Strozzi Institute

The Rationalistic Tradition has taught us the mispercetion and objectification of the body as a "vehicle for transporting our minds," or "the object we need to dress, exercise, feed, make healthy and attractive." The body is an after-thought, if it is considered at all. However, our bodies and ourselves are one in the same– this is our whole self.

If we bring our whole selves into the conversation of learning, we can then begin to explore embodiment: both our inherited, learned habits and new ways of acting, thinking and relating that are aligned with what we most care about. Knowing this, we can go about learning, changing and growing in a different way.

Join us for a 3-hour online workshop with LeeAnn Mallorie

In Embodied Leadership: Tapping into the Wisdom of Your Body, you will learn how to practice listening to your own intuition and trusting the wisdom of your body as an original source of information from which innovative ideas and authentic approaches will spring.

You will exponentially increase your capacity to lead when you engage your whole self — mind, emotions, spirit… and body. And you will learn to use your own embodied presence to uncover innate powers you turned off earlier in your career.

When
April 27, 2023

Time
10:30am – 1:30pm PT

Learn more
https://strozziinstitute.com/embodied-leadership-tapping-into-the-wisdom-of-your-body/

The world keeps changing - this has always been true - and we are in a particular chapter of change that keeps coming with what can feel like more pressure than before. From armed conflicts in over 150 countries, the ongoing assault on Black, Indigenous and People of Color, Women, Q***r and Trans people and
human rights across the US and the world, to the ongoing shifts and changes of
the COVID pandemic ~ how might an increased capacity to be in healthy
relationships serve in our world today?

As the community dojo focused last month on Leadership in challenging times, in
this community dojo, we will spend time together in practice, focusing on mutual
connection and dignity.

Join us Tuesday, August 9 at 8:00am Pacific / 11:00am Eastern / 4:00pm London – to begin building relationships for a better world.

The Rationalistic Tradition has taught us the mispercetion and objectification of the body as a "vehicle for transporting our minds," or "the object we need to dress, exercise, feed, make healthy and attractive." The body is an after-thought, if it is considered at all. However, our bodies and ourselves are one in the same– this is our whole self.

If we bring our whole selves into the conversation of learning, we can then begin to explore embodiment: both our inherited, learned habits and new ways of acting, thinking and relating that are aligned with what we most care about. Knowing this, we can go about learning, changing and growing in a different way.

Click the link to explore how an Embodied Learning approach can create lasting change for you: https://ecs.page.link/okjTk

Somatics is a theory of change that places the body at the center of our evolutionary intelligence, adaptation, and learning. Somatics sees the body as inseparable from the whole self, and as a vehicle through which to accelerate growth.

Somatics in practice works through the body to engage our thinking, emotions, commitments, vision, and action to move towards our true self and highest desires.

Click the link in our bio to explore how Somatics can create lasting change for you!

The Rationalistic Tradition has taught us the misperception and objectification of the body as a "vehicle for transporting our minds," or "the object we need to dress, exercise, feed, make healthy and attractive." The body is an after-thought, if it is considered at all. However, our bodies and ourselves are one in the same– this is our whole self.

If we bring our whole selves into the conversation of learning, we can then begin to explore embodiment: both our inherited, learned habits and new ways of acting, thinking and relating that are aligned with what we most care about. Knowing this, we can go about learning, changing and growing in a different way.

Click the link to explore how an Embodied Learning approach can create lasting change for you: https://ecs.page.link/okjTk

Are you leading your life or is life leading you?

If you’re asking yourself this question, we invite you to join the Strozzi Institute's Online Community Dojo.

The term dōjō derives from the traditional Japanese arts. It means the “place of training” or the “place of awakening.”

As our founder, Richard Strozzi-Heckler says, “the dojo is an ancient tradition that addresses the concern for self-mastery, learning, sustainability, and innovation.”

In honoring the vast tradition and power behind the word, we have designed our Online Community Dojo events as a way for you to grow in your study of somatics while also building the foundation for a moral, ethical, and spiritual life.

Visit our website to sign-up for reminders for the next Community Dojo, or find more ways you can ground yourself in somatic practices and discover how an embodied learning approach can create lasting change. Click the link to explore: https://ecs.page.link/DQusw

Sometimes when life gets busy, it's easy to fall out of alignment with your true vision.

