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Act Today! | Touch with Substance 2026 call for presentations

Replay | What the Fascia?! Perimenopause, pain, and prescribing (CEs!)

July 16 | Peery-Menopause Circle LIVE! in Oakland

August 2 | FREE Constellation Day


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Call for Presentations

Join us at Touch with Substance 2026! We center grounded, consent-based approaches that honor complexity, lived experience, and responsible practice. If your work thoughtfully engages touch in expanded or non-ordinary states through clinical, cultural, or embodied lenses, we encourage you to apply and contribute to this growing, collaborative conversation.

Stream the Replay NOW: What the Fascia!?

Perimenopause pain is a fascia story that deserves more than a shrug. Suz Vera and Dr. Daniel Irby unpack where bodywork, mental health, and prescribing meet during this wild chapter. Perfect for those crafting holistic care plans for patients and clients (without all those annoying platitudes). Includes autogenerated subtitles in a handful of languages.

And, you can earn APA CE Credits! Wooo!!!

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✨ Ready for Magic? ✨

Join Dr. Irby and Suz for a free monthly online gathering where we’ll come together for a lightly facilitated, deeply human hour for professionals exploring topics in bodywork, medical care, psychiatry, & expanded states.

2026 November 13 - Touch with Substance Integration

2026 December 11 - Magical Friendship Holiday Special

email hi@bookunwind.com to Request to Join the Magical Friendship Rumpus Hour

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July 16, 6 -7:30pm | Oakland, CA

Peery-Menopause Circle

You are one of about a billion people on planet Earth navigating perimenopause or menopause right now (and, you are not just going crazy). Stop scrolling alone and comparing your real insides to someone else's filtered highlights. Start learning, sharing, laughing, and finding real answers with a community that gets it. Find clarity, connection, and a good laugh in the chaos, no matter where in life it lands.

JULY's Theme

We want to hear your coming-of-rage story! We're turning our attention to big life changes beyond hormones but maybe, just maybe, helped along by perimenopause and menopause. We'll be unpacking what happens when we let go of who we "should" be or who we were to discover who we're actually becoming with clarity and joy.

NOVEMBER 15

FREE Constellation Day with Rev. Katherine Revoir

Family Constellations are powerful portals that bring understanding and a fresh perspective to the big picture of our lives. Join our next online free constellation day. Together, we can gently untangle the mystery of how things got to be the way they are.

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Unwind

Our body holds more than tension; It holds stories waiting to be heard. At Unwind Oakland, we honor the body as a guide and storyteller by embracing the language of ethical and attuned touch.We value inclusive, co-created experiences where joy is sacred, fear is companioned, and humor is transformative.Through psychedelic integration bodywork and Ketamine-Assisted Therapeutic Myofascial (KATM) Bodywork, we work alongside you in your journey toward deeper connection with yourself and others as fellow Earthlings. Committed to doing our own work and deeply knowing this terrain, we strive to meet the unique needs of our clients with expansive approaches to psychedelic care. Here, you are invited to explore to restore, integrate, and fully inhabit your embodied experience—changed, yet whole.

Read more from Unwind

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