Subtle Body Self Care Foundations
Traditional medicine and modern psychology meet to help practitioners work more safely, deeply, and sustainably
7 biweekly classes · online · live + recorded ·
Begins Tues, Nov 3 · 6-8pm PT
Learn Energetic Hygiene to Protect Your Journeys, Yourself, and Your Clients
An experiential course for learning the basic, essential skills for subtle-body self-care, containment, and clearing from traditional medicine and modern psychology.
I talk to so many healers, therapists, guides, and space holders who end their days depleted, over-empathic, or carrying home what was never theirs. Is that you?
Most of us who do this work were trained in clinical or facilitation skills, but never taught the most foundational thing: how to take care of our own subtle bodies.
Traditional medicines and earth-based healing traditions have always taught these skills first. They are the foundation to all other practice.
This includes: how to stay grounded, how to be protected, how to clear exogenous energies, how to balance excesses and depletion, and how to direct presence while working closely with others and while holding deep and transformative spaces.
Subtle Body Self Care bridges traditional medicine and somatic psychology for safer, deeper therapy and guide work — teaching the necessary basics for cultivating Presence and containment, energetic protection, and clearing. Over seven biweekly classes, supported by an aligned community, you'll learn these skills and build a regular, sustainable practice.
Curriculum
Each 2-hour session weaves three strands: a practice you learn in the body, a skill of energetic hygiene, and the shadow pattern the work meets.
Class 1 What is the Presence Field and Subtle Body?
Skill: Learning a framework + the minimum viable practice / Shadow: Materialism
Class 2 Sensing
Skill: Sensing the Energetic Field / Shadow: Unsafe to feel embodiment
Class 3 Grounding
Skill: Opening the Lower Dan Tien / Shadow: Overempathy + Merging
Class 4 Organic Yes and No
Skill: Learning Boundary Protection / Shadow: Repressed Anger
Class 5 Clearing
Skill: Releasing What you’ve absorbed / Shadow: Injured Will and Dismempowerment
Class 6 Integration
Skill: Creating a Sustainable Practice / Shadow: Ideals, Bypassing + Perfectionism
Class 7 Closing Circle
Skill: Carrying the practice forward / Closing: integration, celebration + gratitude
Who it's for
Therapists, guides, healers, facilitators, bodyworkers, ceremony leaders — anyone who holds space for others and wants to do it sustainably, without depletion or burnout. No prior energy-work training required; useful for beginners and seasoned practitioners alike.
Format &details
7 biweekly classes, online via Zoom, 2 hours each · Nov 3 – Feb 2 at 6-8 PM PT
Practice + Q&A circles on the in-between Tuesdays, 6-7pm
Live and interactive, short lecture and practice each session
All sessions recorded — join from anywhere, catch up anytime
Small, aligned cohort — real contact and community
Seven Tuesdays, every other week: Nov 3 · Nov 17 · Dec 1 · Dec 15 · Jan 5 · Jan 19 · Feb 2
Tuition: $400 · Payment plan available ($100/month) · BIPOC scholarships available · Returning students half off (use code 50percentoff at checkout)
About Your Guide, Jordana
Jordana Ma is a psychospiritual counselor, traditional healer, and meditation teacher. Her work draws from over 20 years of rigorous study with the indigenous Ashaninka of Peru alongside training in Zen Buddhism, the Diamond Approach, yoga, and clinical work in somatic psychotherapy.
She teaches courses on ecodharma, ecopsychology, and traditional Amazonian healing. Jordana also sees clients as a psychospiritual counselor and writes at The Understory on Substack. In her free time she enjoys Qi gong running in the redwoods, snack parties with friends, and reciting inappropriately ecstatic poetry.
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Intro to Subtle Body Self Care (self-paced)
A recorded three-hour workshop on the essential basics of energetic hygiene for therapists, guides, and healers. Learn foundational skills to care for your energetic field — containment, protection, and clearing — for deeper, safer, more nourishing work. Drawn from traditional medicine, somatic psychology, and direct ceremonial experience. You'll leave with practices you can use right away.
3-hour recorded workshop · self-paced · $50
