It is dangerous to go in the direction of truth.
~ Helene Cixous
Soma is dedicated to offering educational opportunities that cultivate a relationship to one's breathing body through creative expression. Soma courses also support and foster the commitment and discipline it takes to live in embodied and sustainable ways in relationship to each other and the living, breathing planet. In order to live fully, we are invited to experience the truth of our lives.
The Soma program year is set up in such a way that it cultivates embodied connection, as well as the discipline required for this relationship between body and breath to be consistent and supportive to the student. Soma offers for adults two 8-week courses a year, 2 retreats a year, a monthly E-course to stay connected from near and far, as well as individual mentoring throughout the year. This structure offers boundaries for practice, which allows the student's commitment to be consistent and therefore deeper in nature. Students can sign up individually for each offering, or choose the year-long path of commitment. Please see below for details.
Registration Policy:
Pre-registration is required for all classes. Soma accepts payment by check or PayPal. Please register via our online registration form whether you are paying by check or PayPal. The student is registered once he or she has made payment or created a payment plan with Jenny.
Cancellation Policy:
If the student withdraw's registration for a course (Body and Breath or E-Course) 14 days before it is to begin or prior to that, the student will receive a full refund for the course. If the student cancels within the two weeks before the class is to begin or during the course, there will be no refund.
For the Soma retreat, if the student cancels 3 weeks before the retreat or prior to that, the student will receive a refund, minus a $50 registration fee. If the student cancels within the three weeks prior to the retreat, there will be no refund.
For individual sessions, Jenny has a 48-hour cancellation policy. If you do not cancel your appointment or cancel within 48-hours prior to an individual phone or in-person session, you will receive an invoice for that session.
If a class is canceled, your payment will be refunded in full. Any travel arrangements made before the retreat or class is confirmed will be the student's responsibility. If the class is full or is already in session, it will be indicated below.
If you have any questions, please call Jenny at 291-3120 or e-mail her at jenny@somamovement.org.
Scholarship assistance is available for those in need.
All Classes are held in Soma Studio unless otherwise indicated.
Soma offers a closed study group that offers the student the opportunity to deepen in relationship to body and breath. This is an 8-week series that meets weekly for two hours. This group will use movement and dance, art process, ritual and group process to deepen into an embodied relationship with yourself. The more deeply we are in connection with the Life that lives within us, the more deeply connected we are to life around us.
Next class: Monday nights, 7-9pm
Class Dates~ February 27th; March 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th; April 9th, 16th, 23rd (No class April 2nd as I will be teaching in California)
Tuition: $200
This e-course and Soma retreats are particularly important for those wishing to stay connected to the work of Soma who live out of town. And of course, for those students nearby wishing to spend the evening with body and breath, please join us! This class will offer the direction and space needed to practice the discipline of building relationship with body and breath in relationship to the topic presented. There is teaching, sharing and meditation involved in this course. You must pre-register and pre-pay to be on this call. Once you have registered, Jenny will e-mail call-in information and any other relevant course details to you
Next class: Wednesday, 7:15 to 8:30 pm MST
Class Schedule and Focus:
January 25th: Accepting What Is
February 22nd: Death and Dying
March 21st: Opening to Possibility
April 11th: Awakening
May 23rd: Rebirth
June 27th: Receiving
July 25th: Fullness
August 22nd: Stillness
September 26th: Abundance
October 24th: Letting Go and Change
November 28th: Intuition
December 26th: Turning Inward
Tuition: $25 per session; $300 for the year
To have a mentor in body and breath is crucial in building relationship with the essence of who you are. I offer two ways of doing this:
Individual Sessions Meet in Soma studio to intuitively explore connection to body and breath in creative and embodied ways Each session is $85 per hour. Jenny does offer a sliding scale if needed. Monthly Mentoring This option includes two one-hour sessions a month, with e-mail and brief phone support in between sessions. $250
Kabir says, "I was in need of great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days, and God came to me." In the beauty of the Colorado landscape, we will come together and align with the breath of life that we are immersed in. The body is the doorway to experience the creative, regenerative and constant presence of this breath of life. Be a warrior, in a culture where we leave ourselves little time for the inner life, spend the weekend with yourself. There is so much within that awaits you.
Next class: June 8th-10th, Soma Studio/Finn Family Farm, registration required.
Tuition: $300 non-residential (meals included), $325 residential (meals and housing included)
Navi: The Way of the Prophet An Advanced Year-Long Program with Soma
Navi is the Hebrew word for prophet or one who sees. To see ourselves, and the relationship we have with the world around us clearly, we must commit to exploring and listening, to the life that lives within us. It is from this deep place of wisdom, embodied uniquely through each one of us, that we are guided to right action in the world. Soma offers a year-long program, whose main components include an 8-week course in the fall, a winter retreat, an 8-week course in the spring and a summer retreat. This year-long program also offers individual mentoring throughout the year as well as E-courses once a month. There is an application and interview process for this program. If you are interested, please email Jenny at jenny@somamovement.org. Prerequisite: You must have attended at least one Body and Breath group or Soma retreat to enter this program.
Next Class: September through August, 2012-2013
Tuition: $1500
This group meets monthly for two hours and offers young women, between the ages of 15 and 21, the opportunity to build relationship with body and breath through creative expression. Through rites of passage, meditation, art process and group process, students begin to learn to trust their breath as their greatest resource in building intimate relationship with self and other.
Next Class: 6-month class, January-June and June- December. Current group closed. If you are interested in forming a new group, Soma is taking new students for this study group. Please contact Jenny.
Tuition: 6-month class, $150
This group meets monthly for an hour and a half and offers young people, between the ages of 12 and 16, the opportunity to build relationship with body and breath through creative expression. Through rites of passage, meditation, art process and group process, students begin to learn to trust their breath as their greatest resource in building intimate relationship with self and other.
Tuition: 6-month class, $120
Stratton Elementary After School Program
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: March-April, Thursdays, 2:30-3:30 pm
Tuition: $40
Past Soma Offerings
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
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
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
$30 per person Next Class: TBD
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
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
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
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
Colorado College and Prescott College Join us as we awaken to our bodies and the creativity within through movement, dance and poetry recitation.
No registration required.
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
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: TBD
Studying about God isn't enough.
Something within must awaken and push you infinitely farther.
~ Evelyn Underhill
