TRAININGS
Spring 2024- Orange County
Somatic LEADERSHIP
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This training is designed for Therapists, Coaches, Parents and Professionals to anchor in a grounded playing field with simple and effective tools. Empower relaxation and receptivity with confidence.
Our bodies offer valuable information through sensation and emotions. Learn how to understand these messages to implement appropriate tools to calm the nervous system, which is our ultimate power source. When we are relaxed we make better decisions, build confidence and increase our capacity to show up for each other. We develop keen intuition, proprioception and self-regulation skills, to best navigate the world around us.
My goal as a facilitator is to inspire each individual to create their own Somatic Leadership toolkit to share feeling peaceful and thus incredibly powerful.
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Learn simple tools to practice and teach
Ground:
Establish firm foundation to lead effectively
Calm the Nervous System:
Validate the importance of feeling safe
Science of rest and digest for healing
Stress management
Breath:
Practices to induce clarity and relaxation
Address anxiety, depression and trauma
Meditation:
Practices to anchor in self worth, creativity and wisdom
Breakthrough perceived limitations
Reading the room:
Intuitively pivot with confidence
Movement:
Trauma-informed yoga stretches
Target common culprits to release tension
Neck, headache relief
Shoulders, upper back and chest
Hips, low back
Glutes and legs
Gratitude:
Invite self-reflection to validate experience
Clearing:
When you leave the room, leave
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In person meeting at a private facility Address with be shared with registration request
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In person practice and lecture
Sat/Sun 1-7
$477
Online practice discussion
monthly practice -you leading Somatic Integration
All access to online classes
upon course completion receive certification and/ or CEU’s
$277
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Alysa is a thought leader in the fields of recovery, holistic healing and offers her wisdom as an invitation to co-create. Certified Yoga Therapist with over a decade of professional experience working in a wide variety of therapeutic settings. With over 12 years of sobriety, Alysa attributes her success to personalizing a connection between mind, body and soul.
“Somatic Integration is all about remembering how are bodies are designed to move, and reconnect with our innate ability to self regulate.
Once upon a time we all breathed from the belly, moved in ways that felt good and explored how to self soothe. As we grow, our survival skills click into overdrive to keep up with the pressures of modern life and overwhelm spins into maladaptive coping strategies. When we pause the over processing and feel into the body, we reconnect to what matters, rest into the support of the ground and give yourself permission to breathe, just for a bit.
Simple and effective somatic tools can be skillfully integrated at any stage of life, inviting us to shift the parasympathetic system into cruise and feel into the power of being grounded, supported and safe.”
November 5-10 2024- ZION
Gateless Writing Therapeutic care
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Gateless Writing for Therapeutic Care Merging the power of the written word and the art of therapeutic care. Through nurturing the creative and relaxing into the the imaginal, we access strength in the freedom of expression.
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Gateless Writing is a technique of teaching the art and craft of writing that draws on the research and work of Suzanne Kingsbury, a Fulbright scholar, novelist, and one of the most sought-after developmental editors in the country. Drawing on her interdisciplinary study of Buddhism and meditation, brain science, and creativity, Suzanne cites the work of Dr. David Herzog at Harvard Medical School and Dr. Eugene Aquili and Dr. Andrew Newberg at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, who found that when we reduce activity in the parts of the brain associated with negativity, we open up to imagination, creativity and healing.
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Suzanne Kingsbury, founder of Gateless, award-winning author, book shaman and literary genius. In 2007 after graduating from Bennington College with a Masters of Fine Arts in Literature and Creative Writing, Suzanne founded Gateless Writing, a nationwide organization based on creative brain science and ancient Zen wisdom. Through salon-style retreats and workshops, one-on-one intensives and career training programs, Suzanne has helped countless writers on their path to signing with top agents, getting acquired by the NY houses, hitting bestseller lists and winning prestigious literary awards. Her secret sauce is her intuitive "channeling" which divines what the work needs and the highest vision of where the writer can go.
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Dr. Jeanne Layne, clinical psychologist, might also call me a self-care strategist. I help women who feel stretched so thin that they really can’t recall the last moment they had to themselves. I once had a patient refer to this as being “ground down to a nub.” Outwardly, they often look like put-together moms, devoted caretakers, willing volunteers and glass-ceiling shatterers. But the women I work with are inwardly fearful, avoidant, indecisive, sad, irritable, guilty, angry.… even panicked. In a word, they feel utterly and entirely depleted. They often feel as though there is not an ounce of energy left to take care of themselves.
