The pressure beneath the surface
There is a pressure portal we move through every day, often without realizing it.
It’s the moment before stress spikes.
The instant your body tightens.
Your breath shortens.
Your system braces, even when nothing is actually wrong.
This kind of pressure isn’t loud or dramatic.
It’s subtle.
Persistent.
Living just beneath the surface.
It often disguises itself as momentum.
As productivity.
As the feeling that something needs to happen now.
In human design, this pressure lives in the root center, the place where adrenalized energy, urgency, and stress originate.
And for many of us, it quietly shapes how we move through our days.
Letting pressure inform, not drive
The root center is not inherently a problem.
Pressure itself is not something to eliminate.
But when it isn’t understood, it tends to run in the background, tightening the nervous system, setting the pace, and making it difficult to fully rest.
However, when pressure is allowed to inform rather than drive, something softens.
You can feel what’s present without needing to act on it immediately.
What often goes unseen is that there are different kinds of pressure.
Some people take pressure in and amplify it.
Some people emanate pressure, impacting those around them.
Some feel pressure to begin.
Some to finish.
Some to improve or push past limitation.
This is where your unique root center configuration matters.
A chart-informed, intimate space
This will be a small, intimate, chart-informed workshop.
Before we gather, I’ll review your root center configuration, including:
whether your root center is defined or open/undefined
any root center gates you carry
any channels you have that are connected to your root center
Together, we’ll explore the particular pressure you experience:
what activates stress for you
how your root center is designed to process pressure
how you can honor your root center’s natural rhythm
the particular themes your root center gates and/or channels (if any) bring to your experience of stress and urgency
how pressure interacts with your emotions, intuition, timing, and/or decision-making
how urgency moves through your system
Any insights, practices, or materials that I bring into the space we all create together will be shaped by the real pressure dynamics present in the group.
To support depth and spaciousness, participation will be limited to 6–8 participants.
About the workshop
This will be a 3-hour experiential workshop, designed to move at a grounded, intentional pace.
At its core, this workshop is an exploration of the root center through a human design lens, with practices that support embodiment and integration.
We’ll look at how pressure operates differently depending on whether your root center is open/undefined or defined, and how the specific gates and/or channels you carry shape your experience of urgency, stress, and motivation.
Rather than working with pressure as a concept, we’ll work with it as a lived experience in your body.
This is not a workshop about pushing through stress, but about understanding how pressure is meant to move through you and learning how to relate to it with greater awareness and choice.
What we’ll work with
We’ll integrate these insights through gentle, supportive practices, including:
pressure mapping, to locate where urgency and stress live in your system
tapping (Emotional Freedom Technique) to support nervous system release
language and reframing exercises drawn from NLP, to soften internal pressure patterns
spacious moments to pause, settle, and integrate
You’ll also receive a sound frequency for the root center to support ongoing integration, a resource you can return to in your own time as your system needs.
No prior experience with human design or these tools is required.
You’ll be invited to slow down.
To listen inwardly.
To notice what shifts when pressure is met with understanding rather than with resistance.
Logistics
Date: Sunday, February 15th
Time: 2:00–5:00pm Central Time
Location: live on Zoom
Replay included
Investment: $150
This reflects the depth of preparation, presence, and care required to create this space.
Registration will close on February 5th to allow time for chart review and preparation.
Final note
If you’ve been living with more pressure than feels sustainable, this is a timely opportunity to slow down and understand what it’s asking of you.