Series Details & Registration
Date: Sundays, Starting October 11th
When: 10amCT/11 am EST
Where: Live on Zoom
Format: 8 Weekly 90-Minute Live Sessions
Location: Virtual
*Intimate group of 5-7 people
“True belonging is the spiritual practice of believing in and belonging to yourself so deeply that you can share your most authentic self with the world and find sacredness in both being a part of something and standing alone in the wilderness. True belonging doesn’t require you to change who you are; it requires you to be who you are.”
― Brené Brown
What if belonging isn’t something we earn, but something we practice?
Belonging begins beneath the roles we play and the ways we have learned to protect ourselves. It unfolds as we turn toward ourselves with curiosity, tenderness, and respect.
Rooted in Belonging weaves conscious movement, breathwork, mudra, loving-kindness, somatic awareness, and relational inquiry within the container of sacred community. Together we explore how transformation moves through us, between us, and out into the wider web of life.
This is an invitation to meet what feels tender, reactive, guarded, or afraid — not by turning away, but by turning toward it with compassion. To listen more closely to the wisdom of the body. To recognize the patterns that once helped us feel safe, and to discover new possibilities for how we might be in relationship: with ourselves, with one another, and with the more-than-human world.
Within the circle there is room for courage and vulnerability, for boundaries and connection, for stillness and movement — and, importantly, for laughter and joy.
We create space to remember something simple and profound: belonging is not something we earn. It is something we practice — learning again how to feel it, how to trust it, how to live from it. Not because we are building something new, but because it is already alive in us.
Rooted in Belonging
This is designed for you if...
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You’re moving through a life of transitions and transformations
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You long for authentic community where you feel seen, held and witnessed
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You’re ready to reclaim both your personal and collective power in a space that honors intuition, truth and vulnerability
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You crave a place to rest, reflect, and reconnect with yourself after years of caring for others.
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You feel called to listen deeply, to your own voice and the stories of others, with compassion, humility, grace, and reverent love
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You’re willing to soften into imagination, playfulness and possibility, to lighten the emotional load, and remember that you don’t have to carry it all alone
You will explore...
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Sacred Daily Rituals: soul-nourishing rituals and practices rooted in sadhana (daily spiritual practice)
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Emotional Alchemy: how to gently release old stories, wounds, and limiting beliefs, making space for more joy, clarity, and inner peace
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Embodied Boundaries: tools for healthy boundaries and self-advocacy, grounded in self-respect and truth-telling.
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Grounding & Regulation Practices: simple yet powerful techniques to center your energy and return to your body in moments of stress or disconnection
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The Power of Pause: Shift from striving into sacred inquiry—how stillness, curiosity, and presence can unlock your most radiant, intuitive self
What to expect ...
A welcoming atmosphere where vulnerability is met with compassion, grace and authenticity is celebrated.
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Loving-kindness meditation
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Gentle somatic + breath practices
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Supportive sacred Circle
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Conscious movement + expressions
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Relational inquiry
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Deepen your relationship with the more-than-human world.
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Bonus: Private Yoga Therapy 1:1 consult (optional for Supporter package)
For women moving through the liminal season of change who are longing to reconnect with themselves. Whether your transition is visible or quietly unfolding within, this experience meets you at the threshold.
Facilitated by Shedeka Marriott
Founder of Soma Sadhana Yoga Therapy and Well-being LLC, LMSW, Certified Yoga Therapist
(C-IAYT), and a dedicated yoga and meditation teacher. Shedeka's work is rooted in a deep commitment to guiding individuals back home to their whole, true authentic selves. With a strong foundation in nervous system regulation and somatic embodiment, she weaves together ancient wisdom and embodied practices to support healing and transformation.
A lifelong student of yoga, plant medicine and the mysteries of the body-mind-soul connection, she creates gentle yet powerful spaces where transformation unfolds through community, presence and breath.
