Existential Fear At The Root Of All Anxiety

This course aims to help students understand anxiety as a natural response to awareness and vulnerability, recognize existential fear as a root layer of anxiety, and reduce self-blame and pathologizing interpretations. Students will learn how to stay present with fear rather than immediately trying to eliminate it, while exploring the deeper links between anxiety, love, attachment, and uncertainty. Students can expect short teaching segments followed by brief embodied meditations, with an emphasis on understanding first and then allowing space for direct experience. The course focuses on presence and one’s relationship to anxiety rather than quick relief, uses trauma-aware and non-pathologizing language, and unfolds at a slow, non-linear pace with permission to return to lessons as needed.