Jaguar
PRINCIPLES
A 4 week apprenticeship style course
with Kimberly Ann Johnson
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Jaguar your nervous system alongside a community of fierce, compassionate women. Join us!
4 anchor classes. 4 live sessions.
This month-long immersion is Jaguar Principles + Live Sessions.
This is for all women.
This isn't a certification model.
It's more akin to an apprenticeship model.
This is for all women—women who want to practice and embody Jaguar principles, as well as practitioners who want to deepen their skills and follow the thread of aliveness that creates real change in their session room.
Jaguar Principles
It is always time to go back to the basics. .
Basics are imperative, but they are not easy.
You can know something in your mind – even somatics! – and not know it in your body.
I see people “pantomiming” somatic therapy all the time. Acting out repair.
It’s as frustrating as when you feel talked out in therapy.
But acting out somatics isn’t going to create different behavior or different levels of coherence in your system.
We need skillful engagement.
We need to move beyond information and actually live and embody these skills.
We need courageous practitioners with a solid foundation willing to break the mold and speak difficult truths.
Jaguar Sessions
Witnessing session work is sacred.
It is invaluable, and should not be reserved only for people in training.
This isn’t a certification model; it’s more akin to an apprenticeship model.
One of the only ways to learn how to shift your state is to see how it’s operating outside of yourself.
Many people don’t truly understand freeze until they see it and feel it in action – the protraction of time, the floating, the long stretches of silence.
When that person comes back, there’s a mini-repair in your system, too, if you stuck with it.
We need to build our more than one-on-one muscle.
By allowing witnesses, we distribute the weight of what is being carried and what is being held.
Witness the Summer Sessions.
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Inside Jaguar Principles,
You'll get:
🐆 4 Jaguar Anchor Calls
Deep-dive teachings on somatic principles and how to decode the language of your female nervous system. Ground in foundational Jaguar skills, increase your resilience, and expand your capacity for more life and more power.
🌀 4 Live Somatic Sessions
Witness Jaguar skills in action. I will guide one person in a live, virtual somatic session each week. In real time, there will be a Jaguar assistant in the chat who will be orienting you to which of the basic skills you’ve learned that is being implemented at that moment. This is a space for skillful engagement, where witnessing a session often creates a mini-repair in your own system.
❤️ A Fiercely Compassionate Space
If and when you decide to join this round of Jaguar, you will be eligible for session work. This is a shame-free, sacred environment to receive guidance from me, while being witnessed by your fellow Jaguars. We have agreements about privacy, and how we honor the work being done. For more information about how we select who will receive session work, scroll down to the FAQ at the end of this page.
🐾 A Courageous Community of Jaguars
Join an intergenerational web of embodied women. Not a trauma pit. A community of true elders, practitioners, and leaders willing to break the mold and speak difficult truths. Connect in our private online community (hosted on Facebook).
⚡️ Bonus Resources
We will share recommendations for books, trainings, somatic practitioners and more
post-intensive.
The 4-Week Journey
Four Tuesdays of Jaguar Teachings.
Four Thursdays of Session Work.
Live Teachings (Tuesdays): Solidify the foundations of Jaguar skills.
Live Sessions (Thursdays): Witness live distance sessions in real-time. Sessions may address: conception, birth, terminations, miscarriages, gynecological surgeries, sexual quandaries, or boundary ruptures.
Real-Time Orientation: A Jaguar assistant will be active in the chat, orienting you to the specific somatic skills being implemented (e.g., switching channels in TIMES) so you can track the pathway as I guide the session.
“Kimberly's work has opened a ferocity
I didn't know I had in me.
Articulation, clarity, and standing up – oftentimes, before I have a moment to doubt myself.
A life of constantly wandering too far out of my body, and now I have the tectonic skills to keep me here.”
~ BRIE
Course Details
A 4 week apprenticeship style course
with Kimberly Ann Johnson
In this Course, you will:
- Embody Jaguar nervous system principles (move beyond intellectual understanding)
- Expand your capacity to hold charge and experience erotic vitality ❤️🔥
- Learn to skillfully track your system and others' by witnessing live sessions in a sacred apprenticeship model.
