Somatic Arts Academy

We live in a society that believes that intellectualizing our emotions is the cure, often times ignoring that our body is the home of everything we are experiencing.

Emotions cause physical symptoms in the body through a process called somatization. 🧘‍♀️

This is when our emotions and stories manifest as physical symptoms in the body.

This can manifest as latent trauma, when the body stores trauma if you didn’t have the capacity to regulate emotional stress.

Latent trauma refers to something that exists, but is not yet obvious. ☁️

Usually we are unaware of our trauma, this is why we experience symptoms of trapped emotion such as:

- muscle tension or tightness
- a feeling of heaviness or tiredness
- a “lump” or choking sensation in the throat
- aching or pain
- nausea or “knots” in the stomach

There are a lot of actual traumatic events that don’t have to be stuck in your system as trauma forever if you process them shortly after.

But if you don’t have a functional emotional system, it’s hard to process traumatic events.

If we can get the foundations right we can support our systems in the future. Somatics allows us to process things in real time making us more resilient. With somatic awareness, we can come back into control and take our power! 💫

Click the link in bio for FREE somatic arts nervous system techniques ❤️‍🔥

Our healing and spiritual path connects us with who we are, our true essence.

Celebrate and embrace all parts, this is your authenticity and what you can to offer to the world! ✨

Healing can be hard, facing your shadows is challenging, choosing yourself can be scary. But on the other side there is liberation and the deepest sense of your own truth and wisdom. 🫶🏼

Thank you for these wise words!

The psyche is showing us what has been true all along, leading us to a newfound perception rooted in trust, openness, radical love, and freedom.

There’s so much talk about living a life that aligns with your core truth, but let’s admit it, it’s not always easy.

Maybe you are still discovering what it feels and looks like to live in your authenticity.

Or perhaps your truth is evolving into something new. 🌬️

You don’t have to find your truth through thinking about it, your inner world holds all the answers.

When we open our inner world, we are unlocking the limitless potential that lives within. 🧘‍♀️

To feel this clarity, we must remove the blockages.

Our mind is tricky, often it will convince us that something is not right for us if it goes against our generational and societal traditions.

Visualization techniques can help us drop into the present, perceiving what is arriving within our subconscious without having to define the experience- it will just resonate. 🤍

The good news is, that after we experience these transformative meditative journeys, this rediscovered intelligence and truth become engrained in our perception. The way we move through waking life becomes transformed with ease and clarity. 👁️

The art of visualization has changed our lives, and we are ready to share these visionary gifts with you!

Our guided meditation facilitator training is perfect for coaches, therapists, space holders, and anyone who holds a curiosity about guided meditations.

🌟LAST CALL! 🌟 Our training begins THIS Thursday. Save your spot and learn more by clicking the link on our story.

When “teaching” Yoga, we are not just guiding poses…

💫 We are guiding people.

💫 We are guiding nervous systems.

💫 We are guiding complex and unique physiologies.

Each of us has a different orientation of how we perceive our own safety or lack thereof.

🧠🧘‍♀️ Through a psycho-somatic understanding of Trauma and the ways it lives in the body, we can embrace the practice of Yoga in a way that permits each individual to have their own experience.

This 200 Hour Somatic Arts Yoga Teacher Training will weave through 4 cycles: Stabilize, Metabolize, Visualize, and Alchemize.

👁️ Students are invited into a deeply reflective space of Self Contemplation & Reflection and to encourage living Yoga off the mat through compassion and service.

🌬️The course focuses on building a sustainable yoga asana practice by sourcing a stable physical foundation, harnessing energy through the bandhas, and animating the breath to drop into true embodiment and presence.

Learn to teach vinyasa, slow flow, and yin yoga through a more integrated and inclusive lens.

DM us or click the link in bio for more information!

Your existence is what binds the tapestry of our collective healing together.

We invite you to celebrate your body and purpose, as your unique authenticity can never be replicated.

Continue to love, learn, and evolve. This is will grow you closer to your soul, walking you home. 🤍

We see you!

