Empowered Spaces

Home
United States
St. Louis, MO
Empowered Spaces

As a collective, we work at the intersection of justice and trauma-informed care

EMPOWERED Spaces is a holistic healing and empowerment center that provides embodied therapy, yoga & movement, bodywork, spiritual development, and collective care practices.

04/08/2026

Not safe as in: nothing bad is happening.

Safe as in: your shoulders dropped without you deciding to drop them. Your body was able to exhale. Something in you stopped bracing for what comes next.

That kind of safe.

For helpers, that experience can become rare.

Not because danger isn’t real, it is, and not equally for everyone.

But because a nervous system that has been on duty for a long time stops fully believing in the possibility of rest.

It keeps one eye open. Just in case.

And slowly, without noticing, you stop expecting to feel held. Stop expecting to feel at ease. Stop expecting the particular stillness that comes when you are genuinely, fully safe.

This is not weakness. This is what chronic vigilance does to a body over time.

For some of us, that vigilance is not just personal. It is the weight of moving through a world that was not built with our safety in mind.

And the body remembers.
Slowly. With the right conditions, relational and structural.

In the presence of people who are not scanning for danger either.

In rooms that were built with your safety in mind.

In moments that remind your body it is safe to exhale.

That’s what we’re tending to at The Heart of Healing.

A space where helpers get to stop keeping one eye open.

Where your full self, every part of who you are, is not just tolerated but genuinely welcome.

May 8. In person in St. Louis and virtually. Sliding scale. Equity scholarships available.

With love and solidarity, Kelly

04/07/2026

When the world feels like too much to hold,

when your body is bracing, your jaw is somewhere near your ears, your shoulders have forgotten how to drop,

you don't need another thing to add to your list.

You need someone to help you come back to yourself.

That's exactly what my dear friend Erin Renée Roberts offers in C.H.A.T. — Creative Healing Arts Tune Up.

She will guide you through breathwork, acupressure, self-massage, and energy work to help you build a self-healing practice that actually belongs to you.

Not something you do when you can afford a spa day. Something you carry in your own hands.

Imagine being able to give yourself a full body, perfectly pressured massage — any time, anywhere — with nothing but your hands and a tennis ball.

Erin Renée is a creative healing artist, licensed massage therapist, and earthseed practitioner whose work lives at the crossroads of somatics, movement art, and permaculture. She calls herself a Creative Inhabitor, and once you experience her work, you'll understand exactly what that means.

She is building a healing space that is deeply reparative, with pricing rooted in justice and solidarity.

Wednesdays + Sundays, 7–8:30pm. Equity pricing + scholarships available.

Learn more and sign up here

https://www.empoweredspaces.net/schedule/creative-healing-arts-tune-up-with-erin-rene-chat-with-erin-rene-april-sunday-rtfyl

04/06/2026

We’re often taught that strength comes from holding, bracing, pushing through.

But the body tells a different story.

When the nervous system has enough safety, choice, and support,

power doesn’t need to be forced.

It becomes available.

This is one of the foundational truths of somatic work.

This is the kind of practice we’re committed to.

04/06/2026

Are you experiencing feelings of grief, loss, anxiety, or overwhelm?

Sometimes, these emotions get stuck in the body, causing suffering and preventing us from moving forward.

Expressive Movement uses the power of movement, breath, and sound to inspire you to release pain and suffering to connect to love, harmony, and peace in a compassionate transformation.

Facilitator Margie (Lewitt) Golden, LCSW, is an experienced grief and loss therapist who was trained by Paul Denniston, the founder of Grief Yoga®, to provide Expressive Movement sessions in the community. All aspects of this session will be invitational so that each participant can choose what feels right for them throughout the practice. This practice is mild and gentle, with no previous movement experience necessary. Participants are invited to join in the movements seated in a chair, standing, or using a mat on the floor, depending on what would feel most comfortable to them.

In her session, Margie will guide you through a practice of techniques and poses demonstrated to release difficult emotions in order for you to reach what you desire: harmony, comfort, peace, compassion.

The practice will begin with grounding and breathing together.We then take our practice to Awareness. We warm up with seated exercises that share the goal of becoming more aware of our emotions and releasing places where we carry tension and stress.

We will then flow into Expression. Expression is an opportunity to find our strength and power. In this phase we are invited to participate in techniques to release the difficult emotions.

Next is Connection. It is natural when experiencing grief, anxiety, or fear to feel alone and disconnected from others. In this phase, we use flowing meditations to move toward grace.

