Welcome to Men Fully Alive. I’m Jake, and I’m really looking forward to getting to know each of you and creating this space together. I want to be clear that this isn’t a space where I have everything figured out or stand above anyone else as the teacher. I’m here to deepen alongside you—to feel more, open myself more fully, and allow this group to work on me too. My hope is that we create a space where men can be real with one another, hold space for each other, and explore what is beneath the patterns that keep us from feeling fully alive. I’ve spent much of my life working with the energy of the body, and many years studying the nervous system, feelings, emotional healing, and different forms of space-holding. My experience includes the Triple Vagal Method and a variety of other somatic and transformational practices. I’ll be sharing lessons on the foundations of feeling, holding space, and opening the channels in the body that allow emotion and aliveness to move again. Each month, I’ll also facilitate a recorded emotional healing process live on Zoom so we can learn through direct experience. This is meant to be a co-creative space. We’re not here to perform masculinity or create a temporary high. We’re here to discover what becomes possible when men are willing to feel, be seen, and meet one another honestly. I’m grateful you’re here. When you’re ready, introduce yourself and share what being “fully alive” means to you.