Yoga and Estrangement Workshop
Join us to find the emotional and cognitive places where estrangement leaves us feeling shut down
Estrangement is usually approached through words: explaining, analyzing, remembering, and trying to understand. So combining estrangement work with yoga may initially seem like an unusual choice.
But estrangement does not live only in our thoughts. It can also show up in our bodies—as tightness, guarding, collapse, restlessness, or the feeling that we are bracing for something that has already happened.
Yoga can help us become more grounded, and open as we approach the emotional places in estrangement that words alone do not always reach.
Workshop Details
Living With Estrangement: A Better Way Forward
Saturday, August 1 · 2:00–5:00 p.m.
Attend in person at Mountain Yoga in Oakland or join us on Zoom
With Kathy Sinsheimer, MFT, and Ann Dyer Cervantes
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“From the voice behind the Substack Dear Estranged, this workshop offers a compassionate space for navigating the reality of estrangement—when contact with someone you love is limited or nonexistent.
Therapist Kathy Sinsheimer brings clarity and care to this often-unspoken experience, offering insights and practices intended to support everyone affected by estrangement.
We begin by focusing on you: your feelings, questions, and hopes. For a little while, we step back from trying to solve the relationship itself and make room for your own experience.
From there, we explore the dynamics of estrangement—how it lives in relationships, in our thinking, and in the body. Through reflection, conversation, and gentle yoga led by Ann, you will have an opportunity to soften some of the “closed spaces” where pain, fear, and disconnection can take hold.
We then turn gently toward the relationship itself, making room for new perspectives and possibilities without forcing a particular outcome.
You will leave with additional tools, greater understanding, and a more compassionate way of holding what is. Whether your estrangement is recent or long-standing, you are not alone.”
The Mountain Yoga Website
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Please feel free to contact me: ksinsheimermft@gmail.com
I have my own long history with family estrangement and genuinely sympathize with the pain, anger and confusion it can cause. So, I am genuinely looking forward to offering some gentle, supportive yoga to help aid the good work Kathy will be doing with everyone at this workshp. Nothing fancy, no experience required, so simple you can participate in your street clothes. Just gentle movement to help you feel a little more comfortable in your own body. Hope to see you there!