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For the activists, organisers and changemakers carrying a lot right now - this one’s for you.

Join us for Rooted We Rise - a weekend to come back into relationship with body, land, and community - and explore how we build liberation without burning ourselves out.

2nd-4th October | Domnu Valley, North Devon
Early bird tickets live now - link in bio

#activism #revolution #regulation by @innersagesomatics

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a month ago

When times are urgent, we must slow down 🍃

Have you been watching the state of the world with a growing sense of dread, panic and hopelessness? 🫂

You’ve been taking action, but carrying so much for so long that burnout, isolation and urgency have started to feel normal ~ even though you know, there must be another way…🌱

We are Rooted We Rise, a soulful collective of activists and changemakers who know what it is to care so much that the weight of the world starts living in our bodies; in the way we relate to ourselves, each other and our environment. ❤️‍🔥

Like you, we want to build a world rooted in liberation, reciprocity and belonging, and we know that this work has to be forged from a different paradigm to the one we’re resisting. 🌳

Join us at Domnu Valley, our regenerative community in the ancient rainforest of North Devon, for a curated weekend specifically for activists and changemakers to decolonise our relationship to body, land and each other:

🌿 3 days of curated workshops and practices
🌿 Decolonial embodiment, somatics, breathwork, musical co-creation & land-connection
🌿 Collective inquiry and community
🌿 Offerings from Pippa Downs, Fern Raine, Josie Corke, Muti Musafiri & Zena Winterbottom

This is an experimental gathering ~ sowing seeds for a longer-term movement enquiring how can we forge an activist culture of rebellious resourcing? 🌱

The revolution is regulated. Join us.

📍 Domnu Valley, North Devon
📅 2–4 October 2026

For first access to tickets, follow the link in bio 🔗

Can’t come but interested? Sign up to our mailing list! by @innersagesomatics

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2 months ago

Meet your facilitators. Explore the programme. Join the movement. 🌳🙌🌍

We’re calling all activists, changemakers, and those working towards a better world to join us in North Devon, 2nd-4th October for a weekend of embodiment, land connection, and collective enquiry.

Together, we’ll be exploring a vital question:

How do we decolonise our relationship to the work of change-making, and weave a culture of care, connection, and sustainability into both our present lives and the future we’re creating?

Expect a rich programme of somatics, movement, breathwork, animism, and herbal resilience - all designed to support you back into rest, regulation, and deeper connection - with yourself, the land, and each other.

We’re on a mission forge a culture of rebelliously resourced, grounded, and sustainable movements for change ~ because we know that the future we’re building has to come from a different place than the one we’re resisting.

Domnu Valley, North Devon
2nd-4th October

If this speaks to you, we’d love to welcome you.

See pinned posts for more info and to save your spot! by @innersagesomatics

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22 days ago

The world doesn’t need more burnt-out changemakers. It needs rooted ones.

Rooted We Rise is a gathering for activists, creatives and changemakers to reconnect with body, earth and collective vision.

Across a curated weekend program of somatics, breathwork, embodied movement and sauna, we land into deep connection with the inner guidance of our bodies.

Through workshops on animism, foraging and herbal medicine making, we reroot into our innate connection with the wisdom of the land that holds us.

From there, we create spaces for collective witnessing and future visioning - coming together to be seen, heard and held in our hopes, dreams, fears and frustrations.

This is a space to rest, regulate and rewild your connection to the work.

Join us! The revolution is regulated.
View my pinned posts for more info 🙌🏼🌱🌍💗

📆 2nd-4th October
📍Domnu Valley, North Devon by @innersagesomatics

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It really is so much more then just a training,
It’s where you make friends for life-
Where you remember what its like to have fun again that comes effortlessly and naturally, it’s belly laughs because you feel free in yourself.

The inner critic quietens as you regulate, the pain in your body eases, the grief in your heart softens, the Iove begins to open again- and in that you wake up to the life you want to live, you become it.

We give you this skills for months to be a practitioner, yet what we feel is most valuable is what happeneds inside these 12 days - there’s a real gift here.

Very final spaces remaining for September 2nd

If you know you know. 🤍

Www.tvmtraining.com by @innersagesomatics

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2 months ago

A little look into the training 🤍

Pip teaching one of the TVM points here and I just love watching how much starts to open when we actually get into the body and learn through feeling it ourselves.

There’s so much depth in this work and also so much simplicity.

12 days together really learning it, practising, receiving, feeling what’s happening under your hands and building the confidence to work with another person’s nervous system.

Then 3 months together afterwards to keep practising, integrating and being supported as you take it into your own work.

