Welcome to EMBODIED EDUCATORS — This is a space for the educator underneath the role. Not another teacher tips group. Not a place to share bulletin board ideas or debate grading policies. This is something different. It's a group for the one who went into teaching because they felt it was work that mattered to the world. Who still believes that, even on the days when it's hard to feel it. Who has absorbed more emotional weight than most people — and who has been quietly carrying it, often alone, because that's just what educators do. Embodied means something specific to me. It means we're not just thinking about this work — we're living it in our bodies. In the tension in your shoulders at the end of a long day. In the way your nervous system braces every Sunday evening. In the exhaustion that sleep alone doesn't fix. In the grief you feel when a student you worked so hard for still doesn't make it. In the pride that swells up sometimes so fast it surprises you. It's how our all our tissues respond to conflict, joy, change, and belonging. This community exists to honor all of that. To name it, move it, and — when we're ready — to release what is no longer serving us and find new ways to process the complexities of our work. This is NOT another mindfulness group where the end goal is to be more calm, to show up with emotional regulation suppression. Instead, it is a place for honesty, shared practice, and building resilience that allows more aliveness for educators. ⏱️WHAT TO EXPECT: -SUNDAY SOMATICS: a video to inform your somatic practice -WEDNESDAY CHECK IN: Discussion/reflection tied to somatic practice for the week -FRIDAY REFLECTION: Close your week by noticing what has shifted, what you want to celebrate, and what is emerging for you in your practice. *Look for additional opportunities for group coaching, meditations, and readings 🤝COMMUNITY AGREEMENTS: -Honest over polished — real over curated -You don't have to be okay here. You also don't have to perform not being okay.

Welcome. You're here because something in you knows. You know that the ache you carry isn't just personal—it's woven into the world around you. The exhaustion from watching systems fail. The heaviness of transitions you didn't choose. The unnamed sorrow that lives in your body when you read the news, end a relationship, or realize the future you imagined isn't coming. You are seeking a break, a pause, time to process the loss that comes with transition and honor what is shifting from within. You want an Innermission. This community exists because grief doesn't only happen when someone dies. It happens when democracies fracture, when the climate shifts, when careers end, when identities evolve, when communities dissolve. And most of us have never been taught how to be with these losses in our bodies—where they actually live. I'm Colleen Stanevich, and I've been working somatically with individuals and organizations through transition, change, and loss for 18 years. What I kept noticing: people would come to me thinking their issue was burnout, overwhelm, "stuckness", anxiety, or "not knowing what's next." But when we slowed down and listened to the body, what emerged was almost always grief. Unmetabolized, unwitnessed, grief, stuck in the nervous system. I created this space because this work shouldn't happen in isolation. Grief—especially collective grief—needs community. It needs practices we can return to. It needs permission to feel what's true without bypassing into toxic positivity or drowning in despair. Here's what we'll do together: We'll practice being present to what is, in our bodies. We'll learn somatic tools that help us stay resourced while feeling difficult things. We'll talk about the grief embedded in our historical moment—political upheaval, ecological loss, economic precarity, fractured social fabrics—and how it intersects with our personal transitions. We'll ask questions like: How do I hold space for both grief in the world and my daily life? What does my body do when I can't control outcomes? How do I navigate a personal shift when the whole landscape is changing? Where do I locate hope that isn't denial?