If you've been taking steps towards centering, being present, and becoming truly embodied, whether through our workshops or online courses — you have a vision for yourself. You're connected to the values you want to embody, and have a foundational understanding of how to move towards them...

When you stay embodied under pressure, you have a conscious choice in how to respond to what's in front of you and become an inspiring leader in your personal life and in your professional life working in a team.

Our commitment is to develop transformative leaders, coaches, and organizations that can meet the challenges and hopes of our times — leaving our communities and the world more resilient. Click the link to explore how an Embodied Learning approach can help you become the leader you want to be: https://ecs.page.link/okjTk

Somatics is a theory of change that places the body at the center of our evolutionary intelligence, adaptation, and learning. Somatics sees the body as inseparable from the whole self, and as a vehicle through which to accelerate growth.

Somatics in practice works through the body to engage our thinking, emotions, commitments, vision, and action to move towards our true self and highest desires.

Click the link to explore how Somatics can create lasting change for you: https://ecs.page.link/okjTk

Todays the day! You’re invited to join Strozzi teachers Maggie Williams and Erika Lyla for a powerful 4-week online journey to cultivate your resilience — so you can reconnect to your purpose, get off the endless wheel of your to-do list and obligations… and reconnect to your values and vision.

In the first session, you’ll explore:
🌟The powerful truth that you become what you practice
🌟 The resilience-based approach to transformation and and how it can show up in your life
🌟 How your specific resilience experiences live in your soma
🌟 Powerful journaling exercises set to music
🌟 Guided practices featuring skills you’ll come to embody and access regularly over the next month (even under pressure) as your new way of thinking, relating, acting, and being
🌟 And more!

Erika and Maggie will guide you over these four weeks to work with your whole self — your actions, inactions, emotions, sensations — so you can transform, even under pressure, as you move toward your purpose. Click the link to register: https://ecs.page.link/88EJJ

You’re invited to join Maggie and Erika for Rediscovering Resilience, to access and cultivate your inner resilience — within the loving container of our supportive somatic community.

During this 4-week course, you’ll learn how, when we’re under this much individual and collective pressure, our old conditioning (which comes from your childhood to long-ago ancestral patterns) kicks in — undermining our ability to move forward and flourish...

In the face of today’s challenges, you’re (understandably) responding to events in a similar way — and stress and reactivity now feel like the “new normal.”

Yet, within you right now lies a profound sense of resilience — the innate capacity to bounce back and stay connected to yourself and those around you, even in times of isolation.

Click the link to learn more and register: https://ecs.page.link/88EJJ

Imagine moving through the world emboldened by your inner resilience that you can call on at any time…

How would your life be different? We hope you’ll join us on a powerful new 4-week journey and find out...

You’ll learn to rely on your own sustainability, opening the doorway to remembering who you truly are and what’s most important to you...

You’ll refocus and reconnect with your purpose and aliveness.

Here’s what Maggie and Erika have planned for each week of this transformational course, beginning March 22:
🌟 Session 1: Resilience — What It Is and Isn’t
🌟 Session 2: The Art & Science of Resilience
🌟 Session 3: Making More Room for Resilience
🌟 Session 4: Resilience & Interdependence

Maggie and Erika will guide you to widen your circle of concern, and use these four weeks as an opportunity for purposeful transformation within yourself — in support of those around you, greater equity in the world, climate justice, and much more. Click the link to register today: https://ecs.page.link/88EJJ

“The resilience practices had an immediate impact — relief and joy — on my day-to-day experience of life.” — Karen G.

We love hearing from students like Karen who’ve said YES to the journey of somatics — and deepened their own healing, learning, and growth to access hope from a place of resilience.

You’re invited to bring this powerful healing work into your own life when you join Maggie Williams’ and Erika Lyla’s live online course, Rediscovering Resilience: From Reactivity to Skillful Action.

In the opening class session on March 22, Maggie and Erika will share how somatics can help you understand the ways you react under pressure — and help you become more connected to what you care about as you grow, align with your vision and values, and transform.

Click the link to learn more: https://ecs.page.link/88EJJ

Just like all of us, as you move toward your vision you’ll hit roadblocks in the form of your old habits and reactions.

