DOORS OPEN SEPTEMBER 2024
INCLUSION
an immersion into intimacy that opens your heart and
melts old traumas using the whole mind, body, and spirit
Heal trauma pleasurably through natural bliss states 💕
Natasha Edwina, M.A., M.S., LMFT
Are you:
Needing to heal past trauma that is sabotaging your health and/or relationships?
Going through a season of severe stress now (or life-altering change)?
Desire to increase your capacity for bliss, pleasure, and joy?
Then this is the small group program for you!
It’s my passion to offer the highest integrity, trauma-informed, evidence-based yet experiential and transformational service. We go deep, in a very safe container, to allow old wounds to rise to the surface and evaporate away very gently and efficiently. Pleasure, luxury, comfort, and exceptional customer service is my brand (I have 20+ yrs experience working in fine dining and luxury hospitality as well).
To sustainably heal individually, and collectively, we need to INCLUDE:
💕 Mind, body, and soul
💕 Science and spirituality
💕 Fun and pleasure
💕 Artists, creatives and dreamers
💕 All cultures, races, sexes, genders, political parties, religions
💕 Increasing capacity to witness and hold space for others pain, starting with our own
Our evolution as humans is in the quality of our connection while simultaneously standing in our individual sovereignty and personal power.
Let’s spread INCLUSION!
MEET YOUR HOST
Hi, I’m Natasha!
I’m a California licensed marriage and family therapist, certified coach, certified hypnotherapist, certified nutrition advisor, and mind-body medicine practitioner.
From 2008-2015, I was working in the public school system as a mental health clinician. I was doing a basic version of this evidence-based healing process + trauma-informed chair yoga (TLS as taught by B.K. Bose, PhD) with traumatized parents, teachers and students for eight years. It helped accelerate healing, beyond the medical model, and often my clients did not need medication. We heal faster and more sustainably through community and learning exquisite self-care.
My work is the intersection of relationship science and health science, and I’ve infused the art + philosophy of deep sustainable healing into:
☀️ Weekend intensives & luxury wellness retreats
☀️ Workshops at wellness centers & clinics
☀️ Online groups & 1-on-1 sessions
The science of relationship is my jam…couples, families, corporations, communities, cultures and of course our primary relationship with our authentic selves and intuitive wisdom. This is an essential lifestyle practice for anyone wanting to lead a successful, joyful, and truly prosperous life. Everything happens through relationships.
MY PERSONAL STORY
Being an early trailblazer integrating this new healing science into the public school system I saw the powerful shifts take place. But it was my own personal transformation that was truly remarkable.
After experiencing my own childhood trauma and sexual abuse, and years of vicarious trauma working in the mental health field, I had become numb. I rejected intimacy in a way I wasn’t even fully aware of at the time. Even though I had received years of talk therapy, and was still seeing a phenomenal mind-body therapist, my heart was unable to be fully soft. My body was unable to fully open and express, it had an outer layer of protection that was keeping me from experiencing the deepest states of love, intimacy, and pleasure.
Training as a facilitator of these groups softened my heart, melted the deep tensions in my body, and peeled back and healed the last layer of sexual trauma (the emotional part). I was no longer compatible with a narcissistic husband who did not desire nor know how to create the emotional intimacy I craved.
My divorce coincided with my exit from the public school system, I decided to leave everything holding me back from my authentic self and who I was meant to be. I took the leap into my zone of genius. I turned my side gig into a full-time mind-body healing business.
After my heart melted through my clinical training in Mind-Body Medicine, my passion ignited. I was hungry and desired more. I enrolled in a PhD program in Mind-Body Medicine. I was doing a lot of meditating to cope with the stresses of a dissolution of an emotionally abusive marriage, working full-time, going to graduate school full-time, growing a new business, and co-parenting my two children as a newly single mother.
What happened was a spontaneous kundalini awakening that was quite painful and difficult to navigate as every area of my life disintegrated, but it was also blissful and magical at times as I experienced vivid sensations and imagery/intuition and my life began to reorient in wonderful ways.
This was in 2014, and to try to understand what I was going through, I chose a dissertation topic of spontaneous spiritual awakenings (Kundalini awakening) with a special focus on the integration of spirituality and sexuality, otherwise known as tantra or female sexuality.
