“My muscles soften and my breath slows when I reflect on the gift of Rebecca’s teaching. She offers specific resources to engage the wisdom in our bodies. Her deep well of specific thought and movement practices enable us to cultivate the awareness that resides throughout our whole being, and integrate it with the awareness we think resides in our minds. I return often to insights I gained in her workshops.”
“Rebecca approaches teaching from a centered and curious place. It helps me settle into a place which allows me to get more out of the class. Rebecca curates the classes well so that they are balanced between listening, practicing helpful exercises and having good discussions in one on ones and small groups.”
Live Upcoming!
Body as Earth // A Weekend Retreat in Vernonia, OR
Friday, June 26, 2026 3:00 PM
Sunday, June 28, 2026 2:00 PM
Join Rebecca Harrison and Suniti Dernovsek for a weekend retreat at Liminalia in Vernonia, Oregon.
In Body as Earth we engage in practice with community on beautiful land. We engage in movement, meditation, and discussion to experiment with deep listening, connecting, and discovering the “wow” in aliveness. We bring our bodies close to the ground, near the water, into the wind, and next to the trees, reminding us of the constant, sensuous process of exchange we are a part of.
When we move, we dance together with Rock Creek, an ancient cedar, and the seen and unseen bodies all intertwined. When we sit in meditation, we practice stopping, pausing, and listening for the forgotten song of the heart, blood, skin, and bones. We ask: What is my heart saying that I have not yet heard? We practice deep listening and connecting to ourselves and the world around us so that we can bring more of this into our daily lives.
Touching and honoring a body that is of the elements, we melt into another way of experiencing time.
This retreat is designed to be a deeply nourishing and resourcing experience that will support you to return to your regular life with more ability to approach it with depth, wisdom, and joy.
Liminalia is situated in Vernonia, Oregon. Here you are invited to swim in Rock Creek, sit in an ancient cedar, rest on a grassy island, walk in a moist forest, sit by an evening camp fire, enjoy the sauna, steam room and swing. There is a main house and yoga studio, a barn, 6 cabins for sleeping and resting in and plenty of camping spots.
The land we gather on was once home to the Chinook, Clatskanie and many other indigenous peoples. We touch our capacity to simultaneously hold the grief of what has been lost and open to the blessings of this place.
Nourishment
Enjoy 5 meals from a local locally sourced fresh and organic whole foods made with love by Melanie Meherin.
COST:
Private Cabin: $540
Shared Indoor Lodging: $500
Camping: $460
This weekend retreat is offered in the spirit of generosity. Registration fees cover your food and lodging. Please bring cash/check or Venmo to make an offering to Suniti and Rebecca for their teachings.
Refunds:Full refunds are available before May1st. May 1st-June 1st there is a 50% refund. After June 1st no refund will be given unless we can find someone to take your place.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER WITH SUNITI
Tools for Evolution: a workshop on trauma for hands on practitioners and movement/somatic educators
August 1-3, 10-5 each day
Cost: $550
In Portland, OR
There is much talk of trauma and things being trauma informed, but what does that really mean? And what do you do to support people when they are coming fresh from a really hard experience? Or a memory or emotion from the past pops up unexpectedly in the middle of a session?
While no one wishes for hardship, trauma is an integral part of being a human, and when it’s worked with well, leads to much of our deepest and most beautiful growth. We become more fully ourselves in our lives. We become more deeply compassionate and empathetic. We become more robust and courageous and resilient. So while it can seem like an obstacle in our way, it is in fact one of the greatest potential teachers for us humans!
In this workshop I will be drawing from my 25 years of doing somatic, therapeutic work to offer a distilled understanding of what trauma is as well as practical tools to bring clients into more regulated states in a grounded, effective, gentle way.
I bring many years of experience working through my own historical trauma. I also bring deep experience of working with people with medical trauma, abuse history, accident history, long-standing dysregulation, early patterning (including non-verbal), epigenetic trauma (patterns that have been passed down through the generations), and past life patterning. I also bring a synthesis of trauma-informed work including brainspotting, working with patterns through the central energy channel, a few different versions of parts work which include the mind/body/soul layers, as well as many other modalities that inform my work, including structural and energetic hands on modalities and the Contemporary Alexander Technique.
In this workshop you will learn:
*what is trauma and what is it not
*differences in working with a fresh traumatic experience vs. one that a client has carried for a longer time
*increasing the number of tools you have to bring more resource to yourself or your clients
*ways to identify and work with fight, flight, freeze, the subset states of fawn and fix
*the elements needed to create more regulation in the nervous system or successful trauma processing. NOTE: this workshop is not to become a trauma process worker, but rather is focused on gaining the skills and understanding to help re-balance and ground ourselves and our clients when in dysregulation.
