UNTAMED LOVE

Eros, the Body, and the Sacred

This group will return in late 2025!

Untamed Love is a six month alchemical course and coaching container.

It interweaves direct healing support with Nick alongside training in evidence-based somatic psychology and unconscious re-patterning shadow work.

We will mix potent healing methodologies with playful mischief and a whole lot of compassion and care.

The end result is a profound capacity to unravel old patterns that keep the nervous system stuck in survival mode, befriend the wild inner terrain of your psyche, love fiercely, and create a life that is a celebration of your soul’s deepest knowing.

This nervous system work is INCREDIBLE. I have actually been able to meditate because my body finaly feels safe and at ease.. I can rest in well-being.

-Donovan Jones

The shadow work that Nick does is remarkable. I feel like in therapy I have been talking around my inner life, or looking at it from a distance… in sessions with Nick I actually go and meet who I truly am.. in some land where beautiful things happen. It’s super transformative.

-Kelsie Mackenzie

The Untamed Love Pillars

  • Healing happens through the body. This is what so much of classical psychotherapy (and often meditation) misses. If the body doesn’t feel safe, you will be talking around (or meditating around) inner challenges rather than resolving them. Untamed Love is designed to help your body to let down with evidence based somatic psychology.. So deep healing can happen. 

  • Eros is sacred. Eros is a romantic relationship with life. It’s the soulful, innocent desire that leads us to nourishing magic. Untamed Love is about accessing this place of sacred wisdom within, so life can be a celebration of our soulful desires.

  • We all have shadow. The shadow is the unconscious habits that keep us repeating the same experiences of scarcity with love, money, meaning, pleasure (etc) and missing the feast that life has to offer. It’s the dark places in us we have not yet met. Untamed Love is a shadow-work training that offers guidance and maps of the unconscious. With this training, you can learn to approach your dark places to liberate the hidden power and love there.

Untamed Love is for people who are ready to:

  • Create a beautiful relationship with their body, with their psyche, and with the possibility of an incredibly pleasurable life.

  • Step out of fight/flight/freeze cycles to free the wise, wild animal that lives in your core.. who knows how to be deeply at ease.

  • Learn to practice shadow work like an alchemist, befriending and transmuting your unconscious patterns... to create a life that is a masterwork of love.

  • Feel their life by grieving and releasing past relationship wounds… so they can awaken to deeper love.

  • Unravel old patterns of shame to become shamelessly lit up by life.

  • Clear out the unconscious toxic rules you learned about love, so you can claim an entirely new way of connecting.

  • Join a group of wild alchemist adventurers who are ready to celebrate EVERY part of who you are.

Praise from Past Groups/Clients

 

Okay, but when am I going to receive an invitation to a magical, skillful container of potent shadow-work, a ridiculous self-aware nervous system training, a space of authentic self-love?

That time is now.

This is your invitation. 

I have worked with hundreds of people to heal deep wounds around love, safety, joy, and meaning in life. 

I have seen people unravel lifelong patterns and recognize beautiful new possibilities in short periods of time.

This work doesn’t have to take 20 years. When we have the right tools, we can make huge strides rapidly.

And so much of this work is BEST done in community with other supportive, lit up humans.

That’s what this group is all about.

Untamed Love is all about learning how to befriend your inner world. It’s about creating a secure relationship with LIFE.

Using powerful methodologies of shadow work and somatic polyvagal healing, we will discover pathways to meet what has gone unloved in your heart, and to heal the places your life force has been focused into unconscious, exhausting patterns.

Alchemy was never actually about turning lead into gold. It was about refining our inner world to become a clearer vessel for love, feeling, and magic.

What is Shadow Work?

The Shadow is the unconscious part of who we are. The emotional habits, beliefs, ways of seeing the world. 

So much of the Shadow lives in our bodies, in the ways that we can be in perpetual fight/flight/freeze, in stuck emotion that never quite moves, in the ways we fight ourselves and our deep truths, rather than learning how to be more in love with our inner world. 

Shadow work is a wholehearted journey into the psyche, learning to love what has gone unloved, to let old habits/beliefs fall away, and to discover your essential goodness and wisdom. 

What’s Included?

Untamed Love includes both practical classes in shadow work and somatic psychology along with alchemical coaching sessions.

  • A 1-1 90min Shadow Theme session with Nick before the program starts, to get clear on the key shadow themes you are healing right now.

  • Six 75min training sessions (see curriculum below) on the second Tuesday of each month, 6-7:15pm est, beginning April 2024.

  • Six group coaching sessions (2hours) on the fourth Tuesday of each month, 6-8pm est.

  • WhatsApp group for questions and celebrations between sessions. Nick is available M-F on this channel.

  • Buddy system for extra support.

  • Many resources to learn and apply polyvagal theory and shadow work to meet and transform your inner world.

  • We will explore the possibility of an additional retreat in Mexico at the end of the program.

In this coaching group, you’ll be with ~6 other big-hearted folks like you. I will be training/coaching you in a group setting to have breakthroughs, and the group will be getting coached (directly and indirectly) as each person gets coached.

 

Curriculum

  • Shadow Theme Session (scheduled individually): 1-1 deep dive shadow session with Nick to recognize key shadow themes that are binding your energy right now.. So you can start the group with momentum and clarity.

