Sustenance: A Somatic Experience, Afternoon Session

We are celebrating our two-year anniversary with a deep dive into the Somatic Sessions we know and love. Our very own Sarah will teach the morning session and the afternoon will be offered by Dr. Alissa Gardenhire where we will explore body mapping, boundaries, ideal touch, and the natural “touch high” that emerges from presence, consent, and human connection.


In the afternoon, you can expect a structured, deeply nourishing workshop where we get to have the human experience of reconnecting to the ecstatic, nourishing, grounding power of being a body in community.


In the Touch HighQ lab, we will practice:


  • Learning your internal “yes,” “no,” and “not yet” by sensation.

  • How presence, consent, safe touch, and connection release hormones that create a natural, grounded euphoria.

  • Feeling into what you want, how you ask for it, how you listen, and how you honor others and yourself.

  • Staying embodied, clear, and sovereign with real humans in front of you.

  • Safe, platonic, consensual touch that leaves people more regulated, more alive, and more themselves.


To participate in Touch HighQ Lab


  • Participants must agree to the consent and touch agreements

  • Participants must be comfortable with platonic, structured, clothed touch

  • Participants must be 18+


As always, this event is pay-what-you-can, with a suggested market price for the full day retreat at $100/person 


Collective minimum goal: $1100 as compensation for our guest presenter

1800 7th Avenue, Moline, IL 61265