Activate Your Inner Jaguar
Healthy Differentiation & the Prism of Real World Relating
A 6 WEEK COURSE ON SOMATICS & THE NERVOUS SYSTEM WITH KIMBERLY ANN JOHNSON
STARTS TUESDAY MARCH 8TH AT 11 AM PST | 2 PM EST
Activate Your Inner Jaguar
Healthy Differentiation & the Prism of Real World Relating
A 6 WEEK COURSE ON SOMATICS & THE NERVOUS SYSTEM WITH KIMBERLY ANN JOHNSON
Starts March 8th
After two years of varying degrees of isolation, and all of its impacts, we must insist on proximity and togetherness.
We have to find ways to come back to ourselves and each other.
But how?
When it feels that there is nothing to come back to, no culture to return to, no social fabric that still exists; When it feels that coming together is exhausting and mystifying;
How do we come back home?
We start with our individual nervous systems. We start with understanding what originates within us.
Then we build our capacity and stamina for social engagement.
Next we build our capacity and stamina for conflict.
We charge ourselves with the resonance of reconciliation, forgiveness, and love within ourselves.
This is not skipping to solution-oriented thinking. This is not spiritual bypassing.
This involves grief, anger, and sorrow. As well as joy, pleasure and faith.
It involves truth.
Many of us have experienced painful and unexpected ruptures during these last two years.
The lid of the pressure cooker tightened and earlier relational and attachment challenges rose to the surface galvanizing some relationships and ending others.
The prism of real world relating requires that we understand differentiation and interconnectedness. We understand when we need to separate, and when and perhaps how we can come together.
Can you hold your position while listening to others?
Are you willing to change your mind?
Do you believe universally that your intuition is correct? Can you find your intuition when you need it?
Are you aware of cues that tell you when you are sliding into habit rather than authentic truth?
Join over 6000+ students of Activate Your Inner Jaguar
Jaguar energy is ferocious, decisive, relaxed and powerful.
We will never outrun our mammalian nature and needs.
So we must dedicate ourselves to understanding and committing to return to these mammalian instincts in a culture that is fast convincing us that somehow we can outsmart them.
We don’t know what the future holds.
How will this affect our children, and their children?
Will we choose the earth?
Will we choose each other- even those whose realities we cannot see?
Are we willing to change?
The answer to these questions depend on us.
Who is this Class For?
- Yoga + breath teachers who need to understand the nervous system and trauma on a deeper level
- Birthworkers who need tools to help clients shift states according to individual needs
- Anyone who feels resigned or helpless or afraid and needs an infusion of fresh energy and tools
- Mothers, with no space or privacy, seeking to be the regulating center of their homes and understand how to help their children metabolize this neverending time
- Humans who need and want community and support
- Activists who are losing stamina
In this class, you will learn:
- Why it’s imperative to play the long game and HOW to do that
- Learn how to accurately read the signals your body is giving you and know what direction to move to from there
- Why certain forms of movement, yoga and breathwork might work for some people, but not for you
- How to stop projecting your anxiety outwards and learn to metabolize it, so you can communicate from your deepest truth, and be heard
- How to metabolize the waves of emotions and sensations so that you feel you are setting the tone rather than being tossed around by others.
- How an ability to differentiate is crucial to nervous system health, and a tolerance for difference is a part of that
- Why it doesn’t work to “heal ourselves first” and then move back into relationship (whether that’s romantic, friendship or familial relationship)
- How to direct our energy and attention where it really matters, and when we don’t, how to reclaim it
- How to create capacity and stamina for conflict
How is this course different than other Jaguar course offerings?
The theme of this Jaguar is RELATING: dating, parenting, family, friendship, professional and romance.
- The focus of this class is the foundational Activate Your Inner Jaguar material layered onto the topic of relating & understanding healthy differentiation
- Tuesday’s class will cover nervous system foundations and the Activate Your Inner Jaguar material
- Three Wednesday classes led by Emma Callaghan for Women of Color
- Guest Workshop: Friendship: Depth and Healthy Attachment on Adult Friendship through the lens of psychotherapy with Deborah Bagg Saturday, April 2nd at 9am
- Guest Workshop: Codependence and Interdependence with Ellen Boeder on March 18th at 11 am pst
- Relating with Men: A panel of men come together to connect about what jaguar energy means to them in the age of dismantling the patriarchy April 10th at 5 pm pst
Emma CallaGHAN
Jaguar Women of Color facilitator, yoga & mindfulness instructors
Emma Callaghan has been teaching yoga and mindfulness practices for 18 years but credits Somatic Experiencing and Kimberly’s Jaguar courses for helping her to unravel and heal racialized and intergenerational trauma. After multiple rounds of Jaguar Emma has gained a thorough understanding of her own nervous system and has been helping others to understand theirs. Emma has been supporting the Jaguar movement for the last year by facilitating affiliate classes for women of color on the course. Emma is studying Somatic Trauma Therapies and is available to all Jaguar alumni for support and connection should anyone need it one on one.
Ellen Boeder
Guest Teacher & Psychotherapist
Ellen Boeder is a psychotherapist living in Boulder, CO, with her husband and two kids. She is a frequent teacher at the Relationship School with her husband, Jayson Gaddis. She is a Level 3 Candidate in the PACT model of working with couples. She is an ongoing student in neurobiology, attachment, physiological psychology, relationship, and yoga.
Deborah Bagg
Veteran Jaguar, somatic psychotherapist and teacher of yoga
Deborah Bagg, LMHC, is a somatic psychotherapist, teacher of yoga and the feminine arts with over 18 years of therapeutic experience, and mother. She specializes in anxiety, life transitions, break-ups, pre and postpartum experiences, motherhood,
fertility and trauma all through the lens of embodiment and relationship. Her online platform loveisjuniper holds monthly moon circle, psycho-education and women’s yoga practices.
Course Format:
Weekly Class: 6 Tuesday’s at 11 am pst | 2 pm est (March 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th April 5th & 12th)
Women of Color : Wednesday’s at 11 am pst | 2 pm est
Three Guest Workshops by guest speakers on the topic of relating (March 18th at 11 am pst, April 2nd at 9 am pst, April 10th at 5 pm est)
Access to meditations & course materials
Facebook group for students in this round of Activate Your Inner Jaguar
Investment:
$347 regular Price
Payment plans available at checkout
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 the author of recently released Call of The Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, And Use It For Good (HarperWave, 2021) as well as the early mothering classic The Fourth Trimester: Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions and Restoring Your Vitality published in seven languages around the world.
She is sought after practitioner and lead authority in postpartum health, Johnson has been working hands-on in integrative women’s health and trauma recovery for more than a decade. Prior to that she was a full-time yoga teacher and Structural Integration practitioner.
Her work has been featured in 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 where she hosts cutting edge conversations about the things that really matter in our time, with 800, 000 unique downloads.
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FAQ
No problem at all. We’ve had thousands of women take this course, and very few were able to come to every live webinar (and some couldn’t attend any live, because of work and other commitments). The videos in this course are meant to be watched sometime during the week—you’ll get a replay of each video within 24 hours of the live call. You’ll receive information and experiential exercises in each video that you can work with all week.
The classes will be 75-90 minutes long, and we’ll give you some experiential exercises and meditations to incorporate into your daily life during the week. All-in-all you’ll be spending about two hours on course material per week (plus whatever you fold into your daily interactions).
