INNER NAVIGATION
TANTRIC HEALING FOR THE FEELING BODY
A Two-Month Practice-Based Immersion
2025 Dates to be Released Soon
In-Person (Mullumbimby) and Online Groups
Program Overview
This program is designed for those with a Feeling body sensitivity — a profound gift that can also make life deeply challenging. Despite years of therapy and spiritual practice, many still struggle with the core intensity of their experience, leading to feelings of hopelessness and self-doubt.
For the highly Sensate, especially the Hyper-Feeler, a Buddhist Tantric approach can offer life-changing maps and practices — not just to reduce intensity, but offering profound insight and gateways to new dimensions of being.
SENSATES & HYPER-FEELERS
SENSATES & HYPER-FEELERS
A Tantric Understanding of Feelings
In Buddhism, Vedanā refers to the feeling realm,
the subtle sensations and vibrations of energy,
that unconsciously animate our emotional world.
The way we fear and misperceive them
is so ancient —
Deep cellular habits, or imprints
In both the personal and collective unconscious.
We did not arrive as blank slates.
This isn’t just childhood conditioning —
it’s the human experience we are all swimming in.
A Shift in Perspective
If you’re highly sensitive in the feeling body,
your sensitivity to this realm is heightened —
sensing what others avoid or can’t perceive.
Since we collectively fear and misperceive this realm,
you’re picking up what’s collectively exiled.
If you relate to these feelings as personal,
the intensity increases.
If, however, you welcome them as what is collective rejected,
not only does compassion arise, naturally,
but the whole system begins to settle.
For feelers, where intensity is relentless,
this isn’t just helpful — it’s radically transformative.
THE GIFT OF SENSITIVITY
THE GIFT OF SENSITIVITY
Tantric teachings are often called hidden.
not because they are secret —
but because they require a refined sensitivity to be fully received.
That sensitivity can be developed over a lifetime of practice —
but if you’re highly sensitive in the feeling body
these teachings usually come as a profound relief.
They offer maps of exquisite specificity,
guiding you through the depths,
beyond therapy or meditation.
And perhaps most surprisingly,
it’s in the moments of the most raw intensity,
that these maps truly came alive.
Opening gateways to new dimensions of being,
and learning to navigate intensity in paradoxical
and profoundly soothing ways.
A Tantric approach to feelings
doesn’t just make sense to feelers —
it re-writes everything, experientially.
SACRED DARKNESS
SACRED DARKNESS
Resting in the Feminine Ground
One of the great gifts of feeling sensitivity
is the ability to rest into the nourishing depths of Being —
made more visible by contrast with intensity.
This isn’t about escaping feelings,
but receiving them differently —
from within the vibrational realm of essence.
This is receptivity — the soft,
feminine waters of consciousness we’ve forgotten.
Here, relaxation and concentration arise effortlessly.
Instead of Soothing high activation into sensation,
we soften and receive them with ease.
Beneath perception, insight is illuminated, in the body.
Every vibration we’ve feared can be received here.
Compassion doesn’t need to be cultivated,
it arises naturally, as a vibration of love.
With it, comes profound self-forgiveness.
As we soften into our humanness,
we begin to taste wholeness,
and the deeply replenishing ground of Being.
Befriending Darkness
As we learn to rest in darkness, we transform the ways we meet and understand feelings — AND expand our capacity to receive nourishment. In this training we are learning to:
- Enter presence beyond story
- Receive feelings instead of penetrating them
- Discover the nourishment of the depths
- Discover living from within the unknown
Unblending & Befriending
We’ll be learning to recognise fragmented states and use them as gateways to into embodied presence, in a way that was previously inaccessible. In this training we are learning to:
- Embody mental states
- Embody emotional states
- Release the grip of extreme states
- Rest in calmness amid extreme intensity
SOOTHING INTENSITY
SOOTHING INTENSITY
Learning to shift from high activation to deep calm —
within an hour or two, consistently —
not only brings insight, but is life-changing.
It builds trust ourselves, our inner world, and life itself —
even in struggle.
But intensity holds a deeper gift.
When we meet it through story or personal history,
it not only intensifies,
but we circle endlessly at the tip of the iceberg.
Paradoxically, intense states makes it easier
to drop the narrative altogether —
so we can work with Emotional embodiment and integration
as pure vibration,
beneath the perception of what we think it is.
This opens direct access to the unconscious —
and the subtle, foundational layers of our being.
WEEKLY TEACHINGS
9 weeks of live, group sessions. Recorded teachings sent prior, so sessions can be more experiential and practice based.
INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS
Individual sessions allow for direct transmissions, every 2-weeks to ignite the practices through your unique body.
MIGHTY NETWORKS
An excellent platform for all teachings, questions and answers and a space for group insights and reflections.
WEEKLY GROUP SESSIONS
Slow, real, and relational — these sessions reveal the power of radical authenticity and collective nature of our experience.
