STABILITY FOR HYPERMOBILITY

Healing with a Loose Container

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4 Mondays | March 10th – March 31st 2025

5:30PM PDT to 7:30PM PDT via Zoom

Series Description

Join Springlove of Access-Centered Movement® in a workshop designed for those of us with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder (HSD). We will be using the “Access-Centered Framework,” which centers holistic and intersectional access in all parts of the offering. More access details below.

If you are not sure if you are hypermobile, these are some signs:

  • joints that pop frequently
  • natural flexibility (although many times muscles tighten to protect joints and become stiff, joints can also become stiff because of injury)
  • sensitive nervous system
  • insomnia
  • gastrointestinal distress
  • inexplicable neuromuscular issues
  • bruising
  • proprioceptive difficulty (challenges in perception or awareness of the position and movement of the body)
  • psychic abilities

While this workshop series is designed for, and will center, people with hypermobility, all can benefit from deep, holistic, and intersectional core stabilizing. Holistic meaning that this will not just be about our physical cores: we will also discuss our “galactic cores” and how having a “loose container” impacts them. Intersectional meaning that we will always hold the complexities between all aspects of our lives, including our identities, lived-experiences, and privileges/marginalizations.

This workshop is intentionally entitled, “Healing with a Loose Container,” as I invite each of us into our spiritual adulthood, our agency.  I offer that we consider our “Loose Containers” an integral part of our purpose, path, and healing. It is no mistake that so many seers, healers, shamans, witches, psychics, etc. experience deep wounding in this or past lives. Often, the wound holds the secrets to our healing and growth. The Wounded Healer is an archetype that can ground and hold us, a container, if we may.

Humans need containers, for our safety, grounding, intimacy, and growth. Many of our challenges in the contemporary world come from lacking strong containers, either entirely or having “loose” ones. From the moment some humans disconnected from the Earth, we ruptured one of the most stable and intimate containers we have.

Those of us who have hypermobile bodies typically navigate extra challenges when it comes to our containers, impacting every container that tries to hold us. There are complex reasons for this, some coming from systems of oppression in our 3D world, others from our own bodymindspirits; ultimately, they are all connected.

It may not feel this way much of the time, and there are many blessings in our Loose Containers. Not in the exploitative sense, not as a dehumanizing performance that abuses our flexibility, rather from the authentic place of understanding our divine purpose and role in this life. Hypermobile bodies have been historically exploited, I invite us to take back our power, find our inner light, and stabilize from the inside out.

This workshop will be broken up into discussion and practice. We will invited to explore my unique theories and viewpoints on hypermobility, which will include a discussion of how hypermobility affects our nervous systems and spiritual bodies. As I stated, there will be trauma-informed and Access-Centered practices throughout such as rituals for stabilizing, cleansing, and renewing.

Things that we suggest you have access to (we will give different options hoping that this is accessible for as many people as possible):

  • Please access a place where you can lie down as comfortably as possible. The best option is a mat on a firmer surface like the floor (it might feel supportive to layer the mat with blankets or towels to create more cushioning). If it is not possible for you to access a mat or to get on the floor, lying on a couch or bed is an option if it’s not so soft that your spine rounds when you lie on your back. If you are not able to lie down please let us know.
  • A chair that you do not sink into (please let us know if you cannot sit)
  • Something to support your neck like a rolled-up towel, scarf, or pillow intended for lying on your back.
  • Resistance or therapy band.
  • One pound weights or canned food.
  • Something to place in between your thighs like a Pilates ball, pillow, or towel.
  • Something for self-myofascial release like a foam roller, stick roller, or Theracane.

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The Curriculum

This workshop series will be broken into two hour classes, which will be held from Monday, March 10th 2025 from 5:30PM PST to 7:30PM PST for four weeks until March 31st 2025. Each class will include a bio break and will be recorded for access, you will have 90 days to watch each recording and then it will be deleted. If you need more time for access reasons, please email me. Please note that I work intuitively and based on the people in the container, so the following curriculum may shift to better meet your needs.

With your registration, you will receive a supportive PDF by Springlove with unique graphics, prayers, rituals, and more as a visual aid! You are not allowed to share this with anyone in this esoteric space, I will offer it before class as an act of centering access.

March 10th : Loose Bodies

I will offer Access-Centered Movement and instruction to begin to find the most effective and neutral positioning for your particular spine. I will offer integrative and functional Pilates-based exercises, adjusted for your needs, to help maintain joint stability and reduce pain. We will learn some therapeutic techniques for developing muscle and reducing scar tissue, activating deep core stabilizers, retraining neuromuscular patterning, and proprioception awareness. I will invite you into regular therapeutic movement within your capacity, in hopes that you may slowly learn the tools you need to maintain as much stability as possible for your body and mind. Gentle reminder that we can only learn so much in a 2 hour period and to remember you may come away desiring to learn more!