You’re invited to join Strozzi teachers Maggie Williams and Erika Lyla for a powerful 4-week online journey to cultivate your resilience — so you can reconnect to your purpose, get off the endless wheel of your to-do list and obligations… and reconnect to your values and vision.

Erika and Maggie will guide you over these four weeks to work with your whole self — your actions, inactions, emotions, sensations — so you can transform, even under pressure, as you move toward your purpose.

You’ll learn to widen your circle of concern, using this time as an opportunity for purposeful transformation within yourself — in support of those around you, greater equity in the world, climate justice, and much more.

Most of all, you’ll learn to rely on your own sustainability, opening the doorway to remembering who you truly are and what’s most important to you. You’ll refocus and reconnect with your purpose and aliveness.

Click the link to learn more and sign-up: https://ecs.page.link/88EJJ

As we move through this extended time of change and uncertainty, it’s easy to feel thrown off-center, anxious, or confused about the future.

Maybe your work-life balance feels nonexistent as you work from home and show up for your family in the same space, often at the same time. Or perhaps you’re burned out from too many Zoom meetings.

You’re not alone in feeling this way. When we’re under this much individual and collective pressure, natural survival strategies kick in — and stress and reactivity start to feel like the “new normal.”

You’re invited to join us for Rediscovering Resilience, to access and cultivate your inner resilience — within the loving container of our supportive somatic community.

Strozzi teachers Maggie Williams and Erika Lyla will take you on a 4-week journey to cultivate your resilience — so you can reconnect to your purpose, get off the endless wheel of your to-do list and obligations… and reconnect to your values and vision.

Click the link to learn more and sign-up: https://ecs.page.link/88EJJ

Please join us for a FREE online Community Dojo session Tuesday, March 8 at 8am PT. Strozzi Teacher Pete Hamill will lead us in "Opening for a Greater Choice."

Do we brace against the onslaught of the world? Have we stiffened with pride? Have we become brittle through the experience of life, or have we collapsed with shame? Whatever we have embodied gives us a set of predominant moods — it’s difficult to experience a lot of joy when collapsed with shame. Our moods shape what actions then seem possible — a mood of ambition generates different actions than a mood of resignation. These embodiments also give us an identity — others respond to how we show up and engage with us based on the resulting perceptions they have of us. The embodiment, and the moods and identity it produces, gives us a sense of what’s possible for us.

Visit our website to sign-up for reminders for the next Community Dojo, or find more ways you can ground yourself in somatic practices and discover how an embodied learning approach can create lasting change for you. Visit: https://ecs.page.link/DQusw

Please join us for a FREE online Community Dojo session Tuesday, March 8 at 8am PT. Strozzi Teacher Pete Hamill will lead us in "Opening for a Greater Choice."

Do we brace against the onslaught of the world? Have we stiffened with pride? Have we become brittle through the experience of life, or have we collapsed with shame? Whatever we have embodied gives us a set of predominant moods — it’s difficult to experience a lot of joy when collapsed with shame. Our moods shape what actions then seem possible — a mood of ambition generates different actions than a mood of resignation. These embodiments also give us an identity — others respond to how we show up and engage with us based on the resulting perceptions they have of us. The embodiment, and the moods and identity it produces, gives us a sense of what’s possible for us.

Visit our website to sign-up for reminders for the next Community Dojo, or find more ways you can ground yourself in somatic practices and discover how an embodied learning approach can create lasting change for you. Visit: https://ecs.page.link/DQusw

It may feel like a struggle to effectively care for yourself and the people you love these days, especially as global events drain our reserves and energy for self.

But did you know you have a profound sense of resilience within you? It can nourish you, unlocking more energy and a greater connection to yourself...And through somatic practices, you can rediscover this inner resilience — and begin to bring the focus back to caring for yourself as you deserve.

Join us for a powerful free online workshop, "How to Move from Burnout to Resilience" TODAY at 12pm PT, as Strozzi teachers Maggie Williams and Erika Lyla share body-based techniques to help you rediscover resilience for your life, relationships, and leadership.

Click the link to learn more: https://ecs.page.link/azgM8

Rediscovering your inner resilience is more important now than ever.

