About this Event
What happens when a small group gathers with clear intention, open hearts, and a willingness to truly hold space for one another? Something quietly powerful begins to unfold. ✨
Embodied Emergence™ Circles are intimate, spacious gatherings designed to support real, embodied change. Rather than focusing on positive thinking or external outcomes, these circles center the body, the nervous system, and the lived experience of becoming. Each participant is given dedicated time to explore what they are stepping away from and what they are stepping toward, while the group offers witnessing, reflection, and amplification.
Through guided reflection, embodied practice, expressive arts, and group-supported enactment, participants begin to feel their next chapter taking shape — not as fantasy, but as something inhabitable. The work is experiential and relational. We move, speak, imagine, and witness together. The result is not forced transformation, but an organic sense of emergence — a felt shift in identity that arises from within.
This is not a rushed workshop or a quick dose of inspiration. With a maximum of seven participants, each circle allows for depth, presence, and genuine connection. What often emerges is a kind of grounded magic — the warmth of being seen and supported as you practice becoming who you are ready to be.
In a world that can feel heavy or uncertain, these circles offer a space to tend possibility without bypassing reality. We do not deny grief or difficulty; we make room for them. And from that honesty, something steadier and more life-giving can grow. Together, we strengthen the part of ourselves that knows how to evolve — not through pressure, but through embodied presence and collective care.
Embodied Emergence™ Circles are held monthly. Join us for one or all.
✨ Event Details
Saturdays from 1 to 5 pm
- April 11
- May 23
- June 13
$37
Limited to 7 people.
Additional Details:
Registration required. Registration closes 24 hours prior to the event.
The registration fee is non-refundable unless the event is canceled by the facilitator.
Parking Information
Shakti in the Mountains Website
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✨ Facilitated by Janna Browning
Janna Browning, MA, PRDT is a seasoned trauma-informed drama therapist, expressive arts practitioner, director, and Co-Founder of Integrative StoryWorks (ISW). She facilitates individual and group embodiment and expressive arts work at Shakti in the Mountains.
She received her BFA in Acting from Emerson College in Boston and her MA in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.
In California, she worked with Armand Volkas in Healing the Wounds of History, which uses expressive arts therapy to bring together groups who share a legacy of historical trauma. Her work with HWH includes projects uniting Armenians and Turks to address the shared legacy of the Armenian Genocide, as well as facilitating dialogue around historical trauma in Palestine/Israel, Northern Ireland, and racial trauma in the United States.
Janna has also worked with Community Performance International, specializing in community building across lines of difference through large-scale theatre performance. She helped develop Community Story Performances in towns across the South and co-founded the StoryTown Program in Jonesborough, TN in 2011.
As a grief practitioner, Janna brings her trauma-informed drama therapy training into community grief-tending—facilitating rituals, keening circles, and embodied expressive arts processes to support individuals and communities in honoring loss and making space for renewal. Her grief work draws from expressive arts, trauma-informed practice, and ancestral Celtic traditions.
She is co-founder of Integrative StoryWorks, a company that uses personal stories to support individual and collective healing, and StoryWander Travel, which offers story-based small group travel experiences.
Website: www.jannabrowning.com
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Shakti in the Mountains, 409 East Unaka Avenue, Johnson City, United States
USD 37.00
