Upcoming Learning Events

Join Me in Practice and Discovery
In addition to 1:1 sessions, I offer a range of opportunities to learn and deepen your healing journey—through short workshops, online courses, and immersive in-person retreats. To stay connected and receive updates about upcoming offerings, you're warmly invited to join my email list. I'd love to share with you.

Summer/Fall 2025

• Connecting to the Spirit of the Land in-person weekend Oregon coastal retreat

  📍 Sweet Root Hollow, Cloverdale, Oregon
  🗓️ August 1-3, 2025

  Come home to the land, your body, and your soul in this intimate, in-person weekend retreat at Sweet Root Hollow. Together, we will listen deeply to the whispers of the earth, awaken the language of dreams, and tend a sacred connection to our inner and outer nature.

  Co-led by Shankari, Wild Wisdom Guide, Herbalist and Somatic IFS Practitioner, and Danielle Lombardi, owner of Portland Healing Space, Acupuncturist, and Energy Worker, this retreat invites you into a rich field of healing practices rooted in ancient wisdom, reverent land offerings, and intuitive group process.

  On September 26-28, 2025 we’ll offer our 2nd retreat IFS & Nature as Guide to Your Parts. See below for details.

• IFS & Creative Writing: Journey to Self-Love (5-Week Online Course)

  📍 Online 5 consecutive Thursdays 4-5.30pm Pacific Time
  🗓️ September 4 - October 2, 2025

  This soulful 5-week online course, taught by Shankari and Emma Lily Reynolds, blends the transformational power of Internal Family Systems (IFS) with creative writing to help you deepen self-awareness and cultivate true self-love. Through guided meditations, journaling prompts, and compassionate exploration of your inner world, you'll meet and dialogue with your protective and wounded parts, build a relationship with your Self energy, and begin to gently unburden old emotional patterns. No writing experience needed—just curiosity and a desire to know and love yourself more fully.

• Integrating Somatic Techniques in Therapy

  📍 Online 3-month training
  🗓️ September 16 - December 9, 2025

  I'm honored to return as an Experiential Practice Facilitator for LifeArchitect’s 3rd edition of this powerful program. It features some of the foremost voices in Somatic Trauma Therapy—including Peter Levine, Bessel van der Kolk, Frank Anderson, Deb Dana, Linda Thai, and Alexia Rothman—and offers an immersive opportunity to deepen skills and embodiment in therapeutic practice.

• Listening to the Wild Within: Movement & Meditation for Inner Connection
  📍 Q Center, St. Charles, Illinois
  🗓️ September 18–20, 2025

  This fall, I’ll be teaching at the in-person 2025 IFS Annual Conference, where more than 70 workshops will be offered by IFS trainers, practitioners, and community members from around the globe. My non-clinical session, Listening to the Wild Within, offers a restorative space to reconnect with Self through gentle Qi Gong-inspired movement and nature-based guided meditation. These experiential offerings enrich the conference by inviting embodiment, reflection, creativity, and inner connection. I'm excited to contribute to this vibrant gathering of the IFS community.

• IFS & Nature as Guide to Your Parts, in-person weekend Oregon coastal retreat

  📍 Sweet Root Hollow, Cloverdale, Oregon
  🗓️ September 26-28, 2025

  Following the powerful field of our first gathering—or arriving fresh and curious—you are invited into a weekend of deep inner listening and relational healing. This retreat is a sanctuary for reconnecting with your internal system of Parts through the living mirror of nature.

  We will explore the gentle, transformative framework of Internal Family Systems (IFS) alongside intuitive nature practices, somatic tracking, and land-based ritual. With the support of a grounded and nurturing container, you’ll learn how to recognize and tend to your Parts with curiosity, compassion, and clarity.

  Whether you are new to IFS or already in loving dialogue with your inner system, this weekend offers an opportunity to deepen your self-leadership and awaken the power of nature as co-regulator, guide, and witness.

• IFS & Dreamwork: Journeying with Inner Parts & Night Wisdom (5‑Week Online Course)

  📍 Online 5 consecutive Wednesdays 4-5.30pm Pacific Time
  🗓️ October 1-29, 2025

  Join co-leaders Shankari and Thea Litsios on a deeply transformative five‑week exploration into the synergy of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Robert Moss’s Active Dreamwork. This experiential program bridges therapeutic parts work with hands‑on dream practices.

Previous events

Spring 2025

• It’s a joy to continue serving as a Program Assistant for the IFS Institute’s Level 1 Professional Training, with my next cohort running from March to June 2025. Having supported multiple trainings in this role, I’m deeply committed to helping mental health professionals learn and embody the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model through experiential practice, self-discovery, and compassionate connection.

Beginning of 2025

• “Tap Your Creativity & Get into a Daily IFS Practice” The New Year is coming & you can focus on being a new you in 2025 - learn easy ways to practice IFS daily to support your emotional wellbeing, and kick off the year with a healthy new habit that helps you be more authentically you. Monday January 6, 2025

• kicking off the year with “Intro to IFS & Creative Writing” a 5 week online group learning to practice IFS thru the art of journalling, co-taught with Emma Lily Reynolds. Begins Monday January 27, 2025

Wrapping up 2024

• Just for you - release of my new free guided meditation, Unwind & Unblend. Gently release the tensions of the day and reconnect with your deeper Self—your Inner Healer. Using principles from Internal Family Systems (IFS), this practice helps you unblend from any parts that may be activated, such as the inner critic, planner, or protector. You’ll create spaciousness inside, allowing clarity, calm, and compassion to naturally arise. This is a soft, grounding meditation designed to bring you back to center, so you can rest in your own presence.

• “ Intro to IFS & Creativity - Explore the Secrets of Your Creative Spark” Monday December 9, 2024 5.30-6.30pm PST on Zoom.

  Fall 2024

• It’s my pleasure to be on the teaching team as an experiential Practice Facilitator for the LifeArchitect’s 2nd Edition - Integrating Somatic Techniques in Therapy 3 month fall online training led by the top names in Somatic Trauma Therapy: Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing), Gabor Mate (Compassional Inquiry), Bessel van der Kolk (The Body Keeps the Score book), Deb Dana (Polyvagal), Janina Fisher (Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment).

• It is my honor and privilege to serve on the teaching team for the IFS Institute’s Level 1 professional training as a Program Assistant from June-November 2024. These trainings are primarily designed to provide continuing education and practice in using the IFS model for mental health care professionals.