Curating Expansive Experiences for Women

It’s about your experience in your body. That makes it an internal experience, with your body as the subject, not an object.

Examples of embodiment

Positive Embodiment:

• Freedom to engage in enjoyable physical activities

• Freedom to move and take up space

• Safety from physical/sexual violence or abuse

• Freedom from coercive body alterations and practices

• Care of the body

• Freedom of desire

• Having a critical stance towards ideas about how women are “supposed to” look and behave

• Freedom from prejudice and harassment

• Social power is based on engagement in meaningful pursuits and tuning in to one’s needs

• Empowering relationships

• Being a part of equitable communities

Negative Embodiment:

• Blocked from engagement in physical activities

• Constriction of movement and physical space (trying to appear smaller, wearing constricting clothing or footwear that makes it hard to walk)

• Exposure to physical/sexual violence or abuse

• Engagement in coercive body alterations and practices (dieting, plastic surgery, refusing to leave the house with out makeup…ever)

• Neglect of body care

• Restriction of desire (this includes restriction of any of our “appetites”)

• Internalization of the status quo, including ideas that women’s bodies are deficient and are object for the male gaze, as well as ideas that women should be submissive or demure and engage in only “feminine” activities

• Exposure to prejudice and harassment

• Social power is primarily based on appearance (which can be fleeting), with a lack of attunement to one’s needs

• Disempowering relationships

• Part of inequitable communities (or no community at all)

Ready for a big outdoor adventure (but also a little bit nervous)?

Wilderness-curious?

An avid outdoorswoman looking to connect with other women?

You’re in the right place!

SUMMER 2024

Mini Classes and Weekend Adventures

Camping - Hiking - Backpacking - Paddle Boarding - Rock Jumping

Mini Classes

Fridays 11 am - 2pm

Bainbridge Island, WA

The most important aspects of embodiment are

laughter and having fun!

Sign up if you’re a woman or feminine-aligned person who:

• is open to adventure but still nervous.

• wants to get into the wilderness, but has no experience.

• is curious about their inner landscape and wildness.

• wants to unplug from technology for at least 24 hours.

• is of all ages. Mothers and daughters are welcome!

• loves the outdoors. First timers and experts.

• wants to connect with other women.

• wants to learn something new.

• wants to explore.

  All of you is welcome.

Here are some examples:

• Doing a silent sensory walk where you notice as many things as you can hear, touch, smell, taste, and see.

Anyone can learn the basics to participate in hiking, paddle boarding, open water swimming, river rock jumping, and more.

As an embodiment coach, I know that the life you desire is one in which you feel filled up with loving relationships.

Because the quality of your life is defined by the quality of your CONNECTIONS.

everything around you other than what’s in your home. Foster relationships outside your home.

I’ve learned that this combination is a sure fire way to improve your relationship with yourself and your loved ones!

• Feel your aliveness again.

• Learn to trust yourself through risk and adventure (at your own pace.)

• Slow down to the pace of nature and listen and connect

• Embrace the power of being

• Prioritize prescence

• Deepen into the life you are living through relationship with women

• Enrich your experience in nature by feeling at home in the wilderness

• Savor the beauty of one another

• Listen to yourself to experience greater fulfillment in who you are

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• Express yourself

• Connect with other women on a deeper level

• Let them see you

• Connect with what your soul desires

• Get support and share what you’re passionate about besides parenting.

from Camille:

An embodiment coach that helps you create the life that you desire where you feel filled up with everything around you other than what’s in your home. Foster relationships outside your home. What does that look like? How do you bring the forward through hiking and outdoor activities.

Feminine Embodiment Coaching is a sensation-based style of coaching which lets the body lead. Together with our clients, we dive deep into the wisdom of the body, unraveling frozen tension & expanding pleasure so that we can move towards our goals, fully resourced & alive.

More info here about how embodiment works. If you’re looking to be embodied and have better relationships and connections

From Kate’s site: To activate the deepest corners of your body – so you can feel your aliveness, turn on, joy and sensuality like never before.

You’ve been in therapy but it keeps you in your head, thinking about what you want to change.

The Reclamation with Kate Harlow

I support women on wilderness adventures that help them connect with their inner landscape and wildness.