In a space that invites calm, curiosity, total acceptance and a laugh or two, I accompany them through the (sometimes challenging, but always worthwhile) process of inquiry, self-examination and skill building that provides a pathway to designing a life they love. Along the way, feelings of anxiety, emptiness, worry, anger, resentment and sadness lose their power as they become both speakable and manageable. I know from my own experience of being a ferocious multi-tasker, late-in-life mother, grieving daughter and lifelong overachiever that women today are especially vulnerable to depletion. But I also believe that my patients are some of the most courageous women I’ve ever met. If you’re in the frame of mind to slow down, be curious, reflect on your choices, discover what lights you up and find balance and gratitude for the life you’ve designed. -
“On my first Gatless Salon experience on a Mermaid Sisterhood Retreat in Costa Rica, I was in awe of the courage, vulnerability that showed up when the critic wasn't invited. When there is no room for judgement we awaken dormant ideas, surprise our subconscious and feel safe enough to welcome the joy of scribbling in a diary. We touched those innermost ‘ahha’ moments in our own work, as well as hearing someone else share our story with giggles and goosebumps. I continued learning from renowned authors at Esalen Writers Camps, attended several workshops, and enrolled in Gateless Academy, pioneered by Suzanne Kingsburry. An incredibly effective method of teaching, practicing and reinforcing brain science to unleash creative genius. I learned valuable craft tools and fell in love with the process. I took her Teaching Certification 2016 to bring this form of healing into my work at Treatment Centers. I teach Gatless primarily in therapeutic settings, focusing on mental health- with adults and adolescents. Every week I theme around the same. Every salon is entirely different, in details yet the threaded through each story is the same medicine.Through tears and roaring laughter we learn from each other’s stories, just as our ancestors’ cherished this medicine of storytelling for thousands of years. While the mediums and muses change, our humanity will remain weaved together by the power of the written word. Merging the art of therapeutic care with Gatless is magical. We witness the narrator receive praise for creating art, connecting dots and integrating with an unvalidated voice and we see their lights come on from being heard and nurtured without any judgment.”
November 17- 24 2024 COSTA RICA
Gateless Yoga Teacher Training
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If you found your way to this page, Namaste. You are in for the journey of a lifetime. Gateless Yoga has drawn you into its sphere so that you can discover a portal into your incredible personal power. This is a training for emerging and experienced yogi who wants to transcend rote pedagogy and create a life of purpose and personal power so that you can become the teacher, intuitive arts facilitator and spiritual leader you were meant to be. Other Teacher Trainings teach you to lead yoga classes, Gateless Yoga Teacher Training teaches you to change the world.
The Gateless Yoga Teacher and Spiritual Leadership Training is the only training of its kind that combines on-the-mat yoga with embodiment practices, restorative yoga, breathwork, the intuitive and written arts, and the science of meditation. During this 200-hour training and certification program, ancient yogic and spiritual practices become powerful tools for alchemizing you into not only a yoga teacher but a spiritual leader who is here to change lives.
We will begin together in an 8-day immersion on the Costa Rican coast. There, we will be held and nurtured by the Sunrise Mountain Retreat Center with a custom vegan chef, poolside villas, hibiscus gardens, our private yoga shala built on the principles of sacred geometry, a view of the Pacific coast and teachings that will catapult you into the career of a lifetime.
In this one-of-a-kind Yoga Teacher and Spiritual Leadership Training, I will share the wisdom of 15 years of integrated experience in my career as a yoga teacher and a leader in the intuitive and healing arts. You will be trained in classic modalities from Vinyasa-style flow to Kundalini kiyas, Transformational Breathwork, Restorative, Yin, Yoga Nidra and beyond. You will leave with expertise in the art of leading channeled classes; how to transform trauma into personal power; the secret to shifting neural pathways; how to access the creative wellspring in the joints, muscle and fascia; energetic clearing and group facilitation; pitching and cultivating relationships with future employers; and a clear map to the income streams hidden in a career in spiritual leadership.
I am so looking forward to being with you during these months. Please reach out and let me know if you have questions or want to know for sure if training is right for you. We can meet and look at your personal landscape and where the Gateless Training might fit. I am so happy you are here. -
Gateless yoga invites personal connection with wholeness, balance and homeostasis. Nuero/physio feedback and self reflection is weaved throughout a series of breathwork, vinyasa, yin and restorative yoga. Each sequence is skillfully aligned with physical movement, scientific validation, emotional and energy body awareness. Each practice will calm the nervous system, anchor into sense of safety to feel peaceful and thus incredibly powerful. Gateless Yoga blows off the dust of our inner light so that we can shine brighter.
The Gateless methodology is based on radical nurturing of you as a yogi, teacher, spiritual leader and community participant. The main tenet of Gateless is the belief that you are special and singular in your talents. You (and all beings) thrive when you are allowed to let hypervigilance and fight-or-flight fall away and bask in an environment of support, encouragement and a shared belief in your personal power. Ultimately, yoga is “to yoke”, to become one, with one another and with our inner light. The same little light lives inside us all. We will form a strong cohesive group of encouragement and unconditional regard as we traverse this path together, hand in hand.
This training is not a boot camp. Yoga was originally discovered as a way to become one with the divine, and Gateless honors this. Vulnerability is seen as a strength and each person brings an individual and abiding gift: your essential self. Our group consists of those brought together by the common bond of knowing that we are all connected in spirit. And in this spiritual haven, we believe in one another as leaders in a global community badly in need of a reframe. We are cohorts and cheerleaders, never competitors.
