What latent capacities are your life challenges asking to grow in you?
INTIMATE GROUND
INTIMATE GROUND
A safe & sacred space to come home to your Self
A safe & sacred space to come home to your Self
Where life's initiations are met with presence, metabolized through the heart, and integrated into wisdom through the body
Where life's initiations are met with presence, metabolized through the heart, and integrated into wisdom through the body
LIVE ONLINE Day Long Retreat with Ajaya Sommers
March 21, 2026 10am-4pm PST
LIVE ONLINE Day Long Retreat with Ajaya Sommers
March 21, 2026 10am-4pm PST
March 21, 2026 10am-4pm PST
WELCOME to INTIMATE GROUND
WELCOME to INTIMATE GROUND
Something has brought you to this threshold.
Perhaps it was a loss. A breaking open. A quiet but insistent longing that refuses to be ignored. Perhaps you have done years of inner work and still sense something essential waiting to land. Or perhaps life has simply humbled you in ways that no amount of knowledge or practice has been able to meet.
Whatever the path — you are here. And that sincerity is everything.
You have walked a meaningful path — therapy, meditation, nervous system work, embodiment practices, spiritual inquiry. You've explored shadow and light. You've touched real depths of your own humanity.
You understand something of the paradox of being human — how we can feel both infinite and vulnerable, strong and tender, whole and unfinished all at once.
And yet…
something essential still longs to land more deeply.
Not because the path hasn't been real.
But because genuine coherence — the felt sense of your body, heart, and awareness coalescing together — cannot be forced into place through effort or under pressure.
Coherence must be remembered as a direct experience.
Beneath the adaptations, beneath the strategies we developed to survive and navigate life, there is an original organizing intelligence already alive within you.
The body was originally formed by this intelligence. The heart is the self-ordering matrix that is this intelligence. Life itself is always inviting us back into it.
But we are also living in a time that makes this return more challenging.
The ground beneath our collective feet is shifting. We are in the great reckoning — both personally and collectively. Systems, ideologies, beliefs, and spiritualities that we once trusted are being exposed. The pace of the world seems to accelerate with each day. The nervous system of our culture runs hot with uncertainty, scarcity, and fear.
In times like these, taking our health and clarity into our own hands is no longer optional — it is essential. Without intentional practices that reconnect us to our core self, nature, and the deeper pulse of life, chronic overwhelm and nervous system dysregulation risk becoming the norm. And when the nervous system is chronically dysregulated, we become vulnerable to reaching for external substitutes — illusions of stability, safety, and security that cannot ultimately be sustained.
True stability begins within. With the loving relationship we cultivate with ourselves. With connection to our own sovereign center — anchored first — so that from that ground, genuine connection with others becomes possible.
And what I have witnessed over thirty years of working with people at this ongoing threshold is this:
When the outer world becomes unstable, the inner world can fragment.
We over-function. We freeze. We tighten our strategies of control. The gap widens between what we know and what we can actually live.
We long for connection. And yet parts of us quietly defend against it.
Not because we are broken. But because early in life, the holding ground we needed may not have been fully there. Perhaps there wasn't quite enough attunement to feel supported, held, seen, or cared for. So we contort and adapt to survive these early environmental misses — splitting from our essence.
We learned to live more from our heads than our hearts.
More from our strategies than from our instinctive aliveness.
And the places where our development was interrupted became the places where our innate capacities got frozen in time — waiting for the moment when enough safety, presence, and warmth would return for those capacities to thaw and emerge.
This is one of the great mysteries of being human:
Your wounds are not separate from your awakening.
Your unresolved griefs, fears, and longings are not obstacles to the path.
They are the alchemical material through which the heart opens, the soul metabolizes, and your humanity becomes something tender, honest, and deeply alive.
If you are here, something in you is no longer interested in hiding from your experience.
You are ready to learn how to meet it.
Not alone — but in the presence of others who are walking the same courageous path.
There are simply places inside that we are not designed to meet alone. We need the warmth of one another's company and the safety of a co-regulatory field.
This is what Intimate Ground is for.
WHAT BECOMES POSSIBLE
Imagine ending this day of exploration feeling more settled in your body. Not because life has suddenly become easier — but because you have rediscovered the ground beneath it.
Imagine meeting fear, grief, uncertainty, and the initiations of your life not as problems to fix — but as intelligent signals inviting deeper capacities forward.
Capacities for presence. For intimacy. For resilience. For love that can stay.
In the warmth of an honest relational field, something subtle begins to reorganize.Attention stabilizes. Energy that was once spent managing inner tension becomes available again. Your body softens. Your heart becomes more accessible. Decisions become cleaner.
Love becomes less of an idea — and more of a living capacity to remain present with what is real.
Uncertainty may still exist.
But it becomes livable.
