The District House is a weekly gathering and core benefit of District216. Guests are welcome to arrive for part or all of the evening to meet community members, connect with visiting speakers, and engage in thoughtful conversations across psychedelics, wellness, creativity, and conscious culture. 💜

Interactive Workshop: "Embodied Mindfulness: Tuning Into Your Body's Higher Intelligence"

Description: Your body processes over 11 million bits of information per second, while your brain handles only 40. What if the key to understanding yourself, your emotions, your desires, your best life, wasn't in your head at all, but in the higher intelligence of your body? Embodied Mindfulness: Tuning Into Your Body's Higher Intelligence offers a somatic practice for decoding the messages your emotions are sending you. Through guided body scan meditation and somatic exploration, you'll learn what "yes" and "no" feel like in your body, creating an internal compass for navigating decisions and life's uncertainties.

When: Wednesday, September 23, 2026 from 5pm to 9pm (Workshop at 6:30pm)

Where: LoDo Studios, 216 E. Gutierrez Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
(Please only park across the street on the Office Max side of the lot.)

Members are Free to attend The District House evenings, and are prioritized when we reach capacity.

Guests Welcome to purchase $25 tickets to The District House evenings.

Note: We will not be filming the workshop. Refreshments provided.

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Facilitator: Jessica Garver | Agent of Change, Somatic Facilitator, Nervous System Strategist

Jessica teaches leaders and organizations how to access the intelligence that's always available in their bodies, the place where real knowing lives. Her work blends somatic practices, nervous system science, and body based wisdom to help people unlock emotional literacy, rebuild self-trust, and make decisions aligned with their deepest truth. She calls this "tuning into your body's higher intelligence," and it's the foundation of all lasting transformation. Whether you're navigating big life decisions, building organizational culture, or simply curious about what your body is trying to tell you, Jessica shows you how to listen. Her practice is grounded in nervous system science, Martha Beck's methodology, and extensive experience helping people reconnect with their body's wisdom as the foundation for creating lasting change, building lives and organizations that thrive, and living aligned with their deepest truth, from the inside out. When she's not facilitating deep somatic work, she's writing on Substack, co-regulating with her houseplants, or circling the kitchen like a very focused bee. She believes rest is sacred, listening changes everything, and that your body deserves a seat at the decision-making table.