EMERGENT SOMATIC PRACTICE

Join us in community and practice the weekend of September 19-21, 2025 in Leicester, North Carolina.

This weekend retreat will center queer / trans & non-binary / LBTQQI healing practitioners of all types including but not limited to therapists, body workers and movement teachers.  Practitioners outside those identities are welcome too and will be invited to support the centering of queer practice and healing.

This workshop will be facilitated by Sage Hayes (she/he/they), SEP, LMT, constellations practitioner, Ecstatic Dance DJ and ccompanied by local Asheville co-organizer D Parra (they/them/elle) of Condor Counseling

A non-binary approach to healing
There is so much emergent medicine and wisdom coming from the margins.

This workshop / retreat will open space to explore emergent somatic practice while centering queer / LGBTQQI / trans & non-binary healing practitioners.

A true impulse to heal is non-binary because embedded in the impulse to transform, is multitudes.  To be fully alive is to know this so deeply that our fear becomes less relevant than what is possible.  As our fears are cared for, our soul can begin to breathe.  Nothing need be discarded in non-binary realities.  We can arrive into our wholeness before we even know it is here.  

We are often caught in a notion that to learn healing is to learn technique and theory.  While technique and theory at times have their place in a healing process, they are not primary.  They perpetuate notions that something is wrong and must be fixed, that there is a problem and a solution, that ‘doing’ trumps ‘being’.   Most healing modalities do not get practitioners ready for loving their clients well. In healing modalities birthed from within a colonial reality, we continue to teach students of the healing arts that the ‘doing’ the modality is more primary than an embodied stance of non-binary being.  Our world and our client's world gets minimally better, if at all, from a linear vantage point.  This workshop encourages us to co-create conditions in which fear-based binary realities can be dismantled and transformed with passionate and inclusive care.  

In this moment of so much uncertainty and political targeting of marginalized communities:

• What does it mean to show up as a healing practitioner who is a part of a targeted group?

• What can emergent somatic practice look when safety is more of an concept than a attainable reality?

• How can we utilize this moment to build embodied capacity, deep validation and strategies of embodied agency?

• How can we utilize what’s arising through our bodies with generative resonance and useful grace?

This is a time where having a flexible and intuitive stance as a practitioner is essential with our clients. Being able to help clients generatively utilize this moment in their lives by offering deep accompaniment and a flexible somatic stance is key.

When the intention is to heal, the body will show us the way. The intentions and uncertainties clients bring to somatic work can act as an embodied compass which can guide our inquiry together.  One of the biggest learning edges and opportunities in practicing somatics is learning to utilize emergent and spontaneous openings with clients.  There’s often a lot more guiding information available than we ‘think’ there is.  The nervous system and body are constantly sending out non-verbal clues which can point us in surprisingly effective and helpful directions.  Clues can show up in the form of body movements, changes in vocal prosody, phrases a client uses which might have extra weight, energetic shifts, sacred pauses, ‘random’ detours and intuitive guidance.  This emergent information which arises during sessions is a way our client’s implicit wisdom is letting us know what is important and what is ready to be explored next.  

Part of this territory includes setting conditions which gently encourage these embodied clues, to then notice when they arrive and to be able to meet them well and effectively in the moment with something exploratory and experiential.  This way of practice takes patience, courage and the willingness to open states of listening to and beyond our ‘practitioner mind’. 

Our role is to become extraordinary listeners, to become attuned to non-linear realms of somatic communication and to accompany these movements from the deep with skill and care.  Listening and moving into a more emergent somatic practice can facilitate a less dominant flow of movement during sessions and generate more collaborative change.

In this experiential workshop we will open our capacity as somatic practitioners to work with emergent somatic material arising in our sessions.   We’ll explore many ways of listening and the varied elements of what we might be listening for.  

This workshop will also center community building, sharing meals and a spaciousness in being together.

The workshop process will aspire to model all the concepts and practices being taught.

