Jan 30 (edited) • General discussion
Welcome to our community!
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?
Some weeks I'll offer teachings and frameworks. Some weeks we'll practice together in live sessions. Some weeks the most valuable thing will be you sharing what's alive for you and discovering you're not alone in it.
A few foundations for our time together:
-This is a brave space, not a safe space. We'll take risks in naming what's true, and we'll mess up sometimes. What matters is that we keep trying.
-Confidentiality is sacred here. What's shared in this community stays in this community unless someone explicitly says otherwise.
-Your body's wisdom matters as much as your mind's analysis. If you feel something, it counts as knowledge.
-We don't have to agree on everything—politically, spiritually, practically. But we do have to stay curious about each other's experiences and honor the grief each person carries.
Now, introduce yourself below:
Take a moment to settle into your body before you write. Notice what's present. Then share with us:
-What brought you here? Was it a specific post, a resonance with collective grief, a personal transition, something else entirely?
-What are you carrying right now? This could be personal grief (a loss, ending, identity shift), collective grief (political, climate, cultural), or both. You can be as specific or as general as feels right.
-What does your body need? If you pause and check in, what does it ask for? Rest? Movement? Witness? Permission? It's okay if you don't know yet.
-How do you want to engage here? Are you someone who processes by writing, by listening, by practicing? No wrong answers—just helps us know each other.
There's no pressure to share everything at once. You can always come back and add more as you settle in. What matters is that you're here.
0
0 comments
Welcome to our community!
skool.com/my-innermission
A community focused on embodied transformation through curiosity, learning, and intentional practice.
Powered by