Your inner-world is a powerful blueprint for navigating a life of freedom, healing, passion, and creativity. ❤️

Although sometimes it may be difficult to cut out the distractions from the outside world and inner-dialogue, there are tools and rituals we can integrate into our practice to journey inward. 👁️🌟

This is where the power of meditative journeying comes through.

You are invited to join us for our next transformational meditation facilitator training beginning June 6th. 🧘‍♀️

Our 4-day training will teach you a variety of meditation styles, with hands-on practice, direct feedback from renowned teacher Nichole Ferro, and more!

✨Click the link in bio to learn more, book a connection call, and enroll. ✨

It is our human nature to fluctuate outside of our regulated zone. The good news is we have the power to call back our energy and deeply adjust to a state that feels safe.

Click the link in bio to receive two FREE videos on how to regulate your body if you are stuck on off/on. 🤍✨

Supporting and nourishing our body means accepting whatever arrives in our experience, and using the language of the body to communicate how we can best support and nourish ourselves.

When more complicated feelings arise, it’s not that we get rid of the feeling, but we learn to relate to the feeling on a deeper level. 🤍🧘

A gentle reminder to befriend your body ✨ your embodiment is your art!

Guided meditation journeys offer profound healing and spiritual benefits by fostering deep inner peace and heightened awareness. ✨

These visionary quests into the depths of your psyche, rich with visualization facilitate emotional healing, reduce stress, and enhance spiritual connection.

By guiding participants through transformative inner landscapes, these meditations help cultivate compassion, gratitude, and a profound sense of purpose. 🧘‍♀️

Join our meditation training to unlock these benefits and embark on a journey towards holistic well-being and spiritual growth.

Our next LIVE ONLINE training begins June 6th and 7th 6:30-8:30pm PST and June 8th and 9th 10am - 3pm PST 🤍

Link in bio to enroll!

When we are working with the subconscious, it is important to know how the subconscious developed in the first place, this is limbic resonance.

Limbic resonance is who you are. You can’t pretend it’s something else.

Good news is you CAN reprogram your subconscious.

DM us “LIMBIC” and we will send you the steps you can take to re-imprint using Limbic Resonance.

We have heard “listen to your heart” and “trust your gut” plenty of times, but there is actually a profound scientific backing to this…

Our enteric nervous system, located around the gut and heart, contains as many neurons (brain cells) as a cat.

It communicates information to the gut and heart, which then relays it to the brain. 🧠

So, when you say you followed your heart or gut, there’s a literal truth to it! ❤️

When we use somatic exercises to befriend the body and understand the language of the heart and gut, we are able to access our intuition deeper than ever before.

Are you ready to grow your connection with your body’s infinite intelligence? Send us a DM and we will show you how. ✨🧘‍♀️

There is a lot of talk on the buzzword “somatic,” although it may be unclear what exactly this is.

Come join for a deep-dive into this transformative work and how this is one of the most valuable, life-long tools for coaches, therapists, coachers, and space holders.

We encourage you to come with any questions and curiosities.

See you Monday, May 13th 5pm PST on Instagram live! 💫

Our hearts are filled with gratitude for our amazing clients and their invaluable wisdom!

Exciting news: Our next in-person training kicks off on July 12th.

If you’re ready to dive into trauma-informed breathwork, hit the link in our bio to schedule a call.

Let’s embark on this transformative journey together! 🌬️

Your authenticity is your superpower.

Embrace your unique essence.

This is the courage to be yourself. 🌹

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT ✨

We will be offering $1000 OFF on our in-person somatic training! We still have a few spots left. DM us to learn more.

Showing up as our embodied Self means allowing ourselves to sit with and feel the depth of our experience.

Embodiment is your art.

When we create a life of acceptance and regulation, people will feel it and find inspiration.

This is a gift you will continue to share and embody for the rest of your life. Are you ready to take the next step? 🤍

Have you ever thought you should say yes in a situation, but felt disconnected and stressed in your body?

Our mind love to do the talking, but the wisdom lies in our body.

We all have an inner-critic who lives in our thoughts, but we also have the power to silence the analyzing, judgement, and people pleasing.

What our mind can convince us of may not be necessarily aligned with our truth.

