The Origin of Sanctuary | A State the Body Remembers at – Los Angeles, CA

Get your tickets to see The Origin of Sanctuary | A State the Body Remembers in Los Angeles, CA. Happening on Thursday, February 26, 2026 at . Doors open at 6:00 PM.

Sanctuary is not a place. It is a state the body remembers.
 
Ancient Wisdom Meeets the Modern Body
The Origin of Sanctuary
This session — from The Origin of Self Series — focuses on cultivating inner safety and nervous system settling through somatic awareness rather than control. Sanctuary arises when the body senses enough stability to rest.

Through grounding breath, slow settling practices, and gentle energetic coherence, you will explore what safety feels like from the inside and how to return to it when external conditions feel demanding.

A.W.E. creates the container as you anchor into physical support, witness signals of safety and activation, and express what sanctuary feels like in your own system.

You may leave with:

A felt sense of internal refuge
Tools for self-regulation and settling
A reliable pathway back to calm

Suggested Items:

Journal and pen
Comfortable seated or reclined position
Headphones for immersive sound (recommended)

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The Origin of Self Series
 
The Origin of Self is an eight-part embodied journey designed to reconnect you with the original intelligence of your body, breath, and inner field.

This series is not about becoming someone new.It is about remembering what was already there — before conditioning, before bracing, before disconnection from the body’s knowing.

Through somatic presence, breath-led awareness, reflective inquiry, and guided expression, each session invites you to return to a different facet of your original self: how you see, know, feel, express, settle, connect, endure, and integrate.

Rooted in the philosophy of The Elemental Soma, this series works with the body as an intelligent system — not a container to override, but a living field that perceives, responds, and communicates through sensation, rhythm, and subtle signal. Rather than bypassing the body in search of insight, The Origin of Self brings awareness back into the soma, where wisdom is experienced directly and truth is felt before it is named.

Each session follows the A.W.E. modality:
Anchor — returning awareness to the body, breath, and present-moment ground.Witness — meeting sensation, perception, and inner movement without judgment or interference.Express — allowing insight to take form through journaling, language, imagery, or quiet internal articulation.
Together, these three movements create a simple but profound arc: the body settles, awareness rises, and expression reveals.

In each of the eight sessions — Clearseeing, Wisdom, Softening, Sourceflow, Sanctuary, Heartfield, Fortitude, and Wholeness — you are guided through a rhythm of human remembering, gradually restoring trust in the body’s capacity to guide, regulate, and integrate lived experience.

This is not a therapeutic process, nor a purely spiritual one.It is an embodied remembering — where ancient wisdom meets the modern body, and insight is no longer something you seek, but something you return to.

The Origin of Self is an invitation to come home to yourself — steadily, gently, and with reverence for the intelligence already living within you.

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