This year has been beautiful, to choose one word.
Here are my end of year reflections centering the beautiful awe-moments and learnings. Thank you to all my beautiful friends, family, colleagues, clients, teachers, and ancestors.
I led 6-week virtual somatic groups, including BIPOC and LGBTQIA cohorts, and met incredible people who want to engage in collective healing together. I love these groups where we talk about wellbeing, conflict, nervous system regulation, burnout, historical patterns, and commitments.
There’s been a deep focus on family and moving into an intergenerational home life with my family of origin. Another focus on connecting to my spiritual relations and weaving spirit into being and working.
At Slow Integration Coaching, there were many firsts: team coaching in Higher Education, tabling and offering somatic demos at a community event, and a retreat I'll be co-leading over new years with the wonderful Sydney Jackson-Clockston.
It has also been a year of cycles ending and beginning: a celebration on my 40th birthday, which was a huge embrace to my little one (younger Sarah). I felt clearly, “I am held and I cannot be abandoned any more.” Fables of the Fall, a Denver-based end-timey alternative folk quintet, played music and spread love, spunk, and joy. I’ve continued to settle into my body that “wow, all these people love me, and they came.” Have you felt this before? Questioning something we know to be true in our Soma but doubt because of our upbringing; somatics helps us take a new belief and begin to trust it in our body & mind.
It was special joining other practitioners to lead healing gatherings for BIPOC consultants.
It was also lovely to continue building ShopBiPOC’s presence in the community as a representative for Good Business Colorado and helping to plan a 2nd Wealth Reclamation Event in Denver.
I love canva and creating content, and have enjoyed making videos on my Instagram channel, and bringing myself forward naturally and with less pre-planning. I hope they have been helpful, and I’d like to know your questions about Somatics so I can answer them in spring.
Heading into 2025 my focus for now will be cultivating more partnerships to engage in workshops, trainings, and groups through a somatic lens that center our dignity, wellbeing, wholeness, and individual and collective visions. Fill out the Interest Form below to chime in.
There’s so much to say, but I want to center these beautiful moments and learnings that have transpired, through the chaos, fear and uncertainties. What beauty have you experienced this year?
With care,
Sarah Rimmel
Sarah Rimmel is a somatic coach, team coach, and facilitator who supports people in becoming more equipped and skilled to tend to themselves and each other and become more embodied as a pathway to powerfully navigating systemic inequities and increasing organizational retention, belonging, and access. This includes learning skills to regulate oneself, practicing holding one’s boundaries, interrupting internalized isms, moving towards connection and support, and bringing curiosity to one’s needs –— in the face of organizational and/or societal messages that don’t make caring for oneself a default skillset, habit, and/or belief. If you’d like to connect and talk about about providing support to you and/or your team through coaching, capacity building, and accountability-building, please email me at hello@sarahrimmel.com or the form below.