Alignment begins in the body, the center of our human experience.

Our body never lies. This is where our authenticity lives and grows. 🌱

How will you know you are living in an embodied way?

It will be felt. 🫴✨

Congratulation to our newest Trauma-Informed Breathwork Facilitators! 💕

We are so proud of you for taking the next steps to lead with integrity by learning how to facilitate radical healing using your breath and medicine. 🌬️

It was an honor to co-create a space of healing, radical transformation, and empowerment.

If you are interested in becoming a breathwork facilitator, or are curious about expanding your connection to the breath, our next in person training begins July 12! This will be held at Behind The Lids in Costa Mesa, CA. 🌟

Comment or DM to receive more information.

Have you ever felt deeply impacted by someone else’s energy?

Did this cause you to respond or act in a way that felt disconnected?

We are here to gently remind you that this is a normal part of the human experience.

Although it may at times feel impossible to fully show up as our highest selves, there are many resources we can use to call back our energy.

We do this by choosing to participate in the energy that resonates. ✨

When we fully show up for ourselves no matter how we are feeling, we can feel how embodiment can liberate us.

Powerfully showing up for yourself is more than just obersevering and regulating your thoughts, it is finding a home within your physical body. 🧘‍♀️

Somatic work is a powerful tool for connecting ourselves to our truth, authenticity, and presence. 👁️

It is more than the mind; it is movement, breath, and overall FEELING the experience. When we feel it, we are finding acceptance, stillness, and just being. 🤍

Empower the healer and leader within and take the healing experience of breathwork out into the world!

🌬️ If you’re looking to be a breathwork facilitator… start here!

• You will receive constructive feedback about your facilitation from renowned teacher, Nichole Anne Ferro .

• Ten Unique Breathwork Practices

• How to Develop a Personal, At-Home Practice

• Theory and Philosophy of Breathwork 

• The science side: Anatomy, Psychophysiology, Energetics and Neuroscience of Respiration, The Nervous System and Our Breath.

• Trauma-Informed Techniques to Support Others in Their Transformational Process

• Guided Practices to Heal Your Wounds, Blockages, and Traumas and Self-Ownership

• How to Intentionally Hold Space for Individuals and Groups

• And... So Much More!

We are so excited to welcome our in-person cohort beginning April 12th. It’s not too late to sign up! Limited spaces available. ✨

I see you…

I’ve been there… depressed, resentful, angry, and confused.

Feeling stuck in my mind and pain in my body.

I knew I couldn’t live like this forever.

When I was guided to a powerful and ancient Breathwork practice, I was able to hack into my brain, nervous system, and immune system.

Now I am pain-free and living the life of my dreams. ✨

After years of exploring this with many facilitators and teachers, I began to share this gift with others.

If you’re interested in learning more about the power of the breath, comment “BREATHE” and I will DM you. 🤍🌬️

🗓️ Mark your calendar … every Monday morning at 8am enjoy a guided meditation with ✨

Nicole is a trauma-informed Somatic Practitioner, Breathwork facilitator, Sound healer, and Usui Reiki Master. In addition, Nicole has spent 20 years pampering others through her work as a professional hairstylist. 

Nicole has found profound healing and freedom through Sound Therapy, Breathwork, Coaching, and Somatic Therapies. Nicole is dedicated to helping others on their journey back to themselves.

Join Dallas for our live meditation tomorrow at 8 am!

✨ Friday’s Facilitator will be Dallas Conkle: IG- ✨

As a young adult, Dallas toured the US as a drummer in a bunch of bands, immersing himself in different cultures, experiences, and all kinds of music styles. Along the way, he discovered that his love for music had grown alongside his understanding of the human spirit.  

Through his own human experiences of highs and lows, battling depression and su***de, he stumbled across a set of healing sound bowls and was immediately drawn to the vibrations and the healing power of the bowls. He began immersing himself in healing music and he found the more he played, the more he healed; and the more capacity he had to handle life from a much calmer peaceful state.

