The Resonance Circle
A 7-Week In Person Guided Group Experience Using the Safe and Sound Protocol as a Tool for Transformation
Are you seeking relief from persistent challenges that haven’t responded to traditional therapy?
Imagine a community of care where you feel gently supported to explore your relationship to safety, connection and belonging.
Nourish your sense of safety and connection through sound, somatics, and mindful relating with the natural world–join us!
Our Fall 2026 Cohort will be accompanied by two mini horses, Midnight & Sunny!
Some Benefits of the SSP…
Diminishes chronic anxiety and depression that hasn’t fully responded to talk therapy or medication
Helps us get unstuck from chronic nervous system patterns of fight, flight, or freeze
Uses filtered music and frequency to shift the sensory system’s orientation from threat and defense toward safety and connection
Stimulates the vagus nerve which leads to greater resiliency
As more safety enters the system, sensory processing patterns, attachment wounds, and trauma physiology held in the nervous system may surface—inviting healing in the places that block our ability to rest into enoughness and belonging.
In Our Guided Group Process, we:
Facilitate a relational and ritual space within which participants can safely journey.
Nurture reconnection to the web of creation—Earth, collective humanity, ancestors, the more-than-human world, the unseen realms, and the benevolent support that is always already here.
Cultivate a group field grounded in welcome, warmth, attunement, deep regard, presence, and allowing—qualities that foster belonging and connection.
Accompany participants and honor their agency through the unfolding passage of disorganization/discovery and reorganization/recalibration.
Provide guidance and educational scaffolding to support integration between brain and body.
Acknowledge the cultural wounds we carry—the uncertainty, grief, and disconnection of these times—and the profound need for communal containers of care that can hold and transform them.
How Do Horses Contribute?
Presence & Awareness: Horses require a presence & awareness with ourselves and with them on all levels including physically, mentally and emotionally.
Regulation: The heart vibration of a horse provides a regulating effect on our nervous system which impacts our general health and well-being.
Attunement: Being in relationship with a horse requires us to truly see and be seen, feel and be felt, hear and be heard, receive and be received… just as we are and as they are.
Healthy Relationships: Horses provide gentle feedback about our relationship with self (especially our nervous system) and others while providing an opportunity to practice healthier patterns.
Together with these noble creatures and a supportive human circle, we create a collective ecology of care where your unique process is honored with accompaniment and care.
What You Will Receive
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Access to the SSP Core Program
Access to the SSP Core program
Access to SSP Connect program during the duration of the SSP intervention for ANS regulation
Access to follow-up SSP Balance program post Core program for one month
Link to access listening device remotely on your device of choosing (smartphone and earphones, earbuds, or headphones required and supplied by you)
Secure end to end encrypted account with access to your personal dashboard to record progress
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Support
Orientation session with the group including review of the maps of healing that we will work with in the group experience including the Window of Tolerance, Developmental Movements, Parts Work, Attachment Styles and Adaptive Strategies
5 weekly 120 minute listening sessions in a group of 6 people, with guidance through the SSP listening process
Completion session with the group to make meaning of what you experienced and planning for how to continue with the journey
Option to receive discounted Transforming Touch sessions with Laurie for Nervous System support and integration for duration of the program ($120 for 60-minutes, regularly $160, limit 1 per participant/weekly)
Option to join monthly acoustic journey/sound healing groups with past participants
Small Group Benefits
Healing happens in relationships. The group container is designed so participants can gently witness and support one another’s unfolding process. As the space is held in a field of welcome and belonging, each person also cultivates an internal, compassionate self-witness.
Resonant witnessing deepens insight. Seeing others’ journeys often clarifies and brings awareness to our own experience.
Communally validated progress integrates more fully. When growth is seen, named, and celebrated together, it lands in the nervous system.
The group becomes a vessel for healing. Personal work ripples into lineage and collective repair.
More accessible than 1:1 care. A group format lowers financial barriers while offering rich relational support.
Investment:
2 month group experience - 14 hours
Tiered pricing:
$1200 ($86/hr)
$1333 ($96/hr)
$1466 ($105/hr)
3 month payment plan available
Equipment Needed:
Bluetooth headphones, not noise cancelling
Phone with access to apps
Sensory regulation tools that support your nervous system
Meet the Facilitators
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Heidi Andersen
MS, LCMHC-S (She/Her), Certified SSP Practitioner, Certified Body Trust® Specialist
Heidi Andersen is a white (Danish & German lineage), cis, midlife, body-centered psychotherapist practicing in Asheville, NC. Heidi is the owner of Reclaiming Beauty, an outpatient group practice of body-centered psychotherapists specializing in weight inclusive treatment for the intersection of trauma, attachment wounds, and eating disorders through a body liberation lens and somatic approach. Heidi believes embodiment heals and combines her studies of Somatic Internal Family Systems℠, Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders, Transformative Harmonics®, Chi for Two®, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® and the Center for Body Trust® in support of her clients’ nervous system healing.