March 17th : Loose Emotions

I will invite us to learn Polyvagal techniques for regulating our nervous system, touching on the connections between hypermobility, neurodivergence, and trauma. We will be asked to relearn breathing techniques, which are our birthrights as humans, and may support healing on an emotional and physiological level.

March 24th : Loose Spirits

I will offer connections between hypermobility and psychic abilities, teaching my theories on hypermobility and spirituality, in general. I will be using Universal Earth-Based Spiritual concepts translated into English and from my point of view, there will not be a specific cosmology. I will teach how to ground, cord, and reinforce our energetic boundaries, which are usually ruptured when we have “Loose Containers”.

March 31st : Healing with Loose Containers

Healing with Loose Containers is not different from Healing with a Loose Container: paradox is a universal Law of the Universe. We simultaneously have infinite containers and one container, how can we break this down in a way that makes sense to each of us? Which containers can we focus on and strengthen for deepening stability? How can we web together the three containers we have been working with for the last three weeks? These questions and more will be discussed in our final class! A final ritual will be offered for Healing our Loose Containers.

Access Info

  • Class will be recorded and can be “viewed” for 90 days, if you need an extension for access reasons please let me know
  • Closed Captioning Provided
  • Access needs that can be met day of can be included in the Registration form
  • Breaks
  • No need to be on camera
  • Allowed unmute or type if need to communicate
  • Always can pass
  • Everything invitational
  • Ideally this will have ASL *and* we don’t have the budget for it—if folks who have access can contribute generously and community members need this, we can do our best. If you are HOV, Deaf/deaf, would like to join, and need ASL, please contact us as soon as possible.
  • Will already center access for
    • low vision, blind/Blind
    • wheelchair users
    • folks who need to sit, stand, and/or lie down
    • neurodivergence
    • mental illness
    • chronic pain
    • spoonies
    • hypermobile and EDS folks
    • limited mobility
    • inability to use limbs
    • asthma
    • PTSD
    • In the registration form there is a prompt for any access support needed that is not listed here

Registration

Loose Containers 2025 Registration

You will get the Zoom Link after registering, it may take a few days. If you do not receive a link by Friday, February 14th 2025 at 12PM PST please email me. Please also contact me if it is not accessible to fill out the google form and you need another registration option.

Payment

Sliding Scale $222 – $555+ (these rates are well below market rate for similar offerings) with Partial and Full Scholarship Options. You must either pay me or contact me via email to request a scholarship before the class begins in order to be considered fully registered. You are much more likely to receive a partial than full scholarship.

  • I highly encourage people who have financial access to pay as much as they can, especially white folks or anyone with wealth, perhaps more than $555. This is to help fund folks who do not have access and support scholarships. How much you are able to give impacts how many scholarships I can offer, there is no shame in genuinely needing a scholarship!
  • The only way that this model works successfully is when people give what they authentically can, remembering that we are all conditioned in a model of scarcity and that it is often uncomfortable to give in this framework, it will feel like a “stretch” to give what you authentically can.
  • For people who cannot afford the sliding scale: I am offering scholarships to low-income, hypermobile folks. Priority for Black, Indigenous, and/or Palestinian hypermobile folks, as an act of reparations, if wanted. Please remember that Springlove is very low-income with high disability related expenses and that this is their life’s work.
  • Please contact Springlove via email (accesscenteredmovement@gmail.com) to request a scholarship BRIEFLY explaining your situation.

Please submit your payments electronically via Venmo or PayPal.

IMPORTANT!!! You must choose “pay friends” so that I don’t pay a fee to Venmo or Paypal, if you are not comfortable with this please contact me for another payment option as I am not willing to pay them.

Payment info is on the Registration Form
Please email Springlove at accesscenteredmovement@gmail.com if you need to pay another way.

About the Teacher:

Springlove (antiracist/antiZionist white Jewish, disabled/ill queer) is a psychic medium, diviner, and priestess that began practicing movement, magic, and meditation over 20 years ago to manage their chronic pain and complex PTSD. They found, however, that most offerings were not accessible for their needs. With the support of Disability Justice activists, they created Access-Centered Movement and the AC Framework in 2016: a trauma-informed and intersectional framework that attempts to dismantle hierarchies of bodies and minds in virtual and physical spaces. Springlove is a registered Yoga teacher and personal trainer, and uses their vast knowledge of yoga therapy, dance, Pilates, Feldenkrais, Somatics, Vipassana meditation, Earth-Based Magic, and their lived experience as a sick and disabled queer survivor to offer support for those suffering from trauma and physical/emotional pain. Aware that the ancestors of some of the spiritual traditions they practice are not their own, they are committed to decolonizing their practice under the leadership of Indigenous elders. They currently reside with their cats, Hawthorn and Indigo, in the Pacific Northwest in Chinook Territory. They offer monthly rent to the Chinook Tribe to pay for the land they occupy as a settler.