Online Course Format:
- 4 Jaguar Anchor Calls with Kimberly Ann Johnson (Tuesdays)
- 4 Live Somatic Sessions—witness Kimberly guide session work (Thursdays)
- A fiercely compassionate space to be witnessed (for the four women chosen to receive live session work on the four Thursdays)
- A vibrant Facebook community for reflection, connection + integration
- All resources, replays, and bonus materials available for the foreseeable future.
Schedule:
Dates:
July 14 – August 6
Live Classes:
We’ll meet Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11am PST*.
+ Access to all recordings
We heal when we see how other people's nervous systems work, and how they work in relationship.
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PRINCIPLES
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$297
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WHAT JAGUARS ARE SAYING ABOUT WORKING WITH KIMBERLY…
“Kimberly holds us to a depth of accountability that few other women leaders are willing to do. Her Jaguar classes are among the most potent and transformative influences on women in these times.”
~ Erin
Designer
“Her wisdom, words, courses, techniques and methods are my most treasured lessons and cherished practices. Like knowing a secret language that unlocks so many locks.”
~ Whitney
Designer
“You have helped me in the arc of my becoming through the joyful re-organization of my nervous system and inner world. You’re a voice for generations.”
~ Kari
Designer
“Kimberly, you and your work have quite simply changed my life. ...You taught me to survive and fight when I wanted to disappear, and to lean into and dwell inside of a life of pleasure and courage.”
~ Charlotte
Designer
"You're a voice for generations."
This course is for you if:
- You are a somatic practitioner or therapist who sees the “pantomiming” of somatics in the world and wants to hone your felt-sense to follow the thread and trust your intuition.
- You value the apprenticeship model and want to learn by witnessing and tracking a somatic session in real-time.
- You are in the realms of sex, birth, or trauma (doula, midwife, educator, or bodyworker) and want to bridge these often-separated worlds.
- You have studied the nervous system but realize it is not yet fully lived or known in your body.
- You crave creativity in the session room. 💫
- You are weary of “trauma pits” and ready for a community of true leaders, practitioners, and elders willing to break the mold and speak difficult truths.
- You are ready to activate your Inner Jaguar and join an intergenerational web of badass, courageous women courting the erotic.
Join 18,500+ women in this movement!
EXPERIENCE THE SUMMER SESSIONS.
Most people studying these fields are missing the links:
- People who study sex often leave out women’s cycles
- People who study trauma often leave out healthy sex
- People who study birth often leave out their own self-study, going into service to address their own core wounds without necessarily realizing it
I have been bridging the worlds of sex, birth, and trauma for 15+ years.
Naming trauma doesn’t mean alchemizing it.
We have to go deeper.
Dear Ones,
I really believe that witnessing session work is invaluable and should not be reserved only for people in training.
This isn’t a certification model; it’s more akin to an apprenticeship model.
Of course, learning happens, but it may not happen according to your goals, or to your specific desired outcomes. Because usually we are much more complex than that. We don’t know what our own problem is. If we did, we would have the solution.
When we watch sessions, we see, feel and experience states that we would not otherwise. If you are a practitioner, you also get to see how I apply the basics, as well as when I bring in my own life, women’s life stages, and sexual education.
We need more courageous practitioners, with a solid foundation willing to break the mold.
We need more true elders willing to speak difficult truths. (Maybe chatGPT isn’t giving you good breastfeeding or menopause advice.)
We need evolving ways. Moving together. Making art. Walking and talking.
We need to court the erotic together—for our own thriving and longevity and theirs.
We need alive creativity in the session room.
We also need to build our more than one-on-one muscle. We cannot keep reinforcing that on-on-one attunement is the “real” way. So by allowing witnesses, we distribute the weight of what is being carried and what is being held.
I hope you will join me.
Have courage!
Anchor Jaguar skills.
Witness somatic sessions.
Own your power.
FAQs
This course goes back to the basics. The basics are imperative, but they are not easy.
This is also the first-time I’m guiding live sessions since 2022.
Like other Jaguar courses, we are working specifically with the female nervous system, female body, and a female lineage. The female body is not derivative- she has her own properties, working principles, and expression.
