For Times Like These
Embodied Resilience in an Uncertain World
Small-group coaching and mindful movement designed to help you regulate your nervous system, reconnect with inner wisdom, and move through life with greater steadiness and ease.
Live 6-Week Coaching, Movement & Meditation Cohorts
A Grounded, Integrated Approach to Resilience
Zenyasa Wellness blends movement, mindfulness, and evidence-based emotional regulation tools into one coherent system of practice.
This work is:
- Mind–body integrated
- Structured but not rigid
- Skills-based and practical
- Warm, steady, and non-judgmental
- Designed for real-world turbulence
You don’t just learn concepts. You practice cultivating steadiness — in your body, in your attention, and in how you respond to stress.
Resilience becomes something you integrate into your body, your relationships, and your daily life.
Live 6-Week Cohorts
Three small-group containers to support steadiness, resilience, and embodied clarity.
All cohorts meet weekly via Zoom and include live teaching, guided practice, and optional sharing.
Resilience Coaching
ACT & DBT-Informed Skills Training
Group coaching programs that help cultivate inner steadiness and wisdom
- ACT- and DBT-informed skills training
- Structured weekly sessions in a small cohort
- Practical tools for emotional regulation and clarity
- Supportive accountability in community
Zenyasa® Movement
Mindful Strength & Mobility
Mindful movement that grounds the body and steadies the mind
- Mindful strength, mobility, and grounding practice
- Designed to regulate the nervous system
- Builds embodied awareness and stability
- Integrates breath, balance, and contemplative focus
Meditation & Mindfulness
Practice & Daily Integration
Meditation and everyday mindfulness that cultivates steadiness and clarity.
- Meditation explorations using a variety of techniques
- Everyday mindfulness explorations across core activities
- Weekly live sessions with sharing and reflection
- Builds concentration, insight, resilience, and mental stability
The Ox-Herding Path
Three Phases of Returning Home to Inner Wisdom
The essence of this work revolves around a simple premise:
There is place within that feels grounded, wise, and deeply connected to something greater than yourself. Some people refer to this inner wisdom as the Higher Self. In DBT, it's referred to as Wise Mind. Contemplative practice, embodied movement, and resiliency work can all help deepen your connection with this inner wisdom, enabling you to more consistently live your life from a feeling of grounded-ness and steadiness.
In the Zen tradition, this journey inward is depicted through a series of paintings known as the Ox-Herding Pictures. In the images, the ox represents our true nature — the grounded, calm, clear part of us that knows how to move through life with presence and integrity.
The original sequence contains ten stages, tracing a practitioner’s journey from confusion to insight to embodied wisdom. What follows is a simplified, modern version inspired by that teaching — one that reflects how many of us today become disconnected from inner steadiness, and how we can learn to discover or rediscover the path home to our Wise Mind and embodied wisdom.
1. Looking for the Ox
When steadiness feels distant or unknown
In the early stages of the Ox-Herding story, the ox is nowhere to be found. The practitioner is searching — restless, alert, sensing something essential is missing but not yet knowing what it is.
This reflects a very human experience.
There may have been periods of your life when clarity, ease, or inner peace felt accessible...
until stress, anxiety, or circumstances beyond your control pulled them away. Often, the body signals this disconnection long before the mind can name it.
It's also possible that this steady inner center has always felt out of reach — something you’ve longed for but never fully experienced.
During this phase, you might experience:
- A steady undercurrent of fear or uncertainty you can’t quite shake
- Feeling scattered, anxious, or thrown off balance by even small stressors
- A sense of heaviness or fatigue that makes daily life feel harder than it should
- Tightness in the breath or body — like you’re bracing for something
- Feeling disconnected from others, or carrying a loneliness you can’t explain
- Avoiding things you care about because motivation or clarity feels out of reach
- Struggling to move toward long-term goals because short-term overwhelm keeps taking over
It’s human to feel this way.
And in time, something quieter inside begins to observe:
“This isn’t how I want to feel.
There must be another way.”
In the Ox-Herding story, this recognition is the first turning point — a quiet, honest noticing that marks the beginning of the path home.
2. Following the Path
When awareness becomes steady, workable practice
In the middle stages of the Zen story, the seeker begins to find footprints — subtle traces that point the way forward. Nothing dramatic. No sudden enlightenment. Just small, meaningful signs that a path exists.
This is the phase where insight becomes action — where you begin to walk, slowly and steadily, toward Wise Mind and embodied wisdom.
You’re not trying to fix everything at once. You’re learning practices that help you reconnect with yourself in real, practical ways.
These could look like:
- Practicing grounding techniques that settle your breath and body
- Learning mindfulness skills that help you step out of mental spirals
- Using ACT tools to notice thoughts without getting pulled into them
- Applying DBT strategies to navigate emotional spikes with more steadiness
- Exploring somatic practices — gentle movement, breath-led awareness, body scans
- Journaling to access the wiser, clearer part of yourself (Wise Mind / Higher Self dialogue)
- Building routines that support your nervous system rather than exhaust it
- Meeting regularly for group coaching sessions to integrate these skills into your daily rhythms
These are not abstract concepts — they’re lived, embodied practices that gradually reorient you toward clarity, purpose, and inner steadiness.
You’re beginning to sense the direction home.
You’re walking the path with intention — one grounded step at a time.
3. Coming Home
Reconnecting with the part of you that was never truly lost
In the later stages of the Ox-Herding story, the seeker finally finds the ox. Through patience, steadiness, and practice, the ox becomes familiar, then trusted — until the seeker is able to ride it home with ease. Ultimately, they discover something simple and profound:
the ox was never separate from them.
This mirrors what it’s like to reconnect with your Wise Mind.
As the practices from Phase 2 begin to take hold — in your body, breath, attention, and daily choices — you start to feel more like the clearer, steadier version of yourself again.
During this phase, you may notice:
- Breathing more freely — and feeling more ease and fluidity in your body
- Eating better, sleeping more peacefully, and feeling physically well again
- Feeling more capable of following through on long-term goals
- Showing up more calmly and intentionally in your relationships
- Feeling less pushed around by fear, urgency, or self-doubt
Finding the ox isn’t the end of the journey — but it is the turning point.
It’s when something in you begins to trust again:
“There is a higher wisdom within myself that exists and was never lost.
I just lost contact with it.
I’m finding my way back home.”
At Zenyasa Wellness, the integrated approach that we offer helps you strengthen this connection — so your inner steadiness becomes something reliable and lived, not something you access only in rare, quiet moments.
This is how you learn to move through your life — even in a turbulent world — from the grounded, wise, capable part of yourself.
Ready to Begin?
The path home doesn’t require dramatic change.
It begins with practice.
Whether you feel like you’re still searching for the ox or beginning to follow the path, there is a place for you here. You can begin with a single 6-week cohort, choose the 6-Week All-Access Pass, or reach out to inquire about private sessions.
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