We don’t exactly live in a culture that models and teaches us how to have a supportive and compassionate relationship with ourselves. Or how to live in alignment with our Higher Self, and our purpose in life.

Quite the opposite.

From an early age many of us are taught how to suppress our emotions, taught that our dreams are childish, taught that there is a certain way that life should be lived and that there are very few other options.

We learn to question, and even dismiss, our own experience and listen more to authority figures than to our own bodies and our own internal prompting.

Our more wild and animalistic side is frowned upon, and we might go to great length to hide or even erase our animal nature. And in the process we lose touch with our alive and intelligent body.

Our bodies become an object. We become an object.
Something that has to be controlled and managed, rather than something to be honored and trusted.

And in the process our dreams and desires, our uniqueness and our love for ourselves gets washed away, especially if it doesn’t fit the narrow narrative of the current culture.

If these words resonate with you, then the Nurture courses are for you.
If you long to sink into the depths of you, to know you, to support yourself in ways that you know will nourish you in the long run. You know will bring you home to yourself, to Self.

Then this is for you.

During this course you will get to…

• explore how to open up to receive the loving energy of the Great Mother. She who is a neutral territory, a loving place from where you can relate to yourself. You will get to explore your relationship to mothering energy, energy that loves and holds all the parts of you.

• practice to notice when you are grounded and safe in your body and practice to notice when you “leave” yourself because your internal experience feels unsafe, unimportant, or confusing. You will get to practice to move in between internal and external awareness to become more skilled at moving with life.

• get in touch with your own needs and practice to honor those needs. To experience that your basic needs are honored and met is the foundation for a nurturing life experience. To feel safe to rest when you need to rest, to say yes when you mean yes, and no when you mean no.

• compassionately bring yourself home and allow your awareness to take its seat in the depths of your living breathing body and open your senses outwards from within. And compassionately hold the parts of yourself that are afraid, the parts that wants to hide and protect themselves from life.

Supportive Foundation - My own story

It took me a long time to feel safe enough to express, even to myself, that I didn’t feel safe in my own body.
It felt unsafe to admit it, so instead I braced myself against life.
I pushed myself way beyond my own capacity and I was constantly trying to meet the needs of my environment to keep it safe.
To be honest, I was afraid of my own internal world.
It felt unpredictable and unreliable.

I often felt overwhelmed by life and it felt like my energy slipped through my fingers, leaving me constantly depleted and grasping for more.
No matter how little I did, how much I rested, how much I tried to recharge myself, how much I tried to see the positive side of life, there was never enough energy to take me through the day.

It was only when I realized that I didn’t feel safe in my own body, when I realized that I was using my energy to try to control my environment, that the overwhelm and the feeling of never having enough energy started to change.
I surrender in the arms of the Great Mother, I allowed her to hold me, and love me.
I began to use my attention and awareness to meet the tender, the afraid, the let down parts of myself and in doing so began to release the life energy that they held locked up inside of me.

To feel safe in your own body is what allows you to use your resources, your energy, in a beneficial way.
When you feel safe in your own body you can access the life force energy that flows in abundance through all of us.
This is the supportive foundation for a thriving life.

Nurturing self-relating for soulful and sensitive seekers, finders, explorers and creators

Week 1
Open to receive the loving energy of the Great Mother

The Great Mother energy is a neutral territory. It is the loving, holding, supportive place, and space, that is accessible to all of us. When we lose touch with this energy we easily get lost in demands and expectations of modern society. Demands and expectations that make us feel inadequate, unworthy, or not enough. Great Mother helps us land in the here and now. Shows us what it feels like to be safe, held, heard, loved and worthy.

The Great Mother gives you the experience of being mothered, so that you can begin to mother yourself. We all have had, or have, a mother, but to be mothered is not the same as having a mother. A father can mother, a mother can mother, a friend can mother. Anyone can Mother. To mother is not something only a mother can do, it is not gender or role bound. But we all need to feel mothered in order to feel safe to be ourselves, worthy, enough, loved, held. It is through mothering that we begin to build that supportive foundation for compassionate and loving self-relating.

Week 2
Touch ground, connect to space and grow roots.

A supportive foundation is not only about connecting to your own body, it is also about experiencing a connection to earth, to space and to the reciprocal relationship that happens between you, your body, and earth body and space body. There are energetic roots that can grow from your body to earths body, and the space around you is yours to embody. To connect to space is also about learning how take up, more, space. Space to be, to move, to feel, to expand into and be held by in moments of contraction.

A supportive self-relationship is not about being unattached and completely self-sufficient. It is more about learning how to lean into the support that is already here, to ask for help when you need. It is to practice to be open and embrace the vulnerability that arises in interdependent relating.

Week 3
Rehabilitate your inner animal, your relationship to your instincts and intuition.

It so easy to forget that we are human animals. We are born living fully from our animal nature, our wild nature, but slowly over time we become domesticated and lose touch with our animal instincts, and our animal body. And in doing so we also lose touch with our intuition. Because intuitive signals are communicated through your body. When you begin to rehabilitate your inner animal, you will open up to a deeper relationship and ability to listen to both your instincts and your intuition. That which helps you move through life in close connection to your needs and desires.

Week 4
Become an ally to the marginalized voices inside of you.

This has been one of the most transforming realizations for me, that I can be an ally to the voices, the parts, inside of me that often gets silenced or scolded or ridiculed by modern society. Marginalized voices can be voices of fear, or of not feeling enough. It can be parts that feel victimized, or parts that wants to be more playful and carefree in life. They are often hidden behind a veil of shame, of being too much or not enough. To become an ally to these parts, voices, is to meet them through the lens of animism. To see that every part has spirit, every part is a living entity and have wisdom to share.

Week 5
Move forward by taking a step back.

When you take a step back before moving forward in life, you give yourself the opportunity to gain clarity and learn how to sense your own readiness. It gives you time to orient to where you are and reconnect with yourself. In modern society we are often pushed to move forward, to grow, to move faster. But sustainable and supportive healing and growth, and sustainable relating, often happens when we take a step back, slow down and reflect. Be before we become again.

Maybe by now you are wondering…
“What will I get out of this course?”

• You will feel resourced to explore and nurture a deeper sense of safety in your own body. Feel safe, and even curious, to meet your own internal experiences.

• You will be able to distinguish between, or notice in the moment, when you are grounded in your body and when you “leave” yourself, and have tools to bring yourself back home.

• You will feel resourced and safe to meet and be with tender parts of yourself, such as emotions, memories, thoughts, without getting lost in them.

• You will begin to establish, or deepen, a loving and compassionate relationship with your own body, your thoughts, emotions, AND your life energy.

• You will learn how to connect to a supportive energy in your environment, through earth and space.

• You will feel that you are building a supportive foundation for you to thrive in life.

Linda Nenne

Embodied Flow™ teacher, Somatic self-relationship educator, coach and mentor

Since 2010 Linda Nenne has guided, supported and helped women rediscover a deep and loving relationship to their physical body, psyche, inner parts, emotional body and to feel at home in themselves. She has supported them to gain clarity and self-awareness in who they are, what they want and how to live a life aligned with their inner purpose.

She specializes in supporting soulful and sensitive people to feel empowered to show up for themselves and in the world with confidence, vulnerability and authenticity.