The 5 points of the emergent somatic practice compass we will explore are:

• Anchoring in our practitioner body.  Moving from our wisdom and deep trust of the client’s innate inner medicine. Moving from an invitational stance and at the speed of trust.

• Clarifying and kindling client intentions to animate a collaborative map of healing.

• Increasing our capacity for utilization of the ‘sacred pause’ and uncertainty

• Learning to listen for non-cognitive somatic cues and clues.  Discerning between movements of adaptive habit or movements of health.  How to spot energetic willingness.

• Translating somatic information into experiential exploration and spontaneous activities.

About Sage Hayes:

Since 1999, Sage Hayes (she/he/they) has been building capacity and sight towards emergent somatic practice since beginning their work facilitating anti-oppression work in schools, churches and communities. An ever present inquiry for Sage’s deep dive into somatic has been, “What is justice in the body?”. Sage began studying healing arts in 2000 including somatic experiencing, biodynamic craniosacral therapy, therapeutic touch, developmental trauma work, family and systemic constellations and embodied anti-oppression work of all sorts.  Sage was a lead assistant with the Somatic Experiencing Institute for many years and mentors somatic students from all types of modalities.

Sage hails from Peaks Island off the coast of Maine and enjoys a vibrant local life while having the great honor to travel facilitating and teaching with somatic students around the world.  Most recently Sage has been offering embodied movement classes and somatic mentoring support with individuals and groups. Recently Sage had the honor of facilitating Love at the Center: Politicized Healing and Collective Liberation, an international gathering of healers and activists in Sicily this past fall. 

Sage is thrilled and honored to be returning to Asheville to connect with local somatics practitioners. 

Click here for more info about Sage’s background.

Location:  

Retreat House in Leicester, NC

A 25 minute drive from Asheville.

Schedule:

Friday September 19: 530-730pm: Potluck dinner gathering in Asheville, location TBA

Saturday Sept 20, 9-5pm in Leicester, dinner together optional

Sunday June 21, 9-4pm in Leicester

Collaborative price:

In the spirit of access, cost for workshop is offered at a sliding scale. To discover where your price access point is on the sliding scale, please take the time to refer to this amazing resource by Alexis Cunningfolk, The Sliding Scale: A Tool of Economic Justice.

• $450, register here.

• $350, register here.

• $275, register here.

• Or to save your spot, you can make a $100 deposit here.  Payment in full due by June 19 2025, you can make payment via paypal, venmo or I will send you an invoice for your balance due.  

• if you cannot afford the low tier and would like to attend, please reach out to sage@embodiedliberation, we are working on fundraising to subsidize all participation.

A percentage of proceeds from this workshop will go to support local trans/queer healing work in Asheville with Condor Counseling.

Payment plans available, contact sage@embodiedliberation.com. 

Limited housing avaialble.

One room with 2 twin beds is available for your stay at the retreat house. If you're interested, you can check out the bedroom on the airbnb listing here.  if you want to share the room with the single beds, the total would be $162.50 pp/shared room or $325 for individual occupancy.

We also have a local host who is offering a guestroom in their basement. Please be in touch with me to inquire, sage@embodiedliberation.com.

Four week somatic SE mentoring circle on Zoom with Sage Hayes.

These groups are intended to support SE students at all levels deepen their somatic practice while in a collaborative learning circle. Your wisdom is welcome. We will cover cases, questions/themes and do some somatic practice.

Each week begins with a guided somatic arriving which is followed by building our agenda together. For the first week we will spend time getting to know each other through introductions. All knowledge and skill levels are welcome.

• Wednesdays, July 2, 9, 16 & 23rd, 2025. Our first meeting on May 29 will be 3 hours, 12pm-3pm EST, the remainder of meetings will be 2 hours for a total of 9 group consultation hours (3 SE credits towards beginner, intermediate or advanced year).

• Investment $275. Payment plan available, contact sage@embodiedliberation.com

Eligible for 3 credits towards Somatic Experiencing certification at all levels (beginning, intermediate, advanced or post-advanced). During the 4 weeks you may miss one week and still receive credit as long as you watch the recording which is sent out every week.

