Inner Smile, Self-Touch & Laughter
A Somatic Gratitude Tantra & Taoist Healing Experience
A gentle yet joy-awakening journey into embodiment, emotional harmony, and self-love.
In this nourishing experience, we weave together three powerful yet accessible practices rooted in Taoist and somatic wisdom. Together, they calm the nervous system, soften stored emotions, and awaken joy and vitality from the inside out.
What We’ll Practice
Tao Inner Smile to the Organs
A Taoist meditation using breath, awareness, and a gentle inner smile to harmonize the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, and spleen. This practice supports the transformation of stress, fear, anger, grief, and worry into balance, vitality, and ease.
Self-Touch Gratitude Meditation (Non-Sexual)
Slow, intentional self-touch paired with gratitude to help the body feel safe, grounded, and nourished. This practice builds self-trust, releases tension, and anchors presence directly into the body.
Laughter Meditation
A playful, guided practice that invites spontaneous laughter to release emotional heaviness, oxygenate the body, boost mood, and awaken joy. Laughter may begin intentionally and is allowed to grow naturally.
Benefits You May Experience
Nervous system regulation and stress relief
Emotional release and lightness
Increased self-love, safety, and embodiment
Improved organ vitality and breath capacity
Release of stored tension and stagnation
Elevated mood, joy, and aliveness
A deeper sense of inner connection and wholeness
No experience needed. All practices are gentle, guided, and optional.
This Gathering Is For You If You
Feel tense, heavy, or emotionally stuck
Want healing that feels gentle and joyful
Are curious about Taoist, somatic, or embodied practices
Desire more presence, ease, and aliveness
Want to reconnect with joy through the body
Would like to attend with children (kids are welcome)
What to Expect
Guided meditations and somatic practices
A trauma-aware, consent-based, and welcoming space
Choice, pacing, and rest throughout
Time to integrate and ground
Intention of This Gathering
Healing does not have to be heavy.
Through smile, touch, breath, and laughter, we soften, release, and return home to ourselves.
Arrive Prepared
Arrive ~10-15 minutes early- we will begin promptly at 1pm. Your preparedness helps us to co-create the best experience for all present.
Bring
Please wear comfortable clothing and bring anything that supports relaxation, such as water, a journal and pen, cozy layers, a yoga mat, an eye mask, and anything your children may need.
Creating Sacred Space
In the spirit of fostering authentic connection and honoring this sacred space:
Please do no promote your business, disperse flyers, etc, as doing so can create doubt and confusion regarding your intentions for stepping into this space with us.
Your Host
Silvia Lopez, Shamanic Practitioner & Facilitator of Relational Healing & Sacred Connection, will be facilitating this event.
Venue
We’ll gather at the Quarry Arts Building at 715 Hill St, Madison, Wisconsin, in the Mendota Movement Room, #170.