| Sacred Restoration is an invitation to return home to yourself: This group is a six-week immersion into the wisdom of your own nervous system. Rooted in the Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) approach, this group is designed to gently guide your nervous system back toward regulation, safety, creativity, and ease.
For those navigating the lingering effects of chronic stress and/or trauma, including anxiety, depression, overwhelm, chronic emotional and/or physical pain, and the sense of being stuck or disconnected from oneself, the path forward can feel unclear and out of reach. You may have tried talk therapy, gained insights and perspective, yet still find your nervous system responding as if the past is still present, as if your life will never change.
In this small, confidential group, you will learn to reduce stress and regulate your nervous system using specific Somatic Experiencing (SE) tools, mindfulness practices and more. Each week you will take home practical tools for self healing:
- Learn nervous system education together: understanding why we feel stuck reduces shame and normalizes our experiences.
- Practice gentle, body-based tools: simple exercises like titration, pendulation, grounding, and resourcing are taught in a step-by-step way allowing each person to go at their own pace.
- Experience co-regulation: being in a safe, supportive group helps the nervous system settle simply by being with others who are also on a healing path.
- Orienting: using our senses to activate curiosity and the "orienting response," which naturally lowers anxiety and increases feelings of safety.
- Sensation Awareness: moving out of cognitive overthinking and into the body to make friends with yourself.
By mastering these and other tools, you will expand your capacity to transform discomfort, release past experiences that are stored in the body, and discover what it truly feels like to be safe and at ease in the present moment.
About Somatic Experiencing (SE): Unlike traditional talk therapy that primarily engages the thinking mind, Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body-centered, neurobiological approach developed by Dr. Peter Levine that directly addresses the root of trauma and stress, where it lives in your nervous system.
SE allows our body to restore our natural ability to regulate emotions, reduce chronic anxiety, decrease physical and emotional pain, and emerge from the fog of trauma into a state of resilience, flow and, wholeness.
What You Will Receive:
- 6 weekly in-person sessions, 90-120 minute/sessions
- Live online toolkit practice support (dates TBD)
- Trauma healing resources, handouts and tools
- One-on-one support with the facilitator, Alexandra
Investment: $250
Days/Times:
- Cohort One: meets Wednesdays, 5:30-7:00pm
- Cohort Two: meets Saturdays, 9:30-11:30am
- Cohort Three: meets Sundays, 10:00-11:30am
Program Dates: Each of the following is a separate 6‑week group session. Wednesday Cohort
- Wednesdays, April 29 - June 3, 2026
- Wednesdays, June 10-July 15, 2026
- Wednesdays, July 22 - August 26, 2026
- Fall dates TBA
Saturday Cohort
- Saturdays, June 13 - July 18, 2026
- Saturdays, July 25 - August 29, 2026
- Fall dates TBA
Sunday Cohort
- Sundays, May 3 - June 7, 2026
- Sundays, June 14 - July 19, 2026
- Sundays, July 26 - August 30, 2026
- Fall dates TBA
Facilitator: Alexandra Whitney, PhD, SEP Alexandra has worked for decades at the intersection of trauma healing, contemplative practice, and psychological insight, bringing together her clinical experience with a lifelong immersion in meditation practice. She is a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, a Biodynamic Cranial Sacral Therapist, holds a PhD in East-West Psychology, and is the founder of Eightfold Path and Sacred Restoration.
For several years she studied and worked closely with Dr. Peter A. Levine, the founder of Somatic Experiencing®, developing the Returning Home Project, an intensive Somatic Experiencing retreat protocol for military veterans suffering from combat trauma. She served as Director and Principal Investigator for the project, contributing to PTSD research for veterans. This meaningful collaboration grounded her in a clinical understanding of how the nervous system holds and releases the imprints of trauma.
To learn more about Alexandra, please visit: Linkedin Psychology Today Sacred Restoration
Contact: For more information and to register, please fill out the form below or you can reach Alexandra directly by call or text: (207) 803-6481
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