For Times Like These
Support for staying grounded and steady when life feels uncertain
Group coaching, mindful movement, and resiliency-based tools that help calm your nervous system and cultivate your connection with deeper wisdom – so you can more gracefully navigate the turbulence of these modern times.
Who I Help
I support people who feel unsteady, overwhelmed, or disconnected from themselves — and who want to develop a calmer, more grounded way of moving through the world.
This includes individuals who are:
- Feeling tense, scattered, or out of sync with their bodies
- Caught in cycles of fear, worry, or emotional reactivity — especially in response to the uncertainty of today’s world
- Struggling to find their footing when life feels fast, pressured, or overwhelming
- Noticing a gap between how they’re living and what their deeper values are calling them toward
- Wanting support to regulate their emotions and soothe their nervous system
- Longing for embodied practices—movement, breath, and mindfulness—that create steadiness from the inside out Looking for structure, accountability, and compassionate guidance
- Drawn to ACT and DBT tools that help them respond with clarity rather than react from stress
Whether you're learning to inhabit your body in a new way or returning to a steadier inner ground you once knew, this work helps you reconnect with the felt sense of wisdom that lives within you.
What Makes This Approach Unique
The integrated approach we offer blends mindfulness, movement, somatic grounding, and practical emotional-regulation tools into one unified system of support. It’s different because it is:
- Mind–body integrated: You don’t just learn ideas — you reconnect with your inner wisdom through embodied practices that help you feel steadier in real time
- Skills-based and practical: ACT and DBT tools are translated into clear, doable steps you can use in the moments they matter most
- Compassionate and grounded: The work is warm, steady, and non-judgmental — honoring your lived experience without being clinical or diagnostic
- Experience-driven: This approach is shaped by 25+ years of work in somatic practice, mindfulness, nervous-system education, and coaching informed by health psychology
- Supportive and structured: Group coaching provides clarity, accountability, and gentle guidance in community — with the option to add 1:1 sessions for more personalized support
- Designed for real-world turbulence: Every tool you learn helps you stay centered, clear, and connected to yourself in times of stress, uncertainty, or rapid change
This is a whole-person approach to resilience — one that helps you feel grounded, capable, and more at home in your wiser, higher self.
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.
Three Entry Points, One Integrated Approach
Support for reconnecting with your inner wisdom
Returning to clarity, grounding, and emotional steadiness isn’t something you achieve through one practice alone. It’s a whole-person process — one that unfolds through the body, the mind, and the deeper wisdom you reconnect with along the way.
At Zenyasa Wellness, your journey is supported through three complementary entry points into embodied resilience and inner steadiness:
- Embodied Wisdom Coaching for emotional clarity, steady guidance, and compassionate accountability (with optional 1:1 support)
- Zenyasa® Movement Practice for embodied grounding and nervous-system regulation
- Self-Paced Courses for learning ACT, DBT, mindfulness, and somatic skills online at your own pace
Each entry point has been thoughtfully designed to help you feel more grounded, more centered, and more connected to yourself as you move through daily life.
Embodied Wisdom Coaching
Group coaching programs that help cultivate inner steadiness and wisdom
- DBT-informed skills training, Wise Mind meditation, and journaling
- Structure, accountability, and compassionate guidance
- Tools that help you respond rather than react
- A supportive space to process stress, and make more grounded choices
- Optional 1:1 sessions for deeper personalized support
Zenyasa® Movement Practice
Mindful movement that grounds the body and steadies the mind
- A unique blend of yoga, mobility, strength, and mindfulness
- Designed to strengthen the body and regulate the nervous system
- Builds physical grounding, embodied awareness, and inner steadiness
- Supports the journey back to Wise Mind through the body
- Offered as live classes, recordings, and integrated into coaching
Self-Paced Pathway
Cultivate resiliency, stability, and embodied wisdom via online courses
- ACT and DBT tools for anxiety, overwhelm, and reactivity
- Guided practices that help you reconnect with your inner wisdom
- Step-by-step lessons you can follow at your own pace
- Supportive worksheets, journaling prompts, and somatic exercises
- A flexible learning option when live group coaching isn’t the right fit
Ready to Take the Next Step?
If you’re feeling overwhelmed, unsteady, or unsure how to move forward, you don’t have to figure it out alone. A free consultation is the place to begin.
During your consultation, we’ll explore your current challenges and what kind of support might serve you best. You’re welcome to ask questions about upcoming group coaching programs, Zenyasa® movement classes, online courses, and the possibility of 1:1 work if you’re looking for more personalized support.
Together, we’ll uncover the next steps on your path home to yourself.
Meet Your Guide
Warm, steady support for navigating real-world stress and building resilience.
