A Monthly Somatic Movement Ritual for Women & Femmes
a space to remember what the world made you forget. Through movement, community, and embodied practice, we return to ourselves, to one another, and to our aliveness
the next Centered in Chaos will be on August 29th at 7pm CET, 1pm EST, 10am PST,
if your body is already whispering YES, you can join here.
sliding scale of $10, $20, or $30, you choose the energy exchange that is aligned and accessible to you.
this months theme is fawn to flow and in honor of that we are also doing a 30 day challenge: reclaim your aliveness by decentering men.
centered in chaos
We live in a world that asks more of us than our bodies were ever designed to hold alone.
Pressure, productivity, uncertainty, isolation, and constant stimulation shape the conditions many of us are trying to live within. Our nervous systems are continuously adapting to environments that may not support our needs for rest, safety, belonging, dignity, expression, connection, or care.
Sometimes our bodies are responding to what happened in the past. Sometimes they are responding accurately to what is happening now. Often, they are responding to both.
If you have been feeling anxious, overwhelmed, burned out, numb, disconnected, or like you are constantly pushing through while feeling far away from yourself—
You are not broken.
You adapted.
Stress is not the enemy. Anxiety, urgency, numbness, exhaustion, and overwhelm can be intelligent nervous system responses—not personal failures.
And alongside the survival responses we are born with, many of us learn ways of being that help us belong, stay safe, or receive care. We may learn to be nice, good, small, useful, high-achieving, self-sufficient, always agreeable—or to push others away and force our way through.
Survival and conditioning are not the same thing.
One is the body’s wisdom responding to threat. The other is what we may come to believe we need to be in order to survive, belong, or be loved.
These ways of being were not failures or flaws. They were intelligent adaptations to the conditions we were living in. And with enough support, space, time, and permission, we can begin to compassionately shed what no longer serves—making room for more choice, connection, and aliveness.
Long before we had words or conscious thought, we had breath, movement, and sound. This is the body’s primal language. Through gentle movement, expression, rest, and connection, we can begin to listen differently—to release what has been held, repattern what no longer serves, and reorganize around greater flexibility and choice.
Centered in Chaos is an invitation to return to yourself, alongside others.
Even in the middle of chaos, you can keep coming home to your body.
Centered in Chaos is a guided, body-led somatic movement and nervous-system-informed experience for women, femmes, and those socialised into feminine embodiment who are navigating stress, overwhelm, numbness, disconnection, or chronic self-abandonment.
Not a workout.
Not therapy.
Not performance.
Not self-improvement disguised as embodiment.
This is a space for returning to your body through movement, breath, sound, stillness, sensation, expression, and relational presence—in your own rhythm.
A space where regulation is not something you achieve alone, but something supported through connection, co-regulation, and presence.
We may move, breathe, make sound, rest, play, feel, and be witnessed without needing to explain, achieve, or get it right.
No choreography.
No pressure.
No forcing.
Your body is not something to fix or manage.
It is something to listen to.
Choosing is more important than doing.
There’s no right or wrong way to do this.
Camera on or off.
Movement or stillness.
Sharing or silence.
You are welcome exactly as you are.
No experience necessary and all bodies are welcome.
This space may resonate if you are a woman or femme wo:
Feels overwhelmed, anxious, numb, disconnected, or chronically “on.”
Is tired of trying to fix yourself or understand yourself without feeling meaningful change.
Often overrides your body, needs, or boundaries in order to cope, function, belong, or be loved.
Recognises patterns of being nice, small, useful, high-achieving, self-sufficient, always agreeable—or pushing away and forcing through.
Experiences stress, emotional intensity, shutdown, or relational patterns that feel hard to shift.
Is craving movement, expression, play, rest, and nervous system support that feels human, relational, and alive.
Longs to feel more at home in yourself, without having to become someone else.
Is ready to meet your adaptations with compassion and gently shed what no longer serves.
Is seeking co-regulation, presence, and a space where all of you is welcome.
You may also sense a deeper knowing: healing does not happen in isolation.
