ONLINE: The Body of Fear and Anxiety: It’s Not What You Think

Three Different Sessions: March 1st, 8th, and 15th, 2026

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This Program is Cancelled Due to Low Enrollment!

Tiered Tuition:
Subsidized – $150
Standard – $225
Supporter – $300

About the Retreat

Fear and anxiety don’t just live in the mind — they are deeply rooted in the body. Long before the mind begins to name and analyze, the body is already sensing, responding, and shaping the way we experience the world. When we learn to listen to the body as well as the mind, we open the door to profound healing, balance, and freedom.

In this three-week online program with Jill Satterfield, internationally recognized mindfulness and somatic meditation teacher, you’ll be guided through an embodied journey of awareness. Drawing on Buddhist teachings of Dependent Origination and integrating somatic practices, you will discover how fear and anxiety arise, how they become habitual, and most importantly — how they can be released.

Together, we will explore accessible practices that soothe the nervous system, shift long-held patterns, and bring the body and mind back into harmony. This is not about pushing fear away, but transforming your relationship to it — finding steadiness, spaciousness, and even compassion in the very places you once felt most overwhelmed.

What You Will Gain:

  • Relief practices for calming fear and anxiety in the moment.
  • Long-term strategies for creating balance and resilience.
  • Embodied awareness tools that help you catch and shift patterns before they spiral into distress.
  • Greater self-compassion and the ability to meet your challenges with kindness instead of resistance.
  • A felt sense of balance and clarity that ripples into your daily life, relationships, and spiritual practice.

Who is This Course For?

This course welcomes anyone who longs to live with less fear and more freedom. It is especially supportive if you:

  • Struggle with recurring worry, fear of the unknown, or anxious thought patterns.
  • Want tools you can use before you’re in the heat of the moment to re-wire habitual patterns
  • Are drawn to mindfulness, meditation, or Buddhist teachings and want to deepen them through the body.
  • Work as a caregiver, therapist, or healer and want embodied practices to support yourself and others.
  • Simply wish to meet life with more balance, clarity, and ease.

No prior meditation or somatic experience is required — just curiosity and a willingness to explore.

Course Structure:

Week One: Recognizing the Body of Fear

Week Two: Releasing the Pull of Anxiety

Week Three: Re-Wiring for Balance and Clarity

Retreat Faculty

Jill Satterfield

Jill Satterfield has been a quiet pioneer in the integration of embodied awareness practices and Buddhist teachings for over 30 years. Her heart/mind and body approach developed from somatic and contemplative psychology, 35 years of Buddhist study, extensive meditation retreat time and decades of living with chronic pain. At the invitation of her primary teacher, Ajahn Amaro, Jill was [...]
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