A body of work for becoming more connected, alive, expressed and intimate with life.

Tender Core is built around a simple belief:

There is often far more life inside us than we are actually allowing ourselves to experience.

More pleasure. More creativity. More intimacy. More connection. More truth. More feeling. More of you.

But somewhere along the way, many of us learned to contain it.

We learned how to live from our heads instead of our bodies.
How to give without knowing how to receive.
How to perform, achieve, caretake and keep going.
How to edit ourselves in order to belong.

And slowly, the volume gets turned down.

Tender Core exists to turn it back up.

THE WORK

At the centre of Tender Core is one intention:

To increase your capacity for connection, aliveness, pleasure and intimacy — with yourself, with other people and with life.

Rather than asking only “What's wrong?”, this work is interested in another question:

What is getting in the way of you feeling fully alive?

Again and again, the work tends to lead us toward three places.

BLOCKAGE TO RECEIVING

This one is for all my big hearted, empathic, over giving women!!! I know you are brilliant at giving, supporting, achieving, anticipating and looking after everyone around you… congrats its really a super power… but honestly… do you ever receive your own love and adoration back in the same way?

The key to everything you want in life is on the other end of having healthy boundries on your giving and LEARNING TO RECEIVE!!!!!!

Care. Attention. Touch. Help. Pleasure. Love.

TRAPPED IN THE MIND

You can understand yourself endlessly and still struggle to change how you actually feel. Maybe you’ve done years of therapy and you know your story but still cant get your body up to speed?

Tender Core brings the conversation back into the body.

Through embodiment pillars; touch, awareness, breath and sound with presence, curiosity and feeling, we practise noticing what is happening beneath the story: sensation, emotion, impulse, desire and need.

The goal isn't to get rid of your mind.

It's to give your body a seat at the table.

INHIBITED SELF-EXPRESSION

Sometimes we aren't disconnected from ourselves.

We're editing ourselves.

Holding back the thing we want to say. Swallowing anger. Muting desire. Hiding creativity. Making ourselves easier to understand, easier to approve of, easier to love.

This part of the work explores permission, authenticity, play, creativity, visibility and expression.

Because intimacy requires more than being close to another person.

It requires there to actually be a you there to meet.