Ceres Movement × Coconut Yoga Chicago
Not fixing. Tending. Begin from exactly where you are.
A founding cohort · Fall 2026
Ceres Movement × Coconut Yoga Chicago
Not fixing. Tending. Begin from exactly where you are.
A founding cohort · Fall 2026
Tend is a nervous-system-centered program — individual yoga therapy, eight self-paced modules, and four in-person gatherings, working as one. It's for people ready to create change: to shift a habit, work with stress that doesn't ease with rest, or move through a transition with more steadiness.
You learn to read your own patterns, find anchors of nourishment, build capacity and resilience, and develop a rhythm of care you'll want to continue. Change that lasts is built on a nervous system that can hold it.
Learning to see clearly before changing anything.
Seeing what repeats — in the body and in behavior.
Staying present with what's hard, without being overwhelmed.
Building a practice that is genuinely, sustainably yours.
A series of one-to-one sessions following your progress, shaped around your whole person — assessment-based and collaborative. The heart of Tend.
Readings, guided audio practices, journaling and reflection, plus a library of practices and teachings — moving through four phases at your own pace, inside your client portal.
Ninety-minute experiential gatherings with the founding cohort at Coconut Yoga: time to practice together, explore what's surfaced, and connect.
Direct messaging access throughout, one-to-one check-ins as you progress, and a private cohort community — so you're supported between sessions, not only inside them.
The one-to-one sessions follow your own progress: you move through a module, then we meet inside it, shaping the work around what you're navigating. This is where Tend becomes individual — assessment-based, collaborative, and built around your whole person.
On Zoom, before you begin. Understanding your history, concerns, and goals, and opening the work together.
One-to-one on Zoom as you move through the program, each shaped around where you are.
At completion. Reflection, integration, and a clear sense of what you carry forward.
Sessions are held on Zoom during the week, scheduled through your portal. I also hold in-person hours at Coconut on select Sundays this fall, by appointment and first-come, if you'd rather meet in person.
The founding cohort — a small group exploring shared change — meets at Coconut Yoga on four Sunday afternoons. Ninety minutes each, experiential and practice-based: a chance to move through practices together, sit with what's surfacing, ask questions, and feel the coherence that emerges when people practice in a room. The group is doing something a solo practice can't.
Coconut Yoga Chicago · 1408 W Belmont Ave · Chicago, IL 60657
Everyone arrives at the first gathering on September 20 having completed their intake and Module 1 — the one fixed prerequisite. After that, you move at your own pace within the program window.
We don't become who we're becoming by rejecting who we are. We become them by tending to ourselves with respect.
Health is presence. Connection — to yourself, your body, and the people around you.
People come to Tend for different reasons:
No yoga background needed — just curiosity and a willingness to begin.
Limited by design — the one-to-one work is the center of it.
Waitlist opens. First access and the best rate go to the waitlist.
Early-bird window opens for the waitlist — first access to enroll, at the founding early-bird rate.
Enrollment opens to everyone at the founding early-bird rate.
Early-bird rate closes. The founding rate continues through August 30.
Registration closes. Register on or before August 30 for a full sixteen weeks to move through the program — though many people need less.
When you register, you'll be prompted to schedule your 1:1 intake. Once that's complete, Module 1 opens — so if you're eager to begin, the early-bird window lets you start sooner. Tend officially launches August 30, with time built in to complete your intake and Module 1 before the first gathering on September 20.
Life is busy, and Tend was built with that in mind. Most people move through a module in seven to ten days; sometimes it takes a little longer. The program has a firm end date — December 20, 2026 — which marks the end of access to Tend and is there to support your momentum. As long as you're registered on or before August 30, you'll have a full sixteen weeks to complete the work, and I'll be supporting you the whole way.
Offered once, for this first group. Future cohorts at $1,500 and up.
The early-bird rate is open to everyone now, through July 22.
Every participant receives a yoga therapy informed consent and a participation agreement before beginning. Yoga therapy is educational and supportive — it does not diagnose or treat medical or mental health conditions, and it does not replace care from a licensed provider.
No. Tend is built for people new to yoga and longtime practitioners alike. Much of what these practices have long understood, current science is now able to explain — and you need none of that background to benefit. The program is invitational: I'll guide you toward what helps, and you choose how far to go, with optional readings on the philosophy and the science behind the practices. I'm here for your questions throughout, and the cohort community is a place to connect with me and others as we move through the work together.
Asana — movement — is one of yoga's eight limbs, and Tend is built around the whole eightfold path. You'll find yoga and somatic movement in the program, alongside mudra, meditation, breath, and energy practices. We each want different things from movement, so in our 1:1 yoga therapy work I'll get to know your current practice and your goals, and help you continue or expand what you're doing. If you love tennis or CrossFit, I'm here to support that — and I may suggest a few new practices to serve where you're headed.
The gatherings are optional and aren't recorded. I hope you'll make all four, but if something comes up, we can cover anything that mattered to you in your one-to-one sessions.
Just a phone or computer with internet access. Tend lives on Practice Better, a HIPAA-compliant platform you can use in a desktop browser or the mobile app — it holds the self-guided modules, messaging, the cohort community, and your 1:1 scheduling in one place. One-to-one sessions are held on Zoom during the week; I also offer in-person hours at Coconut on select Sundays this fall, booked first-come, if you'd rather meet in person. And the four experiential gatherings happen in person on Sunday afternoons.
Kathryn Norris is a yoga therapist, certified somatic practitioner, and E-RYT / YACEP-registered teacher. She is completing an IAYT-accredited practicum. Tend is a nervous-system-centered program, integrating and informed by yoga, somatics, and neuroscience-based habit change.
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