Course Description

This five-part series explores the freeze response as a psychological, physical, and spiritual state — and offers a guided, experiential pathway for understanding yourself within this context. Consider this as an invitation to begin moving from freeze into coherence (balance of Body/Spirit/Mind). Freeze is a specific stress response that we go into if the stressor we face is something we cannot run from or fight. When our nervous system defaults into the paralysis of freeze for coping with stress it creates a lifetime of struggle.

Rather than approaching freeze as a problem to fix, we work with it as an intelligent survival response that shapes perception, identity, and nervous system function. Through a combination of pre-work, class teaching and discussion, experiential energy practices, and homework, participants gain a lived understanding of how freeze forms — and how it can reorganize into greater clarity, agency, and embodiment.

The Five Phases

Freeze

We begin by examining how freeze happens and why it occurs. This phase focuses on recognition — identifying freeze as a state of protection rather than pathology, and understanding how it interrupts agency, sensation, and perception.

Frozen

Here we explore who we become when freeze becomes chronic. We look at the adaptations, identities, and coping structures that emerge when life is navigated from a frozen state — psychologically, physically, and spiritually.

Thaw

Thaw introduces movement back into the system. This phase addresses what must emerge — safely and gradually — for the nervous system to release long-held immobility without overwhelm or collapse.

Flow

As thaw stabilizes, we move into flow — the restoration of rhythm, responsiveness, and engagement with life. Flow is not a peak state, but a functional return to movement, feeling, and choice.

Coherence

The series concludes with coherence — the reorganization of self around the core self, or Seed. In this phase, insights and experiences integrate into a more unified internal architecture, allowing change to last rather than fragment.

Format

Each class includes:

• Guided pre-work

• Teaching and group discussion

• Experiential energy practices

• Homework for integration between sessions

This series emphasizes direct experience over theory, and integration over performance or belief.

Details:

A Five-Part Experiential Series

Wednesdays | 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM CT
Live on Zoom | Recorded

Dates

• Freeze — May 20

• Frozen — June 24

• Thaw — July 22

• Flow — August 26

• Coherence — September 23

Enrollment Deadline: May 6

Cost: $400 for the full series (payable in parts)