Making Room: A Somatic Gathering for the Turning Season

About this event

Making Room: A Somatic Gathering for the Turning Season

The end of the year can carry a particular kind of intensity.

The days grow shorter, routines change, the holidays arrive, families and communities gather, travel increases, memories surface, and another year begins moving toward its close. There can be celebration, grief, anticipation, fatigue, connection, pressure, reflection, and the many different feelings that come with moving through a season of transition.

Making Room is a free live online somatic gathering for creating a little more space around how we move through this time of year.

Together, we will slow down and notice what is already happening in our bodies, attention, energy, and relationships as the season changes and the year begins drawing to a close.

Through guided somatic practices, orienting, gentle movement, reflection, and shared space, we will explore ways of meeting this season with greater awareness, pacing, choice, and flexibility.

What We May Explore

We may explore questions such as:

What do I notice in myself as the season changes?

What is already asking for my attention as the year comes toward its end?

What happens in me as I think about the holidays, gatherings, family, travel, or changing routines?

Where do I notice anticipation, pressure, excitement, tenderness, grief, fatigue, or possibility?

What helps me stay connected with myself when life becomes fuller or more intense?

What rhythms, boundaries, forms of support, or ways of moving might help me make a little more room?

This time of year can hold many things at once. It can include celebration and loss, connection and solitude, movement and rest, endings and beginnings. This gathering offers a space to notice your own experience without needing it to look or feel a particular way.

Everything is invitational. You are welcome to participate through movement, stillness, writing, reflection, or simply listening and noticing.

Who Is This For?

You might join if the end of the year tends to bring more activity, social contact, family time, travel, changing routines, reflection, or emotional intensity into your life.

You may be moving toward the holidays with excitement, uncertainty, tenderness, grief, pressure, or a mixture of experiences that are difficult to name neatly.

You are also welcome if nothing particularly significant is happening and you would simply appreciate an intentional hour to slow down, notice where you are, and reconnect with yourself as the season changes and the year moves toward its close.

No previous experience with somatic practices is needed.

Event Details

Sunday, December 6, 2026

6:30–7:30 PM Eastern

Online via Zoom

60 minutes

Free

Registration is required to receive the Zoom information.

What to Bring

You may want to have water nearby, a comfortable place to sit or move, and a journal or notebook if you enjoy writing. Having a little room around you to change positions or move can also be helpful.

Practices will emphasize orientation, curiosity, pacing, choice, and following what feels supportive for your own system.

This is an educational and experiential somatic offering and is not psychotherapy, medical care, or a substitute for professional mental health or medical treatment.

About Nicholas Bolton

Nicholas Bolton, M.S.Ed., LPCC, SEP, is a somatic psychotherapist, educator, and founder of The Living Current. His work explores the relationship between the nervous system, embodiment, presence, developmental experience, relationship, and the ways we participate in a living world.

Nicholas has spent more than fifteen years working in mental health and has extensive training in Somatic Experiencing®, Transforming Touch®, Transforming Presence, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and other body-based and relational approaches. Through The Living Current, he offers educational and experiential somatic practices designed to support curiosity, awareness, choice, and a deeper relationship with lived experience.

Learn more at thelivingcurrent.com .

For Nicholas Bolton’s counseling and psychotherapy services in Ohio, visit nicholasboltoncounseling.com .

A space to slow down, notice the changing season, and reconnect with your rhythm.