Ajaya Sommers ~ Being Here: From Emotional Reactivity to Embodied Intimacy
Saturday, April 4, 2026 @ 10:00am-12:00pm (Pacific Time)
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Sliding Scale: $15 to $40
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A gathering to settle the nervous system, open the heart, and deepen connection with yourself, others, and life.
We are living in an extraordinary moment. The pace and intensity of modern life often exceed our nervous system’s capacity to metabolize experience. Many of us can feel it — the subtle pressure of too much, too fast — leaving the body braced, attention scattered, and emotional reactivity closer to the surface.
When the nervous system perceives overwhelm, it naturally organizes around protection. Attention narrows. Reactivity increases. Even the most sincere spiritual insight can become difficult to embody, because the organism itself is working simply to maintain stability.
Yet genuine healing and awakening require the opposite: a body that feels safe enough to stay.
This gathering is an invitation to explore the meeting point between nervous system regulation and embodied awakening. When we learn how to support the body’s natural capacity for safety and coherence, emotional activation no longer needs to overwhelm us. Instead, it can become workable material — living energy that deepens presence, vitality, and our capacity for authentic relationship.
Many people who are drawn to this work have already walked a meaningful path of inner exploration. And still, they sense a subtle gap between what they understand spiritually and what they are able to sustain in real-time relationship — especially when emotions intensify.
This gathering gently explores how that gap begins to close.
When emotional reactivity is met with awareness rather than suppression or discharge, the nervous system begins to reorganize. Presence stabilizes. Relational sensitivity deepens. And what emerges is a more intimate way of being — with ourselves, with others, with nature, and with the living moment we are already inside.
Throughout our time together, we will explore several experiential practices designed to support both nervous system regulation and embodied awakening.
What We’ll Practice Together
Nervous System Grounding
Simple somatic practices that help the body settle into greater regulation and safety, creating the physiological conditions where presence and insight can naturally deepen.
Breath, Sound, and Embodied Awareness
Continuum-inspired breath practices incorporating evocative sound and subtle movement to awaken the body’s innate vitality and support heart–brain coherence.
Meeting Emotional Activation with Presence
Learning how to stay present with emotional reactivity as it arises, allowing activation to metabolize rather than overwhelm or shut us down.
Relational Presence
Exploring how to remain connected to ourselves while being in authentic contact with others, allowing deeper intimacy, honesty, and shared humanity to emerge.
Resting in the Intelligence of Being
Discovering how awareness naturally stabilizes when the body no longer needs to defend against experience, opening access to the deeper organizing intelligence that lives within life itself.
In This Gathering You May Experience
• Greater nervous system regulation and emotional resilience
• Increased capacity to stay present during relational intensity
• A deeper sense of connection to your body and inner life
• Greater intimacy and authenticity in how you relate to others
• Access to the quiet intelligence that emerges when presence stabilizes
About Ajaya Sommers
Ajaya Sommers, RCST, is the founder of Core Embodiment®, a somatic practitioner, teacher, and speaker with over 30 years of experience guiding people into genuine transformation.
Her work lives at the intersection of somatic embodiment, relational intimacy, and non-dual inquiry, helping people reclaim presence, coherence, and deeper connection to themselves and others. She is a certified Biodynamic Craniosacral Integration Teacher, NARM practitioner, and Authorized Continuum Teacher, and has presented at the SAND Conference, Esalen Institute, the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), and the Purpose Summit.
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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