The Anima Experience

A monthly live session for embodied practice, nervous system awareness, and real connection.

NEXT SESSION:

SESSION THEME:

Your Patterns in the Body — A Somatic Exploration

About this session

The Anima Experience is a 90-minute live session held monthly on Zoom — not a lecture, not a webinar, and not a course.

It's a space to practice.

Each session includes a brief grounding, a short teaching on one practical idea, a guided experiential practice, and structured time for partner reflection and group sharing. The emphasis is on direct experience and genuine connection — not performance, not perfection, and not pushing past what feels right for you.

The Anima Experience is a monthly gathering. Each session stands on its own — you can join at any point and get full value from wherever you are.

This month we’ve been looking at the patterns your nervous system learned — the stress responses that show up in ordinary life, the inner critic that borrowed someone else’s voice, the self-sabotage that isn’t actually sabotage. These aren’t character flaws. They’re adaptations. And they live somewhere specific: in the body, in the breath, in the automatic responses that happen before conscious thought.

This session is where understanding becomes something you can actually feel — in your own body, in real time.

We’ll spend time in guided somatic exploration, small group sharing, and honest conversation. You’ll leave with a handout and a daily practice you can use immediately — a direct continuation of what we started in Session 1.

*Sessions are held on Zoom
**A recording will be available to all registrants until the following session.

What shifts when you start working here.

  • A clearer picture of your own patterns — not as personality or fixed identity, but as adaptations you can feel in your body and begin to understand from the inside.
  • Less friction with your own patterns — when you understand that behavior is downstream of state, the self-blame narrative starts to lose its grip and something more useful takes its place.
  • A language for what you’ve been living — words for patterns that have gone unnamed, which is often the first thing that creates room to change.
  • A body that sleeps and digests better — not because you added another protocol, but because the ground those functions run on is less braced and more available.
  • A handout and daily practice to take home — a concrete, simple tool that builds directly on what we explore together in the session.
  • Real co-regulation — not a webinar audience, but people doing the same work in the same room, which is itself part of how nervous system change actually happens.

Hear from our last group session:

What to expect

Each session follows a consistent, grounded structure:

Each participant receives a session handout — a take-home reference and daily practice that extends the work beyond the session itself.

No prior experience required.

Join this session: choose what works for you.

Accessible

$10

sUGGESTED

$20

sUPPORT THE WORK

$30

If finances are a barrier, reach out before registering —
hello@hungry-bardeen.94-130-26-141.plesk.page

After registering you’ll receive a confirmation email with your Zoom link and session details. Recording access is included for all registrants and will be available until the following session.

“ Michael created a feeling of safety

and trust for such a vulnerable process..He intuitively sensed what I was feeling and guided me gently. It feels like this is his calling and purpose.”

— Sarah Russell

“ My session with Michael came during a particularly stressful time

of transition and to be able to dive into my body and release tension and stored energy was amazing. Warm, comforting, and very professional.”
— Kate

“ The session was very healing in many ways.

Physically and emotionally. I learned and began to understand where some of my habits and reactions and responses stem from. This was really powerful for me.”
— DAWN

Hi I’m Michael

I created the Anima Experience because I’ve seen how much changes when people practice this work together — rather than just reading about it or doing it alone. Co-regulation, shared presence, and genuine connection aren’t incidental to this work. They’re part of how it works.

I’ve been facilitating this kind of work in trainings, workshops, and retreats for years — but this is the first time I’m bringing it to this community. That means something to me.

I hold these sessions personally, with the same principles that guide everything at Anima: safety, pacing, consent, and respect for individual experience.

This month's session is on April 29th.

Registration closes at session time.

*Can’t make it live? Register anyway recording access is included.