A 3-hour virtual weekend retreat to help you break the cycle, create your safe space within, and share with your children.
– A Virtual Weekend Retreat –
May 5 – 7, 2023 | Friday to Sunday
It’s easy to put your own emotional needs on the backburner. But ignoring our own issues won’t help.
As a mom, we pass on our nervous system – and our issues – to our children. Whatever we experienced as children is what we pass on, unless we have the knowledge and the tools to break the cycle.
THE FIRST STEP: Create your safe space within.
I cannot wait to share with you how to break the cycle and create the emotional safety for yourself and your child so that they can experience the most nurturing environment that they need for their physical, mental and emotional well being. Your children need this to be able to grow up being themselves and not have fear and insecurity passed on to them.
Learn how to create emotional safety for your children… and it begins with you.
This is for moms who want to break the cycle and want to make sure you are not passing on your issues to your children.
“That was such an eye opener for me. It’s the experience of learning to live my life in my body again, because I had been so in my head for so very, very long and hadn’t even realized it… our whole world needs this right now… There’s a lot of power here. There’s a lot of power that our bodies have if we can tap into it.“
– Susan
“The Starting Place Retreat has really motivated and inspired me… the power of implementing these exercises.”
– Neeley
“That was my intention… gently being consistent with myself. A person can learn so much.”
– Candice
“I’ve done EMDR, counseling, group work, and I’ve found a little bit of help in each one… this work, from the exercises that I have done, has felt different in my body. It just seemed amazing.”
– Clarissa
You don’t want to pass your issues on to your children, but you can already see them picking up the habits that you hoped to break.
That’s where The Starting Place Retreat comes in.
I will safely cut through all the confusion and clutter and show you what practically you need to do to break the cycle in your family. It all starts with one decision, and that is to just show up.
We combine three areas: somatic work with the body, parts work, and biology work.
People are seeing a difference using this new integrated approach.
“I specifically remember on a drive to Cleveland, which is about three hours for me, I was on a drive with somebody that’s always been very triggering for me. And I remember just listening and looking over and feeling this absolute calmness in my stomach and I thought, oh my gosh, I can’t believe right now that I don’t have that knot in my stomach. And that just anxious feeling it was just at that moment for me.”
– Vicky
“I highly suggest you take this step. Especially if I had started with this, I probably would have saved so much money and time…it’s just been a wonderful, wonderful time and I cannot thank myself enough for doing this for myself and my family and my community.”
– Kelsey
Meeting for 30 minutes from 5:30pm-6:00pm PDT.
Jump in with your first guided exercise by Dr. Aimie to create a safe space for your body.
Meeting for 1.5 hours from 8:30am-10:00am PDT.
Through a combination of teaching and guided exercises of somatic work, art therapy, and exploring the different parts of us, you will understand your body and its challenges on a much deeper level.
Meeting for 1 hour from 8:30am-9:30am PDT.
Dr. Aimie will teach on how to recognize your unique way in which stress has impacted your body and guide you through 2 additional somatic exercises to safely start the body's healing journey.
Meeting for 1 hour from 9:45am-10:45am PDT
The VIP experience gets you access to an additional live session for processing this retreat experience. A 60-minute Zoom meeting just for the VIP members will help integrate this experience into your life moving forward. Led by Dr. Aimie’s trained somatic mentors, this will be a powerful way to close the retreat experience for you.
Meeting for 1 hour from 9:45am-10:45am PDT
The VIP experience gets you access to an additional live session for processing this retreat experience. A 60-minute Zoom meeting just for the VIP members will help integrate this experience into your life moving forward. With breakout groups led by Dr. Aimie’s trained Somatic Mentors, this will be a powerful way to close the retreat experience for you.
DAY 1 | Friday evening – 30 minutes (5:30 pm PDT)
DAY 2 | Saturday morning – 1 hour and 30 minutes (8:30 am PDT)
DAY 3| Sunday morning – 1 hour (8:30 am PDT)
A journal for you to write and draw as you follow along during the retreat.
A journal for you to write and draw as you follow along during the retreat.
A journal for you to write and draw as you follow along during the retreat.
A private Facebook group for you to continue to explore somatic work with various resources including recorded somatic sessions and other content, along with Dr. Aimie's podcast, all experienced in a safe, private community with others on this journey.
The VIP experience gets you access to an additional live session for processing this retreat experience. A 60-minute Zoom meeting just for the VIP members will help integrate this experience into your life moving forward. Led by Dr. Aimie’s trained somatic mentors, this will be a powerful way to close the retreat experience for you.
Expires May 1,2023 9pm PDT.
One of the hard lessons I had to learn when it comes to breaking the cyle is that so often we do too much too fast. We jump in too fast. Here we take things in bite-sized pieces. We are going to start slow. Otherwise, we actually put our system into the very same patterns of overwhelm that we’re trying to rewire.
I’m so looking forward to guiding you through these exercises and seeing the changes that happen for you in the moment. You will see a whole new potential for yourself moving forward.
“Somatic” means it is body-based. Often, our bodies are not actually feeling safe. I will teach you a few of the somatic exercises I have learned over the years in all my different trainings. These are so powerful in helping your body know it is safe, so you can be fully present.
I have never seen someone fully heal without incorporating parts work. If you are familiar with Internal Family Systems, we will be blending this with somatic work in a unique way.
Art therapy powerfully brings what is happening in our body at a subconscious level to our conscious level of awareness. That way, we can work with it.
We will also be journaling so you can write down your insights and the new things you are learning.
Whether it’s healing for your family, healing for the people you work with, or healing on your own journey, It all starts with one decision. To show up.
Dr. Aimie Apigian is the leading medical expert in creating a safe space. She designed the Starting Place retreat and will be your guide, safely showing you where to start.
Through her own journey as an adoptive mother, her own health crash, two Board Certifications, two Masters Degrees, and over a decade of experience with thousands of patients, adults, and children, she has studied how life experiences get stored in the body and how to restore the body to its best state of health through her signature model and methodology.
The Starting Place retreat is a live virtual, online 3-day weekend retreat that will provide a safe introduction for how to heal the body.
If you realize you wanted to break the cycle but don’t know where to start or how to begin safely, we are going to cut through all the confusion and clutter so you can experience a deeper release and clear path forward.
May 5, 2023 5:30-6:00pm PDT virtually via Zoom. 30 minutes on Friday, 1.5 hours on Saturday, 1 hour on Sunday. Here is the schedule:
Day 1: Friday May, 5:30pm-6:00pm PDT
Jump in with your first guided exercise by Dr. Aimie to create a safe space for your body.
Day 2: Saturday May 6, 8:30am-10:00am PDT
Through a combination of teaching and guided exercises of somatic work, art therapy, and exploring the different parts of us, you will understand your body and its challenges on a much deeper level.
Day 3: Sunday May 7, 8:30am-9:30am PDT
Dr. Aimie will teach on how to recognize your unique way in which stress has impacted your body and guide you through 2 additional somatic exercises to safely start the body’s healing journey.
Yes! All sessions will be recorded and available for ongoing viewing even after the weekend ends.
Disclaimer: This course/program is not intended to be medical or psychological care and your membership in the course/program does not in any way establish a physician-patient or therapist-patient relationship between you and us.
Medical Disclosure: The information and programs presented on or through this website are made available to equip you with knowledge and tools. All the material in this course are intended for educational purposes. This information nor any programs that are offered are (nor are a substitute for) medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. For any physical or mental health issues, I recommend you work with a qualified health provider who will also support your desire to address the effects of trauma.
