About the Retreat:
Somatic Dance is phenomenon storming the globe, where dancers are guided by skilled facilitation deep into the body through the medium of dance. The experience is supported through intentional soundscapes by a DJ who carefully wears in unison with the facilitator. Each dance is unique with particular embodiments to encourage a query within your body, offering a space to move energy through and perhaps discover something you had forgotten about yourself. This training is taught with trauma informed lense, as any time that we engage with the soma, the body- emotions can arise, and it is essential you know what to do.
In this training you will
- Take your somatic facilitation to the next level.
- Understand how to work skillfully with limiting beliefs stored in the body.
- Deepen your understanding of trauma in the somatic dance space.
- Up your DJ game to the next epic level.
Benefits:
- Gain a deeper understanding of neuroplasticity and the brain’s ability to reorganize belief formation.
- Hone your skills to tune into the limiting belief systems of the group mind:
- Learn to differentiate between core beliefs, ancestral beliefs, and past life beliefs:
- Discover how to work with these limiting belief patterns to create powerful shifts
- Learn to differentiate trauma from an emotional process and deepen your ability to effectively navigate and support trauma when it arises in a group setting.
- Deepen your understanding of Polyvagal theory: Study the Polyvagal theory to understand the role of the autonomic nervous system in emotional regulation and social behaviour.
- Explore the psychological and neurological basis for deeply ingrained beliefs and how they are transmitted through generations.
- Learn to understand somatic psychology and how emotions, memories, and trauma are stored in the body—discovering ways to process them through awareness, movement, breathwork, and other somatic techniques.
- How to take your DJ skills to the next level such as effects and sophisticated transitions
- How to craft a DJ soundscape that supports the release of limiting beliefs
- Start to understand music theory and resonance at a deeper level.
- Trust your intuition to become an even clearer channel: through somatic practices and mindfulness.
- Learn how to facilitate new movement patterns by honing your guidance skills.
- Weave embodiment and somatics into your existing client practice:
- Step even more fully into your unique expression of you by understanding the psychological and neurological basis for self-expression and authenticity.
- Tune into nature and receive the messages She has for you: Explore the science behind the benefits of nature on mental health and well-being, such as biophilia and eco-psychology.
Highlights:
- Nourish your body with beautiful prepared meals everyday
- Nourish your mind two hours of practice every morning
- Nourish your soul by dancing everyday for 10 days
Practitioners´ Bios:
Sarsha Hope
Sarsha Hope is the visionary and founder of the Somatic Dance International Teacher Training, a groundbreaking program recognized as a powerful, transformative experience that trains leading-edge facilitators and DJs. It seamlessly integrates somatic facilitation, DJ skills, ritual, energetics, and ecosomatics, all viewed through a trauma-informed lens. This unique methodology creates potent, finely-tuned dance containers.
Drawing from a vast reservoir of experience spanning over 25 years, Sarsha holds certifications in embodied flow yoga, somatic trauma therapy and somatic parts work. theta healing, massage, and is a reiki practitioner. She is also a tantrika, DJ, dance performer, Mother, and yoga/meditation teacher. She artfully incorporates a lifetime of wisdom into her offerings, encompassing international teacher training’s, online courses, retreats, and personalized embodiment coaching.
Stephen Blase
Blase finds joy in bringing the freedom and expansion of the Somatic Dance space into his performances as a solo Artist and has been touring New Zealand for the summer festival season, playing at festivals such as NZ Spirit Festival, Splore, Earthbeat and Dimension festival. He has also made appearances around the globe playing traditional Ecstatic Dances in the UK and Portugal and is set to continue touring this summer in Europe.
Blase has a wide variety of knowledge that helps to deepen the potency of this dance training including his multiple years of music knowledge, 200 hour Embodied flow yoga training, a certificate in Integrated somatic trauma therapy and over 500+ hours in formal Somatic Dance space.
In this training Blase translates the artistry of his craft into practical lessons of music theory, understanding DJ software and fundamentals and the curation of an Ecstatic dance playlist.
More Info:
Join Sarsha Hope, Blase and faculty in this Level 2, 100-hour Somatic Dance Teacher Training, where you will learn how to deepen your embodied dance medicine journeys.
With dance floors expanding and blossoming everywhere, embodied movement is clearly a powerful tool for transformation, and people are ready to remember.
Completion of our Level 1 Somatic Dance Teacher Training is a prerequisite for this training