    Group Coaching Session

    Tuesday, April 23, 6-8pm EST

    We will gather for the first time, connect, and each person will discover/create a personal vision of inner and outer transformation in the course.

    Class: Introduction to Shadow Work

    Tuesday, April 30, 6-7:15pm EST

    In order to become alchemists, healing ourselves into radical levels of love and pleasure, we need to have some understanding of the mysteries of the psyche.

    We will explore the terrain of the psyche and the hero(ines) journey, look at the three types of unconscious shadow and accurate healing techniques for each. We will look at what classical psychology tends to miss and explore how shadow habits form and grow up as we get older.. and how you can transform lifelong patterns.

  • Class: Inner Alchemy, Dancing with Shadow

    Tuesday, May 14, 6-7:15pm EST

    We will take shadow work deeper, exploring how to release shame, reclaim anger, recognize shadow dynamics in relationships and health challenges, and befriend our inner world (rather than battle with it while trying to “heal”).

    Group Coaching Session

    Tuesday, May 28, 6-8pm EST

    We will make some magic together. Each person brings their big magic, life questions, hopes and dreams. Nick will facilitate, coach, and weave the group wisdom to support spontaneous beautiful healing.

  • Class session: The Sacred Body

    Tuesday, June 4, 6-7:15pm EST

    Genuine pleasure and joy asks us, first, to feel safe in our bodies.

    We can’t do that so long as we are in perpetual fight/flight/freeze cycles.

    This training session looks at Polyvagal Theory, unwinding patterns of chronic threat response, and the unique ways YOUR body does survival mode, so you can discover spacious options that actually help your system to let down.

    We will also play with shakti, the capacity to move energy non verbally, and contacting the wise, wild animal that lives in your core.

    Group Coaching Session

    Tuesday, June 25, 6-8pm EST

    Safety and pleasure in the body. How can you apply new understanding about your body’s unique stress response to create more safety, more ease… into radically enjoying life?

  • Grief Circle

    Tuesday, July 9, 6-8pm EST

    To heal, to enjoy life, we have to grieve. We have to relate with the “negative” emotions of sadness, rage, and fear.

    We will make space for what has been lost, unloved, and unseen to be held together.

    You will learn the gates of grief, the places where grief can accumulate in the body.. and we will hold each other to help move some of that energy.

    Group Coaching Session

    Tuesday, July 23, 6-8pm EST

    Pleasure, grief and rest. What is in the way of the radical beauty of FEELING our life, so we can feel alive and whole?

  • Class Session: The Wild Wisdom of Eros

    Tuesday, August 13, 6-7:15pm EST

    Eros is not distraction or hedonism. It’s a romantic relationship with life. It is feeling. It’s the soulful, innocent desire that leads us to nourishing magic. It is home. It is life alive.

    This class we will explore how to contact the wild wisdom in your core, and in nature.

    We will distinguish between nourishing eros and numbed out lust/distraction.

    This is how life becomes a ceremony- when we partner with (and become) our soul’s desire.. which is unique for each person.

    Because we can’t think our way to magic. We have to become it.

    Group Coaching Session

    Tuesday, August 20, 6-8pm EST

    Relying on Eros’ wisdom to craft a uniquely nourished, pleasurable, sacred life.

  • Final Coaching Session

    Tuesday, September 10, 6-8pm EST

    The group will choose a focus for our time. Manifesting abundance through intentional sex magic? Channeling anger in a healthy way that takes relationships to the next level? Etc

    Celebration and Completion Call

    Tuesday, September 24, 6-7:30pm EST

    No class session.

    This is a call for celebrations and final questions, a look at what is next for everyone, and time to close our group circle!

Why am I teaching this?

I spent the last 20 years of my life healing the despair, disconnection, grief, and fear that is the legacy of the western world and my unique family environment.

And while that is not done (if such a thing is ever done)…

That journey led me to live with wolves, study yoga in India, train in schools of psychology, worship in the mountains, dance Butoh, fall wildly in love, learn how to grieve… and transform as I discovered healing methods that actually helped. 

These methods shifted me into wild new experiences of ease in my body and joy in my heart.. and the feeling that I was crafting an incredible life.. not just reacting based on what I learned in the past.

Untamed Love is the distillation of all those years of searching, testing, and exploring.

I can say, without reservation, that I am bringing some of the best of the best to guide this group. 

Healing doesn’t have to take 20 years. With the right tools, it just takes a moment to discover significant transformation. 

And so much of this work is BEST done in community. We are social creatures, and we get to help each other to heal. It takes a big-hearted village. In that context, I have seen people heal lifelong patterns of shame, grief, and hesitation extremely rapidly. 

In that kind of space, we can discover what is truly here for us to become, to love, and to embrace in this life.

And it can be FUN.  

If this resonates, come join us. You won’t regret it.  

Investment

The cost to enroll is $3000 upfront. If you need a payment plan we can talk about that.

VIP Coaching Package // there are two seats available for a coaching deep dive that includes 1:1 coaching sessions and unlimited voice-memo access to Nick — mention this in your application if this is of interest.

 

You can ask questions by emailing nick@nickshrewsbury.com.

About the Coach

Nick Shrewsbury is an ICF-certified leadership coach, a certified court mediator, and a registered yoga and meditation teacher. Nick's work draws from evidence-based neuropsychology as well as from ancient meditation traditions. He lives with wolves in a remote sanctuary in the Colorado mountains for part of each year. 

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