Lastly is Surrender. In this final phase, we will learn the incredible power of the act of surrender…releasing control to circumstances. We will close out the session with a poem or drawing or stillness.

If you’re ready to experience relief from feeling stuck, we hope you’ll join us for this one-hour session.

Read more .spaces

04/02/2026

Most of us spend our lives a few inches behind our eyes. Shoulders tight. Breath shallow. Mind three steps ahead of wherever we actually are.

For helpers especially — this is practically a job requirement.

But the body has been here the whole time.

Holding what the mind has been too busy to feel. Shaped by all of it. Waiting for you to slow down enough to feel it.

To be embodied is to return home to yourself. Your body. This moment.

Whatever is here — the grief and the aliveness, the rage and the tenderness, the exhaustion and the longing, the numbness and the joy. Not making any of it wrong.

Just building the capacity to be with your own experience, exactly as it is.

It’s not a technique. It’s not a coping tool. It’s not something to master or get right.

It’s an invitation back to something you already have. Something that was never lost — just buried under everything else.

This is at the heart of what we do at The Heart of Healing.

Each gathering weaves together somatic practice, honest conversation, and teaching rooted in trauma-informed and justice-rooted care.

And we will practice — in our bodies, in community — what it feels like to actually receive care instead of just give it.

From the moment you arrive, you are met.
Not evaluated. Not pushed. Not asked to perform or produce or get somewhere.

Just met, exactly where you are.

You move at your own pace. You follow what feels right in your own body. You might dive in fully. You might just need to sit and breathe. There is room for all of it.

There is no right way to be here. Only your way.

May 8. In person in St. Louis and virtually. Sliding scale. Equity scholarships available.

Link in bio.

With love and solidarity,
Kelly

04/01/2026

Movement Enthusiasts: ever feel like something’s missing?

You know how to build strength.
You’ve studied reps, sets, planes of motion.
You stretch, you foam-roll.

But when tight hips, cranky shoulders, or nagging low back pain show up —
the usual fixes don’t always work.

Mobility drills only go so far.

Foam rolling seems hit-or-miss.

“Engaging your core” isn’t solving movement dysfunction.

That’s where MoveWise comes in.

This certification in Biomechanical Assessment & Correction gives you a practical system to:

Identify compensation patterns that limit mobility and performance

Use fascia-focused techniques that actually change tissue quality

Restore pain-free movement without guessing

You’ll leave with tools that blend seamlessly into your existing approach, so that you can move and perform better, longer, and with less pain.

🗓️ Starts June 19 at Empowered Spaces in St. Louis, MO

✨ Includes 2 in-person immersions + credit toward the CYS Yoga Therapy Certification

✨Built for those who want real results for real bodies.

✨ Ready to upgrade what you know about movement?

Link in bio to register now.

03/31/2026

✨ If you’re 18+, live in St. Louis, have been impacted by sexual or intimate partner violence and feel ready for group therapy, please read on:

✨ is offering a trauma-informed, private music therapy group, led by one of their board-certified music therapists.

✨ Together, we’ll explore music as an anchor for grounding, expression, and connection - through activities like listening, reflecting, music-making or songwriting - within a safe and respectful community space. No musical experience necessary.

✨ To register by April 7, please visit: TinyUrl.com/ABPForm

03/30/2026

If you’re a helper, healer, or caregiver, you probably know how to push through.

How to show up anyway. Hold it all together. Figure it out. Just. get. through.

And it works, for a lot of things. But not for this.

The nervous system doesn’t respond to discipline. It responds to safety.

There are many ways the nervous system finds its way back to safety. But one of the most powerful — the one we were literally built for — is another person.

Present. Attuned. Someone doesn’t need you to be okay.

And this isn’t a luxury or a wellness trend.

It is how human nervous systems were designed to heal. Through connection.
Needing that is not weakness.

It’s what it means to be human.

When care flows outward all day without anything flowing back, the body notices.

Even when the mind has learned to ignore it.

You cannot think your way into feeling safe.

You cannot push your way into feeling held.

You have to actually be held.

Helpers know how to offer this to others.

You’ve spent years learning how.

What’s harder, what nobody really teaches us, is how to receive it.

That’s what The Heart of Healing was built for.

A space where helpers get to be on the receiving end.

Where your nervous system gets to rest in the presence of people who understand — because they’re living it too.

Starting May 8. A year of connection.

In person in St. Louis and virtually.
Sliding scale. Equity scholarships available. Link in bio.

With love and solidarity,
Kelly

03/26/2026

They have a soft place to land.

Not just a therapist, and not just supervision once a month. A real community.

People who understand the specific texture of this work, the weight of it and the beauty of it, without needing it explained.

