What we’re about
CIRCLE OF BEING - SOMATIC SHADOW WORK
Welcome to Circle of Being – Somatic Shadow Work. This is a grounded, trauma-informed community (both online and in person) dedicated to exploring somatic shadow work, emotional healing, and inner freedom. We blend mindfulness and somatic/body-based inquiry with Western psychology and Eastern awareness-based wisdom to cultivate embodied transformation.
This Meetup group serves as the home base for our local and online events, immersions, 1- and 2-day intensives, and collaborations with fellow practitioners. It is also home to our signature biannual 10-week Somatic Shadow Work module, "BELOW THE SURFACE." We encourage early registration for events HERE.
This community is dedicated to freeing ourselves from the unconscious emotional patterns, internalized beliefs, and protective mechanisms that keep us stuck in cycles of pain, self-sabotage, and disconnection.
Our work is rooted in a trauma-informed, body-based approach that integrates mindfulness, somatic awareness, and depth psychology to support the release of what no longer serves and to foster the embodiment of a more whole, authentic self.
Whether you’re navigating anxiety, emotional triggers, persistent deficiency stories, or simply feeling disconnected from your body and deeper nature, this community offers a clear and compassionate path toward inner freedom and authenticity.
WHERE:
- Online · worldwide*
- In-person · Nevada City, CA
- *Those who register and cannot attend will receive a recorded video link
WHAT WE EXPLORE & TRANSFORM:
- Somatic shadow work: Meeting and releasing disowned emotions and parts of the self through body-based inquiry
- Trauma and repression: Unwinding protective patterns rooted in early experience
- Self-sabotage and deficiency stories: Becoming conscious of the narratives and behaviors that limit growth
- Inner parts and sub-personalities: Integrating conflicting drives and unmet needs
- Embodied presence: Expanding capacity to stay with discomfort, truth, and aliveness
- Mindfulness-based psycho-somatic processing: Investigating and releasing stored emotional patterns, especially as they arise in relationships and everyday life
WHO IT'S FOR:
- Curious newcomers seeking a safe, supportive entry into shadow work
- Individuals navigating anxiety, depression, self-compromise, self-sabotage, addiction, emotional numbness, shame, or stuck relational patterns
- Those drawn to a grounded, healing, and evolutionary approach to inner freedom, combining the wisdom teachings of the East with the scientific, trauma-informed modalities of the West
- Practitioners, seekers, and self-aware individuals ready to deepen their inner work
To Explore This Approach Further, Check out the free 3-part video series:
“The Nature of Suffering, Healing & Awakening”
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR:
This community is led by Mihai Algiu, a somatic psychotherapist and group facilitator with over 20 years of experience integrating Western psychology with mindfulness, trauma healing, and presence-based practices.
Come as you are. Let go of what you’re not.
This work is not about fixing yourself — but about meeting yourself more honestly and becoming free.
Questions?
Contact Mihai directly
Mihai Algiu
MA LMFT #138872 (CA)
Awareness-Based Somatic Psychotherapy
Fourth Way | Non-Duality
Hakomi | Somatic Shadow Work
circleofbeingsomaticshadowwork.com
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Upcoming events (1)
See all- BEYOND THE MASK | 1 - DAY IMMERSION: Improv, Presence & Release of the FalseNevada City, Nevada City, CA$110.00
BEYOND THE MASK 1 - DAY IMMERSION:
Improv, Release of the False Mask, Resurrecting Essence (Authentic Nature)HOST:
Mihai Algiu & Andre BolouriWHERE:
In-person only - Nevada City, CAWHEN:
Sunday, Sept 28th | 10 am - 6 pm PSTCOST:
$110 per person- Resurrecting your Essence (Authentic Nature)
- beyond the mask of personality -
Our essence is the foundation for consciousness to expand. As it is what your soul / consciousness manifested as. We cannot grow in awareness and consciousness from the several fragmented masks of our ego/ personality / who we wish to be but only from who and what we are in truth, in our essence - before life happened to and for us. The actor is not the role.
This will be a highly experiential immersion into exercises (improve acting, somatic shadow work, awareness based group inquiry) that are designed to align you in body mind and soul and to deeply feel the innermost truth of who you are and allowing yourself to express just that. Not trying hard out of fear to be not good enough.
Andre and Mihai will join forces for the second time and share their most favorite tools and technologies from several decades of studying and applying personal growth and consciousness expansion.
The purpose of this 1-Day Immersion, is to support in the process of de-programming our authentic original nature from countless programs and limiting beliefs permeating the psychosomatic structure of our being. These layers of psychic, emotional, energetic contractions give rise to false strategic personalities that restrict and interfere with our inner freedom, spontaneity, inner knowingness and creativity and generate unfulfilling, painful patters of self-sabotage, inner conflict, self-repression and self-abandonment.
The day will be spent in a dynamic blend of awareness/meditative exercises and practices, group shares, as well as some partner and group exercises meant to evoke and bring to awareness old strategic unconscious patterns, repressed aspects of our selves and provide an embodied framework to allow and process buried feelings as well as pointing towards a new way of showing up in the world anchored in inner authenticity and freedom.
If this sounds like a lot for a day to achieve: It is but possible since our essence is ready to guide.REGISTRATION:
Please register and pay via Meetup/Paypal (below). This is an immersive, in-person-only event with limited space. We recommend registering early to secure your spot.Alternative ways to register & pay:
• Zelle: Mihai Algiu — 530-632-7513
• Venmo: venmo.com/u/searchingwolfQUESTIONS?
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