Molly Caro May is a teacher, creator/facilitator of circles and the author of two acclaimed literary memoirs. For 15+ years, she has run workshops and retreats for people across the globe. She has coached many a storyteller for the stage. She is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and focuses on where language and the mammal body meet each other. Her mission is to meet this high-volume era face-to-face, democratize expression and explore, in good company, the healing alchemy between story and nervous system. She is at work on her third book. Facilitating is her song and she never tires of diving in with a group as she believes the only way through is 'alongside.' 

 

From Molly: We are mammals of metaphor. My work is a vibrant combination or top-down story + bottom-up somatics. Workshops and retreats are where I flow and shine and sometimes swear. I lean back into an orchestration beyond me that brings us together. I am an unapologetic sensualist who lives my own teaching—messy and real-deal and integrated and honest and mistake-making and growing up/down the spiral. I have deep abiding trust in the groundwater flow, the fallow time, and the “go” moment. I write to communicate, connect with myself, and because sound and rhythm are my art. Words are spells. Also, I am botanical. I hear plants and nature is my first and last lover. After growing up around the world in 5 countries and identifying as an internationalist, I now live at the base of a mountain range in Montana with my husband and our two wild and in-tune daughters who keep me going and growing.

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YOU, yes you, were born for this terrain and for this time. 

What does it mean to have a deep capacity to listen within? Where is your dimensionality? Your story and nervous system both long to be fluid. Most of us have gotten stuck (life does that) and communal space unsticks us. This is a healing circle. Expression and containment. Essence recovery. Devotion to tactile presence as the balm of these times. Practicing discernment so you can hear the internal whispers. We are on this sacred and rugged path together. Really, truly. What if you made contact with a clearer channel of you—for yourself, those around you, the world? My prayer is Attention + Artistry = Aliveness. Tend to them, do it in the company of and for others, and watch how your life force builds a field of sustainability. 

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No one will ever convince me (though they have tried) that we can each be our own everything. That is one of the curses of dominant white supremacist culture. We need each other! Especially now. The world has always been and will always be relational. 

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MY TEACHERS have been many, countless of whom I cannot name here as they are not public people: mentors, beloved therapists, actual teachers in younger school years, my parents (!!), elders, friends, doctors and bodyworkers. Without that relational fabric, I wouldn't know myself or have stamina or rootedness or breath in my mission. In my formal somatics training, I studied with Dr. Abi Blakeslee, Raja Selvam, and Kathy Kain, Jean Houston, Weena Pauly-Tarr, Kimberly Ann Johnson, and many gifted assistants. In the context of large forum online workshops, I've been a student of somatic abolitionism with Resmaa Menakem and of decolonializing the white mind and the associated shadow work with Dra. Rocio Rosales Mesa. Way back in the day, I graduated from Middlebury College and the SALT Institute of Documentary Studies. I'm a perpetual student and welcome more teachers into my life.