I’ve watched brilliant, committed people leave this work not because they stopped caring.

But because they were caring without being cared for.

And eventually that becomes unsustainable.

The ones who stay — who remain genuinely present, warm, and alive in the work years and years in — almost always have people around them who see them. Really see them.

Not just as a helper. As a human being who is also, sometimes, tired.

That’s not a luxury, that’s a lifeline.

You deserve to be held in this work, my dear friend. Not as a reward for doing it well. Just because you’re human.

With love and solidarity,
Kelly

03/25/2026

How do we manage our stress, pain and tension when there is so much needing to be taken cared of around us? How do you use your body? What ways are you planning to use your body?

Creative Healing Arts Tune Ups with Erin Renée is a self transformation practice to empower you to maintain peace, reduce stress and release tension through these very activated time.

Pause to generate your own calm unity practice; fill you cup and be able to live and give from your overflow with guidance and support from Erin Renée.

She will guide you through with the use of self healing tools, breathwork and a customized variety of self maintenance techniques to develop your own personal wellness and self healing that you can use in and out of session.

C.H.A.T with Erin Renée emphasizes surrendering to gravity, breath, and intention.

Modalities range from reiki (hands off energy work) to acupressure/self massage (deep tissue/trigger point release work), to assisted stretch using tools (not quite yoga, but definitely supports the yogi in you).

Imagine being able to give yourself a full body, perfectly pressured massage any time you need with nothing but your own hands and a tennis ball.

With open communication throughout the sessions, we meet ourselves where we are and with grounded, considerate consult Erin Renée invites you to co-create a self healing, self loving practice that heightens your knowledge of your body’s needs and equips you to listen, hear and accomodate those needs.

What is Self Transformation + Self Maintanence:

Only YOU truly know YOUR BODY, so Erin Renée helps you tune in to listen to YOUR body’s needs and guides you to deeper, more supportive ways to address those needs.

Erin Renée’s approach to wellness and healing is to support the embodied individual by empowering, activating and enhancing their capacity to tend to and mend themselves.

Wednesdays and Sundays 7:00-8:30PM
Equity pricing and scholarship available

03/23/2026

Burnout is not a personal failing. It is a political condition.

Burnout is the word we use when we want to name the exhaustion without naming the cause.

It sounds neutral. Inevitable. Nobody’s fault.

I’ve been a trauma therapist for twenty years, and this has been apparent in all of the work that I do. Burnout is not a personal problem. It is a collective wound.

In somatic healing, we understand that the nervous system is not separate from its environment. It is shaped by it. Steadied or unsettled by it. Replenished or worn down by it.

And the environments most helpers are working inside right now are extractive, under-resourced, and unjust.

What I see is NOT burnout.
It is a trauma response to impossible conditions.

It is a sign that something is wrong with the system. NOT with you.

The exhaustion helpers carry is not just personal. It is structural.

I see this fall disproportionately on Black people and people of color. On q***r and trans people. On women. On those doing the most essential and least resourced work in our communities.

This is not coincidence. This is what it looks like when systems take from certain people without ever asking what those people need.

That is a justice issue. NOT just a wellness issue.

When we treat burnout as an individual problem — something to be fixed with better boundaries, more yoga, a mindfulness app — we do two harmful things at once.

We put the burden of survival back on the person already struggling to survive. And we let the systems off the hook entirely.

The body of a helper who has been over-extended, under-resourced, and chronically under-held doesn’t need a better morning routine.

It needs what every traumatized nervous system needs. Safety. Relationship. The visceral experience of not being alone in it.

Because trauma does not heal in isolation.

It heals in safety. In relationship. In community. In the experience of being genuinely held by people who understand.

So yes, we tend to ourselves. But we also need to tend to each other. And work to change the conditions that keep producing this exhaustion in the first place.

With love and solidarity,
Kelly

03/20/2026

The Heart of Healing begins May 8.

Equity sliding scale. Scholarships available.

🔗 in b1o.

Address

7602 Big Bend Boulevard
St. Louis, MO
63119

Website

http://www.empoweredspaces.net/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Empowered Spaces posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Practice

Send a message to Empowered Spaces:

Shortcuts

Want your practice to be the top-listed Clinic in St. Louis?

Center for Embodied Healing and Community Care

EMPOWERED Spaces is a collective of integrative psychotherapists, wellness professionals, yoga teachers, meditation teachers, activists and other helping professionals within a collaborative wellness center. The collective is committed to shared visions of trauma-informed care, embodied healing, community empowerment, anti-racist solidarities, and social justice.