We are relational beings. Connection, belonging, and being witnessed in safe-enough, supportive community can help the body experience more safety, flexibility, and ease.
This space is rooted in that understanding—that women and femmes are not meant to carry everything alone; that belonging is a fundamental human need; and that moving, breathing, resting, and being witnessed together can be medicine for the nervous system.
Each session is an invitation to meet yourself exactly where you are.
Through guided, body-led movement, breath, sound, stillness, sensation, expression, and relational presence, we create space to slow down and listen to what your body may be communicating.
There is no choreography to learn, nothing to perform, and no right way to participate.
We may move gently, more dynamically, playfully, use our somatic imagination or pause in stillness to notice what emerges. We may make sound, breathe, shake, stretch, feel, play, push, hop, touch, express, notice, or simply be witnessed.
The intention is not to force a release, fix yourself, or make difficult feelings disappear. It is to build a kinder relationship with your body and its protective patterns—to notice what is here, make room for what needs care, and compassionately shed what no longer serves you.
With enough support, space, time, and permission, movement can help us reconnect with our natural capacity for expression, flexibility, choice, and aliveness.
You are always in charge of your experience.
Camera on or off.
Movement or stillness.
Sharing or silence.
You are invited to follow your own rhythm, honour your boundaries, and take what you need.
Stress is not the enemy. It is intelligent activation—part of the body’s capacity to create energy to act, protect, respond, and move us through life.
Our nervous systems are not separate from our relationships, environments, histories, systems we live in or sense of belonging. Connection, care, and co-regulation can shape how supported, grounded, and resourced we feel in our bodies.
The body is designed to move through cycles of activation and rest. But when life brings chronic pressure, expectations, trauma, isolation, oppression, or ongoing political and collective uncertainty, those cycles can become disrupted. We may experience this as tension, anxiety, numbness, shutdown, exhaustion, urgency, or over-functioning.
Nothing about this is personal failure.
It is adaptation.
Alongside our innate survival responses, we may also learn ways of being that help us cope, function, belong, or stay safe: being good, small, useful, high-achieving, self-sufficient, always agreeable—or pushing away and forcing through.
These patterns do not arise in a vacuum. Our nervous systems are shaped not only by personal experience, but by family, culture, relationships, institutions, and the wider systems we live within.
For some of us, cyclical changes in our bodies can also shape energy, sensitivity, rest, creativity, and capacity. Yet dominant culture often asks us to live as though we are endlessly consistent, productive, and unaffected by our needs or rhythms.
In this space, we are not trying to regulate the nervous system into perfection.
We are building relationship with it.
Through movement, breath, sound, stillness, touch, play, pleasure, expression, laughter, tears, eye contact, and presence, we support conditions in which the body is invited to soften, respond, reconnect, and compassionately shed what no longer serves.
Those conditions include:
Permission
Support
Time
Relational presence
Co-regulation
Choice
And from this an inner felt sense of safety emerges. Healing and embodied transformation do not happen only in isolation.
They are deeply relational.
We were never meant to carry everything alone.
love notes
this is not a space for becoming someone new
This is not a space for becoming someone new.
It is a space for remembering what has always been here—beneath the ways you adapted to stay safe, be loved, and belong.
Your capacity to feel.
To move.
To choose.
To connect.
To experience pleasure and play.
To be in your body without abandoning yourself.
To remember who the fuck you really are.
This remembering does not have to happen in isolation. It can unfold in relationship—through breath, movement, expression, and the felt sense of being met in safe-enough, supportive presence.
Come as you are.
Move as you are.
Nothing to perform.
Nothing to fix.
Nothing to earn.
Just a body remembering itself—and its natural capacity for connection, expression, regulation, choice, joy and aliveness.
As beings learning to be centered in chaos, we:
Refuse to numb, bypass, or override the life moving through us. We choose to feel, inhabit, and respond to our bodies with curiosity and presence.
Honour the natural cycles of activation, expression, rest, and recovery that our bodies already know.
