Shared State: Embodied Couples Valentines Day Experience

This workshop offers couples a direct experience of how connection evolves when regulation and presence lead. Not because something is missing but because depth is a choice. We know that connection doesn’t deepen through effort, fixing, or talking things out. It deepens when two bodies feel safe enough to settle together.

This experience centers on breath as the bridge between self and other. Through guided breathwork, somatic practices, meditation, writing, and sound healing, couples are led into a shared state of regulation where presence becomes natural and connection can emerge without force.

✧ Breath — The Entry Point

Breathwork will guide each partner out of habitual stress responses and into awareness of their internal state. From here, breath becomes a shared language—supporting regulation, emotional openness, and grounded presence.

✧ Body — The Regulator

Somatic and partnered practices help bring attention out of the mind and into the body. These practices support felt safety, attunement, and the ability to stay present with sensation—both individually and together.

✧ Bond — The Shared Field

Rather than focusing on communication strategies, this class works with co-regulation. As each nervous system settles, couples experience how connection naturally strengthens when neither partner is bracing, fixing, or performing.

✧ Presence — The Integration

Guided meditation and reflective writing allow space to integrate insights, express appreciation, and clarify intention without pressure to share publicly. Sound healing supports nervous system integration and anchors the shared state in the body.

• A gentle guided couples breathwork ceremony
• Somatic and partnered practices to support regulation
• Writing and reflection to deepen awareness
• Meditation and sound healing for integration
• A calm, trauma-informed, consent-based environment

• This experience is open to all couples. Tickets are sold per couple (2 people).
• No prior breathwork, meditation, or somatic experience is required.
• All practices are invitational and consent-based. You may opt out or modify at any time.
• This is a trauma-informed, nervous-system–led space focused on regulation and presence.
• The ceremony is not therapy or couples counseling. Nothing needs to be fixed.
• Please arrive on time to support the container of the group experience.
• Space is intentionally limited to preserve depth, safety, and intimacy.

Shared State is hosted by Ashley Oakes of Quantum Sol Breathwork, a nervous-system–focused breathwork facilitator and somatic mentor who helps individuals and couples access presence, regulation, and deeper connection.

Joining her is Mitchel, a relationship mentor and Reiki energy facilitator, who brings expertise in somatic connection, energetic alignment, and conscious partnership.

Together, they guide couples through an intentional experience that balances embodied practice, emotional attunement, and energetic support—creating a safe space where regulation, presence, and real connection can arise naturally.

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