Together we explore what I call subscendence — a conscious descent beneath the noise of the surface mind and the habitual strategies of survival. A gentle but courageous movement into the deeper intelligence of the body, the wisdom of the heart, and the Sacred Middle — where our humanity and our true nature can meet.
Transformation does not occur in isolation.
We need the warmth of other sincere human beings devoted to the same path — learning how to stay present with life, in the body, in relationship.
In this shared field, the raw materials of our human experience — the places where we habitually contract, react, or withdraw — can begin to metabolize.
Old patterns soften. New capacities emerge.
And slowly, quietly, the original coherence of our being begins to return.
As a direct experience — a remembering.
Together we explore what I call subscendence — a conscious descent beneath the noise of the surface mind and the habitual strategies of survival. A gentle but courageous movement into the deeper intelligence of the body, the wisdom of the heart, and the Sacred Middle — where our humanity and our true nature can meet.
Transformation does not occur in isolation.
We need the warmth of other sincere human beings devoted to the same path — learning how to stay present with life, in the body, in relationship.
In this shared field, the raw materials of our human experience — the places where we habitually contract, react, or withdraw — can begin to metabolize.
Old patterns soften. New capacities emerge.
And slowly, quietly, the original coherence of our being begins to return.
As a direct experience — a remembering.
WHAT WE WILL DO TOGETHER:
This day moves through two complementary arcs — the Horizontal and the Vertical.
This day moves through two complementary arcs — the Horizontal and the Vertical.
THE HORIZONTAL
We enter deep somatic immersion through Core Embodiment® practices — breath, sound, touch, intrinsic movement, and intimate self-inquiry.
These practices help us listen to the body again. To feel the rhythms of sensation, emotion, instinct, and vitality moving through us. We reconnect with the somatic ground of our being to support the regulation of the central nervous system.
We enter deep somatic immersion through Core Embodiment® practices — breath, sound, touch, intrinsic movement, and intimate self-inquiry.
These practices help us listen to the body again. To feel the rhythms of sensation, emotion, instinct, and vitality moving through us. We reconnect with the somatic ground of our being to support the regulation of the central nervous system.
THE VERTICAL
From this grounded place, we explore relational practices of transformational intimacy. Not fixing one another. Not performing insight. Simply practicing staying present together.
Rooted in our own sovereign center. Allowing honesty, tenderness, and human contact to catalyze transformation naturally. This is where something remarkable happens.
When we are truly met — and when we allow ourselves to meet others — dormant capacities of the heart begin to awaken.
Love deepens. Courage grows.
And the simple miracle of being human together becomes the medicine.
THIS DAY IS FOR YOU IF
🏵 You have done meaningful inner work and sense that something deeper is ready to land.
🏵 You feel the impact of this collective moment in your nervous system and long for a place to metabolize it.
🏵 You are ready to meet your difficulties not as problems, but as initiations into deeper becoming.
🏵 You want to experience intimacy — with yourself, with others, and with life — in a way that is grounded, embodied, and real.
🏵 And you feel the quiet call to walk this path in the company of others who care about truth, presence, and love.
This work is especially potent for those carrying the imprints of early attachment wounds, ancestral trauma, or the chronic patterns that form when the holding ground of childhood was not quite there. Whatever your particular story — if it lives in the body, it belongs here.
Let's discover a new baseline of being regulated,
so that you can relate to these signs:
Let's discover a new baseline of being regulated,
so that you can relate to these signs:
so that you can relate to these signs:
💖 A Sense of Safety: Feeling at ease in your body and environment, with an underlying trust in your ability to handle life’s challenges.
🌱 Sustained Energy Levels: Waking up refreshed, with a steady, sustainable energy flow throughout the day.
😊 Emotional Balance: Experiencing emotions without overwhelm—able to process sadness, frustration, or joy while staying grounded and present.
✨ Physical Ease: A relaxed body with improved digestion, reduced tension, and a feeling of flow or lightness in your movements.
🌍 Connected Presence: Feeling present, engaged, and attuned to yourself, others, and your surroundings—with the ability to focus and connect authentically.
🌀 Flexibility and Adaptability: Responding to stressors with resilience, rather than reactivity, and returning to balance more easily after disruptions.
💫 Inner Alignment: A sense of being deeply connected to your intuition, creativity, and purpose, with clarity guiding your choices.
🌱 Sustained Energy Levels: Waking up refreshed, with a steady, sustainable energy flow throughout the day.
😊 Emotional Balance: Experiencing emotions without overwhelm—able to process sadness, frustration, or joy while staying grounded and present.
✨ Physical Ease: A relaxed body with improved digestion, reduced tension, and a feeling of flow or lightness in your movements.
🌍 Connected Presence: Feeling present, engaged, and attuned to yourself, others, and your surroundings—with the ability to focus and connect authentically.