Registration LINK HERE.

More info about Sage here.

Join us in community and practice the weekend of May 9-11th, 2025 in Hudson, NY.

Facilitated by Sage Hayes, SEP, LMT.

This workshop is being co-planned with Julia Taylor of Threshold Healing Space and Char Azad of Coming Home Healing.

This workshop is for healing practitioners of all types including therapists, body workers and movement teachers.  

What is coming to light and how can we meet it well as somatic practitioners?

With so much uncertainty and political upheaval this is a time where having a flexible and intuitive stance as a practitioner is essential with our clients. Being able to help clients generatively utilize this with deep accompaniment is essential to meet this moment.

How can we utilize what’s arising through the body with generative resonance and useful grace?

When the intention is to heal, the body will show us the way. The intentions and uncertainties clients bring to somatic work can act as an embodied compass which can guide our inquiry together.  One of the biggest learning edges and opportunities in practicing somatics is learning to utilize emergent and spontaneous openings with clients.  There’s often a lot more guiding information available than we ‘think’ there is.  The nervous system and body are constantly sending out non-verbal clues which can point us in surprisingly effective and helpful directions.  Clues can show up in the form of body movements, changes in vocal prosody, phrases a client uses which might have extra weight, energetic shifts, sacred pauses, ‘random’ detours and intuitive guidance.  This emergent information which arises during sessions is a way our client’s implicit wisdom is letting us know what is important and what is ready to be explored next.  

Part of this territory includes setting conditions which gently encourage these embodied clues, to then notice when they arrive and to be able to meet them well and effectively in the moment with something exploratory and experiential.  This way of practice takes patience, courage and the willingness to open states of listening to and beyond our ‘practitioner mind’. 

Our role is to become extraordinary listeners, to become attuned to non-linear realms of somatic communication and to accompany these movements from the deep with skill and care.  Listening and moving into a more emergent somatic practice can facilitate a less dominant flow of movement during sessions and generate more collaborative change.

In this experiential workshop we will open our capacity as somatic practitioners to work with emergent somatic material arising in our sessions.   We’ll explore many ways of listening and the varied elements of what we might be listening for.   We will have the option of tables on hand to develop and deepen therapeutic touch practice through the lens of emergent somatic practice.

The workshop process aspires to model all the concepts and practices being taught.

The 5 points of the emergent somatic practice compass we will explore are:

• Anchoring in our practitioner body.  Moving from our wisdom and deep trust of the client’s innate inner medicine. Moving from an invitational stance and at the speed of trust.

• Clarifying and kindling client intentions to animate a collaborative map of healing.

• Increasing our capacity for utilization of the ‘sacred pause’ and uncertainty

• Learning to listen for non-cognitive somatic cues and clues.  Discerning between movements of adaptive habit or movements of health.  How to spot energetic willingness.

• Translating somatic information into experiential exploration and spontaneous activities.

About Sage Hayes:

Since 1999, Sage Hayes (she/he/they) has been building capacity and sight towards emergent somatic practice since beginning their work facilitating anti-oppression work in schools, churches and communities. Sage began studying healing arts in 2000 including somatic experiencing, biodynamic craniosacral therapy, therapeutic touch, developmental trauma work, family and systemic constellations and embodied anti-oppression work of all sorts.  Sage was a lead assistant with the Somatic Experiencing Institute for many years and mentors somatic students from all types of modalities.

Sage hails from Peaks Island off the coast of Maine and enjoys a vibrant local life while having the great honor to travel facilitating and teaching with somatic students around the world.  Most recently Sage has been offering embodied movement classes and somatic mentoring support with individuals and groups. Recently Sage had the honor of facilitating Love at the Center: Politicized Healing and Collective Liberation, an international gathering of healers and activists in Sicily this past fall. 

Sage is thrilled and honored to be traveling to the Hudson Valley to connect with local somatics practitioners. 

