From Loneliness to Connection: Exploring the Body of Loneliness (3/4)
This session is one part of a 4-week immersive series exploring how loneliness is both an emotional experience and a somatic one - held and expressed in our bodies. Each session focuses on a different region of the body (head, torso, limbs, whole-self) and uses guided exercises, sensory exploration, movement, play and group discussion to move from feeling lonely or disconnected toward embodied connection and belonging.
Through noticing how different parts of our body relate to isolation and connection, we will wake up to the body’s intelligence, and reclaim the capacity to feel seen, heard, held and belonging.
You can attend all sessions or just the one(s) that appeal to you.
This course is part of Weave Toronto, learn more about them here.
Format & Logistics
Duration: 2-hour sessions per week
Location: SOMEWHERE along Palmerston Ave, Toronto (exact location shared after registration.)
Price: $15
Max number of participants: 8, to keep an engaging and connected group experience.
Date: Sunday @ 2 pm–4 pm (doors at 1:45)
Session 3 - LIMBS: HANDS, LEGS, MOVEMENT
How we move through space, how we reach out, how we hold ourselves - our limbs tell the story of our relationship to connection. This session explores posture, gesture, and movement as expressions of isolation or belonging. We'll practice noticing what shifts when we move alone versus when we move in relation to others.
What to expect: Movement exploration, walking meditation, partner exercises on reaching and receiving.
About Joyce Meng
Joyce Meng is a Personality Psychology Coach, MBTI Master Practitioner, and IFS-Informed Practitioner who bridges typology with the art of embodied healing. With over a decade of experience and more than 2,000 hours of coaching, Joyce guides individuals toward emotional integration and self-understanding through the body. Drawing from her training in trauma-informed coaching, attachment theory, and Internal Family Systems, she helps participants recognize how loneliness is not just an emotion but a lived, sensory experience. Currently completing her Ph.D. in Psychology, Joyce brings warmth, curiosity, and psychological depth to every session - inviting people to reconnect with their breath, body, and innate capacity for belonging.
Why Joyce Created This Course
Joyce created The Body of Loneliness from a lifelong inquiry into one of the quietest forms of pain - existential loneliness. For much of her life, she carried the sense of being surrounded by people yet still feeling profoundly alone. Through her work in psychology, somatics, and Internal Family Systems, Joyce began to realize that loneliness is embodied. It lives in the nervous system.
For Joyce, the path out of loneliness has been one of coming home to her body - learning to listen, to regulate, and to reconnect from the inside out. This course is her way of sharing that discovery. It is an invitation for others to explore loneliness not as a flaw or failure, but as a message from the body asking to be met. Her hope is that, through these explorations, participants will rediscover what it means to truly belong - in themselves, and with one another.
About Abisola Olaniyi
Abi is the creator of Be In Colour, a platform devoted to transforming the way people experience connection through art, fashion, and sensory play. Her workshops are living galleries of emotion - spaces where colour, sound, and movement invite participants to rediscover the wonder of being human together. With a background in creative facilitation and community design, Abi weaves curiosity, compassion, and critical reflection into immersive experiences that awaken both thought and feeling. Her work bridges aesthetics and empathy, helping people translate what feels abstract or lonely into something shared, embodied, and alive.
Why Abi Created This Course
Abi created The Body of Loneliness from the experienced understanding that “one cannot think themselves out of how they feel.” Like the art she creates, Abi seeks to invite others who identify similarly into a practice to re-learn patterns of engaging with themselves and others. Through research, authentic relating techniques and principles of design; this course bridges the various paths Abi has walked to integrate what fragmented approaches miss: that connection happens through bodies learning to be present with each other.
Refund Policy:
No refunds, all purchases are final. Transfers are possible please email [email protected] or [email protected].
Accessibility:
If you need accessibility support(s) please email [email protected] or [email protected].
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