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The Open Floor Meditation Cycle at Forestville Vines in May, June, and July 2024!
I will be teaching different modifications of the OF Mediation Cycle on the first Sundays from 11am-1pm starting May 5, 2024 and continuing on June 2, 2024 and July 7, 2024 at Forestville Vines outside of River Falls, WI. Forestville Vines is in and on the grounds of an old school house from 1897. There is a special magic to the land. We will be practicing outside, barefeet to the earth, and big sky above. Come join us!
Stories & Insights from Canvas Rebel: Interview with Cori Hildebrandt
Meet Cori Hildebrandt
We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Cori Hildebrandt a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Alright, Cori thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Looking back at internships and apprenticeships can be interesting, because there is so much variety in people’s experiences – and often those experiences inform our own leadership style. Do you have an interesting story from that stage of your career that you can share with us?
My #1 Nutrition Tip for 2024
Annette Kutilek is an Intuitive Eating dietitian in based in Little Rock, Arkansas, and sees clients remotely in any part of the world. It is her passion and mission in life to journey alongside the many folks working to reclaim their here-and-now bodies from chronic dieting and food fears. She is honored to witness individuals finding joy in food, kicking dieting to the curb, and returning home to their bodies on a daily basis.
/ˌTHaNGksˈɡiviNG/ & /ˈɡradəˌto͞od/
Coriander Living Collective encourages living with intention and cultivating connection is one of its core values. This Thanksgiving Season, for those you appreciate, may you show them with acts of kindness and may you be able to express your gratitude to whatever holds you and your beliefs beyond this plane. Wishing you all health and healing this Thanksgiving Season.
The Therapeutic Power of Music
Most of us have been there, either at a concert, or listening to the radio in the car, and a song comes on that, WOW, feels like it was written for you, cuts to the core, moves you in some remarkable way. Music is powerful. Around the globe and for ions music has been part of human culture. We use music to celebrate, regulate, express, dance, and to be moved.
Research supports that music has many benefits. At Coriander Living Collective, we use biolateral and bilateral music while doing BRAINSPOTTING and EMDR. These special types of music enhance right-left brain communication, and activate the parasympathetic nervous system. It’s a great tool, I often teach clients about to regulate and calm their nervous systems outside of sessions as well.
The Neuroscience of Being Human and How Open Floor Practice Can Help!
Open Floor International practice allows us to learn how to be in our bodies and in relationships well. Open Floor International teaches principles that are core to being human. Open Floor International practice increases attunement with self and others, awareness, neural pathways, thought/emotion circuits, mindfulness, and empathy. It provides a safe container to work with our nervous systems and those of others. It encourages shifting out of our stress response system and into our social engagement system. It creates opportunity for challenge and comfort, both of which are needed for human growth.
Intrigued? Ready to give Open Floor a try? Come join Open Floor International Teacher-in-Training, Cori Hildebrandt, MA, LPC WI, LPCC MN for a 3-Part Open Floor Series starting October 8th, 2023. Come join us and workout your system from the top of your brain to the bottoms of your feet!
The 4-Doorways to the Mind
Open Floor defines an Embodied Mind as “open to the vast landscape of knowledge, intuition and imagination, while remaining connected to body and heart.” Open Floor teaches 4 Doorways to Embodied Mind to support us in making sense of the different aspects of mind: 1. Thinking Mind, 2. Psycho-Emotional Mind, 3. Creative Mind, and 4. Big Mind.
Come explore your Embodied Mind, join Open Floor Teacher-in-Training, Cori Hildebrandt, MA, LPC WI, LPCC MN at an Open Floor workshop or class! Registration now open!
Anniversary NUMBER THREE for Coriander Living Collective!
It’s anniversary NUMBER THREE for Coriander Living Collective (CLC)! The curiousness of life continues to amaze me. I am blessed to have so many wonderful clients, supporters, and colleagues. I am grateful to have the capacity to own and manage my own business, and to be able to positively impact the lives of others.
*PIC: Open Floor Moving Meditation, Two Bees & A Bud Flower Farm, owner Christine Melby & Cori. Love collaborating with local business owners!*
Do You Know When to Reach Out? And When to Pull Back?
Think about little babies, how they cuddle and contract into tight snuggly balls, and how they cry out and expand their bodies when they need something. Or as they learn to venture out and reach for objects and people around them. How a dysregulated child might hide or lash out with hitting. Or how an adult in conflict might avoid or be aggressive. These are all examples of the Open Floor International Core Movement Resource of EXPAND AND CONTRACT. We are constantly opening and closing and extending and pulling back to center.
Do You Live Your Life with Potency and Direction?
