Awaken whole body aliveness.  Inspire health and resilience.

Website updates in progress.  Learn more about Abbi here.

Abbi Jaffe, RSME/T, BSW

Abbi is an embodiment educator, facilitator, somatic bodyworker and a Real Dialogue Specialist in training. 

Abbi has a bachelor's of Social Work degree and is a certified Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist (RSME/T) with ISMETA.  

Abbi has been leading people on expeditions in the wilderness and within themselves since 2000. 

All of Abbi's offerings are trauma informed.

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Ways to Work with Abbi

Facilitation 

Somatic Bodywork & Thai Massage​

Contact Improv Lessons

Embodiment Education

Trauma & Resilience Informed Training

Real Dialogue for Difficult Conversations

Embodied Anti-Racism Facilitation 

Coaching for Collaboration

Playback Theater
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Yoga

More info coming soon...

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 Services for Individuals/Couples/Families

Every thought and experience we have is experienced through the body, including sensation, emotion, and movement.

Somatics is the act of listening to the body, which allows the wisdom of the body to be heard.  
Somatics is a practice and skill set that can be learned.  
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​Let us support you to access more of your body’s intelligence, discover more ease in movement, and boost your resilience.

Somatic Movement Education Sessions:
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Our bodies are our first homes, from which we move, act, feel and engage with the world around us.  Our connection to ourselves as body is impacted by our life experiences and directly influences our ability to have healthy relationships, homes, communities and cultures.
By cultivating a whole body awareness and living from and within that embodied experience, we begin to notice the patterns of stress and trauma in our lives and start to process them in different ways. 

Sessions are for ​individuals, couples, partners, or families.
Sessions may include movement repatterning, bodywork or even a contact improv lesson.
Learn more. 

Please consider attending for 3, 5 or 10 sessions so that an arc of learning and integration can occur.  

"I had the great pleasure of working privately with Abbi. As someone who loves dancing but is not comfortable with a lot of contact, I needed to approach the practice of contact improvisation and touch gently. I could not have asked for a more skillful, compassionate and attuned guide. She led me through experiences that opened doors, possibilities, and deepened my connection to myself, to gravity and to other. I walked out of the beautiful Everything Space feeling greater ease, peace and openness." ~Fearn Lickfield, Green Mountain Druid School



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 Services for Professionals and Organizations

Coaching for Collaboration:

From co-workers and co-teachers to people in marriages, we use somatic practices and facilitation expertise to support people who work together to find more connection, understanding, ease and flow.  

"Abbi, I just wanted to thank you so much for the time you spent with my collaborator and I.  It is so clear how things have changed in our working relationship since we met with you.  We are trusting each other more and having so much more fun.  We both felt so supported by you. Thank you!"  ~Lindsey Foreman 
    

Organizational Education, Consultations and Retreats: 

We develop somatic embodiment curriculum specific to the needs of your organization or school and are also available to implement that curriculum.  This can happen through long term collaboration, class series, workshops and lunch and learns.

Examples from past organizations:
Embodied Knowing: Listening from the Inside Out for Goddard College
Embodiment as Revolutionary Action for Goddard College
Listening to Bones, Breath and Blood for Goddard College
Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher Training for Middlebury College


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Cost Structure

Somatic Movement Education, Bodywork and Collaborative Coaching Rates:
Sliding scale of $75-120
BIPOC sliding scale $50-100

Cancellation policy: Please provide 24 hour notice to cancel your appointment. 
​Please pay for your session if you cancel less then 24hrs in advance.
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Money is one of the languages of our culture.   We acknowledge that living in a capitalist economy shapes our access to the many services and resources that sustain our lives.  We acknowledge the various forms of systemic oppression and their impact on bodies.  We hold accessibility as a core value and strive to make our services and classes as accessible as possible in multiple ways.  And, we still live inside the capitalist economy, and also need to feed into that system at times to pay for the resources that sustain our lives.  Here are some ways that we are relating to cost structure that attempts to hold a balance between the work that goes into offering you high level services and the access we believe in.

How to interpret our sliding scale:

We state the cost of the class/service while offering a sliding scale.
For example: Class series = Cost: $240 ($160-320 sliding scale available)

We believe the true cost of the course is $240, and we offer a sliding scale with a low range to make it accessible and a high range for community members who are able to give more to do so, to support those paying on the lower end of the scale. Please pay at the highest level of the sliding scale that you can afford. This supports others to access our services.

The Everything Space:   64 Main Street, 3rd Floor, Montpelier VT 05602