It’s hard to stay engaged with life when almost every day is met with what feels like complex challenges, leaving us with less and less reserves to deal with the day to day.

However life’s difficulties are affecting you, you can begin to reconnect to yourself and what matters most — as you access hope from a place of resilience.

You’re invited to join the Strozzi Institute for a powerful free online event, "How to Move from Burnout to Resilience" March 3, 2022 at 5pm PT, where you’ll discover how to transform old habits and patterns that keep you stuck — and deepen your healing, learning, and growth through Somatic Practices.

Click the link to learn more: https://ecs.page.link/azgM8

On Thursday March 3 at 5pm PT join us for "How to Move from Burnout to Inner Resilience," and learn the importance of creating a self-curated, conscious practice that will allow you to be more connected with yourself and others.

You’ll explore how even in the face of stress, crisis, and uncertainty, you can grow closer to the people in your life and to your individual Self.

During this powerful online mini-workshop, you’ll also hear about a 4-week LIVE online course where you’ll learn Somatic Practices to help you build inner resilience and deepen your healing, learning, and growth — no matter what life brings.

Click the link to learn more: https://ecs.page.link/azgM8

Join us for a free online event, "How to Move from Burnout to Inner Resilience," on Thursday March 3 at 5pm PT. Strozzi teachers Maggie Williams and Erika Lyla will share mind-body techniques to help you rediscover resilience for your life, relationships, and leadership using simple somatic practices.

Maggie and Erika will help you discover:
✨ How to move beyond burnout and get back on purpose, no matter what life brings.
✨ Your default patterns under pressure — and how to transform the habits that are keeping you stuck.
✨ The Three Circles, a holistic framework featuring the core components for embodied somatic transformation.
✨ A guided practice to help you rediscover your inner resilience.
✨ An exercise to cultivate more compassion (for yourself and others) during these times.

Most of all, you’ll rediscover your own sustainability, opening the doorway to remembering who you truly are and what’s most important to you. You’ll refocus and reconnect with your purpose and aliveness.

Click the link to learn more and sign-up: https://ecs.page.link/azgM8

It’s hard to stay engaged with life when almost every day we’re met with what feels like more disillusionment.

Maybe the cultural ideological divisions, continual fight for rights and justice, and accelerating degradation of the planet have been on your mind.

Perphaps you're struggling with the uncertain plan for your children's schooling. Maybe even watching the news feels overwhelming...

So, how do we care for ourselves in the face of this new era?

What are the things that actually nourish us, give us more energy, and a greater connection to ourselves?

You have a profound sense of resilience within you right now. It's been with you all along, and its more important than ever to redisover it.

Join us for a brand-new free online workshop as Strozzi teachers Maggie Williams & Erika Lyla share how to move beyond burnout and get back to purpose, no matter what life brings. They'll share mind-body techniques to help you rediscover resilience for your life, relationships, and leadership using simple somatic practices. You’ll refocus and reconnect with your purpose and aliveness.

Click the link to sign up and learn more: https://ecs.page.link/azgM8

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Are you tired? Beyond tired?

Whether challenges of daily life are weighing you down, or two years into the pandemic has you feeling disheartened or restless…

It’s hard to stay engaged with life when almost every day is seemingly met with what feels like complex challenges. So how do we care for ourselves in the face of this new era?

We’re being called to resource ourselves. To get better at recognizing and savoring the moments of joy in life, to connect to the present moment — and feel the good moments at a greater percentage, at a greater depth. Through somatic practice, we can begin by bringing the focus back to ourselves, lovingly.

Join us for our workshop, "How to Move from Burnout to Resilience," as Strozzi teachers Maggie Williams and Erika Lyla share mind-body techniques to help you rediscover resilience for your life, relationships, and leadership using simple somatic practices. Most of all, you’ll rediscover your own sustainability, opening the doorway to remembering who you truly are and what’s most important to you. You’ll refocus and reconnect with your purpose and aliveness.

Click the link to learn more: https://ecs.page.link/azgM8

At Strozzi Institute, our goal is to empower individuals and the collective to recognize and move through conditioned tendencies and historical shaping that restrain growth and to identify and hold consciously chosen values front and center. We provide training and tools that utilize the body and somatic practices to support embodiment of life-giving visions and values to achieve transformation and true desires.

