The Experience

with Anja Bergh & Sarah Zandbeek

An online guided exploration of Traditional Chinese Medicine through the lens of Somatic embodiment practices, Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Journaling & Breath.

The Experience has stemmed from years of cultivation and study from both Anja and Sarah in the fields of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Somatic Embodiment articulation, Mind-body centring, Embodied Flow, Nervous system exploration, years of Yoga asana, yoga nidra, and meditation.  It’s designed to offer you both another lens to understand your body-mind and how your being is connected to and moves with Nature; as well as, getting to explore those concepts and discovering new ways to navigate the crevasses of your whole system through somatic exploration.

Key elements of the program:

In the Chinese medicine portion, we will break down and track where each meridian lies, discuss its season, what occurs within that season, the emotion attached to the paired organs in their balance and imbalances, the tissues involved in the body, and the common cause of dis-ease within the element.  We will also go over how the meridians develop in utero. At the end of each module you will be sent a recorded Yoga Nidra to help support the subconscious continuum of each element and its paired Organs.

Traditional Chinese Medicine exploration: 

• Meridian development

• Each Element = Module

• Track the meridian

• Season - watch nature + follow

• Tissues involved

• Emotional scale - balance + imbalances in both direction.  

• Spirit 

• Common Dis-ease causer

• Yoga nidra, Organ Meditation

An idea of how we will explore somatically:

Somatic tracking foundations - how we listen & feel ourselves is how we receive ourselves. We can all find the natural wave of our energy and the kind of safety that gives us capacity to stay long enough to feel or hear something & let it show the way. We study somatic foundations through the nervous system (first) & fluids (second).

Somatic movement explorations - Movement is our first language. Movement is not separated from emotions, memories or our hopes & dreams. There is no correct way to move, but we do live the result of our movement choices. We will imagine, visualize, feel into & perhaps embody both systems & patterns. A body system is one way things connect - bones, muscles, connective tissue, organs, electricity, fluids etc. A movement pattern is also a way things connect. Held in the web of our flesh is both our past & everything that binds us to experiencing now-ness. But there is also timelessness, that opening to eternity and no-self that regenerates & matures. These movement sessions may drop us off in more familiar yogic shapes but sometimes not.  When they are free of guided shapes you have to feel what is there, what wants to move or be still, and develop trust. 

Developmental movement patterns - as a baby you needed to learn how to move yourself. Each of us developed a strategy that included and (sometimes skipped) a series of movements we call developmental patterns. Returning to these movement patterns as adults can reconnect us with movements we’ve lost to culture. Each one of us has movements that are considered good, nice, appropriate etc & movements that we consider ugly, bad, inappropriate. We begin our somatic journey by going through a developmental series from conception to walking. In Chinese medicine many of the connections and channels are a result of how things develop embryologically.  Includes: cellular vibration, tissue intelligence, navel radiation, mouthing patterns, spinal patterns, push / pull / reach etc. 

Nervous system foundations - ‘The nervous system is the first to react & the last to know’ says Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. We all respond to the world based on what worked in the past. Then how do we change? Instead of placing a new behavior on top of what is not working, there are ways to practice presence & learn how to track and pendulate awareness between the inner world & outer world. When we start to move awareness in more conscious ways we may establish a greater sense of safety, which is the foundation for any type of reprogramming. It helps us notice the pause between input & output where we have a chance to ground, stay close to ourselves and act authentically.

The program will run over 10 weeks and is broken up into:

Opening call: March 6

Module 1: March 12 + 13

Module 2: March  26 + 27

Module 3: April 9 + 10

Module 4: April  23 + 24

Module 5: May 7 + 8

Closing call: May 15

Ps. När du klickar på boka knappen tar den dig till Sarah’s sida där du betalar. Den kommer visa dig priset i kanadensiska dollar. 699 dollar är idag ca 5100kr.

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