GUIDED PRACTICES
Gentle, recorded, deeply somatic practices set to music, working with both feelings and inhabiting space.
FINAL WEEKEND RETREAT
A completion retreat at the end of the immersion to integrate practices, teachings and the power of the group container.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?
I can truly say that Lorella’s work and her meditation practices have changed my life. Her powerful warmth and authenticity shines through the practices that sustain, nourish and hold me daily. I have learnt more about myself and others than I knew was possible, and continues to transform constantly.
EXISTENCE AS LOVE
- Feel the vibration of existence as love, beyond separation.
- Rest into your essence and discover the true meaning of Being and Oneness.
- Receive deep nourishment through embodied presence.
DIVINE FEELINGS
- Learn that feelings are vibrational energies, not personal flaws.
- Release judgment, attachment, and resistance as the true source of suffering.
- Understand feelings as a collective experience, not just individual history.
LOVING PRESENCE
- Discover the difference between true presence and harsh, performative presence.
- Welcome every drop of your experience with curiosity, compassion, and insight.
TRUE INTIMACY
- Recognise and integrate both protective and exiled parts of yourself.
- Express your inner world with honesty and softness — a gateway to deeper connection.
- Build self-compassion that naturally extends into your relationships.
“If you can name
the feeling, and there’s
still a story attached to it
— you’re not in the
unconscious realm
of feeling”
— Lorella Ricci
INNER NAVIGATION IMMERSION DETAILS
2025 DATES TO BE ADVISED SOON
“The inner navigation program has been such an important and transformative journey for me. The level of intimacy I am exploring within myself has opened doorways for me to be more open with my vulnerability and show up with more spacious authenticity in the world and in all my relationships.
I am so grateful for this work, which to me feels so radical: a calling into being and feeling deeply in resonance with the aliveness of the world.
Lorella’s guidance is refined and exquisite. She can meet me in these deep places where the strongest feelings arise with so much grounding, curiosity and empathy. And I appreciate how she is embodying her teaching in each step of the process with everyone in the group.”
E.P. Somatic Psychotherapist
“Immersions with Lorella are an absolute treasure for highly sensitive people who are into self introspection and willing to befriend their shadows. A game changer that connects your somatic intelligence with mindfulness, Buddhism and a deep emotional literacy. It has given me a felt-sense experience of a benevolent universe, something that before was more of a belief.
In my interactions with others there is more trust and an increased ability to see when I, or others, are coming from a part.
And in my relationship with my own feelings, there is definitely more compassion, unconditional love, curiosity and a willingness to hang out with them until they are ready to offer their wisdom.”
M.J. Somatic Coaching
Lorella’s teachings have profoundly transformed my life, both personally and professionally. Previous trainings I have done (eg somatic psychotherapy) have often framed big feelings as trauma—something scary that needs to be confronted perhaps slowly, but relatively directly, searching for the root cause and looking for healing within my own life story. The truth is that after many years, I have often found this approach to be overwhelming and never ending… as if I will never overcome the grip of my trauma and its impact on my life decisions and reactions to the world.
Conversely, meditation and other spiritual practices have taught me to bypass intense feelings, treating them as illusions of suffering or hinderances to enlightenment.
With Lorella Meeting sensation without resistance , it offers a beautiful, balanced approach, bringing all the best bits of psychotherapy, spirituality and meditation together. She has taught me to regard some of my most intense and overwhelming feelings as ancient… beyond my own personal life story. As sweet, distressed parts of myself that are yearning for and so deserving of my respect and honour.
Her approach allows for embracing emotions in a less intimidating way without becoming consumed by them and without dismissing them entirely.
It has honestly been life-changing.
Lorella is a phenomenal teacher. Thank you, Lorella, for bringing this invaluable work to the world!
— DC, Somatic Psychotherapist
“Lorella’s Inner Immersion has been a profound experience. As someone who feels things deeply but has a tendency to flip up into my head to try and ‘work it out’ I loved learning how to stay in my body and feel the vibrations of feelings without being overwhelmed or shutting down.
This work has changed how I interact with others and with myself.
I highly recommend working with Lorella. She walks her talk and shares her vast wisdom so generously with humour and grace.
— JI, Ayurvedic Practitioner & Yoga Teacher
“This Immersion was one of a kind. Lorella teaches feelings in a way that no one else does. So many people in the group said, “I can finally just feel this, thank you!” This is a step away from the over psychologising and overthinking that is everywhere these days. If you want to get to know yourself, process your stuff and get space from all the ideas of who you are and what it’s all about, you have come to the right place.
Compassion is the most important part of recovery, in practices like yoga and psychotherapy, you learn about compassion, but Lorella takes compassion to a whole new level. This will be something you have in your mental health tool box forever. Letting go of the should and shouldn’t of how to recover.
Lorella teaches us that our feelings are the path to recovery, not the roadblocks on the way. The bonus is you get to take her with you long after the immersion, with her guided practices you will have a therapist in your pocket everywhere you go! “
— MW, Psych Nurse