Breath as Our Original Medicine
Before we learned to speak, to perform, to manage, or to survive —
breath was the first place we belonged.
It was our original tether into the body,
the quiet intelligence regulating us long before we understood what regulation meant.
Breath touches everything — our hormones, fascia, blood, heart rate, sleep cycles, emotional expression, energy, digestion, and our ability to feel connected and present.
When we return to our breath intentionally,
we come home to a truth most adults have forgotten;
that safety, balance, and clarity already live within us.
And during the holiday season, when expectations rise, old patterns surface, and nervous systems shift into quiet survival, breath becomes the medicine that allows us to slow down, soften, and stay in our body.
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This offering highlights the work of Feral State, a local woman-owned business dedicated to the craft of BREATH and everything that comes with it. Feral State programs—ranging from professional credentialing to retreats, drop-in classes, and community events—are all trauma-informed, somatically grounded, and science—rooted. Through breathwork, physicality, music, and evidence-based nervous system practices, Feral State helps people regulate, reset, and re-pattern the systems that modern life exhausts. Their immersive sessions mimic what our bodies were built for—the neurochemistry of movement, connection, expression, and instinct that our ancestors experienced daily. Here, people release tension they’ve carried for years—emotionally, physically, and mentally—and begin to feel like themselves again. Feral State looks forward to stepping inside the home of cityhome to reach more communities, together.
Holiday Challenges & Nervous System Truth
The holidays are a beautiful time… and they are also activating. Family patterns, emotional density, overstimulation, expectations, long to-do lists, travel, financial pressure – all of these pull the nervous system into states of tension and imbalance. This event exists because your body deserves support, not pressure. Breath gives us a way to move through the season, grounded instead of overwhelmed, present instead of reactive, connected instead of exhausted. Your nervous system is always communicating. This gathering helps you understand what it’s saying.
What This Evening Will Include
- Nervous System Education
Understanding sympathetic vs. parasympathetic states and the science of stress, presence, and co/self-regulation. - Somatic Awareness
Gentle movement, fascia awareness, and embodied practices that reconnect you to your instinct and body’s intelligence. - Guided Breathwork Session
A powerful Feral State session led with Sofia’s trauma-informed, music-driven, science-rooted approach. - Personal Action Plan
Space to create your own Nervous System Action Plan — a grounding toolkit for navigating the holidays with clarity and ease.
Collaboration: Science Meets Embodiment
This evening is led by Sofia Gorder, owner of Feral State — a practitioner whose work seamlessly blends somatic education, breathwork science, trauma-informed methodology, and embodied creativity.
Rachael LePrey will be supporting the event by guiding breath awareness as a pathway to embodiment and surrender — helping participants experience breath not only as science, but as sensation, as grounding, as truth inside the body.
This collaboration honors both the scientific intelligence of the nervous system and the lived, embodied experience of breath.
Who Should Attend
This gathering is for anyone who wants to feel more at home in their body. Build resilience for the holiday season. Learn practical nervous system tools. Soften stress and emotional overwhelm. Connect with community in an authentic, grounded space. Experience the intersection of science and embodiment. Whether you’re new to breathwork or deeply familiar with somatic practices, this evening meets you where you are.
Come Home to Yourself
We warmly invite you to join us for a restorative and transformative evening.
Take a pause from the rush.
Let your 
breath recalibrate you.
Let your body speak honestly.
Together, we return to our first home —
the breath that has been holding us since the beginning.
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