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Art in Motion: Reclaiming Your Creativity on the Dance Floor
Art in Motion (AIM) is a specialized program within the Open Floor movement curriculum. While "Open Floor" is a conscious dance practice that uses movement to explore what it means to be human, AIM takes it a step further. It blends our movement resources with writing, theatre, and visual arts.
The Landscape of Loss: Understanding the Multi-Dimensional Impact of Grief
At Coriander Living Collective, we believe that healing from grief isn't about "moving on," but about integrating the loss into a life well-lived. Whether it’s through Brainspotting (to process the deep-seated loss), Open Floor Movement (to let the body speak when words fail), or Bibliotherapy, we are here to help you navigate these seven dimensions.
If you are feeling unmoored, remember: your system is doing exactly what it was designed to do—it is responding to a profound change. You don't have to carry the weight alone.
ANNOUNCING: Goodwill Donation Based MOVEMEANT: Open Floor Moving Meditation Cycle + Self-Brainspotting!
At Coriander Living Collective, we often talk about resourcing your body and engaging the rhythm of regulation. Whether we are in a Brainspotting session or dancing Open Floor, we are working directly with the intricate, brilliant wiring of your nervous system.
While most people think of the nervous system as just the brain, it is actually a vast, multi-layered network. Understanding the eight key subsystems of this network can help you make sense of why you feel stuck, on edge, or disconnected—and more importantly, how you can find your way back to a life well lived.
Here is a breakdown of the eight subsystems that keep you moving, sensing, and surviving.
Inherited Wisdom, Embodied Healing: Brainspotting for Pre-Natal and Ancestral Trauma
When we think about our personal history, we often start the timeline at our first clear memory—perhaps a birthday party at age five or the first day of school. But at Coriander Living Collective, we look at the "whole-person system," and that system has a history that stretches back much further than your conscious mind can remember.
In fact, your story began long before you took your first breath. It began in the womb, and in the lives of the ancestors who came before you.
Beyond the Brain: Understanding the 8 Subsystems of Your Nervous System
At Coriander Living Collective, we often talk about resourcing your body and engaging the rhythm of regulation. Whether we are in a Brainspotting session or dancing Open Floor, we are working directly with the intricate, brilliant wiring of your nervous system.
While most people think of the nervous system as just the brain, it is actually a vast, multi-layered network. Understanding the eight key subsystems of this network can help you make sense of why you feel stuck, on edge, or disconnected—and more importantly, how you can find your way back to a life well lived.
Here is a breakdown of the eight subsystems that keep you moving, sensing, and surviving.
ACCEPTED! Brainspotting Consultant-in-Training!
I am excited to announce that I began my Brainspotting Consultant-in-Training Program in January and that it will run for the majority of 2026.
Open Floor MOVEMEANT: Movement with Meaning!
Open Floor skills are life skills — practical tools for thriving in work, relationships, & community. Come experience the resource-based movement practice of Open Floor!
FRIDAY, 2/6/2026 from 6:30-7:30pm at Points of Stillness in Hudson, WI.
10 Ways to Regulate and Resource Your Nervous System During Intense Times!
The more you are able to resource your body and stay regulated the more capacity you will have for health, making intentional choices versus being reactive, staying calm, grounded, centered, and making a positive impact as you ride the waves of what life is sending your way.
Coriander Living Collective is here to support you and your nervous system. We are taking new telehealth private pay clients in MN/WI ages 14+.
Learn to Self-Spot Tension, Sleep, Stress, and Anxiety!
Come learn through lecture, demonstration, and practice how to Self-Brainspot to RELEASE tension and stress, IMPROVE sleep, and CALM anxiety on THURSDAY, January 29, 2026 from 6-7:30pm at the River Falls High School.
Intentional Ways to Celebrate the New Year + FREE Annual Review Packet!
Coriander Living Collective is wishing you a meaningful change of the year. May you say goodbye to all that has forced you to evolve in 2025 and welcome with a heart of curiosity all that will meet you in 2026! Hooray! Hurrah! Download a free Annual Review packet for 2025!
8 TIPS to Manage the Holiday Season GOOD ENOUGH!
Coriander Living Collective LLC is wishing you all a GOOD ENOUGH Holiday Season! Here are 8 TIPS TO MANAGE THE HOLIDAY SEASON!
MOVEMEANT: Movement with Meaning!
Open Floor skills are life skills — practical tools for thriving in work, relationships, & community. Come experience the resource-based movement practice of Open Floor!
Winter FIRST FRIDAYS: 12/5, 1/2, & 2/6 from 6:30-7:30pm
The Window of Tolerance
If you are struggling to feel present and at ease within your body and emotional range, reach out for a free consultation. Coriander Living Collective loves teaching people how to work with their nervous systems!
Can You Do Brainspotting on Yourself?
YES! If you are curious about learning more about self-brainspotting:
I am happy to teach my clients in session, you can book a session here!
I teach self-brainspotting classes, follow Coriander Living Collective to find out when the next one will be offered. I am offering a Group Advanced Self-Brainspotting Class in September.
Read Dr. David Grand’s book, Brainspotting
MOVEMEANT OPEN FLOOR Dance & Meditation!
Open Floor skills are life skills — practical tools for thriving in work, relationships, & community. Come experience the resource-based movement practice of Open Floor!
Fall/Winter FIRST FRIDAYS: 11/7, 12/5, 1/2, & 2/6 from 6-7pm
Advanced Self-Brainspotting: Practice Group!
If you have experience with BSP, you are welcome to join us for this Advanced Self-Brainspotting Practice Group Tuesday, 9/23/25 at the River Falls High School. Come advance your skills, learn more about the current Neuroexperiential Model of BSP, additional set-ups to turn up or down intensity, and do an extended group practice. Self-BSP can help with sleep disturbance, depression, anxiety, negative self-beliefs, grief, stress, pain, and making choices!
Come BASK IN SIMPLE PLEASURES for the Day with Us! Resource Yourself.
Come spend Friday, September 12, 2025 from 9:30am-3:30pm at Two Bees & A Bud Flower Farm in New Richmond, WI basking in simple pleasures. Let Cori Hildebrandt of Coriander Living Collective and Christine Melby of Two Bees & A Bud Flower Farm take care of you. Lead you on explorations of beauty, nature, creativity, deep connection, rest, music, and delicious food/beverages. Sending you home resourced, fuller, and lighter.
BEYOND TALK THERAPY: Is Brainspotting Better Than Talk Therapy?
Talk therapy absolutely can be beneficial and uses our higher thinking brains. Yet as some point, talk therapy is limited because it is not able to access the lower parts of the brain where we hold stress and trauma responses. Talk therapy alone is often not enough to heal human issues.
Hallowed Ground: Outside OPEN FLOOR Meditation Cycle Practice TUE 8/19/25!
Hallowed Ground: Outside OPEN FLOOR Dance, Movement, & Meditation @ Points of Stillness, Hudson, WI!
Summertime 2025- 3rd Tuesdays:
OF Meditation Cycle 8/19 with the labyrinth from 6-7pm!
Hallowed GROUND: Dance, Movement, & Meditation at Points of Stillness!
Hallowed Ground: Outside OPEN FLOOR Dance, Movement, & Meditation @ Points of Stillness, Hudson, WI!
Summertime 2025- 3rd Tuesdays:
6/17, 7/15, 8/19 from 6-7pm!