Jaguar Principles is a month-long apprenticeship-style model. We will gather 2x per week: Tuesday Jaguar anchor classes and Thursday session work.
P.S. Jaguar is not a one-and-done experience. Prowl in for this one.
Possibly, but we cannot overstate the value of a live experience—particularly for session work. Even if you can only make one session live or one Jaguar anchor class live, it’s worth joining live this round. Even if you can only watch the recordings because you’re based in Australia or New Zealand and don’t want to wake up in the middle of the night to join live, you will still benefit from being in the course in real-time and interacting with the live cohort in the Facebook community.
We still don’t know IF or when we’ll release this course pre-recorded in the future.
At the end of each call, I often have time for questions. The Facebook group is also a place for questions specific to the material we are working with.
In internet land, we say “lifetime” access. I like to say ’til I die’ or ’til I no longer have an online business’. So the answer is “for the foreseeable future.”
If you would like to receive live, virtual session work from Kimberly—and be witnessed by your fellow Jaguars—you may apply to receive session work after you register for the course. (You will receive an email with instructions on how to apply within a few days of registering.) We will choose sessions that are from different subject areas- ranging from conception, birth, terminations, miscarriages, gynecological surgeries and mysteries, sexual quandaries and boundary ruptures. Who we choose will be a combination of timing, and also diversity with the other sessions. So don’t take it personally if you do not get chosen.
Absolutely not, all participation is optional. However, the FB group is a great reflection, digestion and connection space for females of all different ages, life cycles and backgrounds.
Yes, Jaguar alumni receive half off FULL PRICE. (To be clear: Jaguar alumni do NOT receive half off Super Early Bird or Early Bird pricing.) You will receive a special alumni code in your inbox. Check the email you typically use to register for Jaguar courses.
If you did not receive the code, you may have marked one of our emails as spam (presumably, accidentally), or you may have unsubscribed from our emails at some point in time. Please email admin@kimberlyannjohnson.com if you cannot locate your alumni code.
Alumni codes are only available to people who have taken Activate Your Inner Jaguar or other Jaguar courses. (Mini-courses such as Mobilize Freeze or Stand Up & Stand Out do not qualify.)
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“In an ocean of voices, Kimberly's is a rarity, for her congruence, curiosity, courage, & wisdom.
Hers is one of the only voices I’ve consistently given my ears to over years, since I’ve never felt her drift into pandering to clichés or bend to the ever-shifting cultural rulebooks on what can or should be expressed.
I have Kimberly’s teachings to thank for showing me all the ways I collapse, squirm away from life, buckle, and fawn.
It’s been hard to see the extent to which these tendencies live in me, but it’s come with a fierce sense of humor and a determination toward buoyancy over wound fixation. My lifeforce, long muffled, is unfurling, unencumbered by perpetual doubt.”
~ SARAH M.
Qualifications:
Rebirthing breathwork, 2017 | Sexological Bodywork, 2015 | Somatic Experiencing,
2011 | Structural Integration, 2001 |
Ashtanga yoga training, 2001 | Viniyoga therapeutics training, 2000 | OM yoga
teacher training, 1999 | BS in Social Policy, Northwestern University, 1997 | Brown University, 1991-1993
MEET YOUR TEACHER
Kimberly Ann Johnson
Kimberly Ann Johnson has been studying the nervous system overtly for 15 years, anatomy for 28 years, and yoga for 33 years. Since graduating from Rolfing school in 2001, she has helped bridge the worlds of Sexological Bodywork and Somatic Experiencing. She now helps over 18,500 women to Activate their Inner Jaguar.
She has been teaching embodiment for the past 25 years. For the past 15 years, she’s been helping women heal from birth injuries, gynecological surgeries and sexual boundary ruptures. She teaches online courses to tens of thousands of women (18,500 and counting) helping restore the healthy fight response to the female nervous system called Activate Your Inner Jaguar. She teaches in-person intensives and trainings in the US and the UK. The Jaguar courses are prerequisites for the in-person work.
