I open at the close | Sacred Gifts to Step into 2026 Fully You, Authentically Embodied.

Just like that, we are in the final month of 2025 — the close of a nine-year cycle.

What a ride…

It reminds me of something Dumbledore once said to Harry, written on the Golden Snitch:

“I open at the close.”

Some gifts, some truths, some wisdom only reveal themselves when the time is right — when the chapter is ending, and you are ready to step into the next.

Nine years ago, I hadn’t even heard of the word somatics. The sensations I felt in yoga classes were mysterious to me — the full-bodied smile in half-moon pose, the tears in savasana. I was curious what they were about, and I didn’t have language for any of it. It was an unexpected encounter that gave articulation to what my body was already experiencing.

A few months later, I quit my full-time role at lululemon and boarded a plane to Santa Barbara to begin my Masters in Somatics and Depth Psychology. I had no idea where it would lead me. Becoming a therapist wasn’t even in my realm of what was possible nor what I wanted. I often joked it was simply a very expensive hobby.

I transitioned, through the Grace of God and the faith my previous boss at Freedom Yoga had in me, to teaching yoga full-time. Another chance encounter then brought me to Embodied Flow 300H YTT. I had always taught in a certain way but couldn’t name it — it felt like Soul Yoga, whatever that meant. When I got on the mat of my first Embodied Flow yoga session, my deepest Self knew: I had found my yoga home. Again, it gave language to what I had already been experiencing and sharing: somatics and embodiment.

Some time ago, I came across a definition of somatics and embodiment that resonated so deeply it has stayed with me ever since:

Somatics is the lived experience of the body, tuning into what is present.

It is the shift from being on the outside looking at myself to being on the inside experiencing myself. Concepts and observations aren’t the same as experience. Everything remains potential until we have lived it — that is what creates wisdom. Somatics is the technology of my whole being coming into conversation with itself. It is the field that helps us land into embodiment.

Embodiment is the state of re-remembering the body.

It is dipping into the pool of sensation, knowing, and truth again and again in a way that shape-shifts how we relate to ourselves, others, and the world. Embodiment is liberation — the release of what was suppressed, the remembrance of the forgotten parts. It says, “You belong too. I see you.”

When I had first experienced a somatic way of being, it was as though I stepped into an entirely different realm — though my outer world hadn’t changed, the way I was perceiving myself within it transformed completely!

There was definitely a lot of grieving of the past that I hadn’t been able to contact before, and a sensibility to the sensitivity. At last, I felt I could understand why I had felt the way I did.

But most of all, it was the most heartwarming, welcoming, impossible-to-describe Homecoming back to myself.

A brand-new learning of unconditional self-acceptance.A deeper compassion for Self, and thus for Others.A slowly but surely growing fierce love for Self, and thus for Others.

My heart still aches as I write this — the way one aches remembering the first time someone they loved said “I love you.”It is cosmic and interstellar, yet deeply human.A meeting and being met.A seeing and being seen.A loving and being loved.

I feel so lucky — truly — to have found a love this deep in my 20s.

Nine years later, I stand today on 2 December 2025, still deeply in love with Somatics. Even as my curiosity leads me into other fields, the impulse to bring everything back to somatics and embodiment feels like a reflex. (Even during my SQ pilot side quest that stretched from two years ago into my preliminary interview this year — I was studying aeronautical physics through a somatic lens!)

During the voice liberation retreat last month, everything became clear again. I share Somatics because, first and foremost, it is my deepest medicine. It is how I heal. I experience myself through sensation and presence first — and only afterward, if there is an impulse, do I bring understanding to it. Otherwise, I let it go, trusting the shift has already happened and that not everything needs to be analyzed, as much as my mind loves to try.

Somatic Alchemy

This December, from my heart of hearts, the very core of me, I want to share this gift of Somatics as a pathway to self-acceptance, self-love, understanding, and coming home to the body — all the things Somatics gave me, and continues to give me every single day.

My single-session rate for Somatic Alchemy remains $350.

For 2026, my new package rate is a series of 10 sessions at $250 each.

And because it feels true, generous, and aligned to offer this before the year ends, I would love to gift you 2 additional Somatic Alchemy sessions at the same rate.

That’s 12 sessions for $2500, to be completed before December 2026.

A full year of support, depth and transformation, nervous system support, body-based wisdom, and the deepest remembrance of who you truly are— a container designed to love you back into yourself.

Your Divine Design for 2026

If you’re preparing to step into the new year — and the powerful 1 Year energy of 2026 — I would love to invite you into an intimate, soul-deep container with me.

A space where your purpose, your wealth frequency, the beauty of you comes through your identity, as we receive insights for powerful aligned action in the New year.

Inside this offering, you’ll receive:

1. Astrology Reading for Wealth, Legacy & Purpose(or a Solar Return Reading — your personal astrological energies for 2026)

2. Two Cosmic ConversationsOne to integrate and amplify your astrology reading,and another to support you with a mid-year recalibration by next June — so your path stays aligned with who you are becoming.

3. Three Frequency Medicine HealingsChoose Zoom or remote — both work potently with this level of support.

This is available at an early bird rate of $1212 (valued at $2361) when booked and paid by 7 December, to be used by 30 January 2026.

After 7 December, the special rate for this 2026 container will be $1444, available until 30 January 2026.

If you already know 2026 is your year of new beginnings, new identity, and brand new blessings — this is for you.

Earthgridding as Embodied Travel

This is something so close to my heart.

Where we go, we receive from the land.Where we go, we offer our energy to the land.As we remember, the land remembers.Earthgridding is this mutual energetic exchange — with our motherlands, familiar lands, and foreign lands.

Here are the upcoming retreats:

INITIATION: Crossing the Threshold

12–15 Dec | The Residence Bintan

A powerful 4D3N portal to reflect, recalibrate, and create from the zero-point field. Through music, sound, movement, art, kriya, mantra, and silence, we enter a potent wombspace to honour how far we’ve come and dream the next nine-year cycle into being.

Explore more: https://www.instagram.com/p/DQGDEZRgQmU/?img_index=1

IN THIS BODY: A 5D4N Somatic Expression All-Inclusive Retreat

8–12 Jan | Private Villa, UbudA love letter to your body, your voice, your expression. This means so, so much to me - my life’s work in one immersive experience, on a deeply sacred land.

Email me to join the waitlist or learn more.

Return to Avalon — Spiritual Pilgrimage

Cornwall: 17–23 MayGlastonbury: 24–30 May

Details coming soon — I’m so excited!! Email me to join the waitlist.

You are allowed to receive, to expand, and to step fully into the version of yourself you’ve been dreaming of. Let this be the year you finally say “Yes!” to you.

With you as we step across the threshold into 2026,

Steph