$250 to save your spot
REGISTRATION FEE
The Bishop's Ranch | Healdsburg, CA
WHERE
March 9-14, 2025
SUNDAY – FRIDAY
WHEN
🌟 Qualifies as a prerequisite for the Moving with Life Yearlong Program
Weeklong residential workshop
Body as Living Presence: Soul Motion® and Embodied Gestalt
🌟 36 CE Hours for Therapists and Social Workers ($25 certificate fee)
🌟 Limited to 20 participants
Discover the profound intelligence of your body and unlock new dimensions of self-awareness through this immersive workshop.
Here, movement becomes a gateway to deeper understanding and authentic living.
Soul Motion® + Embodied Gestalt
An immersive, small group, week long in-person workshop
This is a small, in-person group workshop to ensure the individual attention and support crucial for personal and professional development.
A movement toward the dynamic stillness at the center of all things — the place of rest at the heart of sound and motion.
A meeting between self and other in a dance that is deeply creative, nourishing, emotionally savvy, opening, and transforming.
An intimate taste of the revelation and release possible in a very short time on the healing path integrating conscious dance and body-based mindfulness inquiries with deep inner work grounded in Gestalt, relational psychotherapy, and trauma studies, held in the context of the sacred reality of All Life.
This weeklong residential workshop offers:
Foundational Awareness
- Tune into the subtle language of breath, balance, and spatial orientation.
- Uncover the interplay between sensation, feeling, and emotion.
- Use movement as a portal to access and express your inner landscape.
What We'll Explore:
Emotional Fluency
- Navigate the spectrum between emotional suppression and unbridled expression.
- Build resilience and flexibility in your emotional responses.
- Discover resources for self-regulation, especially in challenging moments.
Relational Dynamics
- Explore movement in solo, paired, and group contexts.
- Develop your capacity for non-judgmental presence and empathy.
- Refine your ability to communicate authentically from present-moment experience.
Boundary Awareness
- Investigate personal boundaries through somatic exploration.
- Learn to recognize, set, and respect limits - yours and others'.
- Understand how boundaries shape your patterns of relating.
Embodied Spirituality
- Experience spirituality as a lived, physical phenomenon.
- Connect with the elements of nature as a source of grounding and inspiration.
- Cultivate a sense of presence that transcends conceptual thinking.
Practical Integration
- Develop a toolkit of physical, mental, and emotional resources for daily life.
- Learn to access embodied awareness in the midst of everyday activities.
- Bridge the gap between workshop insights and real-world application.
This workshop offers a blend of guided explorations, partner work, and group dynamics.
Join us in this exploration of embodied awareness.
Through conscious movement, witness practice, and verbal reflection, you'll develop a more nuanced understanding of yourself and your interactions with the world.
Discover how aligning mind, body, and spirit can lead to more authentic, fulfilling ways of being and relating.
Rediscover your authenticity, creativity, and joy through the transformative power of conscious movement and the healing power of embodied presence.
Drop into your heart, reconnect with what most matters to you, and feel alive again in this messy, mysterious, magnificent human body.
Grow your embodied wisdom as a vital foundation for self-care, relational competency, and lasting spiritual development.
Are you looking for new experiential ways of working with your clients or students?
Therapists, teachers, coaches, or body workers:
This workshop will help you shift from talk therapy modalities into therapeutic movement explorations.
Do you want to feel more connected to your own body wisdom?
Are you intrigued by the idea of integrating conscious movement into your clinical practice, teaching, or small group work?
– Stephen Schwartz
The body is a dense and visible aspect of a unified field. It can’t be separated from the field in which it lives. The whole body accepts. It accepts our loneliness, our grief, our anger, our bounty, our abundance, and our love.
Logistics
March 9-14, 2025
SUNDAY 5PM – FRIDAY 11AM
When
The Bishop's Ranch | Healdsburg, CA
WHere
Not just a dance class, this program takes us on a path to self-discovery, embodied presence, and awakening to a bigger life.
Prior experience with conscious movement and inner work may be useful. If unsure, please inquire.
Open to 20 people. Preregistration is required.
Details
Not just a dance class, this program takes us on a path to self-discovery, embodied presence, and awakening to a bigger life.
If you are requesting CE credit, please attend all sessions.
We cannot offer partial credits. $25 fee for certificate.
It's OK if you need to miss part of the workshop, but we offer no discounts or refunds for partial attendance.
The Fine Print
$250 fee for cancellations received up to 60 days from program start (February 10, 2025).
After this date, no refunds. Thank you for understanding.
CANCELLATIONS AND REFUNDS
I love the sacred invitation to move freely with a group of soulful humans - in silence and sound, solo and together, small and big ways and waves. Again and again, I am brought to my edges with safety, compassion and joy.
- JULIANA BALISTRIERI - death doula