Click here for more info about Sage’s background.

Location:  

Yaad Wellness

344 Main Street, Hudson, NY

Schedule:

Friday May 9th, 6-730pm: Potluck dinner gathering , Location TBA

Saturday May 10th, 930am-5pm at Yaad Wellness

Sunday May 11th, 930-330pm at Yaad Wellness

Investment:

In the spirit of access, cost for workshop is offered at a sliding scale. To discover where your price access point is on the sliding scale, please take the time to refer to this amazing resource by Alexis Cunningfolk, The Sliding Scale: A Tool of Economic Justice.

Workshop cost:

• lower price point: $275, pay HERE.

• mid price point: $350, pay HERE.

• high price point: $425, pay HERE.

You can pay in full with links above or make a $50 deposit to save your spot.

Deposit - RESERVE SPOT HERE for $50.

A percentage of proceeds from this workshop will go to support an innovative queer/bipoc project focused on local healing work in the Hudson area.

Payment plans available, contact sage@embodiedliberation.com. 

This group is FULL. Next one starts in March.

Four week somatic SE mentoring circle on Zoom with Sage Hayes.

These groups are intended to support SE students at all levels deepen their somatic practice while in a collaborative learning circle. Your wisdom is welcome. We will cover cases, questions/themes and do some somatic practice.

Each week begins with a guided somatic arriving which is followed by building our agenda together. For the first week we will spend time getting to know each other through introductions. All knowledge and skill levels are welcome.

• Thursdays, February 13, 20, 27 & March 6. Our first meeting Feb 13th will be 3 hours, 12pm-3pm EST, the remainder or meetings will be 2 hours for a total of 9 group consultation hours.

• Investment $275. Payment plan available, contact sage@embodiedliberation.com

Eligible for 3 credits towards Somatic Experiencing certification (beginning, intermediate, advanced or post-advanced). . During the 4 weeks you may miss one week and still receive credit as long as you watch the recording which is sent out every week.

Registration link HERE.

More info about Sage here.

THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL.

Join us in community and practice the weekend of November 15-17th, 2024 in Ottawa, Canada for the workshop Emergent Somatic Practice with Sage Hayes, organized locally by Anne Walzak.

When the intention is to heal, the body will show us the way. The intentions clients bring to somatic work can act as the cohesive element which can guide our inquiry together.  One of the biggest learning edges and opportunities in practicing somatics is learning to utilize emergent and spontaneous openings with clients.  There’s often a lot more guiding information available than we ‘think’ there is.  The nervous system and body are constantly sending out non-verbal clues which can point us in surprisingly effective and helpful directions.  Clues can show up in the form of body movements, changes in vocal prosody, phrases a client uses which might have extra weight, energetic shifts, sacred pauses, ‘random’ detours and intuitive guidance.  This emergent information which arises during sessions can be a way our client is letting us know what is important and what is ready to be looked at next.  

Part of this territory includes setting conditions which gently encourage these embodied clues, to then notice when they arrive and to be able to meet them well and effectively in the moment with something exploratory and experiential.  This way of practice takes patience, courage and the willingness to open states of listening to and beyond our ‘practitioner mind’. 

Our role is to become extraordinary listeners, to become attuned to non-linear realms of somatic communication and to accompany these movements from the deep with skill and care.  Listening and moving into a more emergent somatic practice can facilitate a less dominant flow of movement during sessions and generate more collaborative change.

In this experiential workshop we will open our capacity as somatic practitioners to work with emergent somatic material arising in our sessions.   We’ll explore many ways of listening and the varied elements of what we might be listening for.  

The workshop process will aspire to model all the concepts and practices being taught.

The 5 points of exploration for this workshop:

• Anchoring in our practitioner body.  Moving from our wisdom and deep trust of the client’s innate inner medicine. Moving from an invitational stance.

• Clarifying and kindling client intentions to animate a collaborative map of healing.

