Somatic Community Support
A Mindful Journey of Recovery & Healing
Movement and community can play a supportive role in reconnecting with your body, cultivating grounding, and fostering self compassion. Our offering focus on gentle, non-comparative, nurturing practices designed to honor personal boundaries, build quiet strength, invite deeper connection, and provide a safe and welcoming environment for every body and soul on their healing journey.
Whether you are seeking to reconnect with your body and restore a sense of safety, agency, and trust after trauma, an eating disorder, or chronic stress, our community is here to walk alongside you on the journey toward healing and restoration.
GROUP MOVEMENT CLASSES
PRIVATE 1-ON-1 MOVEMENT SESSIONS
SUPPORT CIRCLE FOR LOVED ONES
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Group Movement & Breathwork
A gentle steady space to move alongside others. These small group sessions emphasize soft transitions, intentional breathwork, and present moment awareness. Guidance is offered through inclusive, choice based language, ensuring you retain total agency over your practice.
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Private Sessions
One-on-One time structured completely around your individual comfort and needs. Private sessions allow for a quiet, low-sensory space to explore grounding techniques, adapt movement for how your body feels today, and practice at a pace that feels safe and supportive as you learn to trust your body.
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Friends and Family Support Sessions
Community and connection for loved ones navigating the journey together. These sessions offer guided mindfulness, shared movement and quiet reflection to help build a compassionate, understanding circle of support outside the studio.
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A commitment to your journey
Agency & Choice: Every movement instruction is an invitation, never an expectation. Rest is always welcomed, supported, and normalized.
Neutral & Inclusive Language: We focus purely on internal sensation, breath, and grounding- never on physical appearance, earning, or performance.
Sensory & Comfort: Soft lighting, no mirrors, accessible props, and a quiet, calming environment help create a safe environment for you to begin your movement journey.
Katie Grubiak, RDN
Katie graduated from the Coordinated Program in Dietetics at The University of Texas at Austin. She began her carrier in public health nutrition in San Diego and Los Angeles, with a focus on maternal and child health. While working in underserved communities in Los Angeles, she combined her passions for healthcare, nutrition, and dance by teaching and helping connect families of young dancers to public health clinic resources through the nonprofit Everybody Dance!, which received the National Arts & Humanities Youth Program Award from First Lady Michelle Obama.
Katie’s work in multidisciplinary eating disorder treatment began at the UCLA Arthur Ashe Student Health & Wellness Center. She went on to develop a distinctive approach to Family-Based Treatment (FBT) - informed care through close collaboration with Dr. Lauren Muhlheim at Eating Disorder Therapy LA. She also served as the eating disorder dietitian at Optimum Performance Institute in Woodland Hills, California, a residential program specializing in DBT- focused mental health treatment for young adults. Besides individual nutritional counseling, Katie taught the Restorative Movement Group and the Nutritional Balance Group at OPI. Themes in both, discussed a nutritive relationship with food and body through sensation, metaphor, intuition, and self compassion.
As a master trainer, she co-instructs EDRD Pro’s FBT-Informed Eating Disorder Treatment: A Course for Dietitians, helping train dietitians in evidence-based, family-centered care.
As Co-Founder and Director of Clinical Training for the Eating Disorder Provider Education Network https://edpen.org , Katie is expanding access to eating disorder treatment by training and connecting healthcare providers across disciplines to deliver coordinated, evidence-based, family-centered care.
GENTLE SPACE
Reconnecting with your body is a deeply personal journey that unfolds at your own gentle pace. Our offerings provide a compassionate, nourishing, grounded, environment where you can explore movement without judgment, comparison, expectation, pressure, or performance. Each practice is intentionally designed to honor your boundaries, support your nervous system, and cultivate quiet inner strength and discover connection as you learn to listen and move with intention.
WHETHER YOU ARE SEEKING MOVEMENT FOR YOURSELF, A LOVED ONE, OR LOOKING TO COORDINATE SUPPORT WITH A CLIENT’S BROADER CARE NETWORK, WE WELCOME YOUR INQUIRIES BELOW.