What I learned in my years of combined academic research and personal experience, I now apply to helping others. I am uniquely qualified and knowledgeable as a safe, experienced, and grounding guide for those navigating spontaneous spiritual awakenings, sexuality-intimacy issues, and the relationship and body issues they cause.
I don’t want others to experience the profound loss, pain, and struggle that I did; ten years later I am still rebuilding. I have learned from mistakes and mishaps and there is an easier way to flow through, and everyone needs a sherpa and modern day shaman for this journey. The reward for moving through all the pain and having the courage to feel and heal, is an indescribable bliss, clarity, and creativity flowing into the space the pain once occupied. Let me hold your hand, we’ve got this 💕
In this video, Shophar is demonstrating Qi gong, an ancient moving meditation that has evidence as a helpful intervention for cancer, depression, and mental focus. You can see the iguana is charmed by him and drawn in by his energy!
In INCLUSION, you will learn and practice a variety of evidence-based mind-body techniques for enhancing health and well-being.
Shophar Graves is a guest facilitator for INCLUSION! Shophar began studying Qi Gong in 2002 and Energy Body Work in 2007. Shophar learned from systems of Tantra, TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) Acupuncture and Chinese herbs, Hebrew Kabbalah, African Spirituality (Egyptian Tree of Life and IFA) and he uses knowledge from each modality within this unique work.
He is also the author of S.O.L, Sacred Orgasmic Living, which focuses on helping people understand how to have more Intimacy in life so that they experience more Peace and Pleasure.
He adds his knowledge, wisdom, perspective, energy healing/qigong to our experience.
This is where science meets spirituality.
INTIMATE ITINERARY:
We meet Tuesdays (PDT, San Diego) on Zoom for 11 consecutive weeks.
Group 1:
Safety and Boundaries for Building Intimacy
experiential exercise: drawings
Group 2:
Intro to Mind-Body Medicine + Nurturing the Nervous System
experiential exercise: autogenics + biofeedback
Group 3:
Nutrition and Mental Health
experiential exercise: multi-sensory mindful eating
Group 4:
Spirituality: Spontaneous Spiritual Awakenings vs. Psychotic Breaks
(How to navigate a season of trauma)
experiential exercise: higher self wisdom
Group 5:
Mind-Body Medicine through Daily Meditation
experiential exercise: 3 types of meditation
Group 6:
Moving Emotions Out of the Body
experiential exercise: breathwork + mind-body movement
Group 7:
Hypnosis and the Power of Imagery for Healing
experiential exercise: guided imagery
Group 8:
Body as Barometer: Intuition and Listening to the Body
experiential exercise: imaginary podcast interview
Group 9:
Ancestral Healing and Family Patterns
experiential exercise: diagram the family
Group 10:
Ancestral Healing Continued
experiential exercise: rituals for healing, meet your spirit guides
Group 11:
Integration and Self Expression
experiential exercise: closing ritual for the ongoing journey
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💕 12-week group is kept intentionally small with 6-10 participants so that each person is sharing their sensations and awarenesses in each and every session.
💕 It’s important to attend all sessions to build safety, consistency and intimacy in the group. This process is deep. Emergencies come up but if you miss more than two sessions, you won’t be able to continue in the group.
💕 This process is highly personalized and sessions are subject to change depending on the needs and shifts in energy of the group. Seasoned guest practitioners may teach in some sessions.
Vikkie’s Testimonial
Listen to previous group participant, Vikkie, as she shares her experience in the first virtual group after lockdown, and how it helped her create boundaries, leave a toxic relationship and find love again.
Participants who have gone through
this program have reported:
healthier relationships
deeper intimacy
better boundaries
relationship healing
a feeling of connection and belonging
reduction of symptoms of PTSD/anxiety/stress
less depression
reductions in medication and self-medication
improvement of physical health and lab markers
more self love and body love
enhanced sexual wellness
reduced substance use
better sleep
less anger and reactivity
more joy
less physical pain
reduction of symptoms of chronic illness
a sense of deeper spirituality/meaning in life
moving through grief