• Increasing our capacity for utilization of the ‘sacred pause’ and uncertainty

• Learning to listen for non-cognitive somatic cues and clues.  Discerning between movements of adaptive habit or movements of health.  How to spot energetic willingness.

• Translating somatic information into experiential exploration and spontaneous activities.

This workshop is for healing practitioners of all types including therapists, body workers and movement teachers.  

About Sage Hayes:

Since 1999, Sage Hayes (she/he/they) has been building capacity and sight towards emergent somatic practice since beginning their work facilitating anti-oppression work in schools, churches and communities. Sage began studying healing arts in 2000 including somatic experiencing, biodynamic craniosacral therapy, therapeutic touch, developmental trauma work, family and systemic constellations and embodied anti-oppression work of all sorts.  Sage was a lead assistant with the Somatic Experiencing Institute for many years and mentors somatic students from all types of modalities.

Sage hails from Peaks Island off the coast of Maine and enjoys a vibrant local life while having the great honor to travel facilitating and teaching with somatic students around the world.  Most recently Sage has been offering embodied movement classes and somatic mentoring support with individuals and groups. Coming up soon Sage will be co-facilitating Love at the Center: Politicized Healing and Collective Liberation, an international gathering of healers and activists in Sicily this fall. 

Sage is thrilled and honored to be returning to Ottawa to connect with local somatics practitioners. 

Click here for more info about Sage’s background.

Location:  

Willow Wellness, 5944 Perth St, Ottawa, ON K0A 2Z0, Canada.  Willow Wellness has an onsite cafe where lunch can be purchased.  

Schedule:

Friday Nov 15th, 530-730pm: Potluck dinner gathering at Anne Walzak’s in Hintonburg  

Saturday Nov 16th, 9-5pm at Willow Wellness

Sunday Nov 17th, 9-1pm at Willow Wellness 

In the spirit of access, cost for workshop is offered at a sliding scale: 

• $450 CAD, register here.

• $350 CAD, register here.

• $275 CAD, register here.

• Or to save your spot, you can make a $175 CAD deposit here.  Payment in full due by Nov 14th, 2024, you can make payment via paypal, venmo or will receive an invoice for your total due.  

To discover where your price access point is on the sliding scale, please take the time to refer to this amazing resource by Alexis Cunningfolk, The Sliding Scale: A Tool of Economic Justice..

Payment plans available, contact sage@embodiedliberation.com. 

If you are traveling from outside Ottawa, on-site sleeping arrangements are possible at Willow Wellness,3 bedroom options with shared living space and private backyard.  Contact Chris at Willow, chrisclapp17@gmail.com.

If you are interested in bringing this workshop to your neck of the woods, contact Sage at sage@embodiedliberation.com.

Four week somatic SE mentoring circle with Sage Hayes.

These groups are intended to support SE students at all levels deepen their somatic practice while in a collaborative learning circle. Your wisdom is welcome. We will cover cases, questions/themes and do some somatic practice.

Each week begins with a guided somatic arriving which is followed by building our agenda together. For the first week we will spend time getting to know each other through introductions. All knowledge and skill levels are welcome.

• Fridays 11/1, 11/8, 11/15, 11/22. Our first meeting on Nov 1 will be 3 hours, 12pm-3pm EST, the remainder will be 2 hours.

• Investment $275. Payment plan available, contact sage@embodiedliberation.com

Eligible for 3 credits towards Somatic Experiencing certification. During the 4 weeks you may miss one week and still receive credit as long as you watch the recording which is sent out every week.

Registration link here.

More info about Sage here.

Love at the Center: Politicized Healing and Collective Liberation

SICILY, ITALY

OCTOBER 14-22, 2024

INVITATION ONLY.

We are a community of practitioners, dreamers, weavers, activists, doulas, seers, high priestesses, bodyworkers, anti-racist organizers, somatic and trauma therapists, visionaries, and most of all- humans who want to engage and converge our creative energies to birth new worlds (within and beyond ourselves!)

