Shalom Online Course
Embodied Healing Practices from a Christ-centered Approach
What would it feel like to be truly rooted and grounded in Love?
What might it be like to live your life (the precious moments you have on
earth) with true presence and deeper Peace?
In a world of distraction, loneliness, and disconnection, this course seeks to re-connect. Through mind, body, heart and soul practices, we’ll learn how to cultivate SHALOM in our daily life.
We’re all longing for SHALOM - peace, wholeness, a sense of belonging. We were made for it! The word Shalom means much more than our translation of “peace”. It’s a more holistic word, filled with hope and encompasses harmony, wholeness, wellness, peace, and connectedness (to self, God, and others).
Light the candle.
Listen up.
You are holy and beautifully and wonderfully made for love, connection, and wholeness.
God goes before you and longs to fill you with his love, his light; to be a light.
You are needed here.
“It’s amazing! I still use the practices from this course. You will find yourself going back over and over to the practices and principles Abby is teaching.”
Shalom is a 4 week online course that will help you cultivate more connection, presence, awareness, and peace:
*5 breathwork + grounding Practices
*5 Guided Christ-centered meditations
*4 live teaching community sessions
* 4 Live all-levels Breath + movement practices
*A downloadable guidebook
*audio + Video recordings to keep
*A Private online community
*a follow-up one-on-one embodied healing session
*tools and practices to cultivate more Peace + Presence that will last a lifetime.
Our hopeful aim will be to unearth the things that keep us from true shalom. To learn what keeps us stuck, how to feel safe to move through it, to learn to be present (to the pain and the joy), and to be able to live our precious moments from that sacred place of harmony and wholeness.
We will learn practices that will help cultivate and welcome God’s shalom: deep peace, wholeness, flourishing, delight - in our body and soul - in our daily lives.
This series is perfect for anyone who desires deeper connection to self, to God, and to others.
“The webbing together of God, humans, and all creation in justice, fulfillment, and delight is what the Hebrew prophets call shalom. We call it peace, but it means far more than mere peace of mind or a cease-fire between enemies. In the Bible, shalom means universal flourishing, wholeness, and delight—a rich state of affairs in which natural needs are satisfied and natural gifts fruitfully employed, a state of affairs that inspires joyful wonder as its Creator and Savior opens doors and welcomes the creatures in whom He delights. Shalom, in other words, is the way things ought to be.” -Cornelius Plantinga
In these four weeks, we will be going inward and upward, looking for God in the midst,
remembering who we truly are: Sacred, Whole, and Holy, Through practices that engage Mind, body, heart, and soul.
I (Abby) am a trained social worker and trauma-informed yoga therapist, and will be gently guiding you through this important work. The goal is to learn how to be a safe and sacred space (for yourself and others) for beautiful healing to begin to unfold.
We will meet weekly for four consecutive weeks via live group coaching calls. You’ll have access to practice the meditation and movement practices on your own time each week via recorded videos and audios. You’ll get a PDF guide to accompany you on this journey. You'll also get access to the "Shalom Sisterhood' secret group where you can connect with other sisters who've gone through this program. Healing doesn't take place in a vacuum (especially if our wounds were in context of relationship, we need our healing to be in context of relationship, too). Joining the Sisterhood doesn't mean you’ll ever need to share your story if you don’t want to. It just means you have sisters rooting you on toward healing as we're all working on our own as well. We are a band of brave souls journeying through healing toward Wholeness!
If this is stirring your heart in any way, I invite you to listen and don’t push it off. Giving time and space to this work is vital. We need to be nourished to flourish. This course will help you learn some practical and simple tools to do just that. There will be an optional payment plan for those who need that option. The course is over $400 value and is just $197. You’ll have access to the materials to go through it as often as you need.
“Thank you! Thank you for creating such a space for healing, reflection and connecting with Jesus.”
-Shalom Retreat Attendee
If you’re not ready for the four week course but you’d like some specific embodiment tools and practices tailored to YOU, you can hop on a call with me and see if an embodied healing session is right for you. To schedule that, just connect with me here.
Here are some samples of what you’ll also receive:
Audio recordings
Below you'll find sample audio meditation which is what you’ll experience during the 4 weeks. You’ll have access to download and listen whenever you need them. This or similar is from the Shalom Sessions.
Additional Resources
A thorough reading list and other resources for further study and exploration. Some of these are trauma-informed resources, some are on yoga, Christianity, contemplation, poetry, and more. All have informed this sacred work.
Community
The Shalom Sisterhood may start small, but we hope that the online community will grow over time (with only sisters who have gone through Shalom Sessions, the Shalom Course, or a Shalom Retreat.) This will be an intentional space to connect in a safe way to others who are working through these sessions, journeying toward healing + wholeness. It's a secret facebook group - meaning that only the people who are in it can see who's in it. If you'd like to be added to the group, you can send Abby an email at abby @flourishbodysoul.com and request to be added and you'll get an email or facebook notification. Because it's a 'secret group', you can not search for it and find it.