Move Through: Stress & Self-Criticism

Do you feel like you’re always on edge—even when nothing is “wrong”?

If your default is pushing, hustling, and judging yourself for never doing or being enough, your nervous system is probably carrying more than it can process with your mind alone.

Move Through Stress & Self-Criticism is a 4-week somatic movement series designed to help you:

• Downshift your nervous system out of constant “go mode”
• Release tension and stress that’s stuck in the body
• Soften the harsh inner commentary that drains your energy
• Practice relating to yourself with more compassion and ease

We’ll use intuitive movement, breath, sounding, and grounding practices to support your body in doing what it’s wired to do: complete stress cycles and return to a greater sense of safety.

This series is for you if you:

• Feel like you’re constantly “on” or bracing for the next thing
• Are highly self-critical, even when you’re doing your best
• Have a hard time relaxing without feeling guilty or unproductive
• Spend a lot of time in your head and want to reconnect to your body
• Crave a grounded, non-woo space to move, feel, and reset

Each 75-minute session will follow a similar arc:

1. Arrival & check-in: Grounding, intentions, and simple prompts to notice how you’re arriving.
2. Somatic landing: Breathwork, gentle shaking, and grounding practices to help your body downshift from stress mode.
3. Intuitive movement journey: Guided, free-form movement with music—no choreography, no right or wrong. We’ll explore themes like: `What does “too much pressure” feel like in your body? How does your body move when it feels supported instead of judged?
4. Integration & closing circle: Short reflection, a word or sentence share, and a simple ritual to honour what moved.

You’re always in choice. You can sit, rest, or pause at any time.

What you’ll walk away with

By the end of the 4 weeks, you can expect to:

• Feel more at home and less on edge in your body
• Recognise how stress and self-criticism show up somatically for you
• Have practical tools (movements, breath, rituals) to help you reset
• Experience what it’s like to be witnessed without judgment in community

• Early bird (limited spots): $169
• Regular: $199

• Comfortable clothes you can move in
• Water bottle
• Optional: journal + pen, warm layer or socks for closing
• An open mind and permission to move exactly as you are

• This series is educational and experiential, not psychotherapy or medical treatment.
• If you’re currently in therapy, this work can complement it beautifully—feel free to check with your therapist if you’re unsure.
• Tickets are for the full 4-week series (not drop-in), to support safety and continuity in the group.

This series is facilitated by Ariana (“Ari”) Rodriguez, a Montréal-based registered dietitian (UK), somatics practitioner, and mind–body therapist with a MSc in Nutrition (McGill University) and a MA in Psychology & Spirituality (Columbia University’s Spirit Mind Body Institute).

Ari blends neuroscience, somatics, dance, and spiritual psychology to help overthinking, high-achieving women move out of survival mode and into deeper connection with their bodies, emotions, and purpose.

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