With 45 years of development and experience, we have fine-tuned a unique and powerful methodology that produces sustained change, reliably. Strozzi Somatics teaches the “how” in actualizing the best leadership and coaching ideas, theories, and intentions — not just for individuals, but for coaches, teams, and companies around the world.

Strozzi Institute’s methodologies empower transformational change through the body.

“We are what we practice. We are always practicing something. Is what you are practicing aligned with your visions?” -Richard Strozzi-Hecker

Observing what you practice is a good way to discover who you are.

How aligned are your actions with your personal and professional goals?

If you have the presence and the impact you desire, the quality of relationships you want and general wellbeing, it is as a result of the decisions you make and the actions you take.

If you're ready to put a powerful vision for your life into action, visit our website to find more ways in which an embodied learning approach can help create lasting change for you! Click the link to explore: https://ecs.page.link/okjTk

In times of change or uncertainty, it’s natural to feel thrown off-center, anxious, or confused.

It is also possible to use this upheaval to engage in our own healing, learning, and growth.

Resilience is inherent in all people. It is our capacity to “bounce back”, to see possibilities, and to stay connected. Even during change or moving through the unknown, we can cultivate resilience.

What are the moments of joy already happening in your life? How can you get better at feeling with your whole system and really savoring those moments? Comment below! Click the link to learn more about using somatics in your life: https://ecs.page.link/okjTk

Please join us for a FREE online Community Dojo session Tuesday, February 8 at 8am PT. Strozzi Teacher Maggie Williams will lead us in "Working With Our Patterns to Unlock New Possibilities".

Many of us grapple with habits or ways of being that get in the way of what we long for, what matters to us, and who we truly want to be. Our struggle with these long-held patterns can keep us feeling stuck and frustrated. They are the roadblocks to our transformation. In this session, we’ll learn where these patterns — called Conditioned Tendencies — come from, how they’ve served us (truly), and how we are now over-using and over-relying on some of them. Instead of working against these long-held patterns, we’ll practice authentically befriending them — which is one of the key ways we heal and transform.

Visit our website to sign-up for reminders for the next Community Dojo, or find more ways you can ground yourself in somatic practices and discover how an embodied learning approach can create lasting change for you. Visit: https://ecs.page.link/x3PNj

Do you feel you are moving closer to your true vision for yourself, your life, and your relationships?

Or, are you moving further out of alignment from what you really want?

How about in stressful times? Do you continue to embody your vision for the future, or — like most of us — fall back into your familiar default mode?

In times of stress, we often react with our old ways of coping or taking care of ourselves. These conditioned tendencies are a result of trauma, and, although they served us in the past, they push us further away from our true vision.

Your conditioned tendencies can block your vision and stifle your choices.

To move toward embodiment of your vision and start showing up completely differently in 6 months, you have to align your vision and declaration and begin the somatic transition towards embodying it.

To help you achieve this goal, we invite you to join us March 24-27 for 4 powerful days on our California ranch for our next Embodied Transformation with Strozzi Somatics training.

This intimate, in-person training will give you practices that you can apply right away toward becoming a centered presence that embodies authenticity, integrity, accountability, and confidence. Click the link in our bio to register now!

It’s easy to fall out of alignment with your true vision, especially when life gets busy.

True embodiment happens when your actions consistently reflect your values and your commitment, especially under pressure — whether at work, in your relationships, or simply in the face of day-to-day stressors. And, it takes practice.

You can transform your conditioning and default reactions, and build a foundation so strong that acting from your center is natural and ease-filled.

If you’re ready to craft that powerful foundation and take your embodiment to the next level, we invite you to join us March 24-27 on our ranch in Petaluma, California for our next Embodied Transformation with Strozzi Somatics training.

During these four interactive days, Strozzi teachers Dara Silverman and Tesfaye Tekelu will walk you through creating a declaration, or statement of vision, toward the future you want as you align your vision with your daily actions.

Each session will feature in-depth teaching with a small student-to-teacher ratio, guided movements, interactive training, and practices that you can apply right away.

Don’t wait — registration is open now! Click the link in our bio to reserve your spot today.