Once he realized this gift had the power to lift people up, and open the door to personal healing, he felt the call to get curious and become the next version of himself, A Sound Healer…

Today, Dallas continues to hone in on his craft and expand the list of instruments he plays, sharing his music and the transformative power it has to heal and uplift. Along the way, he also makes time to spread good vibrations through his crystal shop, The Giving Crystal, where people can find peace, balance, a connection to nature, community, and even more healing modalities that Dallas offers or has resources to offer.

Join Maria for our live meditation tomorrow at 8am PST!

✨ Thursday’s Facilitator will be Maria Brophy: IG-  ✨

Maria Brophy is passionate about empowering others with knowledge. She is a leader of entrepreneurs and author of several titles including “Empowered Women’s Circles” and “Art, Money & Success.” For two decades, Maria has traveled the world, speaking, teaching and exploring. Maria leads healing ceremonies in her local community and abroad. She podcasts and leads courses at www.brophyartacademy.com

Join Nichole for our live meditation tomorrow at 8am PST!

✨ Wednesday’s Facilitator will be Nichole Ferro: IG-  ✨

Nichole is the founder of and is a renowned Psycho-Somatic Trauma Recovery Coach, Somatic Educator, Breathwork Facilitator/Educator, Trauma-Informed Yoga Educator, Womb Medicine Women, and Ceremonialist.
 
She has been in the Healing Arts industry for 15 years and is devoted to various practices of holistic healing. Nichole has over 3,000 training hours in trauma-informed; yoga, breathwork, somatic therapy, and nervous system recovery, and has over 10,000 teaching hours.

Through years of study and practice, Nichole has learned firsthand that the healing process is not linear but more like a spiral that contracts and expands. She believes surrendering to the spiral process of birth, growth, death, and rebirth is crucial to deeply understanding Self. She firmly believes we hold ancient wisdom within our body that is designed to heal old wounds and broken patterns that are holding us back from reaching our fullest potential.

Tune in tomorrow morning at 8am PST for a live guided meditation with Jess Andrews: IG - 

She will be guiding us every Tuesday morning throughout the month of April.

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Hey there, I’m Jess—a Certified Yoga Instructor, Embodied Breathwork & Somatic Healing Facilitator & Reiki Practitioner, plus a Cultural Anthropology graduate (summa cm laude) from Cal State University Fullerton. My purpose? Guiding others back to themselves with love, helping them feel safe, connected, and present.

Last year brought deep grief into my life after the sudden passing of my husband and loss of my pregnancy. Throughout my life, I’ve wrestled with anxiety, people-pleasing, eating disorders, and more. But here’s the thing—I never thought I could break free from the grip of my own mind. Thanks to years of self-discovery, yoga, meditation, breathwork, somatic release, EMDR and plant medicine, I’ve found a new perspective.

Now, I’m all about sharing the tools that helped me reclaim my life and authenticity. Life can be tough, especially with grief, and it’s important to acknowledge all of the feelings that arise. I won’t pretend that life is all love and light, but I can show you how to hold the darkness while embracing the light. You may never fully heal from what you’ve gone through, but you can grow and learn how to best carry it. Remember, you are not a constant self-improvement project. Guiding others to see the beauty in their authentic selves, even those they think are unlovable, is my passion.

If any of my journey resonates with you, know you’re not alone. There’s nothing ‘wrong with you.’ You’re not defined by your past mistakes. Love and fulfillment are possible. I’m here when you’re ready to embark on this journey. Don’t hesitate to reach out—let’s shine our lights together.

With love and gratitude,
Jess

Do you feel called to expand the way you hold space for clients and loved ones?

Our trainings offer a unique experience for you to transform your own experiences into your life’s work from a truly integrated place. 🤍

In our three-certification training, we gift you the opportunity to explore the rich terrain of somatic arts facilitation. 🌱

Why take our training? ✨
-It is fully online, you can attend from anywhere in the world
-Recordings are available
-This goes towards continuing yoga hours
-You will have three unique ways of guiding your clients through 1-1 and group work

Our trilogy training begins this Tuesday, April 2nd. It is not too late to save your spot! LINK IN BIO.

Our bodies are sacred, and when we embrace this through self care and honoring our needs, we allow ourselves infinite bliss. 🌹