MAY 11 - JUNE 15, 2020
“Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest—thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.”
― Beau Taplin

The system of yoga has offered us a wonderful lens through which to view this idea of Wholeness.  
of WELL-ness.  

Within the yogic (energetic) anatomy,
they posited that we contain multiple layers - 

1) The physical body (literally, in this context food sheath)

2) The "breath" body (or vital sheath - wherein exist our autonomic nervous system, our respiratory system, our endocrine system, etc.)

3) The mental body 

4) The wisdom body

& finally...

5) the JOY body

Within this system, exists the idea that in order for us to experience WELL-ness on a deep level - we must create practices that nourish us on all 5.  

Not just a happy skin suit, but a happy mental landscape, too.
Not just well-groomed musculature, but a calm & fluid nervous system, as well.

Not just a surface level wellness that fades when swimsuit season ends, but something we experience in a bone-deep way.

That resonates into every aspect of this Life.

NOW MORE THAN EVER WE ARE BEING CALLED TO CARE FOR OURSELVES & EACH OTHER IN WAYS WE NEVER HAD TO IMAGINE.

​We need tools that help us build not only a healthy body, but a nourished, replenished & resilient BEING moving forward.

MAY 11 - JUNE 15, 2020
For 6 weeks, I'll be offering an online group program designed to help you re-commit, re-awaken & re-vitalize your own systems of self-care and WELL-being.
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  • We'll gather each week in an online call to unpack some tools, practices, ideas & support around these various facets.  
  • We'll share practices from the yogic toolkit, the herbalist one, too.  
  • And we'll create systems and relationships of accountability and support, plus a tailor-made, enactable plan designed to help you move through this difficult season WELL.  
  • We'll look at what it takes to build up immunity & resiliency inside a time of immense stress & isolation.  And look at ways to move beyond just surviving - into a state of Sustenance, Growth & Healing.

I'd love to have you join me.

The cost for this 6-week course is normally $125.  
​However, during this time of Covid-19, when many of us have had our resources, work & stability greatly diminished,
I am offering this work at a Pay-What-You-Can rate.  
In exchange for your donation & your commitment, you will receive:
  • Weekly emails with resources, practices, & tools.
  • A weekly live call with guided movement & breath work. (Don't worry if you can't make each call.  They'll be recorded and the link sent to you after to view on your own time.)
  • Weekly support & accountability to help you create shifts that will sustain you for the long haul
  • Plus access to additional support from me via email, as well.

​To register, simply choose what amount you would like to donate below.
You'll be guided through the class registration process after that.

Here's the breakdown:

Each week, you'll receive an email from me, unpacking the content and themes of that week's topic.  
The way I like to move is from BIG PICTURE to minutiae.  
First, we dive into the headier, philosophic stuff & then look at enactable, practical, & pleasurable ways to bring this element into our LIFE.  

Along with the weekly written material, we'll gather in person for our Live Calls - where we share, collectively & individually - what's coming up for each of us around this work.
Swap insights.  Recipes.  Share challenges.  Craft a highly individualized Action Plan for that week.  And partner up with someone to have some extra support & accountability, to make sure you're implementing all that you're taking in.  

Week One:

  • Taking the seat of the Compassionate Observer.  
This week, we start just by paying attention.  To the ways we're showing up inside this trauma.  To the habits and thoughts and feedback loops that might no longer serving us at this time. We begin to move past the reactivity of Shock & Dissolution, and begin to just lovingly, instead, take note of What IS..
The things that lift us up.  And the unconscious patterns and behaviors we're locked into that are keeping us from feeling GOOD, even at this time of upheaval. 

Week Two:

  • The Annamaya Kosha (Food Sheath)
​This week, we begin to gradually introduce some more life force back into the body.  I'll talk about herbs & tiny tweaks we can make to the diet, plus share a few favorite recipes, that can make profound shifts in the way we feel.  The approach here is - ADD MORE OF WHAT YOU LOVE AND MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD - rather than focusing on elimination or deprivation in any way.  We'll look at food as our primary source of fuel and medicine, and find ways to add more nourishment into our current way of eating.  No rules.  No should's.  Just more of what feeds us incorporated into the everyday.

Week Three:

  • The Pranamaya Kosha (Energy Sheath)
​We turn our attention to ways we move energy through the body.  The ways in which it gets stuck.  The ways in which trauma gets trapped beneath the skin and how we can begin to address it.  Ways to reset the nervous system and utilize the simple, but profound tool fo the BREATH to anchor us into our innate sense of stasis & resilience.
How we can incorporate more breath, more vitality, more movement and, well, Energy!!! into the fabric of the life we are in.  And doing so in a way that feels easeful, sustainable & good.