Increase your ability to connect and qualit of relationships and a life they love.

If you’re looking to be embodied and have better relationships and connections

aaas! I love this. I’ve been trying to define what embodiment means to me and it’s exactly this: getting into your senses and your body in a way that improves your relationship with yourself and your loved ones!

An embodiment coach that helps you create the life that you desire where you feel filled up with everything around you other than what’s in your home. Foster relationships outside your home. What does that look like? How do you bring the forward through hiking and outdoor activities.

relationships with your kids, siblings, communtiy , friends, and more.’’

“Feminine Embodiment Coaching is a sensation-based style of coaching which lets the body lead. Together with our clients, we dive deep into the wisdom of the body, unraveling frozen tension & expanding pleasure so that we can move towards our goals, fully resourced & alive.”

Let’s Take Advantage of Summer NOW!

June 16- Aug 25, 2022: Thursdays

DATES & ADVENTURES

All times include estimated driving from Bainbridge Island.

June 16 - Paddle Boarding, Eagle Harbor on Bainbridge Island, WA. If you need to rent or borrow a paddle board, contact me here. Thurs. 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM

June 23 - Rock Jumping at Stair Case Rapids, Olympic National Park in Hoodsport, WA. Thurs. 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

June 25 - Paddle Boarding, Eagle Harbor on Bainbridge Island, WA. If you need to rent or borrow a paddle board, contact me here. Sat. 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM

June 30 - Supported Open Water Swimming with Paddle Boards at Wildcat Lake in Silverdale, WA. Thurs. 11:00 AM - 3:30 PM

More information will be emailed upon registration. Bring a water bottle, snacks, and weather appropriate attire. Activities run rain or shine. Times vary as noted above.

Purchase options below. Choose a la carte or in bulk.

Summer Outdoor Adventure Exclusive

5 Women / 5 Weeks $1895

Thursdays: July 13, 20, 27 Aug 3, 10, 2023

8:30 AM to 2:30 PM

What’s included: All gear provided

Your bring a water bottle, extra snacks, and weather appropriate attire.

Activities run rain or shine. Times vary as noted above.

June and weekends on BI: Jumping off the dock at hidden cove and Crystal Springs pier, paddle boarding intros, SUP yoga , Hiking Port gamble trails

All of these with kids!

1. Campfire building at Fay

2. Plant ID and Map reading at Grand Forest

3. Paddlboarding and dock jumping at Hidden Cove

July 13 - Lake Crescent in Port Angeles, WA: Intro to paddle boarding, supported open-water swimming, and dock jumping.

July 20 - Lena Lake in Brinnon, WA: Seven-Mile Round-Trip Hike

July 27 - Mt. Storm King then Lake Crescent swim!

Aug 3 - Cliff Jumping Staircase Rapids, Olympic National Park near Hoodsport, WA

Aug 10 - Camping at Crescent Beach Finalé: Beginner Surfing with Paddle Boards and Tide Pool Identification at Crescent Beach in Port Angeles, WA.

Daily Schedule for 2.0 hrs. Total Activity Time

(does not include driving times)

30 min. - Orientation, Ice-Breakers, and Goal-Setting

60 min. - Skills Instruction: Give the Experience Your Best Shot

30 min. - Debrief High and Lows, Mingling, and Snacks

For years, I used my love of nature as a salve to tend to my struggle with anxiety and depression.

When I was younger, I worked as a wilderness instructor leading backpacking, rock climbing and whitewater paddling trips for children and teens throughout the Appalachian Mountains.

When I was a new mom, I worked as a naturalist and started a habitat exploration program for parents and toddlers at Discovery Park in Seattle, WA. I began writing a memoir using the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest as a lens to describe the complex emotions of motherhood, especially the unexpected rage and despair.

After years of suffering not knowing how to navigate my inner world, I finally found a blend of modalities that support me in taking care of my whole self. I’ve found that regardless of what women actually think about their abilities, it’s in groups that we flourish, heal, and empower ourselves. When we are witness to one another, striving to do something new or challenging, that’s when the real transformation happens. That’s when we are truly seen.

You’re meant to start thriving doing what you love, or something brand new. For you and your whole family! Being of service to women as a mentor is deeply important work to me. Feel free to reach out for more information or questions.