Growing Capacity for Living with Change ~ Awakening Self Healing through Connection ~ In Service to Community and the Greater Earth Body
Somatic Resiliency
Somatic Resiliency is born out of Kari Stettler’s lifelong love, passion and quest for wellness and wholeness in the human body, heart, mind and soul. Somatic Resiliency places the body and embodiment of the Soul at the center of healing and wholeness within the human, invoking the experience of being the change. Embodying a felt sense of wholeness and wellness can inspire and support the much needed work of our times of collective liberation and co-creating life honoring systems in place of the conditioning of patriarchy and systems of domination and violence. A cultivated sense of somatic resiliency radiates out in widening circles in service to the healing of relations, of communities and of the web that sustains all of life.
Kari Stettler, SEP (she/her) is an educator, facilitator, healer & land tender.
Somatic Resiliency is a healing practice where Kari integrates nearly two decades of experience in body & energy work, somatics and community healing. She is a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (since 2018) and brings decades of embodiment practice and training into her session work with individuals, couples and families. She has been a facilitator of the Work that Reconnects (WTR) since 2006 and was co-director of Tree of Life Adulthood Initiation 2014-24. Kari has been leading groups in fasting ceremonies in the wild since 2013. She was anchored over 18 years (2007-2025) as a facilitator of the WTR and as co-director and core facilitator of Tree of Life Adulthood Initiation by eco-philosopher, engaged Buddhist and root teacher of the WTR, Joanna Macy. She is also anchored by elders Ann Rosencranz and Marie McRee. Kari is currently on the facilitator team of seven years holding an annual Healing Retreat for Survivors of Childhood Sexual Trauma. She is also a practicing Vedic Astrologer under the tutelage of Komilla Sutton since 2020. She incorporates her studies of the cosmos into her biodynamic approach to growing food and medicine and holds a four season garden apprenticeship in her home food forest. Kari is Wilderness First Responder certified.
Kari has been stewarding land, gardens and home on stolen lands of the Southern Pomo and Coast Miwok people since 2006. She is also a communitarian and steward of 203 wild acres, called Polcum Springs, on the stolen lands of Kahto people. Her roots follow the trails of the corded ware culture into what is now Poland to the north and Sicily to the south, across the northern Germanic lands and into Scandinavia. Her most recent ancestors were farmers in Minnesota and eventually migrated to coastal California, where she was born in ‘76 on the stolen lands of the Tongva people. Kari is actively deepening her relationship with her Nordic and Northern Germanic heritage through her studies and practice with Urhall school of Trolldom and Scandinavian Folk Wisdom and her Southern Italian heritage with The Root Circle: Della Medicina.
A note from Kari…
I have found that when I am in connection with the wisdom inherent in my body through tracking sensations, emotions, images and authentic movement impulses, I can make clear and empowered meaning of my experience. From this body-centered orientation I am available for meeting others in authenticity and curiosity. My experience has brought me to a way of living that centers my sense of embodiment as baseline for being an effective agent of change on the planet. From this place, I can connect most deeply with the seen and unseen (not to mention my human relations!) and be in co-creativity with life. And, I FEEL GOOD doing it, because I am living fully present, in my body. Getting here has been a journey of meeting traumatic imprints, a continuous process of dismantling the way patriarchy lives in me, examining my experience of white privilege, growing my capacity for being with the full spectrum of emotional experience, establishing a net of support and devotion to practices that support physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. And, the journey is not over. I continue to arrive to myself and it is from this place of being human, that I meet you in our work together.
You can read more about my training and experience in the Curriculum Vitae linked below:
Kari Stettler and Somatic Resiliency offerings reside on the stolen lands from the ancestral and current inhabitants of Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo tribal nations. These communities, currently represented by but not limited to, The Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, who have called this place home for hundreds of generations before European and other mixed race settlers arrived, are the original and current human stewards of these dynamic ecologies. The diverse landscapes of this region which provide an abundance of food, medicine and textiles from which I benefit is an ongoing legacy from generations of their tending. Wherever you are reading this from, I invite you to take a moment, reflect on the Indigenous peoples of the place you call home. How can you learn more about them, their culture, their stories of past and present, and most importantly, what can you do to support local Indigenous led organizations, projects and movements? If you are living in or around the “Bay Area of California”, there is a list on the Allyship page of local Indigenous-led organizations and projects you can consider engaging with and supporting.