**This is an ongoing series that will meet twice a month.

“When patterns are broken new worlds are born.” ~Tuli Kupferberg

Does anxiety feel like it rules your life? Feeling stuck in anxious thoughts or deep sadness? Like you’re watching the world move around you while you’re on the outside?

This group provides somatic and mindfulness based voice and movement techniques to shift stuck patterns. We’ll release patterns of stress and tension while feeling connected and resourced. You’ll become re-aquainted with your body and gain compassionate awareness of thought and behavioral patterns that exacerbate anxiety.

We’ll work with exercises to help you to regulate and better tolerate challenging emotions. We’ll share in group about our experiences, challenges, and growth. You’ll build community, laugh, and create new ways.

Appropriate for out-of-the-box thinkers who are ready to dig deep and connect in community.

The structure will be part somatic exercises/part processing. It will meet 4pm – 5:30pm on Mondays – two Mondays a month. There is an expectation of a commitment to participate in all sessions required (except in case of emergency).

The dates:

September 29^th

October 13^th and 27^th

November 10^th and 24^th

December 8^th and 15^th

Consultation required for admittance. Each session is designed to supplement the work you are doing with your individual mental health practitioner.

Group size is kept very small.

Book a consult here.

Rate – $70/session ($140 billed at the top of each month)

Melissa Grogan, LPC-Associate (supervised by Sarah Osmer, LPC-S). has over 25 years experience teaching and leading workshops that are based in voice, movement, and therapeutic practice. Recently graduating with her second masters degree (this time in Mindfulness Based Transpersonal Counseling) she became provisionally licensed as a licensed professional counselor – associate in June of 2024 (supervised by Sarah Osmer, LPC-S). Melissa’s skills of over two decades combine to allow her to be an effective guide and space holder for people who wish to utilize depth therapy tools to facilitate a more intimate relationship with their inner and outer life. She was key faculty at Texas State University’s Department of Theatre and Dance, has worked at University of Texas at Austin as a lecturer, is an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, has studied Knight-Thompson Speechwork, Presence with Patsy Rodenburg, and Body-Mind Centering at the Body-Mind Centering Institute and with Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen. She is currently pursuing a certificate as a Somatic Movement Educator and has certifications as a yoga and meditation teacher and is a Reiki Master Teacher. She works professionally with therapy clients, clients seeking connection to their voice and body, as an energy worker, and in film and tv productions. She has lead workshops nationally and internationally training people in mindfulness-based voice and movement practices to aid in greater balance and success in life and work.

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