We are coming from Serbia/Netherlands, Germany, Spain, US, Mexico, Romania, Kenya, Guatemala, Oaxaca, Tunisia, South Africa, Colombia, Georgia, Philippines, Bosnia, Canada, and Thailand.

We are located in various social justice movements in the Global South, some of us are Global Majority folks, some of us from indigenous lands and wisdom traditions, all of us are holding healing spaces for our beloved communities and movements.

This initiative is one of a kind, our very first step is gathering - it's an experiment in solidarity practice, and what it takes to birth new worlds.

The proposed gathering (5 days) will be place-making experiments dedicated to expanding what enters our bodies, how we metabolize, and what imaginative possibilities exist beyond our day-to-day. 

This path recognizes that knowledge and truth are discovered and enriched through diverse perspectives and dialogues. This space is imagined and created to embrace the journey as a collaborative exploration, where trust is placed in the collective rather than solely in the authority of a few. We embrace the humility and openness of "a way" (rather than “the way”) that evolves through collective wisdom and shared experience.

If we can imagine it, we can make it real.

If we can recognize our connection, we can tend right relationship.

We will engage with our unique edges, personally and collectively.

• Focus on our roots, communal practice, and rituals.

• Use somatic movements, constellations work, and kundalini awakening as portals 

• Be each other's Medicine

•  Slow down and collectively make present our human experiences

• Use simple and powerful creative music and practices to engage with new visions of desire, pleasure, longing, and liberation.

• Actively practice  and learn from each other and move with the speed of relationships

• Create space for profound, slow, imaginative exploration.

Each person who enters the space matters on this journey of new culture creation, and we each bring medicine and contributions that help foster the soil in which new and reclaimed knowledge/experiences/imaginings can take root.

Like ripples on water, we trust that even small moments of encounter can have seen and unseen impacts on our relationships and worlds that are impossible to measure.

We want to explore:

• Building and re/imagining Community

• Care Ecologies: Generating and crafting a space of mutual reverence, respect, dignity, and care. It's a direct challenge to the dehumanizing aspects of dominant culture and an embrace of the unknown possibilities present in moving at the speed of relationships.

• Un/learning for Liberation: We want to move beyond harmful cultural narratives. The politicized healers’ space invites us into an experience of un/learning, which is about coming into a deliberate and discerning relationship with what supports personal and collective liberation and what does not, valuing an embrace of our multiple and diverse intelligences.

SANADORES POLITIZADOS:

Somos una comunidad de practicantes, soñadores, tejedores, activistas, doulas, videntes, sumas sacerdotisas, trabajadores corporales, organizadores antirracistas, terapeutas somáticos y traumatólogos, visionarios y, sobre todo, humanos que queremos involucrar y hacer converger nuestras energías creativas para dar a luz nuevas. mundos (¡dentro y más allá de nosotros mismos!)

Venimos de Serbia/Países Bajos, Alemania, España, Estados Unidos, México, Rumania, Kenia, Guatemala, Oaxaca, Túnez, Sudáfrica, Colombia, Georgia, Filipinas, Bosnia, Canadá y Tailandia.

Estamos situados en varias movimientos de justicia social en el Sur Global, algunos de nosotros somos gente de la Mayoría Global, algunos de nosotros somos de tierras indígenas y tradiciones de sabiduría, pero todos tenemos espacios de sanación para nuestras queridas comunidades y movimientos.

Esta iniciativa es única y nuestro primer paso es reunirnos: es un experimento en la práctica de la solidaridad y lo que se necesita para crear nuevos mundos.

La reunión propuesta (5 días) es un experimento de creación de lugares dedicado a expandir lo que ingresa a nuestros cuerpos, cómo metabolizamos y qué posibilidades imaginativas existen más allá de nuestro realidad immediata. 

Este camino reconoce que el conocimiento y la verdad se descubren y enriquecen a través de diversas perspectivas y diálogos. Este espacio se imagina y crea para abrazar el viaje como una exploración colaborativa, donde la confianza se deposita en el colectivo y no únicamente en la autoridad de unos pocos. Abrazamos la humildad y la apertura de "un camino" (en lugar de "el camino") que evoluciona a través de la sabiduría colectiva y la experiencia compartida.

