Ajaya Sommers ~ Awake Attachment™ Intimacy as a Path of Embodiment and Awakening

Awake Attachment™ Intimacy as a Path of Embodiment and Awakening
A 2-hour experiential introduction with Ajaya Sommers

Sliding Scale: $15 to $40
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When the separate self dissolves – and awakens to ones innate self, in deep meditation, in nature, in love – what remains is not emptiness. It is intimacy. With everything.

This is not an achievement. It is our original nature.

And yet most of us cannot sustain this quality of intimacy. Because the nervous system learned, early, that closeness was not always safe.

What we long for most – a holy, primal intimacy with life itself, with ourselves, with other humans, with the more-than-human world – is also what we subconsciously fear most. And the very places we feel most broken, most defended, most disconnected, are not obstacles to that intimacy. They can be the doorway into it.

We humans live inside a paradox.

The Buddha taught that attachment is the root of suffering – that freedom comes from loosening our grip, clinging to nothing. Modern psychology says the opposite: from our first breath, our survival depends on secure bonds. Our nervous systems, our capacity to regulate and relate, our sense of safety in the world – all of it is built on healthy attachment. To ourselves, to each other, to the more-than-human world.

What if these two teachings are not in conflict? What if the path is not away from attachment – but through it, into the embodied realization of being both awake and attached?

Many people drawn to this work have walked a meaningful inner path. And still, they sense a gap between what they understand spiritually and what they can sustain in real-time relationship – especially when emotions intensify, or intimacy calls for something more.

Awakening to our true nature does not automatically resolve the nervous system patterns organized around protection. This series explores that meeting point – where spiritual realization and the living body learn to breath together.

At the center of this work is a simple but profound reframe:

The opposite of attachment is not detachment. It is intimacy without self-abandonment.

How we work
These sessions combine somatic practice, guided inquiry, and relational exploration. We slow down together, settle the nervous system, and build – gradually and experientially – the capacity to stay present with what is alive inside. The emphasis throughout is on direct experience rather than concept, and on the integration of insight into lived relationship with reality.

In our time together we will:

• Move through the central paradox of attachment and awakening
• Settle into the body through somatic practice
• Explore the three movements of the separate self – toward, against, and away as invitations back into core self.
• Discover what it means to stay intimately connected to yourself and to relax with whatever arises in your experience

This session stands on its own – and serves as a natural entry point into the upcoming four-part series.

This gathering is for you if…
You have a spiritual practice – and your relationships are still the hardest part of your life.
You sense a gap between what you understand and what you can sustain in real-time.
You are drawn to how awakening lives in the body, in intimacy, in the fullness of a human life.

About Ajaya Sommers
Ajaya Sommers is the founder of Core Embodiment® and creator of Awake Attachment™. A somatic practitioner, teacher, and author with over 30 years of experience at the intersection of trauma healing, nervous system science, and psycho-spiritual awakening. She has presented at Esalen, SAND, IONS, and the Association for Transpersonal Psychology.

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Sliding Scale: $15 to $40
No one turned away for lack of funds.
If you can’t pay within the sliding scale, just contact us to let us know what you can contribute.
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