# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Body As Guide: Awakening through Feeling
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 19 Jul, 2026 at 01:00 pm – Sun, 19 Jul, 2026 at 04:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: Body As Guide: Awakening through Feeling

This is your invitation: 
A Somatic, Breath & Sound Journey for Highly Sensitive Women 

“Body As Guide” is a sensory and embodied experience centered on allowing the body to lead the way. Together, we soften the constant role of the mind and ego, inviting curiosity, witnessing, and deep listening through felt sense awareness.

Feelers gotta feel
…to expand their emotional capacity.
…to come home to their body.
…to embrace sensitivities that are innate, learned, and finely tuned through life experience.

This gathering is especially supportive for highly sensitive women seeking a held and nurturing space 🐚 to gently explore their inner depths 🧜‍♀️🌊, reconnect with themselves, and deepen trust in their body’s wisdom.

Everything within this experience is optional. Each participant is encouraged to honor their own pacing, boundaries, and needs. You are invited to move, process, rest, observe, or participate as little or as much as feels supportive for your body during our time together.

This event arrives during a potent energetic threshold: the completion of the 18-month Pisces North Node / Virgo South Node cycle, while still within Cancer season. This transition supports the final releasing of over-functioning, self-criticism, emotional suppression, and survival-pattern tending… while opening into greater authenticity, feeling, expression, intuition, and heart-led embodiment.
((Days later, on July 26th, the Nodes shift into Aquarius North Node / Leo South Node, beginning a new collective chapter through March 2028.))

Flow for Our Time Together:
1. Opening Circle & Intention Setting
(Approx. 10 minutes)
We begin by grounding into the group container through gentle arrival practices and intention setting, individually and collectively. Together we create space for awakening, healing, and anchoring sensitivity through internal felt-sense experiences.

2. Nervous System Regulation & Resourcing
(Approx. 10-15 minutes)
We’ll review accessible nervous system regulation techniques that participants may use throughout the experience whenever emotions, memories, or deeper layers arise and need acknowledgment or support.
Practices may include:
Humming, Grounding techniques, Tree visualization
Physiological sigh breathing (two short inhales + one long exhale)
Rocking the hips
Gentle touch and/or essential oils applied near vagus nerve access points
These tools offer support in returning to safety, presence, and body awareness.

3. Heart Opening Cacao + Reflection & Journaling
(Approx. 30-40 minutes)
Optional ceremonial cacao tea will be offered to support heart connection and inward opening.
Participants will be invited into:
Journaling prompts
Inner reflection
Optional verbal sharing within the circle
This portion gently encourages emotional awareness, self-expression, and deeper connection to what is alive within the body.

4. Guided Somatic Movement Journey
(Approx. 30 minutes including break)
Through guided somatic movement, gentle shaking, rebounding, breath awareness, music, and exploratory flow, participants will be invited to experiment with posture, movement, and sensation as pathways for emotional release and energetic movement.
This is not about performance or getting it “right.” It is an invitation to let the body speak in its own language.

5. Breathwork Journey
(Approx. 35 minutes)
A guided breathwork experience designed to deepen conscious connection with the body, emotions, and inner awareness.
Optional hands-on support may be offered during portions of the practice to assist with grounding, diaphragmatic release, and nervous system support, always with consent.  (Participants may also choose to continue journaling, move in trance, or self-Reiki instead of active breathwork.)

6. Sound Journey Integration
(Approx. 30 minutes)
Participants will be guided into rest and integration through a deeply nourishing sound journey experience.
Supportive self-care postures and options may include:
Child’s pose, Yin or restorative positions
Gentle rocking or swaying, fully reclining into receiving
This portion allows the body and nervous system space to soften, absorb, and integrate the experience.

7. Closing Circle
(Approx. 10-20 minutes)
We complete our time together with grounding, optional sharing, reflection, and gentle support among participants before transitioning back into daily life.

Details:
Limited to 4 to 6 participants for a deeply supported experience
Arrival: 12:45 to 1:00 PM
Closing around 3:45 to 4:00 PM
Sliding Scale Investment: 
$111 to $144
(1 supported discount available per 3 tix sold)
Advance RSVP required

Led by:  Jennifer Leigh Smith
Licensed Massage Therapist and Founder of the Holistic Journey Healing Collective, Certified Feminine Embodiment Coach, Sound Healing Practitioner, Breathwork Facilitator, and Reiki Instructor.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/o-fallon/body-as-guide-awakening-through-feeling/200030188088349
- **Event Categories**: health-wellness
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: O Fallon
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 7 Eagle Center, Suite 2B-2, O'Fallon, IL, United States, Illinois 62269
- **lat**: 38.5914
- **long**: -89.92804
- **full address**: 7 Eagle Center, Suite 2B-2, O'Fallon, IL, United States, Illinois 62269, 7 Eagle Ctr, O'Fallon, IL 62269-1946, United States, O Fallon

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Body As Guide: Awakening through Feeling being held?
  - **A:** Body As Guide: Awakening through Feeling takes place on Sun, 19 Jul, 2026 at 01:00 pm to Sun, 19 Jul, 2026 at 04:00 pm at 7 Eagle Center, Suite 2B-2, O'Fallon, IL, United States, Illinois 62269, 7 Eagle Ctr, O'Fallon, IL 62269-1946, United States, O Fallon.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Body As Guide: Awakening through Feeling?
  - **A:** Body As Guide: Awakening through Feeling is organized by Holistic Journey Healing Collective.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Body As Guide: Awakening through Feeling is ideal for curious learners, students, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in O Fallon, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Body As Guide: Awakening through Feeling sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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