Somatic Teaching, Workshops, & Speaking
Body-Centered Learning for Retreats, Organizations, Conferences, and Community Groups
I offer teaching, speaking, workshops, and facilitated group experiences through Embody Alchemy. These offerings bring somatic practice, nervous system education, creative embodiment, movement-based theater, and body-led inquiry into spaces where people are ready to learn through more than ideas alone.
This work can support retreats, conferences, professional development spaces, community programs, arts organizations, therapeutic teams, educators, facilitators, and groups navigating transition, burnout, identity, creativity, or collective change.
The format can be educational, experiential, reflective, creative, or ritual-based depending on the audience and purpose of the gathering. Some offerings focus on nervous system regulation and embodied awareness. Others move toward play, mask, movement, writing, ritual, or expressive practice.
Interested in bringing my work into your space?
Use this form to share a little about your group, gathering, or organization. I’ll review your inquiry and respond with next steps for exploring whether a talk, workshop, experiential session, or custom collaboration is the right fit.
What I Bring
My facilitation is grounded in years of study and practice across somatic movement therapy, Tui Na bodywork, Taoist medicine, Dynamic Embodiment®, Andean earth-based practice, trauma-informed care, movement-based physical theater, and group facilitation practices informed by The Way of Council and mediation training.
That breadth allows me to meet groups through multiple doorways. A workshop might begin with grounding and nervous system awareness, move into guided movement, include writing or reflective dialogue, and open into creative practice through gesture, mask, image, sound, or ritual.
My teaching is especially useful for groups that want a grounded, body-centered approach to transformation without flattening the complexity of identity, culture, trauma, creativity, or collective experience. My facilitation makes room for authenticity, shared vulnerability, and the kind of presence that allows people to learn with the body, not just talk about change.
Teaching and Facilitation Topics May Include ↓
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Somatics and Nervous System Regulation
Experiential learning around felt sense, grounding, orientation, breath, developmental movement, stress responses, and the body’s role in change.
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Creative Embodiment and Expressive Practice
Movement-based workshops that may include mask, clowning, BodyTales, Authentic Movement, ritual theater, writing, image-making, or embodied storytelling.
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Thresholds and Life Transitions
Group experiences for people moving through major seasons of change such as grief, divorce, birth, death, midlife, menopause, identity shifts, creative blocks, or personal reinvention.
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Somatics for Practitioners and Care Providers
Workshops or talks for therapists, bodyworkers, educators, facilitators, organizers, and helping professionals who want to better understand body-based practice, regulation, relational awareness, and creative resourcing.
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Embodied Arts and Community Practice
Facilitated experiences that bring together somatics, play, ritual, creativity, and collective reflection for community groups, arts spaces, retreats, and collaborative programs.
Why Play Belongs in Serious Work
My background in physical theater, mask, clowning, and somatic performance gives my teaching a particular quality: grounded, precise, and willing to make room for aliveness.
Play isn’t used to avoid depth. It’s used to access it.
Many people enter group learning spaces carrying the pressure to be competent, composed, useful, polished, or in control. Creative embodiment can loosen those roles enough for something more honest to emerge. Through movement, gesture, humor, awkwardness, image, rhythm, and voice, participants may discover what the body has been holding beneath language.
This can be especially powerful in workshops and retreats because shared practice helps normalize the complexity of being human. People don’t have to process everything alone. They can witness, be witnessed, and practice new ways of being in relationship to themselves and others.
Possible Formats
My teaching and speaking work can be adapted to the needs of the group.
Potential formats include:
guest teaching or class facilitation
retreat sessions or multi-day intensives
presentations
professional workshops for care providers
creative embodiment workshops
online classes or small-group courses
collaborative programs with artists, therapists, educators, or community organizations
custom experiences around a specific theme, threshold, or group need
Some offerings are more educational.
Some are more experiential.
Some combine both.
Want to understand the foundation of this work?
Who This Is For
This work may be a fit for organizations, retreat leaders, educators, therapists, artists, facilitators, and community groups seeking a body-centered approach to learning, transformation, creativity, or collective care.
It may be especially useful for groups exploring:
burnout and nervous system support
grief, transition, and threshold work
embodied creativity and self-expression
trauma-informed group practice
LGBTQIA+ affirming and identity-aware spaces
somatic tools for practitioners and caregivers
creative approaches to personal or collective change
Each offering is shaped around the people in the room, the purpose of the gathering, and the level of depth that is appropriate for the container.
A note on Embody Alchemy and SomaRoot Center
This page is for my teaching, speaking, and facilitated offerings through Embody Alchemy.
Some offerings may happen at SomaRoot Center in Chico, online, off-site, or in collaboration with other spaces and organizations. SomaRoot Center also has its own community programming and partnership pathways for practitioner-led events, space-based programming, rentals, and regional collaborations.
If you’re looking to host a community event, rent space, or propose a SomaRoot-specific partnership, visit the SomaRoot section of the site.