*how to guide yourself and a client when a startling thing is happening so that it doesn’t get laid down in the nervous system as a trauma
This is an experiential-based class. There will be a combination of lecture, live demos, practice with yourself, and practice with the other participants (some of which will be hands-on, some without hands on). Since the tools we are learning in the class are inherently resourcing, this workshop is designed to be a nourishing three days.
Click here to register or ask questions
Self-Paced Classes Via Recordings:
1. Regulation in the Nervous System:
A regulated nervous system is one where you can feel what’s happening clearly, and respond well without excessive fear or reactivity. It is the physiological state of resilience from which you can make clear choices. In this class we will learn to recognize the state of our nervous system in any given moment and use tools to come back to regulation when we have gone into fight/flight or freeze.
Includes 12 hrs of class time via audio recording, class handouts, and exercises to do on your own. Cost: $195. Click here to order the class.
2. Deepening Empathy and Compassion:
Directly connecting with our feelings and desires with kindness is key to returning us to wellness when we are struggling. It also connects us with our gifts and passions. Developing compassion and empathy for others keeps our hearts open and helps us relate to others with more wisdom and understanding. In this class we will deepen our compassion for ourselves and others both as an end to itself, as well as to create the platform for action that stems from open-heartedness rather than fear or reactivity.
Includes 16 hrs of class time via audio recording, class handout, and exercises to do on your own. Cost: $255. Click here to order the class.
3. Wise Action:
This class is for you if: *You sometimes get overwhelmed, anxious or burned out when you’re faced with the intense news of the world, and you want to be able to respond in ways that are sustainable and that open your heart to this life.
*You want to live more and more from a place of authenticity and joy, but sometimes fall into “shoulds”, guilt, or automaticity.
*You’re curious to learn about common patterns we take on in action (victim, hero, judge), and want to be able to redirect yourself when you’ve fallen into one of them.
Includes 12 hrs of class time via audio recording, class handout, and exercises to do on your own. Cost: $195. Click here to order the class.
4. Living in Ease: Finding Support and Connection in Your Body and Being
In this class you will
*Learn about and embody the bones and joints of the feet, legs, pelvis, spine, head, arms and hands.
*Explore where life patterns come from, and how they show up in the body.
*Sense into the lines of weight support through the joints and skeletal system to increase strength, and fluid ease.
*Allow shifts in sensing into the anatomical structures to change your whole self: outlook, emotions, thoughts, and sense of yourself.
Includes 16 hours of class material via audio recordings, tools to work with on your own, and a detailed handout. $255
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5. RADICAL PRESENCE: Increasing your Ease and Capacity through Meditation and Other Tools
In this class you will develop more embodied presence, warmth and openness, and decrease harshness and judgment. Each class will include guided meditation, other experiences designed to increase presence and empathy, discussion, and connection between individuals in the group. You will learn how to bring the increased presence and warmth into your every day life.
No meditation experience needed.
In this class you will receive:
16 hours class material via recording
Meditation instruction
Other tools to increase your regulation and presence during your day.
$255
6. Conscious Conversations
Have you ever been offered advice when you didn’t want it? Or wanted to be a supportive listener to someone, but don’t know exactly what they want from you?
In this class you will
* Learn an array of choices when it comes to listening to another (ex. offer advice, encouragement, quiet listening, empathy and more)
*Get comfortable with asking for what you would like in a conversation and asking what the other person would like
*Notice your conversational habits
*Practice having talking connect you more deeply to yourself and your sense of shared humanity
This class contains 8 class recordings, 16 hours of class material and a class handout. The cost is $255.
“Rebecca’s workshops offer a mature, generous, and warm experience where I feel I am being consciously invited to do clear self contemplation. The courses have led me in a deeply embodied way to reflect on how I respond to daily life. Each class I leave with a clear study of how I might execute change with the goal of accessing a more grounded and resourced relationship with myself and the world around me.”
7. Resourcing Through Mindfulness, Movement and Meditation
This 6 session class is designed to fill your bucket. Each class will involve simple, led movement designed to release tension and stress and help you feel good in your body, mindfulness practices focused on bringing you into the pleasant, happy making sensory experiences in your daily life, and meditation to drop into a more centered and resilient state.
My intention in offering this class is to both help you feel good each week this fall as well as to support you to deepen (or begin) your ability to meditate as well as tune into your every day life in ways that bring you into more enjoyment of living and more capacity to deal with the difficult things. Meditation and mindfulness have been shown to profoundly help to regulate our nervous systems, increase our level of happiness and ability to deal with stress (plus they’re fun!), so it’s a wonderful thing to practice together. This class is designed for beginners through long-time mindfulness explorers.
This recorded class includes 6, one and a half hour classes plus 6 separate guided meditation videos. $170
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