Dance Healing Training
Transform stagnancy into creative power.
DANCE: to move your body with awareness, intention & imagination.
HEALING: to make whole.
Dance is an ancient practice that helps us align our physical body with our emotions (heart), thoughts (mind) and spirit (connection to more than you). It can foster a true sense of belonging.
When we move with non-judgmental awareness, intentionality and imagination, we transform stagnant energy into free flowing life-force energy - which is the basis of our health.
However, most of us grew up in a culture that taught us to be highly critical of our bodies and how we express ourselves. This restricts our capacity to live our most authentic, creative and liberated life.
It also limits our capacity to heal, or make whole. Trauma is stored in our body, and for many of us, coming home to our bodies is an act of radical courage and care.
With the right support and tools, every body has the power to heal from within through movement, creativity & compassionate presence.
Dance Healing is your birthright.
Feeling the call?
In this course, you will:
Connect to your authentic self using embodiment practices
Integrate your physical, emotional and mental bodies
Transform stuck energy into flowing life-force through movement, sounding and expressive arts
Enhance your capacity to be authentic and compassionate with yourself and others
Dance Healing Tools Include
SOMATIC MOVEMENT
EXPRESSIVE ARTS
VOCAL TONING
RITUAL
COMPASSIONATE WITNESSING
Awaken your inherent body wisdom.
Channel your intuition through drawing, writing, movement & spoken word.
Cultivate inner balance physically, emotionally and mentally.
Build a container for embodied transformation.
Amplify personal + collective healing.
The intelligences we work with include your:
Physical body (what you sense)
Emotional body (what you feel)
Mental body (what you think or imagine)
Spiritual body (connection to more than just you)
The Journey begins here...
Foundations
LEVEL ONE
6 weeks online
Fridays, March 8-April 19, 2024
(No class March 22)
*NEW TIME* 10am-Noon PST
Dance Healing FOUNDATIONS (Level 1) is a 6-week journey to awaken your body wisdom and transform stagnancy into your creative power.
Each session dives into the primary tools for Dance Healing including: rhythm, breath, shape, voice, art & ritual.
Prerequisite for Facilitator Training (Level 2).
Facilitator Training
LEVEL TWO
10 weeks online
Fridays, April 26-June 28, 2024
*NEW TIME* 10am-Noon PST
This is your complete, embodied guide to discover the philosophy, neuroscience & tools to facilitate Dance Healing!
Whether you are facilitating yourself, a client or your community, these tools are extremely potent when they are used consciously and with a trauma-informed approach.
Requirements: you must have completed Dance Healing Foundations (Level 1).
Upon completion, you receive a certificate of training and are eligible to join our Mentorship Program (Level 3) to become a certified facilitator.
Science is catching up with what our bodies feel and our intuition knows...
When we embody our authentic truth while we are within our nervous system's "window of tolerance," we heal the wounds that told us we are unlovable or unworthy as we are.
We may witness trauma and release the energy that had been stored away, causing us dis-ease on some level.
As we mend our wounds by bringing our loving attention there, we learn to love ourselves more fully and have more compassion for others.
We gain a more resilient nervous system and feel empowered to weave creativity into our lives as part of our soul's nutriments.
Trauma-informed
Neuroscience backed
In this space we honor that
All parts of us are worthy of being seen, freed and reintegrated into the wholeness of our being.
Every body is born a dancer & artist, no matter what your skill level is. It is our birthright to express ourselves creatively.
Your body is the teacher and you have full permission to listen to your inner "yes" and "no" throughout the training.
We find new edges and gifts when we work in community that we simply cannot do alone.
Non-violent communication supports us to heal and transform responsibly and with accountability.
This is for you if you...
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have felt disconnected from your body and want to come home to your true self
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experience blockages to parts of yourself and suspect trauma/wounding that you are not able to contact through talk therapy alone
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suppress your emotions out of fear of getting stuck or rejected
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experience feeling numb or disconnected from your aliveness
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feel creatively blocked or judgmental of your self-expression
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feel disconnected or confused about your intuition
And also if you..
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are a leader who envisions facilitating group embodiment work
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are a therapist, coach, teacher, artist or healer who is ready to infuse your work with embodiment and creativity
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are someone who loves to dance and is ready to go deeper into the therapeutic and healing possibilities
"This experience has been incredible – beautiful, surprising, healing, creatively energizing. Over the course of our 6 weeks together, my connection to my body and my embodied experience deepened greatly; I feel like I just got out of a language immersion and can now communicate in the language of the body and the subconscious."
Ariel June
Dance Healing Training Participant
Investment Breakdown
Level 1 FOUNDATIONS:
$650 Pay In Full
Payment Plan A: $222 x 3 months
Payment Plan B: $115 x 6 months
Level 2 FACILITATOR TRAINING:
$1,200 Pay In Full
Payment Plan A: $410 x 3 months
Payment Plan B: $210 x 6 months
Level 1 & 2 Together (Save $150):
$1,700 Pay In Full
Payment Plan A: 575 x 3 months
Payment Plan B: $290 x 6 months
SPECIAL OFFERS:
20% BUDDY DISCOUNT - you and a friend receive 20% off when you join together.
50% ALUMNI DISCOUNT - for returners only.
10% BIPOC DISCOUNT - available always for all programs.
SHOLARSHIPS
To promote accessibility for low-income folks, there are some partial scholarships available via application HERE.
Plus! Receive a FREE 1:1 with somatic healing arts practitioner
Jen Oato Bennett when you sign up by Feb 29!
Jen Oato Bennett
Somatic Healing Arts Practitioner
Offering 1:1 Support for participants of
Dance Healing Training
Jen graduated from Dance Healing Training Level 2 in 2022 and is currently a collaborator for the 2023 cohort, where she will offer a one-on-one somatic experiencing session for everyone who has enrolled by Feb 29.
Jen's intention as a somatic healing arts facilitator is to provide a safe container for folks looking to connect to their innate resilience. Her areas of focus are in identity work and self-belonging, boundary work, prenatal and postpartum care (+ infertility, miscarriage, pregnancy loss), and injury/shock trauma healing.
"In my experience, Dance Healing provides a unique channel to work with the language of the nervous system. It has allowed me to connect to sensation, story, emotion and imagery that guides me to more expansive and integrated healing work."
Check out our free intro classes.
Send us an e-mail to receive the recordings of these free sessions.
Questions? Let's chat!
Schedule a 20 min connection call to ensure this program is a good fit here.
"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."
- Friedrich Nietzsche