Trauma-aware, archetypal, and embodiment-based education
The Midline School is a home for trauma-aware, archetypal, and embodiment-based education.
It is a place for people who are committed to their own deep inner work and who feel called to guide others with clarity, consent, and collective care.
The school offers training in Inner Territory work and, beginning next year, trauma-aware yoga. Everything here is taught slowly and relationally. The work centers sovereignty, accessibility, nervous system safety, and the understanding that personal healing is inseparable from our responsibility to each other and to the world.
Who this is for:
The Midline School is for people who feel the pull to walk their own inner work with honesty, depth, and devotion, and who sense that part of their path includes guiding others with care. Students often arrive already tending to communities in quiet or visible ways: therapists, coaches, yoga practitioners, bodyworkers, peer supporters, spiritual companions, artists, educators, and people who have simply lived their way into a deeper kind of listening. The work taught here is not a replacement for therapy unless a student is a licensed therapist practicing within their professional scope. These teachings can support and deepen therapeutic work, but they are not designed to take their place.
This school is for those who want a trauma-aware, relational, and embodied framework for inner work. People who value consent and sovereignty. People who want to learn practices that do not bypass the body or the nervous system, and that do not replicate harm, hierarchy, or spiritual performance. People who understand that personal healing is always connected to collective responsibility.
If you feel drawn to archetypal landscapes, to the work of Inner Territory journeys, or to the slow, grounded practice of accompanying others with integrity, this is a place where your curiosity and your care will be met.
The 2026 Inner Territory Guide Training is currently in session
What we teach:
At The Midline School, we teach practices that help students understand the architecture of their own inner and outer landscapes, and from that embodied knowledge, learn how to guide others with clarity and care. Our teachings weave archetypal work, trauma-aware spirituality, nervous system literacy, and embodied practice into a steady, relational approach to inner transformation.
Students learn the foundations of Inner Territory work:
How to navigate the landscapes of the bodymind, how to work with archetypes and inner figures, how to meet monsters and exiles without bypass or rescuing, and how to guide others through these territories with consent, containment, and a grounded sense of responsibility.
You will learn how to shape and lead journeys, how to hold space with skill and humility, and how to engage spiritual work without abandoning the body or the collective. As the school expands, students will also have the option to study trauma-aware yoga as another pathway into embodiment and ethical practice.
Everything we teach is slow, relational, and rooted in lived experience. The goal is not to create performance or hierarchy, but to cultivate practitioners who can accompany others with integrity, steadiness, and deep respect for the wisdom that already lives within each person.
Vital Note:
I (Stephanie) am a white woman working within a soul parts practice. My lineage and spiritual practices are a patchwork of Nordic, Scandinavian, Irish/Celtic through ancestry, rich with animism, balance, story, and guides. I, like many, was born into the disembodiment of whiteness, a gross inheritance from too many of my ancestors who gave up parts of their souls in exchange for assimilation. This is not something I hold lightly.
It is undeniable that the practices, tools, and rituals of BIPOC people are appropriated within white spiritual spaces and beyond. I have learned from Rebecca, The White Woman Whisperer, that one way to interrupt the patterns of whiteness is to learn who and where we ourselves have come from. I have taken this to heart as a mapline leading out of assimilation and into a long-awaited return. I will not pretend that I have eradicated every last drop of whiteness from myself (I’m often heartbreakingly aware I haven’t), but I make an ongoing vow to never stop investigating, naming, and dismantling the oppressor within as Audre Lorde has taught us to do.
So, in alignment with my integrity and always evolving in understanding, I practice what is mine, honor what is not, and revere collaborative energies. I teach Inner Territory from my own practices and invite you to explore it through yours.
As exploratory as I am with the spiritual practices of my pre-colonial ancestors, I am wildly cautious about who I learn from, knowing that many European spiritualities have been co-opted and distorted by white supremacy. I reject that insertion and oppose it with my entire soulbody.
I have deep respect and appreciation for the kinship of soul work across many lineages and encourage you to learn from teachers who are living libraries of wisdom. Where and who do you also come from? Those mythlines are wildly important to learn so that your own spirituality and living can work in tandem to dehydrate the thirsty beast of whiteness.
White cishet women will not rebuild the world. We will not usher in a new way. Black and Indigenous women have spent lifetimes building and preserving the scaffolding and liberatory foundations of a better world. They are the captains of these ships.
It is deeply important to me that, as you come to my work, you understand that I am not, cannot ever be, an architect of worlds, but I am a diehard believer in a better one. I can see its shape and substance within the Inner Territory, within myth and folklore, within movements and resistance, within books and newsletters written by the women and others I have listed below, within the overlapping waters of past and present, within people, within Nature itself. I am a student and a recipient of the wisdom I’ve absorbed from Black, Palestinian, and Indigenous women, as well as trans and nonbinary People of Color who will, for a long, long time, be and are now leading us.
With all my heart, I point you in the direction of these world builders and visionaries of a better world. Draw from them first and foremost. And, if Inner Territory work, as I’ve learned and teach it, calls to you, please come and find me. I’ll be here. A deckhand, not a captain, as we steer ourselves home.
Authors:
bell hooks
Audre Lorde
Octavia Butler
Louise Erdrich
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
N.K. Jemison
Yaa Gyasi
The Midline School Team
Stephanie Greene
Natalie Stoemmer
Rae Monterra
Sarah Congdon
