Slow Down, Soften, & Connect

Winter is an especially challenging time for us when our bodies want to slow down, curl up, and rest…and capitalism wants to extract every last ounce of productivity, creativity, and labor from us.

Lean into the liminal space between December 25 and January 4 (or later, if that's when you can make the space and time) and connect with yourself in ways that make sense for the season.

Learn how to listen to and move toward what feels good and is comforting and nourishing for you with seven daily audio-guided micro practices.

Gently develop the skills and capacity to receive care, support, and love from yourself through this season and those to come.

YOU FEEL:

1. You've got to push through, but soon you'll have nothing left
2. So tired that no amount of sleep will make it better
3. Exhausted to your bones and in your soul
4. World-weary and uncertain of how you'll make it through
5. Overwhelmed with insurmountable tasks and expectations
6. Resentment around everything you're supposed to do and be when all you want to do is disappear under the covers
7. Lonely and disconnected from those you're closest to

YOU KNOW YOU NEED TO:

Slow down.

Warm up.

Cozy in.

Cuddle up.

Care for what arises.

Tend to your fire.

But you know you can't do it on your own.

Lay back and press play, to let me gently guide you over seven days into Warm, Wintering Connection with yourself for $37.

ABOUT YOUR FACILITATOR:

Daniela (she/they) is a trauma-informed, certified Sex & Intimacy Coach for couples and individuals. She is also a certified Tantric Sex Coach, though she thinks it's more accurate to describe her as a Sacred Sexuality Coach inspired by tantric and taoist practices.

She started learning mindset and practices inspired by tantra and taoism in 2014 through Layla Martin, a white American woman, who was taught by Ma Ananda Sarita, a white English woman who for 17 years trained directly with Osho, an Indian guru. Her tantric practice is also informed by others like Lama Rod Owens, a Black queer Southern man formally trained in the Tibetan Buddhist and Tantric Buddhist lineage.

Named one of the ten best Sex and Intimacy Coaches of 2023 by DatingAdvice.com, she supports people to experience more sex and deeper connection with themselves and with their partner(s) without pushing, forcing, avoiding, or performing.

With over twenty-four years of experience coaching people one-on-one and teaching in college classrooms and wellness spaces, she curates exercises and practices steeped in somatic attachment theory, neuroscience, embodied conflict resolution, trauma resolution, and modern psychology and inspired by ancient tantric and taoist wisdom.

Daniela is a queer cisgendered woman raced as white born in the Bay Area as well as a biological and transnational adoptive parent of three.

She lives and works as an uninvited guest on occupied Ohlone land that’s currently known as San Jose, California in the United States.

For her, nothing is more important than connection.

Email: daniela@danielastevens.com

Website: DanielaStevens.com

Social Media: @danielastevensnow