Breath of Life Course
Stillness Speaks [Level One]
Santa Fe, New Mexico — February 29-March 3, 2024
Our location is situated in the foothills of the Sangro de Cristo mountains, 9 miles north of Santa Fe in the village of Tesuque.
Northern New Mexico is a stunningly beautiful place that cultivates contemplation, deep inquiry, and expansion. The land acts as a clear mirror here. Santa Fe, known to the native Tewa people as Oga Po'geh, meaning White Shell Water Place, is renowned for healing.
This is an invitation to be held by the solidity of the earth, the vastness of the sky, and the returning to one’s center, a relearning of how to rest in one's being.
Accommodations are not included in this non-residential immersion. A directory of local BnB’s can be provided upon request, and carpools can be arranged amongst participants as needed.
About the Location
Arrival / Opening Circle — 10am
Days 1-3
10am - 1:30pm — class
1:30pm - 3pm — lunch break
3pm - 6pm — class
Day 4
10am - 1:00pm — class
1:00pm - 2:30pm — lunch break
2:30 - 4pm — closing
Closing Circle / Departure — 4pm
Our Schedule
In this introductory course, we will delve into the guiding principles of craniosacral biodynamics, embodied meditation, somatic movement, and attunement.
Orienting to presence, stillness, and wholeness, we will explore inner practices such as embodied felt-sense, tonal match, full body breathing, resting in invisible midline, and residing in neutral.
Following the insights of Dr. Sutherland and his successors, we will learn how to listen to primary respiration and the Breath of Life, sensing tides, fulcrums, stillpoints, subtle rhythms, states of consciousness, and more.
This course will invite you to develop and refine your essential skills for grounding and centering in yourself, creating and maintaining safety and trust with your client, increasing potency in your touch and sensitivity in your awareness.
With dynamic stillness as the guide, we cultivate our capacity to support the body’s innate wisdom of healing in ourselves and in each other.
About the Course
Koa carries fifteen years of extensive training in osteopathic craniosacral medicine, as well as a deep well of learning from earth-based medicine keepers and mystic spiritual leaders. She has worked in private practice since 2016.
In 2021, Koa launched her Breath of Life Course, a program designed and synthesized from her studies in the healing arts as well as from breaking through her own challenges as highly sensitive person who has withstood two traumatic head and brain injuries.
Koa is a gentle guide and compassionate teacher with the ability to respond to the field with wisdom teachings that are accessible and applicable. Both her private sessions and group immersions are known to be uniquely transformative, restorative, and healing.
About the Facilitator
These lands ancestrally belong to the pueblo people. A percentage of our funds will be offered to Tewa Women United, as well as to Gaza Relief Funds.
Registration is first come, first served. There are multiple pricing tiers to reflect income diversity and increase accessibility. If you are in a place to give, we thank you for your generosity in supporting our scholarships.
Refunds:
If the course needs to be cancelled or postponed by the facilitator or host, a full refund will be given. For more details on refunds please see Course Policies.
Registration & Reciprocity
“Repeating” a class is never repeating.
There is always more to learn simply by being in the field, and no two classes are ever the same.
If a Level Two Course does not align with your schedule, please consider returning to Level One to continue deepening your practice and skills.
In regards to the Yearlong cohort, two Level Ones will be considered equivalent to a Level One + Two.
A Note for Return Students
Registration:
What participants are saying:
“This has been a transformational training on how to simply BE. It has greatly informed and transformed my whole life.”
“Hard to put into words the complete fullness, wholeness and expansiveness I experienced from taking this course. So inspired by the way Koa transmits these teachings. I am so grateful for her devotion to her students, her care and her communication. She holds the space so beautifully. Highly recommend studying with Koa!”
“Thank you for midwifing the regenerative paradigm that is so needed in our time.”
“I keep thinking that if everyone took this class there would be peace on Earth.”
“Best four days I have had in a long time. I feel happy, healed, and ready to keep moving forward.”
“Deep gratitude for the wisdom and beauty you embody and share. This time here has been deeply nourishing as I beginning to witness healing and harmony within vessel and heart. Thank you!”
“With this work I’ve completely fallen in love.”
“My Oura ring recorded the deepest REM sleep, best rest and highest overall health ever recorded, while taking this class.”
