The Resonance Circle: A 7 Week Virtual Guided Group Experience Using the Safe and Sound Protocol as a Tool for Transformation

Nourishing your sense of safety and connection through sound, somatics and mindful relating with the natural world

Mondays 10AM - 12PM

Fridays 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Our Next Groups will convene in Fall 2025!

Group max is 6 participants

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.

An ecology of care is the living web of relationships—within ourselves, with each other, and with the Earth—that nurtures safety, healing, and wholeness. It reminds us that regulation is co-created, and that true nourishment comes through connection.

In an Ecology of Care

  • Healing doesn’t happen in isolation - it happens in relationship

  • Regulation is co-created: between people, through community and with the Earth

  • Care is not a service we “give” or “get”—it’s a mutual, living process we participate in.

Just like ecosystems need balance and diversity, humans need safe, attuned, nourishing environments (relational, sensory, emotional, and natural) to thrive.

Your invited to join us in The Resonance Circle, a supportive community where the power of sound, ritual, attuned facilitators, and collective presence come together to support your nervous system’s regulation.

Our circle is a small, intimate group of six participants, supported by two highly skilled somatic facilitators, journeying together through the 5-hour therapeutic listening intervention of the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP).

Our sensory processing, trauma history, and attachment wounds can create patterns in the body that make it hard to rest in embodied safety and connection. The Safe and Sound Protocol, paired with a resonant circle of support, invites deep and transformative healing.

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.

Welcome to:

The Resonance Circle: A 7 Week Guided Virtual Group Experience Using the Safe and Sound Protocol as a Tool for Transformation

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.

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

  • Two whales in a pod representing resonance and using sound for connection and belonging.

    Support

    Individual Intake session with Heidi or Laurie: Includes Intake Questionnaire, Autonomic Nervous System Assessment, review of Polyvagal Theory and the mechanics of SSP

    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 - 15 hours

Tiered pricing:

$1200 ($80/hr)

$1333 ($88/hr)

$1466 ($97/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, 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, 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.

FAQs

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Yes! You can learn more about the current research about the effectiveness of the SSP HERE.

  • 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.

ENDORSEMENTS

  • "Heidi and Laurie work together beautifully to provide a grounded and well-rounded container of safety for experiencing the Safe Sound Protocol. The experience could not be more welcoming or gentle. They make it clear there is not way to "get it wrong" and help each member make sense of their our particular journey. "

    Carolyn McCarter Wood, LCSW, CEDS,LCAS, Certified Safe and Sound Protocol Provider, Owner of Mountain Counseling Works

  • "The Safe and Sound Protocol is a beautiful support tool for anyone looking to cultivate deeper safety in their nervous system. Heidi and Laurie provide a strong container that both moves with the needs of the group, while also holding space for anything and everything that shows up through the process. If you are wanting an experience that allows you to understand your safety and threat system more deeply, this is a beautiful way to build that awareness from within the wisdom of your body. "

    Asher Zaccagnini, LCMHCA, Musician, Owner of Simply Whole Wellness

  • "For me, this experience felt like a soft place to land to explore the possibility of connecting to a sense of safety that was severely disrupted following Hurricane Helene. I entered the SSP highly skeptical of how it could possibly help my nervous system regulate... by the end of the experience, I found myself more frequently existing in a space where I felt like the unfolding impact of the disaster was still A LOT to hold, and I was able to hold it all a little bit easier while also being much more aware of the beauty, goodness, and sources of security that do exist in my life. "

    C.C., Previous Participant

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