Shades of Emotion

Next courses begins June 2, 2023

This is a month-long sacred container to facilitate the understanding, processing, and releasing of dense energy related to suppressed emotions. There will be a discussion on understanding our different emotional states, how certain feeling states show up in the body, and releasing any stigma around feeling. We will work together to let go of the conditioning around certain emotional states that we may have picked up from the collective and any false narratives around being "too sensitive" or "too much". This work will be done alongside other like-hearted souls who will also support the container for individual and collective processing. This is a program to reclaim our sensitivity and embrace feeling as the gateway to remembering our humanity.

What can you expect?

  • Each week there will be a session where we will use deep self inquiry, journaling practice, and group sharing to discuss our relationship with different emotional states. We all have different conditioning around certain "Shades of Emotions" being "bad", "good", "too much", "right", "wrong" or "safe/unsafe". The point is to break this down individually but also normalize the open discussion of different feeling states in community with others. There is much to be learned from hearing others express their own process and speaking to your own. This session is a way of getting us used to speaking about and communicating what we're feeling and our relationship to feeling states as they arise.

    In the second weekly session, the primary practice that we will be doing is active breathwork. This is a somatic technique used to help release tension in the physical body related to repressed and stuck emotions. Breathwork is a tool used to deprogram the physical vessel of any conditioning that's still being held in the body. Feelings are the language of the body. Having a way to process residual emotional energy from the past and things that come up day to day is essential when working with/through emotions.

  • We will cover the four main shades of emotion: Anger, Sadness, Fear, and Happiness. For each shade we will discuss how it manifests in the physical body and personal associations we have with each emotion. We will break down any programming we have around each shade.

    (For example, based on what we witness growing up, we may perceive happiness to be a perfectly acceptable feeling to feel. While anger, for example, we might not give ourselves permission to fully feel based on witnessing it being "unsafe" or repressed in our family of origin.)

    There will be open discussion and a breathwork session to give permission to each Shade of Emotion.

  • This program is for anyone that wants to normalize that different feeling states are just part of what make us human and connect us to back to our own humanity. This will be useful for anyone that wants to break down the conditioning that may have been picked up from our upbringing/society/collective consciousness around certain feelings. This is a program that gives permission to feeling - with quite a bit of individual/group dialogue around how to articulate emotions. This is also a program that aims at offering the tools/support needed to actually process our emotions through the body.

  • This course maxes out at 10 people. It is intentionally intimate so we can go for depth and give the material the time and energy that the work deserves. It is important to have a small sacred and safe container when uprooting, clearing, and shedding.

  • The cost for the month-long program is $550.

    This includes 2 two hour sessions/week for the whole month of June as well as a workbook, created by Bree, that guides us through the month-long journey.

  • The next run of this program will be in June 2023. Sign ups will be open starting March 2023. To be notified when enrollment opens, click the link below.

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  • "Shades of Emotion helped me foster a deeper curiosity and understanding of emotions that I’ve experienced (or resisted) my whole life and taught me how to release through my body without needing to analyze. It was exactly the support I needed to work through my avoidant and repressive tendencies and build more acceptance and softness in my relationship with myself. Doing this in a group setting was so powerful to witness the universal humanness and normalization of emotional experiences and to let myself be seen in mine. This work is life-changing and it’s ripple effects have the potential to be world-changing––building toward a world where the emotional realm is acknowledged as a natural response to being human and emotions are welcomed and released as they arise. The process was deep and vulnerable in the truest sense and Bree’s incredible facilitation and space holding guided the container with so much warmth, wisdom, understanding, and humor. She is clearly doing exactly what she was born to do in this lifetime and I’m so grateful to be learning from the courageous work she’s done on her own journey."

    Nico, 2022

  • "Shades of Emotion is a hugely useful and practical program of self discovery and emotional excavation. Over the course of the four weeks I felt into, around and through some extremely deep emotional spaces, processed states of being and feeling which had been stuck and stored in my body. When I came into the program I had a daily meditation practice for 5 years, been sober for 8 years and work the 12 steps on a daily basis, but the journaling, group sharing and listening started a conversation with myself and my body which is still rippling out and onwards through my life. The breathwork process involving the 3 part breath and emotional release was completely transformative, allowing an emotional traffic jam I wasn't entirely aware of to become unblocked and more freely through and out of my body and being. Since we finished the course my anxiety has been at it's lowest level in many months, and I've found a new way to approach self love and acceptance on a more fundamental level than ever before. I spend a lot less time worrying about what other people might think of me, and when I catch myself doing it, find it much easier to just let it go with love. It's an amazing experience, an adventure in sensation, feeling and being. Give everything you have to this program and you will receive it all back."

    Neill, 2022

  • "Bree is an insightful and compassionate teacher and guide. In Shades of Emotion, she holds a safe space for others to explore core emotions on both the subconscious and physical levels. I found the breath work piece to be transformational; it was the most integrative part of the program for me by far. Bree really helped our group share space and relate to each other by leading with vulnerability and curiosity in all sessions. I felt like I met so many different versions of myself throughout this experience, and was able to safely and mindfully do so in a way that allowed me to grow a lot in a short period of time. Because of this program, I’ve been able to learn a different way of relating to my emotions, which has brought an immense amount of peace to my life. I’m so grateful for Bree and this program for existing."

    Malia, 2022

  • "I participated in the Shades of Emotion workshop at a very busy and pivotal time in my life. I was only able to attend 3 of the 4 weeks of classes. Non the less, Bree was extremely accommodating. The program, along with Bree’s guidance allowed me to experience some very new and deep places within myself; which in turn made space. I highly recommend this program to anyone who is simply curious. I really enjoyed the intimate and diverse community; and more specifically the learning, sharing, and breathing exercises which were all deeply enriching. I feel that this experience contributed to my personal growth in a myriad of ways.”

    Alex Lappin, 2022

  • "Real mindfulness takes practice. And more than just practice, it takes support. I don’t know that very many messy humans (I’m talking about myself here) were raised with the complex skills required for maintaining a healthy level of self-examination. Shades of emotion is just that; a thoughtful and necessary moment to pause and inspect with the very wise and lovely Bree. The work she facilitates is an investment in one’s self. She curates a safe space, a lovely group of thoughtful and dedicated humans and sets the stage for a new chapter in life to emerge. I can highly recommend seeing what it’s all about."

    Ashlee Brooke Gonzales