Next training is 2nd - 13th September in Wales and we still have a few spaces 🤍

Message us if you want to come learn with us.

www.tvmtraining.com by @innersagesomatics

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2 months ago

A beautiful raw share from our dear friend Chloe.

We are so inspired by watching the transformations that take place during the training. Seeing that the courage to say YES gives back in regulation, tools, purpose, joy, love and so much more.

Thank you for sharing your heart and all that moved you in the container.

You are an amazing practitioner. 🤍 by @innersagesomatics

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2 months ago

Every time we receive a testimonial like this, we find ourselves feeling so deeply grateful.

Grateful that this gets to be our work.

There is something incredibly beautiful about watching people remember they were never broken.

That healing doesn’t have to be complicated.
That coming home to yourself can be profoundly simple when you’re met with safety, presence, and people who truly see you.

One of our favourite parts of every training is watching a room of strangers become a community. Witnessing each other. Growing together. Celebrating one another. And leaving with something that reaches far beyond the training itself.

This September we’ll gather one last time for our final Practitioner Training of the year, and we have a few spaces remaining.

If this work has been on your heart, we’d genuinely love to share this space with you.

🤍

#somatichealing #nervoussystemregulation #healingjourney #traumahealing #traumainformed by @innersagesomatics

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2 months ago

So many of us were never taught how to do this. How to be there for another without losing ourselves. How to hold space with loving boundaries. How to give from a place of capacity. How to soften enough to receive support when we need it.

This is one of the things we love most about this work. Yes, we’re teaching a modality. But we’re also remembering something deeply human.

Because it doesn’t stop in the training. It carries into our relationships. The way we listen, the way we show up for love, the way we’re met in love, the way we show up for ourselves and for the people we care about.

We really believe we’re not meant to do this life alone. There is so much medicine in simply being met by another human’s loving presence.

And maybe that’s one of the greatest gifts we can offer one another - to say, with our presence: “I’m here. You don’t have to carry this alone.”

🤍🪽🪞🕊️

📸 @ayanamalua

#somaticrelease #traumahealing #nervoussystemregulation #somaticexperiencing #polyvagaltheory by @innersagesomatics

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Penelope came to this training and trusted the process. Watching what she’s gained through it, and the excitement she has now to go out and give sessions herself, means so much to us. We’re grateful she chose to come, and we’re inspired by what she’s built in herself through this work. She has a new sense of who she is in the world, and now she gets to offer other people the chance to find that same place inside themselves. This is what this work is for.
💕

#somatictherapy #nervoussystemregulation #traumahealingjourney #somaticexperiencing #polyvagaltheory

🎥 @ayanamalua by @innersagesomatics

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There is something deeply powerful about learning in community.

Over these days we don’t just teach the Triple Vagal Method- we create an environment where your whole nervous system gets to experience what it’s means to feel safe enough to learn, connect and grow.

Nature becomes part of the process- The people around you become mirrors - Science helps us understand what’s happening in the body, while the wisdom of presence, movement, relationship and the natural world reminds us what healing can actually feel like.

Our intention has never been to simply teach a method.

It’s to give you practical tools, embodied experiences and a deeper understanding of yourself that you can carry back into your relationships, your work, your family and your everyday life.

This is what Inner Alchemy is all about. 🤍

📸 @ayanamalua

#somatichealing #nervoussystemregulation #traumahealing #healingjourney #nervoussystemhealing taken in Velindre House by @innersagesomatics

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There’s a reason cacao has been shared in ceremony for centuries.

Beyond being delicious 🥰, ceremonial cacao can gently support the nervous system. It’s rich in magnesium and antioxidants, supports healthy blood flow, and encourages the release of feel-good neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine. Many people notice they feel calmer, more present, more open, and more connected after drinking it.

Of course, cacao isn’t a magic fix. But it can be a beautiful support alongside deep nervous system work.

That’s why we chose to close our most recent TVM training with ceremonial cacao.🤎

After days of slowing down, feeling, releasing and reconnecting with ourselves, we didn’t want to rush everyone back into the world. We wanted to honour the transition.

Cacao invites us to soften.
To open🌈
To speak from the heart💕

We’ve found that when people gather with a warm cup of cacao in their hands, something shifts. Conversations become more honest. Gratitude is shared more freely. The heart opens, and often the throat follows.

It felt like such a beautiful way to close our training that we’ll be continuing this ritual in future TVM trainings.

Because healing doesn’t end when the training finishes. It continues in the conversations we have, the way we relate to one another, and how we meet ourselves when we return home. 🤎

Thankyou Cacao 🪶

#ceremonialcacao #nervoussystem #somatichealing #traumahealing #embodiment by @innersagesomatics

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