Our Mission

Empowered Spaces works at the intersection of trauma-informed care and social justice to center personal and collecting healing. The mission is to/The collective strives to cultivate connection and resilience through psychotherapy, yoga, meditation, professional development trainings, and community gatherings that are accessible, diverse, and equitable.

Our Vision

Our vision is to collectively create a more mindful, equitable, and compassionate world that willhonor our interdependence, celebrate our diversity, and allow for everyone to live a life of joy and wellness.

Diversity, Equity, and Belonging

At Empowered Spaces, we strive to be accessible, welcoming, and honoring of all individuals. We welcome you exactly as you are, all parts of you, and all of your experiences. We believe in honoring every individual’s lived experience, deeply listening to one another, learning about and honoring all differences. More importantly, we recognize that it is the members of this community who truly create this space.

Our intention is to co-create a collaborative space for building an intentional community. We acknowledge that the ongoing work of building community and solidarity across power differentials—from our different social positions and uneven access to resources and privilege—is messy, complex, and uncomfortable. Knowing that we all carry our own blinds spots, we know that all of us at times will inevitably fall short. We are committed to doing the deep inner work of recognizing our own privilege and internalized systems of oppression, identifying the implicit biases we carry, and holding ourselves accountable.

We believe that learning is never over. We are deeply committed to holding space and attuned presence for acknowledging and healing inherited shadows of racism, sexism, heteronormativity, colonization, and unfair access to power and privilege. To simply use buzzwords is insufficient and harmful. We share in the vision of a just, equitable, and safe society for all, and we are daring to work towards creating the world we want to inhabit.

We are here to learn together in authentic relationships, to cultivate curiosity, and live consciously.

How it works

Each teacher/provider runs their own business within Empowered Spaces. All of our offerings therefore have their own fee and sign up structure established by each individual provider. Find the class or workshop that you would like to join from our schedule of offerings, and then follow the specified sign up or drop in protocol for that event and you will pay the provider directly. Empowered Spaces offers a limited number of need-based scholarships, please email Kelly at kkcaul@yahoo.com for more information.

We all have so much to offer one another, and Empowered Spaces is dedicated to supporting wellness professionals in bringing healing and uplifting programming to the community. These spaces are available for use by wellness professionals looking for a place to support and accommodate their events. Reach out to me for more information about renting space.

How to Get Here

Empowered Spaces is located on the ground floor, and is the smaller building behind the two story main building. There is a 10 car parking lot adjacent to the studio that can be accessed from the side street Exeter Ave. There is additional free parking on neighborhood streets, but please be mindful of our neighbors. Restroom is wheelchair-accessible and ramp-accessible in the main building. Empowered Spaces strives to be accessible and inclusive of all abilities.

Empowered Spaces Scholarship Fund

As an expression of gratitude and to honor all that serve and have served our country, Empowered Spaces offers a standing 40% DISCOUNT off of ALL yoga classes to veterans and active duty military.

The Empowered Spaces Scholarship Fund is one of the ways in which we strive to make our services accessible and inclusive to everybody, especially to those in our communities who have typically been marginalized or excluded (i.e., person of color, le***an, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, q***r, economic status, individual with a disability, undocumented, formally incarcerated etc), or who commonly encounter barriers to yoga and other healing/wellness services.

We Welcome YOU

From the moment you walk in the door, you will be met with respect, acceptance, and understanding. We hold sacred our intention to honor and reflect back to you your wholeness and worthiness, while at the same time holding space for the struggles, the complexity, and the messiness of our humanity.

This is a space for you to do the inner work towards growth and healing. We are practicing together how to be in our bodies, how to turn inward and cultivate presence and resilience, how to reconnect to our true Selves, and how to find our path to health, well-being, and joy.

Within you is all of the strength and wisdom that you will ever need. This is a journey of returning home to YOU.

We see you. We hear you. We honor you. We welcome you exactly as you are. All aspects of you, all of your experiences, all parts of you are welcome here.

I cannot wait to gather with you here.

For more information contact

Kelly Caul, MSW, LCSW - Founder and Director

314.952.3199

kkcaul@yahoo.com

04/08/2026

04/07/2026

04/06/2026

04/06/2026

04/02/2026

04/01/2026

03/31/2026

03/30/2026

03/26/2026

03/25/2026

03/23/2026

03/20/2026

Address

Website

Alerts

Contact The Practice

Shortcuts

Share

Center for Embodied Healing and Community Care

We are here to learn together in authentic relationships, to cultivate curiosity, and live consciously.

How it works

How to Get Here