🌀 Flexibility and Adaptability: Responding to stressors with resilience, rather than reactivity, and returning to balance more easily after disruptions.
💫 Inner Alignment: A sense of being deeply connected to your intuition, creativity, and purpose, with clarity guiding your choices.
DAY LONG DETAILS
DAY LONG DETAILS
INTIMATE GROUND
March 21, 2026
INTIMATE GROUND
March 21, 2026
March 21, 2026
Today's investment: $147 for the DAY LONG RETREAT
10am PST - 4pm PST w/ an Hour Lunch Break
Today's investment: $147 for the DAY LONG RETREAT
10am PST - 4pm PST w/ an Hour Lunch Break
10am PST - 4pm PST w/ an Hour Lunch Break
Or, you can also add a private 90 min sessions to this package at a 35% discounted rate here:
Hello! My name is Ajaya Sommers
Hello! My name is Ajaya Sommers
Founder of a unique somatic discovery process called, Core Embodiment® — an integrated system of embodiment practices, principles and perceptual orientations to awaken and align with the power of your human potential. I am also a certified Biodynamic Craniosacral Integration Teacher, a NARM practitioner (Neuro-affective-relational model) as well as an Authorized Continuum Teacher.
For the past 30 years I have been instrumental in facilitating conscious evolution in thousands of people’s lives as a teacher, author, public speaker and creative catalyst in the field of psycho-spiritual somatic integration.
I design and facilitate training programs for professionals, lead retreats, and offer both live and on-line group platforms for organizations that are ecologically regenerative, socially just and spiritually connected. All of my programs are grounded in science, expanded through devotional practice and made real through direct experience.
I design and facilitate training programs for professionals, lead retreats, and offer both live and on-line group platforms for organizations that are ecologically regenerative, socially just and spiritually connected. All of my programs are grounded in science, expanded through devotional practice and made real through direct experience.
Core Embodiment: The Practice of the
Sacred Middle ~ for you are both,
Sovereign and Relational.
Core Embodiment: The Practice of the
Sacred Middle ~ for you are both,
Sovereign and Relational.
Sacred Middle ~ for you are both,
Sovereign and Relational.
If you’ve been focusing primarily on healing family-of-origin wounds and doing shadow work—building self-compassion, integration, and sobriety—you may have realized that true freedom requires awakening to your true self beyond your personal story. Without this deeper awakening, the journey toward essential wholeness remains incomplete.
For those who have climbed the steps of transcendence and touched the purity of their original essence—a state of innocence and holiness without opposite—you know the work isn’t finished until your shadow and personal storyline are fully integrated into this essential awareness.
Awakening alone doesn’t resolve early developmental trauma or the false identities and protective patterns adopted to guard your native innocence from misattunement and misunderstanding at the start of life.
To embody the freedom of a fully integrated, authentic life—one that is sovereign, relational, and of service to the greater whole—we must embrace the totality of our being. This embrace is not conceptual, nor is it a destination we arrive at and consider “done.”
Yes, we can awaken to the timeless reality of our essence—our soul, the unchanging ground of being. Yet we also live in this temporal world, where our body moves through birth, aging, and eventual death. Between our first breath and our last lies the opportunity of a lifetime.
We get to choose how we will use our precious attention and life force. This walk, these hands, this voice, this heart. Being human is the tender edge—the intimate frontier.
For those who have climbed the steps of transcendence and touched the purity of their original essence—a state of innocence and holiness without opposite—you know the work isn’t finished until your shadow and personal storyline are fully integrated into this essential awareness.
Awakening alone doesn’t resolve early developmental trauma or the false identities and protective patterns adopted to guard your native innocence from misattunement and misunderstanding at the start of life.
To embody the freedom of a fully integrated, authentic life—one that is sovereign, relational, and of service to the greater whole—we must embrace the totality of our being. This embrace is not conceptual, nor is it a destination we arrive at and consider “done.”
Yes, we can awaken to the timeless reality of our essence—our soul, the unchanging ground of being. Yet we also live in this temporal world, where our body moves through birth, aging, and eventual death. Between our first breath and our last lies the opportunity of a lifetime.
We get to choose how we will use our precious attention and life force. This walk, these hands, this voice, this heart. Being human is the tender edge—the intimate frontier.
TESTIMONIALS
TESTIMONIALS
This course led to an experience of Divine Bliss too ineffable to describe in words. It included a sense of timelessness, and my sense of self dissolved into our divine Source. Ajaya’s gentle guidance led us effortlessly to this magical, rich and nourishing moment. The meditations and knowings have stayed with me and I’ve been inspired to share them with my team at work.
