Held: practices in touch, connection & growth with Naomi Way

The events in this group are designed with the intention of co-creating spaces where we are held warmly and with radical acceptance so we can explore touch, connection, and growth from a place of true authenticity. Events range from platonic touch for nervous system co-regulation, to art practices for IFS-style parts work and integration, to dating and community building groups for folks who are in relationship with psychedelics as medicine.

Your facilitator Naomi Way is constantly and passionately self-educating in parts work (particularly in the style of Internal Family Systems), Polyvagal Theory (for nervous system regulation), Wheel of Consent practices (for consensual touch activities) meditation, mindfulness, and Buddhism (for living more presently and peacefully), and in all things related to trauma healing, psychology, connection, and consciousness expansion. Naomi is an experienced group facilitator for a local psychedelics nonprofit community in Portland, OR and for platonic touch events, and holds a BS in Psychology. She lives with complex PTSD and chronic illness, including long covid since 2020, and sees illness as a deep, beautiful, and extraordinarily challenging spiritual path leading her to share these practices which have helped her enormously on her own healing journey.