What would it take for us to recognize that we are held by something larger than the stories that distort and distract our lives?
In times when so many forces seem determined to pull us apart—I'm Black, you're white; I'm male, you're female, they’re blind to what we can see so clearly—how can we bridge the divide?
Our lives move between hope and despair, fear and courage, control and surrender, doubt and faith, holding on and letting go – how do we reconcile these polarities?
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
How would it be to wholly trust we are all moving together in some great mysterious dance?
We move and pause in silence and sound, attuning to the wisdom of the body and the whispers of the soul.
We practice listening to and conversing with the empty spaces around us—before, behind, beside, below, and beyond—allowing shapes that have waited patiently to emerge and letting dissolve the structures ready to be released.
Rather than trying to resolve the polarities we live with, we dance together at the edge of what's known, where opposites are transformed through movement and ritual into creative possibilities.
We travel the territory between isolation and connection, resistance and acceptance, strength and vulnerability, tenderness and power – and what seems like limited choice opens into infinite possibility.
how do we do that?
When we move together in a divided world, we learn that the threshold between opposites is the space where transformation happens.
THIS weekend with Zuza & Michael is an invitation to step out of our solitary entanglements into something bigger: not just our shared humanity, but the Source of it all, the vast field of presence, awareness, and MYSTERY.
one weekend – two teachers – no full stop
Zuza and Michael have played and prayed together in the fields of Mystery on and off since 1995. They were 2/3 of the training team for the first four Soul Motion Embodied Leadership / Teacher Trainings and had too much fun teaching Soul Motion: The Practice (now Foundations) together... twice, we think? ... at beautiful Madrona Institute in Port Townsend, WA in the early years of the Soul Motion school.
Michael, who says "I do not teach dance, I reach through dance," has inspired thousands of movers and mystics worldwide with his inimitable brand of impassioned, precise, and poetic teaching (or preaching), not to mention his dramatic panache in fashion and accessory choices.
Visit Michael's website here.
I fall more in love not only with you
but with whatever it is
that opens us to wonder—
whatever grand mystery it is
that breathes warmth on our tight scales
and whispers to us, open,
then helps us get out of our own way
as one by one the petals unfurl,
and my god, the beauty,
the mystery, the beauty.
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Logistics
FEBRUARY 27-MARCH 1, 2026
FRIDAY 1-7
SATURDAY 11-6
SUNDAY 11-5
When
The Finnish Hall
1970 Chestnut Street | Berkeley
WHere
FEE
Early bird $425 by February 6
$495 after
MORE FINE PRINT
If you are requesting CE credit, please attend all sessions in full. We cannot offer partial credits.
$25 fee for certificate.
CANCELLATIONS AND REFUNDS
Cancellation fee: $75
Cancellation Deadline: FEBRUARY 6, 2026. After this date, no refunds.
Thank you for your kind understanding.