Week Four:

  • The Manomaya Kosha (Mind Sheath)
​We'll dip briefly into the field of neuro-plasticity.  Mindfulness.  And look at the ways in which we feed (and also clog up) the circuity of the mind.  And how that impacts our wellness, overall.  We'll look at creating space, recovering a sense of possibility & the basis of habit-forming and change-making on a mental level.  Creating an awareness (& loving boundary) around the amount and type of information we choose to consume at this time.  And crafting tools to help us re-wire our current patterns of fear & anxiety into fresh avenues of possibility & Life.

Week Five:

  • The Vijnamaya Kosha (Wisdom Sheath)
​This week, we'll hit the resiliency button.  We'll look at ways to anchor ourselves into our own knowing, our own intuition & clarity & Wisdom-keeper nestled within.  Too woo?  I know, I know.  Bear with me.  Wisdom is not so much about withdrawing from the world and sitting beneath the Bodhi tree.  Rather, the tools we gather here will help us navigate and maintain the changes we wish to create inside the busy, tumultuous & challenging life we are in.  Creating boundaries.  Relationships.  Habits & practices that help us access our Intuition & Inner Still Point - even when all else around us feels a blur.

Week Six:

  • ​The Anadamaya Kosha (Sheath of Bliss)
​We've made it to my favorite part.  Where we spend a whole week looking at ways to incorporate JOY into our world.  Our bodies.  Our rituals and inner diatribes and such.  The place where we remember that any system that sells us on "wellness" but denies us the aspect of pleasure, delight & sensory enjoyment is bound to fail.  Is ultimately empty.  And is tethering us to the same Binge/Privation, Vice/Virtue cycle that led us here in the first place.  Here, we opt out of that limited mode. Out of the binary.  And into a wide-open definition of Wellness that places our JOY at the top of the pyramid.
“In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: "When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?” 
― Gabrielle Roth

You with me???

MAY 11 - JUNE 15, 2020

Who this is for:

  • The person that is ready for long-term, sustainable and enactable growth & healing in their world
  • The person who is DONE with quick fixes & rigid structures that require Herculean efforts to achieve a certain shape or outer form
  • The person who is ready to Feel GOOD & supported & nourished once more at every level of their being
  • ​The person who is ready to create some of their own systems and habits of wellness, not just rely upon the expert advice of another
  • ​The person who is ready to move beyond survival.  And into the realm of sustenance & growth.
  • The person who craves community, support, positive feedback and care as they do the work of creating changes for themselves.  
  • The person who is done with the self-punishment.  The self-denial.  The self-regulation.  And the self-avoidance and despair.  Who is ready to step into the work of steady-state, deep-level, true Self-CARE.

Who this is NOT for:

  • ​If you're looking for an expert, 3-step plan, keep looking.  This path is fluid & self-guided, awake & responsive.  No cookie-cutter formulas here.
  • If you're looking for a fast and furious - 10 days to Health! type fix - keep moving.  Experience has taught me that any changes we make in that mode don't last.  It is only the slow, gentle, & consistent shifts we make that charter us to long-term change.
  • If you believe you have to suffer in order to be in this body...
  • ​If you believe you need to trade in this version of who you are for some picture-perfect one beyond...
  • ​If you believe that someone else holds the key to unlocking your gifts, your potential & your LIGHT...
  • Keep looking.  Keep searching.  Inside this container, I will offer up heaps of guidance, support & tools.  But the work is done by YOU.  Self-seeking.  Self-caring.  Self-knowing and serving.  Crafting practices, rhythms & relationships that will un-tap the Transformation that you seek.
                                    YOU hold the keys to the kingdom.  I'm just your companion on the ride.

Your Traveling Companion:

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Amy Day is a longtime yogi, writer, herbalist, mama & lover of all things creative.  She believes in crafting practices & communities which supports us inside this Life right now.  In creating rituals and relationships that liberate, activate & sustain us.
She works with groups and individuals that are hungry for transformation.The type that shows up not just on the cellular or soul level - but that ripples into the world beyond.  
Through her work as a teacher, podcaster, healer, storyteller, et. al. she hopes to inspire us all to use the mighty tools we all possess - to craft the type of world we wish to inhabit.  
One faltering & bless-ed step at a time.

Join me, won't you?

I love offering group work.
There is something that transpires inside a group of committed, enthusiastic & diverse practitioners & seekers that is magical.  The individual parts create a wondrous synergy to the Whole.

And I believe in accessibility.
In making this work available to those who need it most.
But are oftentimes left out of the picture due to cost.  

And so I'm offering this 6-week exploration at whatever amount feels solvent & sustainable to YOU.
  • 6 weeks of support, guidance & inquiry
  • 6 weeks mapping our your personal wellness territory and path to get there
  • 6 weeks to troubleshoot, challenge yourself and learn from and along with other seekers on the path
  • 6 weeks to craft a container that will help you step into a pattern of soul-deep, lifelong wellness, rather than just a 1-time fix
  • 6 weeks to step in.  be. WELL.

One way to say "Yes."

MAY 11 - JUNE 15, 2020