Workshops and Classes

All Classes are held in Soma Studio unless otherwise indicated.

Soma Winter Retreat: Liberate the Love Within You.

Dancing with the Darkness, Stepping into the Light

January 7th to January 9th, 2011

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Spiritual Dance

Come together to dance in community, back to the Love that lives within us. When we experience the Love within us, we begin living from the inside out. We become clear about  what sustains our lives and aware of what does not. Each class begins with stillness and is framed by sacred poetry. No dance experience required.

$12 per person

Next class: Held monthly, 7:30 to 9:00 pm on the third Tuesday of each month

Embody Your Story: Bringing Imagination to the Stories of Our Lives

Join us in this ancient, and new to Soma, practice of telling our stories in different ways. Rather than getting stuck in the details and the wounds of our stories, we will dive deeply into and through the personal story and enter the mythic nature of our journeys. We will do this through ancestor prayers, music and movement, writing and embodied story telling.

$40 per person

Next class: TBD

Moveable Parts: Becoming a Student of Your Body

A class that will be offered over the course of four weeks, on Thursdays, beginning October 8th. We will focus on different parts of the body through breath, movement, art and group process. This class is inspired by Susan Aposhyan's embodiment practice and Divining the Body by Jan Phillips. We will explore the following body parts each week; feet, hips, core and head. This class will be offered as a 4-week series, so when registering you will be registering for all four classes. This provides for deeper intimacy among participants.

$50 for the series

Next class: TBD

Reunion

In this class, we explore relationship with our committed adult partner through movement, art process and ritual. We experiment with using our bodies as resources to remain present to ourselves as we partner with another. We uncover ways of being with our partners in new and creative ways. We celebrate each other using body painting and we close in a ritual celebrating the senses. This is a beautiful way to reconnect with your partner in intimate, non verbal ways.

$45 per couple

Next class: TBD

The Circle: A gathering of Women

• January - Winter Solstice Dance and Simple Feast
• February - Death
• March- Opening to Possibility
• April - Awakening
• May - Rebirth
• June- Receiving
• July- Fullness
• August- Stillness
• September- Abundance
• October- Letting Go and Change
• November- Pathway to the Heart
• December- Turning Inward

$30 per person

Next Class: TBD

Let it Shine

The intention of this class is to affirm the creative spirit of our children. We begin by exploring through art, movement and ritual, the child's relationship to him or herself in the first two weeks. We then move into exploring partnership, small group interaction and then celebrating one large group process. This curriculum is suitable for various age groups with some modification and can be used very easily in school and therapeutic settings for children. This class includes art projects such as making prayer beads, exploring our bodies and physical boundaries through movement, and creating a mural that we share with the community.

$96 per child

Next class: TBD

Into the Wild

This class is for women and engages dance in new ways as a vehicle for reclaiming all of oneself. With the tales of the Skeleton Woman and the Baba Yaga to guide us, we dance, create art and celebrate our blood and bones with a ritual using mud. We call in the one who longs for us to come home to all of ourselves. She is the voice of unconditional and fierce love who waits for us in our dark corners. And on this evening, her Love for us is palpable.

$35 per person

Next class: TBD

Embodiment Practice

Based on the teachings of Susan Aposhyan and Embodiment Practice, in this class, we connect with our bodies in a new way. We listen. We wait. We allow our bodies to move in ways that are not ordered, but invited. We listen to the rhythms and wisdom of our bodies, and approach ourselves and the world through an inner relationship of heart, body and mind. We allow the natural intelligence of our bodies to come forth. The Curriculum includes: exploring our bodies through breath; sensation and movement; body systems of form (muscles, bones, nervous system); body systems of experience (skin, fluid, fat, viscera, the endocrine system); integrated embodiment practice.

$65 for 4-week series

Next class: TBD

Hand to Hand

This class is for parents, guardians, grandparents, aunts, uncles and the important child in their lives. In this workshop, we explore relationship with our children through movement, music and art. This will include activities such as painting together in a unique way; moving as partners using sticks and experimenting with leading and following; and closing with a ritual of blessing using our hands and stones.

$35 per parent/child

Next class: TBD

Soma on the Move

Body Homily: Awakening to Body and Soul

Colorado College

Join us as we awaken to our bodies and the creativity within through movement, dance and poetry recitation.

No registration required.

Next class: Fall 2010

Let it Shine

Manitou School District After School Program, Manitou Elementary School

The intention of this class is to affirm the creative spirit of our children through creative expression. We begin, in the first two weeks, by exploring through art, movement and ritual, the child's relationship to him or herself. We then move into exploring partnership; engaging in activities like examining space with big balloons and the quality of responsibility, in a leading and following exercise. We then move into small group interaction; exploring through yoga games, and art, our relationship to each other. And then we finish with celebrating in one large group process, which includes group stretching and painting a mural to share with our community. This class includes art projects such as making bead bracelets to remind each child of his/her unique beauty, exploring our bodies and physical boundaries through movement and body drawings, and painting our bodies to honor our relationship to them. In this culture and in this time, it is more important than ever that we stay connected to our bodies and hearts. Please join us as we do this in community. Parents are welcome to participate.

Next Class: Fall 2010

Awaken the Spirit: Celebrating Who We Are and Re-Imagining Our Life Stories through Creative Expression (held in partnership with Memorial Hospital)

This workshop is for those living with, or those who have lived with, cancer.

Please join us in this series of workshops to reclaim our beauty and gratitude for the lives that we live. With movement, meditation, art process and celebration, we will honor the pain of our lives and begin to step into and create the new story by which we we will live. This is a presented as a series, but you may attend any and all of these workshops.

This series will be offered at The Inner Space Studio, 322 N. Tejon St. Non metered parking is available on Cascade, on the 400 and 500 blocks. Metered parking available on Tejon. Pre-registration is required. To register, please contact Britta Newcomer, RN, BSN, OCN at 365-2535 or follow Soma's registration policy above.

$20 per class; $50 for the series

Next class: Winter 2011

The Art of Self Care for Nurses and Health Care Professionals

Inner Space Studio, Colorado Springs

This workshop offers an opportunity for nurses and health care professionals to create space for self reflection, creativity and self care. We will explore our relationship to self through breath, meditation, movement exercises, art process and group and self inquiry. As care givers, it is crucial that we allow ourselves to receive love and nurturing in new and creative ways. When we give this to ourselves, we fill up from the inside out, and giving becomes balanced and guided by something much greater than ourselves.

This series will be offered at The Inner Space Studio, 322 N. Tejon St. Non metered parking is available on Cascade, on the 400 and 500 blocks. Metered parking available on Tejon. CEU credits are offered for nurses for this class.

$30 per person

Next class: Winter 2011

I've learned there are secret places to which the mind can never take you. Studying about God isn't enough. Something within must awaken and push you infinitely farther.  ~ Evelyn Underhill