Pathways Into Support
A gentle practice for building nervous system resilience through body awareness, movement, and relational presence in a compassionate space where you are invited to let go.
The Embodiment & Resourcing Group is an ongoing, trauma-sensitive experiential practice where we slow down and rediscover the body's innate intelligence. We cultivate the foundations that allow us to meet everyday life with greater stability, presence, and aliveness. We offer a practice group where you can come back to rest and regulate.
Modern life often asks us to move faster than our nervous system can comfortably integrate. Over time, we may lose touch with the body's natural capacity to rest, regulate, and respond with flexibility.
Inspired by the work of Body-Mind Centering®, somatic psychotherapy, developmental movement, and trauma-sensitive coaching, each session offers a gentle exploration of how the body organises itself through movement, sensation, breath, gravity, and relationship.
Embodiment & Resourcing With Kasia and Marco
Twice a month on Fridays 12:00 - 13:15 (75 minutes)
Join Kasia and Marco for somatic resourcing sessions that focus on body awareness to release tension and cultivate a sense of safety and grounding.
feel more grounded and connected to your body
deepen self-awareness through movement and sensation
reconnect with curiosity, vitality, and the experience of being fully alive
regulate stress and overwhelm more effectively
cultivate presence in relationship with yourself and others
develop greater nervous system resilience
integrate therapeutic, mindfulness, or psychedelic experiences through embodied practice
Upcoming Sessions
Your Facilitators
We are your guides, with an integral therapeutic background. We use resourcing daily in our lives and relationships because life continually challenges us. We bring this group together based on our personal research into what supports us in everyday life.
Embodiment & Trauma Therapy
Kasia Kopanska, PhD
I bring a body-based, trauma-informed approach, grounded in presence, attunement, and relational awareness. I guide practices that support nervous system regulation through breath, movement, touch, and sensory awareness.
In spaces I hold I weave in expressive arts and ritual to give form to inner experience beyond words. I hold a pace that honours each person’s capacity, with a strong focus on consent and co-created safety.
Trauma-Sensitive Coaching
Marco Stalder
I bring a trauma-sensitive, somatic, and parts-informed approach, grounded in nervous-system awareness, compassionate curiosity, and authentic connection. I guide practices that invite you to notice what is present, discover supportive inner and outer resources, and relate to your experience without pressure to change it.
In the spaces I hold, I combine gentle structure with openness, playfulness, and creative exploration. I support each person in following their own pace and boundaries, cultivating a greater sense of safety, presence, and trust in their capacity to meet whatever arises.
What is Resourcing?
In the middle of the chaos and triggers,
when life asks more
than you have capacity for...
There is a calm place inside your body
that remembers who you are
before the noise.
Resourcing is about returning to this place inside you.
It's not a retreat from life.
It's a simple homecoming.
Again and again.
In therapeutic terms...
Resourcing is the skill of mindfully coming into a balanced nervous system state using a resource:
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place inside your body
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embodied practice
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relationship
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objects
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memories
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nature
A bit calmer, safer, steady, grounded
Connected, supported, nourished
Reassured that you can return there when things get difficult
As a result of resourcing, you might feel...
Why Resourcing Matters for Healing?
Trauma and stress overwhelm our nervous system.
Transformation can only happen
when there is enough safety present
inside you, your environment,
or the therapeutic container.
The practice of resourcing
is the foundation of this basic safety.
In therapeutic terms...
When we try to process trauma without resourcing skills, we often loop in:
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overwhelm
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shutdown
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avoidance
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reactivity of the past
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difficulty integrating the process.
As a result of resourcing, you might feel...
Feel fully what needs to be experienced
Process what you feel and come out of it transformed
Stay connected to yourself and the world
Why Resourcing In Everyday Life?
Resourcing is not only for therapy — it changes how we live.
In therapeutic terms...
Here are some of the areas where resourcing will make a difference for your everyday life
Work & Focus
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less overwhelm
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more clarity and decision-making
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ability to reset during the day
Relationships & Sexuality
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less reactivity
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more presence and listening
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ability to stay connected during tension
Emotions & Feelings
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you don’t get lost in them
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you can move through emotions fluidly without getting stuck
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you start to contain them
Regeneration & Physiology
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easier to settle the body
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less racing thoughts
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deeper rest