LIFE Movement

Somatic-emotional processing provides a new pathway toward a deeper intimacy with ourselves and others, relating TO our emotions versus the habitual pathway which is to relate FROM our emotions

When we learn this somatic processing model and connect with and listen to our embodied experience, we gain access to the wisdom and guidance of our emotional experience, allowing us to relate to life with more self-awareness

The SomaSoul® Somatic Therapy online training program is both a deep immersion into one’s personal growth and healing and, for those who chose it, a training program for therapists and healers to expand their skill set

SomaSoul® Foundations begins October 15th
Registration closes September 30th
Payment plans are available
📌 https://leveninstitute.com/workshops/

SomaSoul®: Somatic Therapy Training | Transformative Journey Explore the transformative SomaSoul Somatic Therapy Training. Deepen emotional connection, and become a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist.

So what is SomaSoul®?

It's a way to become aware of and get to know the experience of your body

When we become more attuned to our bodies, to the somatic experience of our emotions, we are more connected to the feeling experience of our emotions versus our thinking experience

As we take this new step in grounding ourselves in our embodied emotional experience, we also then learn ways to tend to, care for, and gain wisdom from our somatic experience

If you get caught in worry, obsession, strategizing, and overthinking around your struggles in life, you might consider joining our community for seven months of weekly online connection to people and tools to support you 💗

SomaSoul® Foundations begins October 15th
Registration closes September 30th
Payment plans available
Info: https://leveninstitute.com/workshops/

SomaSoul®: Somatic Therapy Training | Transformative Journey Explore the transformative SomaSoul Somatic Therapy Training. Deepen emotional connection, and become a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist.

The path of healing is better with friends by our side 👯‍♀️

Come together this fall as a community of movers and soul shakers to explore the balance of joining together in community as well as feeling deep communion with the dancer within each of us!

Shake Your Soul® Celebration Weekend
October 25th - 27th Won Dharma Center for Meditation & Retreat

Details: https://leveninstitute.com/sys-workshops/

The core of SomaSoul® Somatic Therapy is about deepening our capacity to truly listen to our bodies

People who come to SomaSoul® training are in tune with their spirit and soul's desire to grow and transform by tending to their physical and emotional body in healing ways

People also come to SomaSoul® training because they are drawn to providing compassionate support toward the healing and growth of others, whether through their current therapy/healing practice or simple to be a healing support to others in their lives

Our next Foundations cohort begins their seven month journey in October!

Save $250 on tuition when you enroll by 8/18. Registration closes 9/30. Payment plans available. Details below 📋

https://leveninstitute.com/workshops/

SomaSoul®: Somatic Therapy Training | Transformative Journey Explore the transformative SomaSoul Somatic Therapy Training. Deepen emotional connection, and become a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist.

"What we shouldn't do is keep our thoughts inside our heads, inert, unchanged by encounters with the world beyond the skull." ~ Annie Murphy Paul

Here at Leven Institute we give form to what lives in our heads, hearts, and bodies, through gesture, journaling, expressive arts, movement, reflection and dialogue, so that we can have more meaningful connections with ourselves and others

If you are looking for a deeper experience of you, join us for SomaSoul® Foundations, a seven month weekly online container for you to explore this territory in community 👫

Details & registration: https://leveninstitute.com/workshops/

Our brain is wired to work with movement in order to navigate the world 🗺️

Gesture and movement are primary pieces of the work we do to get to know ourselves and communicate to others in deeper and more meaningful ways

Dan's next free webinar is a great way to sample these elements of SomaSoul® Somatic Therapy if you are curious about the Foundations Training, or to reconnect to the work if you've been away for a while

Tuesday, July 9th @ 5pm est on zoom

📌 Pre-register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAsc-qupzMtG9zd4NV2MSc5DuHQRlKkQrRB%23/registration

“There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.” ~Martha Graham

Who's looking forward to being back out on these beautiful decks together this year?!

July 19th - 26th // Shake Your Soul® Teacher Training

September 20th - 23rd // SomaSoul® Intensive (for graduates and trainees)

October 24th - 26th // Shake Your Soul® Celebration Weekend

🖇️ https://leveninstitute.com/calendar/

Our next Shake Your Soul® cohort starts in July! 💃

"I've been a dancer my whole life and being able to find a way to come into myself as I teach was incredible. I always thought that if I enjoyed myself as I teach it would come off as arrogant or like I was showing off and not focused on my students. Learning how to embody the movement, and be an inspiration for others to find that in themselves has been a life changing experience and I will definitely bring that into all of my teaching. Whether I'm teaching a Shake Your Soul class or a regular dance class, finding ways to truly embody myself is something that is so rich and so wonderful."

Jessica V., Dance, Movement, and Yoga Specialist

📌 https://leveninstitute.com/shake-your-soul-teacher-trainings/

Shake Your Soul: The Yoga Of Dance Teacher Trainings | Life Movement Join our Shake Your Soul teacher trainings and become a certified teacher of this transformative dance practice

As mammals, our foundation is inter-dependence, to need another in order to feel safe and comforted

We need attuned, grounded and caring others to connect to when we feel distressed/dysregulated in order to feel safe/regulated again

So as we share ourselves with another, and that other can be with us (not try to fix, advice, coach us) we naturally FEEL connection and coregulation come online 💛

The season of Dan's free SomaSoul® webinars is here!

Learn about and experience a fundamental piece of our therapeutic process, the ABC's of working with our somatic emotions

It's a great way to come back to a supportive community you're connected to, and equally great for those looking to feel out SomaSoul® therapy and/or training

June 6th at 5pm ET 🖍️

Pre-register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vce-rqDwoHtGAbOEFBSKm9NUNVcDu0kC7 #/registration

We're excited to be back at Kripalu next weekend! Who's joining us to dance their heart out in our SYS community?!

You will return home feeling revitalized in body, mind, and spirit, and with joy in your heart 💗

Last spaces: https://leveninstitute.com/sys-workshops/

A key element of the healing process is opening up to ventral vagal energy 💗

When we can meet another's wounds and defenses that show up in the sympathetic state and/or dorsal vagal state with energies of love, presence, acceptance, and understanding, true relational healing begins to occur

Connecting with nature is a support 🌞

Each of the elements relates to structures of our body, so as we feel the warmth of the sun or the soothing of a river, we can begin to let ourselves take in understanding and acceptance for those energies that are inherently alive inside of us too

Shake Your Soul® is an immersive experience deepening your connection to the natural dancer within. This natural dancer instinctively emerges when listening to music that moves you! The Shake Your Soul® class showcases world music that moves our global soul, that knows no territorial boundaries!

Move with us at the end of the month 👯

May 25th - 27th

Info: https://leveninstitute.com/sys-workshops/