Si podemos imaginarlo, podemos hacerlo realidad.

Si podemos reconocer nuestra conección, podemos tender a una relación correcta.

Nos involucraremos con nuestras ventajas únicas, personal y colectivamente.

• Centrarse en nuestras raíces, prácticas comunitarias y rituales.

• Utilice movimientos somáticos, trabajo de constelaciones, despertar kundalini como portales. 

• Ser nuestra Medicina

•  Ralentizar y presenciar nuestra experiencia humana juntos

• Utilice prácticas y música creativa simple pero poderosa para interactuar con nuevas visiones de deseo, placer, anhelo y liberación.

• Practicar activamente y aprender unos de otros y avanzar con la velocidad de las relaciones.

• Hace un espacio para una exploración imaginativa lenta y profunda.

Cada persona que ingresa al espacio es importante en este viaje de creación de una nueva cultura, y cada uno de nosotros aporta medicina y contribuciones que ayudan a fomentar el base en el que los conocimientos, experiencias e imaginaciones nuevos y recuperados pueden echar raíces.

Como ondas en el agua, confiamos en que incluso los pequeños momentos de encuentro pueden tener impactos visibles e invisibles en nuestras relaciones y mundos que son imposibles de medir.

Queremos explorar:

• Construyendo y re/imaginando la comunidad

• Ecologías de Cuidado: Generar y crear un espacio de reverencia mutua, respeto, dignidad y cuidado. Es un desafío directo a los aspectos deshumanizantes de la cultura dominante y una aceptación de las posibilidades desconocidas presentes al avanzar a la velocidad de las relaciones.

• Des/aprendizaje para la Liberación: Queremos ir más allá de las narrativas culturales dañinas. El espacio politizado de los sanadores nos invita a una experiencia de desaprendizaje, que se trata más de establecer una relación de discernimiento con lo que apoya la liberación personal y colectiva y lo que no, y valorar la aceptación de nuestras múltiples y diversas inteligencias.

** THIS GROUP IS FULL

Four week somatic SE mentoring circle with Sage Hayes.

These groups are intended to support SE students at all levels deepen their somatic practice while in a collaborative learning circle. Your wisdom is welcome. We will cover cases, questions/themes and do some somatic practice.

Each week begins with a guided somatic arriving which is followed by building our agenda together. For the first week we will spend time getting to know each other through introductions. All knowledge and skill levels are welcome.

• Mondays 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/7. Our first meeting on September 16th will be 3 hours, 12pm-3pm EST, the remainder will be 2 hours.

• Investment $275. Payment plan available, contact sage@embodiedliberation.com

Eligible for 3 credits towards Somatic Experiencing certification. During the 4 weeks you may miss one week and still receive credit as long as you watch the recording which is sent out every week.

Registration link here.

More info about Sage here.

Belonging and the Body: Movement Centered Healing Justice, a Soul Play Immersion

with Odessa Perez, vicki abadesco + sage hayes

SoulPlay is an immersive experience filled with transformational workshops, celebration, dancing, connection, and play.

It is an experience designed to facilitate learning and growth, while having a lot of fun and making great connections in the process.

Belonging and the Body is a co-facilitated deep dive into the core themes that bring us together.

More info here: https://www.soulplay.co/

** MARCH GROUP IS FULL

Four week somatic SE mentoring circle with Sage Hayes.

These groups are intended to support SE students at all levels deepen their somatic practice while in a collaborative learning circle. Your wisdom is welcome. We will cover cases, questions/themes and do some somatic practice.

Each week begins with a guided somatic arriving which is followed by building our agenda together. For the first week we will spend time getting to know each other through introductions. All knowledge and skill levels are welcome.

• Mondays, March 4, 11, 18, 25. Our first meeting March 4 will be 3 hours, 12pm-3pm EST, the following weeks will be 2 hours.

