Recovery involves the development of new meaning and purpose in one’s life as one grows beyond the catastrophic effects of stress, overwhelm, or trauma. Wellness is the act of practicing healthy habits on a daily basis to attain mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual balance so that instead of just surviving, we’re thriving. Our Wellness Recovery groups allow clients to have their own healing journey while also experiencing the healing power of being in a group.
A recovery model focuses on personal strengths and abilities rather than on deficits and pathologies. It encourages clients to learn about their mental health symptoms, advocate for themselves, seek support, and to be fully involved in the process and practices of healing.
The recovery model is a holistic, person-centered approach and is becoming the standard model of mental health care.
Our groups educate clients about the mind-body connection and its impact on mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health.
We emphasize hope, resilience, and overall wellbeing through education, skills building, and connection.
Our group events are offered both in-person and online. To reserve your spot, email [email protected] or text/call 719-301-3732. Insurance coverage and self-pay options are available.
Did you know?
MedRide will provide transportation to peer recovery and therapy groups for individuals who have Medicaid. To learn more, call 719-545-3333 or visit www.medridecolorado.com/schedule-a-ride
Wednesday Workshop, June 18th, 2025
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) is a severe form of PMS which causes extreme emotional and physical symptoms, and can profoundly interfere with daily life, work, and relationships.
What to Expect:
Join a small, supportive online group for a 90-minute workshop focusing on the managment of premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD)
Gain valuable insights on:
– Understanding PMDD, it’s causes and symptoms
– Navigating the emotional impact of PMDD
– Practical skills for emotional regulation, self-care, and communication
Facilitated by: Erin Wallis (LPCC)
6 Week Series: Mondays June 2nd – 30th, 2025
This Breathwork series will introduce a greater awareness of our breathing and a sensitivity to the power of conscious nasal breathing in daily life, using breath as a practice of mindful presence as well as healing and releasing blockages, tensions, and contractions. This can be a useful (even life-changing) tool to help with challenges in daily life and in relationships to others, etc.—helping cultivate qualities like patience, understanding, freedom, relaxation and peace.
Modern science and ancient traditions agree that post-traumatic symptoms are often deeply connected to the breath. Conscious breathing strengthens our capacity to respond to life intentionally, instead of staying in a loop of automatic reactions.
Facilitators:
Alpha Gunn, MA, LPC
Alpha is a licensed mental health therapist, the clinical director of Somatic Solutions Counseling, and the co-owner of The Body-Based Mindfulness Center. Her own trauma recovery included breathwork, dance, mindfulness, yoga, and time in nature. She is delighted to work alongside her co-facilitator Yasha Wagner.
Yasha Wagner
Yasha is a PhD-researcher and innovator in the field of psychology, community organizer and Founder/President of the InterWorld Institute, a 501(c)3 nonprofit for holistic wellness education. Read more about Yasha HERE
Every Monday, Ongoing
A weekly trauma-informed support group for all those identifying as women. A gentle and brave space created for intentional processing, community, psychoeducation, coping skills, somatic techniques, and post traumatic growth. Topics covered will include, but are not limited to, trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and women specific issues. Registration is required at the beginning of each month as we present a new topic.
Facilitators: Andrea Mongelluzzi, MA, LPCC and Shelby Hill
Andrea is a trained mental health counselor at The Body-Based Mindfulness Center with a focus on trauma-informed care. She knows that having a supportive and safe community is one of the foundational tenets of healing and she strives to provide that for her clients. Andrea enjoys the outdoors, fresh fruits, yoga, and live music.
Shelby is a clinical intern at The Body-Based Mindfulness Center with an educational focus on trauma-informed counseling. She believes in healing in relationship. This means cultivating a safe space to allow for the opportunity of connecting to oneself and to others. Shelby is trained in HeartMath and spends her time exploring, cooking, reading, writing, and being active.
First and Third Saturdays
Join us for mindfulness classes designed to help participants develop effective coping skills. Each session will explore different topics such as anxiety, depression, breath work, and yoga, offering a variety of approaches to support mental and emotional well-being. These classes are structured to provide a diverse range of techniques, allowing attendees to discover and practice strategies that best suit their individual needs.
Second and Fourth Thursdays with Hootan Zairy and Frank Chavez
About Hootan
Hootan believes that deep presence in relationships has the power to heal and approaches every client with deep acceptance and presence. Through his journey of recovery from trauma and discrimination in his personal life and ancestry, he found a calling to become a therapist after being an engineer.
He loves working with people who have sincere desires to make changes in their lives and are tapping into their spiritual path, ready to bring purpose into their lives. He works with clients to experience themselves as loving beings, accessing power of love and creativity.
He feels joy when he witnesses someone touching into how precious they are, and when they feel accepted and unjudged.
About Frank
For the past 17 years, Frank has been in recovery from substance use and childhood trauma and is currently on his path in Peer Support; guiding others on the path of recovery.
Frank has been offering Trauma Informed Bodywork for 10 years and is the founder of Sacred Fields Healing LLC, a somatic therapy and trauma informed base massage/bodywork & movement therapy business.
Frank along with his wife Alpha the owners of The Body-Based Mindfulness Center, a holistic trauma recovery center and the creators of “Trauma Informed Care For Alternative & Complimentary Practitioners” and “PTSD and The Touch Response”, courses taught at the TBBMC. Frank has studied martial arts for the past 40 years and has dedicated his life to the empowerment of women, children, and the LGBTQ community as well as to guide his clients & peers into trauma recovery.
Frank has been a HeartMath certified Intervention Health Professional, a certified Resilient Heart Practitioner, and an At Heart Practitioner for the last ten years. HeartMath is one of the foundational practices Frank uses for his clients and his own recovery.
Trauma-Informed opportunities for the community, incorporating theory and hands-on techniques
The various Buddhist communities in our Pikes Peak Region are holding a joint “Gathering for Peace.”
Please join us as we turn our hearts and minds in support of peace for all beings. We will practice sitting and walking meditation. There will be short readings from our Dharma teachers, whether the sutras or poetry, and from those who attend, to encourage us to hold and practice peace. Please consider bringing a reading (no more than 1 minute) to share.
Web of Connection Retreat
As we continue our live sits on Thursday, we will observe the Colorado and CDC guidelines to protect each other and our community. We encourage everyone who can, to get vaccinated. The current CDPHE guideline for group gatherings is “Unless you are fully vaccinated, masks are required for unvaccinated people in public indoor spaces.“
Ongoing and open to all!
Open Heart Sangha is an ongoing dharma meditation practice group. “Sangha” means a community of people who are on the same path. We are a dynamic group, seeking to know ourselves better through the study of the teachings of the Buddha, as interpreted by many great people, such as His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hahn, Pema Chodron, and Ajahn Chah.
Our primary form of meditation is shamatha vipashyana, mindfulness, and insight meditation. Each meditation session typically begins with one 20-minute meditation, sometimes guided by our teacher, followed by a dharma talk, and concludes with a 10-minute silent meditation.
We welcome everyone to participate – you do not have to be or become a Buddhist to benefit from this practice. You can incorporate the teachings and philosophy into your own personal beliefs, whatever they may be.