Befriend the nervous system. No state is wrong. Every state carries information.
Meet what lives within us—fear, grief, rage, shame, collapse, pleasure, joy, creativity, and confidence—with compassion instead of avoidance. There are no bad parts; there are protective patterns, unmet needs, and often hidden treasures waiting to be welcomed home.
Remember that our nervous systems are not isolated. They are relational and shaped by our biology, experiences, relationships, culture, and the conditions we live within.
Name the ways women and femmes are often conditioned to override their bodies in order to be safe, lovable, useful, visible, quiet, productive, or acceptable within patriarchal systems.
Recognise that these patterns are not personal failures. They are embodied adaptations, shaped over time and still unfolding in real time.
Know that the body holds both personal experience and collective context. Healing is inseparable from awareness of the systems we live inside.
Notice that capitalist, patriarchal, and extractive systems can benefit from our disconnection—from us being out of rhythm with ourselves; from overriding sensation, intuition, rest, pleasure, play, and need.
Practice remembering what was never truly lost, only buried.
Reclaim our rhythms: our need for rest, our capacity for expression, our relational nature, and our right to move at the pace of the body rather than the demand of productivity.
Reclaim sensuality—not as performance, but as aliveness in the body.
Reclaim pleasure and play as intelligence, not excess. As signal, not distraction. As medicine.
Reclaim aliveness itself as a birthright in a world that profits from our separation from it.
Stay with the discomfort of returning to ourselves in a culture that rewards disconnection, overextension, and self-abandonment. We build capacity, not perfection.
Claim self-authority, embodied choice, and inner trust.
Co-regulate in community, remembering that we are shaped through relationship. Through voice, eye contact, presence, laughter, tears, movement, and shared breath, we find our way back toward connection.
Move, breathe, sound, and express—not to perform or fix, but to reconnect with the living intelligence of the body.
Create space for aliveness to return.
Remember that healing is not becoming someone else.
It is becoming more ourselves, with more capacity to stay present with life.
This is how we practice together.
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love notes
play + pleasure as natural regualtion
connect to innate inner wisdom + restore harmony
naturally complete stress cycles and melt tension
organic rest and regeneration
Hi, Im Olga your facilitator
I’m a somatic coach, practitioner, and therapeutic yoga facilitator (500 RYT, TCTSY-F), and I guide embodied experiences that help you reconnect with your body, your nervous system, and your innate aliveness. My offerings are inclusive, trauma-informed, and accessible for all bodies, abilities, and identities – no prior experience is necessary.
During our sessions, we explore the felt sense of your body—moving, breathing, sensing, playing, and discovering what feels good. You’ll build nervous system capacity, release stress and tension naturally, and cultivate presence, agency, and self-authority. This is about listening to your body, noticing what it knows, and practicing returning to yourself—again and again. The medicine is in you.
This work is educational and experiential, informed by somatic, relational, and ancestral spiritual wisdom traditions that long predate modern Western medical models. It honors your body’s innate intelligence, life-affirming direction, and capacity to heal in supportive conditions.
I am not a licensed medical professional, psychotherapist, or physician. Nothing shared in this space is intended to diagnose, treat, or replace the care of a qualified healthcare provider. If you have specific health or mental health concerns, please consult a licensed professional who knows your history and needs.
Participation is invitational and choice-based. You are your own greatest expert, your body is your best teacher, and you are responsible for your own wellbeing. Move, rest, pause, or opt out as feels best for your body and needs. By participating, you acknowledge and agree to these terms.
I’m here to walk alongside you with presence, empathy, and attunement—holding space while your nervous system, body, and inner wisdom guide the way.
By participating, you acknowledge and agree to these terms.
soma, shadow, spirit, self
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2 Responses
Will Centered in Chaos be available after the live session? Asking from the other side of the world!
Hi Amelia! At this time I’m only doing live sessions. There’s just something powerful about live group energy, it’s not the same as a recording ;( Where in the world are you? I will try to think of something in the future! Sending virtual hugs 🤗