• Investment $275. Payment plan available, contact sage@embodiedliberation.com

Eligible for 3 credits towards Somatic Experiencing certification. During the 4 weeks you may miss one week and still receive credit as long as you watch the recording which is sent out every week.

Registration: Link for March 4th start date.

2 spots left

Four week somatic SE mentoring circle with Sage Hayes.

These groups are intended to support SE students at all levels deepen their somatic practice while in a collaborative learning circle. Your wisdom is welcome. We will cover cases, questions/themes and do some somatic practice.

Each week begins with a guided somatic arriving which is followed by building our agenda together. For the first week we will spend time getting to know each other through introductions. All knowledge and skill levels are welcome.

• Thursdays, February 15, 22, 29 & March 7. Our first meeting Feb 15 will be 3 hours, 12pm-3pm EST, the following weeks will be 2 hours.

• Investment $275. Payment plan available, contact sage@embodiedliberation.com

Eligible for 3 credits towards Somatic Experiencing certification. During the 4 weeks you may miss one week and still receive credit as long as you watch the recording which is sent out every week.

Registration: Link for March 4th start date.

Four week somatic SE mentoring circle with Sage Hayes.

These groups are intended to support SE students at all levels deepen their somatic practice while in a collaborative learning circle. Your wisdom is welcome. We will cover cases, questions/themes and do some somatic practice.

Each week begins with a guided somatic arriving which is followed by building our agenda together. For the first week we will spend time getting to know each other through introductions. All knowledge and skill levels are welcome.

• Mondays, Oct 30, Nov 6, 13 & 20th. Our first meeting on Sept 11 will be 3 hours, 12pm-3pm EST, the rest will be 2 hours.

• Investment $275. Payment plan available.

Eligible for 3 credits towards Somatic Experiencing certification. During the 4 weeks you may miss one week and still receive credit as long as you watch the recording which is sent out every week.

Registration: Link for October 30th start date.

Four week somatic SE mentoring circle with Sage Hayes.

These groups are intended to support SE students at all levels deepen their somatic practice while in a collaborative learning circle. Your wisdom is welcome. We will cover cases, questions/themes and do some somatic practice.

Each week begins with a guided somatic arriving which is followed by building our agenda together. For the first week we will spend time getting to know each other through introductions. All knowledge and skill levels are welcome.

• Mondays, Sept 11, 18, 25 & Oct 2. Our first meeting on Sept 11 will be 3 hours, 4-7pm EST, the rest will be 2 hours.

• Fee is $275, payment plan available.

Eligible for 3 credits towards Somatic Experiencing certification. During the 4 weeks you may miss one week and still receive credit as long as you watch the recording which is sent out every week.

Registration: Link for September 11 start date.

Join Kusum Crimmel, Erin Sweeney and myself in this 6 session program.

“What does it mean, as white bodied people, to engage in reparations in an embodied way? From a place of relationship and connection rather than guilt and shame? How do our ancestors want to support in this? How does our lineage inform the ways in which we engage in reparations? How does place and land shape and inform this process?”

Explore, embody, and evolve our understanding, practices, and current paradigm toward repair, reparation, healing, and reconfiguration of our responsibility as white folx in cultural genocide, slavery, and the ongoing abuses of white supremacy.   

This is a six-part pilot series for white-bodied people to come together with intention and care to explore the possibilities of embodied reparations. Co-created by 3 seasoned facilitators and space holders, we will explore specific steps toward reparations and an embodied and reparative stance anchored in truth-seeing, amends, community, and mutual liberation.  

We will use genealogical research, storytelling, sharing, family constellations, somatic practices, and collective witnessing as tools to support the energetic, emotional, cognitive, and embodied metabolizing of collective racialized trauma. In community, we will work toward earnest reparation, authentic solidarity, and relinquishment of supremacy in all its forms.

Let’s explore together.

Sessions will be held on zoom.

More info here: https://sites.google.com/view/embodiedreparations/home