Are social interactions overwhelming for you?
Are you confused by why you keep getting sick?
Do you often feel like you get the short end of the stick- overgiving or being “nice?”
Do you struggle to feel comfortable in your own skin?
Do you freeze in the moment— only later to think of the perfect response?
Limits and Boundaries is for you, if you experience:
- confusion around boundaries in work and life
- feeling at a loss for words when things aren't going your way
- taking everything personally (from someone else’s social media post to a friend’s disappointment)
- feeling like you need to give more than you're available for
- a lot of good ideas but you don't move forward
- dread around the holidays or social gatherings
- repeated push-back when you say “no”
- promising more than is actually fair to you
- under-earning
- many AHA moments or insights but nothing really changes
- always being the "bigger person" (ignoring what you’re actually feeling)
- Some of the things that we think of as physical problems (like autoimmune diseases, BV, or yeast infections) are our bodies ways of protecting us.
If you can't set limits, your body will set them for you.
Or, instead of working with healthy boundaries, you might hide out in your internal world.
You might avoid dating and the news.
You don’t dare change your situation, because you know subconsciously that changing things … meaning you’d have to create and maintain boundaries.
And for many of us, that’s frightening.
Does having boundaries mean you’ll rupture connection?
In this course, you’ll learn to feel what’s truly yours, and what belongs to others.
And how to hold your ground.
You’ll learn to set limits and boundaries in your own life so that you have more left over to know and express yourself, thrive in what you do, and create meaningful, real connection.
Our bodies are speaking louder than all of our frameworks, philosophies, and sophisticated ideas.
So how do we work with our bodies to change the story?
This course is for:
- those who hold space for others
- change-agents
- parents
- those who want to improve their relational skills
- practitioners and healers
- yoga and meditation teachers
Online Course Format:
- 4 weeks
- Four 90min weekly video classes
- One class per week delivered to your inbox
- powerful embodied exercises and assignments
Week by week description:
Week one: Containment: Embodying “Yes” and “No”
Week two: Over-giving the dynamic of giving and receiving
Week three: Increasing capacity to weather conflict
Week four: Orienting and centering
FAQ
This course has less theory and even more embodied practice than Jaguar. It’s a great complement to Jaguar for those who want more foundational material on the theme of boundary strengthening, sexual autonomy and differentiation. We zoom-in on one piece of Jaguar. Jaguar covers major principles of the nervous system, and this course is about one major aspect of selfhood.
Our culture is currently in this phase of differentiation—this course gives us the tools to differentiate gracefully. Differentiation requires ego strengthening. A lot of spiritual practice asks us to break down our ego conditioning- however many of did not start out with something strong to break down which can lead to further fragmentation, and a feeling of displacement.
Differentiation is the concept of knowing and owning what’s yours. It’s what allows us not to take everything personally- to know what is our part and what is not. Differentiation allows you to tolerate conflict. You can stand in your truth even if it’s different than what others around you believe, without having to necessarily needing to reject them. You can disagree with someone and go on with your day. Then you can do your own work in the world with ease, and feel comfortable in your own skin.
The videos in this course are meant to be watched once per week in order. You’ll get access to a new video class each week. You’ll receive information and experiential exercises in each video that you can work with all week.
You will be invited to join the Magas and Jaguars Facebook group which is a community forum to share experiences related to coursework with Kimberly.
I created this course because there is a deep need in our culture for differentiation, and for being able to hold our ground with compassion—especially toward ourselves.
We can maintain connection and renegotiate trauma through setting our own clear boundaries.
Join this class for a deeply embodied education and real-life tools in holding your ground and owning your worth.
Kimberly Ann Johnson
Kimberly Ann Johnson is the author of Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma: Awaken Our Own Power and Use It for Good (HarperWave, 2021). A full-time yoga teacher and Structural Integration practitioner for ten years, after having a baby, Kimberly has dedicated her work for the last ten years to women’s health, training yoga teachers, bodyworkers, and somatic practitioners and helping women heal from birth trauma, gynecological surgeries and sexual boundary violations.
She is also the author of the early mothering classic, The Fourth Trimester: A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions and Restoring Your Vitality (Shambhala, 2017) which has been translated into 8 languages. She has ushered thousands of women into their full voices and sexual expression through her signature courses Activate Your Inner Jaguar, Forging a Feminine Path, and MotherCircle. She is the host of the Sex Birth Trauma podcast.
