Pause and take a deep breath.
(Seriously.)
See if this resonates with your story:
You want to feel unhurried, like you can relax your shoulders again and be comfortable exactly where you are.
You want to feel connected, whole, good enough – that life has meaning and that you’re participating in the healing of your communities.
But right now…it’s just not that.
Instead, you feel like you’re just going through the motions. From one thing to the next, and then the next, and then the next.
The best way I know how to move through this experience is by working with our shadows – the parts of ourselves we'd rather nobody see. These include our negative self-narratives, our fears and failures, our shoulds and our shames, our underexamined grief, and our inner contradictions.
And they are the worst. They shape the way we see the world, interact with others, and even treat ourselves. (Perhaps most especially how we treat ourselves.)
When left unexamined, these shadows wreak havoc throughout our lives:
Stress
Anxiety
Feeling alone
Physical pains
Imposter syndrome
Harm-causing anger
A sense of adriftness
Unhealthy detachment
Disconnection from self
Challenges in relationships
A lingering sense of sadness
Lack of community engagement
It’s possible you’ve tried to avoid facing your personal shadows, launching yourself instead into work, codependent relationships, or maybe even justice work that seems vital but leaves you exhausted and emotionally drained.
But numbing and avoidance just keep us on autopilot, grinding through our days from one task to another without a deep sense of meaning, wholeness, or connection with our communities around us.
And to compound it all – because why not – we also have communal and societal shadows: the parts of our communities and society that might be considered "too big to fail" and if exposed, might put at risk the existing order of things.
Without engaging in shadow work at all three of these levels, we might burnout (if we haven’t already), become frozen in our disillusionment, or worse, lose ourselves in feelings of emptiness and apathy.
And shadow work is obviously not easy.
(If we’re honest, that’s probably why most of us keep ignoring it. And yet we also know ignoring this kind of inner work doesn’t get us anywhere new – just the same status quo we’re currently feeling stuck in.)
But I have a core belief that guides me and it is what drives this course:
We can do deep, heavy soulwork in a soft, light-hearted way.
This six-week course builds on my ten years of experience leading workshops and helping folks move gently and with softness (and humor) into this intimate and difficult work.
It is designed to emphasize practices and tools that are practical, accessible, repeatable, and sustainable so you can immediately begin to feel more grounded, more present, and more whole.
We’ll engage in this work through:
4 90-minute live sessions of teachings and engaged inner work, informed by internal family systems, contemplative spirituality, and somatic body work,
2 90-minute live practice spaces for community sharing,
a collection of practical somatic tools you can integrate into your daily life, and
a 50+ page guidebook w/all practices, materials, and journaling prompts all in one place for your ongoing work.
If you want to start feeling whole, connected, and in motion again, this course will help you develop the habits and tools to do so.
Join us for the next course:
When: This course is currently on pause. Instead, please check out the 30-day inner work cohort, which happens multiple times each year.
Where: Virtual Series (Zoom)
In order to provide financial accessibility while also making this offering sustainable, there are three different pricing options for you to choose from. Please pay what you are able.
From those who have participated in this course:
"I love having the tools to actually do my inner work. It's no longer just theory or a wish for the future." –Mary P.
“My greatest learning from our time together: I’m not alone!” –Jerry H.
“This is right where I need to be right now.” –Becky K.
“This touched what is on my heart.” –Elizabeth S.
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This course is for you if you’re interested in exploring your sense of inner identity, spirituality, and how you show up in your communities. Together, we’ll work with questions like:
What narratives are driving you and shaping how you see yourself and the world around you?
What issues, past harms, and right-now problems do your communities not want to admit exist?
How are you actively and intentionally engaging societal issues in relational ways?
This course is not for you if:
you have extensive and unexamined/underexamined trauma history. Instead, please seek a therapist or other mental health professional.
you don’t want to engage in introspective practices (such as journaling) or body-based practices (such as guided meditations, body check-ins, gentle stretching).
Ultimately, if you’ve read this far and this sounds intriguing and potentially helpful, it’s probably for you. If you have any specific questions, send me an email at hello@andrewglang.com!
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Weekly from October 5th - November 9th, 2023
7:00 - 8:30pm (Pacific Time)
From the comfort of your favorite chair, couch, or pillows! The Zoom link will be provided before the first session.
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In order to provide financial accessibility while also making this offering sustainable, there are three different pricing options for you to choose from. Please pay what you are able.
$125 ($20.83/week)
$150 ($25.00/week)
$175 ($29.16/week)
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Richard Rohr teaches that “We do not think ourselves into new ways of living; we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.”
Rather than approach topics of spiritual and personal deepening with a purely intellectual focus, we use somatic tools (body-based practices) to build a greater sense of embodied awareness, to ground ourselves, to regulate our central nervous systems, and to learn to discern our body’s wisdom and ways of knowing. Without doing this, it becomes too easy to take in new knowledge without practicing how to embody it. These tools and practices might include body check-in exercises, guided stretching, breathing meditations, muscle relaxation techniques, etc.
Think of this as a practice space; if we can learn to regulate our emotional systems and see in new ways here, it becomes a lot easier to do it while we’re out and about in our day-to-day lives.
100% Refund Policy
There’s enough risk in the world without this adding to it.
If you engage with this course and find that it’s not for you, just let me know and I’ll send you your money back. My hope is that each session will be deeply meaningful and provide you practical and accessible tools and practices – but if these don’t resonate with you, no stress and no shame!
Just let me know and I might even be able to point you toward someone or something that can help more.
Still not sure if this is for you?
Check out my free 5-day email series introducing you to my framework for shadow work and inviting you to begin engaging it in your own life.
Have a question?
Send it my way and I’ll get back to you!