- Doug Wilson, MD
- Doug Wilson, MD
Participating in Ajaya’s course was a gift during a very upside down time. The course began just before I closed the doors to our retreat center of 25 years, due to the pandemic. Having the consistency of the loving invitation back home— to my Hara, my Heart and my Head was so helpful and beautiful. I have worked with Ajaya at a couple of in person retreats in the past and found her presence and her teaching brought the medicine I needed in times of transition and overwhelm.
Life always presents challenges and the initiations into suffering. Having others in the group who are willing to be honest about whatever is going on for them in the moment is always supportive. Ajaya guides with a great deal of knowledge and experience. Trusting that she has truly been on her own deep journey provides the safety that I needed to drop into the deeper currents of my own life.
- Gail Warner, MA MFT
Life always presents challenges and the initiations into suffering. Having others in the group who are willing to be honest about whatever is going on for them in the moment is always supportive. Ajaya guides with a great deal of knowledge and experience. Trusting that she has truly been on her own deep journey provides the safety that I needed to drop into the deeper currents of my own life.
- Gail Warner, MA MFT
After one session with Ajaya, I knew that I had found someone who could guide me into my deepest longing to come home to myself. With incredible tenderness and wisdom, Ajaya creates a space to rediscover and remember the simple and potent beauty of living from the heart, and experiencing the embodied fullness of being. I come away from every session with such immense gratitude for her depth of knowledge and ability to foster such intimacy and truth. As a therapist, I treasure how presence has the capacity to transform, and being in Ajaya’s presence is transformative. She is not only changing my life, but she is also empowering me to a greater vessel of healing for others. I feel so honored to have such an incredible healer, teacher, and companion in my life.
-Kailey Nykai, MA, CAGS, LMHC, LCDP
-Kailey Nykai, MA, CAGS, LMHC, LCDP
“Ajaya is one of those rare healers who can see directly into your core, understand your needs (deeper than you know yourself), and offer sacred healing to your most hidden, needy places in the deep psyche. She is filled with kindness and light, so healing comes as naturally as if you were bathed in love by the Goddess herself. Don’t miss the opportunity to be touched and guided by this divine healer — no matter what ails you.”
-Lion Goodman, PCC, creator of the Clear Beliefs Coach Training,
-Lion Goodman, PCC, creator of the Clear Beliefs Coach Training,
"Fantastic learning and workshop “Taking Refuge”. If you are a therapist, Doctor, healer, transformational educator or health care provider looking to self-improve - the teachings Ajaya has will serve you well. Not only for your professional toolbelt but for your own self-actualization.
A wealth of information and many pieces are laid out throughout the process and all tied together at the end to bring it all home. After decades of sitting across from others in my practice I believe this is what I’ve been looking for. Don’t miss this chance and treat yourself to a wonderful learning and adventure."
Nick Gargala B.S., M.S.S.W., Ed.
"I have worked with Ajaya Sommers for over 15 years. I had the very good fortune of meeting her at a very critical time in my life. She provided me guidance, shamanic & energetic healing that was miraculous. She is very intuitive and has access to many healing modalities.
She provided me a 3 day private retreat in Maui several years ago.
She was able to completely assist me in adjusting my energy matrix and to jettison destructive dark energies. She is skillful, intuitive, present, integrous and very compassionate.
I highly recommend her and I'm planning to utilize her amazing skills later this year with a personal plant based realignment in Maui."
G. Simon —
She provided me a 3 day private retreat in Maui several years ago.
She was able to completely assist me in adjusting my energy matrix and to jettison destructive dark energies. She is skillful, intuitive, present, integrous and very compassionate.
I highly recommend her and I'm planning to utilize her amazing skills later this year with a personal plant based realignment in Maui."
G. Simon —
Thank you for taking the time to explore joining INTIMATE GROUND.
Thank you for taking the time to explore joining INTIMATE GROUND.
These are the times we practice for.
If you are needing the nourishment, ground and support of the Field, the embodied, experiential reminder of resilience, connection and coherence then please consider you are invited to this gathering!
Come dive, breathe, soften, open, metabolize & learn a somatic practice to resource and regulate yourself on all levels.
Let this be the moment where you choose to honor your desires, your needs, and your inherent worth by giving yourself the blessing of slowing down to integrate.
Together, let’s explore what it means to melt below the survival patterns of the default nervous system and into the alchemy of your own presence, the tender embrace of your embodied soul.
With Love & Care,
Ajaya
These are the times we practice for.
If you are needing the nourishment, ground and support of the Field, the embodied, experiential reminder of resilience, connection and coherence then please consider you are invited to this gathering!
Come dive, breathe, soften, open, metabolize & learn a somatic practice to resource and regulate yourself on all levels.
Let this be the moment where you choose to honor your desires, your needs, and your inherent worth by giving yourself the blessing of slowing down to integrate.
Together, let’s explore what it means to melt below the survival patterns of the default nervous system and into the alchemy of your own presence, the tender embrace of your embodied soul.
With Love & Care,
Ajaya
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