Activate Your Inner Jaguar
Somatic Healing through Movement
A 6 Week COURSE with Kimberly Ann Johnson and Guest presenters
Starts Tuesday July 12th at 11 am PST | 2 pm est
Activate Your Inner Jaguar: Somatic Healing through Movement
Starts Tuesday JuLY 12th at 11 am PST | 2 pm est
A 6 Week COURSE with Kimberly Ann Johnson and Guest presenters
Activating Your Inner Jaguar is about standing up and speaking out.
Caring less about being nice and caring more about what you need.
It’s about claiming your space and holding your ground.
Learning to stay in your body, even when things get intense, loving yourself when you can’t, and having a bunch of tools to find your way back.
Jaguar energy is fierce and decisive, and it may be the missing piece of your healing journey.
Activating Your Inner Jaguar is about claiming your space, owning your voice and expanding your capacity for true power.
Jaguar energy is fierce and decisive, and it may be the missing piece of your healing journey.
We are in the midst of collective MOVEMENT.
Together we will MOVE.
In this class you will:
- Understand your own nervous system in real time and in your own body
- Have space to grieve
- Learn how to accurately read the signals your body is giving you and know what direction to move to from there
- Practice many ways of returning to center
- Grasp boundaries in a direct and palpable way so that she can express your needs and wants clearly
- Move stagnant energy so you can feel more like yourself
- Learn how to stop projecting your anxiety outwards and learn to metabolize it, so you can communicate from your deepest truth, and be heard
- Practice surfing big waves of emotions and sensations so that you feel like you feel like you’re the surfer and not being tossed around in the stormy ocean
- Bridge the gap between the rights you know you have and an ability to advocate for yourself in the present moment
This course is for HUMANS-- lovers, parents, birth-workers, bodyworkers, therapists, and people who want to become more animal, more human and more humane.
Activate Your Inner Jaguar is for you if:
- you feel that your empathy is more of a hindrance than a help
- there is a disconnect between what you want in life, and what you’re getting
- You’re trying to figure out who you are or what’s yours to do in the midst of all this change
- have chronic yeast infections, BV, or pain during sex
- You recoil from conflict or never feel there’s a good outcome from it
- You have difficulty figuring out what you need or want, let alone asking for it
- You feel exhausted, depleted and tired of trying to do the right thing with little results
- You’ve never really recovered from a birth or loss experience
- You shut down around sex (low desire or pleasure), or a proclivity to end up in experiences you’re not sure you wanted
Watch The Replay: Grief & The Nervous System
How is this class different from other Jaguar offerings?
Tuesdays at 11 am PDT | 2 pm EDT are the foundational Activate Your Inner Jaguar foundational work- the anchor classes.
Weekly Movement Class Fridays at 11 am PDT | 2 pm EDT. This class will have a weekly movement class led by somatic teachers in forms such as Tantric Dance, Authentic Movement, The Class, and Q’oya. You will get a chance to get a sweat on, as well as many examples of somatic movement and inspiration.
Jaguar: Movement Edition is a 6-week class based on the original Activate Your Inner Jaguar from Call of the Wild with weekly movement and dance experiences to support the integration of the nervous system work as well as to offer you many doorways back to yourself.
Many people- dance teachers, physical therapists, musicians, personal trainers and artists- often ask me if they should do trauma training. I usually tell them that I love Somatic Experiencing training, AND many of them are already doing trauma work in thier teaching by getting people to feel and move and be in their bodies.
Before there was explicit “trauma” or “somatic work,” there was singing and dancing. There was moving together. There were rites of passage. There were ways of marking times and seasons of life.
Now we can use the tools of somatics with the remembering of what it is to move and be led together.
I am inviting you to my happy place.
In these complicated times, we must find ways to connect to our aliveness. We don’t avoid or bypass the gravity or urgency of the times. We expand our range and remember to laugh, sing, and dance while we circle and grieve and create.
Before I worked with women + trauma, I was a full-time yoga teacher and bodyworker.