During this journey, you will learn powerful neuroscientific modalities to shift your own and your students' neurotransmitters and drop into your keenest intuitive powers. As this training progresses, you will learn to leverage the skills of proprioception and self-regulation and will
become a genius at sharing your wisdom and growing your capacity to show up for yourself and others.
While standard Yoga Teacher Trainings provide a framework for instructing movement within particular guidelines, the Gateless Training explores safe constructs to curate a solid framework to connect yoga with the essential self. The guidelines exist not as a self-limiting constraint but as a way to edify, support and glorify your practice.
As you deep dive into the Gateless methodology and Yogic lineages, you will gather the wisdom to create appropriate adaptations for yourself and your future students, learning how poses work, from physical anatomy to energetic technology. While gaining the building blocks to induce mental and emotional effects, you will adopt your own routines, song lists, ways of teaching and share the benefits of your own personal practice. And as you become progressively clear and grounded, you will gain the confidence to handle chaos and to calm your nervous system, no matter the external circumstances.
By unraveling extraneous blocks in your body, you will discover the still bliss at the center of your incredible mind and the power to breathe into the superpower that is your soul.
Modalities include:
Gateless Methodology
Yoga Philosophy
Meditation as an Art and a Science
Trauma-Informed Practices (on and off the mat)
Group Facilitation and Therapeutic Care
Breathwork
Yoga Nidra
Hatha Yoga
Vinyasa Flow
Kundalini Practice
Yin and Restorative Yoga
The Practice of Radical Nurturing as a Spiritual Activist and Community Leader -
8 sleeps at Sunrise Mountain Retreat Center Santa Teresa Costa Rica- all meals, practices, ceremony on retreat
8 months of online immersion
-Monthly meeting with small groups sharing, support and accountability with reading, writing and practices
-Monthly meeting with Alysa 1 on 1
-Monthly practice teaching with Gateless feedback
-Monthly Online classes- Intuitive Cooking, Gateless Writing and Somatic Integration.
Registration via payment in full one month prior to start date. (Financial arrangements, payment plans, etc we can explore options ;)
$4444 Gateless Yoga Teacher Training Retreat and first 2 months Online
$2488 Complete Online Training for the next year- weekly groups, monthly meetings, support and accountability through embodiment practices
Upon course completion Nov 2025 Receive Invitation to Certification Ceremony Retreat
We will collaborate on date/location/cost around the anniversary of our TT
Showcase classes led by Gateless Yoga Teachers- you baby!!
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Yoga reconnected me to a life worth living and continues to remind me HOW to be Honest, Open and Willing.
In 2011, I no longer had the luxury to numb out, my previous coping strategies stopped working, after dependence on drugs and alcohol for most of my adult life. While in residential treatment I felt hopeless in each arduous group, sitting in a circle, talking about feelings, which I failed to grasp. Between therapy, I retreated to the two-foot path between my bed and the wall, practicing yoga until I heard the chime for the next session. It was my way of processing, I had no idea how to sit, listen, let alone feel. Instinctively my spirit knew what I needed, to move it through. The only way through is through.
In 2013 I studied at Ananda Seva to earn a 650 hour Yoga Therapist Certification. My thesis explored how yoga works to aid in recovery. Since I have over a decade of professional experience working in Mental and Behavioral Healthcare with Depression, Anxiety, ED, SI, OCD, ASD with adults and adolescents.
My relationship with Yoga has moved beyond the two-feet between the bed and the wall, into the most beautiful studios around the world. As the resident teacher at Bali Silent retreat center, led retreats in Costa Rica, Mexico, lectured at Functional Medical conferences and hosted trainings across the US and at home in Southern California. I continued my education earning certifications in Transformational Breathwork, HeartMath, Trauma resolution and apprenticed with an energy worker for over 7 years. I created training programs for trauma informed therapeutic care, yin and restorative. I developed a teaching style to strengthen and stretch while calming the nervous system.
I attribute my continuous sobriety and creating a life beyond my wildest dreams to the power of yoga. I am a student, first. Almost every morning, no matter where I am I meet myself between breaths and reconnect with feeling safe inside.
Yoga reminds me HOW to be Honest with myself, Open to receive the wisdom and Willing to breathe through it all. Yoga is an invitation to be yourself, aware of the subtle shifts that create sustainable changes in your soul.
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Travel
Fly into SJO at least one day before we start, hop on a quick flight to Cabano or Tambor
Book accommodation in Santa Teresa one night before to acclimate, ground into your nervous system and explore the cute little beach town.Sunrise Mountain Retreat Center
As you step onto the grounds of your 5 Star Balinese Oasis your heart rate slows and you feel your body relax. The sweet smell of hibiscus and the breathtaking beauty of this hidden treasure welcomes you back to nature.
Nestled amongst traveler palms, bananas plants and papaya trees, Sunrise Mountain Retreat and Wellness’ elegance is the perfect backdrop for this intimate, secluded retreat.
Perched in the mountains, just minutes above the sparkling pacific, you will find the deep comfort and tranquility you long for.
You’ll experience the magic of nature in an elegant, minimalist atmosphere with all the luxuries and benefits to feel safe and supported- rooted and radiant.
