Coming Home to the Body & Belonging
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Come slow down, reconnect, and experience meditation, mindfulness, and sound healing!
What does "home" feel like when you've lived between cultures, countries, languages, or identities?
For many Third Culture individuals, home isn't just a place—it's a feeling we spend our lives searching for. This gathering offers an opportunity to slow down, reconnect with yourself, and explore belonging through the wisdom of the body.
Through gentle somatic practices, mindfulness, and community, we'll create space to regulate the nervous system, reconnect with ourselves, and cultivate a deeper sense of belonging—from the inside out.
Please Note: We’ll begin with tea and optional group sharing (about 20% of the event). You’re always welcome to pass and simply listen. The remaining 80% will be an inward journey through gentle movement, somatic practices, hypnotherapy, and journaling.
Please Bring: Yoga mat, pillow, blanket, and eyemask (all to support you in dropping into comfort).
Please Wear: Comfortable clothing.
Date: Saturday, October 24, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
Location: Deerfield Community Park, 55 Deerwood W, Irvine, CA 92604
Restrooms: Available
Parking: In the park
Meeting Point: Park your car at the lot, walk toward the left side past the restrooms, and continue straight ahead until you see a picnic mat on a patch of grass.
What is Somantic Hypnotherapy
Somatic Hypnotherapy is an integrative approach that combines Somatic Experiencing® and hypnotherapy. Somatic Experiencing® is a body-based approach to trauma healing that helps us gently notice and work with physical sensations, emotions, and nervous system responses. Hypnotherapy supports a relaxed, focused state of awareness where we can slow down, turn inward, and access our inner resources through mindfulness, guided imagery, and deeper self-exploration. Together, these approaches create space to reconnect with the body, cultivate greater awareness and relaxation, and gently explore what may be asking for attention.
Meet Your Facilatator
Dr. Jenn Au is the founder of I Am Home Holistic Wellness, an integrative practice focused on helping people reconnect with their bodies, inner world, and sense of self. As a Doctor of Physical Therapy and somatic practitioner, Jenn integrates Somatic Experiencing®, hypnotherapy, mindfulness, movement, and body-based approaches to support deeper connection, healing, and a greater sense of coming home to yourself.
Learn more here: www.drjennau.com
For the experience, we'll weave together:
- Tea and community/group conversation around home, culture, identity, and belonging
- Somatic grounding to settle into the body
- Gentle mindful movement
- A guided somatic hypnotherapy journey for relaxation and inner exploration
- Reflective journaling
Come as you are and join us as we explore what it means to come home—to ourselves and to one another.