Welcome, dear Peace with Food graduate! The Transformed Collective is our signature live membership program for graduates of the Peace with Food Transformation Groups and I am so happy to welcome you here and tell you more about it!
You’ve just spent 6 months learning, practicing and re-wiring your nervous system towards deeper capacity, safety and connection.
Oftentimes, graduates will tell me how they wish there was a way they could stay in touch, continue to learn and also have a supportive space and home-base to live what they have learned!
That’s how the Collective was born back in 2020 – a space to call your somatic learning home online – where graduates from all over the world continue their journey together!
Through teaching, collective calls, creative expression and presencing sessions, you will continue to deepen your connection to yourself and those around you and have a beautiful space to process what life brings your way.
You will sit with me, my team members and fellow students who have also been through the Transformation group experience and belong to a group of mindful, bodyful and dedicated humans whose longing for peace with food has brought them to a place of peace with self they never imagined possible.
Each graduate of a Transformation Group is gifted a month free trial of the Collective. I suggest have your trial within three months of graduation – just email me and let me know which month you’d like to join us and I am happy to include you in the roster – you will get an invite with a link the day of the collective sessions.
Let me tell you a little bit about the structure of the Collective for 2025
TC 2025 – Soul to Soma – the gift of embodied living
Each year, we dedicate the collective to a theme – this year we will be exploring the practice of living connected to the body in everyday life.
This year is truly dedicated to the 8 sensory systems – the 5 far senses and 3 near senses – through which we make the experience of living in a body. We will spend January through August focusing on the 8 systems, taking one a month in both learning and practice, and will focus on body image – which is the result of the unified and coherent connection of the 8 systems in the fall.
We will explore these themes through 5 live sessions a month, and you are welcome to as many of them as you like.
Each month cycles through 5 sessions, as described below.
Session 1 – Teaching session
This is the first session of each month, where I teach a concept and we get to understand and embody the principles of the learning through mindfulness, attunement, presence, writing, discussion and embodied somatic practice, much like you did in the 6 month Transformation group.
Session 2 – Movement session
In 2025, I will be introducing Somatic Movement Fundamentals – a movement session based on several movement practices, which you will learn, embody and master throughout the year.
Somatic Movement Fundamentals, will focus on several components each time we meet: balancing, developmental relational movements, shivering and shaking, spinal movements, oscillatory movements (such as yawning), play and vocalization. Together – these 7 components form the basis of a flexible and pliable nervous system – one that can easily change direction from an expanded capacity.
Session 3 and Session 4 – Presencing Session
Presencing is a deliberate transparent communication practice that I learned in my study with Thomas Hubl. In a presencing session, we all create a slower pace and mindful container where our deepest experiences can get translated into words, gestures, expressions and movement to be witnessed by others. The leader invites the whole group into a deep self and transpersonal awareness space, after which we work in small pods of two or three in order to practice speaking, listening, attuning, creating space and reflecting with each other. You will be taught how to do this in a presentation and the first few sessions, so there is nothing for you to do on your own – your teacher and colleagues will help along as you get confident in this practice. The deep attuning, mirroring and listening create the bases of embodied secure attachment – an incredible gift from each of the community for the rest of the collective mates on the somatic journey.
There are two presencing sessions each month – so that people from different time zones can attend. The times schedule for 2025 is below.
When the great swing has taken an individual into the world of symbolic mysteries, nothing comes of it, nothing can come of it, unless it has been associated with the earth, unless it has happened when that individual was in the body… And so individuation can only take place if you first return to the body, to your earth, only then does it become true.
— C.G. Jung
Session 5 – The Creative Session
In this session we will combine music, dance, poetry, art, writing, crafting and authentic movement so you can experience being in the present, hosting the past and envisioning the future from the inside out, bringing all the channels of perception into a beautiful creative expression! Mindbodyspirit unity gets to come alive through you each time we meet – not just through your individual vessel, but also the vessel of the collective field! Our creative sessions are led by Tanja Mateljan – the incredible creative arts practitioner on our team!
The schedule:
Session 1 – 4pm – 5:30pm PST (recorded) – Monday
Session 2 – 4pm – 5:30pm PST (recorded) – Monday
Session 3 – 4pm – 6:00pm PST – Monday
Session 4 – 10:30 am – 12:00 pm PST (Euro time zone friendly ) – Tuesday
Session 5 – 10:30 am – 12:00 pm PST – recorded (Euro time zone friendly ) – Tuesday
View the full calendar below – Collective dates are highlighted in pink:
You can view and download a PDF of the calendar here.
If you are reading this after your month free trial and you want to join the collective, you can view the options to join below. Let me know your choice and I will onboard you immediately.
Membership options for 2025:
Join the Collective for 6 months – pay in full $1200 or $220 a month
Join the Collective for 12 months – pay in full $2000 or $190 a month
Thank you for reading, being present and being a part of Pure Belonging and the Peace with Self Peace with Food School.
I appreciate and value you all so very much!
Galina