Humans seek spiritual connection and personal transformation through Dharma work. This work is most powerful when done as a community practice.

Earth Eagle Somatics is proud to offer SoulSchool courses for the practitioner who is an everyday householder. These courses are designed to help everyday folx learn, practice, integrate, and reflect into a more soulful, spiritual daily existence. SoulSchool courses include somatic practices, energetic tools,  sacred texts, warm data, and ceremony/ritual to help us hold the small, everyday moments of our lives as learning spaces where transformation is possible.

Living Liberation Book Club is reading: The New Saints

Living Liberation book club is a collective reading practice space for liberation. It is another form of SOUL SCHOOL.

To join us for our next book club meeting on Lama Rod Owens, please click directly on the book cover to access the Zoom link to join our online book club discussion January 7th, from 5-6:30pm MST.

Suggested donation for this labor of love is 10$. Venmo @KellyOBurns

There are three frames for reading this text that will help us continue our strategic goal in looking living maps from the elders:

1. Radical Presence as Medicine

Lama Rod invites us to become “new saints” by cultivating fierce presence—meeting grief, fear, and exhaustion with compassion rather than collapse. In a time of crisis and collective pain, this presence becomes an act of healing and resistance.
Thread: Witnessing & Bearing Story

2. Embodied Healing as Liberation Work

Owens emphasizes that liberatory practice must be rooted in the body: tending to exhaustion, acknowledging harm held in our tissues, and reclaiming pleasure, breath, and tenderness. Embodiment becomes both a refuge and a catalyst for aligned, grounded action.
Thread: Embodied Imagination & Action

3. Sacred Responsibility to One Another

The new saint is not a solitary figure, but a relational one—someone who commits to ethical engagement, accountability, and courageous care. In a fractured world, this book calls us toward compassionate action that is communal, ritualized, and deeply responsible.
Thread: Ritualized Courage & Ethical Engagement

SPRING 2026

The Council at the Crossroads:

Writing for Transformation

A GUTS Embodied Writing Series

4 Sessions | 32 Hours | Earth Eagle Somatics

The Council at the Crossroads: Writing for Transformation
Write from your body. Listen to the land. Remember the ones who walked before you.
Rooted in Indigenous teachings, ancestral repair, and the Wild & Wise Woman archetypes, this four-session journey invites you into writing as medicine—a return to intuition, lineage, and liberatory creativity. Through ritual, movement, and guided writing councils, you’ll explore your story as a living force of healing, clarity, and connection.

What You’ll Experience

• Reconnect with origins, intuition, and the inner teacher

• Tend younger selves and heal through body-based storytelling

• Listen for ancestral guidance and learn from grief and the natural world

• Step into creative responsibility through ritual, liberation work, and future visioning

No writing experience needed—just a willingness to listen deeply to body, land, and lineage.

Full-Day Writing Retreat Includes:

• Guided ceremonial yoga and breathwork to prepare the body for storytelling
• Personalized writing instruction and coaching on a piece or a specific writing goal
• Narrative/poetry/memoir writing support and mentor texts
• PROTECTED writing time in small nooks around Earth Eagle Somatics
• Snack-lunch provided (charcuterie, fruits, veggies, nuts...)
• Traditional water circuit practices (cold plunge, sauna, and hot tub) to soothe and open the mind/body

January 24th| Session 1: EAST The Doorway of Dawn: Beginning Again & Listening for the Inner Teacher

February 28th | Session 2: SOUTH The Hearth of the Heart: Healing the Body and Holding the Little Ones

March 28th| Session 3: WEST The Thunder Path: Ancestral guidance, grief, and the natural world

April 18th | Session 4: NORTH The Quiet Star Road: Taking Action and Decolonizing the story

(VIRTUAL REGISTRATION OPTIONS AVAILABLE HERE!)