​​​-A 10 week online/hybrid (with in-person options for those in the Madison, WI area) training container: September 14-November 23, 2025

 

-Live online/hybrid zoom (with in-person options) movement workshops every Sunday, 7-8:30 pm CST, from September 21 to November 23, 2025 

 

-Workshops are recorded for those who can’t attend live

 

-Optional in-person retreat November 14, 15, 16 in Madison, WI

 

 

Email mindbodemotion@gmail.com with questions or to schedule a discovery call and find out if this course is right for you!

 

 

Course Overview

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Our bodies hold the key to moving beyond our pain and trauma, not by analyzing it, but by stepping into the joy and presence that awakens something greater in us. When we embody that aliveness, we don’t just change ourselves, we invite the people around us into a new way of being.

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What’s really limiting your ability to go deeper with others?

Is it a lack of tools—or something unhealed inside yourself?

 

This is your invitation to come home to your body.
 

To awaken the life force within you.

To remember the way you were always meant to move, breathe, and belong.

 

What if you could meet those you serve in the present moment—fully?

What if your own body became a source of refuge, a living space of authenticity that invites others to do the same?

 

Somatic Sensual Intelligence is a transformative training that integrates movement, somatic psychology, and nervous system physiology to support helping professionals—therapists, case managers, healthcare workers, educators, and space-holders—in reconnecting with the innate wisdom of their bodies.

 

This course is not just about learning new tools. It’s about becoming the tool. It’s about reclaiming your body as your most powerful instrument of healing, presence, and truth. 

 

Why Movement Matters

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In many mind-body trainings, movement is the missing piece. While somatic psychology has made great strides in cultivating awareness and sensitivity to the body, it often emphasizes passive sensation over active, conscious movement—the very thing that brings healing to life.

 

Movement is not just an intervention—it’s a language. It is how we express, release, and rewire our minds and bodies. It’s how we access joy, choice, and agency. And it’s how we become more fully ourselves.

 

At the same time, many movement disciplines—such as yoga, dance, and fitness—have been stripped of their psychological depth. The emotional, relational, and nervous system intelligence that underlies movement has often been left out, leaving practitioners with powerful tools but little understanding of why they work or how to apply them in trauma-informed, therapeutic contexts.

 

Somatic Sensual Intelligence bridges this divide.
 

It brings psychology back into movement, and movement back into psychology.

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Email mindbodemotion@gmail.com for more information.

 

 

What Makes This Training Different

 

Most trainings focus on what to do for others.
Somatic Sensual Intelligence starts with you.

 

This course invites you into your own body—not as a machine to be fixed, but as a living, breathing source of wisdom. You’ll explore movement as a way to:

• Repattern your nervous system for greater regulation and resilience

• Reclaim your authentic voice and vitality

• Deepen your capacity to hold space with presence and power

• Awaken the life force that animates your work

 

You’ll learn not to just think about healing—but to live it, move it, and embody it.

 

 

Somatic Psychology & Nervous System Physiology

 

Somatic Sensual Intelligence is grounded in the science of movement, somatic psychology and nervous system physiology. You’ll gain a clear understanding of:

• How trauma and stress are stored and expressed in the body

• The role of the autonomic nervous system in healing and regulation

• Polyvagal theory and its application in movement and relational dynamics

• How movement supports neuroplasticity, emotional integration, and embodied safety

 

This knowledge will be woven directly into movement practices, so you can feel and apply it in real time. You’ll learn to track your own nervous system, recognize patterns in others, and use movement to support regulation, connection, and transformation in yourself and those you support.

 

 

Questions?  Want to talk about whether this is the right course for you?  Let’s talk!  Email mindbodemotion@gmail.com

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Who This Is For

 

If you support others—this is for you.

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Somatic Sensual Intelligence is for anyone who supports others; both professionally and personally.  This includes but is not limited to:

• Therapists & counselors

• Coaches (life, wellness, leadership)

• Teachers & educators

• Yoga teachers & yoga therapists

• Energy workers

• Massage therapists & bodyworkers

• Social workers & case managers

• Nurses, doctors & medical professionals

• Clergy, chaplains & spiritual leaders

• Caregivers & Doulas

• Hospice and end of life supports

• Crisis responders & peer support workers

• Parents

 

Email mindbodemotion@gmail.com​ for more information.

 

The Wound Beneath The Work

 

We truly can’t take others deeper than we’ve gone with ourselves.
 

Most other trainings emphasize doing more—adding techniques, building caseloads, learning more tools.

 

But what if transformation doesn’t start with doing more...
What if it starts with becoming more fully you?

 

Many of us are drawn to this work not only by compassion, but by something more tender:  a personal history, a wound, a longing to heal what once felt unholdable.

 

We become helpers, teachers, space-makers, holders of bodies and their stories—often without realizing we’ve never truly been held ourselves.

 

Over time, that unacknowledged wound begins to shape how we show up.
 

We brace. We grow weary. We disconnect from our own aliveness—even as we try to keep others connected to theirs.

 

To remain open-hearted in this work, we must learn to stay open in ourselves.
 

To offer safety, we must know it in our own nervous system.
 

To model freedom, we must feel it in our breath, our movement, our being.

 

Somatic Sensual Intelligence begins here—at the intersections of somatic psychology and movement; of service and self.
 

Not as a new set of tools to use on others—but as a sacred space to meet yourself with renewed depth.

