My relationship with my body has become a practice of returning to my creativity, aliveness, and authentic expression.
For me, this work has become less about healing, in the traditional sense, and more about learning how to live in relationship with my body.
It's been a way of learning to stay with myself instead of abandoning myself.
Over time, I've built more capacity to be with difficult emotions and sensations, developed a deeper relationship with my inner landscape, and begun to recognize the patterns that unconsciously shaped how I moved through the world.
Body Story
Body Story is the first 6 weeks of a two part series
This is the first pathway of the Ishtara® Method—a six week immersion into the emotional, survival, and relational body.
Through sensation, meditative movement, expression, and deep listening, you'll learn to relate to your body with greater curiosity and compassion.
Together we'll explore the patterns and stories held within the body, reconnect with its innate wisdom, and create space for greater aliveness, creative expression, and authentic connection.
This six-week journey includes:
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Six live 2-hour classes via Zoom
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An intimate group of no more than four participants
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Personalized body readings
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Curated playlists and song pairings to support your unique body story
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Digital guidebooks for each module
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A thoughtfully held space to be seen, witnessed, and supported
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A closing ceremony with ritual and celebration
Open to four female-identifying participants.
Participants are required to attend all classes so the group can move through the journey together.
Starting Mondays Sept 14
11am PST | 2pm EST
No events at the moment
The Practice
This isn't dance.
This is meditative movement.
This is a practice of listening with breath, sound, movement and pleasure.
Of learning the body's language and how the body speaks through emotions and sensation.
*Video Song Credit: Body Talk by Annaca
The Ishtara® Method
Return
We find ground and center.
Anchor in the self as the container from which to metabolize and compost.
Respond
We move from a place of attunement and witnessing. Parts of us that have been neglected and forgotten.
We return to self and essence as our ground and being. To fold and sketch into all that we've moved.
Rise
The First Six Weeks
Week 1: Body Love
Learn how to love your body as a being and not thing. We learn to develop a deep relationship with our body from a place of deep listening and attunement.
Week 2: Body Talk
Learn the language of your body. Like any language, learning to be fluent takes time. Learn how your body is speaking to you through sensation and emotion. And how movement is the vocabulary.
Week 3: Body Memory
Learn how your body stores different types of memory. How our trauma lives in us, how to metabolize this stored energy and understand how it came to be. Not through logic, but through listening.
Week 4: Body Story
Learn the story of your body.
How has your past shaped your present and your future? How are your patterns and adaptive strategies keeping you stuck and looping in cycles? We learn to meet their needs directly in the body.
Week 5: Body Magic
Learn how your body IS magic and can create all of your desires. We learn how to seed and plant those desires through movement and witnessing. And how to heal patterns in love, money and worth.
Week 6: Body Soul
Learn who you are and who you have always been. We shine a light on your soul and essence in a celebration of our journey. Complete with adornment and ritual worthy of you.
What You'll Receive on the Full Journey
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Body Story
6-week journey- Part One of Series
Body Alchemy is a guided return into the emotional, survival and relational body—a space to feel, listen, and begin to rewrite the stories your body holds.
This journey includes:
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Live 2.5-hour classes via Zoom
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Small group container (capped at 4) for individualized support
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Personalized body readings
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Curated playlists and song pairings to support your body story
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Digital guidebooks for each module
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A safe and sacred space to be seen, felt, and witnessed
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A closing ceremony and celebration—with ritual and adornment
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Body Personality
6-week journey- Part Two of the Series
Body Trinity is a deepening of our exploration. We learn to personify our nervous system patterns in new relationship met with love, understanding and presence.
This journey includes:
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Exploration of your Protectresses: Learn how survival patterns live in your body—running your life from the shadows-and how they can shift from a disowned to integrated.
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We explore 8 core body personalities aligned with fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses.
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Exploration of your Liberators: Discover new space, possibility and response in your nervous system.
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You'll meet 8 liberator energies that help balance, free, and integrate your Protectresses.
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Creatrix transmission and closing ceremony: A celebratory ritual and energetic activation to meet your creative essence—your unique Shakti rising. This includes a live demonstration of other energies, with invited community members participating as transmission holders.
Testimonials
**Melissa Miller is a Licensed Teacher of Ishtara®. Melissa has trained with the creator of Ishtara®, Tracy Harward, and is licensed as an independent teacher. For complete information on Ishtara, you can also visit ishtarabody.com.
Ishtara courses, programs, and practices are a somatic (body-based) approach provided for personal development only and are not therapy, nor a substitute for physical or psychological therapy.**