As a mother, visionary and sacred witness to life’s thresholds, she honors the profound initiations of matrescence, grief, identity shifts and awakening. She holds space with reverence, softness and playful curiosity, inviting women into radical self-remembrance, deep rest, and the reclamation of their wild, sovereign selves.
What to Expect
Rooted in Belonging Experience, Week-by-week
01
Week
Remembering Home
What if belonging isn't something we have to earn? We begin with the longing underneath the word belonging. What does it mean to feel at home—in ourselves, with others, and in the world? Explore belonging vs. fitting in, disconnection, interdependence, and the possibility that belonging is something we can practice embodying and remembering.
Core practice: Orienting + grounding
02
Week
Body as GPS
The body becomes our first home. It is an entry point. We begin where every creature begins: by looking around. Before belonging is a feeling, it is a physiological state, and this week we settle stress physiology through grounding movement, a longer exhale, and orienting practice.
Core practice: Somatic awareness, grounding, breath, gentle yoga
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Week
Heart minded
Belonging begins with how we relate to ourselves. This week moves from inhabiting the body toward befriending ourselves. Through supported heart-opening movement, compassion, metta, tenderness, grief, receiving, and the possibility of holding ourselves with less judgment.
Core practice: Heart-centered breath + loving-kindness + compassion
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Week
The Mind of Belonging
Notice the stories that shape your sense of who you are—and where you belong. Our minds are constantly making meaning. The heart is about how we relate. The mind is about how we make meaning. Together we'll explore the stories, beliefs, and assumptions that can create a sense of separation.
Core practice: Mindfulness of thoughts, mantra, inquiry, contemplative journaling.
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Week
Remembering the Village
Belonging is relational. This week we'll explore authenticity, boundaries, reciprocity, being witnessed, receiving support, and the courage to be known. We'll look honestly at the ways we sometimes abandon ourselves to maintain connection—and begin exploring another possibility without self-abandonment.
Core practice: Relational mindfulness + boundaries + witnessing
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Week
Belonging to the more-than-human World
You are part of nature, not separate from it. Together, we'll explore interdependence, reciprocity, seasonal rhythms, the elements, and our relationship with the more-than-human world. Through nature-based practices, we'll slow down enough to notice the living web that has always been holding us. You'll be invited to experience belonging as something ecological—not just personal.
Core practice: Sit spot, walking meditation, sensory awareness, elemental practice
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Integration: Rituals of Return
Belonging lives in the space between us. We'll explore interdependence—the truth that our well-being is shaped by the people, places, communities, ecosystems, and relationships we're part of. You'll begin to see belonging not only as something that happens inside you, but as something that emerges between you and the world around you. This is where the practice deepens.
Core practice: A five-anchor embodied practice
Week
08
Integration: Living Rooted
Belonging isn't where we arrive. It's how we live. We've explored belonging through your Body, Heart, Mind, Relationships, and connection with Nature.This week, we'll bring those threads together in how we move, speak, rest, relate, work, parent, lead, create, and participate?
Core practice: Closing ritual + embodied integration
Week
For assistance, please email info@shedekamarriott.com
Sustainer
275
This package pays your tuition in full. It includes:
Valid for 8 weeks
Access to All LIVE Sessions
Audio & Video Recordings of Each Session
Access to The Rooted in Belonging Community
Best Value
Supporter
333
This package pays for your tuition and also covers the tuition of a person in need. It includes:
Valid for 8 weeks
Access to All LIVE Sessions
Audio & Video Recordings of Each Session
Access to The Rooted in Belonging Community
Helps Pay for Another Person's Tuition
BONUS: 1:1 60min. Integration Call
Supported
175
This package is for those who cannot afford full tuition. It includes:
Valid for 8 weeks
Access to All LIVE Sessions
Audio & Video Recordings of Each Session
Access to The Rooted in Belonging Community
Register now and choose your founding cohort plan
We are committed to accessibility and want to ensure everyone who wants to join can access the workshop at the founding cohort rate. If you are able to register for Rooted in Belonging with the Supporter Package, your support will help pay for someone else who is experiencing financial hardship.
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