Before I was a yoga teacher, I was a dancer. Highlights of my dance career included performing at the Kennedy Center with Jump Rhythm Dance Center, being a part of the Nike team in Chicago, + a short-lived gig with the WuTangClan (long story).
People used to tell me they didn’t see me as a Gemini until they saw me on the dance floor and then they understood.
You don’t have to love to dance to join this class, though. If you do, come on, then!
It’s not about jazz hands; it’s an inside experience. You don’t even have to turn your camera on, but it’s fun when you do.
There are a lot of books where you can learn about the principles of the nervous system and trauma. There are fewer places where you can learn through direct experience, transmission and oral tradition.
That is the invitation of Jaguar.
I invite guest teachers who all have their way into nervous system regulation and wholeness.
This gives you versions of what resilience can look and feel like.
Teachers & Class Schedule
Join us for this line up of incredible somatic teachers in forms such as Tantric Dance, Authentic Movement, The Class, and Q’oya. You will get a chance to get a sweat on, as well as many examples of somatic movement and inspiration. All classes are recorded.
⭐Weekly Tuesday classes with Kimberly Ann Johnson (July 12, 19, 26 and August 2, 9, 16) at 11 am PDT | 2 pm EDT
⭐Weekly Friday Movement classes with Guest Teachers (July 15, 22, 29 and August 5, 12) at 11 am PDT | 2 pm EDT
July 15th: Grief ritual through movement class with Bernadette Pleasant at 11 am PDT | 2 pm EDT
(Monday) July 18th: Gaga Dance class with Zina Zinchenko Monday, July 18th at 9 am PDT | 12 pm EDT
July 22nd: Tantric Dance class with Devi Ward Erickson at 11 am PDT | 2 pm EDT
July 29th: Qoya class Rochelle Schieck at 11 am PDT | 2 pm EDT
August 5th: Authentic Movement with Weena Pauly at 11 am PDT | 2 pm EDT
August 12th: The Bent & The Straight (the Class) with Marina Trejo at 11 am PDT | 2 pm EDT
(Saturday) August 13th Take Back the Speculum Class with Pam Samuelson
Investment:
Why “choose-what-you-pay?” My number one business value is coherence. My number two value is democratization.
I want this material to be accessible for those who need it.
Acknowledging the journey through the pandemic, the recent Supreme Court rulings, inflation and an unstable market, I am continuing this payment option to help students access this material with as little barrier to entry as possible.
Everyone has varying economic privilege, so I ask that you practice honest self-evaluation while choosing what you are able to pay at this time. Early bird pricing ends Sunday July 10th, at midnight (prices will increase $50). Payment plans are also available at checkout.
Do not choose this course over basic needs, like rent and food. Reach out if that is your reality.
All members of the jamboree- a group of Jaguars- are essential. This discounted price allows us to keep the energetic flow of money into the economy while continuing to serving our community.
This mid-range option is priced below our regular Jaguar rate, so that more people will be able to access this material now.
Gift for yourself and another Jaguar. This pay-it-forward option makes it possible for us to offer a discounted rate to those who are struggling financially during this time.
Earlybird pricing ends Sunday, July 10th at midnight EDT
A Note On Refunds: Transparency is a core value of the Jaguar community, we put a lot of effort into an accurate representation of the course experience and we are happy to answer your questions in advance. Because our products are digital goods that are accessible once the course begins we do not offer refunds. Thank you for understanding.
YOUR TEACHER
Kimberly Ann Johnson
Author, Sexological Bodyworker, and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
Kimberly Ann Johnson is a Sexological Bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, Structural Integration practitioner, postpartum advocate, retired yoga teacher and single mom.
She is the author of Call of The Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, And Use It For Good (HarperWave, 2021) and the early mothering classic The Fourth Trimester: Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions and Restoring Your Vitality (Shambhala, 2017) published in seven languages around the world.
For the past 12 years, she has been helping women recover from birth, gynecological surgeries and sexual boundary ruptures.
Her work has been featured on the Goop! podcast, The New York Times, Forbes, Vogue, New York Magazine’s The Cut, Harper’s Bazaar, Today.com and many more. She is the host of the Sex Birth Trauma podcast with 750,000 unique downloads.
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