The Art of Awakening From Trauma with
Soma Arts & Parts-Work (IFS)
From Trauma To Freedom
Heal shame, break habits and live a life of presence, expansion and purpose.
The content in the community library is also part of using Somatic Arts & IFS for your own meditation practice, or to use in your creative process or healing practices with yourself and others. This is a community of creative thinkers, healers, artists and helping professionals supporting each other with compassion for radical insight and change.
These practices are somatic & embodied meditations that heal shame, resolves habits and powerfully aligns you with your deepest purpose and biggest dreams. You have profound gifts inside you, just waiting to be excavated. These practices allow us to see the genius behind even our most annoying traits and harness them as superpowers.
Your anxiety, sadness, rage and shame all played vital roles in your survival when you were growing up. These shadows - or mini personalities within your mind, body and spirit - get a bad rap, but underneath they’re really your are our like friends that we love that get a bad wrap. They are the black sheep of the family within us. The judged and shamed little children that are always doing the best they can with what we learned when we were little. They couldn't have known better.
When we allow these personalities to be felt, seen and heard, they miraculously shift into our greatest protection, calm, creativity and compassion. You get to rediscover the incredible and true you.
This Work allows us to see the genius behind even our most annoying traits, and harness them as superpowers.
This community is for you if you are struggling with:
- Reacting rather than responding to life-like snapping at friends & family and big mood swings that seem out of context.
- Dating unavailable people or struggling to get the intimacy you want in relationships.
- Being too busy for self care: Overscheduling yourself and spinning too many plates at once.
- Feeling “not good enough”
- Hiding or playing small in your life
- Isolation / shutting down in relationships
- A loud inner critic
- Letting go of pain, memories or traumas that keep you stuck in the past
- Focusing too much on other people and losing yourself in relationships
- Trouble setting boundaries issues with anger
- Fear of taking risks
- Constant anxiety
- Not moving forward on your dreams
- Fear around money
- “Self-sabotage” and fear of success
The Experience practices are key to unlocking your freedom, creativity, compassion towards yourself and others.
So what does that get you?
- A quieter inner critic
- A deeper sense of self-acceptance
- More confidence
- Less shame
- Knowing how to work with your anger
- Feeling safer with your emotions
- More body confidence
- Intimacy with your true self more
- Ability to connect with and trust your intuition.
- Be able to know your own boundaries and set them with ease
- More intimacy and better communication with others
- Trusting there is abundance for you in this life
- More pleasure and enjoyment in your everyday life
- Alignment with your true purpose and gifts
Sound too weird or good to be true? Think your insides are so messed up there is no way this would work for you?
Before I landed on the path that led me to develop this work, I thought so too.
But we all have a lot more in common than you might think. I’ve had my own struggles with crippling anxiety, deep grief, a fierce inner critic, an eating disorder, compulsive substance abuse,"codependency", trauma, illness and profound loss a young age. Developing LIT Shadow Work allowed me to transform my relationship with my suffering, fall in love with myself, own my desires, embody my purpose and help others do the same. Once we can clearly see the patterns operating inside us, we can see what we might normally call "self-sabotage" “anxiety” “addiction” or "resistance to change" for what it truly is: our own attempt to protect ourselves using outdated strategies. When we’re able to bring mindful awareness to our shadow selves within a powerful therapeutic container, we can heal them for good.
LIT Shadow Work will show you how to move through difficult feelings, dissolve stubborn habits, break free from old limitations and play full out at life so you can realize the dream life hidden inside you.
These practices will give you the body awareness needed to tap into your most liberated and authentic self.
When we learn to work with the most confusing and frustrating aspects of ourselves ,our strengths are revealed to us in ways we could have never imagined.
Here’s a peek inside:
Each month has a specific focus and will be expanded upon in the monthly somatic meditations, workshops and on-demand videos:
The Foundation
Expansive Home Of Your Body | Homecoming to the inner parent:
Basics of Experiential IFS & Embodied Internal Family Systems (Parts Work)
Not Just Your Head | How to connect with your greater mind, body and spirit.
The Daily | How to establish daily meditation practices that are easy and fun.
The Classics | Learn classic buddhist meditation styles and how they overlap with shadow work & IFS
HeartMind | Know the qualities of your True Self and your Shadows
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Play with your Inner Homies
Your Protectors | Observe your adored ego protectors MVP’s and shadow protectors
Your Light | How do you feel, and enjoy your light? Your windows to your True Spirit
Wisdom & Confusion | The ego is your amigo. The places where shadow & light overlap
Unblending | Learning how to be a Compassionate Witness through your True Spirit (Self)
Fun with Unblending | Writing, role-play, (imperfect) art and sensation watching
Our annoyance as our teacher | Curiosity and compassion towards all parts of ourselves, even what annoys us most
Under the vail | By getting to know our protectors we peak at our hidden shadows
Theory Meets Embodiment
Relationship Strategies & Healing In Relationships | You were a brilliant baby
Wisdom in your cells | Felt sense of your authentic Self and Self-awareness
Get connected | Deepening the relationship with ourselves and others
Clear communication | Mirroring, validation and protection- all the good stuff we never got
Embodied Inner Parenting
The Healing | child parts & inner wounding shifts
Legacy Burdens | heal the intergenerational beliefs that you carry.
