A universal, trauma-informed training in nervous system awareness and somatic practice — carried by song, art, and gentle movement. Learn real skills for staying grounded, communicating through your body, and moving through uncertain times without losing yourself.
Come participate in the circle — let the music bring out your story, and let it emerge naturally.
Allow a newness of yourself to emerge — your strengths, your resources, your deep knowing.
Everyone carries wisdom — we just have to know how to harvest it. That's what this practice teaches. And participants say it truly changes things in their lives.
Reserve your spot · Longmont workshop“Being a [Theory U] practitioner, I was surprised by the wonderful journey that was created and facilitated by Wendy based on a poem written by her grandfather and a song written and sung by Wendy herself. It was precious, tender and vulnerable, going through the U in its different aspects. Thank you for holding this tender and soft space, Wendy.”
“I so enjoyed my RUAH experience with Wendy. I had no idea what to expect going into the process, but found it to be profoundly healing in the most gentle and unexpected way. Wendy is a kind and skilful guide. If you have the chance to work with her, I highly recommend it.”
A training in nervous system awareness and somatic practice — and individual, ancestral, and collective transformation.
A 9-hour immersive training — Friday evening plus a full Saturday — in the RUAH process. Education, self-awareness, and embodied practice, carried by song, art, optional gentle movement, and music. Trauma-informed. Universal, pulling in timeless wisdom threads.
Real skills. Real practice. Not just a talk about it. Many of us have had good practices that carried us for years — and now they no longer work. This is skill-building for the times we're in: nervous system regulation, somatic communication, and staying centered when things around us are uncertain.
What you take: skills for everyday relating, processing, and staying centered from a more regulated place.
Expect goosebumps. Expect depth — and joy.
Possibly some tears, and some tears of joy, at the same time.
Introduction to the RUAH process, grounding practices, and the first threads of song and embodied learning.
Required — full weekend attendance.
The heart of the training. Song, art, optional gentle movement, music & embodiment. Nervous system practices, somatic communication, integration into life.
1-hour lunch break · Required — full weekend attendance.
Reserve your spot now — you'll be the first to receive venue and date details. Intentionally small circle enrollment.
Carried by an original storytelling song written by Wendy, and co-facilitated with a special co-facilitator whose introduction will come with your registration confirmation. You bring your own story — the music and the practice will bring it out.
Heavy feelings shrink the room inside us. This circle opens it back up — together, live on Zoom. One song. One descent and return. Live, and lively.
The Immersion is not currently scheduled for a public cohort. Add your name below to be first in line when the next round opens, and to help shape the timing.
New to this kind of work, or have some experience? Perfect — this circle is made for the curious. We begin with you, the individual, and with what you carry that you never asked to carry. No experience needed, no beliefs required — just a willingness to show up for yourself.
On the other side: freedom · agency · peace · even joy.
Expect goosebumps. Expect release.
Expect — honestly — to laugh.
Session One is a real skills session, not just an orientation. You’ll leave with tools you can use the same day — in the room and long after it:
The heart of the Immersion — carried through song, movement, art, and ritual. This is where clearing and healing happen, through embodied witnessing and a deeper dive than Session 1.
Release · witness · the turning
This isn’t just a feel-good close — it’s where the work becomes real. Digestion doesn’t wait until we’re back in circle: we return to integrate whatever has surfaced since Session 2 — any loose particles still moving — for a deeper digestion than any one sitting can hold alone. We follow up with honest self-accountability on the small act each person carried into life, real celebration for what moved, and space to notice our own growth. Gratitude, and the act carried beyond the circle. Feel-good and self-refinement — not one or the other.
Carried by an original storytelling song, written by Wendy. You bring your own story — the music will bring it out. No musical experience needed.
Songwriter, storyteller, and creator of RUAH. Storytelling through song is her craft: her original songs carry true stories, and the circle follows their shape — a descent, a turning, and a return with something restored.
RUAH is the Hebrew word for spirit, breath, wind — the breath that carries us through the whole journey, and through life.
RUAH unifies the individual and the collective, with ancestral support as the bridge between them. A witnessing process designed by Wendy, using the arts and generative storytelling — in a group, virtual or in person.
Each session is a guided journey inspired by Theory U: we descend, rest at the still point, and rise carrying what wants to come. A song holds the descent and the return.
Every journey is built so that depth never costs safety.
We touch, we don’t open the whole story. Pass at any moment; be witnessed, not fixed.
We welcome the ancestors of life, love, and well-being to hold the field with us.
One original song is the spine — played verse by verse, so it can be digested.
Each card below is a standalone, single-evening journey — its own song, its own thread of healing, complete in one sitting. They are separate from the Longmont workshop and the virtual Immersion above, which are longer trainings built around a single storytelling song. No experience necessary for any of these.
What we inherit without choosing it. A grandfather’s box becomes a mirror — and we ask what we’re ready to return to the water.
A celebration of the many languages of America — Indigenous, immigrant, ancestral. A gentle widening of who counts as neighbor, and a remembering that love of neighbor includes love of their voice, their story, their way of saying hello.
Both sides of the war, both sides of the wound. We open what was locked away, and release what was held.
The founding promise — and the gated door. Who was let in, who was left out, and what a house must become to hold everyone.
Suffrage, Selma, the Voting Rights Act — honoring how far the promise has come, and widening the circle of who belongs.
A journey past the fixed, inherited ideas of the divine we were each handed — into a wisdom that has always run underneath every tradition. Every spirituality in the world carries the same core knowing, spoken in different words, across time. We stop trying to grasp the infinite and let it move through us instead.
Live circles, intentionally small. Subscribe to hear when new dates open.
The full arc: Skill Building & Prep (90 min) → The Deep Circle (3 hrs) → Integration (90 min).
What we inherit without choosing it — and how we come to understand it.
Both sides of the war, both sides of the wound — opening what was held, and spreading a little healing.
Democracy as an unfolding process — voting rights, the founding promise, and who was let in or left out.
Democracy still unfolding — suffrage, the Voting Rights Act, and the work of widening the circle.
New dates and reflections — sent gently, never often. We will never sell your information.