EMBODY : The Art of Trusting Yourself.
A Year Long Whole Body Recovery Immersion. Somatic healing and embodiment for women.
For women who have spent years caring for others, navigating loss, illness, trauma, or major life, transitions and are ready to stop abandoning themselves.
She can feel everything. The weight of what’s needed from her.
The pressure to be further along. The exhaustion of having tried.
She feels all of it.
What she can’t feel is herself.
Her own joy. Her own desire. Her own sense of what she wants next.
That’s what’s gone quiet.
She can read the weather in everyone else’s life.
She just can’t feel the sun on her own face anymore.
She has tried to find her way back.
The books. The workshops. The self-help that promised to reach her. None of it touched the thing that actually hurts.
Not because she didn’t try hard enough.
Because none of it spoke to where she actually lives In her body. In her history.
In the ongoing conversation with herself that went silent
somewhere between everything she was for everyone else.
She is not looking for more advice. She is looking for a way back in.
Her heart isn’t broken by what happened to her.
Her heart is broken by the fact that nothing she’s tried has been able to reach her.
who is this for?
She may be a mother of a child with high needs, medical complexity, adoption, neurodivergence, whose attention has been organized around crisis and vigilance for years.
She may be a woman whose career, company, or community claimed everything she had for longer than she can remember.
She may be a woman who grew up being told — directly or quietly — not to trust what she sensed about herself or her own life.
What these women share is not their story.
It’s this:
She didn’t lose herself carelessly.
She split herself — deliberately, heroically — because the situation demanded it.
She kept her capacity to feel for others alive and active.
And she shut down her capacity to feel vital parts of herself.
Not in weakness. Survival.
The most ancient female capacity there is.
The ability to put herself aside completely so that whatever needed her could get her full attention.
To leave a marriage and get a job immediately.
To be left and restart a career.
To care for someone critically ill without falling apart.
To walk away from everything that defined her in order to survive.
To care for a child whose needs reorganized her entire nervous system.
To hike through the blizzard. To find the cave.
To stay all winter until spring breaks.
That is not pathology.
That is how women have always done the impossible.
The split has a cost.
Even when good things happen, they have nowhere to land.
And she is standing here now asking a question she hasn’t had room to ask before:
What is mine now?
Who am I becoming?
She doesn’t need to have it figured out.
She just needs to be willing to be honest about where she is.
If you recognise yourself in that woman — you’re in the right place.
This is where the pieces become whole
Most women who find their way here have already done the work.
The books. The therapy. The workshops.
You are not looking for more information.
What you’ll tell me — if it’s true for you — is something simpler.
“I don’t feel like myself.”
You have pieces.
Experiences. Symptoms. Adaptations. Strengths. Longings. Questions.
But the pieces haven’t yet become a coherent whole.
In my experience, people suffer not only because painful things happen.
They suffer because they no longer understand what happened to them.
Because they cannot see how the pieces fit together.
The work begins there.
Not by fixing.
Not by diagnosing.
By becoming curious together.
A woman hears another woman’s story and suddenly recognizes herself.
A movement practice reveals something words could not.
What once felt isolating begins to feel understandable.
Curiosity returns.
Instead of “What’s wrong with me?”
You begin asking:
“What happened? What have I been protecting? What is trying to emerge?”
Over time, the pieces become a coherent whole.
Your life begins making sense from the inside.
And you begin — perhaps for the first time — to trust yourself.
The map
Two rivers run through the whole year.
The first is somatic — learning to read your own body, restore sensation, follow what moves in you, discover what you actually want.
The second is authorship — making meaning from what happened, writing the story of your life from the inside, becoming the one who decides what it means.
Together they make the map.
From numb to feeling.
From lost in the story to the author of it.
Ten months. A complete arc.
the group
This is a place you can drop in deeply.
To ask the questions you haven’t had room to ask.
To research yourself.
To discover what you want now.
You don’t have to know yet.
You will be guided by someone who knows the terrain.
You bring a life no one else has lived.
What becomes possible when those two things meet
is more than you have let yourself hope for.
In the company of women doing the same work.
Honestly. Without pretending.
Their honesty will teach you things about yourself
that nothing else can reach.
How it works
You begin with a 90-minute planning session with just you and Margery to map your intentions and goals for the year ahead.
From there:
Three two-hour sessions with your cohort each month.
Each one is a place to be fully known by the women beside you, by the work, by yourself.
Your story, your body, your meaning, who you are today and where you want to go.
One individual session with Margery each month.
Twice during the year we go deeper.
A day-long virtual retreat and an in-person retreat.
Both of these are designed for the kind of depth that isn’t possible in a two-hour session.
Guided somatic movement and exploration.
Writing. Moving. Sharing.
Grief ceremonies. Celebration. Dancing.
You will be held and guided the whole way through.
The in-person retreat is held in Portland, OR or Austin, TX — announced at the start of your program year.
Travel and accommodation are the participant’s responsibility.
Immediate membership to the Whole Soma Integration Lab — twice-monthly somatic movement classes, yours for the full year.
An online portal with all class materials and recordings of every session.
We meet for ten months across the year.
Two months off — summer and the holidays — to rest, and to let the work become yours.
THE DEEPER MOVEMENT
Healing may happen. But healing is not the whole story.
The deeper movement is authorship.
You move from:
“This happened to me.”
to:
“This is what I think it means.”
and eventually:
“This is who I am becoming because of it.”
That is embodied autonomy.
That is what it means to trust yourself.
ABOUT MARGERY SEGAL
I hold the whole person in mind until she can hold herself that way.
Margery Segal is a licensed professional counselor, registered somatic movement therapist, and the founder of Whole Movement Center. She holds dual licensure in Oregon and Texas and has spent 35 years working at the intersection of body, movement, story, and healing.
Her methodology — The Speaking Body: Whole Body Dialogue — integrates IFS, Body-Mind Centering®, somatic experiencing, and pre/perinatal psychology.
Before you enter the group, Margery spends time with you one-on-one — learning your history, your strengths, the way your body carries your experience.
“I am not listening only for what is present.
I am listening for what has not yet had room to emerge.
Not what is wrong. What is waiting.
What capacities are waiting to come online.
These are not questions I studied first and lived later.
I have always lived them alongside the work.”
INVESTMENT
Your investment: $10,000 for the full year.
Payment plan available: $850/month for 12 months.
Included:
Ten months of curriculum across twelve months.
Three two-hour cohort sessions each month.
One individual session with Margery each month.
One day-long virtual retreat.
One in-person somatic retreat.
Membership to the Whole Soma Integration Lab.
Online portal with all recordings and materials.
Enrollment is by application. Space is limited.
The Whole Soma Integration Lab
Not ready for the full year yet?
The Whole Soma Integration Lab is a monthly membership offering two live two-hour somatic movement classes each month and access to an online portal with all recordings.
This is where many women begin.
A way to experience the work, find your footing, and discover what becomes possible when you show up for yourself consistently.$57/month. Or $570/year — two months free.Graduates and former clients: $47/month.
WANT TO DISCUSS EMBODY?
The Art of Trusting Yourself.
There is one thing this program requires.
Willingness to be honest about where you actually are.
Not where you’ve been. Not where you’re going.
Where you are,right now, today, in your body and your life.
If you can do that, even imperfectly, even uncomfortably, you’re ready.