Connecting You with Your Self

Connecting You with Your Self, Intentional Living Circle

Host: Sophia Carmien
Title: Emotions as Messengers

Description: Emotions don't just make you feel good or bad. They can be powerful messengers, bringing guidance and resources to help us navigate our lives more wisely. Yet, in our fast-paced and often emotionally disconnected world, we can be overwhelmed by our emotions or sometimes become numb to them. We may try to control, suppress, or avoid them altogether, missing out on the essential guidance they offer.

In this interactive session, we’ll explore a more intentional way of relating to emotions. Learn to:

• Listen for the message within the emotion
• Gain some space to be with emotions mindfully
• Shift from reacting to emotions to receiving and responding with awareness

Whether you tend to be overtaken by emotions or try to avoid them, this session will offer practical and compassionate ways to reconnect with the inner guidance your emotions may bring.

Bio: Sophia Carmien is an Enneagram teacher and guide who helps people reconnect with their deeper selves by bringing awareness to inner patterns and expanding what’s possible. After experiencing profound transformation through her own work with the Enneagram, she now shares this tool of ancient wisdom with others. Through teaching, workshops, and one-on-one work, she supports the shift from habitual reactivity to a life of freedom and empowered authenticity.Website: www.essentialwholeness.life

Learn more about Connecting You with Your Self at www.connectingyouwithyourself.com

Guide: Anca Kuns, Usui Reiki Master www.beyondorionenergy.com www.youtube.com/@ancakuns

Topic: Topic:
The Breath That Knows

A Harmonic Breath Series for Nervous System Coherence
Description:
Step into a field of resonance where your body remembers what the mind cannot explain.
“The Breath That Knows” is an ongoing energy alignment series dedicated to helping you develop embodied coherence through guided breath, subtle awareness, and energetic stabilization. Each session invites your nervous system to harmonize with what is already true—beneath tension, beyond thought.

What to Expect:

• Gentle group attunement through harmonic-informed breath
• Nervous system recalibration without force
• Deep stillness, presence, and body-centered insight
• Space to reflect and integrate in a supportive field

This isn’t performance or breathwork as exertion—this is energetic listening through breath, revealing the intelligence already within you.
No prior experience required. Just bring yourself and your breath.

Hosted in an intimate, grounded setting.
You’ll leave each session clearer, lighter, and more you.

Note on arriving late:
I allow a 5–7 minute settling-in window at the start. After that, the space closes to new arrivals (especially if I don't recognize your name) to honor the group’s focus. Thank you for respecting the container and everyone present.
I see you.
I celebrate you.

To receive Anca's weekly message, contact her directly or go to www.connectingyouwithyourself.com, calendar of events tab.

Empowered Living Chats w/Nancy Markow
Empowered Living Chats supports you to learn, experience, and use the Enneagram wisdom to support you and others in your everyday life. It is one of the offerings from Connecting You with Your Self - learn more about CYWY and Nancy Markow at www.connectingyouwithyourself.com

We are using the Empowered Living, Enneagram workbook, from its roots to its wings. If you don't have a copy, please reach out for one.

Each week, we will explore a topic.

To learn what the topic is and the suggested reading and to prepare for the chat, log onto www.connectingyouwithyourself.com.

The tab "Calendar of events" will take you to the event and show you the topic and suggested reading.

Request the workbook using the "more" and the "connect tab."

Connecting You with Yourself is a free online community supporting you with your relationship with yourself. This is an Intentional Living Circle hosted by Sophia Carmien.

Title: Unmasking Identity: A Journey Beyond Who We Think We Are

Description:
We all have a story we tell about who we are.
Smart. Kind. Creative. Reliable. Strong.

We wear these identities with pride... but what happens when we let them go?

This experiential event invites you into an exploration of identity through the lens of the Enneagram, not as a typology to cling to, but as a tool for loosening the grip of ego.

You’ll be guided through a process that begins with celebrating the qualities you most identify with and then gently turns the mirror. What if those very traits are also your limitations? What if who you think you are is only part of the story?

Together, we’ll explore how identity is formed and reinforced in daily life, often without us realizing it. We’ll get curious about what it costs to maintain the image we present to the world and what becomes possible in the moments when we let it go.

This is not about fixing or improving yourself. It's about seeing more clearly and experiencing the aliveness of who you are beneath the roles, patterns, and personas.

Come with curiosity. Leave with a little less certainty and a lot more spaciousness.

Bio: Sophia Carmien is an Enneagram teacher and guide who helps people reconnect with their deeper selves by bringing awareness to inner patterns and expanding what’s possible. After experiencing profound transformation through her own work with the Enneagram, she now shares this tool of ancient wisdom with others. Through teaching, workshops, and one-on-one work, she supports the shift from habitual reactivity to a life of freedom and empowered authenticity.

Website: www.essentialwholeness.life