Release energy | transform thoughts and energy that do not belong to you that you absorbed.
Feel freedom | how do your inner kiddos want to play with you?
Your Growth From Tor-Mentors: Relationships, Dreams & Guides
See the bigger picture | feedback, annoying people and you
Dreams & Symbols | archetypes as golden nuggets of wisdom
Guides | your connection to source and messages from beyond
A Wholehearted Life Connected With Purpose
Life of freedom | what your inner homies need for the future of your dreams
Life of purpose | the wisdom of all parts of you
Life of connection | Community and connection to Source continues
Community Is HERE | Group support & sharing
Next Steps
And many more….
When you join, you’ll receive access to all past topics in the video library
Here’s what’s Included:
- Monthly Zoom Community workshops
- unlimited past classes, recordings and replays of past meditations in library
- Admission to all 1/2 day workshops in-person or online.
- Access to booking 1x1 healing sessions Adrienne as available. (separate fee)
Video Library of Experiential IFS Meditations for daily practice
The Experience
Monthly Zoom Workshops
Practice with community members with e Experiential IFS: embodied meditation, role-play, art and visualization journeys
Includes all in-person and zoom classes & workshops
What folks are saying about this work:
“Why am I, an intelligent, successful woman, experiencing so much unhappiness? I wanted to know why. I was always aware that our lives are made of repeating patterns. When I recognized these patterns in my life, I didn’t know where they came from or how, or if, I could change them. The choice I made to work with Adrienne was life changing. I’m not exaggerating...Adrienne taught me to recognize the times I was falling into the patterns that hurt me. She taught me what to do about it! She showed me how to deal with the unconscious impulses that ruled the patterns in my life. I know how to live a life of awareness that was not possible before my work with Adrienne Glasser. She is a teacher and an expert guide to a better future.” -Pat L
“Working with Adrienne gave my body its voice back. I struggled with eating disorders, anger, and anxiety for over a decade and got absolutely NOWHERE with talk therapy... since my addictions were as smart as I was and very good liars! Somatic embodiment is a place my ego can't access. My body is free to move, reveal, and heal the pain trapped within. Adrienne provides the perfect space to connect to your most authentic self. Her encouragement and expertise have been like warm sunlight for my regrowth!”-J.Rose
"It’s amazing how much the parts work helps me at times. Whether I’m standing on the train or in my bed I can quickly separate feelings and talk to them while doing a quick mediation or visual. Very helpful for anxiety." -Rob S
“I've learned to acknowledge and honor my feelings and more importantly trust them and myself. Most of all I've learned to forgive myself for not being perfect, doing the best I can, and have learned to make choices in my life for myself and my happiness. Today, I have deep connections with family and friends, and a sense of peace within myself. Adrienne's expertise, kindness and compassion has changed my life. I am living a life beyond my wildest dreams.”-Marie L.
"Her workshops have provided me with the tools and support to gain invaluable insight into myself as a whole being. The self compassion and understanding that have emerged as a result of these workshops enable me to experience more of the peace, presence, and fulfillment I have been seeking in my life.” -Sarah S.
“Movement and embodiment has been the most shocking thing of all. Until this year, I never really saw myself as being truly creative, other than with my cooking. However, I see now that I’m extremely creative (as well as seeing every other human as being divinely creative). I am a musician, not a great musician, but a musician nonetheless. I see that I can make art, but I do not need to be considered “an artist” in order to make meaningful creations. No talent needed. Learning that if I am in the act of creating without focusing on the end result then it is still perfectly meaningful and helpful- probably even more so because it is for my Self and healing, rather than to display for others’ enjoyment/judgement. That has helped me so, so much. Movement and dance as a healing modality was the most foreign concept ever to me before this. I’m like a newborn baby in that regard and it is really cool to keep having new discoveries and healing through somatic movement- I still can’t believe it. I had NO IDEA that was an option that actually works- it is still so crazy to me!!!” -Anonymous
“The group has helped me with trusting that I can be authentic and share things about me in a safe place. What has surprised me is that I do feel safe and cared about. It has also allowed me to go deeper into my spiritual practices.” - Linda W