 

 

Core Curriculum Pillars

 

*Repattern Through Primal Movement
Rediscover your earliest movement patterns from a developmental lens—rolling, reaching, pushing—to dissolve years of chronic tension and rebuild trust in your body.

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*Breathe Yourself Awake
Use breathwork to awaken your nervous system for greater engagement and deepen internal connection.

 

*Dance with Space & Energy
Learn to identify and move with the relational dynamics between us—making relationships more fluid, intuitive, and alive.

 

*Know Your Body: Image & Anatomy
Relate to your physical body as a living whole, not a problem to fix.

 

*Your Sensations Are a Compass
Develop attunement to your body’s cues and an inner guidance system rooted in sensation, presence, and deep self-trust.

 

*Embodying Emotion: Feeling Fully
Grow your capacity to stay present with emotion—yours and others'—through the wisdom of the body.

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Schedule a discovery call:  mindbodemotion@gmail.com

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The Deep Work

 

This course is not just about movement or psychology—it’s about transformation.  

 

Developing awareness 

Learn to be with, and move through, discomfort and resistance in yourself and others

 

Receiving & Being Seen
Build your capacity to receive support and be witnessed—without shrinking or numbing out.

 

Being Opened

Expand the range and capacity of your nervous system, and reclaim your wildness, your voice, your heart.

 

Reclaiming the Soul of Supporting
Reconnect with the sacred essence of your work—the mystery, the spirit, the deep resource that sustains you.

 

Email mindbodemotion@gmail.com for more information about how to register!

 

 

Why Online?

Somatic Sensual Intelligence is designed to restore you, not overload you, by meeting you right where you are.

 

Practices online allow you to learn from the comfort of your own space and reduce burnout by working in ways that support your nervous system. 

 

You’ll also join with people around the world in real-time, over the length of the course, to cultivate and build relationships leading up to the (optional) in-person retreat in November.

 

You'll learn the skill of strengthening energetic boundaries and presence in an online space, which is crucial for those who host remote or online work. 

 

Online learning also helps to strengthen presence and effectiveness for those who work primarily in person.

 

There is a hybrid online/in-person option for weekly movement workshops for those in the Madison, WI area.

 

Optional In-Person Retreat, November 14, 15, 16 in Madison, WI

See details below

 

 

Join Somatic Sensual Intelligence—and become not just a better helping professional for others, but more fully alive for YOU.

 

Email mindbodemotion@gmail.com 

 

 

The Experience:

 

We'll get you moving and practicing with: 

-Weekly Movement Videos

15-minute videos, 2-3x per week designed for gentle, transformative daily practice.

 

-Weekly Theory Explorations

Weekly theory exploration videos apply the core principles of BraveSpace (listed below), along with somatic psychology and nervous system physiology to your journey and guide you in your work with clients.

 

-Weekly Movement Workshop Sessions

These live community zoom (or in-person in Madison, WI) sessions will be theory and movement focused and customized to your specific needs.  We will practice and apply what you are learning each week.  There will be time for questions and to integrate your learning.

 

-Central Online Portal

One-step login for easy access to all materials at your own pace.

 

-Supportive Community and Weekly Small-Group Practice Sessions

A supportive, engaged community walking this path with you, through discussion of theory and movement videos and weekly practice groups. 

 

Practice is the key to learning anything new.  You will be organized into small practice groups that meet weekly to support each other through the journey, practice what you're learning, and gain experience in facilitating for others. 

 

With this experience, you'll begin integrating what you're learning in the course directly into your practice with clients and have the support you need to be successful.

 

-Recorded Workshops

All Workshops will be recorded and posted on the portal for review and for those who can’t attend live.

 

-1-on-1 Somatic Coaching

The course includes two individual somatic coaching sessions provided by the facilitators for personalized guidance and deeper transformation. Additional sessions are available at a discounted rate.

 

-Optional In-Person Retreat, November 14, 15, 16 in Madison, WI

The retreat will be an opportunity to go even deeper with your learning and practice.  Activities include somatic embodiment exercises, movement practice, relational practice, and time to practice facilitation of course materials with others from the course. 

 

 

Investment: Options from $700-$950; email mindbodemotion@gmail.com to select what’s best for you!

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FREE Movement Workshop and Course Q&A: Wednesday, 9/3 at 7 pm CST. Email mindbodemotion@gmail.com to register!

 

The 10 Principles of BraveSpace

BraveSpace is not just a concept, it is a living practice that guides this journey. These 10 principles serve as touchstones, helping us cultivate embodied presence, relational integrity, and the freedom to fully express ourselves:

 

1. Practice Somatic Research by noticing the sensations, emotions, and movements that arise.

2. De-shame your body and life, witnessing both light and shadow without judgment.

3. Allow Trans-formation, shifting patterns that no longer serve your joy and purpose.

4. Flow through Improvisation, cultivating presence in the unknown.

5. Choose Response-ability, attuning to yourself while honoring others.

6. Move from Heart-centeredness, connecting with something greater than the individual self.

7. Strengthen Tensegrity, expanding your capacity to hold paradox and dynamic tension.

8. Embrace Risk, stepping into the full arc of your life’s unfolding.

9. Follow Eros, engaging pleasure, vitality, and longing as sacred guides.

10. Play in Interbeing, recognizing yourself as both an individual and part of the collective dance of life.

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Email mindbodemotion@gmail.com​ for more information.