In life, we must be able to move, think, and feel with focus and direction. Turn right, not left. Come here, not there. Run, don’t crawl. Being able to move with intention and energy serves us well in life. This is the Open Floor International Core Movement Resource of VECTOR. Come hone your sense of VECTOR:
• Open Floor Conscious Dance 101 3-Part Series starting Sunday, October 8th, 2023 at 8:30-9:30am at Inspiring Actions in River Falls, WI!
Are You Able to RELEASE Tension, Emotions, and Thoughts with Ease?
RELEASE is one of Open Floor’s Core Movement Resources. Release is about being able to release “tension, emotion, thought and the entire body to the will of life force…”
Come practice your ability to RELEASE through meditation and conscious movement with Open Floor! What you practice on the dance floor builds awareness and skills for navigating life off the dance floor.
• Moving Meditation & You-Pick Blooms! Saturday, August 12th, 2023 from 10am-12n at Two Bees & A Bud Flower Farm in New Richmond, WI!
• Open Floor Conscious Dance 101 3-Part Series starting Sunday, October 8th, 2023 at 8:30-9:30am at Inspiring Actions in River Falls, WI!
Sleep Problems?
Sleep disturbances are common complaints, we hear about from clients. Not being able to fall asleep, not being able to stay asleep, nightmares, waking up feeling unrested, and the list goes on…
Coriander Living Collective loves supporting people in changing their lives. Get in touch if you are ready for restful sleep! Cori Hildebrandt, MA, LPC WI, LPCC MN and Stephanie Larson, MSW, LCSW WI, LICSW MN psychoeducate on sleep hygiene, and use Brainspotting and EMDR to treat sleep issues.
What Is an Embodied Mind?
The mindful movement and conscious dance practice of Open Floor International is an embodiment practice. Embodiment is about inhabiting our full selves. I just returned from an Intensive 9-Day Training on “Embodied Mind” in Northern Washington! The Open Floor Classes, I will be offering through October 2023 will focus on exploring an “Embodied Mind.”
Come Find Your Center: Where Do You End and Others Begin? Where Do You Go When You Move Away from Pain?
I am honored to be hosting a special one evening workshop with Healing Roots Wellness Center, The Center Will Hold on Friday, May 5th, 2023. Come explore your sense of center and find and feel your edges using the mindful movement, conscious dance practice of Open Floor International. What we practice on the dance floor cultivates awareness and insight that informs how we move through life off the dance floor.
Stephanie Larson Loves Providing Therapy to Older Adults and Those Processing Trauma
Stephanie Larson, MSW, LCSW WI, LICSW MN, EMDR therapist, takes special interest in helping clients process trauma as well as working with older adults; two interests that may or may not overlap in her work. She focused her elective studies in Trauma and Gerontological Social Work. She was also an Area of Emphasis in Aging (AEA) Scholar during graduate school and remains involved in aging services networking throughout Western Wisconsin and the Twin Cities Metro area. She currently serves on the Aging Services Professional Advisory Committee Meeting at Northwood Technical College, is a member of the Minnesota Gerontological Society, and an active alumnus with the University of St. Thomas Aging Scholars program.
Ways to Deal with High Anxiety!
Coriander Living Collective is here to support you in decreasing your anxiety by learning ways to regulate your nervous system, and healing the root cause of your anxiety through EMDR therapy and Brainspotting. Reach out for a free consultation!
An Overview of TELEHEALTH!
Using telehealth for psychotherapy and counseling sessions has continued to be popular. So, let’s take a deeper look at telehealth.
Coriander Living Collective is honored to offer telehealth sessions! Telehealth may not be appropriate for all symptoms or all clients. Please feel free to contact us with questions about if telehealth is an appropriate fit for you!
Release Stress with Open Floor Moving Meditation
Stress is a common occurrence for many of us! Stress really is part of life. The problem with stress is when it is chronic, overwhelming, or when we don’t have good stress management tools.
The mindfulness, resource-based movement practice of Open Floor International is one of the best ways, I know to release stress and allow the body to self-regulate. Stress typically comes with muscle tension and physical body symptoms, so it makes sense to move your body to release stress, right?!
INTRODUCING! Stephanie Larson, MSW, LICSW MN, LCSW WI
I am so excited to welcome psychotherapist and clinical social worker, Stephanie Larson, MSW, LICSW MN, LCSW WI to Coriander Living Collective! Adding Stephanie increases Coriander Living Collective’s ability to serve therapy clients in Minnesota and Wisconsin!
She has immediate openings for individual new clients ages 14+ to older adults in WI and MN.
What Are You Moving Away from as 2022 Ends and Towards as 2023 Begins?
In life, we are constantly moving towards somethings, and away from other things. It could be people, places, feelings, or thoughts. Being aware of what we move towards and what we move away from demonstrates our preferences, habits, fears, desires, and boundaries. The more awareness you have about how and what you move towards and away from, and why, the better able you are to be an intentional choicemaker. We always have the power of choice.