The six-week intro to NEDERA course was life-changing for me. I began the program with some intellectual understanding of how emotions and feelings impact one’s life, but I left the program with a deep, embodied understanding of how they work in my own life. Throughout the 6 weeks I found that I was able to communicate with my family and friends, as well as relate to myself, in a richer and more honest way. I found Ali’s instruction, guidance, and compassion to be crucial in helping our group dive deeper into our emotional worlds, process difficult emotions we’ve all buried, and achieve greater self-understanding. Finally, I am very grateful for the new vocabulary and practices that were introduced that allow us to continue this work in our daily lives.

I am starting to get more of a sense of a swamp of emotional dysfunction being drained, kind of like I have been through a cleansing rainstorm. I have more of a sense of lightness. The work with you has been shocking in that it has revealed the worlds inside of me that I am so unaware of.

I just wanted to express gratitude for today’s Nedera call: for the sharings, for the ongoing learning on so many levels – and for the kindness, the joy, and the love – I felt as if I was so full of love a full hour after we finished today.  And – OMG how good it is to get a sense of clarity on what kind of feelings that are moving in my body when I’m with others.

I went through the N.E.D.E.R.A. process while being held by my most beautiful of brothers and WEPT SO HARD! So much of the excruciating pain I was in was washed out by the work of weeping and nailing down what the wounds were cause by. I HIGHLY recommend learning about the Bio-Emotive framework and NEDERA. It’s an indispensable aid to healing traumas stored in the body. OMG.