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Laurie Jackson
MA (She/Her), Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
Laurie is the founder of Relational Somatics and Ritual, an Animist Somatic mentorship and practice space where we inquire, facilitate, and educate on Relational Somatics with Creation and the Web of Life. Laurie is a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and Transforming Touch therapist living and working on the ancestral lands of the Tsalagi people in Asheville, NC. She is a cis, white-bodied, neurodivergent woman in midlife, a student of the decolonial movement, an animist witch, a storm lover, a sister, daughter, wife, aunt, and friend. She is descended from colonial settlers from Ireland, Scotland, England, Germany, and Slovakian immigrants.
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Kel Hansen
M.Ed (They/Them), Founder, Director, Equine Specialist at E-volving Hearts Wellness Farm
Howdy! I'm Kel and it's an honor and pleasure to be of service helping horses help humans. I have a background in education and mental health and have worked professionally from public schools to residential treatment programs and everywhere in between before starting my own personal and professional coaching business. During this time I was exposed to the helping and healing powers of horses but didn't experience them directly until I began walking a long and hard journey with chronic illness and was forced to redesign my own life. This is when we became partners and I became fully committed to helping them be in service to others. Through E-volving Hearts, I emphasize supporting educators, wellness professionals, parents, and those navigating chronic illness with a holistic, nervous system centered approach that is an integration of my personal and professional experiences and wisdom. I am dedicated to supporting the adults who have accepted the responsibility of raising our young people, especially those we call "Super Feelers". In addition, I love roosters, my dog, three cats, my wife, and our little corner of paradise!
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Midnight
Hi! I’m Midnight and I’m the Lil’ Mama. I have spent a good part of my life being used for breeding. While I have some opinions about that, I’m really grateful I have Sunny. She’s one of at least 4 babies and I’m glad we have gotten to stay together. I am 25 years young and am really coming into a new way of being. I have gone through quite the holistic healing process since being here and have a light in my eyes and in my heart that was never safe to have before. I am very empathic and while I am available and desire to support humans, I sometimes like to do it with a little distance. Sometimes I still have a nervous system reaction that just comes from how I’ve experienced humans in the past. However, I am very grateful to bring you some “Midnight Love”...the kind that is rooted in loving and honoring the shadow parts.
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Sunny
And I’m Sunny!!!! And oh boy, oh boy am I excited to share all my love with you. I mean...all of it! I hope you love cuddles because I like to cuddle with your heart. I’m still learning when that crosses boundaries, so please be sure you help me out with that in a gentle, but firm way. I am very intuitive, I am mostly sweet and chill, and I also have a really cute and hilarious unruly beast that comes out sometimes! Did I tell you I’m excited?! I’m 20 years young and I have Cushing’s Disease. This means my pituitary gland does weird stuff or something like that. I also love to make lots of horse sounds and mutual grooming. Kel says “people are not horses”, whatever that means, so I’m limited to grooming people on their arms and legs, not their necks and heads.
FAQs
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The Safe and Sound Protocol is a practical application of the polyvagal theory developed by Dr. Stephen Porges. It is a non-invasive, acoustic vagus nerve stimulator that helps you connect to yourself and the world around you from a foundation of physiological safety.
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The Safe and Sound Protocol helps you progress in therapy by shifting your fundamental experiences of the world. SSP will bring to the surface the parts of you that get in the way of your ability to land and yield in your zone of optimal arousal. It works to heal these parts by increasing resiliency and deepening embodiment.
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Healing happens in community. This group is designed where participants are witness and gentle support to each other’s process. It is also more cost effective to experience the SSP in this group container.
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The group facilitator holds a strong container that allows each participant to yield into receiving their own support rather than feeling the pull to care take others.
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The SSP offers an opportunity to address trauma via a bottom up process (focusing on bodily sensations and nervous system resiliency), which means you can access healing without needing to relive or retrieve specific memories.
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Yes! You can learn more about the current research about the effectiveness of the SSP HERE.
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There are no known long term side effects of the SSP. There is a risk of experiencing some side effects for the first 2-3 weeks including increased agitation and hyperactivity, itching/soreness in ears, periods of nausea/dizziness, hypersensitive hearing, headaches, increased tiredness, and draining/fluid in the ears. These effects happen because the SSP is clearing levels of dissociation. As we become more present to what’s happening in our nervous system, we can learn to respond to its cues effectively. The SSP is a training ground for developing a sense of curiosity to what is arising inside, and increasing our skillful response to this information.
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You will always have the opportunity to move yourself just outside the fenced in space. Additionally, you will have guidance around safety and be directly supported in your interactions with the horses by an Equine Specialist.
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We have two back up dates in case of weather related cancellations: 11/9 and 11/16.
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