be ourselves. Rather, we are programmed though patriarchy
to adapt our behaviour, please others & live by unattainable standards of perfection & "femininity" based on
what we do, how we look, how successful, youthful & sexy we are, to affirm our worth.
It is In our search to be accepted, belong & avoid feelings or experiences of abandonment,
we end up self abandoning in order to feel safe & fit in.
In this workshop series you'll receive trauma informed shadow work & somatic practices that support your own investigation around these topics.
You will be supported to come into intimate relationship with your own shadow as a pathway towards a
deeper embodiment of your birthright to feeling safe, alive & free in your own body as a women.
Workshop #1
Foundations of shadow work
In this first workshop you will be introduced to the courageous journey that is shadow work. I will support you into a meeting of the lost parts of self. The parts that we learnt are not allowed to be known, expressed & felt.
In this workshop we will cover how & why the shadow develops, why we experience shame & why we fear to be honest, authentic & vulnerable in the way we relate to ourselves & others. You will discover how to become aware of your own shadow through noticing the ways we seek validation & approval, project unintegrated shadow aspects onto other people and how to start to feel safe to express authentically, be honest & feel in deeper connection to yourself & others.
Workshop #2
Dismantling Internalized Misogyny in Women
Workshop #3
Embodying Feminine Intelligence
One of the biggest challenges we face today is the phobia of deeply feeling and connecting to our full emotional, sensual, erotic, psychological & spiritual landscape, through the body.
In this 2 hour workshop we will integrate the teachings from the first two days into the body. You will gain trauma-informed resources to cultivate a somatic sense of safety in order to come into contact with the deep feminine- your direct, felt experience of embodied presence, as a way to meet yourself in your essential, core nature.
Over 1000's of years women & their bodies have been subject to the patriarchal frequency. So much to a point that we don't even question it, because it is literally the waters we swim in.
Through this, women have a complex relationship to their identity & body. Layers of shaming and conditioning around our sexuality, menstruation, pregnancy, ageing, motherhood, gender roles, body image, workplace, power and so much more that has been deeply impacted by patriarchy.
But what we are more interested in unpacking in this workshop series, is not about how we are a victim to this paradigm but how we have internalized it as women, continue to perpetuate it and how we can come back to living life in relationship to our authenticity and natural state of being.
This immersion is a laboratory to dismantle the programming we as female bodied beings have received and an embodied investigation towards reclaiming and exalting the
feminine outside of the structures of patriarchy.
Workshop #1
Foundations of shadow work
Workshop #2
Dismantling Internalized Misogyny in Women
In this 2 hour workshop we explore
-How internalized misogyny shows up in our thoughts, beliefs, attitudes & bodies as women.
- Slut shaming
-Threat, jealousy & competition between women
-The objectification of the body vs. Inhabitation of the body.
Workshop #3
Embodying Feminine Intelligence
One of the biggest challenges we face today is the phobia of deeply feeling and connecting to our full emotional, sensual, erotic, psychological & spiritual landscape, through the body.
In this 2 hour workshop we will integrate the teachings from the first two days into the body. You will gain trauma-informed resources to cultivate a somatic sense of safety in order to come into contact with the deep feminine- your direct, felt experience of embodied presence, as a way to meet yourself in your essential, core nature.
Over 1000's of years women & their bodies have been subject to the patriarchal frequency. So much to a point that we don't even question it, because it is literally the waters we swim in.
Through this, women have a complex relationship to their identity & body. Layers of shaming and conditioning around our sexuality, menstruation, pregnancy, ageing, motherhood, gender roles, body image, workplace, power and so much more that has been deeply impacted by patriarchy.
In This Process...
We will ask big questions, lean into the uncomfortable, and challenge our conditioning and beliefs. You will experience the power of the shadow as an ally, rather than seeing it as something to be ashamed of and push away.
Facilitated by Maanee Chrystal
She is an embodied researcher of the hidden, suppressed & denied aspects of self & the collective. Maanee weaves her innate capacity for deep feeling and sensing through the body, her love for the shadow & reclamation of the organic feminine principle into unique offerings & trainings through her school, The Somatic Institute For Women.
Maanee recognises the work in the realm of the shadow, trauma, somatics & womens empowerment as a form of embodied activism. She strongly feels making these themes central to our lives is one of the most important areas to focus on, both individually & collectively if we desire long lasting and integrated change in a collapsing and disembodied world.
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Maanee Chrystal Joy
She is an embodied researcher of the hidden, suppressed & denied aspects of self & the collective. Maanee weaves her innate capacity for deep feeling and sensing through the body, her love for the shadow & reclamation of the organic feminine principle into unique offerings & trainings through her school, The Somatic Institute For Women.
Maanee recognises the work in the realm of the shadow, trauma, somatics & womens empowerment as a form of embodied activism. She strongly feels making these themes central to our lives is one of the most important areas to focus on, both individually & collectively if we desire long lasting and integrated change in a collapsing and disembodied world.