Embodied Parenting

Three-week SELF-CARE course THAT GOES DEEP

Learn to support yourself to then support your family when going gets tough.
Join us to explore body-based tools that show how sensations in our bodies can serve as guide, a barometer of our capacity to hold the complexities of parenting.

Parenting from the body can be a game-changing: we learn to separate our triggers from our children, to understand their behaviors through a somatic lens to help us (& them) regulate, and create a home based on open communication and deeper understanding.
In 3 weeks we explore: family dynamics of co-dysregulation, creating capacity to keep the ship afloat and boundaries as a creative act.

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Next IN PERSON:

✓ January & February 2025
✓ In Basalt and Glenwood Springs, CO
✓ SESSION 1: Wed, Jan 15, 22 & 29; 10-11:30am
✓ SESSION 2: Mon, Jan 27, Feb 3 & 10; 12-1:30pm

Sliding scale $0-125

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Join this group and together learn to parent from a creative space, instead of a reactive, “trauma” response.

In a series of 3 classes spread over 3 weeks, this group is led through some lectures but mostly taught through conversations and skill building.

This group is NOT about changing your child or correcting their behavior nor about healing trauma with your parents.

This group IS about practicing how to hold ourselves in challenging situations with our kids, and how best to support them from a place of detached groundedness.

→ TWO IN-PERSON SESSIONS:
♡ Jan 15 - 27 on Wednesdays at 10-11:30am
at a private residence in Westbank Ranch (in progress)

♡ Jan 29 - Feb 10 on Mondays at 12-1:30pm
in downtown Basalt (register below)

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Join, even if you feel you are drowning in to-do’s

The Embodied Parenting Journey

This course is taught through some lectures but mostly through conversations and skill-building.

Three themes are explored:

Week 1:

Dynamics of family triggers
Identify your and your child’s go-to stress response.
Week 2:

Embodied Capacity
Use your body as a gauge of your ability to support others.
Week 3:

Boundaries.
Where you end & they begin.
Practice the felt sense of setting creative and reactive boundaries.

what previous participants say

What was the most valuable thing about your experience in MotherCircle?

“Time and space for my own reflection and integration of this transformation into motherhood, in a thoughtfully facilitated container. Each week felt like taking a deep, restorative rest...like a yin yoga class for the soul.”
How was it for you?

“I took Vanda’s mother’s circle last fall and it was a powerful experience to pause and focus on the massive transformation into motherhood and where I am on that journey. The sessions are targeted at key topics of birth experience, sex life post-birth, your worth, and more. The premise is on sharing and being witnessed, which I had never experienced before. I highly recommend!”
What would you say to someone considering joining a MotherCircle?

“If you've been caught in the rip tide of new motherhood - giving so much of yourself to your baby; everything about your life changing dramatically - MotherCircle can be a chance to carve out a small space each week to just sit on the beach and catch your breath. You'll get to know yourself better and find new perspectives in both the curriculum and the other participants.”
Thank you for being such a ray of light Vanda!

And for opening up your heart, knowledge and experience in this space to us.
Your voice, demeanor and temperament is extremely soothing, easy to digest and creates a safe haven of comfort.
Were there any unexpected benefits that you experienced?

“I loved the breathwork and movement exercises often at the beginning of class but sometimes at other points! That was really valuable to me integrated with the talking/verbal mode, where I often spend time.”

Join Embodied Parenting

3 week somatic practice group

Embodied Parenting (Monday Group)

Three-week somatic practice group.

Monday 12-1:30pm sessions
Jan 27, Feb 3 & 10

held at Oma’s House at 162 Midland Ave in Basalt (behind Craft Coffee House).

$40.00
Supported

$97.00
Fair

$125.00
Pay It Forward

Custom Amount

Sliding scale registration. Choose from one of the options or name your own price. Choose "Pay it Forward" to support another with less financial freedom in joining.

Embodied Parenting (Wednesday Group)

Three-week somatic practice group.

Wednesday 10a-11:30am sessions
Jan 15, 22, 29.

held at a private residence in Wesbank Ranch (address provided upon registration).

$40.00
Supported

$97.00
Fair

$125.00
Pay It Forward

Custom Amount

Sliding scale registration. Choose from one of the options or name your own price. Choose "Pay it Forward" to support another with less financial freedom in joining.

Vanda Ciceryova Hodgins

Meet your Facilitator

With two decades of experience in health and wellness, Vanda blends Eastern and Western approaches to provide a warm-hearted and commonsense approach to parenting. As a yogini, yoga and meditation teacher, somatic educator, EFT practitioner, and nutritionist, Vanda brings a wealth of knowledge to her role as a facilitator.

As a mother of two, Vanda understands the challenges and joys of parenting. Through her participation in Relational Life Therapy training Vanda learned to see magic in human relationship dynamics, providing her with much-needed insight into her unique journey as a friend, mother, wife, and therapist.

Join this somatic practice group and embark on a journey of self-discovery, connection, and empowerment. Embrace the opportunities for transformation that parenting on your own terms is, with Vanda as your compassionate guide.

About Vanda

Vanda's Motherhood Story

Read Vanda's Notes To Self

FAQs

No. The purpose of this group is to practice the felt sense of supporting ourselves as a caretaker while simultaneously gaining resolution through gathering, sharing, witnessing and being witnessed.
Circles that are held at the Underground Playground welcome parents and infants.
Circle held at Oma’s House or the Launchpad is for parents only.
Childcare is hard to come by for littles. I get it. Participating in community with a child in arms is better than not at all.
However, consider that we are quite enmeshed with our children. When parents are present by themselves and for themselves it is a different headspace - the awareness of the changes we are going through as moms is more accessible.
Circle “works” best if parents come alone to be fully able to receive and rest from their caretaking duties.
Always. Email me.
90 minutes of formal class time.
For in-person gatherings there is always time to chit chat after.
In-person circles held twice a year, in the spring and fall.
Each year there are two circles planned late Winter and one starting in late Summer.
Add your email to the notification list for virtual circles below & when there is enough demand to gather online - I’ll send you an email with the details to register.

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the next best time is now.

- Chinese proverb