What is VAST?
VAST is a comprehensive, time-tested, highly nuanced, acutely attuned, carefully crafted antidote to oppression. For me and many others it is one effective pathway to reclaiming the body’s natural, God-given protective mechanisms that need to be online in order for us to say NO! “Sorry, that isn’t working for me.” and to know and RESPOND when our boundaries are not being seen or respected. It is the medicine we need if we have been conditioned to be ashamed. It is a practical and accessible method to reclaiming reflexes that we lost so early in our lives that we don’t even know we’ve been living without them, like the “reaching out reflex” that helps us know and reach for what we truly desire in life. VAST is a game changer. It is a great and loving collaborative force that reconnects us with a strong sense of self, and the agency each of us has, after having been raised to “mind our manners” and be “good little girls and boys.” You can find out more about VAST here.
Who is Emily Waymire?
Emily Waymire has been a constellations facilitator for 30 years, working first with Bert Hellinger, and moving on to many other modalities and mentors to get where she is now.
If any of you have experience with co-counseling or re-evaluation counseling, what Emily, who started out in the field of energy healing, talks about is the reclaiming of our nervous system, our own reflexes, and our ability to stay in our core, in the face of oppression, with the help of a community of listening partners. Emily encourages us and provides the tools to form our own collectives of listening partners who have the skills and the format to keep the partnerships safe and effective. Though this is an ongoing endeavor–one that is admittedly not once-and-done–I am finding it, personally, to be the best therapy I have ever had. And I’m not exaggerating.
I know it’s a busy, crazy time, but personally, I find all of this to be just what is needed, and well worth the time. Emily generously shares her ideas on YouTube and Facebook. I hope you will check out her paid and free offerings and let me know what you think. You can check her out at her webpage or on YouTube. She’s also very accessible on Facebook.
Who is VAST For?
- If you have ever felt like you are broken, if your emotions don’t ring true, if people don’t hear your voice and you’re not sure even you take your NO seriously.
- Only if you want congruency between your spoken words and your body language.
- Only if you’ve been trying to connect your body and mind and would like to see real results that help you feel like you can reach out for help and actually get what you need.
- If you’ve been yearning to belong, but you lack the skills for relating with other humans.
- If you know that you need help calming your nervous system, but have chosen helpers that only made it worse.
- Only if you are truly ready to get the help you need to know and love yourself.
Training Highlights
- International Peers/Classmates
- Wide and growing co-leadership
- Dedicated to profound growth and congruency
- Micro and macro focus, acknowledging and addressing larger forces including oppression, racism, and the effects of intergenerational trauma
- Informed by Systemic & Family Constellations, NonViolent Communication, Bioenergetics, Re-Evaluation Counselling, Internal Family Systems, Interpersonal Neurobiology and Field Work
- Video & Audio Recordings
- Live Groups Accessible by Most Time Zones
- 1:1 Written dialogue with Emily
- Inner Constellations
- Somatic Maps & Exercises
- Lots of Demonstrations
- Intuitively paced, with lots and lots of encouragement
- No Shame! This training truly meets you where you are, regardless of your learning style.
- Dedicated Listening Partners
A Personal Testimonial
Who heals the healer? I have literally written books on embodiment, taught classes about boundaries, raised children, and ushered thousands of clients through the portal of trauma resolution using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). But as many times as I tried, at the age of 61, I’d been unsuccessful in putting together a comprehensive self-help plan for me. A plan that provided answers to my own aching questions. Why at this age have I not figured out how to be in a deeply satisfying relationship with an intimate partner? Why are my most trusted helpers not in human bodies? Why am I most comfortable being on the helping and giving end of any relationship?
I first found out about Emily Waymire when I was pursuing certification as a Systemic & Family Constellations Facilitator. She spoke my language, and this spring I hopped on to a free course she was offering on Facebook, called VAST Essentials Exploration. From there, I applied and was accepted on a scholarship for the subsequent Somatic Reclamation (Gate 1) course. I completed that course, and am now enrolled in Gate 6 (Supervision). I have literally never encountered anything so sensible, so powerfully needed and so right for me, in these times of disconnect, isolation, anxiety, depression, and planetary upheaval. I’m truly grateful, humbled, and literally shaking in my boots, as I feel life force returning to my body. Finally! I get to be held too.