She is the author of Call of the Wild (HarperWave, 2021), The Fourth Trimester (Shambhala, 2017), Reckoning (2021), co-authored with Stephen Jenkinson, and the audio series Reclaim the Feminine (Sounds True, 2022) as well as the upcoming Erotic Seasons: Tuning into the Rhythms of Women’s Sexuality and Spirituality (St. Martins, 2026)
Kimberly is the founder of MotherCircle and the creator of Mothering the Bones, dedicated to initiatory rites and lay practices as culture work. She is the host of the Sex Birth Trauma podcast started in 2017, with over 1.5M downloads.
Works by Kimberly Ann Johnson
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Join Mobilize Freeze now!
We begin February 3rd!
Calling all women ready to reclaim their life force…
It’s time to thaw!
Mobilize Freeze
A 4 week nervous system mini course with Kimberly Ann Johnson
Registration is now closed.
Join me for 4 weekly live teachings and embodied practices focused specifically on thawing freeze.
Rekindle your vitality alongside women committed to movement, presence, and real embodied change. Join us!
Change is occurring at an exponential rate.
You already know the narrative: climate change, polycrises, artificial intelligence…
And on and on.
The question is not really what are you going to do about this.
The question is how close you are going to get to the things that matter and that are real, and how close you are going to stay to them.
How devoted will you be to your life, your reality, and the scope of what’s possible?
But you can’t do that if you are frozen.
So let’s commit to the thaw and the movement. Together.
Freeze is misunderstood.
There is so much that is labeled as a pathology that has its roots in freeze.
Thawing freeze is more than a “vu,” more than a soft voice. It’s more than a self-defense class. It’s more than relational attunement.
For most women, thawing freeze means finding a way to sustain activation and develop a relationship to healthy aggression.
Freeze might be at the root of some of your challenges.
Confusion and overwhelm are your default.
You’re exhausted and have to push yourself to do things.
People think you’re super chill but you feel anything but on the inside.
You feel like you’re playing whack-a-mole with depression, anxiety and loneliness.
You keep procrastinating.
You’re looping and the yoga, meditation app, plant medicine, and therapy hasn’t been able to pattern interrupt.
You need a lot of time to respond to things, and think of comebacks way after the moment.
You have a hard time revving the engine.
You’ve been anesthetized a lot.
You feel okay as long as your margin of activity stays within a certain range you’re controlling.
You have IBS, constipation, fertility challenges, low blood pressure, and/ or cold hands and feet.
You have sensory issues that are narrowing the scope of your life.
You get lost in existential questions and can’t move forward in your material life.
What happens when you thaw freeze?
You find yourself in a state of inspiration or flow more often.
You experience more of yourself- you feel denser and more filled out in your own body.
You set the pace for social interactions and therefore feel more comfortable.
You dose engagement so you can build capacity to be present, and to have fun.
You are in the present more often. You own your past without denying it or being crippled by it.
You feel connected to your artistry, and have energy to move forward with your creative projects.
You don’t have to be fragile or damaged or frozen to join.
Stagnation happens to the best of us, and most of us could use some guidance in moving more.
We’re all in freeze sometimes.
- Relational Freeze
- Functional Freeze
- Physical Freeze
But we don’t have to stay there.
This mini course will be deeply energizing and restorative.
It’s critical you know the difference between hibernation and stagnation.
Between rest and lethargy.
Between procrastination and incubation.
Mobilize Freeze
A 4 week nervous system mini course with Kimberly Ann Johnson
ONLINE course FORMAt
- 4 x 75-90 min live classes with Kimberly Ann Johnson
- Access to all class recordings
- Resources for continued practice and study
SCHEDULE
- Dates: February 3–24
- Live Classes: Tuesdays at 11 am PT | 2 pm ET
- February 3 + 10 + 17 + 24
Early Bird Pricing is
now available – till Sunday, January 25th at midnight!
Live classes start on Tuesday, February 3rd!
Still time to join!
You may be a...
- Dancer, Pilates practitioner, yoga teacher, athlete, martial artist
- Bodyworker or somatic practitioner or birthworker
- Holistic health care practitioner, acupuncturist
- Creative and/ or performer
- Meditator or spiritual seeker
- Somatic psychotherapist, Hakomi, EMDR or SE practitioner
- An engaged human being
- A lover of embodied learning
You’ve had good reasons.
Your body has had good reasons.
You didn’t choose to freeze.
But you CAN get out of it.
The world needs you engaged.
Time to thaw! Find yourself in a place of inspiration and flow more often!
JOIN MOBILIZE FREEZE NOW!
MEET YOUR TEACHER
Kimberly Ann Johnson
Kimberly Ann Johnson has been teaching embodiment for the past 25 years. For the past 15 years, she’s been helping women heal from birth injuries, gynecological surgeries and sexual boundary ruptures. She teaches online courses to tens of thousands of women (17,000 and counting) helping restore the healthy fight response to the female nervous system called Activate Your Inner Jaguar. She teaches in-person intensives and trainings in the US and the UK. The Jaguar courses are prerequisites for the in-person work.
She is the author of Call of the Wild (HarperWave, 2021), The Fourth Trimester (Shambhala, 2017), Reckoning (2021), co-authored with Stephen Jenkinson, and the audio series Reclaim the Feminine (Sounds True, 2022) as well as the upcoming Erotic Seasons: Tuning into the Rhythms of Women’s Sexuality and Spirituality (St. Martins, 2026)
Kimberly is the founder of MotherCircle and the creator of Mothering the Bones, dedicated to initiatory rites and lay practices as culture work. She is the host of the Sex Birth Trauma podcast started in 2017, with over 1.5M downloads.
Qualifications:
Rebirthing breathwork, 2017 Sexological Bodywork, 2015
Somatic Experiencing, 2011 Structural Integration, 2001 Ashtanga yoga training, 2001Viniyoga therapeutics training, 2000
OM yoga teacher training, 1999 BS in Social Policy, Northwestern University, 1997
Brown University, 1991-1993
Works by Kimberly Ann Johnson
FAQs
Classes will be recorded, so you can watch at your convenience.
This is a mini intensive on the response Freeze.
Jaguar is not a one-and-done experience. It’s necessary to revisit and live the practices that tend to be exponentially more powerful in a group context, even if online.
To me, it’s one of the most subtle and least understood responses that’s covered over. Freeze specifically impacts the female nervous system. I want women to have better births, better sex, better relationships to their children and to their erotic capacity. Understanding and thawing freeze is critical to this mission.
Each class can stand on its own. So come live whenever you can.
This course will be soulful. There will be many variations of how to move, how to reach into different parts of ourselves. This course is an antidote to fixating on problems.
You received an alumni discount code in your email!
Classes will be recorded, so you can watch at your convenience.
This is a mini intensive on the response Freeze.
Jaguar is not a one-and-done experience. It’s necessary to revisit and live the practices that tend to be exponentially more powerful in a group context, even if online.
To me, it’s one of the most subtle and least understood responses that’s covered over. Freeze specifically impacts the female nervous system. I want women to have better births, better sex, better relationships to their children and to their erotic capacity. Understanding and thawing freeze is critical to this mission.
Each class can stand on its own. So come live whenever you can.
This course will be soulful. There will be many variations of how to move, how to reach into different parts of ourselves. This course is an antidote to fixating on problems.
You received an alumni discount code in your email!
As seen in
Jaguar Principles
There is so much that is labeled as a pathology that has its roots in freeze.
Thawing freeze is more than a “vu,” more than a soft voice. It’s more than a self-defense class. It’s more than relational attunement.
For most women, thawing freeze means finding a way to sustain activation and develop a relationship to healthy aggression.
Jaguar Sessions
Confusion and overwhelm are your default.
You’re exhausted and have to push yourself to do things.
People think you’re super chill but you feel anything but on the inside.
You feel like you’re playing whack-a-mole with depression, anxiety and loneliness.
You keep procrastinating.
You’re looping and the yoga, meditation app, plant medicine, and therapy hasn’t been able to pattern interrupt.
You need a lot of time to respond to things, and think of comebacks way after the moment.
You have a hard time revving the engine.
You’ve been anesthetized a lot.
You feel okay as long as your margin of activity stays within a certain range you’re controlling.
You have IBS, constipation, fertility challenges, low blood pressure, and/ or cold hands and feet.
You have sensory issues that are narrowing the scope of your life.
You get lost in existential questions and can’t move forward in your material life.
